Celebration time at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hello from me from sunny Florida!
I've scheduled this post which has hopefully appeared at the right time after my card making marathon to try to get 2 weeks worth of DT cards done before I went off for 2 weeks "vacation" in Florida and thats where I am now!  - still popping in and out of blogging - but no crafting and not a lot else to be honest - just love it!

Anyway back to business its challenge day again over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and today our challenge is

Celebrations

hosted by our lovely Wendy.

and sponsored by the fabulous

Joanna Sheen

The challenge is that your card must be celebrating something- how easy is that!!.  I have chosen a card to celebrate the birth of a baby girl.

Our challenge today is sponsored by the wonderful Joanna Sheen who are offering a prize of £10 to spend in store

This is what I did

Image  - Lili of the Valley

Coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Papers - Forever Friends New arrival

Buttons - Papermania

Flower Punch - Paper Mania

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Pearls = from my stash

Charm - recycled from a Christmas card!

Hope the British weather is holding up while I'm away and more to the point I hope its still sunny or at least sort of summer when I get back

Challenges I'm entering with this card

thehybridchick. - use pink

craftyourpassionchallenges - for a baby

Love to create challenge - add a sentiment

hcraftysentiments.blogspot.com/- anything goes

Simon says - anything goes
Perfect Sentiment - anything goes - must have stamped sentiment
stampavie and more - for a girl
Truly scrumptious - pretty in pink

See you later

Hugs

Judith x

Its Cow Girl Lili for Inky impressions challenge day

Hello again

I'm back with my second post of the day with my Cow Girl Lili DT card 

for the challenge over at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog 

and todays challenge is

Use Lace or trim

This weeks  challenge is being sponsored by 3 Bugs in a Rug!

Here is a bit about their fabulous company:

Kristine and Rick Turner founded Three Bugs in a Rug 5 years ago. After starting an online scrapbook store, Kristine decided to create her own designs. After the overwhelming response to her designs, we closed the online store to concentrate on creating fun pattern paper and coordinating embellishments. We hope you enjoy working with her designs as much as she enjoys creating them.

They are giving a great prize this week

 - so why don't you play along - it could be you!!

This little girl is one of my favourites from Inky Impressions I just love her little cowhide skirt, her knock knees and her boots!  I'm not having a very good week when it comes to liking cards this week - I think we all have these weeks when we just can't please ourselves!  I had an idea in my head when I started this but the card doesn't match it- i don't not like it its just it doesn't look like I had in mind....!

This is what I did....

Image - Inky Impresions - Cowgirl Lili
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Papers and Cowgirl sentiment - Raspberry Road - cowgirl (something!) collection
Lace and card from my Stash
Ticket - Tim Holtz
Die cut borders -Memory box jasmine frame (cut in half)
Brown pearls - Kaiser craft
Circles cut with spellbinders
heart stamp on background - Dawn Bibby

Challenges I am entering with this tag

Sarah Hurley Challenge - Tags or tickets
Truly scrumptious - Anything goes
Whimsy Stamps -anything goes
Thats all from me today

see you tomorrow with my MAWTT DT card - its my week to host the challenge!

Hugs Judith xx

Join the Nautical theme at Moving Along with the Times

Good Morning blog friends

Hope you're all having a good day.  

Today is new challenge day at Moving Along With The Times and we have a great theme for this week

Our hostess with the mostest for this week is Leesa AKA The Navy Wife

and she's chosen the great theme 

 Nautical

Here is my DT card for the week and my inspiration for this challenge

I had a bit of a manic day yesterday and had a real rush to get this card made.  It was supposed to be my "me" day and I had all sorts of crafting planned -ended up with no crafting done - sometimes life just gets in the way of crafting - how can that happen? lol.  I had originally planned a very grown up card but right at the last minute I won some stamps at the Made especially for You challenge this week from Di's digital downloads and had chosen this stamp as one of them.  I was just busy printing off the other digi I had planned to use when up popped the email from Di with my stamps attached so I had a last minute change of plan,  this one is altogether more fun than my original card -  and I needed the shot of fun yesterday!!   I loved colouring this in it's so cute and I added the few nautical embellies that I had from  the other digi kit I, had which is from Can you digi it just to finish it off.  Di even sent me that great blue digi paper that I used as an extra to my prize - isn't it just the perfect paper for this stamp, and saved me having to go looking for any matching papers  - thank you Di!

This is what I did...

