So what's in a number!

Good morning all

Quite a thoughtful post from me today for our challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges 

this week

The theme is 

With a Number

(add a number to your project)

This is one of those cards everyone loves to hate 

- man cards 😖

and inside

a verse I like very much 

I made this card for a very good friend, a friend since we were at school

 - a very long time - who was sixty a couple of weeks ago

He's been my husband's best friend since school days, best man at our wedding...

his birthday was two days before my hubbys 60th birthday - a real week of celebrations!

and the very worst thing!!! - I'm following close behind

- and I keep asking myself - how did I get to be nearly 60!!

It's something you hear all the time - but I can honestly say I don't feel any different to the way I did all those years ago when we were just kids - my mother will be 90 this year and she says the same things. 

 Isn't life and age a funny thing! 

This is what I did.....

Image - Umbrella man byTim Holtz  from Ranger

Sentiment inside also from Ranger

Watch die - Sheena Douglass Time Traveller collection

Background created with a generic 'happy birthday' stamp and

Crafters Companion fashion die numbers (60)

Tag dies - My favourite things

Hope you'll play along with our challenge at Fab'n'Funky this week and perhaps enlightgen me further about advancing age lol

Hugs

Judith xx

We're So 80's at Moving along with the Times!!

Good morning all

We have a quirky challenge for you over at 

Moving along with the Times

our theme is 

So 80's

we would like to see anything that is 80's themed or 80's inspired

 -be it  colour style or anything else that makes you think

 - that's so 80's!!

I chose this cute and colourful card

using on of Tim Holtz Crazy birds

and created a background with Spectrum noir aquatints

these colours with the splashes that remind me of tie dye 

it made me think - yes that's so 80's

This is what I did

Image - Crazy birds from tim holtz

Sentiments and corners and splats(!) - Crafter's Companion Elements stamps

Bird - coloured with Spectrum noir aqua pencils

Background created with Spectrum noir Aquatints in primaries then bleached out with water to create the splodge effect

Hope we see you playing along with us this week

Hugs

Judith xx

All creatures great and small at Fab'n'funky Challenges

Good Morning all

Hope you are all bright and breezy this morning - not sure if I am or not but it's a good description of the weather! - it's been more than a bit fresh here on the North East coast - roll on summer!

I've been having an exciting couple of days (that's apart from the sickness bug - yuk!)
My older son left home over a year ago now and I've finally inherited his room as a craftroom.  I moved into the room to craft a while ago because he already had a lovely desk area - but the rest needed to be sorted!!  We moved the bed out at Christmas and swapped it with a sofa bed we had in the spare bedroom and I've now got a lovely craftroom with lots of storage - and a very clever work area built over the sofa bed!  - it's not finished yet still some shelves to put up and lots of sorting and organising to do - but I'm so excited. I do have a very clever husband - photos to follow!!

But I digress....

We have a new challenge starting at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges 

hosted by our lovely Sharon

who chose the theme

All creatures great and small

I made a very simple card for a man friend's birthday 

using one of the Tim Holtz - Crazy Birds

I just love these - a stamp for all occasions!

This is what I did....

Image - Crazy birds from Tim Holtz

Coloured with Spectrun Noir pens and pencils

Sentiment - Crazy Birds Sentiment stamps

Papers - MME Tangerine

Dies - Memory box stitched squares, MFT fishtail flags

Black mat card - Crafter's Companion

I hope we'll see you playing along with us this week

hugs

Judith xx

Love is in the air at The Paper Shelter

Good morning all

Well I'm finally back - I've had almost 4 lovely weeks in the United States and another week recovering!!  I got a really nasty ear infection just before we got home and together with jet lag I just had no energy or inclination for craft, then my son Tom got a flu virus(proper flu not just a bad cold)  and my FIL got rushed into hospital when he collapsed - he's back home recovering  after a couple of days in hospital - so I think we've had our "3" and I've had enough of it all now lol

Anyway I'm back into the crafting swing with some catching up to do so I'm trying desperately to get things into some sort of order. 

Todays challenge at

The Paper Shelter is 

Love is in the air

I had a little look around at what was new while I was away and saw these fabulous digi papers iin TPS shop there are 12 in the set - such great value 

They're called
Two Shades of Romance
and are available here 

-I just love them and they are perfectly romantic for our Love challenge

I decided to get a little bit inky and make a gift bag using one of the papers in the set

This one has sort of pinky/sepia colours, I resized it to fit my gift bag before printing out and cut  smaller versions to make the tag and the flower  and I used my TH distress markers to highlight some of the flowers and words to highlight them.  I then distressed around the edges to darken them further, I really enjoyed myself making the flower and creating a vintage feel - my husband even comment - oh that looks French! - he said as he wandered by!!

