North Pole Express

Exciting news for me, I have been invited to join the talented Creative Artiste Mixed Media team and this is my first challenge with them.  The theme this month is anything goes and I decided to do a Christmas wall hanging.   

The wall hanging is made up of many products from my stash such as 

Just Inklined image called North Pole Express

Tim Holtz Pine Trees dies

Tim Holts Deer dies 

Copics

Diamond Glaze

Merry Christmas die

Glitter

Layers of paper

Polar White Flower Soft

Free digital north pole image 

Several colours of acrylic paints

Hope you will join us this month at Creative Artiste. Pop over to their challenge blog to see the beautiful designed projects that design team have created to inspire you. 

 Remember my favourite quote by Maya Angelou, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Thanks for stopping by!

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Card and Scrap -Anything Goes
Just Keep On Crafting - Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum Christmas - Die Cuts for Christmas
Artistic Stampers - Christmas

Animal Friends Challenge - Christmas or New Year (must have an animal)
Crafter's Cafe - Cuts and/or Punches
Crafty Time - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Merry Christmas

The Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Christmas Gift
Jo's Scrap Shack -  Christmas Joy
Creative Knockouts -Tis The Season
Jilia Spiri Challenge -Altered Art
Star Stampz Challenge - Lots Of Layers 

Have a Beautiful Christmas

I love this Christmas scene stamp by Just Inklined that I choose for this Christmas Scene Challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week.  The digital image is called Little Church in the Snow, a fitting name for this digital stamp.

I added some colour with Copic Markers and then added glitter for the snow.  The sentiment by A Muse ArtStamps was embossed with silver embossing powder and a little bit of bling was added to complete the card. 

Come join us at Holly Jolly this week.  Never too early to start on your Christmas cards.   Pop over to Holly Jolly`s blog and see what the design team has created to inspire you. 

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Shabby Tea Room - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Use A Digi 
Cards Galore Encore - Use a stamp or digi stamp
 Crafts and Me Challenge & Inspiration Blog - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything Christmas
Completely Christmas Must be Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Brr....It's Cold Outside

Happy Easter

There is a great challenge at Come and get It Challenges this week, create your project using ribbon and bows.  I decided to create a card with a Easter theme using a digital image from Just Inklined. 

To create my step card I used a Cheery Lynn design die cutter then coloured  the image with Copic Markers.  To complete my card I used  Easter eggs and sentiment digital stamp and added my ribbon.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Card and Scrap - Use Dies 

Cards Galore Encore - Use a stamp or digi stamp

Crafts and Me Challenge & Inspiration Blog -  Anything Goes

LEJ Designs Challenge -Favorite Die Cuts

The East Wind Challenge -  Use a Digi

Send a Smile for Kids - Easter or Spring

Garden Tag

I joined in a tags swap this month at Inky Fun Stampers with using a fence or gate on the tag.  I had fun creating my spring garden tag.  To make the tag I used the following product:

• Tim Holtz large tag die 
• Gate - cut with Cricut from the Spring Cottage Collection
• Bird - stamp and punch by Martha Stewart
• Digital image - poppies by Just Inklined 
• Coloured with Copic Markers and Distress Inks
• Ribbon from my stash
• Pathway - hand drawn  

I hope my partner enjoys my card. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Quirky Crafts - The Secret Garden.
That Craft Place - Anything Goes.
The Paper Players -  Thankful for Spring.
Allsorts -  Spring is coming
Hiding in my Craft Room - Spring Colors
Send a Smile for Kids - Easter or Spring
Cards Galore Encore - Use a stamp or digi stamp
Kreativeinkauf-challenge - Spring Flowers

  

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - No Pattern Paper

 

It is Paige's turn to chose the challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges. and she chose no-pattern paper.  The possibilities for making Christmas cards is endless.  

I chose to use a snowman skiing for my image for this challenge.  I thought this digital stamp from Just Inklinked was so cute and a great card for my oldest grandson Josh this Christmas.  To colour him I used bright colours and added Diamond Glaze to his goggles and the water.  The snowflake background is an old rubber stamp by PSX and the die cut snowflake is cut from my Cricut.  I love the way the easel card makes him look like he is sliding down the slope.