Digi stamp - Nautical bear from Di's digital downloads

Nautical embellies - from can you digi it - sail away with me 

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Paper - Di's digital downloads

Red card, Ribbon and twine  - from my stash

Set sail - cut on cricut expression - gypsy wanderings cart
Anchor and water glossed with - glossy accents

Hope to see you over at MAWTT this week with all your nautical inspired projects, the DT girls have made a huge variety on the theme - hop on over and see them

Challenges i am entering with this card

Craft your days away - just for children
Divas by Design -One for the boys
Crafty cardmakers - For the boys
Ooh la la challenge - Make it manly

Hugs

Judith x

Buttons and Bows at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi there blog friends

Had a really hectic day today and just realised my scheduled post didn't!

Hope you've all had a good day and  are ready to face a new challenge!

Todays challenge over at fab'n'funky challenges is being hosted by our lovely Wendy and she has chosen the theme for the week which is

Buttons and Bows

We are being sponsored this week by Pink Petticoat so why not go on over and join in - there's an awful lot you can do with Buttons and Bows!

Here my interpretation of the theme

Here's what I did

Image - Mos digital pencil

Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Papers - Raspberry Road digi papers

Ribbons - from my stash

Sentiment and cherry stamp -Dawn Bibby cupcake stamps

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Digital Tuesday Challenge -All about ribbons and buttons

Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Ribbon and Bows

The Poodles parlour - Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
Papertake weekly Challenge  - Cute cute cute!
See you again tomorrow with another challenge for MAWTT - I'll check on that one earlier to make sure it posts!

Hugs

Judith x

It's a Happy Healing challenge at my time to craft this week

Good morning blog friends

Hope you all had a good bank holiday weekend and that the weather hasn't been too bad.  All in all we've had pretty good weather here in the frozen north!  Been a bit chilly but lovely and bright and sunny and only a couple of showers so I think we did OK.

I've had a pretty full on weekend so haven't visited many of you and have just managed to get my DT cards done by the skin of my teeth! - Things should get back to normal soon and I'll be out and about catching up on my visits.  So on to this fortnights challenge over at 

My Time To Craft Challenge Blog.  

The challenge is

Happy healing

(get well cards)

Here's my contribution to the DT's inspiration

I don't have any of the cute little get well stamps that I've seen around but decided just to say it with flowers instead!  I love this little LOTV stamp, I got it for my birthday in March and I've used it a few times, it fits all kinds of occasions I think as well as "get well soon"!

This is what I did

Stamp - Lili of the Valley - bunches of love
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils
Paper - Bearly mine designs digi - spring flowers collection
Ribbon - carnmeal cottage
Daisies - Anitas 3D stickers
Sentiment - craftwork cards
dew drop gems - QVC yeaaaaars ago!
Punch on border - Martha Stewart
Pins and yellow card - from my stash
Distress inks - Tim holtz - mustard seed and Denim distress inks

Hope you can join us for this weeks challenge - we'd love to see your creations

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Sparkle Creations - May flowers
Hooked on craft challenges - Flowers
Victorine challenge - Flowers
Lets Ink it up - bling
The squirrell and the fox - one for the girls
Digidesignchallengeblog - Spring

Hugs

Judith x

Its Summer sunshine at MAWTT - who am I kidding!!!

Good morning blog friends

Its Thursday yet again - and time for another new challenge at Moving Along with the Times.  This week our lovely Claire is hosting and has chosen the theme summer sunshine.  I presume this is wishful thinking from Claire cos we sure ain't got any!! .... but I'm pretty sure that if enough people join in with the challenge we could have some by the end of the week at MAWTT at least!! 

 I found this challenge a bit challenging!  Couldn't come up with a DT card at all - then I saw this digi on another blog and it was love at first sight!  It is from stamping dragon designs  and called beach scene.

the inside

I have never coloured such a big scene before and I quite enjoyed the challenge but when I finished felt as if something was missing probly because it has no central figure so decided to add some glitter for a bit of extra focus and I was even pleased with that too! There's very little to this card really but it reminds me of holidays and sunshine so that can't be a bad thing.

What I did....

Image - Beach scene from stamping dragon designs
coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - Sun Kiss from Prima
Sentiment -cut with cricut expression
Foam sunshine and palm trees - American crafts
Glitter - selection of Martha Stewart colours
Ribbons - Carnmeal cottage
Gems - from my stash
Sentiment inside - Anna Griffin

Challenges I am entering with this card

canyoudigiit - sunrise and sunset
[pin]spirational challenges - picture inspiration
crafty boots challenges - yellow
The crazy challenge - Summer/beach
Made Especially for you - inspirational colours (yellow/blue/green/brown)
One stitch at a time -Here comes summer

Thats all from me today

Hugs
Judith xx

first challenge at Inky Inspirations for this inkette!!

