Christmas time is fast approaching.....

Are you ready? Have you had time to get everything done? Is all your shopping done? I am almost done, just need to get one or two things for both the kids, and then do the stocking stuffers for the kids, hubby, the dog and two newest members, the rats. Yes we finally got them! Would you like to see them? Here they are. They are both males and we named them Freddie (white and beige/brown) and Buddie (grey and white). Warning you are about to experience major cuteness!!!

I love them they are already starting to show their own little personalities, and they are both very affectionate and snugly!

Now onto our Final challenge of  2012 over at Fab'n'Funky. This week the challenge will run until the new year. Our team will be taking a well needed break!

Our theme for this week is to use RIBBON or LACE on your project.

Here is what I came up with. I made a cute little gift card holder for my daughter's teacher this year. It is made out of Toilet Paper rolls and hold three  Gift Cards. When you untie the ribbon and pull both ends up, it pulls the GC out of the tube. I had so much making this. I know I will be making some more of these for next year. They are so easy and what a great way to give GCs!!

I hope you can join us this week. You know we love to see your wonderful creations!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!!!!



Non Traditional Christmas

Good day everyone! Wow, what a great turn out we had at Fab'n'Funky last week. Congratulations to all the winners! Now onto this weeks challenge.


Use non traditional colours! This one was a little harder than I thought it would be, but I love how it turned out!



Hope you can join this week, we love to see your wonderful creations!

Week two of our Birthday Celebration!

Good morning everyone! Sorry I am late in posting this. I could have sworn that I scheduled a post for this week, but somehow it has disappeared! Sigh!

This week at Fab'n'Funky we are still celebrating our Third Birthday. We again have some amazing prizes for you to win! This week we are sponsored by the following:



Who are offering a fabulous prize of
a £50 voucher
 to spend in their store
How great is that!

 Cult Pens are also  offering a discount of 10% in their store
to all you Fab'n'Funky fans - just use the code

 FNF2012 

It's valid right up until the end of December

Who are offering
 a £10voucher to spend in store

Who are offering
  $10 to spend
in their fabulous selection in store

Who are offering
   a $20 voucher
 to spend in their store
 - with free shipping

Who are offering
 a choice of 5 digis 
from the cute digis they have in their store

See I told you we had some awesome sponsors this week!

Now onto the theme and my card. This week we are changing it up a bit. Anything goes for the theme of you creation, but we do need to see THREE of something on it! Got it? Well then, let's get creative!

Here is my card for this week

I used this cute little stamp form DigiDarla called "boy with flower". All papers are from Kaiser purchased Darla called "boy with flower". All papers are from Kaiser purchased HERE.

Well that is all for today. Hope you have time to get creative and join us this week!

Mid-Way reminder and some fun News!

Hello everyone. Just a quick little reminder that it is not too late to join in on our Birthday Celebration at Fab'n'Funky. Just be sure to make a birthday creation with the number 3 in mind. That's right three patterned papers, three brads, the jumping kangaroos.....the options are limitless really!

Here is a little inspiration for you, Can you guess what my three things were here?

Here is a hint, it all in the image.......Yes I only used three colours! Blue, orange and grey.

I also wanted to let you know that we are being sponsored by : http://www.cultpens.com/ who are giving all our wonderful followers this great chance to save some money, they  are offering a discount of 10% in their store to all you Fab'n'Funky fans - just use the code FNF2012 .
We are also being sponsored by Stampart designs, Di's Digi Downloads, and Bugaboo. Who are all givig one lucky winner a great prize! So that is four chances to win this week!!! So what are you waiting for? Hurry on over and load your creation today!!!!!







Now on to some Fun News!!!!

I have been asked to be part of a new design team!!! Yeah!!! The store is called Pointer's Gifts and Crafts. They are based in Toronto and sell some wonderful little stamps. Here are a few cards that I have made using them. The first two are the same stamp. I wanted to show how they could be used in different ways. The fist one I coloured up with my Copics.
Papers used: Echo Park Winter Wonderland.

