Sadly - it's the last ever challenge at Wags'n Whiskers

Hi all

I'm here to share my last ever card for

Wags'n'Whiskers Challenge

Sadly the blog is closing after this challenge

 but to go out with a smile we have a lovely challenge for you

the theme is 

Wings

I used the cute Fairy Angelica 

I love the fairies at Wags'n Whiskers

 - just the right amount of cute but also girly and pretty

I coloured her up using my Spectrum Noir Watercolour pencils and sparkle pens

I also used my (now very favourite!) new Pretty Petals flowers and leafy flourish dies from the floral delight range that accidentally fell into my basket when I went shopping at Crafter's Companion last week, I've liked them for a while but in real life they are gorgeous - the embossing makes the most beautifully shaped flowers

There's lots of sparkle on this card (just as a fairy should be!) using the Sparkle pens and also the green glitter card that I came across in my stash no idea where I got it and I definitely won't be buying it again - a nightmare to work with but looks very pretty!! 

This is what I did....

Image - Fairy Angelica from Wags'n Whiskers

Coloured with Spectrum Noir Watercolour pencils

colours - peach, apricot, pineapple, bamboo, clay, honeysuckle,

Spectrum noir Sparkle pens 

colours Clear, soft jade, 

Card - Shenna's stamping card

Papers - First Edition Spring Feast

Dies - Sara Davies signature collection Floral Delight - Leafy Flourish and Pretty Petals

Frame made with Sue Wilson pierced square noble dies from Creative Expressions

The card is a 7x7 inch square

It would be lovely if you could join us for our last challenge

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Dis digis - lots of layers 26/03

My time to craft  - flowers 26/03

lets colour linky party - coloured images 26/03

Fussy and fancy - things with wings 26/03

hugs

Judith x

P p p pick up a penguin (well I had to say it!)

Good morning all

Whoops! Sorry I'm late - I scheduled my post for today but forgot to set the time so it was set for 10:20 tonight!  I wondered where it had gone ( no where obviously!!)

It's challenge day again over at 

Winter Wonderland

and our theme thie week is 

Penguins

I used a cute digi from Digistamp Boutique for this card

Made in my favorite easel style using a lovely new edge die from sara Davies new signature collection - that I'm completely in love with!

I decided to stick to mainly black and white in honour of the little guy - with just a touch of green and orange, and now I can give myself another big tick for another Christmas card made

 that's two this week - how good am I lol!!

This is what I did....

Image - Penguin from Digistamp boutique

Coloured with Spectrum Noir sparkle pens (Black and clear) 

and Spectrum Noir blendable pencils

Embossing folder - Crafter's Companion elements folder (Snow)

Dies - Sara Davies signature die - together forever indulgence

           Die'sire  Classics only words Seasons greetings 

           Memory box frosty border

           lawn fawn stitched cicle

           MFT label die and stitched label die

sparkle embellie on bows - creative expressions

gems - clear coloured orange with spectrum noir OR3 pen

let it snow sentiment - Crafter's companion Noric Christmas stamp set

Black card from Crafter's Companion 

White card - Sheena Douglass stamping card

Black soot TH distress ink

ribbon from my stash

Hope you can find a penguin to pick up in your stash to join in with us this week

Challenges Im entering with this card

AYLI - favourite embossing and why - dry embossing because its easy to get a great effect!

Hugs 

Judith x

There's a Spring fun challenge at Wags'n Whiskers Challenge blog

Hi all

Today I'm sharing my DT for

Wags'n Whiskers Challenge

 I used this cute little stamp called 

For You available here
Coloured with spectrum Noir Watercolour Pencils for a very soft look

This is what I did

Image - for you from Wags'nWhiskers Stamps
Coloured with Spectrum Noir Watercolour pencils (sorry I've lost the colours list)
Papers - First edition spring Drop
Card - American crafts
Label die - MFT
Flower Dies - Sue Wilson - delicate daisies open and complete
Pearls from my stash

Hope you'll join in with our challenge

Hugs
Judith x

Come party with us at Wags'n'Whiskers

Good morning all

Well it's been a sad day in the craftroom today : ( 

my trust Sizzix Bigshot Express finally gave up

after over 7 years of faithful service - the motor just got weaker and weaker 

and he just couldn't emboss anymore, and dies were spending more time stuck in the plates than cutting!!

So I nipped out to Hobbycraft today and got a Big Shot Plus

- they had a great offer on and it was a matter of absolutely can't do without!!

It's just great to be able to craft without the bother again! -It's so sturdy and cuts and embosses really well - I realise how my poor Bigshot Express was struggling when I see what this does

I was hoping to hold out for the new Crafters Companion Gemini which is due out in a few weeks - it's an electronic machine and looked great when I saw it demonstrated a couple of weeks ago.  

My birthday's coming up very soon so I may neeeed to still have one - I've always had both a manual and electronic die cutting machine (but after my last Grand Calibur literally broke up into pieces inside - the second one I've had do this I called it a day - no more of these plastic machines for me.  And as a manual machine compared to the Big Shot Grand Calibur is just no contest. 