Hello again

Here I am back again with my very first DT post for Inky inspirations.

The challenge for this week is lots of Ribbons and here's the card to go with it

Fairy on a clothes pin from Ink Impressions

the inside

This little cutie is an Inky Impessions digistamp called Fairy on a Clothespin, isn't she just so sweet!

Why don't you sort out your ribbon box (it'll need sorting if its like mine!) and rustle up a card for this week s challenge - see you over there!

Inky Impressions Challenges

Have to say I couldn't get it together with my papers at all when I started to design this card -one went in the bin - but as fate would have it I won a gorgeous set of digipapers over at Robyns Fetish challenge last week, they are from Bearly Mine Designs and I really just love them.  I chose two slightly contrasting papers for the in and outside of the card.  The great thing about the papers is they have a sort of white distressed border to them that you can colour up to tone into your design with distress inks - I really am quite taken with these papers and there was 42 in the set - I already have several more in my sights!!  Another great thing I found were those great jewels.  I was shopping in Tescos and there they were a huge bag - all colours, shapes sizes in the kids craft section for 99p - hows that for a great buy.

This is what I did .....

Image - digistamp from Inky Impression - fairy on a clothes pin
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Card - Tim Holtz kraftcore
Papers - Bearly mine - spring blossoms
ink - Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink
Flowers- Wild orchid crafts
Large jewels - Tesco - kids crafts
Small jewels - Kanban
Leaf punch - Martha Stewart
Die cut border - Memory box - honeysuckle vine
Seam binding ribbon - create and craft
Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Little Darlings challenges - Flowers
Paper Pretties - Flowers
Anything goes challenge - things with wings
Creative card crew - Ribbons
Hookedoncraftchallenges - Flowers

Hope you all have a great day

Hugs Judith xx

Its Garden Day at Moving along with the Times!

Hi again

What a busy blog week -well maybe not for some of you prolific bloggers but definitely for me!  This is my fourth and probably final post for this week - unless I conjure up some time from somewhere!

Its our lovely Mau's week to play hostess for our challenge and I know she's been stressing over her very 1st challenge as the main lady! - Don't worry hun I'm sure you've done the biz just beautifully- if not our wonder woman Hazel will have rescued you by now lol.

We have been sponsored this week by 

Stitchy Bear Stamps 

Who are offering a fab prize this week of $10 to spend in store and we DT girls were given some gorgeous digis to play with 

I used this cute little boy called   

"Flowers for Mom"

There are some lovely DT cards over at the

 Moving along with the times blog 

this week so go over and get some inspiration and get gardening!

This is what I did.....

Image - Stitchy Bear - flowers for Mom
Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - K & Co Sweet Nectar (large check) and from my stash (small check)
Butterfly punches - Martha Stewart and Woodware
Seam binding ribbon - Sam Pooles creative studios
Flowers - Wild orchid craft
Die cut sign - Cricut expression - paper dolls for everyday cartridge
Inked with - Tim Holtz distress ink - fired brick
everything else - from my stash


I'm entering this card into the following challenges 

Scrap it with a son g - spring fever
The house that stamps built - card for a woman you love (flowers for mom stamp - so for Mom!)
The pixie cottage - for mom - stamp is flowers for mom 
stampavie and more - spring
truly scrumptious - distressing and die cuts (sign is die cut and distressed)
oldie but goodie - on the farm or in the garden - papers, ribbon and punches all old stash
Shopping our stash - starts with a "B" - boy and butterflies

Catch you all later 

Hugs 
Judith x

Gardening Gems at My Time to Craft

Hello again!

It's my busy week for challenges this week and the second for today

Today's challenge at My Time to Craft is

Gardening gems

Heres my DT card for the challenge

I love this little girl and I have to confess she reminds me of myself when I was little, my hair was just like that.  My husband said the same thing when he looked at the card , probably because we had the old photos out quite recently, so he was reminded.  I have to confess that this card was a happy accident.  I made it for another challenge that I thought was ribbons and pearls but it turned out to be lace and pearls so it didn't fit!  I could have pulled that gorgeous ribbon off and replaced it with lace but I just couldn't bring myself to do it because it wouldn't have looked half as nice and  I knew it would fit in with another challenge sometime - and this is it!

This is a lovely challenge - a chance to get out all your flowers and pretty papers and garden related stash and make a lovely spring themed  card perfect for our sunny spring days - that we're not getting, but at least you can make a card and pretend lol !!

Heres what I did....

