To my Mammy on Mothers day -a happy little bunny x

Good morning all

Well March has arrived and although you might be expecting a Mad March Hare I'm afraid I haven't got one of them! - but I have got a Happy Little Bunny !!

Isn't this the cutest bunny you ever saw

This digi is called Happy Little Bunny he's by Stampart Design by Kathryne and is available here

This is my DT card for this weeks challenge over at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges, 

he's one of the new release digis from Stampart Design by Kathryne over at Whimsy Stamps

Kathy is sponsoring our regular Stampart Design special first prize with a prize of 5 digi stamps for the winner and also the chance of a GDT spot her at Fab'n'Funky challenges

As well as that we also have Bugaboo Digi stamps sponsoring our random drawn prize winner
 with a prize of 7 digi stamps. 

I really loved that little bunny rabbit as soon as I set eyes on him!  I decided not to go the usual pale and pastel route but to make it a bit more vibrant with yellow and green to tone with the papers - with a hint of pink!!.  You might be seeing a few hints of pink from me in the next - oh year or so lol - our local Staples store was closing and I got a ream of pink card for £2.50. It's such a pretty shade and sometimes that's hard to find - so I couldn't resist!

Can you see that fab sentiment on there too - it says "To my Mammy on Mothers Day"

I was buying some personalised stamps from 

Stampingallday

 for some save the date wedding cards I'm making for an order and saw a cute little stamp which said "To my Mummy on Mothers Day" - well here up north - we don't hold with this Mummy business!  (some of you who visit me regularly will recall the Memam story!) We have our Mams and  Mammys!  - and when I saw this cute stamp I had to have it for my grandson to make a mothers day card for his Mammy.  I've bought stamps from Nicky at Stampingallday before and she's just so helpful - nothings a bother to her - so I thought -well there's no harm in asking..... and sure enough she came up trumps and now I have my Mammy stamp - and she sent me a lovely Mam stamp too - just because shes lovely! - Nicky you're a real gem - she has so many stamps to choose from and personalised ones too, digi papers, all sorts - My order was placed on Sunday and they were here on Tuesday morning

 - great service!

Anyway on to my card  - this is what I did....

Image - Happy Little Bunny from Stampart Design by Kathryne

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Sentiment - from Stampingallday

Papers - Spring Drop by First Edition

Card -Stationary box

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Dies Circles - Spellbinders

       Flagtail banner  - Dienamics

       Bow corner - Memory box

Flowers - petaloo- I've had these for years - they just last and last!

There are some really cute and cuddly cards over at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week - it's worth going over - just for the ahhh factor!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Nutcrackers - something beginning with B (bunny)
Stamp n doodle - mothers day or for a female
Bearly mine - mothers day
Papertake weekly - anything goes
Through the craftroom door - anything goes

hugs 

Judith x

Black and White Army! - just for you Shell!

Good morning blogfriends

Well I got to the end of this exciting week and now I have to settle back down to create something out of it all!  I decided to use this cute little footballer from The Paper Shelter 

- called Soccer Star - available here  for my DT card at My Time to Craft this week. 

 It is also a card for my footie mad nephew who turned 18 on Thursday.  He is an absolutely  mad Newcastle United fan so when I saw this image it just seemed perfect for his card - he appreciates anything black and white and not much else!

Also as our Crafty Mamma at MTTC has similar tastes 

-this ones for you too Shell hehe.

(I have to do something to get round you saying as I cheated for this DT card!!!)

The challenge over at

  My Time to Craft

this week is 

Embossing

I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of dry embossing - I only have four folders and two of those are Christmas ones!  But I do some wet embossing from time to time.  I had a tidy up and move around of my craft stuff a few weeks ago and now I have no idea where my heat gun is

 - should have left it alone - I know where I used to keep it!

So as I didn't really have anything to emboss with that would suit this card -I have to confess to doing a bit of a cheat - I used card that is already embossed - it is a Tim Holtz card with a heavy weave efmbossed on it - and it was the perfect colour for this card

This is what I did....

