My time to craft challenge- milestone birthdays

Good morning all

This is my partly  scheduled and partly updated  post as I'm now enjoyong my hollies in  (at the moment -not so) sunny Florida.  We're really enjoying our hollies but not with out a few dramas!! Firstly before we even left the UK we took off from Manchester and made an emergency landing at Gatwick to have the plane repaired!! - 6 hours of sitting on the runway later - we took off again and eventually got here only to have to sit on the runway in Orlando for another half hour because there were no immigration officers to take us through and legally we couldn't disembark - just because by this time we'd been on the plane for 16 hours and they knew we were coming didn't mean they had to be ready for us (at 1 on the morning) .  Still all was forgotten when we finally got to the villa and we got into holiday mode only to be greeted by .... a hurricane warning, a tropical storm warning and tornado warnings all in the same day!!  None of them hit us but we had lots of rain and wind which led us to the shopping mall and lots of shopping and bargain Nine West in shoes for meeee!! - I'm otherwise known as the Imelda Markos of South Tyneside and had to live up to my reputation ha ha.

Anyways less of the holiday dramas and onto my card today which is my DT card for My Time to Craft - on time for a change!! (amended to add- well it would have been if my scheduled post had posted!) I have a really fun card for you today that I made for my brother in laws 60th birthday.  I had a little competition with my MAWTT DT buddies to find a digistamp suitable for this card - the criteria set for my husband for his brothers birthday card was quite the toughest I've had - but a great suggestion for this stamp came from my teamie Hazel, who spent a sleepless night coming up with this stamp for me - thanks so much  hun- your prize has been sorted in a trip to Michaels!!-and this is what I did with it......

Image and sentiments - Bugaboo Gus, birthday - optional
Coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Papers - MME
Card - Bazzill basics
Distress ink -Tim Holtz Marigod
Numbers - cut with tim holtz vintage market Sizzix die
Card - cut with Spellbinders scallop dies

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Creative stamp friends - special shaped card
Hooked on craft challenges - cards for men
Make it monday - anything goes
Tammys Scrappin corner - lots of layers



Have a fab week everyone

Hugs

Judith xx

Delightful challenges - frilly and fancy

Hello all

Well the day has finally arrived - the day before my hollies - yippee! - can't wait.  I have a couple of posts while I'm away but with these busy holiday weeks I haven't had much crafting time so it will be pretty quiet on this blog for the next 3 weeks - but I'll be able to do some catching up on your blogs and do some visiting from my sunbed by the pool!!

Todays card is my DT card for Delightful Challenges.

I love these cute images from Digital Delights and I really enjoyed making this card - a real girly card!

This is what I Did

Image - Penny and her teddy from Digital Delights
Coloured with Copics and Prismolor Pencils
Dies - spellbinders
Sentiment - Birthday sentiment set from digital delights
Papers - I thin they are a papermania set - but I've lost the coversheet!
Pleated trim - Tim Holtz fancy trim se
Butterflies - Martha Stewart (large and woodware (small)
Gem flower - Martha Stewart
Dewdrop gems and ribbon from my stash (ribbon is reycled from some packaging)

Hope you all have a fab weekend - see you from Florida!

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Lolipop crafts - anything goes
Stamps fun creativity - ink and yellow
Divas by design - anything goes
Paper pretties - cards for kids
Creative Belli Blog - things with wings


Hugs

Judith x

Back to school at inky impressions

Hello again

I'm back with my second DT card today - this time its for the fabulous

Inky Impressions challenge blog

The challenge is 

Back to School

As well as all the gorgeous little girls and boys that Inky do in their rubber stamp range there are also some cute little animals.  This little bear is Lizzie finger painting - so cute and a bit different I think.

This is what I did....

Image - Inky impressions Lizzie finger paintind
Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils
Leaves - spellbinders and
Flowers - punch by EK success
Pearls - Inky Impressions 6mm flatback pearls
Fun - cut with sizzix - Tim Holtz vintage market

See you all tomorrow - I'm off to finish packing - oooo off on my jolly hollies on Friday - can't wait

Challenges I'm entering with this card

digi doodle shop - use pearls

Hugs

Judith x

Use Leaves on your card at Fab'n'funky Challenges

Good morning all

We have a great and very easy new challenge over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Our hostess for this week is on of our newest DT members

The very talented

Pat K

and she has chosen the theme

Use leaves on your card (somewhere!)

So think papers, die cuts stamps - anything that puts some leaves on your card!

Our sponsors this week are the fab digi stamp company

Who are giving a great prize this week of 7 digi stamps to the winner

My card for this week is a card my best friend asked me to make for her Mams birthday.  Now for those of you who don't know, here in the north east of England we don't go for this Mummsy thing we have our good old MAMs!

Whenever I have a reason to think about the Mam/Mum thing it reminds me of when my eldest son Matthew was away at university in Norwich and makes me laugh.  For some reason he decided he would go to about the furthest place possible away from home, we didn't see much of him for the 3 years he was at university but he was a good boy and rang home regularly and that's where the funny story comes in.

In our family we don't have a very strong Geordie accent but to a southerner - that is anyone south of Newcastle we just don't talk proper!!  Matthew used to ring home each week and he'd always tell his housemates he was off to ring "me Mam" - that's Geordie for" my Mummy!"  He'd been away for quite a while, ringing home regularly when one of his housemates asked him - "Who's this Meemam person you keep ringing all the time?"  Matthew was just creased up laughing when he told us -maybe its the northern humour I don't know -but it still makes us laugh now.