Image - digi from Digi Doodle Shop  "field of flowers"
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolour Pencils
Card - Coredinations Kore Kraft by Tim Holtz - distressed by sanding the edges
Organza Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage
Tag - cut on Sizzix
Flower and leaves - Spellbinders - build a rose
Pearl brad  - Whiff of Joy
Paper - My Minds Eye  - Fiddlesticks

Challenges I am entering with this card

B'n'W challenge blog -spring is in the air
The shabby tea room - Ribbon and flowers
Truly madly crafty challenge - make your own flowers
Card makin mammas - make a girly card
Prairie Fairy fridays  - anything with flowers
Sweet'n' Sassy challenges - make it old

Well  that's all from me for today

See you tomorrow with another challenge

Hugs

Judith xx

Animal antics at Creative Craft challenge

Hi blog friends

Its another challenge over at Creative craft Challenges today and the theme is 

Animal Antics!

Which basically means - put an animal on your card!!!

We have some great sponsors for this challenge, Bugaboo and Robyns fetish are both offering prizes as well as Joanna Sheen, so why don't you have a crafty play and lets see what Animal Antics you can get up to.

Heres my DT card that has been made with one of the fab images supplied to the DT by the sponsors. This one is from Bugaboo

 I loved this little image as soon as I saw it and it said to me "I'm a bee!"  I coloured it all up and glitterd his wings - very bee like I thought and found a sentiment to match.  When my husband was giving his obligatory comment - like all good crafty husbands do - he said yes its very good but isn't it supposed to be a butterfly!!  Well now that you mention it he's probably right but you've just got to go with your instincts - and mine are obviously way off lol.

a close up of the glitter details

I did a bit of recycling with this card  the raffia came on a lovely bunch of flowers that I bought that I knew would be perfect for a card.  And the flowers - although they're from wild orchid have had their middles pulled out! and replaced with a lovely black gem to finish off the look

Heres what I did

Image - digi from bugaboo (since found thats he's butterfly bear!!)
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Scalloped card - craftwork cards
Sentiment - is a digi - can't remember who's but I'll update if I find it
Flowers -wild orchid crafts
Paper - prima sun kiss
Everything else is from my stash

Why don't you stop by to see what the design team has done with their images - you'll find some real inspiration from my talented teamies!

i'm entering this card in the following challenges

Ooh la la creations - bright and bold
Made especially for you - recycled  (raffia tied around card)
2 sisters challenge blog - use a digi
crazy 4 challenges - use black cardstock on your project
Di's digi design -lets meet your animal friends
Twisted Tuesday Challenge - Child inspired with a funny sentiment

Hope you all have a bee-utiful day

Hugs Judith xx

Lace and Pearls over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Morning all

I haven't been around much these last few days - been really busy trying to catch up with things  (the story of my life!!)but should be able to do some visiting over the next few days.

Today is challenge day at Fab'n'Funky challenges and the new challenge is being sponsored by

 The Digi Doodle Shop 

Our theme for the week chosen by the lovely Pat is

Lace and pearls

Here is my DT card, which I made using one of the lovely images from The Digi Doodle Shop Called Daisy Girl, isn't she just so sweet!

Two other views of the card

As you can see I'm still on my easel card "thing" - each time I see an image my mind says - that would make a nice easel card - don't know if I've got a bit of an easel problem and has it got bad enough that I need help lol....

I've stood the easel right back so you can see the sentiment but really it  looks better when it stands in front of the sentiment on the lace - oh that lace it gave me such problems this week - made my DT card and completely forgot the lace part of the challenge so this is the second, and completely different card I made - note to self - read the challenge when making a  DT card!!

Anyway enough of the chat

This is what I did ......

Image - Daisy girl from the digi doodle shop (they have some fab images)

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Die cut shapes and frames - Spellbinders labels ten

papers - K & Co

Blue textured card  - bazzill basics

Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart

Pearls and lace - from stash

Sentiment - Dawn Bibby -Woodland butterfly

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

The Paper Shelter - wings and things
Creative Belli Blog - Children
http://canyoudigiit.com/blog/ - Secret garden

Crafty sentiments - use a digi
Diecuttindivas  - garden theme
Incywincy - use digis only
Robynsfettish - spring
My Mums Craft Shop - Favourite song or movie - Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle - if you have the time check out this utube video of the song its a real "Daddys little girl song" - as soon as I saw the challenge I remembered I love this song - the video brought a tear to my eye all over again - sniff!!

