The challenge is no stamped images at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week

Good morning blog friends

Today being Wednesday - unlike yesterday that was Tuesday (as Sue kindly pointed out for me!!) we have a new challenge at Fab'n'Funky set by this weeks hostess
our lovely 
Ginny
  quite a tricky one I think for a lot of us who are used to stamped cards
 - but one to get your creativity going

No Stamped Images!!

It's not something I do often but I have got a few cards in my back catalogue that I've never shown and decided to use two of them today, some occasions lend themselves to die cutting and I made these cards as a pair for the birth of a friends Grandson - one for the grandparents and the other for baby Sam and his parents

I suppose these types of card are easy to make - what takes the time is deciding on the layout!  Unfortunately because I made them a while ago I can't remember most of what went into them - though all the die cutting is on the Cricut expression machine.  

There's a few stickers and gems and thats about it!

We are sponsored by the fabulous Joanna Sheen

 

and the prize is £10 to spend in store - definitely worth getting creative for.

I'm entering these cards into the following challenges

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Love to create - spots and dots

Crafty Boots - babies

Samuel Taylors Crafts - Use die cuts

Thanks for stopping by

hugs 

Judith x

We're all going on a summer holiday with Fab'n'Funky challenges

Good morning all

Its time for another new challenge over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and today the theme has bee chosen by our hostess for the week 

Anne-Marie

And its

We're all going on a summer holiday

(go on sing along - you know you want to!)

I really hope none of you are going on a summer holiday in this weather - unless you're a duck, i've never seen so much rain in my life, I think this week has been the worst so far because the rain just hasn't stopped for 3 days now.  But when this challenge was set we really expected it to be summer weather so my card for this week definitely reflects this - though you might put a different slant on it!!

I saw this cute little girl waiting to go on her summer holidays over at Di's digi downloads (I've got a bit of a love affair going on with these digis at the moment) and here she is....

She's got a bit of a happy look going on there so I think the sun's shining where she is anyway, just sitting on her suitcase waiting to go - camera at the ready - oooh I want to go!!!

Our sponsor for this weeks challenge is the fantastic Digi Doodle Shop

Who are offering a fab prize of $10 to spend in their store

So come on what have you got to loose - you need to get going on a sumer holiday 

- its far far better than staying here!!

This is what I did....

Image - Dis digi downloads

Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Papers - K & Co hopscotch

Diecuts - cut on cricut expression, spellbinders circle dies and sizzix label
Key Charm on case - Inky Impressions

Stickers (on case) - K & Co

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Gems from my stash

We'd love to see you over at the sunny land of Fab'n'Funky this week for your summer holiday - its got to be better than staying at home in the rain!

Have a great day - but don't forget your wellies

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Sassy studios designs - use something metal (key charm )
Card Crafters Circle - Summer holiday
Crafty catz weekly - spots
Fun with shapes and more - Summer birthday
Simply create too - Summer vacation
Sentimental Sundays - bingo (twine charm die cut)

Hugs 

Judith x

New beginnings and New Management at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Good Morning Blog Friends

Today I have some exciting news!  

I have taken over the management of Fab'n'Funky Challenges from the lovely Lou! 

 Lou decided that she can no longer commit to the time it takes to run the blog and to stand down. 

 Rather than see this Fabulous challenge blog close (as so many seem to be lately) 

 I agreed to take over from Lou. 

Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting to grips with what goes on behind the scenes of running a blog like Fab'n'Funky Challenges.  I have to say "all hail" to all you lovely ladies (and men!) who do all the organising and running of all our challenge blogs - and to Lou for keeping ours going for so long - so successfully, it definitely doesn't happen by itself. 

 I think many of us don't appreciate just how much work goes into these things - just for fun.  

Sooo - on to this week, I'm really chasing my tail trying to get all my DT cards done before I go on me hollies on Saturday - can't wait - though isn't it typical that just as I'm going away we get good weather - I feel cheated that I'll miss the good weather at home - maybe I shouldn't go lol.

With all of  this going on over these last couple of weeks I haven't had much visiting time to all your blogs - sometimes it comes down to a choice make a card or blogging doesn't it

 and well, we all have to work hard at our cards in this game!!!!

