Brown and Pink Challenge at MTTC

Good Morning blog friends

It's another challenge day at My Time to Craft Challenge Blog and the theme this week is

Pink and Brown

So the challenge is that your card should use only pink and brown (and skin colours)

I made quite a shocking discovery when I went to make this card - I have no brown card!! Its not something that I had even considered when I went to get my stuff out to make this card - saying as I have every other colour and shade of the rainbow (coloured card is a bit of a problem with me - I have to buy it!!) the question is why have I not got brown!!  

I decided in the end to get over it and use craft instead - so I used tea dye distress ink on kraft card 

and hey presto - brown card ha ha.

I decided to take the opportunity to use one of the cute girly LOTV girlies - very suitable for pink I think

This is what I did....

Card cut with spellbinders scalloped circle dies to make an easel card
Image - LOTV  Pretty Poinsettia
Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Circular sentiments
Paper -DCWV Christmas Multistack
Kraft card - QVC
Flowers - cut with spellbinders bitty blossoms die
Border die - Memory box frosty border
Snow highlighted with cosmic shimmer, cosmic pearl PVA
Gems from my stash

Challenges I intend to enter with this card

Crafty Anns challenge blog - Christmas
Dilly Beans - Anything girl
Stempelsonne challenge - a present for you
Card crafters circle - Use patterned paper
Lilis little fairies- Snow

Double Delights challenge that's stitched me up with a sketch at MAWTT!!!!

Good Morning all

Well I tried to be as creative as I could with the title for todays post, I'm hoping you've got the message.

 I'm  doing a bit of a cheat today!

I have two challenges today one which is a sketch challenge for Delightful Challenges and the other which is a "stitched up" challenge for MAWTT.  I've had a real rush on this week and saw that with no effort at all I could combine my DT cards for the two challenges and it fits them both perfectly- so why not I thought to myself!! - naughty I know but  how many times would it ever happen that I could do it.

Here's my card made with this cute new release digi from Digital Delights called 

Ornament Poppet - he's just new in at the Digital Delights store today.

The Challenge for MAWTT this week has been set by our Head Honcho Hazel  

and she has decided we are getting

 Stitched Up

 more like stitched together lol

Our sponsor this week is Cupcake cards and crafts

Meanwhile .......over at Delightful Challenges we have a Sketch challenge

Sketch for Delightful Challenges Challenge

Sponsored by

Joanna Sheen

with a prize of Prize £10 voucher to spend in store

I expect you're exhausted reading all this - I'm exhausted writing it  so here's what I did....

Image -Ornament poppet from digital delights
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolor pencils
Sentiment - Naughty or nice Sentiment set from Digital delights
Papers - Winter wonderland from my minds eye
Ribbon from my stash
Buttons - Jollies
Dies all spellbinders

Hope you will join in with our challenges this week - hey! do what I did and you can play along at both - its a really good sketch to follow and the stitching finishes it off perfectly.

Hugs

Judith xx

Lots of Layers for Inky Impressions this week

Hello again

I do hope you are all safe and well today - the storms in America have certainly made the news here in the UK - sending big hugs to all of you out there on the other side of the pond who are affected by this - and to those waiting to see where this terrible storm hits next, I'm sure it must be a real worry for you all.

I have made another little boy card for this weeks challenge at inky impressions  some of you are probably shouting - oh no not his again!! - but this is my absolute favourite little boy image - I think that its just a perfect image for a boy  - so here he is - mischievous Christopher

I made it for a friends little boy - somehow he just reminds me of him so much.  I had also made a gift bag of similar design a few weeks bag - so the two are going to Leo for his birthday

This is what i did.....

Image - Mishceivious Christopher from Inky Impressions
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Card - bazzill Basics
Paper - K &Co hopscotch boy
Lettering - cut with sizzix easy peasy font die
Ladybirds - from a set from Michaels
Dragonfly and circles - spellbinders
Card candy - craftwork cards
gems - from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Tammys scrappin corner - anything goes any artist

Bring out your Dies and punches for this weeks challenge at Fab'n'Funky

Morning all

Hope you're all having a good week.  I'm trying really hard to get ahead with my cards just now because I've got a really busy time at work coming up and I'm on the countdown for my happy hollies again! - only 3 more weeks before I'm off - I just can't wait

This week at Fab'n'Funky challenges the new challenge has been set by our very talented teamie 

Pat K

Pat has chosen the theme of 

Die cuts and Punches

I love this theme - there are just so many fab dies and punches around at the moment that we  all 

have loads of choice for this challenge.

We are lucky enough to have our regular 1st prize sponsor 

Stampart by Kathryne 

Who is offering a fabulous 5 digis from her shop at Whimsey stamps to our this weeks chosen winner

as well as 

Joanna Sheen 

who is giving our random winner a £10 voucher to spend in her shop

I decided to make a little gift bag that I've filled with shortbread biscuits for Christmas as I thought that this gorgeous Digi from Stampart by Kathryne was just perfect as a topper for this kind of project - somehow I don't think this will be kept until Christmas  those bisuits will be eaten very soon!!

This is the gorgeous "Frosty friends" I know I will be using this cute image to make several boxes, bags and cards this year, it really is so easy to colour and I have to admit to having a real softspot for snowmen.

What I did.....

Image - Frost friends from Stampart by Kathryne

Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils

Ribbon - berrisfords gingham

Snowflake - Spellbinders - build a snowflake die

Die cut Circles - spellbinders 

Glitter - Martha Stewart 

Card  - DCWV

Cellophane bag - from a Christmas pack I bought years ago!

