When is a Fa La Llama not a Llama?! .......

.......When it's an Alpaca!

He he - good morning all

Did you see what I did there lol

I saw this fab little alpaca image was available from our sponsor this week and just had to have it!

But I really wanted her to be a Llama so I could do my own take on the lovely Llama cards that are around (in fact all over the place!) this Christmas

So forgive me Alice the Alpaca (available HERE)
you have been redisignated as a Llama lol

Sorry about the lighting on this photograph - it's so difficult these dark days to get decent colour and I ran out of time so just had to go with it- it is brighter IRL and she has pink ears and nose and blue eyes - poor Alice - she's really suffering for my art 😉

This card is for our challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges 

our theme is 

Add an Animal

(so either an animal as the main focus or as part of the general scene - Birthdays, all sorts of ocassions and lots of scope for Christmas here - rudolph, nativity - so bring out all those lovely animal stamps

Our lovely sponsor this week is 

Dr Digis House of Stamps

There are sooo many cute animal digis in the Dr Digi store - pop over and take a look and check out the Fab'n'Funky girls creations on the Fab'n'Funky Challenge blog.  I just love what everyone has done this week with these cute images

This is what I did....

Image - Alice the Alpaca from Dr Digi's house of stamps

Coloured with copics

Papers - an old papermania Christmas collection (sorry lost the cover sheet!)

Die cut hat and scarf from Sara's Cute Christmas (santa suit) at Crafters Companion

Bunting Dies - Whimsey stamps
Letter dies -Dies'ire essentials from Crafter's companion

I hope I've inspired you to join in with our challenge this week - we'd love you to help us fill our Ark!!

Hugs
Judith xx

It's Surfin Santa time!

Good morning all

It's almost holiday season - and santa certainly has lots of free time!

- so he's off surfing!!

This fun image is from Dr Digi's house of Stamps

and he's (amazingly!) called

Surfin Santa (available HERE)

There's a new challenge starting at 

Winter Wonderland

and the theme is

Outdoor Fun

I hope you can come and join in with us - see you there!

hugs Judith xx

Marvelous Men challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi!

I bet you thought I'd disappeared

After 4 fabulous weeks holiday in America I thought I had too lol

It's certainly taken some catching up with things a lot of post, messages 'things' build up at home when you're away for so long - but now I'm back to earth with a bump, it's taken more than a week to catch up with myself and I'm happy to be back to crafting and blogging for the first time in ages

There's a new challenge starting over at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

a really easy one

Marvellous Men!

We're hoping to catch all you Fathers Day crafters so we're looking forward to lot's of lovely entries to our challenge this week

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous 

Dr Digi's House of Stamps

I used this fun image called 

Gardening Gus 

available here

I coloured him with Spectrum noir blendable pencils

the papers are an old LOTV pad and the alphabet die is Easy Peasy from Sizzix 

It hasn't photographed very well - i think there is a shine on the image from the pencils - it's not like that in real life - I'll try to rephotograph later 

hope you'll come and join in with our fun challenge - we'd love to see your marvellous men!

hugs Judith xx

The monthly ChristmasChallenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Good morning all

Well long time no blog!

I've had such a lot going on lately and just had to take a step back

and fortunately I have a few scheduled posts to carry me along : )

Today is our regular Christmas  challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

and  the theme is,,,,,

Christmas!!

I always love these type of simple little images for Christmas cards
Matted and layeered up on a4 in a square on a 6x6 inch card

 or 3 in a row on a DL card always looks great 

- well I think so!

This image is Xmas Pud from Dr Digi - available here

Our sponsor  this week is Dr Digi's house of Stamps

there's a great prize of  2 digis for this weeks winner

I love the fun stamps from Dr Digi 

This is what I did

Image - xmas pud from Dr Digis house of stamps

Coloured with Spectrum noir sparkle pens 

Papers MME (an old pad with the cover missing!)

Metallic card - Crafter's Companion Centura pearl metallics (copper)

Hope you'll play along with us this week - another christmas card for the stash is always a good move!

hugs

Judith xx

There's a male thing going on at Fab'n'funky challenges this week!

hi all

We have a topical challenge going on at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges 

our theme is 

For Men and Boys

So with all those Fathers day cards you have been making you must be something you show us so you can join in with our challenge !!

