Hello - I'm back!

I bet you thought I'd disappeared off the face of the earth!!

I've been away on holiday for over 3 weeks and forgot to photograph the cards I'd made to blog while I ws away - so I decided gave myself the month off lol.... since I got home I've had a busy time preparing for my grand daughter's christening (I'll share some of my makes when I get myself organised - I love baby crafting) - its taken me until now to catch up with myself!!

But I'm here today because its challenge day at 

The Paper Shelter Challenge blog

and our theme this week is

Embossing 

(any kind wet or dry)

I used the lovely Rowena for this card
a steam punk inspired creation with a floral twist!

(The flowers and hearts are dry embossed

the tag at the bottom is wet embossed)

As always we have a fab prize for you at 

The Paper Shelter

Here's what I did

Image - Rowena from TPS

Coloured on Neenah desert storm card

using Spectrum noir blendable pencils
skin -rose peach,cream, vanilla
clothes walnut, bark,pebble,coconut,cider, yellow ochre
hair ginger, redcurrant,bark
edged with eggshell

Papers and vellum - Madam Payraud from Papermania

Stamped in black DI around the edges with an Anna Griffin swirl stamp 

(sorry don't know what its called)Sentiment label also Anna Griffin

Hearts are black card and vellum embossed with just a corner of Sheena Douglass' Twisted Vine Embossing folder and highlighted with Pebeo gilding wax - bronze

Flowers are from Sara Davies Country garden dies also embossed and gilded

Flower stalk is Sheena Douglass' Sweet William die embossed and gilded

All other embellies are from my stash

Hope to see you playing along with us this week - I'll be back to visiting you all too!

Hugs

Judith x

Happy New Year - and something else New!

Happy New Year everyone

Well I finally kicked myself into gear and here's my first post of the year

I'm setting myself off on a new blogging start for the year

-after a pretty disastrous end of last year

the only thing I can say is I had a great holiday in November

and Christmas and New Year were pretty good too

So - line drawn under 2015

and a happy 2016 is here!!

We have a "New" challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

the theme is 

Something New

(new house, new baby, using new stash etc)

My card is a wedding card that my daughter asked me to make for a friend last summer

the theme of the wedding was sunflowers

I think you could even say a wedding fits the new theme - it is after all a start of a new life together

but as well as that I used some new dies 

Absolutely brand new are the Dies from Sue Wilson

They're the ornate pierced rectangles from the Noble Collection
I just love this collection

I also decorated the inside to match

I don't know if these photographs do this card justice, it was quite a large card and the layering looked really effective with the black and yellow and it was also  really quite easy to make -

Our fabulous sponsor this week is

Live and Love Crafts

who are providing a £10 voucher for our prize winner

What I did...

The whole list of items used

Dies - Ornate pierced dies Sue Wilson Noble die collection

Sunflower dies - MFT

Black Card - Crafter's Companion

Yellow cards - Cor'dnations from Crafters Companion

Sentiment tag - Anna Griffin Chalkboard Sentiments

Sentiment inside of card - LOTV

Ribbon and jewelled embellie from my stash

I do hope you'll join in with us at Fab'n'Funky this week to get the 'New' year off to a flying start

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Incy winsey - white with a splash of colour (16/1)
our crafty corner - anything goes (31/01)
ruby's rainbow - something new (28/1)

Hugs

Judith xx

Do you need image therapy?! if so pop over to MAWTT this week

Good morning all

We have a new challenge today for you over at

Moving Along With The Times 

Our lovely Carole is our hostess this week

and has chosen the theme

No image
(so you see - no image therapy required ha ha)

I've been struggling for time these last couple of weeks so decided to make an easy peasy card with some papers and stickers I bought last year - exactly for the purpose of quick Christmas Cards 

.... except I didn't use them - now I'm sure none of you ever buy things that don't get used lol.

I've got a whole set of these toppers with Christmas words and they do make really quick cards -well it would have been quick except it took me half an hour to choose which papers to use, I have to admit that for me there's no such thing as a quick card - you have no idea how much I faf about (technical term!)
I'll have to get that Christmas card counter updated too -I think I'm into double figures now - that's an achievement in itself 

Here's what I did...

