Love is in the air at My time to Craft!!

Good morning all

Oh I'm so glad its Saturday - its been a funny old week!  

Its time for another challenge over at My Time to Craft and our theme for this week is 

Love is in the Air!

this could be a valentine or anything love themed - wedding, engagement - you get the picture!!

I used "You and Me" from Liastampz at Whimsy Stamps available here

This is such a cute, romantic stamp - I love how the couple are just leaning into each other, to me they're on top of a hill- her hair blowing in the wind  - oh how peaceful.....

This is what I did ....

I decided to go fairly neutral with this so used kraft card for mounting and die cuts and distressed with Tea dye DI

Image - You and Me from Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Paper - MME sunshine

Heart charm -Inky Impressions

Peearl brad - whiff of Joy

Twine - from my garden shed!

Tags fom Lili of the valley

Die cuts - Flower - Doo hickey doiley flower

               Top corner - memory box madeira corner

               Bottom corner - My favourite things - corner set

               Heart -Marianne hearts

               Also Memory box jasmine frame cut into two to frame the corners of the image

Have a look over at the MTTC challenge blog -there are some fab cards there made by my teamies this week 

Have a great weekend 

challenges I'm entering with this card

Southern Girls - Get Krafty
Crafty calendar challenge - Love and marriage
Digidesignchallenge blog - valentines and or love
Cardmakinmammas - I'm in the mood for love
Frosted Designs - Love and a heart
simply create too - valentines day or hearts
Sweetandsassy digi challenge - love/valentines day
Milkcoffee challenge - valentines or love
stampavie and more - love


Hugs Judith xx

               

Red and White Challenge at delightful challenges - Just right for a sunderland girl!!

Good Morning blog friends

I'm back again this morning with a card for the challenge over at

Delightful Challenges

The theme of our challenge this week is 

Red and White

Just the right colours for this Sunderland girl - the colours of our football team
I'm not a big football fan but my Dad was Sunderland through and through!
So this ones for you Dad xx

Our sponsor this week is
Crafty Ribbons



and this is the fab prize!

I decided to use one of the new release images for this month

Its the cute - love you this much monkey - available here

I decided to keep this fairly simple keeping the focus on the image and I think it worked out ok

This is what I did.....

Image - love you this much monkey from Digital Delights

Coloured with Copics (E70, E71, E74, E04, R32, R25, R27, R29))

Heart circle - spellbinders heart circles (with a circle cut out of the middle to make it just a border)

Hear die cut - spellbinders nested hearts die

Hearts - from the cut outs of the heart circle

Heart charm -inky Impressions

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

There are some wonderful red and white creations over on the Delightful challenges blog - hope to see you joining in with us

Challenges I'm entering with this card

crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Sassy studios - love/valentines
paper pretties - square cards
ruby's rainbow - valentines
stampavie and more - love

hugs Judith xx

Shoe, Shoes, shoes! - Fab'n'Funky's challenge was made for me!

Good morning all

We have a great new challenge over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges today 

set by our gorgeous Rachel

The theme is 

SHOES

This can either be the main focus or featured on your card

This challenge was just made for me - the Imelda Marcos of the North East!! - Though I have to confess I don't have any quite like the beauties on my card today!!

My card features what I think must be the most iconic shoes I can think of 

Dorothy's Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz

I used Delightful Dotty from Digital Delights 

who are sponsoring our challenge today

I have toned her shoes to match the card - so they are more of a dark pink than red.  I was trying to get the sparkle when I photographed this and they look pinker than in real life, they're really a dark pink - but at least I got the sparkle!

I was trying to think of an original sentiment for this card and finally decided that 

- Theres no place like home 

-actually makes it quite a nice new home card!

This is what I did....

Image - Delightful Dotty from Digital Delights
Coloured with Copics
Paper - LOTV -
Dies - swirl from Memory box, Flowers and Chevron from Dienamics
Circle Dies from -Spellbinders
Pearls and gems - Kaisercraft
Buttons - Papermania
Sentiment - Produced in word
Butterfly punch - Woodware
Sparkle! - Pink tourmaline glitter glue from Martha Stewart and Diamond Stickles

Hope you all are enjoying the sunshine today!!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Nutcrafters - Cute and girly
Pennys challenges - for the girls
Paper Pretties - square cards
The Perfect sentiment - Anything goes with a die cut
Simon says - anything goes
Creative card crew - girly
Die cuttin Divas - anything goes - with a die cut
hugs

Judith xx

A little gem from Whimsy Stamps and a big op for Glenn!

Good morning all

Well at last the snow has gone and its a little bit warmer this morning - thank goodness.  Its been an awful week weather wise and for me too!  I don't think my feet have touched the floor this week so many things have been going on.  The thing that's taken most of my time has been my poor dog Glenn having to have an operation on his leg because he ruptured his cruciate ligament.  Its been a bit of a week because the vet I had to take him to isn't my normal local one so there's been a lot of tooing and froing on top of the normal life things like going to work! - there wasn't much crafty time left over.  In fact I'm back off to the vet again this morning to have him checked over, then at least we get a break before he goes back to have the staples remove in 10 days.  He's such a good dog we've been doing his "physio" exercises and massages and he just gives you a look as if to say - ok whats happening now.

