Celebrating Spring at The Paper Shelter Challenge

Good morning all

Well - is it spring where you are yet? Can't say it is here -but its getting better.  its not quite as cold as it was and the sun is shining so spring must be around the corner somewhere - I hope!

We are hoping for some spring delights over at The Paper Shelter this week so even if there's no spring outside I might see some on your cards!

I decided to go for pretty spring colours for my card, using this pretty little fairy from 

The Paper Shelter called Fairy Emma available here

This is what I did

Image - Fairy Emma from the Paper Shelter

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - LOTV bonnets and Bow ties

card bazzill Basics

Dies - Fabulous Phlox from Memory box

          Delicate ferns from Memory box

          Butterfly from Whimsy stamps

Pearls and pearl heart from my stash 

Ribbon from carnmeal cottage

Sentiment - LOTV tags

Hope to see your spring cards over at The paper Shelter this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Die cuttin divas  - Pastels
Emerald fairies - 1,2,3 challenge (embellies -ribbon, pearls, die cuts)
Scrap creations - flower power
Papertake weekly - bingo (blooms ribbon gems)

hugs 

Judith x

Spring Colours Challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges this week

Good morning all

We have a "pretty" challenge for you at Fab'n'Funky Challenges set by our lovely Jackie

the challenge is 

Spring Colours

We are lucky enough to have been sponsored by the brilliant

Kenny K

  this week and we have a fab prize of 5 digs of the winners choice

I decided to use an image that I've had printed out and lying on my desk for a while.  I thought it had been there long enough - so gave this cute little girl an outing for this week s challenge 

Her name is Jasmine and she's available here

This is what I did.....

Image  Jasmine by Kenny K
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - Kitchy Kitchen from Melissa Frances
Dies from MFT
Scalloped edge - Spellbinders
Ribbon - berrisfords
Pearls from my stash

hope we see you over at fab'n'funky challenges this week - with all your pretty colours!

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Kenny K - Easel cards
Die cuttin divas - pastels
Papertake weekly - Bingo(blooms ribbons gems)


hugs

Judith x

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

New release day at Digital Delights

Good morning

Can you believe its April already - I think someone forgot to tell the weather!  though we have had a couple on nice bright days - its still freezing - I'm sick of wearing boots - I neeeed to get wy sandals out of hibernation!!

Anyway on to this weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges

the theme is 

All about Music

We have some fab new music theme digis over at Digital Delights - you really need to call over and see them - just so cute - with papers and sentiments to match.

I used Singing Sally available here

and the new groove on sentiment set available here

We are sponsored this week by

http://want2scrap.com/store/

and the fab prize is  $25 to spend in store

Heres what I did....

Image - Singing sally from Digital Delights
Colured with copics
Sentiment - Groove on sentiment set
Papers - from a magazine
Card - Bazzill basics
Stars -Nellie snellen dies
Vintage seam binding - crafty ribbons
Flag tail dies - dienamics

Hope we see you at Delightful Challenges this week with your musical creations

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Top tip Tuesday - boys and girls - top tip -shade your colouring with a grey pencil to add depth
Ladybug challenge  - anything goes
Kaboodle doodles challenge - use 2 different papers
Stamp and create - use at least one diecut

Hugs Judith x

Anyone seen any April showers?

Good morning

Hope there's no April showers where you are!

We have lots of them over at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week

Where our hostess with the mostest Anne-Marie chose just that theme for the week!

April showers

I decided to turn the theme on its head and make April Showers a good thing!

Here's my card using the cute digi

Full Bloom from StampArt Designs by Kathryne 

available here

As you can see I went with an April Showers ....bring May flowers sentiment 

- just to ring the changes

We also have the results of our recent DT call 

- so many lovely and talented crafters and so few DT positions to go round!

Have a look over at Fab'n'Funky challenges there's so much going on over there this week

We have two fabulous sponsors this week.....