As always we have a fab prize at TPS this week
- win 3 digis or if you use an image from TPS - the prize is a $30 gift voucher
how great is that!!

This is what I did,,,,

Papers - Two shades of romance from TPS

Kraft bag - Michaels

Kraft card - Crafters companion

Distress ink - TH Tea die, frayed burlap

Die cut letters - TH vintage market

Flower - made with TH Tattered floral dies

Leaf die - Spellbinders

Large butterfly charm - Santoro

Small butterfly - Docrafts Lilibet

Burlap ribbon- recollections from Michaels

Brad (flower centre) and gems from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafty sentiments Design - Anything goes
Bunny Zoes crafts challenge - Distress
Crafting from the heart - anything Goes
Love to create - say it with flowers
Dream valley challenges - anything goes
Allsorts challenge - Butterflies

Hope to see you at TPS this week - call back soon for my DT card for Penny's Paper Crafty challenge

Hugs
Judith xx

Add a sentiment at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

Hi all

What a busy blogging day today  - like buses they all come at once lol

This is my third( and final!) post of the day

(scroll down for my cards for the Paper Shelter and Whimsy Satmps)

This card if for this weeks challenge over at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

hosted this week by the hostess with the Mostest!

Vicky!

And she has chosen the easy peasy theme of 

Add a sentiment

here is my DT card for this challenge

using boy bearing gifts from Digi Darla available here

We have two fab sponsors this week

Our regular first prize sponsor 

Stampart Design by Kathryne

who is offering a fab prize of 5 digis to the winner

and 

our second challenge sponsor

Who are offering 5 digi stamps 

to our randomly drawn winner 

I decided to follow a sketch from this weeks Feeling Sketchy Challenge for this card

Sometimes a sketch challenge is good when the mojos low!!

This is what I did...

Image- Boy bearing gifts from Digi Darla Designs

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

papers - K and co hopscotch (my go to boy card papers!)

Card - bazzill basics

Balloon punch - Martha Stewart

corner die - dienamics photo corners

Star die - Sellie Snellen

Lettering cut with - Sizzix alphabet by Tim Holtz

twine and brad- from my stash
glitter - stickles (jst a touch on the parcels!)

I'm entering this card into the following challenges 

Feeling sketchy -sketch as above

Critter Sketch - twine

Pause dream enjoy challenge - for the boys

The pretty little ribbon shop - happy birthday

We'd love to see your creations over at Fab'n'Funky this week

Hugs 

Judith x

How many shades of grey do you really, really need!!?

Hello there blog friends - Happy Tuesday

Today I've got with a quick tutorial  that I've done for Inky impressions about two things really 

1. You don't need a Christmas image to make a Christmas card
2. You only need one shade of grey - or one colour infact - no matter what that book says!!

I've made a quick and easy Christmas card with the Inky Impressions stamp

Hazel baking cookies

you can find her  here

I coloured her with copics - not particularly carefully (whoops!) - but that doesn't really matter when you use a prismacolour pencil to go back in to add shade and depth to the image. And to shade the whole image all you need is 

One shade of grey!!

Infact prismacolor 70% warm grey.  You could use any grey or even black (and if I want an even deeper vintage look I do use black- it does great things when used with red - but thats for another day)  but for this particular card I wanted a warm look and thats what the 70% grey gives to this image.

Here is the image coloured with copics - it looks ok - but lacks any depth and as you can see I havent done a great deal of blending with the colours and it all looks a bit too bright in places

Next I added lines of grey where I wanted to add the shade with the pencil you'll notice I have not added any to the centre of the face

I then started to blend the pencil with Sansodor solvent

You can now see that there is a lot more depth to the image also I added shade to the centre of the face just by using whatever colour I had already picked up on my blending stump and blending it into the centre of  the face.

I then cleaned off my blending stump (with an emery board) and used just Sansodor to further blend and thin out the grey in places

All of the colours are now muted - which was the effect I was looking for- and there is shade and light to the little bears fur and the clothes and bowl.

I then trimmed the card and shaded with distress ink before I mounted the image onto green card and added  papers, ribbon  and embellies  to make this cute Christmas card - and there she is

Hazel baking her Christmas Cookies

This is what I used to make this card

Image - Hazel baking cookies from Inky impressions

Coloured with copics - fur E40,41,43  ribbon and apron trim R37,35,32  apron G28,07,00  bowl E53,51,       cookie mix E11,21, eyes B93 Inside ears YR 20,21

And ....Prismacolor pencil - one shade of grey 70% warm grey

Papers - first edition - festive treats (cookies were also cut from these papers)

Distress ink - Tea dye by Tim Holtz 

Sentiment - LOTV

Shaped card - craftwork cards

Heart charm - Inky impressions

Gems and ribbon - from my stash

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Loves rubber stamps -anything goes

Now go and have a look at your stamps! There's lots of stamps you could use that aren't Christmas stamps that will make a beautiful Christmas card.  Hope I gave you some inspiration

hugs

Judith xx

Fab'n'Funky challenges - it's a bit of an animal!!