The challenge this week over at Fab'n' Funky Challenges is very appropriately

New beginnings

We want there to be something new about your card, it could be a new baby -any occasion that falls into new beginning or you could have used something new on your card or to make your card.  to qualify for the prize you have to tell us what the "new" is on your card

We have a fabulous new sponsor

Dis digi Downloads

who are offering a great prize of $10 to spend in store

So here is my "new beginnings" card

I love this little girl! - I was lucky enough to win some Digis from Di's shop a few weeks ago and this is one of the ones I chose-  being used today for the first time.  Sorry - I'm back on the easel thing - I find myself looking at challenges now and thinking - can I make an easel card for that lol.

This is what I did...

Image- Dis Digi Downloads -Izzys flower barrow

Papers - Rasberry road - barnyard blowout (also new)

Yellow card - Bazzill 

Flowers - wild orchid craft - sweetheart blooms

Die cut fence and barrow - Cricut expression - Paper dolls cartridge

Die cut frame - Spellbinders -labels 10

Butterflies - Martha Stewart and Fiskars butterfly punches 

pale lemon gems and ribbon from my stash from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafts and me - fabulous flowers

Digidesign challenge blog - show us that bling

Creative inspirations - Anything goes
Flourishes - Use a flower image 

Thats all from me for today - hope you're all enjoying sunshine where you are 

See you tomorrow for an other challenge over at MAWTT

Hugs 

Judith x

Its challenge day over at Fab'n'Funky challenges

Hi blog Friends

Its another challenge day over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and this week we have the theme

Use fabric on your card

We are being sponsored by the wonderful Lili of the Valley this week so lets see your Fab'n'Funky creations for this great challenge I've used this lovely Lili of the valley Vtamp that I got for my birthday in March and was until now uninked - disgraceful!  Though because its a new house stamp its not the sort of thing you jump to immediately but I great one to have in your collection.  Wasn't sure what to do about the fabric so decided to go with felt flowers.

the label pocket under the easel

Yes I know its another easel card - think I need help with this addiction, its not getting any better and its being closely followed by big bows!! 

 I was asked to make this card by a friend of a friend on the same colour scheme as a previous card I had made - but there will be no more as I only had two sheets of the card!!

This is what I did

Image - Lili of the valley - moving day
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Card -Craftwork cards
Papers  my Minds Eye -Fiddlesticks
Backing card - Tim holtz distress coredinations
Sentiments font and label - Lili of the Valley
Felt flowers - K & co
Card candy - craftwork cards
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Houses border - cut on my cricut expression
Frame on card  - spellbinders
everything else from my stash

Challenges I am entering with this card

Lilis little fairies - use your favourite tool -Grand calibur
Simon says - anything goes
Digi darlas -challenges -Photo inspiration
Craft your days away - all creatures great and small
Sketchy colours - colour inspiration
digi doodle shop - bingo - ribbon/something new(stamp)/ink
Sarah Hurley Challenge- tags or tickets

Thats me for now,I'll be back later with my DT card for and details of the new Inky Impressions Challenge

hugs
Judith x

Join the Nautical theme at Moving Along with the Times

Good Morning blog friends

Hope you're all having a good day.  

Today is new challenge day at Moving Along With The Times and we have a great theme for this week

Our hostess with the mostest for this week is Leesa AKA The Navy Wife

and she's chosen the great theme 

 Nautical

Here is my DT card for the week and my inspiration for this challenge

I had a bit of a manic day yesterday and had a real rush to get this card made.  It was supposed to be my "me" day and I had all sorts of crafting planned -ended up with no crafting done - sometimes life just gets in the way of crafting - how can that happen? lol.  I had originally planned a very grown up card but right at the last minute I won some stamps at the Made especially for You challenge this week from Di's digital downloads and had chosen this stamp as one of them.  I was just busy printing off the other digi I had planned to use when up popped the email from Di with my stamps attached so I had a last minute change of plan,  this one is altogether more fun than my original card -  and I needed the shot of fun yesterday!!   I loved colouring this in it's so cute and I added the few nautical embellies that I had from  the other digi kit I, had which is from Can you digi it just to finish it off.  Di even sent me that great blue digi paper that I used as an extra to my prize - isn't it just the perfect paper for this stamp, and saved me having to go looking for any matching papers  - thank you Di!

This is what I did...

