Not a Traditional Christmas - Fab n Funky Challenge

Hi Everyone its 

FAB N FUNKY

weekly challenge time.

First off a huge

congratulations to the winners of the fab prizes from our birthday celebrations.

On to this weeks challenge and with Christmas fast approaching if your anything like me and really behind with your cards this challenge should be just whats needed

"A Non-Traditional Christmas"! 

So use either an image or colour scheme that we don't traditionally associate with Christmas. Easy peasy right? This week we are sponsored by Stamp Fairy 

Offering $10 voucher to spend in their store

and we also have a special first prize sponsor

 My Creative Classroom

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. Our Fall Semester is just beginning with over 100 classes to choose from. My Creative Classroom has a little bit of everything for everyone. We are offering classes on the Cricut, mixed media, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, sewing and more! Don't miss out on some wonderful classes starting this Fall:

Beginner's Scenic Stamping

Card Design Workhop

Focus on Photos

Crafting a Handmade Business on Etsy

Fabric: What, How, and WOW!

We are excited to be sponsoring Fab 'n Funky  Challenge. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice.....Good Luck!

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Heres what I made using a Dreamweaver snowflake stencil and Blue Sapphire Sparkle Medium.

The Reindeer's are Marianne stencils using blue glitter paper.

Sorry I really tried to get a picture that shows the true colours but this was the best I could get!

Fab n Funky Birthday Celebrations

The second week of our 

3rd BIRTHDAY 

celebrations starts today 

and as it seems like everyone is

in christmas mode so

our challenge this week is

to use 3 of anything

so christmas cards are welcome.

We have some brilliant sponsors for you again this week

CULTPENS

who I hope you are sitting down for this are offering the winner an amazing

drumroll please

£50

to spend in store

and everyone else wins too cos they are giving all Fab n Funky fans 

10% off their orders

just enter the code

FNF2012

till the end of December.

Joanna Sheen

£10 Store Voucher

Di's Digi Downloads

$10 Store Voucher

Digi Darla designs

5 Digis From the Store

Flonzcraft

$20 to spend in store with FREE shipping

So come on ladies you gotta be in it to win it lets see your 3 of something!

I have used Boy with Flowers from Digi Darla and coloured him with Copics

Hugs Beccy

Fab n Funky Birthday Challenge Reminder

Yoohooo

Just a quick reminder that its

FAB N FUNKY'S

3rd Birthday

and we are celebrating for the next two weeks

with extra prizes to be won.

The challenge is to make a

Birthday Card

with either the 

number 3 or 3 of something.

I used this cute Teddy Surprise Package image

from 1 of our sponsors for this week

Stampart by Kathryne

We also have prizes from Bugaboo and Di's Digi Downloads

this week.

Happy Birthday Fab n Funky

Hey everybody its 

FAB N FUNKY'S 

Birthday

Yep 3 today

So I hope you will join in with our birthday challenges we have some great prizes to give away over the next 2 weeks.

Our lucky winners this week could be getting their little mitts on some goodies from these fabulous sponsors

Bugaboo

StampArt Design

Di's Digi Downloads

For a chance to win we want you to create a Birthday Card Simples....................

Cept as its our 3rd birthday we would like you to use the number 3 or use 3 of something!

For my card today I have used 

Shy Masie

 from 

Di's Digi downloads.

For my three of something I have used three different papers

and three gems.

I coloured my image with copics, which reminds me we have a fabulous surprise for you next week with a brand new sponsor who is giving away the most amazing prize you can get a little taster by following the link

Cultpens

(The prize is so good Judith has resorted to threats to stop the design team from resigning and entering the competition ourselves lol)

Challenges

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Recipe Dies or Punches Gems of Pearls Ribbon or Twine

Bear Necessities Fab n Funky DT

Morning everybody

We have a brand new challenge at 

FAB n FUNKY

for you. This week we want to see some

BEARS.

Luckily our fab sponsor Doodle Pantry this week has plenty of

bears to choose from.

I got to play with 

BEARY CUTE

which not having a lot of time this week luckily comes

ready coloured too.

This is definitely a last minute card the glue hasn't even dried yet lol.

Challenges

Cupcake Craft - Sketch

BINGO

Eyes Down Ladies cause todays challenge at 

Fab n Funky

is 

BINGO

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

I chose to go with the Shaped Card Blank, Charm and Distressing for my card which I have kept really simple so this real cute image stands out.

This little fella is Barry Winter from the Stamp Fairy

who just happen to be our sponsor this week

and are offering the winner $10.00 to spend in store.