This second card was printed four times, and I coloured them all with my copics, and then cut out all the little pieces to create a 3-D image. I really like how this one turned out!

Papers used: MME-Santa Claus

***All papers purchased atScrapbook Star ***


I also wanted to let you all know that over at Scrapbook Star We are having a huge sale!!! Just in time for Christmas!!!

Until November 26th 2012
The sooner you shop, the best selection you have !

35%* off on regular priced products
15%* off on Scrapbook Star kits
And an extra 20%* off on products from our liquidation section.

*Valid on in stock items only
Not valid on pre-orders, special orders or lay away.
No rainchecks.
The shipping rebate policy for order over 100$ doesn’t apply during this sale.

Birthday Bash!!!

Hello everyone! This week at Fab'n'Funky we are having a Huge Birthday Celebration with tons of Prizes and Sponsors!! Hope you can come and join us!

The challenge during our Birthday Celebration is "BIRTHDAY and THREE." That's right we are turning three!!! So let us see some Birthday creations with three of something on it. Three flowers, Three patterned papers, three of anything.

Here are my cards. I got to play with some fun stamps from Bugaboo this week. Here are my cards, yes you read it right, there are more than one this week.

My first one is JJ all wrapped up! I used three Patterned Papers here.

Now you see why there are more than one card this week! Tee-Hee. I forgot an important part of the challenge. Birthday! Oops!

My second one is called "Firemen called"

Here is what the inside of the card says:

I will be back on Saturday with some more inspiration for you! Hope to see your wonderful creations at Fab'n'Funky!

Challenges:

ABC Christmas: W: Wraping

Let's see those bears!!!

Good morning everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful time. Has Father Winter come a calling upon you yet? We have been getting some chilly weather our way.

This week our challenge over at Fab'n'Funky is "Bears". That's right we want to see your bears/Teddy bears on your cards! Our wonderful Sponsor this week at Doodle Pantry Gave us some wonderful stamps to play with.

Here is what I came up with:

 Here is a close up look at my flower cluster, I was trying something new with the green wire. I rather like how it turned out! Mind you it was a bit of hassle to get them glued onto the card!

 Hope you enjoyed my little bit of inspiration. Hope you can make it over to Fab'n'Funky and join in on the fun!!!!!


Oh yes just another little reminder of our big Birthday Celebration!!! Make to stop by! It starts Next week!!!!!

BINGO!!!!!

Don't you just love to play Bingo? The excitement of waiting for the caller to call that last number that you need!! Well guess what!!!! This week over at Fab'n'Funky we are playing bingo!!!

Here is your bingo card:

Bingo

Shaped card blank	Charm	Distressing
Lace	Vintage	Flourish
Twine	Embossing	Kraft card

You can choose any line in any direction!

Here is my card:

I used: Distressing, Flourish and Kraft Card.

Be sure to check out the challenge this week and leave us a link to your wonderful work for a chance to win some fabulous prizes from our sponsore this week, Stamp Fairy!!

Hope you all have a great day!!!!

Challenges:

Cards for Men- anything goes

Bearly Mine-Anything goes

Papertake-Anything goes

Diva's-Get cute



Just a little something!

I was busy getting some stuff done for my DT duties and thought I would take a little break and post this card.

 Here is a look at the tag once it has been removed to reveal the Christmas greeting.

 A close up of the tag. "Cut out with my Cricut. Don't you just love the intricate little design on the bottom?

Challenges entered:
Sketchy challenge-sketch ( here )
CSAYL- Anything goes ( here )
Diva's-Festive (here )
Sweet stamps-Christmas (here )
My heart pieces- Ribbon ( here )
ABC- Vibrant colours (here )
Sweet Stamping- Glitter ( here )

one last Halloween card...

Good day everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day, and not getting too wet! We are not having the most wonderful weather for Halloween, It has been wet and cold. :o(

Well this week over at Fab'n'Funky our Challenge is to use some Die Cuts or Punches! So I pulled out three of my punches and went to town with this card.

