What I Did..... and what I did next - by Judith Hall

We have a new challenge starting today at

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

our theme is 

Ribbon or Lace

My daughter asked me to make a wedding card for a friend in a shabby chic style

- always a favourite of mine - I loved ma.king this

I made this card almost entirely with papers, dies, stamps and embellishments from the Sara Davies Shabby Chic collection from Crafter's Companion.  With the addition of some die cut buttons, distress inks and word dies it went together very easily - and the bride loved it!!

We have a lovely sponsor this week who will provide a voucher to spend instore at 

so you can stock up o  those ribbons and bows!

Hope you'll join in with our challenge this week -I'm looking forward to seeing lots of pretty lace and ribbons 

hugs Judith xx

Hope you are all well this fine morning and getting back into the swing of the new year!  I've been trying to get myself organised again - but it takes a bit of sorting out after Christmas lol.  I went to Ikea last week and bought 17 new storage boxes (to go with the other twenty odd lol) I've got it all planned in iny mind - these boxes are going to change my craft life and perfect my storage system!!! - I do actually know where everything is......in the meantime my craftroom is a mess, lovely new empty boxes piled everywhere- about 12 inches of space to craft in

 Oh and I've also got new pens to put away!! - 

......but need to do my colour chart first ,

....... then reorganise them again (I keep them in alpha order!!)..... 

.....I so wish  it was all sorted, 

.......I don't like chaos.  

Meanwhile I've got my grandaughter to look after today and at 9 months old she's no help at all lol 

But were going to have fun, ilove when she comes to play : )

- but I  digress....

We have a new challenge at 

Fab'n'Funky Challenges

our theme is 

Use Ribbon

 I made this card with an embossing folder

coloured with distress inks

What I did....

Seam binding ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Embossing Folder - Catitudes - delicate florals from Crafter's Companion

Lantern dies - Catitudes oriental additions from Crafter's Companion

Coloured with TH distress inks tattered rose and bundled sage

Pebeo gilding wax in siver

Kraft card - Crafter's Companion

Celebrate die cut - Sara's signature collection from Crafters Companion

Pearls from my stash

Hope you'll play along with us at Fab'n'Funky this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

TTCRD - Anything goes 24/1
Try it on tuesday - anything but square 31/1
Creative cottage - ribbon and or pearls 31/1

Hugs

Judith x

Well where did January go then!! - when Squirrel asked me if I would like to do a GDT spot  as a pink fairy at Crafty Little fairies it was last year - all of a sudden we're one twelfth of the way through the next one  - how did that happen?

I'm really enjoying my little spot with Lilis Little Fairies and making the most of it showing of my gorgeous LOTV stamps - I could keep going for months just with the stamps I've got - and I'm always up for buying more!!

the challenge theme for this week is

Lavender and Lace

I decided to make a floral card for this challenge as it just sounds floral pretty! - and was going to make it a birthday card, but one of my dear friends lost her mother last week so I decided that this was the perfect pretty image for a sympathy card instead

The image I used is the lovely Foxgloves available here

As you can see I kept it fairly simple keeping the image as the main focus of the card, sticking very much to the theme lavender and a touch of lovely lace.   I loved colouring this image - I love florals and don't use them nearly enough - its nice not to colour skin and clothes for a change.  With all those lovely girly stamps over at LOTV I think you could really go to town with a frilly , lacy totally glammed up card for this challenge - but I'm very happy with my fairly simple card, its so much easier  with the other type, I often just don't know where to stop - or sometimes where to start for that matter lol.

Here's what I did

Image -Foxgloves from LOTV

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencil

card - bazzill basics

papers - Meadowlark from Prima

Sentiment - Anna Griffin

Pearls - Martha Stewart

Lace - WOC

Grey seam binding ribbon - crafty ribbons

We'd love to see some pretty card for this weeks challenge

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Fashionable stamping challenge -Tag along (must have tag and stamping)
the crafters cafe - ribbon and or lace
Crafty sentiments - 1 image, 2 papers. 3 embellies
loves rubber stamps - use lace

hugs
Judith x

Well by the title of my post you might just have guessed the theme of this weeks challenge at 

Moving along with the Times

of lovely janice has chosen the theme 

Cats

nothing ambiguous, not in the least bit complicated 

pure and simple - cats!!