Anyhow - onto the card

This is what I did.....

Image and little cut out embellies - digi stamp (can't remember where will update!)
Coloured with - Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Paper - K & Co
Card- Bazzill Basics
Die cut flowers and leaves spellbinders
MAM - cut with cricut expression Cindyloo Cartridge
Happy birthday circular stamp - Lili of the Valley
Gems- from my stash

I'll be back later with my DT card for inky Impressions for this week

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Crafty sentiments - Flowers
Flourishes - butterflies, bees , spiders oh my!
Stamp n plus -flowers
created with love challenge - use something 3 times (butterfly and seed packets)
Lolipop crafts - anything goes

Have a great day

hugs

Judith x

Delightful Challenges punches and Dies Challenge

Hello again

I have yet another Christmas project for you today - I'm well as truly Christmasfied (is that a word!) this week!!  This cute little girl is Caroling Penny from Digital delights and its my DT card for this week at Delightful Challenges.  There are some fabulous designs on the challenge blog, have a look over there I'm sure you'll be impressed

I just love little Penny - too cute! there are so many Digital Delight digis to choose from my problem in doing my DT cards is just too much bloomin' choice!  I decided to keep the card quite plain and simple.  Although there are several layers I managed to restrain myself with the embellies and just keep the focus on the image which I made fairly large.   I love colouring in red, I used to avoid it like the plague at one time but through practice I've developed a technique of breaking it into sections and creating folds and  that makes it far easier to deal with, also I wouldn't be without my white gel pen to cover up the mistakes lol.

This is what I did.....

Image - Caroling Penny from digital delights 

Sentiment - Christmas sentiment set from Digital Delights

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Skin E21,E00, E000  Clothes R39, R37,R35,G63,G61,G11,  boots E43,E41,E40 Shading C1,C3

Pencils - Tuscan red, Cool grey 70%, Light Umber

Papers - Silent night from Papermania (got these a couple of years ago - hope they're still around this year)

Kraft card - QVC

Die cuts all from Spellbinders

Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage

Foam holly and berries - American Crafts

Tha'ts my last Christmas project for the week - had a whole Christmas overload this week 

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Papercrafting journey - Anything goes

Have a great weekend everyone

Hugs 

Judith x 

Shape up at MAWTT challenge this week

Good morning blog friends

Can't believe another two weeks have gone by and its brand new challenge day at MAWTT again! 

Our hostess this week is the very talented 

Leesa (aka The Navy Wife)

and she has chosen the theme 

Shape up!

(anything but square)

We are sponsored this week by 

Sir Stampalot

who are offering a fab prize of some Christmas goodies for the winner.

I've been having a bit of a Christmas celebration myself this week! so thought I'd continue with the theme and make yet another  that's four this week!!

I had been wondering what to make for this challenge and spotted a card one of my blogging buddies over at Fab'n'Funky challenges had made with distress inks - that was enough excuse for me to get out my inks and get very messy

This is what I did...

Tag - Ranger 

Distress inks - Fired Brick,Mustard seed, Shabby shutters and last years Christmas special edition trio

Stamp  - Creative Expressions

Crackle glaze just on Angel - Tim holtz for ranger

Swirl stamp - Anna Griffin

Green card - bazzill basics

Flower - Prima

Ribbon carnmeal cottage

Die cut - Memory box frosty border

glitter glue (on die cut) - Martha Stewart haematite glitter glue 

pearl brad - Whiff of joy (coloured green with copic pen)

Pearl pins - from my stash again coloured with copic pen

I'll be back with - guess what another Christmas card for my Delightful Challenges DT card

Challenges I'm entering 

Papercrafting journey - Anything goes

Card and scrap - make a tag

Just keep on creating -Christmas is just around the corner

Have a great day 

Hugs 

Judith x

Angels and Faries Challenge at Fab'n'Funky

Good morning blog friends

We have another fab challenge for you this week over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges hosted by our lovely 

Judit

The challenge is 

Angels and Fairies

and we have a great prize to give away to the lucky winner from our sponsors for this week

Digi Darla Designs

I took this one as an opportunity to add to my Christmas card stash (I had a mini panic the other day when someone on the TV said how many days away - something like 130 days to Christmas!) I used one of the images provided by Digi Darla for the DT team to play with called "High Angel".  To be honest I couldn't decide whether I liked this card or not when I finished it but I think that's the way it is with cards you can't like them all  and you just have to live with it!!!

This is what I did....

Image - High Angel from Digi Darla Designs
Coloured with - Copics in -Skin E21,E00,E000 Clothes and wings E43,E41,E40, hair E43,E51,E50,YR31
Shaded with - Prisma color pencils - in grey and yellow shades (sorry can't remember!)
Paper(back) - Silent Night from Papermania
Paper(top) - Once upon a time DCWV
ribbon and other embellies from my stash
Joy - die cut Sizzix

Challenges I'm entering with  this card....

Clearly istamp - Things with wings
Digi designs challenge blog - no squares allowed
Stampalot Challenge - Take flight
Bearly mine - fly fly away
Celebrate the occasion - Christmas in August

I'll be back tomorrow with another Christmas card -my DT card for Delightful Challenges (another Christmas card but I liked it much better!)

Hugs

Judith x