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

Black and White Army! - just for you Shell!

Good morning blogfriends

Well I got to the end of this exciting week and now I have to settle back down to create something out of it all!  I decided to use this cute little footballer from The Paper Shelter 

- called Soccer Star - available here  for my DT card at My Time to Craft this week. 

 It is also a card for my footie mad nephew who turned 18 on Thursday.  He is an absolutely  mad Newcastle United fan so when I saw this image it just seemed perfect for his card - he appreciates anything black and white and not much else!

Also as our Crafty Mamma at MTTC has similar tastes 

-this ones for you too Shell hehe.

(I have to do something to get round you saying as I cheated for this DT card!!!)

The challenge over at

  My Time to Craft

this week is 

Embossing

I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of dry embossing - I only have four folders and two of those are Christmas ones!  But I do some wet embossing from time to time.  I had a tidy up and move around of my craft stuff a few weeks ago and now I have no idea where my heat gun is

 - should have left it alone - I know where I used to keep it!

So as I didn't really have anything to emboss with that would suit this card -I have to confess to doing a bit of a cheat - I used card that is already embossed - it is a Tim Holtz card with a heavy weave efmbossed on it - and it was the perfect colour for this card

This is what I did....

Image - Soccer Star from The Paper Shelter

Cooured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - MME Meadowlark

Dies - circles Spellbinders

       - fishtail flag stax from Dienamics

       - 18 - Tim Holtz wanted alphabet from sizzix

Ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Craftuscrazy - anything goes

Dutchdare challenge - for the boys 

Crafts and me - dies or punches

Simon says - Anything goes
Clearly inspired - black and white with a pop of colour

Have a fab weekend

hugs

Judith x

It's men only at MTTC today

Good morning all

Well it certainly is a good morning here in the frozen north!  The sun is shining and theres even a touch of spring in the air - don't suppose it'll last but its nice to have some decent weather for a change.  

Its also challenge day at MTTC  - so another reason to be cheerful!

This week challenge is 

Men only

(only cards for men)

I decided to use this cute image called Birthday Ted from Dis Digi downloads -I bought it before Christmas intending to use it for a little boys birthday card but somehow it didn't get used.  Its one of those versatile stamps that I think you could use for a birthday card for almost anyone so I decided to use it to make a 30th Birthday card for my son in law.  His birthdays at the end of March, I need to be prepared for this day as not only is it his birthday but also my daughters birthday and their wedding anniversary all on the same day - not a day for last minute cards lol

Anyway here's the card I made for him

 I decided to take it into the conservatory to photograph as it was such a bright sunny day - its on my glass dining table so there's lots of light - just in case you're trying to work out what on earth you can see in this picture - its a glass table and chairs under it!!

This is what I did...

Image - birthday Ted from Dis digi downloads

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Card - bazzill basics 

Papers - kitschy kitchen from Melissa Frances (aqua) and everyday essentials from paper mania(beige)

Card cut with spellbinders grand nestis circles and scallops

Star dies - Mariannes

Numbers - Sizzix tim holtz wanted alphabet

Sentiment  - LOTV

I know lots of people don't like making cards for men - so this could be just the challenge for you - get challengeing yourself - that why its called a challenge lol

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Card making mammas - birthday
a gem of a challenge - die cuts and punches
Charizma cards - Anything goes
Milk Coffee challenge - Make it cute
Craft room challenge - handmade embellies
Stampavie and more - lots of layers

Have a great weekend everyone

Hugs 

Judith x

No patterned papers challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

Good Morning all

How the weeks are flying by - we have suddenly arrived at the first Wednesday in October - how did that happen!

Todays challenge over at Fab'n'Funky is themed

No Patterned papers

I have to admit that I don't find these kind of challenges easy!  I don't have a lot of embossing folders and I don't really like plain.  I'm on a bit of a Christmas thing at the minute (aren't we all when we panic and count the weeks to Christmas - then panic again!) and I have got a few Christmas embossing folders so decided that would work best for me.

 our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy I used a digi from their winter collection called Molly Winter 2  I used my favourite blue and white colour combo - I just love this combination for Christmas cards

This is what I did...