Hi all

Happy Wednesday!! I  hope its been a better day where you are, we've had drizzly rain and fog all day it just makes you feel so miserable :(   A bit of retail therapy came sort of accidently! I've had myself a  day shopping today, from what was supposed to be a quick trip to the shops to take some slippers back that were the wrong size.  We ended up staying out for lunch and afternoon coffee and I got so many bargains and shh Christmas shopping, it totally stopped what should have been my crafty day but I got some fab skinny jeans in Gap for £9.99 and a dress, cardigan and top  in the M&S outlet shop for  less than £40 - pretty good I think and really cheered me up!  When I got home my husband had hijacked the laptop for the night so I couldn't get on to do my (already late!) post and I dared not complain because it's usually me who monopolises it  - think he needs his own if this is going to happen lol.

Anyway back to this weeks challenge over at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges.

 We are lucky enough to have two sponsors this week over at Fab'n'Funky Digi Darla Designs (who gave us DT girls some fab images to play with)

and Crimson Cloud

so we have not one but two fab prizes up for grabs this week

Our theme this week is 

Animals

A really easy one  -we just want to see an animal on your card

Here's my card using Country Mailbox from Digi Darla Designs 

I thought this was such a pretty stamp and a bit of a change from people!!  -well people just wouldn't be allowed in an Animals challenge would they lol.  I'm afraid this phot's not the best - a bit blurry in places - but you get the idea!!

Here's what I did...

Image - Country mailbox from Digi darla Designs
Coloured with Copics and Prismacolour pencils and slight touch of white gel pen
Papers - my minds Eye - Dolled up
Card Bazzil basics
Dies - Circles, leaves and flowers - spellbinders (love those fab bitty blossom dies also
          Bow swirl from memory box (cut twice and layered)
Tag -  Craftwork cards
Distress ink - Tim holtz evergreen bough
Pearls and bow from my stash

See you again tomorrow

hugs

Judith x

Tag it! at MAWTT

Hello again

Here I am at last - sorry to my teamies for rolling in late this week I thought I had myself all organised but had a few last minute things came up last night and although I had my project for this week done it just wasn't photographed or posted on time - a bit ironic really because i was a day early with my Delightful Challenges post - me thinks I need to sort myself out, I'm not really having a problem with the DT work - its the days of the week - they sneak up!!

Anyway over at MAWTT this week we have a fab little challenge 

set by our lovely teamie Pami

The theme is 

TAG IT!

We had a bit of discussion on the DT blog about what was and wasn't allowed and it was decided that as long as your project has a tag that you've made then it fits the challenge.  so not just Tags but cards that have tags are also OK.

Our fab sponsors this week are 

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

The DT girls got some lovely digis to play with and here's what I did with mine

I decided to make a gift box to go with the tag as often if I make a tag just on its own it gets sort of put to one side and lost - now I have a ready made gift box - so I'll have to go out Christmas shopping and buy gifts to fit my boxes instead of the other way round lol.

Heres what I did ....

• I made the box with white pearl card for the base and striped card from a large DCWV pad I've had for years.  I used my Crafters Companion ultimate pro to make the box and lid - it really is so easy to do - you just follow the grid lines and the base and lid fit each other perfectly
• The tag is cut with spellbinders labels eleven - I used the Kraft card to mount the white tag as the stripe card has a vintage shaded look to it - you can see it on the RH corner.  I then inked the two tags with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink and threaded it into Red organza ribbon
• The cute snowman image is coloured with copics  to match the colours of the box lid
• I decorated the box with the same ribbon - its just attached to the box lid in a cross and attached neatly inside the lid. 
• Finally I made a snowflake with a spellbinders snowflake die set and blue glittered paper and a WOJ pearl brad.  Then I made a small snowflake and pearl to finish off the tag

why don't you have a look over at MAWTT challenge blog at what the other girls have made - i have to say I was so impressed by the different tags they all came up with - I'm sure you will be so inspired that you'll all rush off full of ideas to enter our challenge - at least that's the plan!

