We're celebrating our 4th birthday at Fab'n'Funky Challenges - so anything goes!

Good afternoon all

I'm back with my second post of the day  - and a very special one at that!

We are celebrating our 4th birthday at Fab'n'Funky challenges with a great challenge

Anything goes

We also have lots of fabulous sponsors and a host of prizes on offer!

Our wonderful Sponsors

Prize - 5 digis of the winners Choice - and a GDT spot at Fab'n'Funky Challenges



- the prize is 5 images of the winners choice from DS4J shop



Prize is 3 images of the winners choice from the Lacy Sunshine Shop

Inky Impressions 

prize is 3 digis of the winners choice

The fabulous Flonzcraft

prize - $20 voucher to spend in store - with free shipping! how great is that!

You have to admit these are fab and funky prizes and next week is just as great!

I made a Christmas card (no surprise there then!!) using a set of images from one of our sponsors

The images are from digistamps4joy called Christmas twigis winter - available HERE

This is what I did...

Images - Christmas Twigis winter from Digi Stamps 4 joy
Coloured with copics and white gel pen
Papers - MME joy
Sentiment - LOTV
Diecuts - postage stamps from spellbinders
               bells for memorybox
Ribbon - from my stash

We;d love to see you at Fab'n'Funky this week  come and see if you can win one of our fab (and funky) prizes

Challenges I'm entering with this card

ABC Christmas challenge - winter wishes
Crafting by design - anything goes with twist of Christmas
Handmade harbour - Christmas is coming


hugs

Judith x

New Challenge for August from Ready-Teddy-Go - Use punches and dies

Good morning all

Its a nip and a punch for the first of the month today ha ha 

- and a new challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go Too.  

The challenge for this month is 

Use Punches and Dies 

I decided to use a really cute little teddy Bear from 

Stampart design by Kathryne 

called

Baby Bears Butterfly available here

A "proper" Teddy Bear - I just love him!

This months challenge is sponsored by Lilli of the Valley

Who are offering a voucher for £10 as a prize

Here's what I did.....

Image - from Stampart by Kathryne 

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers and tags - LOTV

Die cut circles - spellbinders

Die cut swirl - Magnolia doo hickey

Flower punch - EK success retro flower punch punch

Butterfly punch - woodware

border punch - Martha Stewart

Card - Bazzill basics

Lace - from my stash

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

We'd love to see you at Ready Teddy Go Challenge this month

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Crafttin boutique - anything goes

Milk coffee challenge - show us your colouring skills

Hugs 

Judith

A sympathy card

Good morning all

Can you believe that this weather is still holding!  We have been just about living in our garden for the past few weeks - breakfast and dinner out there every day! - and we even had an Indian take away in the garden last night - now there's a first, there I was sitting with my curry and a glass of the new blackberry Pimms that I treat myself to in Tesco - this is the life!! - but its also why not much crafting is getting done around here.   

It was actually quite an experience in our garden tonight - though nothing to do with the food.  We live very close to the coast and its the Sunderland airshow tomorrow, there we were sitting eating our curry and along came a Lancaster bomber - so low you could look up and see the undercarriage clearly and then a spitfire went zipping past - then the red arrows did a few loops and finally a typhoon (no I'm not an expert - though I've seen them many times at the airshow) - but had a look at the Sunderland website to see what was going at at tonights opener.  So impressive and we'll be walking down again this weekend to see the displays as they fly out over the coast and sea.  

Anyway I digress I have a new card to share today for 

My Time to Craft Challenge

and also

my Whimsy Inspiration card this week

The theme at My Time to Craft is 

Sympathy Cards

I used the gorgeous image Full Bloom available here

from Stampart design by Kathryne at Whimsystamps

I think I've used this one before (Kathy has some gorgeous floral designs and I just love them)

but I thought that this one really lent itself to a sympathy card.  I kept it very simple with the focus on the image and made it into a pretty easel shape.  I personally think that a sympathy card should be simple in design - its not really the time for OTT embellies - well that's my opinion :  ).

Here's what I did..

Image - Full Bloom form Stampart Design by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and shaded with prismacolor pencils

Sentiment - created in word

Papers - MME lost and found - blush - love these papers

Ribbon - my current favourites from a pack of american crafts ribbons bought at TK Max

Pearls - Kars

Card - Bassill basics

Die cut shape  for frame - Spellbinders labels 10

Tag - Dienamics tag die set

For once I have the colours for you of my copics - a favourite go to combo of each colour set

Reds E39, E37,E35, E32

Greens G63, G61, G11, G0000

Beiges E43, E41, E40

prismacolour pencils - Tuscan Red and Warm Grey (70%)

Things seem to be so quiet around blogland - perhaps just a simle little sympathy card will be an easy make and we'll see you at MTTC this week - see you there

Hugs

Judith xx

It's a girl thing over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Good morning all

OOOO! I'm getting little bit exited - only one week to my holidays, done lots of holiday shopping, finished work yesterday and don't go back until July, and after all my busy weeks - I finally got my mojo back from wherever it was hiding! I've been doing lots of blogging and visiting in the past week and getting loads of inspiration -  Things are looking up!

