Die cuts and / or punches challenge at Fab'n'Funky

Hi all

OOO! - I'm late again - can't beleive what I did! - I had my card all ready and left the glitter to dry on the snowflke before sticking it on (my favourite chunky glitter jewels) - when I went to stick it on i must have cut my finger on the sharp glitter and ended up with smears of blood all over my image - how can that happen!!  I had to reprint and recolour the image  - how annoying lol.

It's challenge day again at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

and our theme is 

Die Cuts and/or  Punches

The DT were lucky enough to all get an image to work with from our lovely sponsor

I chose this cute image 

Beary Happy Winter Bear - available here

I've used this image a couple of times now - i just love him :  )

I coloured this cute bear with my Spectrum Noir markers and pencils
Colours
fur and ears BG 1,2,3,4,5  FS6
scarf BR9 TB2,3  BT4
pencils 95,117,119

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous 

Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet

who will give our lucky winner 3 images up to $10 value

This is what i did

Image - Beary happy winter bear from SBDO

Coloured with Spectrum noir pens and pencils

Papers - Nordic Christmas from Dovecraft (an old one from a year or two ago)

Kraft card and Centura pearl cardbase - both Crafters Companion

Sentiment and snowflake stamps Anna Griffin Christmas Envelope Sentiment set

Snowflake die - Whimsystamps

Pierced rectangle dies - Noble rectangles from Creative Expressions

Circle pinch - Dovecraft

circle die - Spellbinders

Glitter - cosmic shimmer glitter jewels

Pearls and ric rac from my stash

Hope you'll come and visit us this week and play along at Fab'n'funky Challenges

Challenges I'm entering with this card...

Polkadoodles - glitter and bling 6/11
simply create too - baby it's cold outside 6/11
sweet stampin challenge - punchesand dies 6/11
Sparkle n sprinkle - anything goes with glitter

hugs

Judith x

Flora and Fauna at Fab'n'Funky challenges

Good morning all

It's time for another challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges
and this week it's our lovely Helen's turn to host and she has chosen the theme

Flora and Fauna

i got to use this lovely image from Stitchy Bear Designs
called Blooming Beauty and available here

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by the fabulous

Who are offering a prize of 3 images up to the value of $10 to our lucky winner

I have been doing some colouring with my pencils lately for a change, I'm quite liking the soft effect - quite different to the vibrant colours of alcohol markers

This is what I did

Image - blooming beauty from SBDO

Coloured with Spectrum noir pencils

Sentiment - LOTV

Purple card - Bazzill Basics

A very simple card with this pretty flower stamp.

I hope you'll join us this week - we'd love to visit to see your Flora and Fauna projects

Hugs

Judith x

It's Christmas at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Good Morning all!

I certainly hope the weather is better where you are - its a very wet, dark, windy morning here on the north east coast.  Still - can't complain we've had some lovely bright days over the last couple of weeks and I've been out on some lovely walks with Glenn (my dog).  - I've just told him to go back to bed for now and we'll have an afternoon walk instead - hopefully!  

Today it's the turn of team Fab again over at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

we had some lovely entries last week for our 'Buttons It' challenge 

- and some lovely winners to match - hope you've checked to see if it was you

But it's time to do it all over again this week with a brand new challenge

Our lovely Helen is hosting for the first time since she joined us last year

and because it's the last challenge of the month the theme is

Christmas

so if you haven't started your Christmas cards yet - today's the day!!

I'm proud to say this is not even my first card of the year

 - I'm really into the Christmas thing early this year lol

This is the cute Beary Happy Winter Bear available here

from Stitchy bear's digital outlet

our lovely sponsor this week is 

Stitchy Bears Digital Outlet

They are offering a fab prize of 3 digi's up to the value of $10

and they have loads of choice

 - so get those entries in - it could be you!

This is what I did....

Image - Beary Happy Winter Bear from SBDO

Coloured with copics and spectrum noir pencils

Card - Bazzill basics

Papers - Chritstmas Cottage from Theresa Collins

Dies - Ovals - tattered lace ovals

           circles - spellbinders

           small holly sprig - Sue Wilson holly dies

           Large holly sprig - Wild rose studios

Ribbon - vintage seam binding from Crafty Ribbons

Red pearls - from my stash

Sentiment - produced in word

Hope we see your fabulous christmas creations over at Fab'n'Funky this week 

Challenges I'm entering....

Simons Wednesday challenge - Anything goes
ABC Christmas challenge - bows banners and baking
Tuesday throwdown - facets of crafting
Kraftin Kimmie - anything goes

hugs

Judith xx

Have you got something new to show us?

