Fab n Funky - Button It Up

Wendy has set the challenge this week for

Fab n Funky

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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

Challenge 185 Leaves

Helloooo, it's  Pat K's  turn to host this weeks Challenge at Fab'n'Funky.

The theme chosen for this week's Challenge #185 is perfect for this time of year as the trees are just beginning to change into their autumn colours
I just love the colours of autumn its just a shame it heralds the arrival of winter:-( 

Leaves  

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous StampArt Design by Kathryne 
who our offering our Winner the choice of 5 digital images

For my card I chose to play with a new release from

StampArt Design by Kathryne 

Autumn Delight

I really LOVED colouring this cute little guy with Copics, 

the sentiment comes with the image as an extra bonus

along with the scarecrow on his own and pumpkins

so course I had to keep colouring and use them on the inside 

Challenges

Crazy Challenge - Colour challenge

Pink Gem - 2 images

ABC - Fall

Hobby Cutz - Autumnal

My Time to Craft - Autumn

Be-witching

Hi peeps just wanted to share this gorgeous little witch with you from the Paper Shelter I fell in love with her

I coloured her up with Copics and added a bit of sparkle.

Sentiment is from Whiff of Joy

Im giving this one to hubby for his birthday tomorrow. 

Challenge

Totally Papercrafts - Boys

Cute Card Thursday - Square

Sweet Treats

Helloo and Happy Wednesday.

Hope your all having a great week so far

but if your in need of a bit of a pick you up

we have just the thing

with our new challenge

at

Fab n Funky Challenges

This week the challenge has been set by

Rachel

and she has chosen

SWEET TREATS

We have

sponsoring us this week

and I got to play with this great Digi Darla image

Candy Cupcake

I coloured with copics and then added a generous amount of glamour dust to the icing (think I may have over done it just a tad!)

Still at least it wasn't fattening!!!!!!!!!

Challenges
Get Inky - Cakes
Lacy Sunshine - Dies - Punches
Shellys Images - 3 7 10
Heck of a Challenge - In the Kitchen

Fab n Funky Challenge #183

Hellooo and welcome to another Wednesday, and a new challenge at 

Fab n Funky

This week the challenge has been set by Alli who has chosen 

 'Opposites Attract' 

The challenge is to produce a project using two colours from opposing sides of the colour wheel

Our fabulous sponsors this week are 

Stamp Art by Kathryne 

and 

Flonz craft 

I chose to use the colours Green and Red and add another card to my Christmas collection.

The images are Flakey Friends on the cover and Frosty Friends inside

both images by Stampart Design by Kathryne.

Hope you join in with the challenge this week and a big thank you to those that entered out Stick it challenge

those entries were amazing soo glad I dont have to chose the top 3 lol.

Challenges

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - ink or paint

Delightful Challenges - Make the Cut

Pink Gem Challenge - 2 Backing Papers

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes and Christmas

The Paper Shelter

Pssssst keep it to yourselves but ther's a rumour going around blogland that

The Paper Shelter

are having a Design Team call.

I'm going to have a go and this is what I made using

Christmas Carols

Aren't they just the cutest!

Wish me luck

Beccy x

Challenges

The Paper Shelter - Lace and Pearls

Crazy Challenge - Bingo - Flowers Image Ribbon

Divas by Design - Lace

ABC Challenges - Colouring with Markers

Simply Create Too - Vintage or Old

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - ink or paint

Playin with JOFY

Had a bit of a play today with some of the JOFY stamps that I got at Stamparama - I even had a play with the Paperartsy Paints that I have been collecting but  not really used.

I dont normally do things like this so was quite pleased with how they have turned out!

Slight problem with the first pics though had camera sidewise sforgetting that

got new computer which by the way has windows 8 OMG what is that all about

Gonna take me forever to learn how to use it lol.

Any-ways what I forgot was that I haven't got office installed yet and don't have any editing programmes on it so cant turn piccies round duh!

Oh well you kinda get the idea without having to hurt your neck too much I hope.

This first one is using the paints - I used five colours of the opaque paint for the background on hardboard and then used translucent to colour the flowers with.
I then coloured some hammered card with the same colours and made a little pocket to put it in.

I stamped the flower head out a few times from the coloured card scraps and painted to match the picture I layered the flowers and attached at the opening of the pocket.

Im thinkin the pocket looks a bit bare now though so may have to go back and add some thing!!!

The next two are more in my comfort zone and back to using my copics and distress inks.

 I actually ended up with the wrong JOFY set these flowers were supposed to be owls and birdhouses lol, Leandra was gonna replace for me but I decided that I quite like them so needed to keep them and get the owls next time. (which is not bad cos when I first saw these stamps sets I didnt think I liked them good job its our prerogative to change our minds lol).

Craft Challenge - Something New - New Stamps
Papertake Weekly - Flower Power
Hobby Cutz - Create own background
Pink Gem Challenge - Anything with B - Butterflies

You Can Stick It - New Fab n Funky Challenge

Hi Everyone

Ciska has set the challenge for this week over at Fab n Funky

and she has chosen

'You Can Stick It'

or

Use Stickers or Peel Offs on your project
 (anything that sticks on its own really)

This week we have

Bugaboo Stamps

sponsoring us

and I got to play with a real great silhouette image

Silhouette--butterfly-flowers

I used the image with plenty of die cuts - when I started I couldn't find my peel offs anywhere (I cleared up lol) so went with sticking a few self stick pearls around

when I had finished I remembered where I'd put my peel offs

I couldn't find any black ones but did manage to find an image which kind of

fit my theme in silver

I used a sharpie to colour the peel off black and added it to the inside of my card.

Hope you like what ive done sorry photos not great I was getting way too much bounce back!.

Great impressions -Square card

Pink Gem Challenge - Punch It Out

Papertake Weekly - Flower Power

Stampin for the weekend - Butterflies

Pennys Challenge - Die Cuts

Totally Gorjuss - Die cuts

Beccy x

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