Con - grat - u - lations

Morning all

I'm pretty sure that anyone of a certain age in the UK will be able to hear Cliff Richard singing 

Con-grat-u-lations

How could you avoid it! I can't say the word without singing the song in my head!

and over at 

My time to Craft

 this week this is our theme

Anything with Congratulations 

(or something of similar meaning - well done etc)

I decided on a baby girl Congratulations card

The image is a digi called Baby Girl from Lia Stampz at Whimsy Stamps available here

There is also a "boy" version of this - they are both such pretty stamps

I think I got into a bit of a distress thing a week or so back with lots of distress/vinage style

 - now I can't get out of it lol

Here's what I did....

Image - Baby girl from Lia Stampz by Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with Copics and prismacolour pencils

Distress ink TH dusky rose

Paper - MME lost and found - blush

Vintage seam binding - crafty ribbons

scalloped circle - Grand nestability

Label die - Dienamics

Congratulations - Anna Griffin rubber stamp

button  and pearls from my stash

Pearl heart - MCH

Hope you all have a great weekend

 - and all those on half term school hollies next week - hope its a good one!

Hugs 

Judith x

Are you sick to death of my shabby chic yet!!

Good morning all

Its been one busy, funny old week this one!

I'm back this morning with my 3rd Shabby chic DT project in a week - 

could this actually be Shabby Chic week!!?

Anyway I'm back here with my card for 

My Time to Craft

And yet another

Shabby chic

I made this really simple gift tag with the cute Sapphire from Stampart by Kathryne available here

I cut two sizes of tag and tided them together with vintage seam binding - coloured the image and doodled her wings and the corners of the tag with glitter glue for a shabby chic look,  then added two little sentiment tags fastened on with a brad to finish off -really very simple to make

This is what I did...

Image - Sapphire from Stampart design by Kathryne at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with - Copics

Glitter glue - Martha Stewart  - hematite and sharoite

Card - Bazzill basics

Tags dies- My favourite things

Brad - Whiff of Joy

Sentiment tags - LOTV

Vintage Seam binding - crafty ribbons

There must be some more of you making Shabby chic this week - there's certainly no shortage of challenges to enter

Challenges I'm entering with this card..

Paper Creators crafts - Die cute and punches

Di's digi designs - Colouring skills

A creative romance -Fairy tales or winged creatures

Patties creations - Ribbon (mst include an image)
crafty little fairies - bows and brads

hugs

Judith xx

A polo card !!

Hi all

What's polo card I hear you say - simple - its a card with a hole in it lol!

Todays challenge at 

My Time to Craft

is 

Apertures

Its not something I've made often - though if you have a die cutting machine and a suitable die (or better still I suppose a ready cut aperture card - they are incredibly easy and make a nice change from a straightforward square card which is what most of us stick to these days

I cut this card  aperture with a spellbinders circle die and already had this sentiment in mind to use and it was really the inspiration for the whole card - I think it makes a lovely sentiment for a baby girl card.  So to go with the sentiment I decorated the card with punched flowers.

This is what I did....

Image - LOTV Baby Blanket -available here
Coloured with Copics
Sentiment - part of digi set "Katie" from Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps
papers - (pink) - spring drop from first edition and check - LOTV blossoms and bows
Ribbon pearlhearts and pearls  from my stash
Button - Papermania pastel button pack
Flower punches - retro flower from EK sucess and small daisy flower from papermania
leaf punch - Martha Stewart
Die cut label -part of fishtail flag from dienamics

Challenges I'm entering with this challenge

CMC challenge - pretty in pink
Brown sugar challenge - anything goes
Sister act card challenge - anything goes
Ladybug crafts - say it with flowers
Natalie and Amy's- Celebrate
The crafting cafe - a baby is born

Have a great weekend everyone

hugs

Judith xx

Colour theme challenge at My Time to Craft

Hi all

(I'm sooo sorry this is late - don't know what happened to my scheduled post but it didn't happen and I just realised!!)

This weeks challenge at 

My Time to Craft

is a colour challenge for a change

The colours are

Turquoise and Brown

I decided to make a gift bag and tag  with a really cute image from this months new release at Whimsy Stamps by Moon Cookie Gallery

Its called Grandmas Garden 1 available here

This is such a pretty image that I think lends itself to all kinds of creations and colour schemes, there are 3 variations of this image in the Whimsy stamps store -all just as pretty.

Here's what I did...