Digi stamp - Nautical bear from Di's digital downloads

Nautical embellies - from can you digi it - sail away with me 

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Paper - Di's digital downloads

Red card, Ribbon and twine  - from my stash

Set sail - cut on cricut expression - gypsy wanderings cart
Anchor and water glossed with - glossy accents

Hope to see you over at MAWTT this week with all your nautical inspired projects, the DT girls have made a huge variety on the theme - hop on over and see them

Challenges i am entering with this card

Craft your days away - just for children
Divas by Design -One for the boys
Crafty cardmakers - For the boys
Ooh la la challenge - Make it manly

Hugs

Judith x

Buttons and Bows at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi there blog friends

Had a really hectic day today and just realised my scheduled post didn't!

Hope you've all had a good day and  are ready to face a new challenge!

Todays challenge over at fab'n'funky challenges is being hosted by our lovely Wendy and she has chosen the theme for the week which is

Buttons and Bows

We are being sponsored this week by Pink Petticoat so why not go on over and join in - there's an awful lot you can do with Buttons and Bows!

Here my interpretation of the theme

Here's what I did

Image - Mos digital pencil

Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Papers - Raspberry Road digi papers

Ribbons - from my stash

Sentiment and cherry stamp -Dawn Bibby cupcake stamps

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Digital Tuesday Challenge -All about ribbons and buttons

Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Ribbon and Bows

The Poodles parlour - Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Papertake weekly Challenge  - Cute cute cute!
See you again tomorrow with another challenge for MAWTT - I'll check on that one earlier to make sure it posts!

Hugs

Judith x

Its another challenge day at Fab'n'Funky challenges - today we are celebrating maleness

Hi blog friends

Another week has gone by and here it is Wednesday - where did that week go!

Thank you to everyone who sent their hugs and kind comments yesterday after my sad post about Tilly yesterday - its nice to know that you've given me a little thought in your busy day.

Today's challenge at Fab'n'Funky challenges is celebrating maleness and we are being sponsored by the fab Crimson cloud

I had such problems with this card!  Not the actual card but deciding what to do.  My Mother in law asked me to make a card for her neighbour - who is 90 at the week end so decided to combine this with the challenge.  But what do you make for a 90year old man that you don't know!!  I made some enquiries and found out he likes gardening, going to church,bring and buy sales and is teetotal!  To me that's more challenge than any you're likely to find in blogland!!  So out of that I went with the gardening.

I had to go looking for a digi stamp for this and found this lovely little set at digi boutique.  I bought this one and a female garden version for only £1 each - they're on offer at the mo.  Considering I had no clue as to what this card would be when I started I was pleased at how it turned out - I think my 90 year old gardening, church going,bring and buy teetotal man will like it.  As for the celebrating maleness challenge well I think I win!! -My man being celebrated is 90 years old so has been male for longer than most - that's something to celebrate all right ha ha.

This is what I did ...

Digi stamp - digi boutique - male garden
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - K and co - I think- (had them so long I'm not sure)
Little pot of flowers and trowel are K and co stickers
Card candy - craftwork cards
Twine - from my garden shed!
Sentiment - is a new Anna Griffin one that I just got in a set from QVC - lovely bunting and greetings stamps - just love them
Card - Bazzill
90 - cut on cricut expression - cindy loo cartridge

See you later with my first Inky Impressions challenge card - yes I know I said that yesterday too - but I never know what day of the week is which for which challenge  - if you know what I mean - I'm amazed I get here at all sometimes!!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Fresh brewed - tic tac toe -die cuts twine flowers
Pennys paper-crafty challenges - happy birthday
Celebrate the Occasion - Male birthday - must use circle
Digital Tuesday challenge - Bugs and Blooms
Tuesday throwdown -In the Garden
Here Come the boys - Hobbies

Hugs Judith xx

Its a no DP challenge at Fab'n'Funky

Hello again

I'm back again today because we have a new challenge over at

fab'n'funky challenges an it's

No Designer Papers

We're being sponsored this week by Joanna Sheen who is offering a prize of a voucher to spend in store

I had a card to make for the son of our best friends who's 25  - so needed a masculine card with a modern twist so decided that this Kenny K image fit the bill

The inside

I decided to keep it very plain and manly! He's definately not a flowers and bows kind of guy.  so simply used a ribbed kraft card that I distresed with inks as the base and kept everything else to a minimum so that the focus of the card is the image. I glossed his specs, guitar and jewellery with glossy accents - I think you can just see it in the photograph.  I enjoyed colouring this fun image, he's definitely got a personality and I'd like to think I captured it!