Challenge

Diva - Cute

Fab n Funky Animals

Yay its Wednesday half way through the working week!!!!!!! and if things have gone to plan I am on a train to Bristol for work and this post has worked - fingers crossed.

Today we have a new challenge for you at 

Fab n Funky Challenges 

and it was my Funky team mate Sue's turn to host the challenge and she has chosen the theme of

Animals

Te design team were lucky enough to get to play with some fab designs from one of this weeks sponsor

who will be giving one lucky winner a choice of 5 digi images.

Yep I did say one of the sponsors cause lucky you we have two sponsors this week so two winners yay.

Our second sponsor is Crimsoncloud

I chose this cute little dog which you can get here Digi Darla Designs A Note From Puppy

Cant wait to come and see what animal you choose.

Challenges
The Crafty Pad - Use an Animal
The Squirrel and the Fox - Ribbons
Pennys Challenges - Ribbon

Beccy x

Save the date

Just a quick heads up - it is soon gonna be Fab n Funky's 3rd Birthday when we will be having lots of fun, pass the parcel,  statues , pin the tail on the donkey and jelly and ice cream or maybe not lol.

What there will be though is lots of fun and games with prizes to be won so hope you will join us on the 21st November.

Is that a great birthday piccie or what many thanks to Kathyrn at Stampart Design for designing this little birthday bear for our celebratuions.

Black Orange and Choice Fab n Funky Challenge

Its time for a new challenge at Fab n Funky and this week our host is Jackie who inspired by our brilliant sponsor for this week 

Pink Cat Studio

has chosen the theme

BLACK ORANGE and ONE OTHER

and lucky us we got to play wit some of the cute Pink Cat images.

I chose Frankenstein Billy and Witch Lily  and made a halloween  treat pot.

cant wait to see what you guys come up with for the challenge.

Challenges
Papertake Weekly - Fright Night
Shopping our stash - trick or treat
Simon Says - Eerie Inspiration

Beccy x

Fab n Funky DT

Hi Everybody

Well here it is my first card for the Fab n Funky Challenge and our challenge this week is one of my all time favourite challenges  VINTAGE.

We have a truly amazing sponsor for the challenge this week is

Flonzcraft

who are offering $20 voucher and free shipping to the winner and also giving a 12% discount to all entrants. 

For my card I used this gorgeous stamp from the Stampsmith 'Hamlets' 'Ophelia'  isnt she lovely.

Recipe
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Wild Orchid Flowers
Lace and Ribbon from stash
Spellbinders Oval Nesties
Swirl Die
My Minds Eye 'Paris & Co' Papers

Challenges
Wild Orchid Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Dies or Punches
ABC Anything Goes
Te Crafty Pad - Vintage

Exquisite Princess

Had a play with some gorgeous images from Make It Crafty today and some of the New Memory dies that I got from Ally Pally.

I used Enchanted Unicorn from the Fantasy collection and Exquisite Princess from the Fairytale collection.

I merged the images together so she was sat upon the unicorn in a My Craft Studio programme. I coloured her with Copic pens and kept the unicorn real simple by just adding a few shadows  with some glitter pen highlights on his mane and tail.

Hope you like

Challenges
Cards Galore - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts - Something Old Something New (new Memory Box Dies old Paper and Spellbinder Dies)
Paperplay Challenges - Shine On
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Beccy

Some News

Just wanted to let you all know that I got a big surprise this week when I was asked to join the 

FAB N FUNKY DT. How cool is that :-)  

 fab n funkychallenges

My first official challenge will be on the 17th October and it will be doing one of my all time favourite challenges!!!!!!!! Hope you will all join me then.

Oh and just to let you know Donna has an amazing blog candy celebrating her birthday, def a candy that you will want to keep your fingers crossed for specially if your in the UK. For those that dont know Donna she does the most gorgeous digi papers, well worth popping over to have a look at her Bearly Mine blog.

Angelline Ballerine

Hi everyone thought it was about time I ventured back into blogland - haven't being doing too much crafting of late, decorating the house has taken precedent but the bad weather has arrived, did I say arrived not too sure it ever left here in Blighty lol. So back to the craft table for me (dinner table to the rest of the family).

This little cutie is Angelline Ballerine by Stampavie which I got at the Craft Barn, where I have been doing a few classes, havent got around to taking any photos of what I have done yet but will post in the coming weeks.

Challenges
Stampin for the Weekend Flowers
charisma cardz Things with Wings

Blonde Hair

It was my turn to post on the Make It Crafty store Blog and I chose the in house challenge of blonde hair. I wanted to have a bit of an experiment with different colours for a medium look blonde hair.

This is one of my first attempts and I was quite pleased with the colour combination except the highlighted area is not very distinct. So had another go with same combination.

