This ones for the Krafty people!

Good morning all

Its team A's turn again at Moving along with the times this week 

and my lovely blogging buddy Janice is hosting the challenge

She has chosen the theme 

Kraft

All we need to see is some Kraft card on your project - how easy is that!

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous 

Saturated Canary

and I knew what I wanted to make straight away

I had seen this image a while ago and while its not a masculine image at all

I knew it was perfect for my son Matthew's birthday next week

She's called - What the librarian reads available here

Matthew reads more than anyone I've ever known! - anything and everything

There's not a week goes by that the postman doesn't deliver at least one book he's bought

I encouraged all my kids to read and the three of them are all prolific readers - but Matthew takes first prize! - I bought him a kindle for Christmas a couple of years ago thinking it would be easier for him to upload books  - but he doesn't use it -he just loves books!

 I've made it fairly simple with just the bare few embellies that aren't girly and the Kraft colour works perfectly to make it a manish card (Is that a word!?)

Here's what I did....

Image - What the librarian reads from saturated Canary
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - K & co (sorry i dont know what they're called - they're years old!
Vintage seam binding - crafty ribbons
Sentiment made in word
Label - Dienamics
Corners - Dienamics
Gems from my stash

Call in at the MAWTT challenge blog to see my teamies fab card - and leave us your Krafty creation while you're there!

Challenges I'm entering

Digistamps for joy - Anything goes
Craft-room Challenge - in the library
Papertake weekly challenge - Anything goes
Through the craftroom door - anything goes
Cupcake challenge - use Kraft
The Kraft journal - anything goes (use kraft)


Hugs

Judith x

Here's some good advice...pack light!

Hello lovely blog friends

A special hello to all my new friends over at The Paper Shelter who have called on me these last few days - thank you for the warm welcome!

Today is challenge day again at Fab'n'Funky challenges where our lovely Sue is hostess for the week

Sue has chosen the theme of 

Pastel Colours

An easy one I think - there are so many Easter cards and Mothers day cards floating around blogland at the minute I'm sure you can find  a lovely pastel one to enter into our challenge this week.

This card was a bit of a revelation to be honest, apart from deciding that I was going to make it as a birthday card for my lovely daughter I didn't have a clue what I was going to do with it!

It sort of evolved lol - I did the very dangerous thing of colouring it before choosing my papers and then when I started to put it together I sort of didn't know when to stop - its very well embellished with all kinds of stuff from my stash  - its even got a whole sheet of pearl swirls on it - I hope she appreciates it - its the craft world equivalent of giving someone your last Rolo - and then some!!

Pack light from Saturated Canary

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous Saturated Canary

 and the DT were lucky enough to each get a gorgeous image to play with.  I chose that pretty little girl with her suitcases -ready to go off on her summer hollies I think.  Very appropriate for Alison - she's coming to Florida with us on holiday this year and she really can't wait!!  Her whole little family (that's her husband Steven and baby Jacob) are all coming along and because they didn't get a holiday in the sun last year (because Jacob was too tiny), the excitements like they've never been on holiday at all - ever!!

I had a bit of a departure from my usual colouring and shading technique where I use mainly grey or black to shade my image when I've finished colouring  -it gives a bit of a toned down vintage look to the colours.  With this image I think I wanted to keep it a bit brighter - but shock horror - the point had fallen off my grey pencil and i cant find my pencil sharpener.  I decided to shade in colours of the same tones as I had use - I rather liked the effect - might have to try it again!! Don't know whats wrong with my photos these days - think I might have to make some changes! -the colours don't look very true on this photo - the flower is the same green paper as on the card - but it looks a different shade to me and that gorgeous butterfly looks too dark and not so gorgeous .... hmm!

Heres what I did....

Image - packlight from Saturated Canary

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

Papers - K and co and Spring drop from

Card = Bazzill basics

Pearl swirl - creative expressions

Flower - made with spellbinders rolled flower die

Birds - momory box resting birds die

Corners - Whimsy craft corner dies

Ribbon - vintage seam binding (scrunched!)