Hope you like it. The image is from Sassy Designs (it was a Friday Freebie) and coloured with my Copics. The Pattern paper (green) can you believe it came from some scraps of my Christmas pack!! I hand drew the web on the cardstock and then embossed with my stylus and inked the raised image with some white chalk ink!

I know that I wanted to enter this one in a couple of challenges, but alas I have lost my list! Oh well next time I will get to them.

Have a great Halloween everyone!!!

OH yes! Before I forget I just wanted to remind everyone of our Birthday Celebration at Fab'n'Funky in November! Be sure to come join us, It will be loads of fun and there are LOADS of prizes to be won as well!!!!

Animals

Oh how I love cards with little animals on them. I can't help but smile when I see them! So I guess it's no surprise at all, that I got all giddy when I found out the theme for our challenge this week over at Fab'n'Funky.

Animals

Our lovely sponsors were generous enough to let us play with some of their stamps this week. (Crimson Cloud and Digi Darla Designs (images))

Here is what I came up with ! I loved this image, so cute!!!

Don't forget about our Birthday celebration!

Lot's of fun stuff will be going on!!!



Orange and black +1.....

Yes that is our theme this week over atFab'n'Funky! We want to see some Orange, Black and one other colour.

I chose to go with Green. (Yes there is some purple in the image, but I only used orange, black and green papers!!! LOL!)


No I must apologize for the late entry, I have been having some major issues with Blogger as of late, and have been having some difficulty posting and editing! Grrrrr! But it seems that some of it has been fixed, so I am able to post now.

So here is my card:

The digi stamps are from our Sponsor over at Pink Cat Studios.

Hope you can join us this, we love to see what you do!

Vintage......I hope!!!

Hello and Welcome once again this week! It is my turn to host the challenge over at Fab'n'Funky. This week our sponsor is Flonzcraft. They have such beautiful stamps! While looking at their stamps, I noticed that they were really Vintage looking. So I decided to go with that for our theme this week!

Well I must tell you, that I must have been higher than a kite, or really sick when I chose this theme, cause if you have been following me for a while you will have noticed that I DON'T DO VINTAGE!!!!

So I created a real challenge for myself this week! But I think I did OK! Take a look and let me know what you think. I coloured the image up with some Copics to try and make it look old and Vintage like. then I covered it with some diamond glaze, I was trying to make it look like an old broach. Then I distressed the edges of my Pattern Papers.

Take look.  I let me know what you think!

Do you think I got it or missed did I completely miss the mark?

Hope you can join us over at Fab'n'Funky! We love to see your creations!

Starts with "F"

Good morning everyone!!! Hope you are all doing fine! This week our challenge over Fab'n'Funky is to make something that starts with "F".

Well that was easy for me! Fairies!! Oh how I love my little fairies from Mo Digital! This week I decided to try something a little different. I made a cute little slider card. I made it using the tutorial from HERE. Go check out her site, I promise you will not be disappointed!!!

So here is my card:

The front

 A view of the card as it is opening up, You can see the slider gliding across to change image.

 The inside of the card.

Would love to hear what you think of it, or if you have made any cards similar to this one.

Please sure to stop by the BLOG and see what my team mates have created, and don't forget to post your creation this week for a chance to win a fabulous prize!!

Hope you have a great week!

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamps: Emboss It

Whimsy Stamps: Anything goes

Crafting For All Seasons: Things with Wings

Charisma Cardz: Things with Wings

Brown Sugar: Anything Goes

2 Sisters: Things With Wings

Secret Crafters: Distressing (inked edges)

Things with wings!

This weeks challenge over at Fab'n'Funky is things with wings. This week we were lucky to be able to play some of our sponsors digi stamps. Wanna know who that sponsor is?

Well it is:



I love their images, they are all so cute! Well here is my card!

Hope you like it! Coloured with my Copics and everything else was made with my scraps, even the flowers! I also got use one my new Spellbinders. I love how they are so intricate!

Don't forget to stop by and visit us at Fab'n'Funky and let see what you have done with our challenge.

Fall is in the air....

