Just a little flight of fantasy....

Hi All

Just thought I'd call in and share one of my makes for the Spectrum Noir TV Design team

I'm still here on my hollies in Florida but we're having a lazy day today - preparing ourselves to party with cookies and hot chocolate at Mickey Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom tonight!!  Our grandson Jacob - who will be 4 next week just can't wait - he loves Mickey, Parties and staying out late at night he has decided, so I think we're in for a night of fun, 

This is one of the lovely new stamps from Morgan Fitzsimmons

Flights of Fantasy range

I made it for the Shows last week on Create and Craft

 coloured with Spectrum Noir pens

What I did

Spectrum Noir pens DR2, PP3,5 GB5 DG2,3 TN2 FS2,3, IG1

Fantasy of flight stamp - Genevieve
Papers from fantasy of flight CD
Downton mirror die
Kraft Card from Crafters Companion
TH Cored’nations card
Sheena’s perfect partners poinsettia and ivy dies and stamps
Sentiment -Nordic Christmas stamp

Hope you're all doing well with your Christmas crafting and preparations

Hugs

Judith x

Use Lace at Fab'n'funky challenges this week

Good morning all

Sorry I haven't been around very much this week - it's been such a busy one and just not enough hours in the day, but I'll be round to catch up with you all soon - honest!

It's time for a new challenge over at 

Fab'n'Funky challenges 

and this week our theme is 

Use Lace

I made this card for my MIL for Mothers day and thought it would be perfect for this challenge so held on to it to show you for this weeks challenge

using another of those lovely stamps from Sheena Douglas
this one is A spot of Tea from the Mystery village set

We are sponsored this week by the absolutely gorgeous 

Live & Love Crafts

where the lovely Sandra is offering a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in store for our lucky winner

This is what I did....

Stamp - A spot of tea by Sheena Douglas
Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and slight shading with SN pencils
Papers - Victorian Lavendar from LOTV
Corners - Michaels
lace, ribbon and pins from my stash

I do hope you'll join in with us this week over at Fab'n'Funky - the girls have been busy making some fabulously pretty projects this week - pop on over to see what they have been doing!

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Crafters cafe - Ribbon or lace
Crafting by design - mothers day
Crafting when we can - inspired by a song (a nice cup of tea)


Hugs
Judith xx

What's on your TV!

hi all

Click HERE to enter my 'happy candy' draw

So sorry I'm a bit late with my post today - I've had a busy time these last couple of days that as kept me away from my blog (and most other things!)  My regular visitors will know that my youngest son Tom has Cerebral Palsy which causes him to have severe physical disabilities - but he's also very bright and is now in the second year of his masters degree.  I regularly support him in his studies by acting as a reader and scribe.  He's been working on his dissertation proposal this week so it's been a busy old week work-wise - and not over yet! 

None the less I've eventually escaped

to share my card for this weeks challenge at

Moving Along With The Times

Our theme is 

Square Eyes

(your favourite TV programme)

I have to say I'm a bit selective with my TV viewing

but I do like a good old murder mystery!

I like programmes like Broadchurch and Silent Witness

but also the good old Agatha Christie one like 

Miss Marple and Poirot

I think this card is more Miss Marple than Silent Witness!!

It reminded me of when first started work and used to travel there on the bus - I used to read Agatha Christie books to pass the time - I must have read dozens of them and they were really good!

I haven't read an Agatha Christie book for years now - happy days!!

I made this card with another of those fab Sheena Douglas stamp sets - they're such good quality and stamp beautifully every time.  I think this card is more masculine than feminine - but could be used for either as it has a definite vintage look - its a large 8 inch card  and looks quite good IRL.

I did think abourt adding some flowers but decided to leave it as it was to keep it simple!

This is what i did..

Stamp - Mystery Author from Sheena Douglas a little bit sketchy range

Sentiments - top of card Sheena Douglas 'I say' from a little bit sketchy range

                     bottom of card - produced in word

Ribbon - Crafty ribbons

Lace - Creative expressions

Papers - LOTV father knows best

Charm - from my stash

Pins - from my stash
Dies - Flag tail MFT
Perfect pearls and TH distress inks Tea dye, vintage linen

We'd love to see you at MAWTT to show us your favourite TV programme

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Incy wincy challenges - use punches or dies
open minded crafting - no pink no red

Hugs

Judith x

Come on - charm us!