Papers - Yuletide Greetings by Anna Griffin

Topper - from the Christmas Garland Embellishment set by Anna Griffin

Ribbon - Gold satin from carnmeal cottage

Card - Bazzill Basics

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Party time Tuesday - Anything Goes
The Cheerful stamp pad - use a sentiment
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes
Simon says - Anything Goes

Seeing Red at MAWTT!

Good morning campers!

Hope it is a good one for all of you.

There's another new challenge at MAWTT set by this week hostess

the lovely Laurie

The theme is 

Seeing Red

I'm sure you get the message - very simply we want to see Red - and lots of it

Our sponsors this week are the fabulous Crafty Pad

Now to me this challenge just shouted "Christmas" so that's what I did

I used my very very favourite Lili of the Valley stamp - I think I must have used this stamp more than any other one that I own - lots of Christmas cards have been made with this little lady

I have to confess that I always colour her the same way - red coat and a goldy vintagey colour skirt and  blonde hair, but I use different papers and embellies every time - each ones an exclusive lol!  I might have to ring the changes a bit - that gives me a good excuse to use her all over again this year - maybe I can feel some pale blues coming on.....

This is what I did....

Image - lili of the valley - Christmas dance
Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils
Red card - Kanban
Kraft card - QVC
Stripe paper - my minds eye - merry
Die cut corners - spellbinders
Snowflake embellie - Anna Griffin - so old I didn't know i still had it!
Gems and sentiment from my stash
White glitter glue - Martha Stewart

Challenges i am entering

Southern girls challenge - stripes
For fun challenges - stamped images
my mums craftshop - stars
stampavie and more - sparkle
try it on tuesday - lots of layers

Cool Britannia at Moving Along with the Times

Hi again

Its another challenge over at MAWTT this week hosted by out gorgeous Laurie and the theme is

Cool Britannia

With everything that's going on around our little Island it is indeed a cool place to be - So why am I not there?!!  - Cos at the minute I'm prefering Hot Florida!!

We are sponsored this week by

Digi my World

who gave us DT girls some fab England digis to play with
and here's the card that I came up with to fit this challenge!
I did do a bit better with remembering what I did with this card because I wrote down what I did when I uploaded the card to my blog - why did I not do that with the rest of them!!

What I did ...

Image - from digi my world England set
Coloured with - Promarkers,Copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - Portobello road
Bunting - Flags downloaded from internet and stamped with bunting stamp from Anna Griffin
Bakers twine and gems- from my stash

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Divas by design - Anything goes
My mums craftshop -Red white and blue
Digital Delights - Red white and blue
Craft your days away - Red white and blue
One stitch at a time - Red white and blue
Simon says - Anything goes
Digi doodle shop- get out the bunting

That's all from me for today

hugs Judith x

Its Summer sunshine at MAWTT - who am I kidding!!!

Good morning blog friends

Its Thursday yet again - and time for another new challenge at Moving Along with the Times.  This week our lovely Claire is hosting and has chosen the theme summer sunshine.  I presume this is wishful thinking from Claire cos we sure ain't got any!! .... but I'm pretty sure that if enough people join in with the challenge we could have some by the end of the week at MAWTT at least!! 

 I found this challenge a bit challenging!  Couldn't come up with a DT card at all - then I saw this digi on another blog and it was love at first sight!  It is from stamping dragon designs  and called beach scene.

the inside

I have never coloured such a big scene before and I quite enjoyed the challenge but when I finished felt as if something was missing probly because it has no central figure so decided to add some glitter for a bit of extra focus and I was even pleased with that too! There's very little to this card really but it reminds me of holidays and sunshine so that can't be a bad thing.

What I did....