Challenges I'm entering with this tag - Christmas is just around the corner (closes 1st dec)
Simon says stamp - dies ans punches
Cdee - designs challenge
Pennys paper-crafty challenge - anything but a card

Hope you all have a great weekend 

Hugs 

Judith xx

Die cuts and punches challenge at Inky Impressions

Happy Wednesday

I hope the sun is still shining where you are - what a difference a week makes!  Yesterday was another fab day, when I walked the dog along the coastal path today and looked down to the beach it could have been any beach in Spain - though I suspect the sea was freezing!  - hundreds of kids, tents and sandcastles galore- oh the sunshine always makes me happy and I love to be out and about in it!

Today's card is my DT card for Inky Impressions challenge and the theme is

Die cuts and punches

I decided to go all out and die cut everything!- layers, flowers,leaves,tag and even a shaped card  but disaster of disasters my Grand Calibur  decided to fall to bits half way through! - I could have cried.  I heard something inside drop into the bottom and the handle jammed, I'm going to have to work out if I can open it up and put it back together.  Luckily I have a sizzix as well but it means messing about with shims to use the spellbinders - none-the-less - for the love of an Inky DT card I persevered and got it all done.

This is what I did.....


Image - Cowgirl Lili from Inky Impressions
Coloured with - copics and Prismacolor pencils 
Distressing  Tim Holtz tea die distress ink
Shaped Card - Craftwork Cards
Papers - Raspberry road - free with a craft magazine
all dies (except tag) - Spellbinders
Tag - sizzix die
Boot charm - Inky Impressions
Buttons and bow- from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card
Anything goes challenge  - lets not be square
Craft room challenge - buttons and bows
Papertake weekly challenge - make your own
Sassy Cheryls - Polka dots everywhere
Love to create challenge - spots and dots


Have a great day everyone.

Hugs

Judith x

Keep it Real at MAWTT!

Good morning blog friends

Its a new challenge today over at Moving along with the Times challenge Blog

 - my turn to host this week and I've chosen the theme 

Keep it real 

(no fantasy figures)

What does that mean you may well be asking, well it's simply this.  The main focus of your card must be a real living thing - people, animals, plants, trees  - any living breathing thing. Now here's the real controversial part - strictly no fantasy figures - that means no fairies, witches, wizards, teddies or toys. At the risk of upsetting some people I'm coming straight out and saying - fairies are not real!! - there I've said it, we're all entitled to our opinions and for today's challenge that is mine!

Here's my card for this weeks challenge.  I'm sure we've got the photograph of this stamp somewhere in our family album!  This - without a doubt - is my son Matthew, when he was little, with our brown tabby Persian cat,Toby.  He was the most gorgeous floppy bagpus of a cat, as soon as I saw this stamp it was mine and I made him a brown tabby when I coloured him!!

I was really excited this week to get a top 3 at Craft your Days Away challenge and  and a top 5 at Crafty Card Makers challenge for my last weeks DT card for MAWTT in the Nautical challenge- lets hope you like this one just as much!

Now for the really exciting part 

Our sponsor for this weeks challenge is the fabulous Wild Orchid Crafts

and they are offering a fantastic prise of a £15 voucher to spend in their store

So come on, this fab prize has to be worth making the biggest of efforts and entering
our challenge this week

our DT girls have produced some REAL beautiful creations to inspire you
so go over to the challenge blog and take a look at their fabulous designs

 Keep it Real Challenge at MAWTT this week

Heres what I did ....

Image - Mos digital pencil

Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers and chip board words - K & Co - hopscotch (on of my all time favourites!)

Card - Tim Holtz distress craft card

Ink - Tim Holtz brushed corduroy distress ink

Other embellies from my stash

Challenges I am entering with this card

Crafty creations challenge - Male birthday card
Stampavie and more - for a boy
Whimsey Stamps - Anything goes
Reasonable ribbon - masculine /fathers day - must have ribbon

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

Its challenge day over at Fab'n'Funky challenges

Hi blog Friends

Its another challenge day over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges and this week we have the theme

Use fabric on your card

We are being sponsored by the wonderful Lili of the Valley this week so lets see your Fab'n'Funky creations for this great challenge I've used this lovely Lili of the valley Vtamp that I got for my birthday in March and was until now uninked - disgraceful!  Though because its a new house stamp its not the sort of thing you jump to immediately but I great one to have in your collection.  Wasn't sure what to do about the fabric so decided to go with felt flowers.

the label pocket under the easel

Yes I know its another easel card - think I need help with this addiction, its not getting any better and its being closely followed by big bows!! 

 I was asked to make this card by a friend of a friend on the same colour scheme as a previous card I had made - but there will be no more as I only had two sheets of the card!!

