We're getting sketchy at moving Along With The Times

Good morning all

Whoops just looked and wondered where my post was - scheduled an hour late - for some reason! - sorry better late than never

I was really glad to have a sketch to work from for this weeks challenge at MAWTT

I always think that if you know the layout - you're half way there

and with the busy couple of weeks I've had I need all the help I can get lol

I'm still on my rubber stamps "thing" - I have so many uninked and have decided that I'm using them this year -come hell or high water - as my Nana used to say lol - apart from the waste of not using them it's also such a shame that they never get seen.  Today I'm using a cute Wee stamp that I won in a challenge last year.  it's ages since i've made a pretty pink card and decided that she was a perfect candidate to be pretty and pink!!   

Here is the sketch - interpret it any way you like - as long as we can see the sketch on your work

This is what I did....

Image - from Peggy from Wee Stamps at Whimsy Stamps

coloured with -Copics and Prismacolour pencils

Papers  Nitwits Perfect Pair by Mary Fran from LOTV

Circle dies - spellbinders

Ribbon - free with magazine

flowers - martha stewart

Sentimentb- LOTV

Butterfly punch - martha stewart

Oval Pearls - Kaisercraft

Hope we see you over at MAWTT this week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafty ribbons - anything goes
Southern girls - bling bling bling
paper pretties - ribbon
craft your passions - girly girl

hugs 

Judith x

Lia Stamps lovely new Vintage girls blog hop for Whimsy Stamps

Hi - here I am again

I'm back today because we have a special Vintage Girls Release blog hop to share four brand new imagescreated by the Lovely Lia at Lia Stampz

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 4 mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Vintage Girl digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is Lia

This winner will receive all 4 brand new Vintage Girl digital stamps from 

the Whimsy Stamps Store

The hop will run for 1 week and end on Friday 14^th February at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced over on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog

I chose to use the cute Birthday Girl - available here - isn't she just gorgeous!

I really love this delicate fern die from Memory box for vintage style cards - its just gorgeous, I had some fun with my dies for this card and like the effect, went a bit overboard with the gems too -but it's for my daughters birthday next month so I splashed out a bit lol - she will reach the grand old age of 30 - how did that happen!!

This is what I did...

Image - Birthday girl from Liastampz at Whimsy Stamps
Coloured with copics
Papers -Rondelle from Prima
Sentiment - LOTV tag
gem swirls and gems on flowers and butterfly - Micheals recollections collection
Dies - Memory box - delicate fern, honeyblossom sprig and fabulous phlox
Whimsy stamps - elegant butterfly die (with its tail cut off!)
scalloped oval dies - spellbinders

Your next stop on the hop from here is Marianne

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

Valou

Nancy

Audrey

Charlene

Shirl

Morgyn

Cely

Suzi

Véronique

Andrea

Maria

Judith

Marianne

Ruza

Erum

Michelle

Lisa

Lia Visirin

Hugs

Judith

Summer sailing! - Whimsy Inspiration post

Good morning blog friends

Aren't I doing well this week!  - my 3rd post in a row - and I'm back tomorrow with a blog hop!

Todays post is my Whimsy stamps inspiration post and I'm using a Digi that I've had since last summer.  Always intending to use but never quite getting it together!!

This is Ahoy by Liastampz at Whimsy Stamps 

Available in the Whimsy stamps shop  HERE

I love all things nautical, we even have a beach themed conservatory here in our house, with a lovely collection of shells. I've always picked up shells on the beach, they're from beaches from all over the world and if ever I'm feeling down my shells take me to those lovely places and the days I had there and make me smile - the beach is always my happy place.

I've been a seaside girl all my life - always living on the coast - so close we could always walk to the sea.  I love the sea and really couldn't imagine living somewhere inland.  In the winter I walk our dog on the beach and even on freezing cold rainy days I love to be there, its not all about sunshine, if you're dressed for the cold there's something beautiful about the  crashing waves and wind.  The beach where we walk is in a bay and when the tide is right out we can walk end to end right to the pier and back probably 6 miles or more there and back along the bay and you can walk the whole way on the sand sometimes hopping across the rocks and rock pools. 

Glenn on the beach at Whitburn showing the bay through Seaburn down to Roker Pier

Sunrise on the beach 

When I got this digi I had the idea that it was a perfect image for a little boys card and real summer scene.  I decided that I would use nautical papers and embellies - but didn't have any! I bought some papermania nautical papers and embellies last summer, then when I had my trip to the My Favourite Things shop in Florida last Christmas one of my things on the list was the seaside charms dies - so I was good to go!

This is what I did....