Image - Beach scene from stamping dragon designs
coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - Sun Kiss from Prima
Sentiment -cut with cricut expression
Foam sunshine and palm trees - American crafts
Glitter - selection of Martha Stewart colours
Ribbons - Carnmeal cottage
Gems - from my stash
Sentiment inside - Anna Griffin

Challenges I am entering with this card

canyoudigiit - sunrise and sunset
[pin]spirational challenges - picture inspiration
crafty boots challenges - yellow
The crazy challenge - Summer/beach
Made Especially for you - inspirational colours (yellow/blue/green/brown)
One stitch at a time -Here comes summer

Thats all from me today

Hugs
Judith xx

Its another challenge day at Fab'n'Funky challenges - today we are celebrating maleness

Hi blog friends

Another week has gone by and here it is Wednesday - where did that week go!

Thank you to everyone who sent their hugs and kind comments yesterday after my sad post about Tilly yesterday - its nice to know that you've given me a little thought in your busy day.

Today's challenge at Fab'n'Funky challenges is celebrating maleness and we are being sponsored by the fab Crimson cloud

I had such problems with this card!  Not the actual card but deciding what to do.  My Mother in law asked me to make a card for her neighbour - who is 90 at the week end so decided to combine this with the challenge.  But what do you make for a 90year old man that you don't know!!  I made some enquiries and found out he likes gardening, going to church,bring and buy sales and is teetotal!  To me that's more challenge than any you're likely to find in blogland!!  So out of that I went with the gardening.

I had to go looking for a digi stamp for this and found this lovely little set at digi boutique.  I bought this one and a female garden version for only £1 each - they're on offer at the mo.  Considering I had no clue as to what this card would be when I started I was pleased at how it turned out - I think my 90 year old gardening, church going,bring and buy teetotal man will like it.  As for the celebrating maleness challenge well I think I win!! -My man being celebrated is 90 years old so has been male for longer than most - that's something to celebrate all right ha ha.

This is what I did ...

Digi stamp - digi boutique - male garden
Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils
Papers - K and co - I think- (had them so long I'm not sure)
Little pot of flowers and trowel are K and co stickers
Card candy - craftwork cards
Twine - from my garden shed!
Sentiment - is a new Anna Griffin one that I just got in a set from QVC - lovely bunting and greetings stamps - just love them
Card - Bazzill
90 - cut on cricut expression - cindy loo cartridge

See you later with my first Inky Impressions challenge card - yes I know I said that yesterday too - but I never know what day of the week is which for which challenge  - if you know what I mean - I'm amazed I get here at all sometimes!!

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

Fresh brewed - tic tac toe -die cuts twine flowers
Pennys paper-crafty challenges - happy birthday
Celebrate the Occasion - Male birthday - must use circle
Digital Tuesday challenge - Bugs and Blooms
Tuesday throwdown -In the Garden
Here Come the boys - Hobbies

Hugs Judith xx

Va Va Voom at MAWTT challenge this week!

Hi there

We have a great new challenge over at Moving Along With The Times this week.  Our hostess with the mostest for this week is Shell and she has chosen the theme

Va Va Voom!

 so sexy ladies or men is what we want to see!

Here is my creation for this week

Don't really know what happened to my photograph here -my colouring looks a bit wishy washy and the mustard distres ink looks very yellow - but it doesn't look like that in real life! - Oh well...

This is a big 8"x8" card and I was going for a distressed/vintage sort of look, it took me a couple of attempts to get it right but I loved colouring this image.

Our sponsor this week is the fab Kenny K

and the winner will receive 5 digi images of their choice!

This is what I did

Image  - Kenny K Lady Victoria

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - K and Co

Music paper - Mariannes designs - songbird

Distress inks - Tim Holtz - Mustard seed and Fired brick

Dark red card - Tim Holtz distress cordinations

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Black gems - kanban

Stick pins and swirls - Creative expressions

Swirl stamp - Anna Griffin

Lace - from my stash

challenges I am entering with this card

Papertake Weekly Challenge - anything goes

Truly Scrumptious - Use lace on your creation

Whimsy Stamps challenge- use ribbon on your creation

http://sundayswithcrissy.blogspot.co.uk/- your favourite colour combination - red and black

The poodles parlour - Going Dotty

That's me for today

See you tomorrow

Hugs

Judith x