Birds of a feather.....

Good morning all

We have a new challenge starting at 

Moving Along with the Times 

our theme is 

birds or feathers

I made this card for a dear friend's birthday 

using this cute owl stamp from Woodware

I decided to go for a bright cheerful card rather than a serious floral

- sometimes we need a bit of fun in life : ) 

and the inside to match

This is what I did....

Image and sentiment - from Woodware stamps
coloured with spectrum Noir Colourblend pencils
Papers - LOTV Birdie Lane
Dies - Circles and scalloped circles - Grand nestabilities
        - flowers , leaves and border - MFT blueprints
       - Happy birthday - Sara Davies birthday signeature collection From Crafter's Companion
       - inside  word dies - Tattered Lace

Hope you can join in with us at Moving along with the times this challenge.

Hugs

Judith xx

We're having a Baby week at Fab'n'funky challenges

Good morning all

Well I'm back!!

 - bet you didn't even notice I'd been away lol

I've just had a lovely week away in Tenerife

 -it was a lovely treat to get a little sunshine, but for now it's back to reality 

and I'll be round to catch up on my commenting and visiting soon

We have a new challenge for you over at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

hosted by our lovely Jan who chose the theme

Baby 

(anything baby!)

I decided to take the opportunity to add another Christmas card to the Christmas pile

using this lovely image from A Day for Daisies

called A Sign I Give - available HERE

there's a fab prize of a $12 gift card up for grabs this week from our sponsor

I went with a fairly simple style for this card 

keeping the focus on the image which I coloured with Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils

the frame is yellow with an aged look created with pebeo gilding wax - it looks a bit random in this photo - but I rather like the effect - much better in real life

This is what I did....

Image - A sign I give from ADFD

Coloured with spectrum noir blendable pencils

Easel card created with creata die

Star die - Memory box

Peace, goodwill and Joy die - Crafter's Companion

Pebeo gilding wax - gold

Hope you'll come and play along with us this week

Hugs Judith xx

Why do I never win at Bingo!!...... I'll explain

Good morning all

We have a new challenge starting at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

our lovely Buffy Chose the theme

Bingo

and we have a new sponsor this year 

DigiStamps4joy

who are offering a great prize this week 

I never win at Bingo!! - mainly I think because I loose the plot and my mind wanders off and I miss numbers .... pretty much like in this challenge really.  Not a very good example to anyone who plays along with our challenge - you won't win if like me you only complete half a line!! Yellow/flowers/gems, then I've sort of got black off another line .... see what I mean I'm pretty useless lol.   To be fair it's easily put right I could stick gems on no problem - so if you can screw your eyes up and stick black gems on in your mind - it fits!

I decided that this lovely image was perfect to create a page in my art journal - it's only one side of a double page - I've yet to venture onto the facing page - but I have something floral in mind!!

This lovely image is called Phantasi 7 - I just love it!!

I used parts of the Doodlin' stencil from Sheena Douglass groovin 60's collection as I thought the shapes echoed the lovely cala lilys in her hair and also added an ornate vine and basket weave stencil for texture - I rather like the effect.

Here's what I did

Image - Phantasi 7 from Digistamps4joy

coloured with Spectrum noir blendable pencils

Background created with Sheena Douglass stencils and  inspirational words stamps sets 1 and 2

and splats and accessories set 2

Inks used - Creative expressions colourcloud and TH distress inks, stazon black ink

Hope we see you with a winning line overat Fab'n'Funky this week

Hugs

Judith xx

Boo!- it's Halloween!

Hi All

I'm rather late with my post for 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

My blogging is a bit sporadic due to illness in the family

and things have taken a greater turn for the worse this week

I've eventually finished my card for this week so i'm really just sending a reminder for anyone to join in with their Halloween projects - you must have some!!

Our theme is very simple!

Halloween!

We are sponsored by the fab 

Lemon Shortbread

who are offering a prize of 3 images to our winner this week

 the team were given some fab images to work with 

I chose the cute

Holloween Dracula Party

available here

 and suprise! it opens to form a pop twist card!

I made this for my grandson Jacob who absolutely loved it!  Its a very sturdy card and just as well as he played with it all afternoon - jumping out and shouting BOO! as he opened the card

Here's a (very short!!) video of him : ) 

I just saw this style of card last week and set about finding out how to make it - there are lots of tutorials on youtube - really easy to make and very effective 

- you should give it a try!!

Here's what I did...

Image -Halloween Dracula Party from Lemon Shortbread
Coloured with Spectrum noir pens and Colourblend pencils
with bats coloured with black spectrum noir sparkle pen
Papers - MME
Black card - Crafters Companion
Orange card and red card - Cored'nations Brights
Frame die - Noble frame die from Sue Wilson
die cut letters - sizzix

ther's still lot's of time for you to enter our challenge - hope to see you there

Hugs
Judith x

Hello - I'm back!

I bet you thought I'd disappeared off the face of the earth!!

I've been away on holiday for over 3 weeks and forgot to photograph the cards I'd made to blog while I ws away - so I decided gave myself the month off lol.... since I got home I've had a busy time preparing for my grand daughter's christening (I'll share some of my makes when I get myself organised - I love baby crafting) - its taken me until now to catch up with myself!!

But I'm here today because its challenge day at 

The Paper Shelter Challenge blog

and our theme this week is

Embossing 

(any kind wet or dry)

I used the lovely Rowena for this card
a steam punk inspired creation with a floral twist!

(The flowers and hearts are dry embossed

the tag at the bottom is wet embossed)

As always we have a fab prize for you at 

The Paper Shelter

Here's what I did

Image - Rowena from TPS

Coloured on Neenah desert storm card

using Spectrum noir blendable pencils
skin -rose peach,cream, vanilla
clothes walnut, bark,pebble,coconut,cider, yellow ochre
hair ginger, redcurrant,bark
edged with eggshell

Papers and vellum - Madam Payraud from Papermania

Stamped in black DI around the edges with an Anna Griffin swirl stamp 

(sorry don't know what its called)Sentiment label also Anna Griffin

Hearts are black card and vellum embossed with just a corner of Sheena Douglass' Twisted Vine Embossing folder and highlighted with Pebeo gilding wax - bronze

Flowers are from Sara Davies Country garden dies also embossed and gilded

Flower stalk is Sheena Douglass' Sweet William die embossed and gilded

All other embellies are from my stash

Hope to see you playing along with us this week - I'll be back to visiting you all too!

Hugs

Judith x

Well it's confirmed- I'm away with the fairies!!

Good morning all

Well what a busy week I've had so far - my feet haven't touched the floor!

and I've really just made this challenge by the skin of my teeth

We have a great new challenge over at 

The Paper Shelter

the theme is 

Away with the Fairies

there are so many pretty fairies available at TPS

I chose to use the pretty

Fairy Emma - available here

I made the gorgeous fairy the main focus of the card just adding a couple die cuts 

As always we have a great prize on offer at TPS

I coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens a touch of Spectrum noir colour blend pencils and used Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to add what every fairy needs - Sparkle!

Here's what i did

Image - Fairy Emma from TPS

Coloured with spectrum noir Pens and spectrum Sparkle pens and colour blend pencil

colours -SN pens FS1,7,TN1,2, BP 1, TB3, PP1,4,6, CT1,GB1, CT1,4, LY1,2

SN Colourblend pencil - cherry red

SN Sparkle pens - gold and clear

Sentiment LOTV

Papers - LOTV birdie lane

Dies all die'sire from crafters companion, coloured with TH DI - Worn Lipstick and Shabby Shutters

Gems from my stash