Butterfly - prima

Tags - LOTV

Pearl heart - was a little extra from Teresa at MCH with my order

There are some gorgeous cards from my teamies over at fab'n'Funky this week if you go on over to see them   tell them I sent you lol

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Celebrate the occasion - girls birthday (must use pink)

Clearitout challenge - happy birthday with 2 or more ribbons

Creative card crew - birthday 

Digital tuesdays - birthdays (must be digital)

LEJ designs - for  a lovely lady

Through the craftroom door - anything goes

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

I've got exciting news x 2!!

Hi blog friends

Was just going to tell you all my exciting news when I looked at my blogger dashboard and got some more!!  I've just been given a place on the Creative Craft Challenges DT, I'm so excited and looking forward to getting going with it.  Have a DT card due next week so that's my project for tonight.  Thanks to all the girls on the DT for really warm welcome - I feel at home already - such a lovely friendly bunch and with a few of us new girls all starting together you've probably got your work cut out lol.

My second exciting news is I just found out  I've got a top 3 card in the Sentimental Sundays challenge last week - thank you to the DT at Sentimental Sundays for  that too - todays been a good day all round.  I've even got a card made today as well so crafty things can't get much better.

I wanted to use another of my cute new Saturated Canary digis so chose this one called Dorothy -yes that's Wizard of Oz style Dorothy, I think you'll agree  she's very cute.  I decided to go all out pretty for this one - pink, ribbon, flowers, pearls and butterflies - thought I'd hold on the glitter - there's such a thing as too much ha ha.

a close up of the detail

What I did....

Stamp - Dorothy -Saturated Canary
Paper - New Arrival from Docrafts Forever Friends
Flowers - Wild Orcid crafts
Coloured with - copics and Prismacolor pencils
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Punches (corners and border,butterfly and leaves) - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Kaisercraft
Distress ink (around diecut for image) - Tim Holtz spun sugar
Pink card and seambinding ribbon - from my stash

I had a bit of a happy accident with the ribbon, I tied a double bow then cut through the wrong loop so ended up with a single bow with 3 lots of tails.  At the same time my absolute favourite Martha Stewart butterfly border punch that I use to cut out all the little butterflies totally jammed up - I managed to get one butterfly! I'll have another go with it tomorrow and try to rescue it :(

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Dream Valley Challenges - Mothers Day/female themed creation
Delightful Challenges - Spring Colours
A gem of a challenge - Perfect pastels
Incy Wincy Designs - something old (punches)/something new(digi stamp)
Ladybug Ink challenge blog - Pink and girly (104)
Stampalot Challenge - take inspiration -inspiration came from the pretty stamp
Well that's me for today

See you tomorrow

Hugs

Judith x

Easter is coming!

Hi blog friends

I was determined to get a card made today - I've had a busy week at work and at home and just couldn't catch up with myself at all.  I don't think I've recovered from staying up til one in the morning watching Tim Holtz on QVC.  I ordered the new distress pens and they arrived today - ooh big excitement!! haven't had a proper play yet (they're supposed to be my birthday pressie and that's not for a fortnight - but I'm sure I can have a little lend for a while!!)  I treat myself to some other goodies as well - all in aid of the birthday but I think that excuse might have just run out - not that I can complain, my hubby never comments on my ever growing stash and the mysterious parcels that turn up - I think he thinks it keeps me quiet, so a small price to pay!!

I'm still on the Saturated Canary thing but today is very pretty pretty for a change.  I thought I'd get a couple of Easter cards made, not that I send a lot of them but I really like the stamp so thats reason enough for me. 

A close up of the detail

What I did...

Stamp - Saturated Canary "Murray"
Paper - Dovecraft Back to Basics
Flowers - Wild Orchid
Card and Ribbons from my stash
Buttons - Papermania
Punch (borders on card) - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Craftwork cards

I coloured her with copics and prismacolor pencils.

I hope you like it -let me know what you think, I love to read your lovely comments Thanks for looking.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

My time to craft - anything goes
My Mums craftshop - Buttons and bows
MAWTT- lots of layers
Paper Pretties - use punch or die cuts
Allsorts challenge blog - Anything goes
Crafts and me Challenge blog - Shades of spring

Hugs

Judith x

Guess who's been watching Tim Holtz today!!

