xmas boxes and Lacy Sunshine

Managed to make a couple of gift boxes for christmas presents before I clear my craft stuff away ready for christmas, its no fun having to use the dining table to craft!

Ive decorated the boxes using some of the paper I got in a sale at the craft barn cant remember what its called sorry.

The holly comes from Oyster Crafts and the adorable images are from Lacy sunshine

Hoping the kids like the boxes as much as whats inside.

Challenge

Craft your Passsion - no cards
Stampin for the weekend anything goes

Snowflakes at Fab n Funky

Sorry i'm late with my post today - have had a wicked cold and really struggled to get anything done.
But I finally managed to make a choccie bag this evening, only another six to go!

Our challenge this week has been set by Rachel and if your anything like us you to will be struggling to get your christmas cards finished - hopefully the theme

SNOWFLAKES

will help you on your way.

For my choccie bag I have used Tim Holtz snowflakes dies both large and small and added silver treasure.
My image is Frosty Friends which is available from our sponsor Stampart Design by Katheryne, which I coloured with copics and lots of glitter pen. Sorry photo doesnt do it justice it seems to have lost its sparkle.

Challenges
Top Tip Tuesday - Snowflakes
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
Craft your Passion - Let it snow
Paper make Up - Sparkle
IncyWincy - Let it Snow

#196 A Touch of Frost - Fab n Funky

Were back with a new challenge for you at 

Fab n Funky

and this week Alli has chosen the theme

'A TOUCH OF FROST'

We have a new sponsor for you lucky peeps this week

Stitchy bears Digi outlet

The prize is $10 to spend on artists images featured here today

(Stitchy Stamps, Barbara Jensen, Reece's  Scrap Pieces)

Lucky me I got to play with this amazing image

Butter Blue

by Barbara Jenson

Ive coloured her with copics and added sparkly embossing powder to her wings which is a bit hard to see!

Papers are by Bearly Mine Designs

and I must be on a role cos I love how this card turned out too!

Challenges

MAWTT - Girly but NO pink

Stampin for the weekend - Feeling Festive

Pink Gem Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Corrosive Challenge - Happy Holidays

Delightful Sketches - Favourite Things - Fairies; Copics; Dies

SOS - Winter

Oldie but Goodie - Ribbon

Crafty Hazelnut - Christmas

One Crazy Stamper - Winter

Pandora's Box

Just want to share with you Pandora's Box

that I made at the Craft Barn with Neil from Neelz Expressions

 lots of gluing, gesso and paint, photos really dont do it justice couldnt get the colour right so try to imagine a colour in between the two photos and it should be close.

Challenge

Cute card thursday anything but a card

Birthday celebrations continue at Fab n Funky

 Just a quick reminder there is still time to join in with the 

Fab n Funky

Birthday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

I had another play with the 

Winter Song Birdies

by 

Doodle Pantry

available Here

The birds are a set of three carollers so used an art programme to merge and flip them to make a choir.

I think it turned out pretty good

This time I went for a whole bird choir - coloured with copics and lots of glitter. Coloured paper and ribbon with vintage photo distress inks.

Hope you like

Challenges

Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch

Moving along with the times - music inspired

Stampin for the weekend - Feeling festive

Pink Gem - Sparkle

Sweet Stampin - Celebration

Corrosive Challenge - holiday

Birthday Celebrations

Well we may not officially be royalty (close though)

but we are having a second celebration

of our

4th

Birthday

at

FAB N FUNKY

A huge thank you to everyone who took part last week and congratulations to the winners of those awesome prizes

but for those that didnt win there is

another chance to win this week.

Our wonderful sponsors
and
Prizes

Prize is 3 digis of the winners choice from
The Doodle Pantry shop

Prize is a voucher to spend in store at
Lili of the Valley

Prize - 5 digis of the winners Choice from
Stampart Design by Kathryne
 - and a GDT spot at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Prize is a class of the winner's choice

Prize is 3 digis of the winners choice from the Inky impressions Shop

Prize is 3 images of the winners choice from 
the Lacy Sunshine Shop

Is that not an amazing list!

and the best news is everyone can enter because it

'Anything Goes'

For my card this week I got to play with 

Winter Song Birdies from The Doodle Pantry

As you can probably tell I really loved colouring these little birds and love how this card turned out.
Challenges
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
Scrap Creations - Sparkle
CMC - Winter

4th Birthday at Fab n Funky

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday Dear

FAB N FUNKY

Happy Birthday to You

Yep its Fab n Funky's 4th Birthday

 were all set to celebrate

and hope you will join in the fun

cos we have some amazing prizes for you

The challenge this week is an easy one it's 

'Anything Goes'

So this should be really easy for you to complete a project / card and enter our Challenge.  Maybe you will Win one of the Prizes that we have on offer for you:

Our wonderful sponsors
and
Prizes
Stampart Design by Kathryne

Prize - 5 digis of the winners Choice - and a GDT spot at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

  digistamps4joy (or DS4J).  