Good morning all

Click HERE to enter my 'happy candy' draw

It's Wednesday all over again! - where do these weeks go!!

I'm back today with my DT card for

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

where our lovely Alison is hosting the challenge for the first time 

and a great job she has done too!

The theme this week is

Charm Us

(use a charm)

a close up of the lovely verse

I made this card for my husbands birthday back in January - its made with a lovely Sheena Douglas stamp called Visitor available HERE and the sentiment and verse on the tag are from The Journey by Tim Holtz at Stampers Anonymous  - I just love that inspirational verse.

My card is another of those large 8 inch square cards, I love using these
 - so much more space to play with!

our lovely sponsor this weeks is

Inspired by Stamping

visit at the links below to see the lovely goodies they have in store

Website- http://www.inspiredbystamping.com/

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inspired-by-Stamping/219235878105725

Pinterest- Inspired by Stamping (inspiredstampin)

This is what I did....

Stamp -A little bit sketchy - Visitor - by Sheila Douglas

Coloured with Tim Holtz distress pens

papers - LOTV father knows best and country gent

Sentiments and clock stamp -The Journey set from Tim Holtz at Stampers Anonymous

Key charm - from my stash (ebay i think!)

Ribbon - Brown silky Crush from Creative Expressions

Corners - Michaels and distressed with TH white distress paint

Banner dies- whiff of Joy

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Cuttin and stampin challenge - masculine

Incy wincy challenge - use a punch or die cut

Addicted to stamps - lots of layers

The ribbon girls - it's charming
Chocolate baroque - colour inspiration     

I do hope you'll come and charm us with your lovely cards this week

hugs Judith xx

Hope it feels like summer where you are

Hi again

I'm back with my second post of the day this time for 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

we have a brand new challenge for you

to go with this lovely weather we've been having (well it's great here!)

Feels like summer

we want to see anything summer themed or with a real summery feel to it

I decided to use this cute digi called Daisy Girl Framed available here

she's definitely a summer girl - so pretty

we have two lovely sponsors this week

Dilly Beans Digi stamps
who are offering a prize of 3 digi stamps

and 

Stampart Design by Kathryne
who are offering a prize of 5 digis

I really enjoyed making this pretty bright card, I used some more of my new Sheena Douglas Stamps (my new obsession!) to make the flower

This is what I did.....

digi stamp - daisy girl framed by Dilly Beans

coloured with copics

Papers -  I think they're donvecraft - the labels dropped off lol

Flower stamp - bloomin beautiful - sheena douglas

leaf stamp- new leaf - sheena douglas

Diamond stickles to trim

sentiments - LOTV

Ribbon - from my stash

Distress ink - bundled sage

I do hope you'll play along with us at Fab'n'Funky - we've gone to fortnightly challenges over the summer - so you have two whole weeks to play along

see you there!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

My Mums craftshop - summer or bright colours (31st July)
Bunny Zoes - Layers (13th July)

Hugs 

Judith xx

Summer fun with the crafty little Fairies - and me!! - and some photos

Hello crafty friends

Well I'm just about up to date with myself and thought I'd post my (late) DT card for 

Crafty little Fairies

 and just come to say a proper hello.

The theme is 

Summer Fun

 I'm sorry I haven't been around much-  you must have wondered where I was, but since I took early retirement  at the end of March my feet have barely touched the ground (well not at home anyway)

After I came back from my holiday in May and did my stint scribing for my son Tom for his uni work, I have then been doing a lot of late helping my cousin with her daughters wedding which culminated in a lovely 4 days in the Lakes District at the end of June for the wedding.  When we came home on the Sunday night my son Tom (who has cerebral palsy) had to be sorted out to go an activity holiday with his support worker to the Calvert Trust in Keilder on the Monday and I had a whole week off that week because my daughter had taken time off so I didn't have Jacob my grandson to look after either - great I thought I'll have some nice crafty time to myself - not so!! - my lovely hubby had booked us a short holiday to Corfu leaving the next morning (didn't he know I had cards to make lol!)  We had a lovely 4 days- just the two of us which we don't very often get he chance to do - got back in the early hours of last Sunday so I totally missed out last week altogether. 

Anyway - back to the card lol. Its a very large 7x10 inch card, you must be groaning and saying - not those Sheen Douglas shell stamps again - but I just love them!! - With lots of summer themed challenges around I'm going to use them to death - so sorry but I'm sure there's more to come

Here's what I did..... 

