Its buttons and bows at Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge

Hi Again

I'm playing catch up now with my missing DT posts - but only because I've hijacked my sons Apple Mac - he's not at all impressed that I've taken up residence at his desk in this bedroom to use his super dooper machine lol - so its not going to be a long term thing, I still need to get things sorted on my laptop - but it's not getting any better - I'm having problems with commenting too now, on some blogs its no problem, on others the comments box is just a white box saying "resolving host" - I haven't got time to craft, blog and fix computers so for the minute I'm just having to struggle with things as they are : (
so please forgive me if I haven't called on you lately - I'll keep trying x

Anyway on the bright side here's my post for

Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge 
(due yesterday)

The theme is 

Buttons and Bows 

and our sponsors this week are 

Bugaboo Stamps

and 

Meljens Designs

There are some lovely designs from the DT girls this week - you should pop over to take a look

I got to use this cute little boy from Bugaboo stamps 

he's called Kidz boy puppy- and is available here

I made this fore my grandson to give to his Mammy (my daughter)
for her birthday next week

I decided to give the spectrum noire pens a try (mainly because I needed to buy a few ink refills for my copics - so I thought I'd spend the money on pens rather than ink)  I was really impressed, they blend very well and are easy to use, the method is different but with a bit of practice (spot my deliberate mistake!!) they're definitely worth the money (and a lot cheaper than copics).  I only bought a few but might well buy some more as my copics need to be refilled

This is what I did ,,,,

Image - Kidz boy puppy from bugaboo stamps
Coloured with copics and spectrum noires
papers - K and Co hopscotch boy
Easel card made with papermania kraft card and Spellbinders circle/ scallop dies
Cloud die - joy craft
To my Mammy - made especially for me by the lovely Nicky at stampingallday
Flowers - EK success retro flower punch
Swirl - MFT die
Square Sentiment - Anna Griffin chalk board sentiment stamped with chalk ink
Buttons - Papermania capsule collection
Ribbon bow - from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Brown sugar - anything goes
simply create too - animals


Hope we see you playing along this week

hugs
Judith x

Cats cats cats......

Good morning blog friends

Well by the title of my post you might just have guessed the theme of this weeks challenge at 

Moving along with the Times

of lovely janice has chosen the theme 

Cats

nothing ambiguous, not in the least bit complicated 

pure and simple - cats!!

If you call on me regularly you'll know I'm a huge lover of animals - they're there in my side bar all the time.  I used to breed pedigree cats (British shorthairs) when my kids were little and we've always had an assortment of animals in the house - we always had every kid in the neighbourhood at our house because we had cats -complete with litters of kittens, dogs, guinea pigs, budgies.... lol a real menagerie.  But I very recently lost my beloved last cat Barney at the grand old age of 18, it makes me so sad not to have cats but we have too many holidays these days and its not fair or easy on the cats particularly.  We still have our lovely labrador Glenn but he's a very social animal and enjoys when someone else looks after him when we aren't here.

Anyway on with my card

I went hunting around to see what sort of catty images I had and came across this cutie from Meljens

Called Kitty Cat love its available here

A quite bizarre thing happened as I was looking for a link for this digi just now - I found the original post from the artist showing her two cats that she based this stamp on - I hope she doesn't mind me publishing this picture - but I hadn't seen it when I coloured these kittys - and here they are..

 

Now is that spooky or what! - I could have coloured these cats any combination of colours - yet that was what came to my mind - people say I'm a bit spooky at times cos I often do these things....!! 

Janice is offering a cool kitty stamp for you cat loving people to win

it's called Kitty Tiles from New Hampton Art Stamps - its gorgeous 

wish I could enter for the chance to win it!!

  

Anyhooos - you can see the cats I had most recently on my side bar

I had told Janice I would post some others of my cats on here - but when I looked I didn't have any on my computer at all (well I had others of these same cats but not my other cats!!)  I only have my prints and they are where everyone keeps their old photos - in a box in the loft!!  I'll get them out sometime and post some of my other lovely cats.  and cute kitty litters I had!  Oh I do so miss my cats - but its lovely to remember them here today.

When I made this card I had a real embellie crisis -you have no idea how many embellies were put on this card - then taken back off again - I just decided to let the cats do the talking and leave it at that

Here's what I did...

Image - kitty cat love from meljens designs

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - sunshine by MME

Dark red card and pearls from my stash

Ribbon - vintage seam binding in toffe from crafty ribbons

Sentiment produced in word

die cut circles - spellbinders
die cut labels - MFT

Picture of cats  - http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/oldie-but-goodie-kitty-cat-love.html

Challenges I'm entering with this card

digistamps 4 joy - ribbon
inky impressions - ribbon
animal friends challenge -  punches and dies
crafters companion - hearts
really reasonable ribbon - valentines/love/ribbon
the stamping boutique - valentines

I hope we see lots of lovely cat cards from you at MAWTT - it would be lovely if you would share your cat  photos too  - I'd love to come over and see them 

hugs 

Judith x 

Sketchy Challenge at Moving Along with the Times

Good morning all

Just want to say a big hello and give a wave to my new followers this week

 - so happy you came to see me!

Here I am a day late with my MAWTT DT card - had all sorts of techy problems that I won't bore you with - but I haven't been able to print off my images - hence no card yesterday.....Anyhooos! its here today and I'm using a cute image  called big sweater kid available here 

from Meljens Designs who are sponsoring the challenge at MAWTT this week.  

Here's what I did....

Image  Big sweater kid from Meljens Designs

Coloured with copics and prismacoor pencils

Sentiment - computer produced in word

Papers - Blue Christmas at reolestions and Winterwonderland MME

Snowfloke embellie - Recollections

Oval dies - spellbinders

Gems - from my stash

There are some fab digis over at Meljens including a big collection of kids and teens - I really loved them when I went over to the store to have a look - a new digi company for me - but I know  I'll be back there

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Holly jolly christmas - tic tac toe - gems /diecuts/designer papers

Through the craftroom door - anything goes

Critterchallenge blogspot - snowflakes

House of gilli - anything goes with pastel colours

Have a great weekend everyone

hugs

Judithxx