- the prize is 5 images of the winners choice from DS4J shop

LACY SUNSHINE 

Prize is 3 images of the winners choice from the Lacy Sunshine Shop

Inky Impressions 

prize is 3 digis of the winners choice

The fabulous Flonzcraft

prize - $20 voucher to spend in store - with free shipping! how great is that!

I used this oh so lovely 

Victorian Winter Emily

Papers are from Designer Extreme CD's by Donna at Bearly Mine Designs with pearl drops added to snowflakes for a bit of bling.

The Pearl drops were on my craft table so fit the shopping our stash challenge this week.

I really loved colouring this one but totally lost my mojo when it came to making the card, would you believe it took me just over three hours to put this card together and I had already coloured Emily.

When its not working it's just not working.

Then had problems getting a picture - my decent camera's battery was flat, the memory card for my little camera lost the thingy at the side so was write protected, tried taking some photos on phone but oh not good, managed to find an old memory card eventually and get a couple of photos but found that the light has really bounced of the card so not really doing her justice.

OH well heres hoping you all have a better time than me

Challenges
Shoppingour stash - on your desk (pearl drops)
Lacy Sunshine - Bling
CraftyHazelnut - Chrtistmas
Crafty Hazelnut - outdoors
Oldie but a goodie - Christmas
Papertake weekly - snow and ice (snowflakes)
CCC -Pearls

Hugs Beccy x

#192 Fab n Funky Christmas Colours

Good Morning Peeps its Wednesday again and we have a new challenge for you at

 Fab'n'Funky

and as its fast approaching

 our challenge this week is a Christmas one
....but..... 

if your not feeling in the holiday mood

Its only the colours that need to be Christmas ones
 - your card can be anything you like

but we're looking for the traditional colours of Christmas

Red, Green, Gold, Silver  maybe some black (for Santas boots!) 

- I'm sure you get the picture

We have a fabulous sponsor this week

and the great prize on offer is

5 images of the winners choice

I used Digi Darla's Santa Claus 2 which is available HlERE























Challenges
Pink Gem - Christmas
One Crazy Stamper - Christmas
Crafty Hazelnuts - Chistmas

Lacy Sunshine

Hi this is my entry for the Lacy Sunshine

Challenge

 I had a bit of a nightmare with this card all started good colouring went well even the red didnt bleed too much, chose the papers and design and then things went down hill from there.

 Had major problems with the dies not cutting out smoothly then tried to mat the image and put it on crooked, that had to come of so back to the die cutting.

 Used glue gun to stick flowers on and managed to put them on in wrong place and couldnt get them off again.

Then real disaster thought would be a good idea to add a bit of sparkle to the wreath

BAD BAD move, managed to drop a blob of red on the wreath which was soo much bigger than it should have been and no time to redo so have had to do a bit of a cover up job, god bless stickles!

OH said he couldnt see it but I know its there!!!!!!!! so please dont look too hard.

Challenges Lacy Sunshine Challenge-Anything Goes
Crafty Hazlenut - Bling/Sparkle
Pink Gem - Christmas is Coming

Fab n Funky celebrate Halloween

Hello Peeps

Angelique has set the challenge for us this week at

FAB N FUNKY

and has chosen 

HALLOWEEN

Our sponsor for this week is 

BUGABOO STAMPS

who let us have an image to play with

I always have a bit of a problem with Halloween as I make cards and never send them as its not something we really do in England much

so when I saw this

image I knew I had to have it cos it fits with Halloween

but can be for other occasions!

Im thinking of saving for my mum or my sister as we are constantly referred to as the witch of the west and the witches apprentice's by my mean old husband and kids!!!!!