This is what I did

Image - Lili of the valley - moving day
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Card -Craftwork cards
Papers  my Minds Eye -Fiddlesticks
Backing card - Tim holtz distress coredinations
Sentiments font and label - Lili of the Valley
Felt flowers - K & co
Card candy - craftwork cards
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Houses border - cut on my cricut expression
Frame on card  - spellbinders
everything else from my stash

Challenges I am entering with this card

Lilis little fairies - use your favourite tool -Grand calibur
Simon says - anything goes
Digi darlas -challenges -Photo inspiration
Craft your days away - all creatures great and small
Sketchy colours - colour inspiration
digi doodle shop - bingo - ribbon/something new(stamp)/ink
Sarah Hurley Challenge- tags or tickets

Thats me for now,I'll be back later with my DT card for and details of the new Inky Impressions Challenge

hugs
Judith x

A little distressing

Good morning blog friends

Don't worry I'm not here to tell you a sad story to get distressed over - but we do need some distressing over at Creative Craft Challenges this week!!

We have the wonderful Lili of the Valley sponsoring this weeks challenge

 and so we want to see your projects on the theme 

Distressing

I had such problems making this card, had chosen the card paper and ribbon - even coloured the image but I just couldn't put it together for the life of me - and it certainly didn't start life as an easel card!
I messed on with it all day on and off - took the dog out for a walk, did some work, came back to it and eventually stuck it together and photographed it - but it still didn't look right -when I looked at it I had forgotten to do the shading with my prismas to give it a more distressed/vintage look, by then I was blending the black prisma pencils onto the mostly finished card - I'm amazed that it didn't end up in the bin!! As if that wasn't bad enough when I came to try to photograph it the second time I ended up chasing it round the garden!!  I like to take my photos outside if I can - but didn't think it was quite as windy as it was....

So these terrible photos were taken in my conservatory and I
 couldn't do any better so gave up and this is the best I got!

I decided to pick out the green, pink, blue and peach in the papers - more colours than I would normally use together and carried it through with the embellies so this card is not really me at all - I'm usually a two or three colour girl at the most.  The only thing i can say is it does actually work and looks better in real life than in these photos!!

This is what I did.....

Image - Lili of the Valley - Party girl
Coloured with copics and prismaclour pencils
Papers - First edition - spring feast
Sentiment Lili of the valley
Ribbon - Sam Pooles creative studios
Butterfly punches  Martha Stewart and papermania
Roses - dienamics dies with a pink dew drop inside
Green pearls - kaisercraft
Distress ink - Tim Holtz - tea die
Die cut circles - spellbinders
Die cut flower border and corner (used as leafy sprig) - Memory box

Challenges I am entering with this card

Crafty cardmakers - birthday with balloons
Ooh la la creations - ribbon or twine
Love to create challenge- Bingo - Ribbon /punches/flowers
Lilis little fairies - use your favourite craft tool (Grand Calibre die cutting machine)
Delightful challenges - Distressing
Willow Sketchie challenge  -handmade flowers

Well that about the end of my distressing tale!

See you all tomorrow

Hugs Judith xx

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 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

Its a no DP challenge at Fab'n'Funky

Hello again

I'm back again today because we have a new challenge over at

fab'n'funky challenges an it's

No Designer Papers

We're being sponsored this week by Joanna Sheen who is offering a prize of a voucher to spend in store

I had a card to make for the son of our best friends who's 25  - so needed a masculine card with a modern twist so decided that this Kenny K image fit the bill

The inside

I decided to keep it very plain and manly! He's definately not a flowers and bows kind of guy.  so simply used a ribbed kraft card that I distresed with inks as the base and kept everything else to a minimum so that the focus of the card is the image. I glossed his specs, guitar and jewellery with glossy accents - I think you can just see it in the photograph.  I enjoyed colouring this fun image, he's definitely got a personality and I'd like to think I captured it!

This is what I did .....


Image Digi by Kenny K
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils
glossy accents
Distress ink - Brushed corduroy by Tim Holtz
Die cut happy birthday - cut on Cricut expression - gypsy wanderings
Die cut Party like a rock star  - cut on cricut imagine - indie art cartridge
Screw brads - creative expressions


Challenges I'm entering with this card


Clear it out challenge - Kareoke - what else but "its only rock and roll" by the rolling stones (hes definately got Mick Jagger lips lol)
Ladybug crafts ink -Birthdays
Party time tuesday - anything + Kraft
Crafty boots challenge - no girls allowed!
Crafty Anns challenge -its a man thing
The stamp man challenge blog - distressed or shabby chic
Whimsy Stamps challenge - Distressing


See you again tomorow for my last DT card of the week


Hugs


Judith xx