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

Va Va Voom at MAWTT challenge this week!

Hi there

We have a great new challenge over at Moving Along With The Times this week.  Our hostess with the mostest for this week is Shell and she has chosen the theme

Va Va Voom!

 so sexy ladies or men is what we want to see!

Here is my creation for this week

Don't really know what happened to my photograph here -my colouring looks a bit wishy washy and the mustard distres ink looks very yellow - but it doesn't look like that in real life! - Oh well...

This is a big 8"x8" card and I was going for a distressed/vintage sort of look, it took me a couple of attempts to get it right but I loved colouring this image.

Our sponsor this week is the fab Kenny K

and the winner will receive 5 digi images of their choice!

This is what I did

Image  - Kenny K Lady Victoria

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - K and Co

Music paper - Mariannes designs - songbird

Distress inks - Tim Holtz - Mustard seed and Fired brick

Dark red card - Tim Holtz distress cordinations

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Black gems - kanban

Stick pins and swirls - Creative expressions

Swirl stamp - Anna Griffin

Lace - from my stash

challenges I am entering with this card

Papertake Weekly Challenge - anything goes

Truly Scrumptious - Use lace on your creation

Whimsy Stamps challenge- use ribbon on your creation

http://sundayswithcrissy.blogspot.co.uk/- your favourite colour combination - red and black

The poodles parlour - Going Dotty

That's me for today

See you tomorrow

Hugs

Judith x

Embossing at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Hi there blog friends

What a day!  I can't believe that only a week ago there were people lying sunbathing on the beach and today .... snow!  Not lying on the ground snow but its been comng down in the rain and its sooo cold!  Glad I made the most of the good weather while it was here. But I neglected my little blog in the process - sorry I haven't been around much with posts or to do any visiting - but if the weather stays like this I'll be back in the house crafting and blogging! I'm going to make the effort to do some visiting over the next couple of days - so make sure you're in !!
Today is challenge day at Fab'n'Funky challenges hosted by our lovely Emma and the theme is

Embossing

This week we are being sponsored by Stamp Fairy and Pink Cat Studio.

I've used this cute little digi from Pink Cat Studio.  It was a very quick and easy card to make but such a pretty image that you could colour up to tone with almost any paper that you choose.  I remembered that I had this card from yeeeeears ago and thought it looked a bit like the flowers in the image so it would go together well.

  

This is what I did ...

Image - Pink Cat Studio - Dots and Delights: Tweet on Branch
Coloured with - Copics
Papers - Kanban
Sentiment - Pink Cat Sudio
Die Cut /embossed corners and flower - spellbinders
Crystals- Kanban
Flower stamp onsentiment  label - Craftwork cards


Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafty catz weekly chalenge - use a digi
Crafty bloggers network - happy bird-day
Totally gorjuss  - swirly whirly
Thats all from me for today

Hugs

Judith x

Fab'n'Funky Challenges new challenge today

Hi blog friends

Its Wednesday so that means a new challenge at Fab'n'Funky challenges.  This week the theme is

In Honour of Mum

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by the fabulous Doodle Pantry  this week

The DT girls were given some gorgeous digis to play with.  I chose  these cute little birds  and a sentiment to use on my card and this was my Mums mothers day card - which she loved.  I also made her a small scrapbook of some of our old black and white family photos.  She had given them all to me when she moved to a smaller bungalow a few years ago, but we had them out a few weeks ago (trying to decide who our new baby grandson looked like - like you do!) and she seemed to really enjoy them so that's when I decided to make the scrapbook as a mothers day gift.   It took me days of scanning and resizing them to get them all ready to go into the scrapbook.  It was lovely when it was finished and she really liked having her old photos newly printed and all in one place and looking a good deal better than the originals did! - these photo programs are so clever, it even made me look clever as well ha ha.

This is what I did....

Stamp - everyday birdies from Doodle Pantry
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Papers - from my stash (could be from Kanban I think)
Button punch - Martha Stewart
Daffodils - Wild orchid crafts
craft card basket distressed with Tim Holtz tea die distress ink
Basket - die cut on cricut expression - Paperdolls for everyday cartridge


Well Thats all from me for now - going to try to get what should have been my last nights post done later today - had a bit of a dizzy blonde moment last night (I have a few of these but this one was pretty good!)  I'll update you later if I get through today in one piece - off birthday shopping with my daughter at Gateshead Metro Centre now - this its going to be expensive I can tell, as well as her birthday its her husbands birthday and wedding anniversary all on the same day!

challenges I'm entering

Polkadoodles -an animal or a bird
My mums craftshop -lets get digital
Card Makin Mamas - Button
Papertake weekly challenge -Buttons/Flowers/Free
Sundays with Crissy - Animals

Hugs

Judith x

Challenge day at Creative Craft Challenges

Hi Blog Friends

Its challenge day over at The creative craft challenge blog,  this week is a bit of a tricky one - one to get your creativity going.  Its an inspirational piccie by Sandra and it certainly got the DT girls going.  It was my first challenge since joining the team and half scared me to death!!

Use this picture as your inspiration!

We are being sponsored by Love to stamp who will offer 1 little darlings stamp of winners Choice!!!!! how great is that?

and the top 3 winner will also be offered a GDT spot

 

 

I really needed to think about this one - don't have a lot of black and pink combo in my stash but I found this lovely black and pink card from a Kanban collection I had with just one sheet left and I was away!  I had this image in mind to use from the begining just needed to do something with her!  I hadn't been brave enough to colour large clothes areas with black before, but I decided to go for it with  prismacolor pencils in black and shades of grey and I think it just about did the job - so I even learned something new by taking up this challenge!!

This was a really fun challenge to do so come on - get your brains into gear and see what you can come up with - it could be be pink/black/stars/hearts, stripes/checks/white/with words - or maybe this inspires you to do something totally different, either way hop on over to CCC and lets see your creations.

This is what I did....

Digi Stamp - Whispy Fairy fom Saturated Canary
Paper - Kanban and K&co
Glitter card- Create and craft
Die cuts - Cricut impressions cartridges Wall Decor and More and Once Upon a Princess
Coloured with copics and prismaclor pencils
Sentiment tag - spritz with perfect pearls pink bubblegum

Thats all from me today - see you over at creative craft challenge - go on you know you want to!!

Hugs

Judith x