Hello blog friends

I've been looking for a bit of inspiration to enter the Saturated Canary challenge which is anything but rectangle or square. I've had a couple of tries with circles but they just didn't look right - then I started to watch Tim Holtz on QVC today!! Out came my distress stuff and I was away - What an inspiration that man is!! I haven't done any full on distressing for a while and I really enjoyed myself

Close up of the detail

The stamp is from Saturated Canary and another of the new release called Honey. I coloured her with copics and prismacolor pencils and stuck on a couple of heart gems . The tag was cut with cricut wedding cartridge in kraft card and distresed with brushed corduroy distress ink then the top layer was cut from white card and I distressed again with the brushed corduroy. The diamond pattern stamp is from crafty individuals stamped with worn lipstick distress ink and some areas were embossed with worn lipstock disress embossing powder to add some texture. I then stamped with a selection of post stamps in fired brick and tea dye distress ink. Still needed some more distress - I was watching the master at work! - so painted the whole backgroung with crackle glaze. It took me a while to get the stamp image -which I had cut out - to blend in but eventually settled with a distress of both brushed corduroy and worn lipstick around the edges and that helped bring the whole thing together - phew.
I finished off with some ribbon from my stash that I distressed with tea dye ink and some buttons and a leaf diecut I already had cut out - think its from the cricut Cindy Loo cartridge but not certain, finally I finished off wth a couple of pins in the top.

I had forgotten how messy and how much fun this type of project can be - its something I think I'll do again soon.

I'm entering this tag for the following challenges

Saturated Canary challenge - anything but square or rectangle
One stop craft challenge - create your own background
Creative craft challenge - Bingo - ribbon/ pink/gems
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Include Kraft card on the card



Thats me for today

hugs

Judith

Trixie the circus girl

Hi there

Had such a busy weekend that I just haven't had a chance to do any crafting - or at least finish any!

I got some of the new Saturated Canary digi stamps last week and couldn't wait to play - these little girls are all so pretty, they deserve to be totally dressed up and I certainly gave this one the treatment!

a close up of the detail

This is what I used

Stamp - Saturated Canary Trixie, circus girl
Papers -SEI Coture collection 6x6
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils
Sentiment - Craftwork cards
Flowers - Wildorchid crafts
Ribbon and pearl swirls - bought from Sam Pooles Creative Studios
Pearl brad - Whiff of Joy
Die cut - Spellbinders
Leaves - Papermania midi punch

I tried to give her a "strawberry blonde" look which I think worked well, I used copics E50,E51 and E53 as the basis of the colour but it was the shading with the prismacolour pencil pc1034 colour "goldenrod" and sansodor  that really did the trick I think.  I love experimenting with the prismacolors.  I got a lovely big box at Michaels craft shop when I visited  Florida last year and was there for the Black Friday sales, the whole box of 48 was only about £15!! - why can't we get bargains like that here in England?  But having the lovely selection of colours on top of the ones I already had has made me much more adventurous and its lovely to experiment with all sorts of colours I probably wouldn't have thought of buying.  I used a selection of the copic colours I had used to colour her to do a spotty background around her and I was pleased with that effect too.  I decided to restrain myself and hold of with more pearls and my favourite butterflies  -even I have to admit that there is such a thing as too much!!

Thats me for today - but could be back with more Saturated Canary tomorrow - if the day goes to plan.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Fab 'n' funky Challenges - try something new (experimented with new colours and a new digistamp)  Creative Belli Blog - recipe - 1 ribbon/2 designer papers/3 colours and 4pearls
Totallypapercrafts challenge - Ribbons and bows
Card Makin Mamas - Happy birthday
My Mums craft shop challenge - Pearls and swirls
Paper Creations Ink  -Show us your style using your favourite technique  - colouring/blending
Saturday Challenge - Bingo - swirls/flowers/pearls
Sunday sketch and stamp - sketch #94

Hugs

Judith x

A rainbow card

Hi there

I bought this Saturated canary stamp because I knew I had this rainbow/umbrella paper and thought it would work well together.  I've used the sketch from sweet sketch Wednesday challenge this week.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch #141