Bag - from Michaels 

Image - Grandmas Garden 1 from Moon cookie Gallery at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics

Paper - K & Co

Card - bazzil basics

Flower - Prima

Pearls and butterflies from my stash

Ribbon - american crafts

Leaves - Martha Stewart leaf punch

Challenges I'm entering with this card

CMC copics challenge - anything goes
bloggers challenge -pretty packaging
inspire me fridays - anything goes
totally papercraft -things with wings
crafty ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Hop on over to MTTC - the girls have made some lovely projects with this pretty colour combo -we'd love you to join in with us this challenge

hugs 

Judith xx

When is a boarding card not a boarding card......?

Hello blog friends

The answer to the question above is ......when its a bookmark!!

Its time for another challenge at My Time to Craft

This week's challenge sees the end of a holiday era for me as I get myself a bookmark  to take on me hollies.  I love to read but don't have a lot of time when I'm at home - its the choice between crafting or reading and as this blog shows I'm crafting.  But when I go on holiday I always take a pile of books and I read them everywhere.  If you see someone reading in a queue for a ride at a theme Park - That'll be me - I drive my husband mad because when I'm supposed to be reading the map in the car I'm reading and of course I read all the way there and back.  We've got an almost 12 hour flight to California this year so I've got plenty of time. 

....And that where the boarding card comes in - every year I say the same annoying thing (apparently!) - I go to put my book down when we're on the plane and say to my husband - Have you got something I can use for a bookmark and he gives me my boarding card.  You'll notice I say he gives me it.  He's a total holiday control freak and none of us are responsible enough to keep our own passports or tickets for anything - he hands them out and collects them back each time we need a ticket for anything - the whole family knows what he's like and to be honest we just let him get on with it lol.  When I say the whole family that has also included our parents when they came with us - everyone must conform!! You'll see us going through the turnstiles in the theme parks and he stands at the end and we don't get away until he collects the tickets back in from everyone and tucks them away safely - so that's why I have to get my boarding card back - because he keeps those too - I bet you're dying to come away on holiday with me sometime - 'cos he'll have your tickets too - be sure of it!!

Anyway this year I'm going to have my very own bookmark and not a boarding pass!!

The challenge this week at MTTC is 

Make a bookmark

Mine is totally a holiday bookmark

The only thing about a bookmark is it needs to be flat - and I don't suppose stick on gems would work - the'd probably end up stuck to the pages!  I've been promising myself the nautical die cuts from Mariannes for ages because I love all things nautical - being a seaside girl.  But I haven't got round to it so had to make do with stamps instead.  I think because I really wanted to put die cuts on I wasn't totally happy with this (spoilt brat that I am) but if you haven't got it you can't use it and it is on the lines of what I wanted and its practical - I think if you're going to make a bookmark you have to be able to use it lol.

Here's what I did...

All Stamps - Papermania Ahoy there set 

Paper is from Craftwork cards - quite old - sorry can't remember the name of it

Twine is also Papermania

The rest is just good old card

The best thing is I know my husband will be annoyed that I don't ask for my boarding card back - it might just spoil his holiday - ROTFL!!!!

Hopefully I'll be back to post before I go - have a great weekend everyone

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Crazy 4 challenges -summer inspiration 

Basic grey -Fun in the sun

A gem of  a challenge - summertime

Card crafters circle- stripes

Eureka stamps - the great outdoors

Love to create - read all about it 

The shabby tearoom - colour inspiration - aqua/yellow/white

Hugs 

Judith xx

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

I'm up a height! - In the sky for My time to craft this week

Hello again!

Really sorry I haven't been around much this week its been a really busy one.  The themes for this weeks challenges seem to have been set for me!  We had going around in circles on Thursday and now its

In the sky  

Here in Geordieland we use the phrase- "up a height"  meaning stressed out! - that's me! - I'm totaly up a height this week lol!! got more to do than there are hours in the day at the minute.  Having said that I pretty much live my life like that and always have done.  Most people think I'm just totally nuts I think but I hate to be bored and would rather have too much than too little to do - because my philosophy is that you always catch up in the end!

Here's my card for this week,using really cute digi from Liastampz at Whimsystamps

 its called Toy Plane - available here 

This is what I did....

Image - toy plane from Liastampz at Whimsystamps
Coloured with copics
Papers - hopscotch boy from K and co (my favourite "boy" papers)
Card - Bazzill basics
Button punch - Martha Stewart
Letters - cut with Sizzix
Ribbon from my stash
Sentiment - from a Dawn Bibby set

Hope the sun has been shining where you are today - it was lovely to see it today

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafts 4 eternity - wonderful wings
QKR Stampede - for a child
Aud sentiment challenge blog - For a guy
Forever friends- Diecuts and punches
Digital Tuesday - Boys
Papertake weekly - bingo - punches /free /ribbon

Hugs

Judith x

Last of the bunnies!

