Wedding Stationery

Finally got round to taking some photos of the Wedding

stationary to share with you.

Numpty that I am I never thought to take any before I gave them to be sent out so had

to wait till after the wedding and pinch the the table menu and my place name lol.

And the invite is the one sent to me!!!!!!

Oh yeah forgot to say I am known as his other mum  (always knew when he was in trouble at his house because he would end up at mine like a bad penny),

I had major problems matching the colour scheme that the bride wanted and wasnt able to get any teal paper for backing paper anywhere so ended up using embossing powder.

Each segment of the invite and RSVP has backing paper so there was lots of embossing to do.

The rest of the stationery kept to the same theme

I used a sissix folder for the pattern and added pearl drops to each pattern centre. (And of course as soon as I finished doing the embossing through my cuttlebug (good arm excercise) I got an ebosser how much easier would that have been lol.)

Will have to wait for the thank you cards till the happy couple get back from honeymoon and send some out.

Challenges
Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamp n Doodle - Anything Goes
Hannah and Friends - Anything goes

Looks like Summer - Fab n Funky challenge

Helloooo and Happy Wednesday

You may have noticed I have been very bad at blogging for the past few months, this was because I have been doing all the wedding stationary for my son's best friends wedding.

I made 170 wedding invites, 170 RSVPs, 90 place cards, 120 thank you cards, plus menus and table plans it was a real labour of love.

The wedding took place on Sunday and was really lovely.

Here's me with my son who was the best man.

and here's my gorgeous grandsons with Grandad looking totally cool in their matching outfits.

When I get a chance I will take some photos of the stationary and share.

Meanwhile its time for a new challenge at

Fab n Funky

 which is....

Anything that Looks Like Summer!

this week we have two amazing sponsors

Lacey Sunshine Stamps

Who is offering one winner their choice of 5 digital images!

Lili of the Valley


Who is offering their winner a 10 gift certificate!

For my card I chose
Finkle Fisher Gnome by Lacy Sunshine

I coloured him with Copics, papers are from the Lily of the Valley
Nitwit papers Country Gent.


Challenges
Stamp with fun - Sketch
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Banners of Pennant (hoping the stars count as pennants
Totally Papaercrafts - Inspired by song - Gone fishing (Louis Armstrong)
Delightful Challenges - Stars or Sparkle
Crafty Sentiments - Animals
Lacy Sunshine - Favourite Things (Dies)

Ants Life - Fab n Funky Challenge

Helllooooooooooo

Hope your all enjoying summer now that it's arrived. Am loving the fact that I can sit outside in the evening, have a meal and chill out after work.

Only trouble is the time just slips away from me and before I know it its way past my bedtime and I havent done any of things I should have done!

Oh well winter will be back soon :-(

In the meantime we have another great challenge for you at 

Fab n Funky

and because of the summer holidays we will be running this challenge for two weeks instead of one.

The challenge set by Shirley is 

Make it a set

We want to see you make a set it could be of cards, maybe a card and a matching tag or envelope. You could make a gift box with matching card and tag. The sky's the limit with this one.

This week you have three times the luck of winning a wonderful prize! That's right we have not just one but three wonderful sponsors. 

Winner gets to choose 3 images from the Doodle Pantry shop.

Our first prize winner gets the choice of 5 digital images
and the chance of a GDT spot using one of the images they win

And

Digital Delights


Who are offering a prize of $5 to spend in their store


I was lucky enough to get to choose an image from
Doodle Pantry 
to play with and
when I saw these cute ants I just couldnt resist
They are soo perfect for boys cards which I always find a bit of a struggle.
When I got them it was decided that I would have to make a set of cards as they came with four images and sentiments to match!
What a Bargain

 I kept my cards real simple and bright. 

I coloured all the pics to match the backing paper using my Derwent and prisma pencils.

 I added some glossy accents to the front of the trucks and ants to make them pop a bit but I dont think you can really see that from the photos.

Oh did I mention what a bargain these were! You also get a matching backing paper in the set.

Cant wait to see what you all come up with
hugs
Beccy

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky 'Christmas in July' and Die cutting machines for sale

Woohoo it looks like summer has finally arrived in England 

the weather this week has been lovely 

at 

Fab n Funky

this week we have something to cool you down a bit 

if your finding it too hot!

But before I get too this weeks challenge I was real lucky and got a new toy

a e-Bosser die cutting machine.

Well I know you cant have too much of a good thing but in this case I guess I really don't need 3 embossing machines so am going to be selling my Cuttlebug which I have only just bought the new large plates for 

and 

also going to sell my Grand Calibur

If you may be interested please leave your email address in the comments . 