Image Ahoy from Liastampz at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and prisma color pencils

Papers and bow - Ahoy there! from paper mania

Nautical Dies - seaside charms from dienamics at MFT

kraft card - from MFT

Letters cut with TH vintage market dies

Twine from my stash

Sentiment - LOTV

circle dies -spellbinders

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Winter wonderland -Digi days

Sister act card challenge -  anything goes

Creative knockouts - tictactoe (middle line)

little red wagon - childs play

simon says - anything goes with twine or string

Hope I've brought you a little piece of seaside and sunshine today

hugs

Judith x

Its a 'New' challenge at Whimsy Stamps today

Hello again

It seems a while since I had two posts in a day but I've got two today and two tomorrow - no rest for the wicked as they say!

Our new challenge this month  at Whimsy Stamps is

Something New

 and I've used one of this months new release digis 

called Birthday Prince from Liastampz and available HERE

I just love this little image - just perfect for a little boys birthday card 

so true  to life in a child's make believe world and I decided to make it an easel card so I would have extra space for the embellies I had in mind.

here is a close up of the details

I used my favourite "little boy card" papers with the toy embellies and sentiment from matching sets

They are all Hopscotch Boy from K & Co

Here's what I did....

Image - Birthday Prince from liastampz at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with Copics and prismacolr pencils

Papers, sentiment and die cut toy embellies - hopscotch boy from K & Co

Card - Bazzill basics

Circles cut with spellbinders dies

Sentiment in circle - LOTV

Stars - nellie snellen die

There is also a lovely Birthday Princess digi by Liastampz too - equally cute - hop on over to Whimsy Stamps digi store to check out the new releases this month- just so cute! 

Hope you can find something new to enter into our challenge this month

Challenges I'm entering with this card 

Pennys paper crafty - embellishments

hugs Judith xx

Snowman Country cute - yes he certainly is!

Good Morning all

I hope today finds you all in good Christmas spirit (and not too stressed by it all!)

I'm here today to share my card for the 24 days of Christmas Event at Whimsy Stamps

For all of you who do not know what's going on over at Whimsy Inspiration blog - the design team is holding a 24 Days of Christmas Event to thank you all for your continued support of Whimsy Stamps! 

Every day from 1st to 24th December, a member of the design team will be sharing a brand new Whimsy holiday creation on the Whimsy blog.  Included in these daily posts will be a LETTER.  Visit every day, make a note of each letter and keep them safe.  Once you have collected all 24 letters, you should be able to unscramble them and make a 4 word phrase.  

Email your phrase to whimsystampscontests@gmail.com by 31st December 2013, and if you've guessed correctly, you will be entered into the draw to win a fantastic GRAND PRIZE! 

But that's not it, there will also be some fun SPOT PRIZES throughout the entire event. They could be hidden either on the Whimsy blog  or on one of the design team member's blogs! Be sure to leave a comment here AND on the DT's blog posts each day to be in with a chance to win! 

Here is my inspiration card for the event

using Snowman Country Cute by Crissy Armstrong available here

This is what I did ...

Image - snowman country cute from crissy armstrong at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics and prismacoor pencils

Papers - recollections at Michaels and MME

pearl brads - Whiff of joy

Flower dies - marianne (large die) and Dienamics

Leaf - magnolia

sentiment tag LOTV

Why not pay a visit to Whimsy Inspirations blog and see if you can win yourself a prize - don't forget to leave me a comment here - for the chance to win a spot prize.

hugs Judith xx

Christmas is on its way - big time!

Good morning all

I'm here this morning with an inspirational post for Whimsy stamps, I've had a really busy week or so with not much time for crafting - or anything else for that matter!  We've been painting and decorating the house, cleaning carpets and putting our Christmas decorations up!!  I can hear you all saying WHAT!!! but yes you heard right I'm sitting here in full Christmas mode surrounded by our Christmas decorations and lights and our lovely big tree!  - we also put our outside lights up on the trees outside - but they're not turned on yet in case we scare the neighbours lol

I have to confess that I love it when the house is all decorated for Christmas - its my favourite time of year....but I'm really not a complete Christmas nut its just that we're going to Florida on Wednesday and won't be back until 7th December and that's just far to late to start putting up the tree and sorting things out - so I'm far happier that its done now.  When the family were all there for Sunday dinner yesterday we had a lovely time - just like Christmas.  My grandson loved the candles on the table - he's almost two and we had a great time lighting and blowing out candles - little things ha ha.  Even my mother who though it was "far to early for Christmas" had to admit that it cheered everything up - so I say - give it a try - you might just like an early Christmas!!

Anyway - back to the job in hand

I made these cute gift tags with a lovely set available over at Whimsy stamps

You'll find Christmas Gift Tags by Stampart Design by Kathryne HERE 

There is a lovely selection of designs and I printed them out in different sizes to suit a selection of gifts

I then coloured them with copics (and glittered some) then mounted them onto red card or silver mirri, added a few snowflake embellies here and there and finished them off with ribbons.  They looked so pretty with all the bows and even my husband stopped and commented - which is not normal at all!  