Now I am one more card closer to having my Christmas cards made this year and it is only August.  Come join us at Holly Jolly and be ready for Christmas early this year.  

 

Judy   

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes 

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes

Because You Are Something Special

I made this Honeysuckle card for an upcoming swap.  I think it says spring is here.  I love the light spring colours.  The flower image is by Just Inklined and I added colour with Copic Markers.  

I used several different papers of pattern paper from Martha Stewart which I die cut and layered.  I added a ribon, sentiment and a button and the card is complete.

Thank you for stopping by to take a look. 

Judy

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

My Sheri Crafts - Flower Power
Crafting for all Seasons - Pink

Through The Craft Room Door - Alway's Anything Goes

Card Mania - Flowers
Forever Friends - Monthly Challenge (May): Anything Goes;

Forever Friends - Pastels

Embossed Plus a Ribbon

Meighan had a great idea for a challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges, embossed plus a ribbon.  

I embossed my background then rubbed gold and green Inka Gold over the embossed area. After the Inka Gold dried I buffed it with a soft cloth. I lovee it's shiny metallic colour.

The dove and holly digi is by Just Inklined Digital Stamps which I coloured with a few glitter pens. Next I ran a pattern ribbon horizontal on the card and added a little bling.  Thank you for stopping by today and remember to do something creative for yourself. 

Hope you will join us at Holly Jolly this week. Pop over the Holly Jolly blog and see the cards of the rest of the design team has made to inspire you.

Judy

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

 Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Your Favorite Color Combo (gold and green)
 Cards in Envy -  Things with Wings
 Lexi's Creations - Lace and/or Ribbons 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - must be Christmas - #121 Red and green must be seen 
 CHNC challenge extra for April  -  Anything Goes (Christmas)

Successful Fishing

I created this card for a friend who is an avid fisherman for his birthday.  The digital stanp is by Just InkLined, one of my favourite digital stamp companies. I coloured the image with my Copic Markers and Distress Inks then layered some extra fish to complete the scene.  

I hope he enjoys my card.  Thanks for stopping by today.  

Judy 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

My Time to Craft - Men Only
My Sheri Crafts  -  Time to go Fishing

Totally Gorjuss -  For the Men

It is Bingo Time at Holly Jolly

Julie chose a Bingo for this week's challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.   To play along with us you must chose a line across, diagonally or down and make your card using the three items that you find in that row.

I chose to use a diagonal row; pearls or gems, die cuts or punches and designer paper. 

I used this traditional image of Christmas Bells and Holly from Just Inklined Digital Stamps for my project.  I decided to use a round easel pattern for the card shape and coloured my image with Copic Markers and glitter pens.  I added some coordinating striped designer paper, a two coloured Christmas ribbon, red pearls and three green jingle bells to complete the card.  

Come join us this week at Holly Jolly.  It is never to early to start your Christmas cards.  Need some inspiration, pop over to the Holly Jolly Challenge blog and see what the other Holly Jolly Christmas elves have made this week.

Judy 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Christmas Stampin All Year Long Challenge – All Tied Up (use Ribbon)

Sparkles Christmas Challenge- Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland- Most Wonderful Time of the  Year

 

The Twin's First Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week is have a 2 punch or dies challenge and Bugaboo Stamps is the sponsor of this challenge so everyone who enters their card has a chance of winning 7 digi stamps from Bugaboo. 

 

This is my card.

 

I chose to use Bugaboo's Digital Image called Christmas Horse.  I made two similar cards because the cards are for my niece's twin's first Christmas.  I used two die cuts for the card and coloured the Christmas horses similarly but different.  I added their names to the card to personalize them and celebrate their first Christmas. 

I hope you will join us this week at Holly Jolly.  You cannot start your Christmas cards too early.  If you need some inspiration pop over to the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge site and see the inspiring cards by the other  members of the design team.  