This is what I did .....


Image Digi by Kenny K
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils
glossy accents
Distress ink - Brushed corduroy by Tim Holtz
Die cut happy birthday - cut on Cricut expression - gypsy wanderings
Die cut Party like a rock star  - cut on cricut imagine - indie art cartridge
Screw brads - creative expressions


Challenges I'm entering with this card


Clear it out challenge - Kareoke - what else but "its only rock and roll" by the rolling stones (hes definately got Mick Jagger lips lol)
Ladybug crafts ink -Birthdays
Party time tuesday - anything + Kraft
Crafty boots challenge - no girls allowed!
Crafty Anns challenge -its a man thing
The stamp man challenge blog - distressed or shabby chic
Whimsy Stamps challenge - Distressing


See you again tomorow for my last DT card of the week


Hugs


Judith xx

It's Easter at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi there blog friends

Here I am with my very late post!  I've had a total nightmare with blogger over the last few days - could only get in for about 10 minutes at a time before getting booted out and up loading photos was nigh on impossible - just about did my head in!!  So sorry  that I haven't been visiting these last couple of days but to be honest I just gave up - I'll try and do a catch up x

Anyway back to the real business

Today is challenge day at Fab'n'Funky challenges and the theme is

Make an Easter card

a closer look at the detail

We are being sponsored this week by

I just loved this little girl when I  saw her -a perfect Easter image and I could just see her in a little denim dress and black shiny shoes - so thats what she got.  I decided to bling up her Easter eggs with different coloured glitters and then I couldn't stop! So she got glitter on her dress, in her hair flowers and the bow on her basket, only the bunny escaped but if he'd had a bow round his neck he'd have got it too - funny how glitter does that to you lol!  After all that glitter I thought I'd better hold back on too many embellies

This is what I did ...

Image - Easter Kiko from Mos digital pencil
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Scalloped card - Craftwork cards
Lilac card- Bazzill basics
Papers - Prima Meadow Lark
Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage
Flowers - Wild Orchid crafts sweetheart blooms
Bunny (under ribbon) - cut on cricut expression - Gypsy Wanderings cart
Sentiment - computer produced
Die Cut circles - Spellbinders
Pearls - from my stash

Thats all from me for today - and what a beautiful day it has been x

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Mo's Challenge blogspot - Bling it on
Inky impressions challenge blog - Flower power
Simon says Stamp Challenge - Anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge -Circles and Squares
Rubys Rainbow - Easter
Dream valley challenges -Easter
Delightful Challenges  Easter treats


Hugs

Judith xx

Creative Craft challenge -anything but a card

Hi there blog friends

Its challenge day again over at  Creative Craft Challenge  and this weeks theme is 

Anything but a card

Our sponsors for this challenge are Some Odd Girl

My anything (but a card!) is a plaque to go on my baby grandson Jacobs' bedroom door

His bedroom is decorated in the same jungle theme with the shapes all cut on the Cricut Expression.  This plaque is made of card but the ones we made for the bedroom were cut in vinyl and look lovely and colourful.  I still don't have a photo of the finished walls but heres a peak of part of it at the end of our first session - it took about 4 afternoons to finish it (especially as Jacob put in an early appearance and was there to supervise the last two!!)

The finished room has a lion, tiger, rhino, zebra more swinging monkeys, flowers and all sorts!  Its very colourful and looks great. The walls  are a pale green and the room has all sorts of jungle themed soft furnishings that came from Verbaudet.

This is what I did ....

I used mainly the Zoo Baloo, Stretch the Imagination and Paper Dolls for Everyday cartridges
The card is Bazzill - it has such lovely textures that I  think you can partly see in the photo. 
The little flowers are from Wild Orchid - sweetheart flowers

That is basically it - very simple really.  The only other thing I'd add is that for making a project like this, where there is a lot of measuring up to fit all the elements into a small space, I find the Cricut Gypsy invaluable, you can just layer everything up on your screen and see that its going to work before you start to cut it out  - and you can do it all sitting on the sofa watching TV at the same time, not standing over a cutting machine or on a computer - very easy.