I made this cute little easel card (yes I'm back on the easel thing!) for our challenge at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week using a little girl called Allie from Stampartdesigns by Kathryne

Allie and Angel is available here 

I enjoyed colouring this image it has lots of little details but is so beautifully drawn that it's very easy to colour

We have two fab sponsors with really great prizes over at Fab'nFunky Challenges this week

Here's what I did...

Image - Allie and Angel from Stampart design by Kathryne

Sentiment - bonus that comes with the image

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - srping drop from first edition

blue card - bazzill basics

Card shape cut with spellbinders grand nestie scalloped circle die 

sentiment cut and mounted on spellbinders labels four die

Flowers made with 3 punches - EK sucesss retro flower punch,

                                              woodware daisy punch 

                                              and papermania mini flower punch,

 Leaves are a Martha Stewart punch

Butterflies - papermania mini butterfly punch

pearls from my stash

A very quick and easy card to make -but the easel shape makes it look so much more 

Pop on over to Fab'n'Funky - there are some very pretty girly cards for your inspiration and we'd love to see the girly cards you make this week

Challenges i'm entering with this card 

Flutterby Wednesdays - Punches and dies

Papercraft star - handmade flowers

Simon says stamp - anything goes

Die cuttin divas - create a shape card

Through the craftroom door - anything goes

Fitztown challenge - anything goes

Lady annes challenge - easel card

Make it monday - anything goes

Crafting with dragonflies - girly

Hugs 

Judith

Use ribbon or lace at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week

Good morning my blogging friends

A warm welcome to my followers this week and big apologies for my absence - its been a chaotic week this one! We now have my daughter,SIL and baby grandson staying with us while they renovate their new house with most work being done by her DAD!- and guess who's been left holding the baby lol! - at the moment there are few spare moments and lots of busy ones - but when they get into their lovely newly renovated house it will be worth all of the work.

Anyway onto today's card

Its a Use ribbon or lace challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Here's my card

using Butterfly Friend from Stampart designs by Kathryne at Whimsystamps available here

and digi paper from Doodle Pantry available here

We have two sponsors at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

 Doodle Pantry



and Stampart by Kathryne

So two lovely prizes up for grabs if you enter this weeks challenge 

I love these teddy bears that Kathy from Stampart Design does - they really are my favourite teddy bears - there are lots of different teddy digis in Kathys shop at Whimsystamps - and everyone of them is so cute.

This is what I did...

Image - Butterfly friends from Stampart designs by Kathryne

Coloured with copics and rismacolr pencils

Sentiment - LOTV tag sentiment

Digi paper - from pitcher and basin set at Doodle Pantry

Lace butterfly - Martha Stewart crafts

Vintage seam binding ribbon and pearls from my stash

Card - bazzill basics

Flowers made with fabulous phlox die from memory box and coloured with copics

swirl - magnolia doohickey swirl die

Hope we see you at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Ready-teddy-go -spring has sprung
Whimsical designs - inspired by a song (Teddy Bear by Elvis Presley)
Creative Belli blog - flowers

hugs

Judith

Challenge day at My Time to Craft

Good morning all

Its Saturday again - hurray! - where do the weeks go.

This week we have a new challenge at MTTC that'll have you in stitches - literally 

Our challenge is 

Stitching

(faux or real)

I used this pretty little image from Stampart Design by Kathryne called Gracie available here 

I just love this little girl she's just so pretty.

Here's what I did...

Image and bonus sentiment - Gracie by Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with Copics

Papers - My Minds Eye Market

Swirl and flowers - Memory box dies (elegant swirl and cherry blossom)

Butterflies and corners - whimsy stamps dies

Gems from my stash

Distress ink - walnut stain 

Faux stitching with white gel pen

Anyone seen any April showers?

Good morning

Hope there's no April showers where you are!

We have lots of them over at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week

Where our hostess with the mostest Anne-Marie chose just that theme for the week!

April showers

I decided to turn the theme on its head and make April Showers a good thing!

Here's my card using the cute digi

Full Bloom from StampArt Designs by Kathryne 

available here

As you can see I went with an April Showers ....bring May flowers sentiment 

- just to ring the changes

We also have the results of our recent DT call 

- so many lovely and talented crafters and so few DT positions to go round!

Have a look over at Fab'n'Funky challenges there's so much going on over there this week

We have two fabulous sponsors this week.....

StampArt Design by Kathryne

Who is offering a fabulous prize of 5 digis to the first prize winner 

and

Flonzcraft

Who are offering  a $20 voucher and free shipping! to our randomly selected winner

So here's what I did for my card this week

Image - full bloom from StampArt Design by Kathryne 

Coloured with Copics

Papers - Bonnets and bowties from LOTV

Card - Bazill Basics

Glitter - Diamond stickles

Flowers - EK success punch

Die cut swirl - Memory box

Die cut butterfly - Whimsystamps

Ribbon - vintage seam binding from crafty ribbons

Pearls from my stash

Crystal "A" - from my stash  I always thought I'd use it for something for my daughter Alison - but its been there for years  unused so I decided today was the day!

We'd love to see your April Showers creations at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week
see you over there!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafting for all seasons - floral delights
Creative moments - Things with wings
Divas by design - spring colours
Flutterby wednesdays - floral
Paper pretties - April showers bring may Flowers
The papergirls - April showers bring may flowers

Hugs Judith x