Image - Soccer Star from The Paper Shelter

Cooured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - MME Meadowlark

Dies - circles Spellbinders

       - fishtail flag stax from Dienamics

       - 18 - Tim Holtz wanted alphabet from sizzix

Ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Craftuscrazy - anything goes

Dutchdare challenge - for the boys 

Crafts and me - dies or punches

Simon says - Anything goes
Clearly inspired - black and white with a pop of colour

Have a fab weekend

hugs

Judith x

Whimsy Stamps new release bloghop

Happy Friday! and welcome to the March digital release blog hop at
Whimsy Stamps

Here is my card that I made with one of the new release stamps

Easter Ducklings from Liastampz available here

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by

Marika Collins Collection

Moon Cookie Gallery

Stamp Art Design

Lia Stampz

Crissy’s Digis

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality.You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project

  To find all of today's new releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be 2 mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice.

The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is

Kelly's Blog
This is the next stop after this one

 This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the

 Whimsy Stamps Store

The hop will run for 1 week and end on Friday 8th March at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced right here.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way

Charlene

Sarah

TammyO

Kim

Lisa

Debbie

Judith

Kelly

This is what I did...

I deliberately kept the colouring on the egg very bright and flat - like it would be on a real painted egg - i think it worked quite well

Image - Easter Ducklings from Liastampz at whimsy stamps
Coloured with -Copics
Papers - Spring drop from
Card = Bazzill basics
Dies - Banner  from Whimsy crafts
         Scalloped border - spellbinders
         Eggs - Spellbinders oval
         Letters - sizzix - Tim Holtz Wanted alphabet
Ribbon - Carnmeal Cottage

See you at the hop - be there to be in with a chance of a great prize

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Stamp and doodle - 2 different punches or dies
Copic marker europe - Easter card
Southern girls challenge - Waving in the breeze
QKR stampede - 3 of something (eggs and banner flags)
Avadares Challenge - Easter or Spring

hugs 

Judith x

Threes a charm at Digital Delights this week

Good morning all

Today I have a cute card for the challenge over at 

Delightful Challenges 

This weeks challenge is 

Three's a charm

(use 3 of something)

I used 3 ladybirds on this card

Oh I'm so confused! - still not sure what day it is- again! - my working week has been changed around yet again this week and it really makes a huge difference.  I'm definitely a set in my ways girl!  I was making this weeks card right until the deadline - I had a great idea for this card that I decided wouldn't work - mainly because I hadn't looked at the digis properly - there are 4 dogs in this digi set and I was going to use 3 dogs on this card - but when I looked again - it would have been a mega size card or minature dogs  for that to work lol  - then my mojo just went out of the window!! -I eventually got it together sort of - though my husband said it looked like a card meant for a dog to him - so as I don't send my dog cards to often - I'm really not sure about it!!

I think I'll just plead insanity on this one and start again tomorrow!!

On the bright side - I loved colouring him - just so cute and I gave him a ruff shaggy sort of coat that I think turned out well - I used tiny strokes in four shades then shaded again with prismacolor  pencils and white gel pen and I was really pleased with the way the grass turned out too!  

He looked to me as if he was looking at something - so that's why he got the ladybirds.

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by

and the fab prize is a $10 voucher to spend in store

This is what I did 

Image - From lonely pups set at digital delights by looby lou

Sentiment - Mans best friend - from digital delights by looby lou

Coloured with copics dog E70, E71, E74, E49 - nos eE04 and E74 grass G63, G61.G11.YG11; sky B000

Prisma pencils, dark umber,dark green, cream. ginger

Paper-  K and Co Hopscotch Boy

Card - bazzill basics

Die cut corners - whimsy stamps

Die cut easel shape - Spellbinders labels 10

die cut lady bird  - elizabeth craft designs

Vintage seam binding - from my stash

Dog stickers- from a set bought at QVC yeeeeears ago

There are some gorgeous cards over on the Delightful challenges blog - lots of delightful inspiration for you!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafting for all seasons - dies and punches
Divas by design - anything goes
Inky Impressions - splash of red
Cute card Thursday - something old -Dog stickers
Crafty Ribbon challenge  - anything goes with ribbon

Hugs

Judith x

Here's some good advice...pack light!

Hello lovely blog friends

A special hello to all my new friends over at The Paper Shelter who have called on me these last few days - thank you for the warm welcome!

Today is challenge day again at Fab'n'Funky challenges where our lovely Sue is hostess for the week

Sue has chosen the theme of 

Pastel Colours

An easy one I think - there are so many Easter cards and Mothers day cards floating around blogland at the minute I'm sure you can find  a lovely pastel one to enter into our challenge this week.

This card was a bit of a revelation to be honest, apart from deciding that I was going to make it as a birthday card for my lovely daughter I didn't have a clue what I was going to do with it!