Hi all

I'm here with my DT card for MTTC - a little bit late but I've been feeling sort of yukky since Thursday and just couldn't be bothered to sit down and finish it. I've got all sorts of commenting and visiting to catch up with - so I promise I'm on my way round to visit and catch up!  I'm still not feeling 100% but sometimes you've just got to get on with it and I think I've come to the end of any sympathy I'm getting at home

 - hmm that's men for you - I'll have my day!!

Anyway on to my card for today 

Over at My Time to Craft we have a cute challenge this week

Bunnies!

I have to admit to being a bit Bunnied out lately so I've decided this is the last for now!

This is a cute little image from LOTV, I actually got it for my birthday last year - its taken me a whole year to ink it up - better late than never!!  I decided to mount it up in several layers onto an 8x8 card.  The image of this stamp is really quite small but I think it worked quite well to add the extra layers.

This is what I did....

Image - Spring Swing from LOTV

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers -Petal fresh from LOTV

Sentiment tags - LOTV sentiment tags

Shaped 8x8 card - Craftwork cards

Blue card  Bazzill Basics

Die cuts - Circles - Spellbinders

                Banners - Whimsy stamps

                Ivy -part of Marianne set

                Butterfly border - from Sizzix / Tim Holtz

Flower - Creative expressions 

Ribbon - carmeal cottage

Gems - from my stash

Tiny flower punch (on banner) - Woodware

I'm sure you've all got one last Bunny card in you before Easter - lets see it over at MTTC

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Digi design challenge - Spring/Easter

A gem of  a challenge - Easter/spring

Totally gorjuss - Something old (The stamp)

The sweet stop - Spring

Chocolate coffee cards - Banners

Hugs Judith x

Black and White Army! - just for you Shell!

Good morning blogfriends

Well I got to the end of this exciting week and now I have to settle back down to create something out of it all!  I decided to use this cute little footballer from The Paper Shelter 

- called Soccer Star - available here  for my DT card at My Time to Craft this week. 

 It is also a card for my footie mad nephew who turned 18 on Thursday.  He is an absolutely  mad Newcastle United fan so when I saw this image it just seemed perfect for his card - he appreciates anything black and white and not much else!

Also as our Crafty Mamma at MTTC has similar tastes 

-this ones for you too Shell hehe.

(I have to do something to get round you saying as I cheated for this DT card!!!)

The challenge over at

  My Time to Craft

this week is 

Embossing

I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of dry embossing - I only have four folders and two of those are Christmas ones!  But I do some wet embossing from time to time.  I had a tidy up and move around of my craft stuff a few weeks ago and now I have no idea where my heat gun is

 - should have left it alone - I know where I used to keep it!

So as I didn't really have anything to emboss with that would suit this card -I have to confess to doing a bit of a cheat - I used card that is already embossed - it is a Tim Holtz card with a heavy weave efmbossed on it - and it was the perfect colour for this card

This is what I did....

Image - Soccer Star from The Paper Shelter

Cooured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - MME Meadowlark

Dies - circles Spellbinders

       - fishtail flag stax from Dienamics

       - 18 - Tim Holtz wanted alphabet from sizzix

Ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Craftuscrazy - anything goes

Dutchdare challenge - for the boys 

Crafts and me - dies or punches

Simon says - Anything goes
Clearly inspired - black and white with a pop of colour

Have a fab weekend

hugs

Judith x

It's men only at MTTC today

Good morning all

Well it certainly is a good morning here in the frozen north!  The sun is shining and theres even a touch of spring in the air - don't suppose it'll last but its nice to have some decent weather for a change.  

Its also challenge day at MTTC  - so another reason to be cheerful!

This week challenge is 

Men only

(only cards for men)

I decided to use this cute image called Birthday Ted from Dis Digi downloads -I bought it before Christmas intending to use it for a little boys birthday card but somehow it didn't get used.  Its one of those versatile stamps that I think you could use for a birthday card for almost anyone so I decided to use it to make a 30th Birthday card for my son in law.  His birthdays at the end of March, I need to be prepared for this day as not only is it his birthday but also my daughters birthday and their wedding anniversary all on the same day - not a day for last minute cards lol

Anyway here's the card I made for him

 I decided to take it into the conservatory to photograph as it was such a bright sunny day - its on my glass dining table so there's lots of light - just in case you're trying to work out what on earth you can see in this picture - its a glass table and chairs under it!!

