What I Did..... and what I did next

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Digital delights new challenge - thankful or thank you

hello again my bloggy friends

I know here I am very late in the day -I'm still chasing my tail

- but this being my 3rd post of the day I'm surprised I'm here at all!!

I have a cute little card using one of the little girls from Digital Delights -she is from the Fall Kids set which is currently on sale in the Digital delights shop and available here

I thought she was perfect for our challenge this week

- she just seems to be saying Thank you and our challenge theme is

Thankful or Thank you

The quality of this photograph is not particularly good - I couldn't get a good light and my edititing seems to have made it worse not better! The colours in real life are a lot more vibrant and it has a beautifully embossed corner which looks very dull and flat here - but hey ho you can't have it all lol

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful

Who are offering a fab prize of a $15 voucher to spend in their store

This is what I did

Image - From the Fall kids set by Digital Delights
Sentiment - Thank you circular sentiment from digital delights
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolour pencils
Paper - K and co
Card - Bazzill basics
Die cuts - Mariannes LR117 (leaves) and LR0143 (corner)
Ribbon - Sam Pooles Creative Studios shop
Gems - from my stash

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Loves rubber stamps - thank you/thanksgiving
Aud sentiments challenge - Thanks
Pixiedust studio challenge -Thanksgiving or thank you

Seing Stars challenge at moving Along with the Times

Good morning all

Hope this Thursday finds you well. I'm hobbling around this morning on aching feet - but i don't deserve any sympathy! All due to dancing in the aisles in shoes that were far to high at the "Once in a lifetime" concert at the Metro arena last night. We has a pre Christmas night out - Leo Sayer, Smokie, Hot Chocolate and David Cassidy. We had a good giggle and enjoyed the night - though David Cassidy in his too tight pants with a sore throat was a bit of a let down - but Leo Sayer was brilliant!

Anyway onto todays challenge at MAWTT
chosen by our talented teamie

Leesa (aka the Navy Wife)

Here's my card for today

using stamp fairy barry - countdown to christmas2

We are being sponsored by Stamp Fairy

and all of the DT girls got some cute digis to play with for this challenge

hop on over to MAWTT to see what my teamies did with these cute little digis

This is what I did.....

Image - Stampfairy barry - Countdown to christmas 2

Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - A silent night by Papermania (my favourite christmas papers!)

Die cuts - Memory box Frostyville border and Memorybox Bianca snowflake die

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley Christmas grungy messages

Gems from my stash

I'm of to work now - have a great day everyone

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Cute card thursday - starry starry night

Southern girls - Christmas projects
divas by design - anything goes
my mums craftshop - winter wonderland
crafty sentiments - christmas

Hugs

Judith x

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Delightful Challenges Let it snow challenge and the poorly snowman!!

Hello again

Well here I am again and to be honest I'm not quite sure how I got here this week. I've been soooo busy that I felt sure that by today I would have given up!!

None the less I made it hooray!!

And the challenge

at Delightful Challenges this week is

Let it snow

(use snowflakes)

Our fab sponsor this week is Scrappyland.com

Who are offering a fabulous prize of a Scrappyland $20 store gift card

Here's my card

This little snowman image is just so cute he's called Candy Cane Jingles and is available here

Now I'm sure you'll agree that snowmen make quite easy cards - after all he's white! - so hardly any colouring for a start. I thought I would ring the changes by giving him a bit of shine with lovely shiny red boots, candy cane, buckle and hollyberries ....and nose. I used my glossy accents to do all of this and left it to dry. I made up the rest of the card and put it all together when ..... shock horror!!!! - my snowman was poorly, now how do you know you might ask - simples - he has a runny nose!!

Well in another life I might have put this right but this week it was runny nose snowman or no card at all so for my card he might have to be renamed -Runny Nose Jingles with candy cane! -in my defence he has got lovely shiny boots ha ha.

This is what I did.....

Image - Candicane jingles by Digital Delights
Coloured with copics
Buckle - silver marker pen fro aldi!
Sentiment - from Naughty or Nice set from Digital Delights
Glossed with glossy accents
Papers - Merry from My minds Eye
Card - Bazill Basics
Snowflakes punched out with a Martha Stewart border punch
Bow die - Memory box
Pearls - from my crafty heart

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Southern girls - Christmas projects
Crimbo crackers - snowmen
Use your stuff - Christmas

That's me done for this week - see you next week

hugs

Judith

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Whimsy stamps challenge - traditional christmas colours

Good morning all

I have my first card for the Whimsy Stamps Challenge blog to share with you today.

The challenge is

Traditional Christmas Colours

I decided to use this cute little Christmas bear designed by Kathy at Stampart by Kathryne called

Teddy Surprise Package - Christmas Wrap

Isn't he just so cute!