My card was made for my nephew's 21st birthday

using this fab image called 

Octoberfest Otto 

from our fab sponsor Dr Digi's house of stamps 

available HERE

and this is the inside of the card using 

some lovely Anna Griffin male themed stamps

the prize this week from Dr Digi's house of Stamps 

is 2 images of the winners choice.

This is what I did

Image - Octoberfest Otto from Dr Digi's house of stamps

inside images- from Anna griffin male themed stamps

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and pens

Papers from MME

Kraft card from Crafters companion

Assorted dies - that I can't remember lol

hope to see you playing along with us this week 

hugs

Judith 

Everyone's favourite - male birthday card!!

Good morning all

It's challenge day again at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

and our lovely Alison is hosting this week

She has chosen the theme 

Male Birthdays

now I know a lot of people dont like making male cards

- but it suits me fine - I love making male cards

especially when it's with the fabulous images from 

Dr Digi's house of Stamps - this one is called a Dunderton Abroad 

and is available HERE

I just love these stamps

 - they are fabulous to colour -

 and there are some great male images

Our sponsor this week is 

and there is a prize of 2 digis for this weeks winner

This is what I did....

Image - A Dunderton Abroad

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and pencils

Sentiment and suitcase stamp and die - Heartfelt Creations

Papers - Neroli by First Edition

Distressinks - Tea die and Walnut stain

Black card - Crafters Companion

Hope you'll join in with our challenge this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Tuesday Throwdown - layer it up
Through the craftroom door - anything goes
Little miss muffet challenge - Anything goes

hugs 

Judith xx

From one brother to another!

Good morning all

I hope you are all enjoying some sunshine where you live - it's been just lovely here this last few days (after the very wet, cold windy fiasco of Good Friday)  We had a lovely walk right over the hills with the dog yesterday then ate lunch outside at a little cafe in the village on the way back - it's just amazing what a little sunshine can do to cheer you up!

I hope our challenge at

 Fab'n'Funky Challenges

 will also cheer you up! 

Here's my card using Summer holiday from Dr Digis house of stamps

A close up of the sentiment tag

"What you do today is important

Because you are exchanging a day of your life for it"

My youngest son Tom asked me to make a card for him to give to his brother Matthew - it's actually his birthday next week but we are celebrating it today as he is going back up to Edinburgh today where he moved last year.  It's been lovely to see him over the Easter holidays  and he's enjoyed having his washing, ironing and cooking done for him while he's been home!!!  He starts a new job next Monday and has to go off on a training course in Nottingham so he's flying down there on Sunday evening- he doesn't half get himself about!! - so this card sort of suits him at the moment - always off somewhere -He just came back from Berlin last week where he went to do the Berlin half marathon and have his annual reunion with his housemates from Uni.  It was his first big run and he really enjoyed it, He raised about £200 in sponsor money for SCOPE (his brother Tom has Cerebral palsy, so it is a charity close to his heart)  -and had a great experience running through the streets of Berlin.

Anyway - back to the challenge!

Our sponsor this week is 

Dr Digi's house of stamps 

 

and here is our bingo grid for this weeks challenge

"Bingo"

Use Kraft	Shaped card	Stitches(real/faux)
Sentiment	Digital Image	Die cuts
Punches	Flowers	Charm

I used the middle row for my card

This is what I did....

Image - summer holiday from dr digis house of stamps 

Happy birthday to you sentiment - dr digis house of stamps birthday sentiment set

Coloured with copics

Papers - K & co
Card Bazzill basics

Dies

3D Suitcase made with with matching stamp, die and labels, from Heartfelt creations luggage and tags stamp and dies sets, stamped onto paper from LOTV Father knows best paper pad and distresse with TH teadye DI

Frame - Anna Griffin

Circles - spellbinders

Stars - from MFT blueprints set

Sentiment on label - Tim Holtz for stampers anonymous

Swirls printed on labels with TH teadye distress ink also from the same set

Number one brother sentiment - LOTV

Twine - MFT

black pearls from my stash

Stenciled clock in the background -  creative expessions stencil with TH tea dye DI

I do hope you'll join in with our fun challenge this week

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Whimsy Stamps - use a die cut
Fantastic Tuesday - use a diecut

Hugs

Judith x

Buttons! - who'd have thought they were like buses!!

Good morning all

I'm back today with my DT card for

 Moving Along With The Times 

Who'd have thought it - two button it days in a row

None for ages then two come along at once - just like buses!

so yet again the theme is 

Button It!

and you'll be really proud of me!