Anyway I did manage to  get this card finished just to squeeze in at the end of the week - luckily it was part made before all the  trips to the vet fun started 

I used another of Marika Collins little gems for this card - I love these little girls with their big eyes and messy hair - they're perfect for little girls and teens.

This cutie is called Alex and she's available here 

I think she's just perfect for those tweeny girls but would make a fab valentine too

This is what I did....

Image - "Alex" from Marika Collins at whimsy stamps

Coloured with Copics and Prisma pencils

Papers - are from MME but I can't find which one - sorry

Sentiment - From a kanban set

Butterfly punch and border punch - Martha Stewart

Corner dies - Whimsy stamps

Flowers and leaves - spellbinders ditzy blossoms

Shaped frames - spellbinders - labels ten

Gems from my stash

Must rush - off to the vets again!!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Dream Valley Challenges - girls girls girls
Totally gorgus - Flowers
Simply create too - anything goes
Sparkle and glitter - the Rick st Dennis Challenge - anything but square
Stampin for the weekend - Girlie
Copic markers Europe - Anything goes
Charisma cards - hearts and flowers

Hugs 

Judith xx

Thinking of you at Delightful Challenges

Hi again

Here I am with my second post of the day - this time for Delightful Challenges

Our theme for this week is

Thinking of you

I chose to use this cute digi Boo Boo bear available here 

and the cute sentiment from the Romance sentiment set available here

This is what I did ......

Image - Boo Boo bear from Digital delights

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Sentiment - Romance sentiments set

Paper - My minds Eye - so sophie

Dies - flowers, tag  and trellis - Memory box

Scalopped circle - Spellbinders

Heart - Mariannes 

Butterfly and corner - Elegant butterflies from Whimsy stamps

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Digistamps for joy - anything goes

Charisma cardz - hearts and flowers

Happy campers - flowers and digital

Little miss muffett - Hearts and flowers

Crafting by design - polka dots

Stampin royalty - Polka Dots 

hugs 

Judith x

Lets see some bling over at MAWTT this week

Good morning all

I hope this morning finds you warm and dry - we have been fortunate in that we haven't had too much snow - it hasn't brought things to a standstill like it has in other parts of the country, but I could do with some sunshine now I think!

We have a really bright and happy challenge over at Moving along with the times this week, our talented teamie Sue has decided to cheer us all up with a fab challenge 

Bling it up!!

That means any amount of glitter, gems,charms, pearls - bring it all out and stick it on a card lol

Here's my blingy card complete with pearls, glitter and stick pins

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by 

Digi my world 

this week and got some cute digis to play with 

Here's what I did....

Image -from Russia Set from Digi my World

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Papers - Portobello Road by papermania

butterfly die - Whimsy stamps elegant butterflies

Border - cut from frame bu Marianne

Pearls and stick pins from my stash

gingham ribbon from my stash

Red glitter - Martha Stewart glitter glue

There are some fabulous cards over on the DT blog - go on over and have a look at the fab cards the girls have made and bring your very blingy card with you

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

CRAFT challenge - valentines / love

Craft us crazy - Love/ valentines Red

Dutch dare challenge - things with wings

The paper shelter - Anything goes

Hugs 

Judith xx

Tag it! at Delightful Challenges this week

Hi Blog friends

A big welcome to my new followers this week - its lovely to have you call on me - I hope you will find something to inspire you

My card today is my DT card for the new challenge over at 

Delightful Challenges 

which is

Tag it!

In other words make a tag or use a tag on your card 

We have a wonderful Sponsor this week Oh My Crafts

I used this cute little guy - called  Handy Harry - available here   -  I just love him!

He's going to my husband for his birthday from my son - I might put DAD on the fence in Die cut letters - I'll have another look at it for his birthday next week - but i'm quite happy with it as it is 

I tried a different method of blending and colouring with my copics that I saw along my travels - it turned out ok but was a bit messy and in the middle i had my doubts as to whether it needed a rescue job lol  but you have to give these things a go sometimes! 

 - think I might just go back to my tried and tested

Here's what I did...
Image Handy Harry by digital delights
Happy birthday sentiment - from Digital Delights
2 U - produced in word
Cooured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Circle dies - spellbinders
Fence die - Whimsy stamps
Zig zag die - My favourite things
Tool charms - inky impressions
String - From my garden shed!!
Papers - from a nameless 12 x12 pack in my stash! (could be a K& co)

There are some fabulous cards over at the blog at Delightful challenges - hope we see you there

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Bearly mine  - Anything goes
LEJ designs - use metal
Tip top tuesday - fur or feathers
created with love - critter birthday -  top 3 21/01/2013!!
Pennys papercrafty challenge - Teddys



Hugs

Judith x