"snow" pearls - cosmic shimmer pearl PVA glue

The DT girls have made some fab projects this week - hope we see you over at Fab'n;Funky for this weeks challenge.

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Clear it out - Gifts
Die cutting divas - anything goes
Tammys scrappin Corner - Anything goes -any designer

Hugs 

Judith xx

Thank you for having me Whimsy Stamps!

Hello blog friends

Its just as well there's and extra hour in this day or I might not have got here at all today  

and I so wanted to share my good news with you.

I've been asked to join the Whimsy Stamps DT for the next term

and I couldn't be more delighted to say yes

Here's a little thank you card I made with a gorgeous flower digi stamp from Whimsy Stamps

Its from Stampart by Kathryne - I just love the simplicity of this image

 and decided to keep the whole card very simple to keep the focus on that lovely flower

We've been busy decorating our bedroom this weekend - I say we - I do the clearing out and putting back - my hubby does the decorating bit! The whole house has been upside down all weekend but its all done and ready to sleep in tonight - just waiting for the curtains to be delivered. 

 I love it when a room has just been decorated - all clean and tidy.  But on the downside I've just sat down for the first time today in time to watch Downton Abbey and this is also the first chance I've had to do a bit of blogging this weekend! - apart from a quick sneak peak yesterday when I should have been doing something else shhh! lol

So thank you again to Denise and Debbieand  the fab team and designers at Whimsy Stamps for having me  - I'm so looking forward to working with you all

 - and all of the gorgeous digis at Whimsy Stamps

Here's what I did to make this card....

Image - Pretty Petals from Whimsy Stamps - Stampart by Kathryne

Coloured with - Copics and Prisma pencils

Distress ink - Tim Holtz tea dye

Glitter( in centre of flower) Distress stickles tarnished brass

Card - Bazzill basics

Paper- K and Co

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Die - Spellbinders labels

Pearls - My crafty heart

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Challenges 4 everybody - anything goes
Dream valley challenges - glitter and bling
Patties Creations Design Challenge - Colours of autumn

Wags'n'Wiskers - fall clours

See you all with my first DT cards next week 

hugs 

Judith x 

Sometimes things are not as they seem! - this weeks challenge for Delightful Challenges

Hello blogfriends

Its another Thursday and the last challenge of the month for Delightful Challenges

 - where did October go?  

The challenge this week is 

Stitching - real or faux

I decided to use this cute precoloured digi from Digital Delights called Stocking Noah (coloured) for this challenge just to "give it a go".  Its not something I've used very often before - if ever when I think about it - but I think this idea is Absolutely Fabulous (darling!)

 - now am I Patsy or Edina, I think there's a bit of both of them in me - I'm ashamed to say lol.

Anyway back to the plot - This image was just what I needed this week as I'm still battling away with technical problems with the computer and its been a bit of a busy one at home as well.  It was such a quick easy card to make and the colours have printed just beautifully - Who'd know I hadn't coloured (or stitched!) this card myself.  It could be just the way to go to make cards at the busy time coming up - no I'm not going to say the word - but you know what I mean!  You can still design your own card but put a pre coloured image on - it saves so much time and its not as if its a problem matching papers,  as all the Christmas (there I said it) papers are going to go with Christmas (there I said it again!) images.

If its the choice between not having time to make a card and using a precoloured image - its just a no brainer, and I know some crafters who - shock horror - BUY Christmas cards - the scandal of it lol.

Our sponsor this week over at Delightful Challenges is 

The Cutting Cafe

Who are offering the Absolutely Fabulous (oops I'm off again!)

Prize of 3 sets from their store

This is what I did...

Image - Stocking Noah from Digital Delights
Santas little helper Sentiment - Christmas sentiments set from Digital Delights
Paper - Winter wonderland from my Minds Eye-(Little tag also cut from the pad)
Card shape cut with - Spellbinders grand nestie - scalloped circles
Stickers and stars - K & Co - Hopscotch boy grand adhesions
Ribbon from ebay
Glitter - Martha Stewart Glitter glue
Faux stitching done with white gel pen

I'd get myself over to Digital Delights and nab some of these if I were you - before there's a rush on -  and you can have Christmas sorted in no time lol!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Charisma cards challenge - Dont be square
Nutcrafters challenge - Circles
Stampavie and more - stitches


Hugs

Judith xx

Too cute to spook - thats us girls at MAWTT!!

Good morning all

Its almost Halloween - the scariest night of the year!  But over at Moving Along With the Times challenge blog our Debs has decided that we should not be scary at all!!  So to match with all of us gorgeous MAWTT DT girlies - we are after all the cutest DT this side of Halloween!! - the theme is

Too cute to spook!!

We would love to see your cute Halloween projects - but nothing too scary

Our sponsor this week is

Dis Digi downloads

Who are offering one lucky winner 3 images from their great store

So here's my - not so scary Halloween card

And this is what I did....

Image - Nicky the sweet witch  from Inky Impressions (I just love that cat!!)

Coloured with Copics

Papers -my minds eye

Card

Bazzill basics

Dies -All spellbinders

Purple glitter glue (which is on just about everything!) - Martha Stewart

Spider - Imaginations

Pins - my crafty heart

Black pearls - Kaisercraft

Wicked die cut - Cricut expression - mini monsters cart

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Stampinroyalty - halloween

The paper shelter - halloween

Creative belliblog - hallween

Check back later for my second DT card today for Digital Delights

hugs 

Judith x