I used bright colours to colour her to tone with the rainbow colours.  This is what I used:

Stamp - Saturated Canary - Let it rain
Paper K & Co
Distress ink - Tim Holtz Tea Dye
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Die cut umbrella and tag  Cricut paper dolls cartridge
Die cut oval - Spellbinders
Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils
Glossy accents used on wellies and umbrella handle
All other embellies from my stash

The card is exactly as I had "seen" it before I started the only thing I'm not sure of is the card I used for stamping the image which is Neenah card - it is what I normally use - dont know it its a bit too white - has anyone any ideas for a good card for alcohol markers that not quite so white - suggestions gladly received!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Sweet sketch Wednesday - # 141
ABC challenge - jazz it up - bling/glossy accents/ bright colours
Totally papercraft - rainbow
Crafts and me challenges - distressed
Incy wincy designs - recipe -3 embellishments (umbrella, tag, bow), 2 papers 1 image


Thats me for today

Hugs

Judith x

My My Pricilla Pie!

Hi Again!

Been on a bit of a roll and managed to get another card finished today. Sometimes I know exactly what I'm doing - today wasn't one of those cards,!  I picked out the stamp and the papers but that was where it all went a bit off track - I wanted to make a large card for someone who asked  for a special 50th birthday card - that card didn't get made!!  I'll have to try again tomorrow - don't you just hate when that happens.... but I was reasonably happy with the card I ended up with,

close up of the detail

The image is another of those delish Saturated Canary digi stamps that I downloaded and printed just waiting to be tried out - think I'm a little bit addicted - called Pricilla Pie,  I started off co-ordinating her with a paper with a blue and slight lilac tinge but abandoned that one - hence the slight lilac tinge that should ideally be slight green with the paper I used - for perfection - but in real life it looks more blue, its a bit more lilac here and the Craftwork cards Happy Bithday sentiment doesn't show up well on this post but looks fine on the photograph, can't win I suppose.

I coloured her with copics and prismacolour pencils and the papers are K and Co.  The pearl brads are from Whiff of Joy and the ribbon from my carnmeal cottage collection.  The lace and cherry blossom flowers were bought from ebay and the leaves are a Martha Stewart punch. 

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Sundays with Crissy - Birthday card
Paper Pretties - Add texture to your card
Truly Madly crafty - Ribbon and bling
Just Tracys Crafts - A card for a female
Crafts and me challenge - A new image
Creative craft Challenges - Bingo =Blue Lace Flowers

Beautiful Neveah - with love x

Hi all

I've been dying to use this stamp since I got it - she is soooo beautiful!  I almost finished this card last night when the blade on my cricut machine decided to give up half way through cutting the star borders and my head had run out of ideas of what else to do so I put her away and went to bed.  I had left my pack of new blades at my daughters house (just the sort of thing you leave at someone elses house isn't it - best not to ask!) so had to think of something else to finish off  - it had been a cute "Star" sentiment cut to match the other stars but not to be! So a couple of stars and some glitter had to be rustled up together with a craftwork cards "With Love" sentiment - always handy when you need one!  Besides with all these valentines love challenges around this week perhaps its just as well.

The pretty lilac card used for the layers and stars is from bazzill, papers from K and Co, the ribbon from Carnmeal Cottage.  I coloured her with copics and prismacolor pencils the little stars and sparklies are from my stash.  I quite liked her when I was done, but the making of it did go on a bit!!

I'm in all on my own tonight all my men are out doing their own thing (no I haven't got a hareem of men just two sons and a husband - ha ha that was nearly a good typo I had put 2 sins and a husband!!)  so might make another card or should I do the ironing??? - really should do the ironing or if I'm in wonderwoman mode maybe both!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Creative Inspirations challenge - Love
Stampavie and more challenge - Love
Fab and Funky challenges - love is in the air
Papertake weekly challenge - Anything goes
My Mums craftshop Challenge - It must be Love
Crafty sentiments designs challenge - Lets get girly
My time to craft challenge - A is for adorable
Mad for markers challenge blog - Rs and RVs - (used to shade on dress and trim on dress)

Thats me for now

Hugs



Judith

Love Grows

Hi there

I've definately got a love thing going on at the moment - love must be in the air!!