This is what I did...

Image - birthday Ted from Dis digi downloads

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Card - bazzill basics 

Papers - kitschy kitchen from Melissa Frances (aqua) and everyday essentials from paper mania(beige)

Card cut with spellbinders grand nestis circles and scallops

Star dies - Mariannes

Numbers - Sizzix tim holtz wanted alphabet

Sentiment  - LOTV

I know lots of people don't like making cards for men - so this could be just the challenge for you - get challengeing yourself - that why its called a challenge lol

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Card making mammas - birthday
a gem of a challenge - die cuts and punches
Charizma cards - Anything goes
Milk Coffee challenge - Make it cute
Craft room challenge - handmade embellies
Stampavie and more - lots of layers

Have a great weekend everyone

Hugs 

Judith x

Hope you're blooming this morning!

Good morning all

Today I have a card that was supposed to be a DT card for the challenge at

 My Time to Craft

the Challenge is

Decoupage

but I didn't get it finished in time!

To be fair its not my week to post on MTTC DT but when I saw this image I knew it was perfect for the challenge, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it -so decided I would  go for it.  The image is one of the gorgeous new release digis over at Whimsy Stamps from

Stampart Designs by Kathryne

 and its called

 Pretty Petals2 available here

It took me ages to colour all of the flowers for this card, I printed the image twice and coloured all of the flowers - I'm not a - just because you can't see them girl!  all of the flowers are coloured under the decoupaged ones too!  The sentiment also comes in the set with the image (there are two others that say "love blooms here" that are really nice too)

I cut out the second flowers shaped them and mounted them on different sizes of 3d foam to give a variety of height and left some of the flowers just as the flowers on the original card.  I then cut a couple of the flowers to embellish the sentiment - just to tie it into the design.  i also edged all the white card with a toning pen (copic R02) just to difine the edge.  I was really pleased with this when it was finished, I didn't go overboard on the embellies as the flowers say it all on this card, I felt quite pleased with myself that everything on this card was hand made(except the pearls!)  and I had to use a really big bow to finish it off - well you always get a big bow on a bouquet of flowers don't you lol.

A close up of the decoupage

Here's what I did.....

Image and sentiment -Pretty Petals 2 from Stampart Design by Kathryne
coloured with copics - FlowersR000,R00,R02,R05, LeavesYR00 and G61,G63, flower centreY17 and Y35

Papers - MME

Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage

Pearls from my stash

Card cut with spellbinders grand nesties

Tag cut with - Dienamics tag

The sentiment and decoupage

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Paper creators blogspot - circular easels
Inspire me Fridays - anything goes
Sweetpea stampers - use a digistamp
Pile it on - shaped cards
Challenges4everybody - Anything goes
Ecclectic Ellapu - anything girly
One stitch at a time - anything goes
crafty ribbons - anything goes
Craftroom challenge - make your own embellishments
The paper shelter - altered or many folds

Have a great weekend

Hugs Judith x

Santa Claus is coming to MTTC!

Good morning all

It's a new challenge day at MTTC and Santa Claus is coming to town!!

our theme this week is 

Santa

We want to see a Santa on your card

 it could be a cute Santa or the real traditional type - any old Santa will do!!

I decided to use this cute digi from Dilly Beans digi stamps (it comes as a set of four on the one stamp) - I got it a while ago and thought it would be great for this challenge - as well as Santa there's the rest of Christmas on there too lol -its such a cute little stamp and great for those last minute cards.  I've made it not to fussy or fancy because this one needs to be posted and we all know about the hazzards of posting these days!!

This is what I did ....

Image -Christmas Squares from Dilly Beans digi stamps
Coloured with copics
Paper - MME Christmas
Ribbon - Berrisfords
die cut snowflake -Whimsy stamps
Sentiment - from my stash
Glitters - Martha Stewart glitter glue

There are some fab santas om the MTTC blog - go on over and have a look - just so you recognise him when he comes to your house he he

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Pixie Dust Studios - Traditional Christmas colours
Fun with shapes and more - heart
sweetpea stampers - quick and easy christmas cards
Winter wonderland - oh christmas tree
Craft us crazy - christmas/winter or favourite embellie
Fairy tale challenge - oh christmas tree

willow sketchie challenge - quick and easy  - just simple colouring, a little bit of sparkle, matting and layering a die cut and a ribbon - simples!

hugs

Judith x

Creative Craft Challenges - just a sentiment challenge

Hi All

Here we are with another challenge for a fortnight from Creative Craft Challenges and the theme is

Just a sentiment

In other words we don't want to see any stamped or digi images - Just a sentiment!!