 - I even remembered to put buttons on this one  

I had a card to make for one of our best friends - we've all been friends since we were at school and my DH has known him since he was eleven years old - in other words a looong time lol.

As well as this his birthday is just two days before my husbands - they even had a joint 40th birthday party, just like two kids! And for years now we have gone on a weekend away to celebrate this auspicious occasion - never very far - just a nice hotel within 50 or so miles of home and this time we're also going to the theatre to see One Man - Two Guv'nors, I don't know much about it but apparently its very funny and starred James Corden when it was in the Westend so we're sure to have a laugh - we always do

Anyway - I usually make a cheeky card for our friend

and this years no exception!

I used this image called  'Derek Dunderton' from Dr Digi's house of Stamps available here

I love this character - he fit's the bill for so many male cards in his various guises, Check him out in the Dr Digi shop - he's a man of many talents - along with his lovely wife!!  I just love colouring these images too

 - the way they're drawn is great 

While I was there I noticed they had some sheets of sentiments and so that's where this cheeky sentiment came from too - there's loads of others so you might just see some others soon

Here's what I did....

Image - Derek Dunderton from Dr Digi's House of Stamps

Sentiment -  from Dr Digi's House of Stamps sentiments sheet

Birthday wishes sentiment from Anna Griffin

-stamped with red gold Tsukneko brilliance - I love how it turned out!

Coloured with copics and black prismacolour pencil for shading

Papers - LOTV candles and cake (I think!)

Die cut - fishtale flags from MFT

Die cut - banners from Whiff of Joy

Buttons from my stash

Twine from MFT

I hope you'll come and join in the fun at MAWTT challenge this week - my teamies have put buttons all over the place! - so check out the challenge blog

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Cute card Thursday - colourful
Sassy design studios - masculine - It's raining men
Crafty gals corner - lets hear it for the boys (masculine)
Rubys rainbow - masculine
Penny's papercrafty challenge - anything goes
Crafty sentiments - for a man
Cardz4guys - anything goes

Hugs Judith xx

Fab'n'Funky Challenges n5th birhday challenge - week 2

Greetings from sunny Florida again!!

Here I am with today's second scheduled post
 this time it's for our 5th birthday celebrations over at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

If you joined in with us last week I hope you've checked over at the blog to see if you were a lucky winner - if you didn't play along -well now's your second chance!

Our challenge theme for the second week is again

Happy Birthday

As we have lots of family birthdays at this time of year I've delighted to be able to have a birthday card catch up (and it makes a change from Christmas cards!)

This fab image is from Dr Digi's House of Stamps

he's called Dunderton Academicals!
available here
( there's also a precoloured version of this digi - for those last minute cards!)

I just love the fun images from Dr Digi's House of Stamps - especially the men  - I think male cards can be so hard to make and most men just don't want a cutesy image as hard as we try to persuade them otherwise!! - so for me these fun image fit the bill perfectly and they're an absolute gift to colour, Call in at the shop at Dr Digi's House of Stamps - I'm sure they'll have something for the man in your life!






I made this card for my nephew's 18th birthday which is while we are away - he's the youngest of my nephews and nieces - so I suppose it means they're all grown up now.  He's also a huge football (Newcastle United ) fan so I think this card will raise a smile

This is what I did...

Image - Dunderton Academicals from Dr Digi's House of Stamps
Cooured with Copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers from LOTV Father knows best
Corner die - Whimsy stamps
"18" - cut with Sizzix easy peasy alphabet die

I hope you'll join in with our birthday celebrations over at Fab'n'Funky this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Addicted to stamps - Make your mark
crafty creations - recipe challenge
Artby miran - anything goes

Hugs
Judith xx

.Run Run Run!

Good Morning all

I'm here on a Saturday morning for the first time in ages!

and only because I'm very late lol

This is my DT card for Fab'n'Funky Challenges

I had this card half done and it's taken me until now to get a chance to get it finished!

Our challenge theme this week is 

In Stitches 

(having a laugh)

so you can either show us a funny card or a card with stitching on it

Here's my card

using the image Run Derek Run available here

It's from our fabulously fun sponsor for this week

I chose this image because it's perfect for my son Matthews birthday

- even though it's not until next April!!