Back to this weeks challenge

It's Anne-Marie's turn to host the challenge for this week and she has chosen

Christmas in July

We have two fabulous sponsors for you 

My Creative Classroom

and

Dilly Beans

We got to play with some real cute images from Dilly Beans

I chose 

Bundled up Penguin which you can get 

Here

 I coloured him with pencils as I wanted to make the most of the sunshine and I have found that the copics tend to get too juicy if there out in the sun!

Used fluffy stuff for his hat. 

Background papers I made using distress inks and resist embossing

Icicle is a Tim Holtz die which I cut using my 

e-Bosser. 

Challenges
Lej Designs - Christmas in July
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas in July
Inky Impressions - Christmas in July
Simply Ctreate too - christmas in July
Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Suitable for child
Stamp and Create - Christmas in July
ABC - Christmas in July
Merry Monday - Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Old, new, borrowed or blue Blue card - new e bosser/image - old die cut

Animals

We have a great new challenge for you today at

Fab 'n' Funky

ANIMALS

We want to see big ones; little ones or even imaginary ones on your project.

For my project I have tried something a little bit different for me and way out of my comfort zone lol.

I used a Geli plate and acrylic paints to make a background and used a Barbara Grey tip of removing the centre of the pattern to leave a clear space to stamp into.

The elephant and text are Tim Holtz stamps the trees and cow parsley are Clarity.

Not too sure about the result I think I need a bit more practise.

Cant wait to see what you come up with this week and for the winners there are too fabulous sponsors this week.

Flonzcraft

and

Stampart Design by Kathryne

Challenges
Toptiptuesday - masculine
Dreamvalley - male
Sisterhood of crafters - male
Corrosive Challenge Animal Antics

#175 Birthday

Oops bit late today but hopefully better late than never

The new challenge at 

Fab 'n' Funky

this week is a real easy one

 BIRTHDAY

and we have a fabulous sponsor for you this week

MazyArt

I got to play with one of her great images

Natsuko

Challenges
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Papercraft Star - Picture Challenge (Pink)
Stamp with Fun - Green and Pink
Crafting when we can - mad about markers

Lets get Fruity

Its my turn to choose the challenge at 

Fab n Funky 

this week

When I chose the theme I was expecting it to be lovely and summery now

instead of which its more like winter here in England :-(

The theme I have chosen is

Lets get Fruity

I would like to see some sort of fruit on your projects

Were being sponsored by 

Stampfairy

who let us play with some real cute images and this is what I made

using 

Lenny Fruits

Hopefully Blogger is being kind and this post has gone up properly as I am away working in Morocco at the  moment so I may not be able to get round to leaving you all a message but I promise I will be looking at them all.

Beccy x

One for the Girls - Fab n Funky

 Wow where has this week gone!!!!!!!!!!!

I seem to be running around in circles and not getting anywhere - luckily I managed to get a bit in front with my DT cards.

This week at     FAB N FUNKY    the challenge is gonna be soo popular its

One for the Girls

Yep we wanna see your cards for the girlies.

I used Raggedy Doll from our sponsor this week 

STAMPART DESIGN BY KATHRYNE

Ribbon or Lace

Hi Everyone - its time for a new challenge at 

FAB N FUNKY

and this week we have the theme of

Lace/Ribbon

Yep easy peasy just use ribbon or lace to take part in this weeks challenge.

We have THREE

sponsors this week

StampArt Design by Kathryne

Flonzcraft

and

Doodle Pantry

Challenges

Papercraft Star - what do you find beautiful

Mason's Pot

 The Challenge at Whiff of Joy this week is anything but a card. Having just finished making 170 wedding invitations I am a bit carded out so thought I would have a go.

I pinched this jar from a work colleague which was at one time full of old fashioned sweets like Rhubarb and Custard, Cola Cubes; Pear Drops and other such goodies, we were very good though, they lasted a good couple of months!

 The jar is the perfect size for keeping my grandsons play dough pieces in.

 To decorate I have used some of the real cute stamps from the Whiff of Joy Spring collection which I haven't had time to ink up before.

 The background paper was made using distress stains on copier paper, scrunched and sprayed with water before drying with heat gun. I then added some Treasure Pewter Gilt Cream

All the images were coloured with copics.

Challenges
Whiff of Joy - Anything but a Card
TTCRD-Anything Goes
Dreamvalley Challenges - No Squares allowed
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Something blue

Use Beads - Fab n Funky

For our challenge at Fab n Funky this week  Rachel has set the challenge of using BEADS on your project.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Digi Darla Designs who very kindly gave the DT some images to play with.