Lets see you all over at Creative Craft Challenge with your anything! (but a card).  The DT girls have come up with some very creative ideas that might just inspire you  - hope to see you there x

Im entering this "anything"! into the folowing challenges

Sundays with Crissy - Animals (birds, animals and name are all 3d)
Forever Friends - 3d
Challenge up your life - zoo animals
Robyns fettish - kids card (don't know if i'm pushing it with this one but it is made of card and definately for a kid!!)
Well thats all from me now

Hugs

Judith x

Its challenge day over at Moving Along With the Times challenge blog

Morning blog friends

Well Its Thursday again so that means a new challenge over at the MAWTT blog

This week Lisa Jane   is hosting the

MAWTT "Easter Wishes" Challenge

and we would love to see your Easter creations

So hop over and take a peek at the Fab DT cards  on the blog.

Our Creations this week are using  really cute images from Digi My World

Who are offering this weeks winner a fab $10 voucher to spend in store :)

 http://digimyworld.com/shop/

I used the cute Cindy Ears for my DT card

a close up of the details

I've had a weird and wonderful week this week (so whats new!!), on Tuesday Morning I found out i had won Lisa Janes blog candy draw - yes our Lisa Jane who is the MAWTT host this week (see above), thanks so much sweetie and I have to tell you my postman is going to start getting worried cos theres some serious stalking about to start!!  Yesterday I got a top 3 in the inky impressions challenge.  But Tuesday night was my absolute corker.... 

 Have you ever gone out in the wrong car!  I'm sure you must be wondering what on earth I'm talking about - surely all cars are the same at the end of the day? Well the answer is definately no.  I had taken my son Tom to sea scouts on Tuesday night - about 20 minutes away from home.  Rushed back to get some cards finished off and then went back to collect him for 9:30, that was when the fun began.  Tom who is 19 is a power wheelchair user because he has severe physical disabilities as he has cerebral palsy - not that much stops him - he's doing a degree at university , his duke of edinburgh award, sea scouts all sorts, anyway back to Tuesday.  Got back down to the sailing club to pick him up and got out of the car to discover I had just driven there in my Ford Fiesta - anyone ever tried to get a HUGE power wheelchair in the back of a ford fiesta!!  Tom and all at sea scouts thought it was hilarious, but I had to drive back home, change to Toms adapted car with the drive in ramp and drive back to get him.  By the time we got home and sorted it was after 11 and I'd had enough - just went to bed .  As typical of when these things happen my hubby was working away that night so had to rush around and do everything myself and to be honest I haven't caught up with the things (crafty things of course) that I wanted to do.  I could say I won't do that again but as my husband said - its typical me - my heads always full of something else!!  Anyway back to work today so still no crafting:(

Anyway back to the card
This is what I did......

Image - Digi My World  Cindy Ears
Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils
Paper - K & Co sweet nectar
Card - coredinations - christmas pastels
Border - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Flowers - Petaloo mini florettes
Die Cut Happy Easter - Cricut expression Plantain Schoolbook 

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Dream Valley Challenges - Easter
Anything Goes - Get ready for Easter
Joanna Sheen - Easter/Spring
Creative inspirations - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' challenge Blog - use lts of green
Truly madly Crafty - colour inspiration - mine are a bit brighter - but all the colours are there!
Craft us crazy - Easter or something sweet - I think shee's both!


Thats me for today

Hugs

Judith x

Fab'n'Funky Challenges new challenge today

Hi blog friends

Its Wednesday so that means a new challenge at Fab'n'Funky challenges.  This week the theme is

In Honour of Mum

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by the fabulous Doodle Pantry  this week

The DT girls were given some gorgeous digis to play with.  I chose  these cute little birds  and a sentiment to use on my card and this was my Mums mothers day card - which she loved.  I also made her a small scrapbook of some of our old black and white family photos.  She had given them all to me when she moved to a smaller bungalow a few years ago, but we had them out a few weeks ago (trying to decide who our new baby grandson looked like - like you do!) and she seemed to really enjoy them so that's when I decided to make the scrapbook as a mothers day gift.   It took me days of scanning and resizing them to get them all ready to go into the scrapbook.  It was lovely when it was finished and she really liked having her old photos newly printed and all in one place and looking a good deal better than the originals did! - these photo programs are so clever, it even made me look clever as well ha ha.