This is a cute little girl from Sarah Kay for Stampavie.  I coloured her with copics and prismacolour pencils and shaded the kraft card and white card with Tim Holtz brushed corduroy distress ink.  The papers are K and Co and the sentiment stamp comes with a Lili of the Valley stamp (see my last post for the stamp)  I cut the vine leaves from my cricut expressions machine and the two little tags with a sizzix die. the flowers are a spellbinders die - I certainly went through the die cutting machines tonight!! The pearls are from Kaiser craft, I love their sets of coloured pearls in various sizes  Finally the narrow gold ribbon I got from carnmeal cottage

Close up of the details on the card

I think I need to get away from this love thing for my next card - perhaps something cute, I have some Saturated Canary images that I 've printed and die cut that I'm just dying to colour so I might treat myself tomorrow!!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Sir stampalot - In the garden
Paper creations ink - #18 recipe 1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 embellishments (flowers pearls, ribbon)
The poodles parlour - anything goes
Sentimental sundays -  feel the love (plus a sentiment)
Crafters companion monthly challenge - anything goes
Little miss muffet challenges - valentines and love

thats me for today

Big hugs

Judith

S.W.A.L.K.

Hi there

I have another of those absolutely gorgeous Saturated Canary girls today - I just love, love, love them- Krista is so talented - I have a whole batch of them printed off and ready to colour - so watch this space!

I have made this card totally over the top with hearts, so it must be a valentine card!  There are three different heart papers - sorry can't remember where from, the hearts die cut is spellbinders and the swirl is from my cricut expression cartridge - cindy loo.  I made the little envelope from some scraps and stamped it  SWALK with my little craftwork card candy stamps - they are just so useful.  The hearts stamped on the white card are from a Dawn Bibby set I've had for ages and never used - I knew they'd come in useful sometime! Finally the pretty pink organza ribbon is from my carnmeal cottage collection! -and everything else from my stash.  I coloured her with copics and shaded with prismacolor pencils- this digistamp is so well drawn and a pleasure to colour!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Allsorts challenge blog - one or more hearts
Truly Scrumptious - Love and hearts
MAWTT - Have a heart
Fab and Funky challenge - Use a digi image
Deep Ocan challenge - Love you
Joanna Sheen challenge - love is in the air
Creative Belli Blog - hearts/valentine
Saturated Canary challenge -Red pink and white
The crazy challenge - flowers

Thats me for now

Hugs

Sexy Suzy!

Hi again

Today I have a very sexy lady stamp on my card-it's the first time my husband has ever stopped to look at me making a card - typical man, he'll get an even bigger suprise when he gets this card for his birthday!!
As soon as I saw her I just knew she was a husband card, its so hard to find a card that's not sport, cars or too cute for husbands so for me she fit the bill perfectly. She is a digistamp from Saturated Canary, I loved them so much I got six altogether so you'll be seeing a few more from me. I was a bit unsure about how to tackle the colouring when I started but all in all I felt quite happy with my first attempt - especially as I chose red which is a difficult colour for a large area anyway, I used copics and prismacolor pencils and shaded the edges of the spellbinders diecut with a distress ink.

Suzy Stockings from Saturated Canary

I kept it fairly plain and simple but still added a bow because I thought she deserved it and that my husband would appreciate it too! The card candi from craftwork cards had been stamped with the new candi stamps that I got when they were on QVC last week - they're really good clear stamps and I think I'll get a lot of use from them. The ribbon and swirl embelishment (that I cut up to fit in with my card) I got from Sam Poole's creative studios, the paper is a K & Co, anything else is from my stash.

That's me for today

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Saturated Canary Challenge blog - dies and or punches
My mums craftshop - favourite colour combo  black and red
Stamp scrap and doodle Saturday - have a heart
Paper creations ink - love and romance
Robins fetish challenge blog - love
Just Tracys Crafts challengr - love is in the air
The Poodles Parlour -love/valentines
Crafters companion -love is in the air