Judy

I am entering my card in the following challenges

 Sparkles Christmas: Anything goes 

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - No Snow

Here Comes the North Pole Express

Meighan, one of the Christmas elves at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges chose a R’s challenge this week. Your card must contain at least three things that start with the letter "R" such as red, reindeer and ribbon.

I had just the right digi image by Just Inklined Digital Stamps called North Pole Express for this challenge. I actual have 4 "R" word on my card: red, railway tracks, reindeer and ribbon. This was a fun card to do. I colored the image with my Copic Markers and added Diamond Glaze on the headlights to give the card some depth. The "Merry & Bright" is a rubber stamp by Stampendous.

I think this is a very colorful card, just right for my youngest grandson for Christmas. He is in love with trains. Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will join us this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges and have a creative day.

　

Judy

Over the Moon

Farm Animals are the theme of Come and Get it Challenges this week. Just Inklined Digital Stamps as a few really cute cow digi stamps. This digi is called over the moon. I loved the look on this cows face. He looks like he had enough and just couldn’t make that jump over the moon. I made this card for my nephew who had some serious surgery this week.  I hope it cheers him up.

Come join the fun at Come and Get it this week. If you need an inspiration hop over to Come and Get It Blog and check out the creations of the rest of the design team. 

Judy

All Things Mechanical

Party Time Tuesday’s Challenge (#72) this week is called All Things Mechanical, Father’s Day.

I used this interesting old train digi image called Old Chuffa by Just Inklined Digital Stamps along with a ticket tag, gears and key I had in my stash and a rubber stamp sentiment to complete my composition.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a creative day.

Judy

Challenges I am entering this card also in the following challenges:

Cards for Men - Father’s Day
Fab and Funky Challenges - Anything Goes
Paper Star Challenges - Father’s day

Christmas Foliage

Here is my card for this weeks challenge at Craftyhazelnut’s Christmas Challenge (#74), Christmas foliage. This lovely digi with the four robins and holly by Just Inklined Digi Stamps. I of saying by Stampin Up. I think the addition of the brad, glitter, and ribbon give the card a festive mood.

I am also entering this card in the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Christmas birds.

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

It's a Boy

Dynamic Duos this week (#4) theme this week is monochromatic colours and the colours are bashful blue and marina mist. When I think of that colour combo I immediately thought of a card for a baby boy. I found this digi image by Just Ink Lined Digi Stamps called "Baby Line" for this card. I like the cute teddy bear hanging on the line.

Once I had finished completing adding colour to the image I layered papers in the theme colour, a sentiment, pearls and added a ribbon to finish the card.

Judy

From My House To Yours - PTT#45

Today’s card was made for this week’s Party Time Tuesday challenge and guess what it is another Christmas Card. The theme of the challenge is “Holiday Greetings”. I love the colour I chose for the Christmas bells. You do not see a lot of turquoise blue on Christmas cards and I love the combination of gold, silver and turquoise blue. These beautiful Christmas bells are from the collection of stamps by Just Inklined Digital Stamps.

I adhered a layer the snowflake embossed paper and punched silver snowflakes to the card. I then added the sentiment, ribbon and some bling to finish the card.

I need to clean up my craft room before I start another project. I still have a few Christmas projects to finish and Christmas will be here soon.

Have a wonderful creative day.

Judy

Christmas Birds - Z fold

These pretty Chrismtas birds are by Just Inklined and I creatd this Z-Fold card for a card swap my yahoo group Inky Fun Stampers. They have such great swaps, I love swaps and get the most interesting mail delivered to me.

Have a good day. Thank you for stopping by.

Judy

Party Time Tuesday Challenge PPT#40

The inspiration for this challenge was a photo of an amber coloured diamond. I chose to use this digi stamp from Just Inklined called ”giraffertys mum”. I used the giraffe for the rich amber colour of the photo and added some bling and glitter to represent the sparkle of the diamond. I added a sentiment and some stars to complete the design.

This was a fun swap. Thanks for stopping by.
Judy