Things with wings with the Crafty little Fairies

Hi

Its challenge day for the Crafty Little Fairies again - and I'm late again.

I'm not doing very well this week and I'm blaming it on the sunshine (not the boogie)

I normally have some crafty time on my days off but the weather has been so great and we haven't seen the sun for so long - I just had to go out to say hello 

- and that really is the best excuse I've got!

The challenge today is

Things with wings

one of my favourites - birds, bees, butterflies.....and fairies.

I used a really cute little fairy from Lili of the Valley called

Flower Fairy  she is available here 

We have a fabulous sponsor this week

and this is the prize on offer

Well worth the effort of entering this week I'd say!

This card wasn't what I had intended to make for this challenge at all I have to confess!  I got it into my head that I would use some stamps that I've had for years - probably some of the very first I ever bought and make a tag -  But after turning the whole place upside down - I just can't find them.  They are Christmas Flower Fairy stamps from Crafters Companion -so pretty - I expect lots of you have them too.  The strange thing is I've seen them here in the house recently and also an image that I coloured years ago (that was really bad!) - on the bright side I found dozens of things that haven't seen daylight for a long time including some spellbinders dies that had fallen down the back of a drawer and 3 whole sets of  Elizabeth Bell Whiff of Joy mystery stamps that I signed up for - then never used. I did use a couple out of the 4th set lol- and for any of my MAWTT buddies who are reading - I found my pad of vellum papers - better late than never lol.  There's going to be some serious using of old stash going on around here - watch this space!

Anyway enough of my old stash

Here's what I did....

Image -Flower Fairy from LOTV

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Sentiment - Whiff of joy

Scalloped card - Craftwork Cards

Ribbon and butterfly - from my stash
Glamour dust - for a bit of sparkle!

Hope you can join us this week  see you there!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Cute card Thursday - girls girls girls
Charisma cards - birthday girls

Hugs

Judith x

Anything Goes at Penny's Papercrafty Challenge this week

Hi again crafty friends

I'm back with my second post of the day (albeit rather late - sorry!)  It's been a lovely bright day today and we've just been making the most of it and believe it or not I've only just got the chance to sit down to write up my post.  Wednesdays are my day for looking after my Grandson Jacob and my DH was also around this afternoon so we just decided to go out for a walk to make the most of the sunshine.  So after a playing with playdough/ironing/catchup with the housework morning we went for a walk along the coast with Jacob and Glenn(our dog).   We walk a lot anyway but its so much nicer on a lovely sunny day.  We stopped off for a coffee and sat at a table outside then after a quick trip to the playground and park arrived back home just in time for Jacob to go home, probably a 5 or 6 mile round trip.  After making chilli and potato wedges for dinner I had a LBT class booked at the gym, then nipped into Tesco for some shopping on the way home had a shower and put my jim jams on and here we are 10:30pm!  - there's a lesson in how to lose a day - but in a nice way and I'm feeling nicely tired so I'll be off to bed after this!!

Anyway back to the real reason for my post

Anything Goes

at

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge

and here's my card - my favourite easel shape card!

Hannah from Lacy Sunshine available here


a close up of the cute image 

our sponsor this week is the fabulous 

The fab sentiment stamps are the new Anna Griffin chalkboard sentiment stamps -I absolutely love these - they could be appearing on a few more cards around here! - I stamped them with a chalk ink in a kraft type colour to tone - I really like the effect.

Here's what I did..

Image - Hannah by Lacy Sunshine

Coloured with Copics

Papers - Antebellum from LOTV

Sentiments - Chalkboard sentiments from Anna Griffin

Ribbon - Vintage seam binding from Crafty ribbons

Buttons - dovecraft

Butterfly punches - Martha Stewart(large) Papermania(small)

Pearls - Kars

I really expect to see you over at Pennys Papercrafty challenge this week - after all anything goes!

Challenges I'm entering wit this card

Digistamps 4 joy - birthday sentiment
Paper pretties - birthday cards
Digi choosday - all about the girl
Papertake weekly - bingo (middle line)

Away with the faries at The Paper Shelter

Good morning all

I hope the sunshine has arrived where you are and has put you in a good old crafty mood.  We have a brand new challenge at

 The Paper Shelter

 and its a really fun theme - with no doubt as to what we want to see

Its 

Away with the Fairies!

so fairies it is then!!

I've used the cute Faery Emma - I love her she's just so pretty

available at TPS shop here

As always there is a great prize on offer at The Paper Shelter

We also have a 

DT Call 

going on until 20th March - we'd love to have you join us!

check it out over at TPS blog for futher details

Here's what I did ....

Image Faery Emma  from TPS

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Kraft card - MFT

Paper - Antebellum from LOTV (my favourite of the moment!)