So it's happy dance day for me - new machine up and running : )))) 

But back to today's card

The new challenge is up and running at 

Wags'n'Whiskers

and the theme is 

Let's Party

(we want to see birthday creations)

I made this card with the cute

Buddy's Balloon _ available here
- he's just too cute!!

 I used to make a lot of easel cards at one time - probably my favourite shape

but it seems to have been a while since I made one - and I sooo needed to use that lovely new  

Happy Birthday die that I just got from Sue Wilson at Creative Expressions!!

This is what I did.....

Image - buddy's Ballon - Wags'n Whiskers

Coloured with Spectrum noir pens and pencils

Sentiment die - happy birthday from Creative expressions

Corner dies and curved corner square (!)  - MFT

Ballon punches - Martha Stewart

Papers MME 

Red and Blue card TH Core'dnations from Crafters companion

PARTY lettering - Sizzix TH Wanted die strip

Hope you'll come and join in with us for our fun challenge

Hugs

Judith 

We're all loved up at Wags'n Whiskers

Good morning all

OOO - I'm a little behind with my visiting this week - we went away for the weekend last weekend - to celebrate my husbands birthday - and I just haven't caught up yet! i'm planning on calling around in the next couple of days

We've been a little mixed up over at 

Wags'n Whiskers Challenge

and our challenge was a little late this week

never mind we're there now and the theme is 

With Love

I used the cute Ellie and Squeak that I tweeked a little bit by covering Ellie's present with a heart to fit in with the theme - and I gave Squeak a heart too - just for good measure!!

I used the new heart die from Crafters Companion to make a heart easel card

I cut the latticed centres from the hearts to create a frame and a contrast on the two hearts at the top - I quite like how it turned out!

This is what I did...

Image - Ellie and Squeak from Wags'n Whiskers

Coloured with Spectum Noir pens and pencils 

Dies used 

Crafter's Companion Sara Davies signature collection - decorative hearts and I love you 

Memory box hearts (small hearts)

Tiny hearts are the waste from another die I had used (can't remember what!!)

Red and pink card - Crafter's Companion Cored'nations

Heart gem from my stash

Thank you for calling in today -I love to have you visit me

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

Pals Paper Arts - colour inspiration

Little Miss Muffet challenge - anything goes

C.R.A.A.F.T challenge - love/valentine/aniversary
Polkadoodles - love and romance

hugs Judith x

It's really just as well that anything goes today!!

Good morning all

Well, today is anything goes day - and it's obvious because I slept in!!

it's something I haven't done for aaaages! 

Never mind it's Saturday which is good, but when I sleep in I always feel as if someone's stolen a bit of the day from me!!

Today's challenge at 

Wag's'n'Whiskers

is 

Anything Goes

Here's my card using the pretty

Fairy Angelica

I used the papers as colour inspiration for this one - so not colours I would have naturally chosen for a fairy.  But I like the finished result- almost Christmas colours,

 I think my brain is still a bit stuck in the festive season!!

It also has a lot of subtle sparkle in real life but you can't really see it here - I used Spectrum noir  Sparkle pens to add a real fairy shimmer to this one -every fairy needs sparkle!

Here's what I did

Image - Fairy Angelica fromWags'n'Whiskers 

Papers - vintage floral from Coture designs

Coloured with Spectrum noir pens and Spectrum noir Sparkle pens

Card -Cordinations from Crafters Companion 

Flowers - lillies from WOC

Butterfly dies - Diesire from Crafters Companion

Oval dies - Sue Wilson for Creative expression (can't remember the collection!)

Also Chloe stem die from Memory box as a leafy effect

Hope you'll come and join us this week at Wags and Whiskers Challenge - after all anything goes!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Gem of a challenge - female birthdays 23/1
sweet stampin - flowers 16/1
polkadoodles - anything goes 15/01

hugs

Judith

Use dies for our challenge at Wags'n Whiskers

Hi again

I'm back with my DT card for 

Wags'n Whiskers

This challenge our theme is

Use Dies

- how easy is that!

I used the cute 'boy' image Go For Goal - available here

This is what I did...

Image Go for Goal from Wags'n Whiskers

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens 

Papers - sorry lost the cover!!

Star dies - Crafters companion die'sire stars

Oval dies - Tattred lace

4 - Tim Holtz vintage market dies

Hope we see you playing along this week 

Challenges I'm entering with this card...

cute card Thursday - masculine

creative card crew - masculine

Hugs

Judith x

Glitter and sparkle at WagsnWhiskers challenge

Good morning all

It's challenge day over at Wags'nWhiskers today and our theme is

Sparkle and glitter

I've used one of the cute images from Wags'nWhiskers 

called Ellie and Squeak

I was going to colour this little cutie traditional elephant grey

  but I threw caution to the wind and made her pink instead 

why not I thought - life's too short for boring elephants!!