I still have a stack yet to colour, I think they're a great idea - and so much prettier - and cheaper than bought ones.  I was even surprised myself at how much I liked them!

Challenges I'm entering with these tags

Glitter n sparkle challenge - tag it
Jingle belles -holiday traditions

A lovely bloghop at Whimsy stamps to welcome November!

Welcome to the November digital release blog hop!!!!

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

Liastampz

Crissy Armstrong

Ashlan Valor Tangles

Marika Collins

Miss Rach'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  Blog

 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 Sunday 8th September at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced right here.

I chose to use this cute digi from Liastampz

called Snowmen available here

I think this stamp has a bit of a retro feel to it and tried to follow that through the card 

This is what I did...

Image - Snowmen from Liastampz to Whimsystampz

coloured with copics

Papers and sentiment from Dovecraft 'tis the season

Card - bazzill basics

Diecut tree - Mariannes creatables

Glitter - Martha Stewart

ribbon and gems and star brad from my stash

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

Michelle Oatman

Lisa West

Kelly Mannix

Judith Hall

Jackie Smith

Charlene Brown

Jackie Randolph

Crissy Armstrong

Marjolein Dekker Dejager

Sheri Danielson 

Have a great hop!

Hugs Judith x

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Crafty girls - anything goes

My heart pieces - anything christmas

A creative romance - metal mania (metal brad star on tree)

Crafty hands challenge- anything goes
Polka doodles - anything goes christmas

Con - grat - u - lations

Morning all

I'm pretty sure that anyone of a certain age in the UK will be able to hear Cliff Richard singing 

Con-grat-u-lations

How could you avoid it! I can't say the word without singing the song in my head!

and over at 

My time to Craft

 this week this is our theme

Anything with Congratulations 

(or something of similar meaning - well done etc)

I decided on a baby girl Congratulations card

The image is a digi called Baby Girl from Lia Stampz at Whimsy Stamps available here

There is also a "boy" version of this - they are both such pretty stamps

I think I got into a bit of a distress thing a week or so back with lots of distress/vinage style

 - now I can't get out of it lol

Here's what I did....

Image - Baby girl from Lia Stampz by Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with Copics and prismacolour pencils

Distress ink TH dusky rose

Paper - MME lost and found - blush

Vintage seam binding - crafty ribbons

scalloped circle - Grand nestability

Label die - Dienamics

Congratulations - Anna Griffin rubber stamp

button  and pearls from my stash

Pearl heart - MCH

Hope you all have a great weekend

 - and all those on half term school hollies next week - hope its a good one!

Hugs 

Judith x

Are you sick to death of my shabby chic yet!!

Good morning all

Its been one busy, funny old week this one!

I'm back this morning with my 3rd Shabby chic DT project in a week - 

could this actually be Shabby Chic week!!?

Anyway I'm back here with my card for 

My Time to Craft

And yet another

Shabby chic

I made this really simple gift tag with the cute Sapphire from Stampart by Kathryne available here

I cut two sizes of tag and tided them together with vintage seam binding - coloured the image and doodled her wings and the corners of the tag with glitter glue for a shabby chic look,  then added two little sentiment tags fastened on with a brad to finish off -really very simple to make

This is what I did...

Image - Sapphire from Stampart design by Kathryne at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with - Copics

Glitter glue - Martha Stewart  - hematite and sharoite

Card - Bazzill basics

Tags dies- My favourite things

Brad - Whiff of Joy

Sentiment tags - LOTV

Vintage Seam binding - crafty ribbons

There must be some more of you making Shabby chic this week - there's certainly no shortage of challenges to enter

Challenges I'm entering with this card..

Paper Creators crafts - Die cute and punches

Di's digi designs - Colouring skills

A creative romance -Fairy tales or winged creatures

Patties creations - Ribbon (mst include an image)
crafty little fairies - bows and brads

hugs

Judith xx

Welcome to the Whimsy Digital Team Blog hop with our fab September new release images

Greetings from me on my jolly hollies here in Florida - we're having a wonderful much needed relaxing time - read on below!, and welcome to the September digital release blog hop at Whimsy Stamps!!!!