StampArt Design by Kathryne

Who is offering a fabulous prize of 5 digis to the first prize winner 

and

Flonzcraft

Who are offering  a $20 voucher and free shipping! to our randomly selected winner

So here's what I did for my card this week

Image - full bloom from StampArt Design by Kathryne 

Coloured with Copics

Papers - Bonnets and bowties from LOTV

Card - Bazill Basics

Glitter - Diamond stickles

Flowers - EK success punch

Die cut swirl - Memory box

Die cut butterfly - Whimsystamps

Ribbon - vintage seam binding from crafty ribbons

Pearls from my stash

Crystal "A" - from my stash  I always thought I'd use it for something for my daughter Alison - but its been there for years  unused so I decided today was the day!

We'd love to see your April Showers creations at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week
see you over there!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafting for all seasons - floral delights
Creative moments - Things with wings
Divas by design - spring colours
Flutterby wednesdays - floral
Paper pretties - April showers bring may Flowers
The papergirls - April showers bring may flowers

Hugs Judith x

Paper kites for my card at My Time to Craft

Good morning all

There's a great new challenge over at My time to Craft this week

Use newspaper or pages from a book

I really enjoyed this challenge - probably because its a wee bit different.  I didn't want to go down the paper flowers route as I felt sure everyone would do the same - but if you have a look at the MTTC challenge blog - you'll see just how original my teamies over there are!

I used this cute image by Crissy Armstrong at Whimsy Stamps called Want to fly a kite available here
I thought the newspaper kites would work well for this challenge and I made them very simply by cutting them out of newspaper by hand and cutting and colouring scraps of card for the crossed bars, I also cut bows to go on the kite strings.  I really like this cute little guy - he's a real little tubs!

This is what I did....

Image - Want to fly a kite - by Chrissy Armstrong at Whimsy stamps
Coloured with copics
Papers - K & Co Hopscotch boy
Twine and back pearls from my stash
Sentiment tags - LOTV

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Paper Pretties - for the kiddos
Creative craft challenges - For the kids
Send a smile for kids - anything goes

Hope you have a great holiday weekend

Hugs

Judith x

Hippity hoppity over to Delightful Challenges

Happy Maundy Thursday!

And the cold and snow goes on......

Our challenge over at Delightful challenges is a spring one but there's no spring around here - we have the tiniest sign of a few crocuses in the garden but I have a feeling the poor things will wish they'd stayed where they were -and there's no chance of us going out to start tidying the garden this Easter holidays - which is something we often do if we get  a nice  bright day over the holiday weekend. 

- I don't care how bright it is - our garden will stay untidy as long as this freezing weather continues!

So spring is remaining firmly indoors and it's as good a reason as any to get crafting

At Digital Delights the theme is 

Hippity Hoppity

that's something with a cute bunny theme, flowers - anything spring

Here's my card for the week made with the cute Easter Bianca

 I just love the cute little girls in the Digital Delights range of stamps and they are often sitting like this one is - I  just sit them on the edge of a circle - like I did with this one

 - that's me life on the edge lol

Don't you just love those ears! - I wanted them to be outside the circle as well and after much faffing with dies (that's a very technical term) finally got them there

I've gone totally spring flower overboard on this one - I think its a hysterical reaction  to the weather but  thought I'd better call a halt to how much was on the front of this card - I think its pretty obvious its an Easter themed card just by looking at it

 - it doesn't need the word Easter anywhere on the front of this card!

But it does need it inside...

So I printed the Hoppy Easter sentiment - available here - super sized and put it inside, I didn't think it needed any more than that though I was tempted to keep on sticking those flowers - I decided to just let the paper do the talking

Our fab sponsor this week is

Crafty Ribbons

Website: www.craftyribbons.com

and we have a lovely ribbon prize from them so get hippity hoppitying!!!

Anyway - this is what I did......

Image -  Easter Bianca

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils 

Sentiment Hoppy Easter sentiment

Papers - spring drop from first edition

Circles cut with spellbinders dies

Flowers - fabulous Phlox from Memory box dies

Butterfly - Whimsystamps die

Lace flower trim- (could be Anna Griffin) its been in my box of tricks for ever!

Pearls from my stash 

Have a hippity hop (are you sick of this yet!) over to Delightful Challenges -there are some fab Easter and spring projects on the blog

Challenges I'm entering

Oldie but a goodie - Easter (lace flower trim, pearls)
Cutie pie challenge - Easter
forever friends - lots of flowers
shellys images - anything goes

Hugs 

Judith x