Frame-it--JJ--call-me-a-witch

I coloured image with copics and 

used corner dies with lots of added 

swarovski crystals,

Hope you like 

Beccy x

Challenges

Pile it on - 2 embellishments

Desert Island Crafts - Witches/die cuts/lots of black

Bellie Challenge - Halloween

The sisterhood of crafters - Trick or treat

#190 Fab n Funky Distress

Helllooooooooo

I'm the host of this weeks challenge at 

Fab n Funky

This week I have chosen the theme of

DISTRESS

That could be distressing the edges or using distress inks or distress embossing powders

the choice is yours.

We have two fabulous sponsors for you this week

Flonzcraft

prize $20 shop voucher (plus free shipping)

also offering 12% discount in shop to all challenge entrants 

and

Lacy Sunshine

 

who are offering 5 Digi Images

I have used

Eleanor Santas Helper by Lacy Sunshine

Isnt she cute - I just love those glasses.

Challenges

Crafty Cardmakers - Shabby Chic

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas is coming

one stitch at a time - anything goes

Spots and Stripes

Im just a tad late with this weeks post for the 

Fab n Funky Challenge 

(my excuse is at the end of the post)

which is bought to you this week by

PAT

who chose the theme of 

SPOTS AND STRIPES

There are TWO sponsors this week

Inky Impressions

and

StampArt Design by Kathryne

I chose Golfing Pa Paw

Coloured him with copics, papers are Nitwit, Country Gent sketch is Mojo Monday.

Challenges

Mojo Monday - Sketch

Having one or two problems crafting at the moment - I will admit that my craft table is always a mess and I end up working on a minute space, but even I cant craft too well at the moment!  

Having just returned home from a week away at Peckforton Castle for our Pearl Wedding, I went to work and when I come home this is what greeted me

A big hole in the floor and my craft cupboard

which by the way is huge in pieces

and my stuff all around the living room and hall in every available space

We have had a major leak and of course it had to be in my craft area - so now we have to dry the beams out so having to live like this for a while

but being a true crafter I managed to squeeze a bit of space on the end of the table (well I dumped more stuff on the floor) and put together some DT cards that luckily I had already coloured the images for, cos I cant get to my copics sob!

Have a great week Beccy x

Yellow Brick Road

This cake was made for my DIL's mums birthday and DIL asked me to do her characters for it.

I found these Wizard of Oz characters at The Paper Shelter. Arent they adorable.




I coloured them with copics and then triple embossed each figure after fussy cutting round them and then glued them onto lollypop sticks.

Stampin for the Weekend - Anything Goes

It's all rock and roll to me -Fab n Funky Challenge

Hopefully your reading this and its Wednesday and Blogger has played nicely
cos I am in Cheshire staying at a Castle for the week
with my hubby celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary, I cant believe its been that long!

So big apologies that I am not around to comment but have promised No laptop or crafting!

On to this weeks

 challenge at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

We have the fabulous Kenny K Downloads sponsoring our challenge this week which means the DT had some fabulous digis to play with. 

and Judith inspired by the fab rock images has chosen as the theme

Its all Rock'n'Roll to me!

This means that you can either use a music inspired theme or image for your card

or as an added twist 

You can use a rock'n'roll song as inspiration 

- in which case tell us what the song is in your post

So come on - have some fun with this one - we can't wait to see your rock'n'roll cards

The prize is a fabulous 5 digis of your choice from Kenny K downloads - so what are you waiting for!

I did something a bit different this week and instead of a card
I have made this Canvas Clock.

I covered the canvas with Paperartsy paints and then added some glimmer mists. I painted the chipboard letters and clock with the paints too and added Mica powder to some of the letters.

The figures I coloured with copics.

 Im not always pleased with my colouring but this time im really pleased with how they turned out.

Hope this inspires you to maybe try something a bit different

ABC - Words
Hugs Beccy

Fab n Funky - Button It Up

Wendy has set the challenge this week for

Fab n Funky

**************************************************************************

Button It Up 

Add a button/buttons to your creations...Have fun

Our Fabulous Sponsor this week is...

The Paper Shelter

The lucky winner will receive a $20 Gift Certificate

For my card this week I used 

 The Paper Shelter Cute Little Clown

 Quick look at the inside!

Challenges

Simon Says - Anything Goes

ABC - Bingo - Dry Embossing, 2 embellishments, Birthday

Allsorts - Buttons

Oldie but a Goodie - Dies and Punches