I've used this layout to make a few Christmas cards now - its quick and easy and you can ring the changes with different embellies, die cuts and shapes - I think this will be my layout for my 2012 Christmas cards - it takes me longer to decide the layout than it does to make the card most days!! - So now thats settled I might get some quick cards made lol.

Heres what i did....

Image - Teddys surprise package - Christmas wrap from Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

Distress ink - Tim Holtz tea dye

Sentimant - Whimsy Christmas sentiment set

Papers - by raspberry road - free in a cardmaking magazine

Ribbon - carnmeal cottage

Scalloped shaped card - craftwork cards

Red card and gem embellies from my stash

Hope you like it!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Divas by design - cute

Crafty creations challenge - no flowers

Anything goes challenge - Anthing goes

Hugs Judith x

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

How many shades of grey do you really, really need!!?

Hello there blog friends - Happy Tuesday

Today I've got with a quick tutorial that I've done for Inky impressions about two things really

You don't need a Christmas image to make a Christmas card
You only need one shade of grey - or one colour infact - no matter what that book says!!

I've made a quick and easy Christmas card with the Inky Impressions stamp

Hazel baking cookies

you can find her here

I coloured her with copics - not particularly carefully (whoops!) - but that doesn't really matter when you use a prismacolour pencil to go back in to add shade and depth to the image. And to shade the whole image all you need is

One shade of grey!!

Infact prismacolor 70% warm grey. You could use any grey or even black (and if I want an even deeper vintage look I do use black- it does great things when used with red - but thats for another day) but for this particular card I wanted a warm look and thats what the 70% grey gives to this image.

Here is the image coloured with copics - it looks ok - but lacks any depth and as you can see I havent done a great deal of blending with the colours and it all looks a bit too bright in places

Next I added lines of grey where I wanted to add the shade with the pencil you'll notice I have not added any to the centre of the face

I then started to blend the pencil with Sansodor solvent

You can now see that there is a lot more depth to the image also I added shade to the centre of the face just by using whatever colour I had already picked up on my blending stump and blending it into the centre of the face.

I then cleaned off my blending stump (with an emery board) and used just Sansodor to further blend and thin out the grey in places

All of the colours are now muted - which was the effect I was looking for- and there is shade and light to the little bears fur and the clothes and bowl.

I then trimmed the card and shaded with distress ink before I mounted the image onto green card and added papers, ribbon and embellies to make this cute Christmas card - and there she is

Hazel baking her Christmas Cookies

This is what I used to make this card

Image - Hazel baking cookies from Inky impressions

Coloured with copics - fur E40,41,43 ribbon and apron trim R37,35,32 apron G28,07,00 bowl E53,51, cookie mix E11,21, eyes B93 Inside ears YR 20,21

And ....Prismacolor pencil - one shade of grey 70% warm grey

Papers - first edition - festive treats (cookies were also cut from these papers)

Distress ink - Tea dye by Tim Holtz

Sentiment - LOTV

Shaped card - craftwork cards

Heart charm - Inky impressions

Gems and ribbon - from my stash

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Loves rubber stamps -anything goes

Now go and have a look at your stamps! There's lots of stamps you could use that aren't Christmas stamps that will make a beautiful Christmas card. Hope I gave you some inspiration

hugs

Judith xx

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Whimsy Stamps November new release day 4 - mini bloghop

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our November Digital Stamp Release Showcase!

On Thursday (1^stNovember) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new Digital designs from

Moon Cookie Gallery

Stamp Art Designs by Kathryn

Dana's Digi's

Lia Stampz

Crissy's Digis

From now until 4^th November the Whimsy Stamps Digital DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop and I am part of today’s hop! Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 5^th November

I must have tried a dozen times to photograph this card - indoors and out but i just couldn't capture the sparkle - it really has a lovely sparkle and shine to itwith glitter gems and sparkly ribbon - its such a shame that it doesn't photograph that way!

Anyway this is what I did to make this card......

Image -Cardinal bird from Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Paper- Lost and found christmas from my minds eye

Card - Cordinations distress card by Tim Holtz

Glitter - diamond stickles

Holly dies Marriannes dies

Gems and ribbon from my stash

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Tammy Ortiz

Jackie Randolph

Charlene Brown

Kelly Mannix

Michelle Oatman

Rosica Ivanova

Tammy Davison

Jackie Smith

Lisa West

Tracie

Debbie Dunn

Suzi Mckenzie

Juelmarie Morgan

Anne Cullen

Carly Wilson

Brenda Turner

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop back to the

Whimsy blog tomorrow for more new release creations!