I am back at work, the kids back in school and this weeks challenge is up at Fab'n'Funky! What could we ask for!!! LOL!

Sorry if you stopped by last week to see my card, but for some reason, blogger did not post my scheduled posting, and I did not have the chance to stop by last week to see that it was posted.

But hopefully this week you will be able to see it!

This week our challenge was "Fall Harvest"  We also got to play with some of the stamps from Digi Doodle. I have used two of their stamps on the card, "Turkey in disguise" and "Corn Stalk". I decided to keep it pretty simple seeing that the image is somewhat busy!

Here is my card:

Hope you like it! Hop on over to Fab'n'Funky to what my teamies have created! You will not be disappointed!

My first challenge........

.......posted at Fab'n'Funky that is!!!

I am so excited to be able to host my first challenge this week!

With Anize turning nine yesterday, I thought what better them to a Birthday theme!!! But me being me, I couldn't leave it at that. No I had to add a little twist........ I added a sketch as well. Now I not a computer literate person, so my sketch is hand drawn,  but I think you will be able to get the jist of it!

Here is the sketch!



And now here what I came up with:

I would love to see what you do with this challenge and sketch. Please make sure to stop by and visit us at Fab'n'Funky and leave us link to your creations. Don't forget you can win prizes every week. and this week you have double to chance to win! Yup! That's right we are giving away two prizes this week!!

Have a great day!

Birthday Baby!!!

Today my little girl turns 9! It is amazing how quickly they grow up! It feels like just yesterday I was holding her in my arms protecting her from all the "Monsters" and today I have to try and sneak in a hug as tackles the world head on! Amazing!!!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

I actually had a little time to myself this week and took full advantage of it! I made some cards! I have a habit of getting up every morning, going to the PC, browsing through a whole bunch of challenge sites, and writing down all the challenges! But even though I have every intention of getting to these said challenges, they sit on my desk and another week goes by without me doing one of them! Well not this week! I made sure to tackle some of them!!!

So here are my cards!

The first one, I have been drooling over all the cards on the net that have been coloured on Kraft card stock. I love the effect! So I had to give it a try. I think I need a little more practice. The colours really do work differently on Kraft!

Here is a close up of the image.

Challenges entered for this card are:

Sweet stop sketches

Brown Sugar: Occupation ( not really sure if this qualifies, but they are cooking up a Cherry Pie! LOL)

My second card is one for my Christmas stash! I figured I had better get going on that! Christmas has a tendency to creep on me!



Challenges entered for this card:

Winter Wonderland: Red and Green

Willow Sketchy: Sketch

Diva's by Design:Anything Goes

Whimsy:Lots of Layers

Crafting 4 all Seasons: Sewing

Cute card Thursday: Bling (her coat and hat)

Birthday Bugs

Good morning everyone! Hard to believe that in only two more weeks the kids will be going back to school. Honestly I can't wait! My two have after each other 24/7, and driving me nuts!!! LOL!

Well this week at Fab'n'Funky we have a wonderful challenge for you. This week we are asking you to use Leaves somewhere on your creation. We were very lucky to be able to play with some of the stamps from our sponsor this. I love the Bugaboo stamps. They are so fun to play with. This week I got to play with Scene-it Ladybug Birthday.

Here is my card.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you can join us in the challenge. Don't forget to stop by and show us what you have made. You could even a prize!

Angels and Fairies

This week's challenge over at Fab'n'Funky is "Angels and Fairies". I don't have much for Angel stamps, but I do have plenty of Fairies!

So here are this weeks cards (yes that is plural, I told you I had plenty of fairy stamps!!! LOL!)

Both images are from Mo's Digital Pencil I love her images, I wish I could have one of each!

Challenges entered:
Simon Says-Bingo (Punch/Glitter/Blossom)
Freshly Made- sketch
Charisma Cardz-Flowers and Fauna
Sketch N Stash-sketch

***(unfortunetly, I have come to realise that tsome of hese challenges will have expired by the time this post goes up......but I have included the links to these challenge site anyways. Go check them out, I am sure they will have great challenges this week!!!)