Good morning all

Well the holidays are well and truly over - decorations taken down and put away and it's a brand new crafty year over at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

We have some lovely new DT girls and some new sponsors too 

so it seemed like a great idea to start off the year with a 

Something New Theme

my daughters friend has just had a baby boy and she asked me to make a card 

so here's what I made to welcome baby Thomas into the world

I just love this cute image from Stitchy Bear Digital outlet

it's called Droppin In - just soooo cute, my new favourite new baby stamp

Our sponsors this week are Di's Digi Stamps 

Ooo Im so still buzzing this morning - I went to the Metro arena in Newcastle last night to see Queen and Adam Lambert - I can't say much more than FABULOUS - Brian May on guitar, Roger Taylor on drums and the gorgeous Adam Lambert camping it up all the way.  The cynics say things like - he's not Freddie Mercury blah blah - and I'd say yes that's totally and obviously true he's Adam Lambert and wonderful with it from his black leather and studs down to his totally camp leopard print suit complete with huge sparking crown for the encore he definitely can do it! - if you get the chance - go and see them you'll sing along to every song and they do it so well, there was even an acoustic "Fog on the Tyne" for us Geordies from Brian May - for anyone who visits me regularly you'll know my head is often singing songs inside - I just love music -at the minute my head singing "All we hear is radio gaga...." - that might just set you off for the day lol - enjoy it - whatever your head is singing

...and as for this card....

Here's what I did...

Image - Droppin in from Stitchy bear digital outlet

Coloured with copics and Spectrum noir pencils

Papers and sentiment stamp - LOTV

Flower dies - Sue Wilson for creative expressions

Swirl - Magnolia

Circle dies - spellbinders

Butterfly punches (small) woodware and (large) Martha Stewart

Cheescloth trim - Tim Holtz

Ribbon - vintage seambinding from crafty ribbons

I hope you'll join in with us at Fab'n'Funky this week and give our new DT girls a warm welcome

Challenges I'm entering with this card

DS4J - bingo -(flowers/free/2 or more layers)
Creative moments - new beginings/anything goes
Pennys papercrafty - anything goes
Scrappers delights - anything goes with twist new beginnings

Hugs Judith xx

Hello again

Its challenge time again at 

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge

 and it is also my last week as part of the lovely DT.  I've got such a lot going on just now that I've decided to stand down from the team.  I've so enjoyed my time with Penny's and I'd like to thank Julie for having me on the team and also for being such a great boss lady over there!!

But onto the job in hand 

Today's challenge is one of those easy peasy ones

Anything Goes

We all got to work with one of the sponsor images for this week

 and I chose a real little cutie to make a card for a new baby,

it's from Stitchy  Bear's Digi Outlet called 

Droppin In -  available here

our fab sponsors this week are

and 

There are some fab prizes - check it out at the challenge blog

This is what I did....

Image - Droppin in from Stitchy Bears Digi outlet

Coloured with Copics and Prismacolour pencils

Papers and sentiment - LOTV 

Dies - Sue Wilson Delicate Daisies

          Magnolia Swirl and leaf

          Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle

          Scalloped border spelbinders (hidden under the image. flowers and ribbon!)

Pink card - bazzill basics

Vintage  seam binding ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Dewdrops from my stash

I hope we'll see you at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge this week

challenges I'm entering with this card 

Crafty creations - brads buttons or bows (12/11)

simon says - anything goes (5/11)

divas by design - anything goes (5/11)

bunny zoes - animals (9/11)

hugs

Judith xx

Sorry I haven't been around much .....and It's Christmas!.....at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Good Morning all

I'm so sorry that I haven't been around too much these past couple of weeks 

We've had such a bad time, 

My lovely daughter Alison was 3 months pregnant and a scan showed that the baby had died so they have had a really awful week with everything that that has meant, and I have been looking after my grandson for much of the time while they have been dealing with it all.

To add to that we had two funerals to go to one on Friday and the other Monday, each the parent of very good, very old friends, people we have known much of our lives.  So all in all a very sad time for us all.

I've been doing a bit of crafting when I've had the time - it has helped just to be quietly doing something, but blogging has been non existent.  I feel as if I haven't visited properly for weeks.  it seems to have been one thing after another happening lately - I'm sure things can only get better!

Anyway I'm hoping to get back to crafting and blogging and visiting you all again over the next few days and I'm making a start today with my DT card for 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

The theme this week is

Christmas 

(with an optional twist of tags bags and boxes)

I decided to make a big 8 x 8 inch card with this lovely image called The Nativity available here  from 

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

I distressed it slightly with white distress paint from TH and I quite like how it turned out.  

This is what I did...

Image - The Nativity from lil diva stamps at Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Coloured with Copics and Prismacolour pencils

Papers - LOTV - Father knows best

Sentiments - MFT

Wood dove embellies ( distressed with white paint - Kars

Dies used - stitched square - frrom MFT elements 16, holly and berries - Sizzix, Memorybox frostville wreath

Glitter - Glamourdust

Head on over to Fab'n'Funky to see what my teamies have made this week - you're sure to be impressed, and call in to me later today - I have my DT card for Penny's Paper Crafty challenges to share with you 

Hugs

Judith x

Anything goes at Penny's Papercrafty challenges

Good morning all

Here I am back with my second DT card of the day - one more to go!!

