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Okanagan, BC, Canada
Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Skippitydoodah! It is a Colour Challenge

It is Sunday and it is another challenge at Come and Get it Challenges this week. Have fun with this challenge becauseit is a colour challenge and the colour combo of daffodil delight, pool party and calypso coral are beautiful together.




Our sponsor is this week is a wonderful digi company called Fred, She Said Designs and there is a prize. Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi’s, Pre-coloured images, Papers, Sets, Fred’s Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files. Have some fun with Fred!
Random.org will choose a winner, and the winner will receive $10 to spend at Fred She Said!

 

For this challenge I used a digi stamp called "Emma the Skipper". I think she is so cute with her freckles and skipping rope. She also comes with several different sentiment stamps that will give me a lot of mileage from this one sweet digi.

Thanks for stopping by today and come and join us at Come and Get it Challenges this week.


Judy

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Dynamic Duos #10 - Bold and Sassy Colors


Dynamic Duos’ challenge this week is bold and sassy, and the colours are rich razzleberry and old olive. Very nice colour combo!!

To create my card I used a Provo Craft die cutter that I found in my stash. I do not even remember buying it and have for sure never used it. Have any of you had that experience? It has to be several years old.  I can see using \parts of this die cutter for different cards.

Once I decided how I was going to lay out the die cut pieces I put the card together and added some bling to finish it off.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

 

Judy

Monday, July 2, 2012

Acrostic Christmas Challenge

Hello fellow crafters, this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges the challenge is an Acrostic Christmas chosen by Meighan.   The idea for the Acrostic Christmas Challenge is to create a Christmas card, project etc with inspiration taken from the letters in the word "Christmas".

You need to use at least 2 different letters from the word "Christmas" and note in your post what letters you have used and the words if it is not obvious.

Here are some examples but you are only limited to their imagination:

C - Carolers, Church, Cross, Cabin, Carriage, Celebration, Chimney, Collage
H - Happy, Holly, Hamper, Harp, Heavenly, Holiday
R - Ribbon, Red, Reindeer, Robe
I - Incense, Infant, Ivy,
S - Snow, Santa, Stars, Ski, Shape, Sea
T - Tree, Trimming, Thankful, Twenty-fifth, Teddy
M - Music, Mouse, , Moose, Monochromatic
A - Angel, Animal, Advent Calendar, Amethyst, Antique,
S - Sparkle, Sleigh, Skate, Ski





For my card I used the letters:

S for stars
R for Rudolf, reindeer, red and ribbon
H for Holly
M is for Mistletoe

Rudolf with the hanging stars is a cute digi from our sponsor this week Bugaboo Digi stamps. The Holly Jolly sentiment stamp is by Stampin Up.  Being sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps means that we have generous prize for one lucky player of 7 digi stamps.  The winner will chosen by random org.





Come join the fun this week at Holly Jolly Christmas. Create your card and enter here.

Judy

I am also entering my card in the following challenges:
Crafty Hazel Nuts Christmas Challenge – something that makes you smile
52 Christmas Cards Throw Down – anything goes


Sunday, July 1, 2012

Hot Summer Colours



Craft Spots by Kimberly’s challenge this week is Hot Summer Colours (#61) and this card I made reminds me of a hot summer day. I used the upholstery technique that I saw on Gina K Designs web site a couple of weeks ago for the background and coloured the flower and the background with distress inks.

The flower stamp is by Hero Arts and the sentiment is by A Muse Artstamps. A ribbon and some pearls completed the card.

Thank you for stopping by and have a Fan-tastic day!

Judy

Just A Line - Dynamic Duo (#9)





Dynamic Duo every week give you two colours to create your project with and this week the challenge colours are Crumble Cake and your choice. Neutrals such as black, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are welcome. I chose a green toned paper to compliment the Crumble Cake.

My card was inspired by a card I saw in a book called "Designing Handcrafted Cards" by Claire Sun-Ok Choi. The flowers are by Sandylion and the sentiment stamp is by Stamper’s Choice. I used a black pen to make the broken line that outlines the arcs I cut in the paper to hold square.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my cards.
 
Judy

I am also entering this card in the Party Time Tuesday Challenge (#74) - Anything Goes.

Butterflies and Buttercups


This week at Come and Get it Challenges the theme of the challenge is "Bugs". I love this cute digi stamp from Digi Doodles called Louis, Butterflies and Buttercups.

I thought he was a great image for a little boys card with the colourful papers and dinosaur.

Come and join us at Come and Get it Challenges this week. Just create your card and enter it here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a very special day. Do something creative for yourself.


Judy

I am also entering this card n the following challenges.

Raising the bar challenge (107) - summer
Deep Ocean Challenge   (28) Welcome summer
Craft Your Passion (116) winged things
My Craft Spot by Kimberly (61) - Hot Summer colours



Saturday, June 30, 2012

New Digs!



It is an Anything Goes challenge at Party Time Tuesday (#74) this week and I created this New Digs card for the challenge.

This beach hut digi stamp is by Make it Crafty from their Island Collection. The row boat and the sentiment are unmounted stamps from my stash.

I think this card would be a great card for someone moving into a place at the beach or moving into a vacation home.

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look and I hope you have a creative day. 

I am also entering this card in the Inspire Me Friday challenge (#65).


Judy