Matthew has just recently left home and is living up in Edinburgh.  All grown up he is with a job, a car and a room in a flat share in central Edinburgh. it's not the first time he's been away from home, he spent 3 years in Norwich when he was at University there - and that's sort of where this card fits in.  He's still in touch with his old house mates from uni but they're scattered all over the country so don't meet up to often.  But they have an annual reunion each year - and next year it's to be in Berlin - one of them decided that as the Berlin half marathon  is on while they are there that he was going to enter - and Matthew decided he would do it too - all well and good but the most he's ever run in recent years was to catch a bus!!! - So he's in training and he's got loads of time - but we still all think its more than a bit funny that Matthew is running - hence this card!!

Here's what I did...

Image - Run Derek Run - from Dr  Digi's house of stamps

Coloured with spectrum noir pens and pencils

Papers - LOTV - father knows best

Sentiment - Anna Griffin Birthday sentiments set from QVC

Tiny brads- Papermania

"Run" - punched with a very old letter punch set I got from QVC when I first started making cards

I decided to just post this late as a midway reminder -We'd love to see your fun cards - or perhaps your elegant stitched ones - either way we'd love to see you at Fab'n'Funky - and youve still got loads of time to enter

Hugs

Judith xx

Anything goes at Pennys Papercrafty Challenge

Hello again

I'm back with my second post of the day - this time its for 

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges

and our theme this week is 

Anything Goes

I used this cute image from Sassy Studios -one of our sponsors this week 

called Sassy Elizabeth Laura Bennett she is available here

I thought she needed a fairly simple pretty and demure design  to compliment her fairly simple, pretty, demure looks!

I got this paper free with a magazine ages ago - they are Websters Papers and on the front it says a combo of Western Romance and All About Me - they are very pretty pale coloured papers and I thought they were perfect for Miss Elizabeth Laura

Our sponsors this week are offering some fab prizes - pop over to the blog for more information and to see the fab and fun creations that my teamies have come up with this week

This is what I did....

Image - Elizabeth Laura Bennett from Sassy Studios

Coloured with copics and Prismacolor pencils

Papers - from Websters Pages

Sentiment label - LOTV

Dies uses - MFT labels and stitched labels and Memory box Fabulous phlox and Honeysuckle Vine  

Ribbon and gem from my stash

hope we see you over at Pennys this week - after all - Anything Goes!

Challenges I'm entering with this card
Little red wagon - Happy Birthday

hugs Judith

Boys to men at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

Hi again!

So for  my third post of  in the long running saga of blogger that won't blog lol!

I'm using this as a a reminder of our challenge over at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

it was of lovely Katies forst challenge for us and she chose the theme

Boys to Men

(or Boys II Men if you live in my world!)

I'm a big fan of Boys II Men - I've seen them loads of times - love their music and they have such fabulous voices and are a really great live act

Anyways back to the challenge!

I used a fab image from an artist I found only recently and I love his images

Meet That's Tragic from Dr Digi's House of Stamps

Available here

We Have two fabulous sponsors over at Fab'n'Funky this week

Stampart Design by Kathryne

and 

My Creative Classroom

I think I mentioned in my post yesterday that I bought a few Spectrum Noirs - mainly because I needed to refill several of my grey and neutral copics and they were ones that I didn't have reinkers for - so I decided I would give the SN's a go as it was cheaper them than buying the reinkers - and I got some extra shades into the bargin!!  I found them very easy to blend (VERY easy!) and although I didn't have the brush nibs and I think that would probably make it even easier when it comes the colours like the greys and reds which can be notoriously difficult to work with, I'd definitely say you don't need brush nibs for every colour, its definitely a different technique to copics and with a bit of practice it would only improve.   I'm now wavering on the edge - more SN's or buy the copic refills - I suppose there's nothing wrong with a combo as I have done here, it works!

Here's what I did.....

Image - Thats Tragic - fom Dr Digis house of Stamps

Coloured with Spectrum Noir and Copics

Papers - K & Co Hopscotch boy

Star dies - Joy 

Circle die - Spellbinders

Sentiment - Whiff of Joy

Sentiment "cards" - LOTV tags 

Glitter glue - (used to doodle round edges) Martha Stewart

We're off out to the drag show for my daughters 30th birthday celebrations tonight - always such a fun night out -Miss Rory the compare is the most beautiful "woman" you ever saw. I'll let you know how it goes - when I recover lol.

Have a great weekend everyone

Hugs
Judith xx