Image - Molly winter2 from Stamp Fairy
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Embossed Bazzill card - using sizzix Merry Christmas embossing folder
Snowflake  - die cut with spellbinders snowflake dies
Sentiment and shaped card - craftwork cards
Ribbon white ruffle edged and stick pins - Sam Pooles creative studios
small snowflakes - Martha Stewart
Snowflake border - memory box die - frosty border
silver mirriboard - create and craft
little iridecent embellies - meiflower centres from my crafty heart

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Created with love challenge - Christmas
Make it Monday - anything goes
Cutie pie challenge - use a digi
The craft place - make your own background

See you later with this weeks DT card for the new inky impressions Challenge

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

Gardening Gems at My Time to Craft

Hello again!

It's my busy week for challenges this week and the second for today

Today's challenge at My Time to Craft is

Gardening gems

Heres my DT card for the challenge

I love this little girl and I have to confess she reminds me of myself when I was little, my hair was just like that.  My husband said the same thing when he looked at the card , probably because we had the old photos out quite recently, so he was reminded.  I have to confess that this card was a happy accident.  I made it for another challenge that I thought was ribbons and pearls but it turned out to be lace and pearls so it didn't fit!  I could have pulled that gorgeous ribbon off and replaced it with lace but I just couldn't bring myself to do it because it wouldn't have looked half as nice and  I knew it would fit in with another challenge sometime - and this is it!

This is a lovely challenge - a chance to get out all your flowers and pretty papers and garden related stash and make a lovely spring themed  card perfect for our sunny spring days - that we're not getting, but at least you can make a card and pretend lol !!

Heres what I did....

Image - digi from Digi Doodle Shop  "field of flowers"
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolour Pencils
Card - Coredinations Kore Kraft by Tim Holtz - distressed by sanding the edges
Organza Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage
Tag - cut on Sizzix
Flower and leaves - Spellbinders - build a rose
Pearl brad  - Whiff of Joy
Paper - My Minds Eye  - Fiddlesticks

Challenges I am entering with this card

B'n'W challenge blog -spring is in the air
The shabby tea room - Ribbon and flowers
Truly madly crafty challenge - make your own flowers
Card makin mammas - make a girly card
Prairie Fairy fridays  - anything with flowers
Sweet'n' Sassy challenges - make it old

Well  that's all from me for today

See you tomorrow with another challenge

Hugs

Judith xx

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

Spring has sprung - again

Hi blog friends

I'm definately on a pretty card thing at the minute - my daughter wanted a birthday card for her mother in law and this is what she got!  Its another of those Lili of the Valley pretty girlies, they're always so easy to colour (I've asked for some of the new ones for my birthday next week and its a suprise which ones I get so I just can't wait).  I started off making this with the LOTV challenge in mind but didn't get it finished in time! not that it matters, but it did make me think outside the box a bit because it was a peaches and cream challenge. I haven't got those colours in copics so I went back to my promarkers and brought in more colour with my prismacolor pencils, I think it worked in the end.  I decided to go the whole fairy thing and give her a real helping of glitter - dres,s wings, shoes wand - the whole shebang as well as the roses, have to say I'm not usually a glitter girl but I did like what it did for this card, I don't think glitter photographs very well as its making it look sort of dirty - but I promise its not its lovely and glittery.

the inside

I don't always photograph the inside of the cards I make but this is such a sweet message I thought it need an outing!  It was cut very simply from spellbinders labels sixteen to match the front and the sentiment is from a Whiff of Joy text set of nine called Magical Wishes.  The tiny buterflies are a fikars punch I picked up in a local craft shop sale bin for 50p- bargin!

You can see the glitter better in
close up

What I did ......