This time it's for the new challenge  at

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges

 this week

and the theme is

Anything Goes
(can't get any easier than that!)

A bit of a change for me - no colouring - just a sentiment and die cuts

the sentiment is from Stitchybear designs available here

this sentiment must have been made for me - Walt Disney rules in our house lol

we have two great sponsors for this weeks challenge 

and some great prizes on offer

and 

Pop on over to

 Pennys Papercrafty Challenge

 to see what my teamies came up with 

there are so fabulous designs there this week

This is what I did ....

Sentiment -Laughter is timeless... Stitchy Bear designs

card - Bazzill basics

Papers - Timeless Victorian from LOTV

Dies - from MFT - fabulous phlox and leafy swirl

Butterflies - punches from Martha Stewart (large) and Dovecraft (small)

Gems - from my stash

I'll be back with my DT card for Fab'n'Funky Challenges later this evening - see you then!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

That craft place - anything goes
Path of positivity challenge - dreams (3rd aug)
Paper makeup stamps - Die cuts/punches (28th July)
try it on tuesday - things with wings (5th aug)
Tuesday throwdown - handmade flowers (28th July)

Hugs

Judith xx

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

MAWTT challenge day - anything but a card

Good Morning all

Hope you're all well this fine morning.

I'm still away on holiday but the end is nigh!!  To all of you suffering with the effects of the wonderful British weather (most people from what I can gather) it might make you feel better that it hasn't been so good here in Florida either.  We've been coming to Florida for 17 years now and this is definately the worst weather we've ever had.  Don't get me wrong we've had some gorgeous weather while we've been here and in Florida its normal to get rain almost every day - but its usually a huge downpour all over in half an hour and dry again in 10 minutes.  These last few days its been mostly  grey and miserable with lots of rain - still hot but wet at the same time!

Its also a bit like a hospital here in our house, my hubby Dean's got this cold and cough that he can't get rid of - in fact it's getting worse (to be honest I 'm sick of hearing him cough) and I had to go to the walk in medical centre yesterday becaused I've got an ear infection (they're calling it swimmers ear!).  No good old national health here it cost about £70 for the consultation and another £80 for antibiotic ear drops, on the bright side the by mouth antibiotics I got were free.  But my insurance excess is £150 so thats that!

I think I caught it in time - my ear's more sore and uncomfortable than painful but no swimming or washing of hair for me, oh well worse things have happened.

I managed to get this tag/giftcard holder made for this weeks MAWTT challenge before I left
The challenge is hosted by our talented Lisa Jane who has chosen the theme

Anything but a card

I have to admit the photograph's not the best - it has a little loop on the top so you could hang it up and for some reason I didn't photograph the back of the tag either!  There's a little pocket in the back to put a gift card - hey-ho! thats what happens when you rush to get something done -sorry.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by

Stitchy Bear digital stamps

 
 who are offering a fab prize of $10 to spend in store for this weeks challenge winner

This is what I did...

Tag cut from lemon and layered with pink card

Image - inky impressions roller skating Lili

Coloured with - Promarkers and prismacolor pencils

Fun Stickers and rub ons - K and Co

Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage

Hope you'll all join us over at MAWTT this week - look forward to seeing anything but a card!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Delightful challenges - summer fun
I love promarkers - for a little girl
Rubys Rainbow - tags
Cupcake craft - tag you're it
ooh la la creations - make it girly
Tammys scrappin corner - for the girls

hugs

Judith x

Its challenge day over at Moving Along with the Times

Hello blog friends

Today is challenge day over at Moving AlongWithTheTimes challenge Blog, its my very first since I was lucky enough to be chosen for the design team.

The challenge is

Special Lady

(Card for Mother's Day or any special lady eg Auntie, Sister, Nan, Best Friend, etc, etc)

The challenge is being sponsored by stitchy bear digital stamps who are offering a prize of $10 to spend in store. The design team were lucky enough to be given some of the fab digis to use for inspiration - hop on over to MAWTT and see what the girls did with them - I'm sure you'll be impressed and inspired to join in with our challenge this week

I chose this fab image - called " Sparkles"

This is what I did....

Digi Image - Sparkles from Stitchy bear digital stamps
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Paper - K & Co
Card - Coredinations Tim Holtz Distressed Kraft Card
Flowers - wild Orchid crafts
Pearl swirls - personal impressions
Glitter - Martha Stewart glitter glue (on wings and shoes)
Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage
Sentiment - Computer produced
Die cut leaves - spellbinders

I'm entering the following challenges

One Stop Craft challenge - Mothers day with ribbon
Creative inspirations - Something for Mum
My mums craftshop - mums the word - mothers day card
Delightful Challenges - Someone special
Crafty Sentiments Designs - things with wings
The crafty pad - Mums the word
Well thats me for today

Hugs

Judith x