Thats all from me for today - see you tomorrow for the new MAWTT challenge this week

Hugs

Judith xx

A Cool Cat for my Cool Cat xxx

Good Morning Bloggers

This is an unusual Saturday morning post from me - the crazy cat woman!!  No I haven't taken to sending birthday cards to my cats but when I saw this new digi from Crissy Armstrong  ( I love her stamps)  last week I just knew it was the perfect card for my son Matthews 24th birthday today.  We still have a couple cats today but when our kids were little I used to breed and show British Shorthairs and we had such fun.  The kids loved when we had kittens and we used to travel around the country going to the cat shows, and I fondly remember the Christmas when we had kittens running up the Christmas tree!!  Out of my three kids  I always knew that Matthew loved the cats best. We had a huge magnificent brown tabby Persian cat called Toby who was just a pet but Matthew loved him and to all the kids in the neighbourhood he was known as "Grand Master Toby!"  It makes me smile now to think about it all. I gave up the breeding and showing about eight or nine years ago - I had to make the choice between having kittens and having holidays because looking after the cats was getting a much for my parents and in laws when we went away - so the holidays won!!

Anyway Matthew is sharing his birthday today with the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and his birthday is a titanic event indeed!  I had originally got a Kenny K rocker digi for his card but this one just shouted out to me when I saw it!  My Matthew is a "too cool for school kind of guy" and I know he'll appreciate this card.  I've become addicted to easel cards lately so here's is another one.  It took me hours to make this last night and when I went to bed (way too late) I still wasn't happy with it, its been put together pulled to bits layered and embellished with all kinds before it ended up like this!  After a bit more messing with it this morning I've learned to love it!!  It did at one point have a big yellow sunshine in the corner - now I'm wondering should I put it back......

I'm sitting here writing this and eating my breakfast at the same time.  My daughter just sent me a text with a photo of my grandson wearing some dungarees that I bought for him last week  -with the tag line - he looks a painter and  decorator!!  We  just had such a good laugh - see what you think.

Need any painting done?

He's such a little bruiser- 4 months old yesterday and grown out of all his clothes - he's just moved to 6-9 months size, he's nearly big enough to be a painter and decorator!!

Anyway back to this card

What I did....

Digi Stamp - Cool cat by Crissy Armstrong at Whimsy Stamps
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolour pencils
Sun Glasses and Glass - Glossied with glossy accents
Scalloped card - Craftwork cards
Paper - K & Co
Foam palm trees - American crafts
Cool cat sentiment - computer produced
Meow - from a set from QVC .... years ago - wondered when I was going to use it!

I've been such a bad blogger these last couple of days I haven't got round to do my comments since Wednesday,  had a manic couple of days and I had to get this card done last night which took WAY to long.  I will catch up over the next couple of evenings.

Have a great weekend everyone, i've got another busy day ahead so must be off!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Whimsy Stamps - easel cards are easy!
Crafty Ann's challenge blog - Its a man thing
Crafty Catz weekly challenge - Animals
Frosted Designs - Weather
Stampelsonne - stamp must be the main focus of the card
The playdate cafe - colour challengs - yellow/blue/green/red

Vintage and Shabby Chic at MAWTT challenge

Good Morning blog friends

This is my third day in a row - might just go for four tomorrow!

Its challenge day over at Moving Along With The Times challenge blog

This week's Challenge theme was chosen by our lovely Sue and is ….

'SHABBY CHIC and/or VINTAGE'

So we want to see creations that are either Shabby Chic or have a Vintage Image/theme or both!  It doesn't have to be a card - as long as you follow the theme.

I've gone for the vintage look and used a lovely 1920s style lady stamp from Kanban called Cavendish Ladies.  This is a stamp I've had for absolutely ages but have never used - I've no idea why because I bought them because I really liked them (there's another 2 in the set -also unused!) and I was really pleased with how it turned out, it was a change to make a DL size card instead of square- that's probably why I haven't used the stamp before!. The image is mounted up with a few layers of card but I've used very few embellishments - even the art deco corner stamps came with the set.  

We are sponsored this week by the fab Crafty Emma's Store

who are very kindly giving the Winner of this week's challenge  a £10.00 Voucher to spend in-store (excluding P & P)  

This is what I did....

Stamp - Kanban Cavendish ladies

Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Paper - Marianne designs (songbook I think)

Distress ink - Tim Holtz Tea Dye

Tag - cut with Sizzix tag die

Resin rose - a free gift from My Crafty Heart

Bow and sparklies - from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Scrapbook sisters - anything goes

Purple Frog - lets get distressed

Rainbow ladies - a touch of vintage
365 cards - Filler'er up
Ocean deep challenge - Inspired by a song (3 times a lady - Lionel Richie)
Sweet stamps blog - Vintage /Shabby Chic
Cheerful stamp pad - From the past
OOh la la challenge blog - Vintage

Thats all from me for now

Hugs
Judith xx