Stamp - Lili of the Valley - pom pom
papers - first edition - spring feast
Card and MAM stamps - craftwork cards
Dies - spellbinders labels sixteen
Pearls - from my stash
Cream ribbon - carnmeal cottage
Tiny butterfly punch - fiskars
Banner dies- Whiff of joy
Glitter -Martha Stewart - topaz glitter glue
Tag - sizzix
Sentiment and stamping on tag - Dawn Bibby
Sentiment inside card - Whiff of Joy Magical wishes
Flowers - wild orchid and Prima
Coloured with copics, promarkers and prismacolor pencils


I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Allsorts Challenge - Things with wings (152)
The Poodles Parlour - Birthday (74)
Crafters Companion monthly challenge - Spring
Flutterby Wednesday - #193 - Spring Time
CES challenges - Flower frenzy

Well thats me for today

Going to try for another card tomorrow - so might even see you then?

Hugs

Judith x

Did you know copics would do this?

Hi again blog friends

Just got in from work and thought I'd upload the card that I made last night - it was a last minute request for a friend of a friend and it kept me away from the laptop for most of last night.

After I used the Whiff of joy stamp for my last card I thought I would make another one from the same series.  Yes I'm  ashamed to say I bought the spring secret stamp kit last year and haven't used a single one!! - how can that be, its not like I don't like them - they're lovely, theres not one I don't like but there they were in the draewer on the A4 size sheet uncut, uninked and unloved until this week.

The one I have chosen is called Dare to dream.  I was making a 50th birthday card so thought I'd go for a grown up look - but pink!  As I was colouring the dress it just wasn't going right at all I had the shadows all wrong and it just seemed to be getting darker and darker.  I was using R85,R83 and R32 which can be a bit of a nightmare sometimes to get right anyway.  Don't know why I did it but decided to go over the areas that were still reasonably light with RV000 to try to blend it out a bit.  I was amazed when it started to act like the 0 colourless blender and take the colour out, but sort of added a paler pink as it was going - I had no idea it would do that, maybe everyone else knows this already but just thought I would pass it on as it presumably it works with the 000 in other shades and it definately rescued my colouring - I was trying so hard to get the blend right I thought I'd have a hole in the page and definatly no white where I wanted it.  Anyway I think it turned out quite well in the end, by the time I used the tuscan red prismacolour pencil it was probably a shade darker than I'd first wanted but toned perfectly with the paper.  It actually looks even better in real life.

a close up of the detail

What I did...

I made card with Kraft card and the backing card is a dark burgundy I think i got from paper mill
Stamp - Whiff of joy - Dare to dream
Disress ink - Tim Holz Aged mahogany
Papers - K and Co
Die cut flower and leaves- spellbinders - I think build a rose with a papermania brad to hold together
The border in the centre of the card - spellbinders edgeabilities classic triple scallop
Pearls - Kaisercraft
Tag and 50 - cut with sizzix dies

Anyway its gone now - my friend was delighted with it and I learned something so thats a result

I'm entering the following challenges

Card Makin Mammas - a birthday card
PaperPlay challenges - something old, something new - the stamp is new - papers old
Incy Wincy designs - Sketch

Well thats me for now

Hugs

Judith x

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

More love xx

Hi there

Another card with lots of love today.  My daughter asked me to make an engagement card for her friends and it gave me the chance to use one of my new LOTV stamps that I just got this week, they have lots of lovely spring stamps on sale at the moment so I stocked up!

I coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils and added the lovely K and Co papers for lots of lovely spring colours.  The card is a cordinations and has a lovely texture and sheen.  I cut the die cuts with spellbinders dies and the butterflies are a Matha Stewart punch,- one of my favourites that I use often, the label is a sizzix .  The flowers, ribbon and pearls are all from my stash
I am entering this card for the following challenges

Lilis little fairies - spring colours
Sweet stampin challenge - the one I love
Paper Pretties - use ribbon or twine
Creatalicious challenges - love - using punched border, ribbon, flowers and bling
Delightful sketches - punches and dies
The crazy Challenge - flowers
The craftypad challenge #156 -fresh spring colours
crafty sentiments designs- Dies and or punches

Thats me for now

hugs