Scalloped oval dies - spellbinders

Border punch and leaf punch - Martha Stewart

Flowers - WOC

Ribbon - from my stash

Tab - MFT

Sentiment -WOJ

Challenges I'm entering with this card

The crafters cafe - flowers
Hobbybookdesigner - Girly
Digi chooseday - all about the girls

Catch the bug - Stella says sketch      

We're having a DT call at The Paper Shelter

Good morning all

Just a quick post from me today with some exciting news

Call in at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog for full details

I think that says it all really lol - TPS is a fab DT you get all the new release images to work with and your pick of the old ones too with a very generous gift voucher when you start 

- its such a lovely team - please come and join us!

hugs 

Judith xxx

We have the moody Blues at Moving along with the times this week

Good morning all

We have a lovely new challenge
at
Moving along with the Times 

this week and our lovely Debs has chosen a mood board for us 

The inspiration is 

Moody Blues

And this is what I came up with

Using the gorgeous balloon basket from LOTV available here

If there were points for using things from this inspiration board I think I'd score pretty high!
(you've got to blow your own trumpet sometimes lol)

As a start its blue and white which is the main theme running through, but looking at the separate elements of the board I also have flowers (including the tulips on the board), stars, lace and ribbon.  But there are so many other elements that you could draw inspiration from on this board - its also very girly, shoes dresses and a manequin are there and even cups and plates.
I loved this Debs - thanks for the great inspiration.

This is what I did...

Image - balloon basket from LOTV

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Sentiment - LOTV - vintage sentiments - occasions

Papers - LOTV Bear necessities and petal fresh paper pads

Flowers and lace - WOC

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Distress ink - TH tea dye

Wooden Rocking horse  coated with TH distress paint - picket fence colour

Metal corners- Michaels recollections -coated in TH distress paint - picket fence

Shaped card - craftwork cards

Spellbinders dies  circle and scalloped circle

large pearl on ribbon - Michaels recollections

We'd love you to see you join us at MAWTT this week

 be all mean and moody blue or pretty and girly with us this week

You'll be very welcome!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

4 crafty chicks - shaped cards

Crafty ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon

Crafting with dragonflies - shaped card

Paper pretties - lots of layers

The sisterhood of crafters - one for the boys

Hugs 

Judith xx

Anything but square at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge

Hello again

I seem to be spending my whole day apologizing for being late! - I haven't even got an excuse for this one - it was scheduled with the wrong date on!  - I wondered where it was!!

Anyway scroll down if you want to see my Heatstroke card for Fab'n'Funky challenges

Todays challenge at

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge

is 

Anything but Square

I very nearly had a disaster with this one as I made a lovely square CAS card - spot the deliberate mistake lol.....  so I had to chop it up a bit and make it not square and this is how it ended up!

The image is Garden Rabbit from QKR Stampede available here

The DT girls all got a sponsor image to work with and I have to say I really loved colouring this little guy -he's not too cute to be masculine and I just love his expression and his cute dungarees!

Our sponsors over at Pennys this week are

QKR Stampede 

who are offering a prize of 5 digi stamps

and

PennyBlossom

who are offering a prize of $15 gift voucher to spend in store

Here's what I did.....

Image - Garden Rabbit from QKR stampede

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers from a box of A4 papers from years ago - I think they're K and co

Shaped card - Craftwork cards

Flower punchs - EK success and centre - woodware

Leaf punch and butterfly punch - Martha Stewart

Die cut frame for sentiment - Made from MFT carnival ticket die

Ribbon - American crafts

Sentiment - Stampart design by Kathryne

Gems - from my stash

Hope we can tempt you away from your square life - see you over at Penny's!

challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafting for all seasons - spring
Crafting with dragonflies - shaped card
lilredwagon  - Punches
fan-tastic Tuesday - anything goes
Papertake weekly - anything goes

Hugs

Judith x

How about some heatstroke?.....

.....well not literally - Good morning all

Hope things are heating up where you are - its been a whole lot better here for the last week or so. Theres definitely signs of spring in the air - and it makes everything so much better - can't wait until we can go outside with no coat and I can finally put my boots away (though I have to confess that in winter I love my boots - I've got about a dozen pairs - something for all occasions - though this year my full length aviator style Ugg boots are the favourite - so toasty!) 

I'm a bit late with my post this morning mainly because I slept in and haven't caught up with myself yet  But I'm also multi tasking as I write this -l one hand typing this while the other hand is building cars and little men with Duplo - but to my grandson Jacob I'm the champion Duplo builder - so I just have to spread my talents around!!

Anyway back to this challenge 

it's Fab'n'Funky Challenges today

and our lovely Shirley -who is shivering and shaking up there in Canada 

decided she could do with seeing something warm on your cards

So this weeks theme is 

Heatstroke

we want to see something warm and sunny or perhaps something to cool you down in the heat!

Here's my warm and sunny card

using Old Italian Street from Doodle Pantry available here

This weeks sponsors are the fabulous Doodle Pantry 

and one lucky winner will receive 3 images of their choice from their store

Here's what I did....

Image - Old Italian Street from Doodle Pantry

Coloured with Copics and Prisma Colour pencils

Papers - MME 

Kraft card and twine - MFT

Sunflowers - WOC

Ribbon- Carnmeal Cottage

Sentiment tags - LOTV

Sunshine Charm- inky Impressions

Hope we can generate a bit of heat this week!

Tip Top Tuesday - use 3,5 0r 7 things (I used 3 flowers)
Shopping our stash - use 3/2/1 of something (3 flowers/2 tags/1 charm)
Melonheadz friends - bright colours

Hugs 

Judith x