This is what I did....

Stamp - everyday birdies from Doodle Pantry
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Papers - from my stash (could be from Kanban I think)
Button punch - Martha Stewart
Daffodils - Wild orchid crafts
craft card basket distressed with Tim Holtz tea die distress ink
Basket - die cut on cricut expression - Paperdolls for everyday cartridge


Well Thats all from me for now - going to try to get what should have been my last nights post done later today - had a bit of a dizzy blonde moment last night (I have a few of these but this one was pretty good!)  I'll update you later if I get through today in one piece - off birthday shopping with my daughter at Gateshead Metro Centre now - this its going to be expensive I can tell, as well as her birthday its her husbands birthday and wedding anniversary all on the same day!

challenges I'm entering

Polkadoodles -an animal or a bird
My mums craftshop -lets get digital
Card Makin Mamas - Button
Papertake weekly challenge -Buttons/Flowers/Free
Sundays with Crissy - Animals

Hugs

Judith x

Little fairy girl

Hi there blog friends
Hope you all had a great weekend, I don't know where weekends go, I don't often have much crafty time at weekends unless its a rainy Saturday afternoon or something like that, we always are out and about and Sunday is always a family day. 

The weather was beautiful here on Saturday and we took the dog on a long walk over the fields up to the next village along the coast and sat and had coffee and cakes outside at a litle cafe we often go to.  On Sunday we had a tea party for the grannies (as our mothers are known!) for mothers day and I baked cakes and pies and made little posh sandwiches and thoroughly enjoyed it, my daughter entertained the grannies and the men sat in the conservatory and listened to the football  It makes me sound like a real domestic goddess  - I wish!!  - can't even remember the last time I made a corned beef and potato pie before that, but even if I say so myself it was delish and the cakes were disapearing before
they got to the tea table - sounds like little house on the prarie doesn't it but sometimes its just so nice to slow down and do ordinary things at home and not have to rush around.

I started to do some colouring last night withmy new copic colours - lovely! - had a couple of DT cards to do and particularly wanted to enter the LOTV challenge this week because I'd got 6 new stamps from the new release  as part of my birthday pressie from my daughter. couldn't believe when I saw the new challenge was fairies and butterflies because  there are no fairies in the new release just one little girl  who looks like she might be dressed as a fairy so I used her and made some butterfly embellies to fit with the buttefly part of the challenge

 - don't think thats very good planning Lillis little fairies  - releasing new stamps then  having a challenge that you can't use them in!!

a close up of all the glittery bits!

This is what I did ...

Stamp - LOTV - wish upon a star
Coloured with - Copics and prismaclour pencils
Papers - the check is from K and Co, stars - from my stash
Gems - from stash
Die cuts - cricut Cindy loo and Paper dolls everyday
Glitter glue - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Kraft card and papers distressed with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink

I'm entering this card into the follwing challenges

lillies little fairies - butterflies and fairies
Incy Wincy Designs - things with wings (my "fairy" only has imaginary wings - but the butterflies   have real ones!!)
Pollycraft monday challenge - checks/gingham
The poodles parlour - Anything goes

I also got two lovely nominations for blog awards from two of my favouite bloggers in the last couple of days  -lovely ladies you know who you are!!  I'll be back tomorrow to tell you about them - this post is already starting to look like a novel !!

Its St Patricks day over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi Blog Friends

Hope you're all ok on this bright spring day.  Spring is definately in the air and as for this spring chicken - its my birthday today!  Birthdays are never like they were when you were little are they - oh to feel like that that again about being another year older!  I didn't want anything much in particular for my birthday this year so when I was asked what I wanted I asked for all the crafty goodies I've been lustng after, the main one that I'm dying for is some new copics for my collection, my Mam and Mam in law are buying them for me - can't wait to play with my new colours!!

The new challenge today over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges is 

"The luck of the Irish"

You could design a St Patricks day  card, or use green on your card, or use any Irish thing that gives you inspiration - a pint of Guiness?!