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 Carrie's

Blog

 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 Sunday 8th September 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

Marjolein Dekker

Judith Hall

Charlene Brown

Lisa West

Judith Gowdy

Kelly Mannix

Carrie Robinson

I have made a new home card for this months bloghop - I have to say this image came in so handy and at just he right time, as my daughter just moved into her new house!  I used the lovely 

Home by Lia Stampz - available here

as you can see it's an easel card

 The photo makes it look sort of tall - but its a square card!!

a close up of the sentiment label

I really like this cute house it's sort of higgledy piggledy and perfect for a new home card - especially my daughters new home!  My husband took early retirement earlier this year and he has been working on this wreck of a house she and her husband bought while they lived in a rented place while it was done.  He has totally transformed it, rewiring, replumbing, new doors and skirtings, bathroom and kitchen - its still  long way from finished but at least they're in now and they love it - it has a lovely big garden (I see the next project coming up!!) and its lovely to see them so happy, but it's lovely to get my DH back - he's been there for the past few months mostly seven days a week - I'm exhausted with it all too

Anyway back to the card - this is what I did...

Image - Home from Lia Stampz at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

Sentiment - LOTV

Papers - from dovecraft

Die cut hearts - Memory box

Die cut label - Memory box

Die cut circles - Spellbinders

Die cut flower - Dienamics

Flower jewels and punched border- Martha Stewart

Ribbon - American crafts

Stick on gems - from my stash

Have a great week everyone 

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Challenges4everybody - anything goes

Lacy Sunshine - punches and dies

Sister act challenge - anything goes

Stamping for the weekend - colours of summer

Crafty ribbons -anything goes with ribbon

hugs

Judith xx

A sympathy card

Good morning all

Can you believe that this weather is still holding!  We have been just about living in our garden for the past few weeks - breakfast and dinner out there every day! - and we even had an Indian take away in the garden last night - now there's a first, there I was sitting with my curry and a glass of the new blackberry Pimms that I treat myself to in Tesco - this is the life!! - but its also why not much crafting is getting done around here.   

It was actually quite an experience in our garden tonight - though nothing to do with the food.  We live very close to the coast and its the Sunderland airshow tomorrow, there we were sitting eating our curry and along came a Lancaster bomber - so low you could look up and see the undercarriage clearly and then a spitfire went zipping past - then the red arrows did a few loops and finally a typhoon (no I'm not an expert - though I've seen them many times at the airshow) - but had a look at the Sunderland website to see what was going at at tonights opener.  So impressive and we'll be walking down again this weekend to see the displays as they fly out over the coast and sea.  

Anyway I digress I have a new card to share today for 

My Time to Craft Challenge

and also

my Whimsy Inspiration card this week

The theme at My Time to Craft is 

Sympathy Cards

I used the gorgeous image Full Bloom available here

from Stampart design by Kathryne at Whimsystamps

I think I've used this one before (Kathy has some gorgeous floral designs and I just love them)

but I thought that this one really lent itself to a sympathy card.  I kept it very simple with the focus on the image and made it into a pretty easel shape.  I personally think that a sympathy card should be simple in design - its not really the time for OTT embellies - well that's my opinion :  ).

Here's what I did..

Image - Full Bloom form Stampart Design by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and shaded with prismacolor pencils

Sentiment - created in word

Papers - MME lost and found - blush - love these papers

Ribbon - my current favourites from a pack of american crafts ribbons bought at TK Max

Pearls - Kars

Card - Bassill basics

Die cut shape  for frame - Spellbinders labels 10

Tag - Dienamics tag die set

For once I have the colours for you of my copics - a favourite go to combo of each colour set

Reds E39, E37,E35, E32

Greens G63, G61, G11, G0000

Beiges E43, E41, E40

prismacolour pencils - Tuscan Red and Warm Grey (70%)

Things seem to be so quiet around blogland - perhaps just a simle little sympathy card will be an easy make and we'll see you at MTTC this week - see you there

Hugs

Judith xx

Colour theme challenge at My Time to Craft

Hi all

(I'm sooo sorry this is late - don't know what happened to my scheduled post but it didn't happen and I just realised!!)

This weeks challenge at 

My Time to Craft

is a colour challenge for a change

The colours are

Turquoise and Brown

I decided to make a gift bag and tag  with a really cute image from this months new release at Whimsy Stamps by Moon Cookie Gallery

Its called Grandmas Garden 1 available here

This is such a pretty image that I think lends itself to all kinds of creations and colour schemes, there are 3 variations of this image in the Whimsy stamps store -all just as pretty.

Here's what I did...

Bag - from Michaels 

Image - Grandmas Garden 1 from Moon cookie Gallery at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics

Paper - K & Co

Card - bazzil basics

Flower - Prima

Pearls and butterflies from my stash

Ribbon - american crafts

Leaves - Martha Stewart leaf punch

Challenges I'm entering with this card

CMC copics challenge - anything goes
bloggers challenge -pretty packaging
inspire me fridays - anything goes
totally papercraft -things with wings
crafty ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Hop on over to MTTC - the girls have made some lovely projects with this pretty colour combo -we'd love you to join in with us this challenge

hugs 

Judith xx