Def more the look I was aiming for. having the two piccies now what better way to use them than on a bag yep still loving making them and card to match.

on a roll I carried on the theme and changed the colours that I was using slightly for the nest pics

thought I would try little bit darker for this cute little Frenchie Leon

and as things seemed to be going quite well and who am I to stop a creative roll I carried on and completed the last piccie in the Frenchie set. Again I changed the colour of the hair slightly.

I added some of the gorgeous chippies from make it crafty to these, which I coloured with copics and then sprayed with Crafters Companion silver glitter spray.

Make It Crafty Products Used
Butterflies and Leaves
Frenchie Claudine
Frenchie Leon
Frenchie Valerie

If you want to know what colours I used for the hair pop over to the Make It Crafty Store Blog where you will see some amazing creations by my teamies.

Challenges
Fab n Funky Go Green Who are having a DT call! (I applied lol)
Moving Along with the Times Anything but a card
Delightful Challenges Fun in the Sun
Stampin for the Weekend Bugs and Butterflies



Beccy x

Were at The Movies blog hop

Oh wow what can I say but soo sorry every one just got in from work to discover that my post did not publish which is real annoying as I was up at 2:00 am this morning adding the finishing touches - hopefully better late than never!!!!!!!!!!!


Make it Crafty and Simply Betty Stamps are really excited to be bringing you the combined Hollywood Release!

Simply Betty Stamps has a range of characters from Betty Monroe, through to Action Chris the movie director!!

Make it Crafty has a range of background scenes perfect to switch and match with your famous characters!!

Of course we are going to have heaps of fun with this theme and June 1st & June 2nd we will be showcasing our stuff and then June 3rd we're bringing you a fun guessing game... Will you be able to guess the movie?? We'll be giving you some clues to help!!

Join us for the two inspiration days and leave a comment along the way for your chance to win a selection of new images.
There will be FOUR winners each day receiving a surprise character with matching background digi stamps.

Then on June 3rd, guess 6 out of 12 movies correctly and you will have a chance to win:

Grand Prize

A DVD Movie of your choice
PLUS the whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release images.

Second Prize
The whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release!

Can't wait?!!
But we know some of you just can't wait so both Betty and Zoe are offering you 25% off
their Hollywood collections between June 1st and June 3rd!

Click Here for Simply Betty Stamps & Click Here for Make it Crafty!

We hope you have lots of fun with us this weekend!!!



How are you enjoying the hop so far - arent these images fantastic? I am just loving these great characters from Simply Betty Stamps. Hopefully you will have made your way here from the talented Suzi's blog and your already feeling inspired. If you didnt then hop right over to the start which you will find is at the incredibly talented Barbara'sBlog.



I got too play with the adorable Lady Lola and what better place for her to be than on the Make It Crafty background of the red carpet.

(Which is soo fitting for me cos I am writing this suffering from a slight hangover, having been lucky enough to attend the Glamour Awards yesterday (Tuesday), yep I got to mingle with the stars for the night and walk on the red carpet and even though I was there working it was an amazing experience.)

Oops back to my project which is why your here really. LoL

Yep I am still on a bag kick really loving doing these! this one is a bit bigger than the others I had so made my image a bit bigger than normal, so I have used both Copics and Prisma Pencils to colour.

I have used flowers from Wild Orchid, feathers and paper that I seem to have had for ages, but cant remember where from.
I hope this has inspired you in some small way and now you are of to see the fantastic creation made by the Green Godess herself Leila
Have fun and enjoy the rest of the hop.

Beccy x

Indian Warrior

Managed to have a littl play and make something just because I can today (well thats my opinion anyway). I'm not really good at making cards for boys and men, which is soo not good when you have three sons and two grandsons, but I just fell in love with this cute little Indian Warrior by Nellie Snellen, and have been waiting for a chance to ink him up.

he's been coloured with Copics, the papers are by Whiff of Joy which I have had for ages and totally forgot about! I am soo going to have to ban myself from bying any more papers or printing any till I have used some of my stash up!!!!!!



Challenges
Pink Gem Challenge Sketch
Delightful Challenges Distressing
Totally Papercrafts No Pesky Girls Allowed

Gift Bag 2

Decided to have another go at a gift bag and didnt have quite so many disasters this time lol, bit dissappointed with the wings though had to use a new quickie glue and it really came out thick and fast, so glitter is not as delicate as I would have liked.

Image is from Lili of the Valley coloured with Copics

Flowers are Wild Orchid

Papers Pink Parfait Forever Friends

Ribbon coloured with copic pen

Left the back plain as soo much going on in front.
Challenges
Lili's Lil Fairies Anything Goes