The sponsors this week are Nitwits and they are offering a fabby prize of a $10 voucher

To be in with a chance to win this great prize, all you have to do is enter this weeks challenge and who knows you could be the randomly chosen winner!

Heres my interpretation of the theme - I love this cute stamp

a close up of the detail

Heres what I did ....

Stamp  - Digi stamp Young Leprichaun from Chrissy Armstrong at Wimsey stamps
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor Pencils
Paper - Digi from Wimsey stamps
Green Card - Bazzill
Button Punch and corner punch - Martha Stewart
Tag and best wishes - cut on cricut impressions machine
Bakers twine - from my stash
Glitter - Martha Stewart glitter glue

It my day off today and I'm being treat out to birthday lunch by my Mam and Daughter  - hope the sun stays out

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Kaboodle Doodles - Green
Simply Create too - I'm sooo lucky
Simon says stamp challenge - bit o green
One stitch at a time - use a digi
Inky Impressions - your my pot of gold

See you tomorrow

Hugs
Judith x

Challenge day at Creative Craft Challenges

Hi Blog Friends

Its challenge day over at The creative craft challenge blog,  this week is a bit of a tricky one - one to get your creativity going.  Its an inspirational piccie by Sandra and it certainly got the DT girls going.  It was my first challenge since joining the team and half scared me to death!!

Use this picture as your inspiration!

We are being sponsored by Love to stamp who will offer 1 little darlings stamp of winners Choice!!!!! how great is that?

and the top 3 winner will also be offered a GDT spot

 

 

I really needed to think about this one - don't have a lot of black and pink combo in my stash but I found this lovely black and pink card from a Kanban collection I had with just one sheet left and I was away!  I had this image in mind to use from the begining just needed to do something with her!  I hadn't been brave enough to colour large clothes areas with black before, but I decided to go for it with  prismacolor pencils in black and shades of grey and I think it just about did the job - so I even learned something new by taking up this challenge!!

This was a really fun challenge to do so come on - get your brains into gear and see what you can come up with - it could be be pink/black/stars/hearts, stripes/checks/white/with words - or maybe this inspires you to do something totally different, either way hop on over to CCC and lets see your creations.

This is what I did....

Digi Stamp - Whispy Fairy fom Saturated Canary
Paper - Kanban and K&co
Glitter card- Create and craft
Die cuts - Cricut impressions cartridges Wall Decor and More and Once Upon a Princess
Coloured with copics and prismaclor pencils
Sentiment tag - spritz with perfect pearls pink bubblegum

Thats all from me today - see you over at creative craft challenge - go on you know you want to!!

Hugs

Judith x

Its Mellow Yellow day over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi blog friends

Hope you're all having a good day - its lovely up here in the frozen north (despite the rumours we do get good weather up here), the sun is shining, the sky is blue ...."and I am happy, happy all through".  walked for miles on the beach this morning with the hound dog, I love it when the tide is right out.  but enough of me...

Its Wednesday so that means a new challenge over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and
This week , we are again lucky to be sponsored by:

the DT were doubly lucky and allowed to play with an image too. Just to give you the "heads up", there are several freebie images available from the stamp fairy that fit perfectly with this weeks theme which is.....

"Mellow Yellow"

We would like you to make yellow the main focus of the card or have a daffodil or two on it, or even combine the two!! This is in honour of St David's Day which was on 1st March. So lets see you over at F'nF this week, all of this sunshine is enough to inspire everybody to get the yellow paper, pens and ribbons out - or the odd daffodil!

Here's my DT as you can see I went with the daffodil option with a bit of yellow for good measure

What I did....

Shaped card - Craftwork cards
Bunny image - Available to download for free at Stamp Fairy
Paper - Dovecraft - back to basics
Yellow check card - from my stash
Sentiment - from Dawn Bibby - Woodland rabbits set
Flowers -Wild orchid crafts
Yellow pearls Kaiser craft
die cuts - Spellbinders
Ribbon- Carnmeal cottage
Picket fence and heart cut with my cricut expression - My community and Wedding carts
Image coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Its a very simple card really but with a cute bunny image like that what more do you need

Tha'ts me for today

See you tomorrow

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Stampavie and More - Spring/Easter (3)
My mums craft shop - Spring colours (12)
Sundays with Crissy - animals (38)
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Spring is sprung (81)

Hugs

Judith x