For this challenge I've made a Christmas card using a stamped sentiment, 

some die cut flowers and a border, lace and ribbons

This is what I did...

Sentiment- Lily of the Valley
Die cut flowers and border -Spellbinders
Lace,pearls and ribbon - from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Whoopsi Daisy challenge - Die cuts and or punches
Love to create - Punches and dies
Dream valley challenges - punches and dies
Platypus Creek - traditional Christmas
CD Sunday challenge - Bingo - Diecuts, pearls, lace
The Ribbon Girl - Bingo -Pearls, Lace , Bow

Hope we see you over at CCC for this challenge, we'd love you to call and see all the great DT projects this week

Hugs Judith x

My time to craft challenge (mines a different time to everyone elses!!)

Hello again

Just taking a few minutes to post what should have been yesterdays post for My time to Craft - a day late I know - I'll be expecting my p45 from Shell before long.

This weeks challenge was set by our lovely Pat who chose the theme

Fantasy

I won some fab digis last week from the digigarden in the Poodles Parlour challenge so decided to choose one of their stamps for this challenge. I decided to go cute and colourful just to ring the changes!

Here's what I did

Image - Bitsy the gnome and mushroom pack 2  from the Digigarden
Coloured with - copics and slight shading with prismacour pencils
Papers from my stash
Ribbon - papermania
Butterfly charm - Inky impressions
Pearls - my crafty heart
Punched zig zag border - Martha Stewart
Butterfly punch - woodware
Glitter on wings - gold and pink by Martha Stewart
Die cuts - Spellbinders
Sentiment - Whiff of Joy

Hope I've redeemed myself a bit by actually getting this posted!!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

LEJ Designs -Mystical, Magical or  Mysterious
Digi Darlas challenges - things with wings
Tammys scrappin corner - anything goes
Digidesigns challenge - Mystical creatures
The poodles parlour - anything goes
Digistamps4joy- polka dots and stripes

See you again tomorrow

hugs

Judith xx

Make it wet challenge at My Time to Craft

Hi there blog friends

It's another challenge day at MTTC and the theme is 

Make it Wet

for this challenge you can make anything you like with a water theme

I didn't do very well with this one - don't know how but I got my challenges all mixed up and I was totally on the wrong week, so when I went to post my card I had the wrong challenge and had to quickly get this card sorted, luckily it was mostly coloured, I just hadn't done any shading and I knew in my mind what I was doing with it - if you saw the way I faf on (is that a word lol) putting a card together and this was an almighty faffy card - just couldn't get the embellies right so went bed and finished it of this morning, I think most of my cards are made like that, I have to walk away before they go in the bin and they always come together second time round, anyway onto the card

This is what I did ....

Digi stamp - Digidoodle shop - a drink of water
Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - MME So Sopie - graceful
Dies - spellbinders
Flowers - Wild orchid
Leaves - Martha Stewart punch
Ribbon -carnmeal cottage
Sentiment - lili of the valley

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Digi doodle shop best -Summertime
Poodles parlour - use a digi
Joanna Sheen - going round in circles
Bild malarna - Summer
Cupcake craftroom - lots of layers
Craft a scene - in the garden
The squirrel and the fox - kids or babies
Little miss muffet - Circles

Hope you all have a great day - the sums shining here today which is always a bonus!

See tomorrow with another Fab'n'Funky challenge

Hugs

Judith x

Happy Jubilee and DT call at MTTC

Morning All

Well its morning here in Sunny Florida! - where I'm still on me jollies

Having a fab time and keeping up with all the Jubilee celebrations back home - I'm watching the Tuesday parade as I type and have breakfast at the same time - I'm such a multi tasker!!  Can't beleive the commentry here on CNN curtesy of Piers Morgan!

Just called in to say its challenge day at

My Time to Craft

 - no card from me I'm afraid but also to let you know that

there's a DT call going on over there!

 - so why don't you have a look over at the blog and apply

you never know it could be you!!! 

I had a great time here decorating our pool deck for the jubilee - I suprised the family by getting up early and doing the old red white and blue thing (and suprisingly the paper chains are still there - I thought the heat might have brought them down - might just leave them as my little bit of England in USA!!)



Jubilee on our pool deck!



Have a great - rest of the holiday weekend everyone in the UK and hope everyone has a great week 

Hugs

Judith x