I must admit it doesn't look to sparkly or glittery in the photo

 - but it does have a nice subtle glittery look in real life

I decided on a soft look and coloured it with my Spectrum noir pencils
colour numbers 36,37,38,62,85,112

Here's what i did...

image - Ellie and squeak from Wags'nwhiskers

Coloured with spectrum noir pencils

Papers - first edition blank canvas

Stitched square die - memory box

leaf die - Sue Wilson curled vines

Flower die - MFT  (Sunflower I think - it was a give away in store so has no package)

Sentiment tags - LOTV

glitter details - stickles

Have a look over at Wags'nwhiskers challenge and see what my teamies have made - theres some seriously cute sparkle going on over there!

hugs

Judith xx

We'd like to see lots of layers at Wags 'n Whiskers challenge this week

Good morning all

I'm here with my first post of the day with my Wags'n Whiskers DT card

Our challenge this time is

Lots of Layers

Our lucky winner will win a rubber stamp of their choice from 

Wags'n Whiskers

I used the cute 

Tobys Tasty Treat available here

I'm enjoying making a few simpler cards lately making the image the main focus with just a couple of embellies - I though this cute tiger needed some bright colours to make his stand out.  i also gave him some texture with my pencils - not sure if I like the effect or not : /

- I think it looks better IRL

This is what I did....

Image - Tobys Tasty Treat - by Wags'n Whskers rubber Stamps

Coloured with copics and copics and spectrum noir pencils

Papers - MME

Dies - MFT Blueprints 16

Sentiment -LOTV

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Hope you'll join inwith our challenge - you have a whole two weeks to play along - hope to see you there with your lots of layers.

I'll be back soon with my DT card fro Winter Wonderland Challenge

hugs 

Judith xx

Banners and Bunting at Wags'n Whiskers challenge

Hi again!

If your following along in order this is my second post of three today

This one is my DT card for 

Wags'n Whiskers Challenge

and our theme is 

Banners and Bunting

and our lucky winner - as always will win a Wags'n Whisker's rubber stamp

I decided to use the cute Some Bunny Loves You

available here

For some reason this cute little image reminded me of Little House on the Prairie!! 

- so I gave it a bit of a checky /floral theme to match

This is what I did....

Image - some bunny loves you from Wags'n Whiskers

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - Raspberry road freebies from a magazine

Kraft Card - Crafters companion

Banner die - la la land heart banner die

My next post is for my new DT - follow me to see!!....

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Flowers/flower image - patties creations

Hugs

Judith xx

Sending you flowers!

Good morning all

It's Friday again - where has yet another week gone!

and its time for a brand new challenge at

Wags'n'Whiskers

This time our theme is 

Flowers

I decided to make a framed easel cards

with this cute image called

Gemma and Bella's Spring Fun available here in the UK
and here for US crafters

I decided to make all the flowers to go on the card and used a selection of dies and punches, pearls and gems - I rather like the effect

This is what I did...

Image - Gemma and bonnies spring fun from Wags and whiskers

Coloured with copics

Papers - dolled up from 

Card - Bazzil basics

Flowers made with dies - Sue Wilson daisy dies

                                         Tivoli flower from MB

                                         Small daisy punch 

Leaf die - Sue Wilson

Pearls/gems and ribbon from my stash

Tag stamps - LOTV

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafters cafe - animal antics
Crafting by Designs - shaped cards
Creative moments - anything goes spring/easter
Chocolate coffee cards - use a diecut
Sister act card challenge - anything goes

Hope you have a great weekend

Hugs
Judith xx

Buttons for Easter!

Good morning all

Hope you are all having a really "Good Friday" !

I am certainly happy to be here to share some news that I have been sitting on for a week or two now!

The lovely Nikki at bunny Zoe's Crafts offered me a place on the DT at

Wags 'n'Whiskers Challenge

and of course I said - yes please!

So here I am with my first DT post for my new DT

The theme is 

Buttons 

and it so reminds me of Easter when I was little when it seems (in my memory) that all Easter Eggs had chocolate buttons in - or milk tray!  .....you don't see milk tray eggs anymore now when I think about it - and I'm sure those eggs were a whole lot thicker chocolate than the ones you get now   Why do chocolate Easter Eggs taste so much better than a bar of chocolate - someone told me just this week it's to do with the air inside the egg!!

 - well what can you say to that!

Anyway I digress....

Here is my card for this fortnights challenge at Wags ' Whiskers

and unfortunately the buttons aren't chocolate!

using the cute Toby's Big Day 

available here for Uk or here for US crafters

I decided to stick to fairly CAS for this card- just the cute image, the buttons and a few balloons!!

This is what I did....

Image - Toby's big day from Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber stamps

Coloured with Copics

Papers K & Co (a very old favourite that I keep buying again and again!)

Buttons - from a Docrafts pack 

Balloon punch - Martha Stewart

Stitched square die - Memory box

"3" - cut with Sizzix TH vintage market font

Circle dies - Spellbinders

Twine from my stash

I hope you'll join in with our challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers - see you there

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

Polkadoodles - Use a die
Creative Knockouts - use pinch or die
Crafting for all seasons - animal magic
Little red wagon - call the vet (animals)
Simons wednesday challenge - happy birthday

Hugs

Judith xx