I decided to use the Dandelion and had the idea of using the dandelion image as a background, as it is a digi image it was real easy to resize the image; flip it and turn it. I printed the background on plain paper and then used distress inks, I used Salty Ocean and Evergreen Bough which I applied with a dusting brush to give a very pale background. 

My idea for the card was to keep it simple and add a butterfly to the background using microbeads as the body, I so didnt like it when I had done it that I had to do a quick rethink and went with the tall bride and groom instead.

Lots of Pink - Fab n Funky Challenge

Hello PeePs

Its time for a new challenge at

FAB N FUNKY

and were going all girly 

Wendy our host this week wants to see lots of pink in your creations

Yep how easy is that you can create anything you want as long as we

see lots of pink!

We have two wonderful sponsors for you this week too

Lily of the Valley

and

StampArt Design by Kathryne

for my design this week I used
Dandelion Dock
from Lily of the Valley

I coloured her with copics and added lots of stickles for her wings.

Challenges
Stampin for the Weekend - Die cuts - Punches
TTCRD - Anything goes
Celebrate the Occassion - Anything goes

Indigoblu

Today I had chance to have a play with this gorgeous stamp set by Indigo Blu that I got at Ally Pally

I wanted to do something a bit different so my sadly neglected distress marker pens came out to play.

The flowers are so lovely they cried out to be layered, and raised. I did try to take some photos from the side so you could see the different layers but typically the wind decided to come up as soon as I went into the garden to take the photos in some daylight and I ended up chasing round the garden trying to catch my card!

I'm going to enter this into the following challenge

Dream Valley - things with wings

Celebrate the Occasion - Clean and Simple

Fab n Funky Challenge

Oh No Guess who messed up!!!!!!!!!!

Yep ME!

 totally lost track of the days and forgot all about our new challenge at

Fab n Funky Challenges

which this week is

Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Yep Ginny wants you to show the Love.

this week we have a great sponsor

Floppy Latte

who are offering the winner $10 to spend in store and $12 if you use a Floppy Latte image.

Here's what I made

Stamp is Lily of the Valley 

Coloured with Copics

Gilded Gate Spellbinders Dies

Whiff of Joy Text

Ohhhh and by the way we have reached a thousand followers at Fab n Funky and to celebrate there 

is a bit of non fattening candy.

to qualify you only have to be a follower and add your link HERE

So dont miss out.

Corrosive Challenge - special Occassions
Stampavie - Die cuts
Love to Scrap - Cut it out
THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR 

Challenge 167 Fab n Funky

Helloooo

and welcome to a new challenge at

Fab n funky

Today we have a 

1 2 3 Challenge 

1 Image

2 Papers

3 Embellishments

I got to use a real sweet image from our sponsor   StampArt Design by Kathryne, Guardian Angel which you can get 

Here

I used this lovely new die that I got from Ally Pally at the weekend but think I must have had my wonky glasses on as didn't manage to centre her very well.

I took the challenge real seriously with the 2 papers and used 3 flat backed pearls

for the 3 embellishments. You can use three of one embelishment or you can use three different types of embellishments and (matting paper isnt included in the 2).

I coloured the angel with copics and added sakura glitter pen to the wings,with distress inks on the die cut.

Challenges
Corrosive Challenge - special occassions
Sweet Stampin - Pastels
One Stop Craft - Pastels

Spring colours at Fab n Funky

Finally my acers are starting to show signs of life 

which hopefully means that spring is just round the corner 

and to celebrate we have a great new challenge 

at 

Fab n Funky Challenges

this week my fab teamie

Jackie

has chosen the theme of

SPRING COLOURS

This is what I came up with (can you guess who our sponsor is this week?)

Yep its 

KENNY K

I used Troublemaker and just for a change I coloured her with Prisma Pencils.

Challenges

Dream Valley Challenges - Birthday

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Ribbon Girls - Add Flowers

Sweet Stampin - Scallops

Challenge 165 April Showers

Happy Wednesday everyone hope you all had a great Easter weekend even though it was soooooo cold.

I cant believe its April already - where has this year gone too im sure someone stole a few weeks.

And as its April we have a real fitting challenge for you this week at 

Fab n Funky

April Showers

This little cutie is ideal for this challenge and is a new digi image called Ari and Toby from one of our amazing sponsors

Stampart design by Kathryne

Our other sponsor this week 

yep we have two for you lucky peeps 

is

Flonzcraft

Challenges

Charisma Cardz Happy Birthday

Celebrate the Occassion April Showers(Umbrella)

One stitch at a time = Spring

Joanna Sheen Rain or Shine