If you call on me regularly you'll know I'm a huge lover of animals - they're there in my side bar all the time.  I used to breed pedigree cats (British shorthairs) when my kids were little and we've always had an assortment of animals in the house - we always had every kid in the neighbourhood at our house because we had cats -complete with litters of kittens, dogs, guinea pigs, budgies.... lol a real menagerie.  But I very recently lost my beloved last cat Barney at the grand old age of 18, it makes me so sad not to have cats but we have too many holidays these days and its not fair or easy on the cats particularly.  We still have our lovely labrador Glenn but he's a very social animal and enjoys when someone else looks after him when we aren't here.

Anyway on with my card

I went hunting around to see what sort of catty images I had and came across this cutie from Meljens

Called Kitty Cat love its available here

A quite bizarre thing happened as I was looking for a link for this digi just now - I found the original post from the artist showing her two cats that she based this stamp on - I hope she doesn't mind me publishing this picture - but I hadn't seen it when I coloured these kittys - and here they are..

 

Now is that spooky or what! - I could have coloured these cats any combination of colours - yet that was what came to my mind - people say I'm a bit spooky at times cos I often do these things....!! 

Janice is offering a cool kitty stamp for you cat loving people to win

it's called Kitty Tiles from New Hampton Art Stamps - its gorgeous 

wish I could enter for the chance to win it!!

  

Anyhooos - you can see the cats I had most recently on my side bar

I had told Janice I would post some others of my cats on here - but when I looked I didn't have any on my computer at all (well I had others of these same cats but not my other cats!!)  I only have my prints and they are where everyone keeps their old photos - in a box in the loft!!  I'll get them out sometime and post some of my other lovely cats.  and cute kitty litters I had!  Oh I do so miss my cats - but its lovely to remember them here today.

When I made this card I had a real embellie crisis -you have no idea how many embellies were put on this card - then taken back off again - I just decided to let the cats do the talking and leave it at that

Here's what I did...

Image - kitty cat love from meljens designs

Coloured with - copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - sunshine by MME

Dark red card and pearls from my stash

Ribbon - vintage seam binding in toffe from crafty ribbons

Sentiment produced in word

die cut circles - spellbinders
die cut labels - MFT

Picture of cats  - http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/oldie-but-goodie-kitty-cat-love.html

Challenges I'm entering with this card

digistamps 4 joy - ribbon
inky impressions - ribbon
animal friends challenge -  punches and dies
crafters companion - hearts
really reasonable ribbon - valentines/love/ribbon
the stamping boutique - valentines

I hope we see lots of lovely cat cards from you at MAWTT - it would be lovely if you would share your cat  photos too  - I'd love to come over and see them 

hugs 

Judith x 

It's another two card day
(not a AnotherTequila Sunrise - sorry I'm a biggg fan of The Eagles sometimes the words of songs just pop into my head - you really should live in here its a very musical place lol)

I digress- what I really want to say is
 I'm so excited to be here with my first DT card for a brand new
Christmas challenge Blog

Christmas Fun is a fortnightly challenge that started on 1st January this year
 and this week its the turn of team B

The theme for the challenge is 

Non Traditional Christmas Colours

I found this fab image in the JustInklined digi shop 

its called Three Kings and is available here

and thought it would make a perfect card for this challenge

I  love this image its also perfect to celebrate Epiphany - which was just last week 

 when the wise men visited the infant Jesus 

I enjoyed colouring this in some totally different colours - mostly colours I don't often use.  Then i simply surrounded the image with gold stickles (it looks better IRL!)

So come on - join me in getting ready or next christmas - while you can still remember the pain of last Christmas when you hadn't made enough cards lol

This is what I did....

Image - the wise men from justinklined

coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Ribbon - Vintage seam binding in teal from crafty ribbons

Gem embellie and papers - Michaels recollections

Kraft - MFT

Glitter - gold stickles

Sentiment - produced in word

Hope we see your gorgeous Christmas creations this week  I'll be back later this morning with my GDT card for Crafty Little Fairies - don't forget to come back to see what I've got cooking!!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

ABC Christmas challenge - anything Christmas
Divas by design -  Ribbon
Digistamps 4 joy - glitter and sparkle
The glory of Christmas challenge - the 3 kings
Kenny Ks Krafty Krew - anything goes/use black(black gem)
Stamp'n'Doodle - use an animal

Hugs 

Judith x