Sentiment - created in word (taken from a plaque I have in my conservatory)

Stamps - Sheena Douglas seashells
coloured with perfect pearls (another recent  addiction!)

Papers - (very ancient) K and Co no idea what theyre called

Card - Bazzill basics

pearls from my stash

Hessian ribbon - do crafts

palm tree die - MFT dienamics

fishtail flag die also dienamics

Here's a quick catch up of what I've been up to recently - in photos.....

dinner by the pool in Corfu - a great little hotel 

my new conservatory furniture that arrived yesterday - love it!!
we're trying for Florida beach house style
to fit in with this challenge lol

                                                                                             

the wedding outfit
(complete with those shoes - if you saw them a couple of posts back)

the lovely view from our room on lake Derwentwater - a little piece of heaven

Well I think that's about it for now - I'll be round to visit and catch up soon

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Live & Love craft - under the sea (31st July)

Natalie and Amys - Summertime  (31st July)

Crafting musketeers - summertime  (31st July)

Bunny Zoes - layers  (13th July)

Eureka stamps - vacation (13th July)

Incy Wincy - Summertime activities (13th July)

Hugs 

Judith xx

We're celebrating our 5th birthday at Moving Along with the times - with a hop!

Good morning all

The letter you're looking for is.....

  A

Its a special day for us girlies at MAWTT - its our 5th birthday

a very special day for our lovely leader Hazel

 who has kept the challenge going for all that time - some achievement I'd say 

We're having a challenge with the theme

Birthdays, Buttons and Balloons

 so as long as your entry contains one of those - you're in!

Here's my card using the fabulous Pacifica from Rick St Dennis available here

but our celebration part is our special bloghop

the rules of the hop are

To be eligible for the Prizes you must visit all the blogs and collect a letter from each.  Then email Hazel at didosdesigns@yahoo.com with the word you have made with Blog Hop Word in the Subject Line.  You must send the word to us to be in with a chance of winning!!!! 

Each DT Member will announce their winner on their own blog from the comments.
I'm giving a lovely selection of embellies to the winner on my blog
- including shell stickers and birthday stickers just to tie in

So here's the list for the hop

Hazel (Didos)
Sue
Pami
Hazel L
Carole
Judith
Wendy
Janice
Debs
Karina
Laurie
Tammy
Susan
Claire
Jessie.

Sarah

You should have come to me from Carole's blog - the next stop is Wendy - so off you go - hop hop hop!  There are sooo many sponsors and fabulous prizes - I think everyone has a chance!!

Call in at the MAWTT blog to see our full list of sponsors and prizes - you won't be disappointed

I absolutely loved colouring this image - though when I first printed it out it half scard me to death because it was so fine in detail - I also used those fabulous Sheena Douglas Shell stamps again, and the sentiment that goes with them.  i just love these shells stamps - they're so realistic.  I coloured them with perfect pearls to give them a pearly look, you can see in my picture next to my real shells they look pretty realistic

Hope you'll join in our, challenge and hop to celebrate the occassion

hugs

Judith xx 

A simple Thank You

Hi all

I have a fairly CAS card to share with you using a lovely poppy stamp from Sheena Douglas, I've loved this Stamp for ages and wanted to use it for my DT card for 

MAWTT

 as soon as I saw the theme for this weeks challenge which is 

Keep it Simple

I always enjoy colouring floral cards and this one was no exception, It was supposed to be even more CAS than this but (here is confession time) I dropped my black ink pad onto it as I went to stamp the sentiment along the bottom - so had to do a repair job of the larger sentiment and ribbon grrr - i hate when that sort of thing happens when you've just spent an age colouring a card,

I'm sorry I'm late in with this card - things are still a bit topsy turvy around here just now - hopefully I'll get back on track before too long!

This is what I did....

Image - Poppies and daisies by Sheena Douglas
Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils
Aged effect stamp (around the edge) -Aging beautifully from a little bit sketchy by Sheena Douglas
Sentiment - Chalkboard sentiments from Anna Griffin
Card - Bazzil Basics
Ribbon - american crafts
Distress ink TH Tea dye
White Gel Pen

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Storyteller - Flowers
Stemplegarten - Flower dreams
Sweet stampin challenge -say it with flowers