It sort of evolved lol - I did the very dangerous thing of colouring it before choosing my papers and then when I started to put it together I sort of didn't know when to stop - its very well embellished with all kinds of stuff from my stash  - its even got a whole sheet of pearl swirls on it - I hope she appreciates it - its the craft world equivalent of giving someone your last Rolo - and then some!!

Pack light from Saturated Canary

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous Saturated Canary

 and the DT were lucky enough to each get a gorgeous image to play with.  I chose that pretty little girl with her suitcases -ready to go off on her summer hollies I think.  Very appropriate for Alison - she's coming to Florida with us on holiday this year and she really can't wait!!  Her whole little family (that's her husband Steven and baby Jacob) are all coming along and because they didn't get a holiday in the sun last year (because Jacob was too tiny), the excitements like they've never been on holiday at all - ever!!

I had a bit of a departure from my usual colouring and shading technique where I use mainly grey or black to shade my image when I've finished colouring  -it gives a bit of a toned down vintage look to the colours.  With this image I think I wanted to keep it a bit brighter - but shock horror - the point had fallen off my grey pencil and i cant find my pencil sharpener.  I decided to shade in colours of the same tones as I had use - I rather liked the effect - might have to try it again!! Don't know whats wrong with my photos these days - think I might have to make some changes! -the colours don't look very true on this photo - the flower is the same green paper as on the card - but it looks a different shade to me and that gorgeous butterfly looks too dark and not so gorgeous .... hmm!

Heres what I did....

Image - packlight from Saturated Canary

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

Papers - K and co and Spring drop from

Card = Bazzill basics

Pearl swirl - creative expressions

Flower - made with spellbinders rolled flower die

Birds - momory box resting birds die

Corners - Whimsy craft corner dies

Ribbon - vintage seam binding (scrunched!)

Butterfly - prima

Tags - LOTV

Pearl heart - was a little extra from Teresa at MCH with my order

There are some gorgeous cards from my teamies over at fab'n'Funky this week if you go on over to see them   tell them I sent you lol

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Celebrate the occasion - girls birthday (must use pink)

Clearitout challenge - happy birthday with 2 or more ribbons

Creative card crew - birthday 

Digital tuesdays - birthdays (must be digital)

LEJ designs - for  a lovely lady

Through the craftroom door - anything goes

Hugs 

Judith x

Exiting News!!

Hi All

No card today but just had to share my exciting news - I've been chosen for the DT over at The Paper Shelter!  I'm really delighted to be part of the team and can't wait to start working with the gorgeous images they have over there.  I had wanted to make a card to go with this post but these are my  work days this week and haven't had the chance - will have to see what I can do later this week!

Big excited hugs

                                                 Judith x

Blooming Love!

Good morning all

I'm here today with my inspiration card for Whimsy Stamps.  I've used not one but two of the cute January release digis from Stampart Design by Kathryne

 together with a bonus sentiment that comes with it.

The main image is called Katie available here

The pink flowers are cut from Pretty Petals 2 available here

and the sentiment comes as a bonus with the Pretty Petals 2 stamp 

The flowers in the bottom corner are cut from the pretty Petals 2 digi - I coloured them then cut them out and mounted them on 3D foam before arranging them on the die cut leaves as an embellishment to match the flower on the image.  I really like these little flowers and I think they could be used to make all sorts of flower embellishments as there is an assortment of shapes and sizes of flower.  The centre of each flower is coloured and then I added diamond stickles which really makes these flowers stand out.   The design paper I used is first edition spring drop - the colours in it are green, pink, peach and aqua and I used those colours for my image - the aqua doesn't show up to well on the photo which makes the colours look a bit random - its better in real life  honest!

This is what I did....

Image - Katie from Stampart Designs from Whimsey Stamps

Flowers and sentiment - from Pretty Petals 2 by Stampart designs by Kathryne

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - Spring drop from first edition

Dies used -spellbinders large scalloped oval

                Fence -whimsy  stamps 

                Heart and flag tail dies - memory box

                leaves from fabulous phlox die set from MB

Ribbon - carnmeal cottage 

Distressed with - brown corduroy from TH

Glitter - diamond stickles

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Gem of a challenge - add a bow
Colour me creative classroom - girly
Paper creators crafts - flowery
Craftycatz weekly challenge - punches and dies
challenges 4everybody -anything goes
Joanna Sheen - lots of layers
My crafty spot - flowers

Thanks for visiting today! - have a great weekend  

hugs

Judith x