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

Fab n Funky Colour Combo

This little cutie is Snail Mail by MazyArt who just happens to be

the sponsor for this weeks challenge at Fab n Funky

and this week we have a 

COLOUR COMBO CHALLENGE

of 

PINK GREEN and BROWN

Challenges

TTCRD Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft Mystical Creatures

Shopping our stash - Easter Spring

stamp with fun Anything goes

Fab n Funky Challenge 162

Its time for a new challenge at Fab n Funky 

and we have a nice easy challenge for you this week 

 so I hope lots of you join in with us - and what is the challenge I hear you ask?

Its

 Add a Sentiment

Easy right? 

and we have TWO sponsors this week

Digi Darla Designs

Stamp Art Design

for my card I used  Brittneys Balloons from Digi Darla

with a sentiment from LOTV

I cut and pasted the balloons to get a couple of extra and after colouring with copics I triple embossed them to make them nice and shiny then layered them using foam pads to get a bit of dimension. 

Hope you like

Challenges

TTCRD - Anything goes

Creatalicious - colour challenge

Cupcake Craft - Its only words

totallypapercrafts - Punch it

Beccy x

Cave Dragon

Just had to share  my sons artwork with you - he did this in water colours and the detail is amazing - u can see more of his stuff on his blog Artwork (and if your intersted he sells them real cheap)

Fab n Funky Pastel Colours

Hi Peeps 

After being MIA last week

 I'm glad to say I'm back with this weeks challenge at

FAB N FUNKY

PASTEL COLOURS

and we have a fabulous sponsor for this weeks prize too

Saturated Canary

who totally spoilt the design team and let us choose an image

to play with.

This was my first visit to the store and I soooooo no it wont be my last.

After browsing with my coffee

an absolute must dont be in a hurry when you go lol

I finally settled on this real cute image

WHISPY

Ain't she gorgeous?

Coloured with copics with some flat back pearls and frosted lace stickles.

I used my new memory box dies from the Craft Barn and a couple of Wild Orchid flowers to finish off.

Hope you like her as much as I do and

feel inspired to join our challenge.

Challenges
Dream Valley Challenges ribbon and bling
Party Time Tuesdays Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge for a special lady
Glitter and Sparkle bling it on
Creative Card Crew Birthdays

Bearly mine anything goes

Whats Inside Fab n Funky

Today sees me hosting the challenge at 

Fab n Funky

which means I got to choose the challenge

and I have gone for

WHAT'S INSIDE

Yep I would like to see the inside of your card decorated too.

Once again you lucky things are being spoilt as we have another

fabulous sponsor for you

Stamp Fairy  

 

who is offering $10.00 to spend in store.

and this is what I made using

Molly Balloons 2 from the Stamp Fairy

Cant wait to see what you all come up with 

Hugs Beccy x

Challenges

Partytime Tuesdays - 3 of anything (Butterflies)

Sweet Stampin - Swirls and pearls
Glitter n Sparkle - Girls
Pretty little ribbon shop - anything goes
Inky Impressions - Ribbon or twine

Valentines / Hearts Fab n Funky

Hellloooooooooo

Time for a new challenge at Fab n Funky and this week in celebration of St Valentine we want to see Valentines or hearts on your creations.

And just to get you in the mood we have two amazing sponsors this week
 Lili of the Valley who are offering an amazing £10 to spend in store









StampArt Design by Kathryne

I have used this oh soo cute stamp from LOTV coloured with copics, the background is a rose stamp all over. the badge I made using ultra thick embossing powder with distress inks and some gold inka which IRL looks like gold floating in the utee - sorry in the pic it just looks a bit of a mess. Photographer I am not lol.

Dont forget to check out what the rest of the team has come up with

Beccy x

Challenges
Eurekastamps Hearts
Dreamvalleychallenges. Valentines
cutiepiechallenge valentines

Fab n funky Challenge 156

Hi everyone I am hoping that Blogger is playing nicely and that it is Wednesday and the start of a new challenge at Fab n Funky

And what a great challenge it is too

SHOES

Yep we want to see you incorporate shoes into your project 

if you need inspiration then my team mates have really got 

some great ideas for you.

This is what I came up with

Some baby shoes.

and matching gift box.

Challenge
TTCRD Anything Goes

Partytime Tuesday Anything goes
Twisted tuesday Anything goes

Fav colour combo

wow where do the weeks go - this year is already flying by and its time for a new challenge at 

Fab n Funky

and the challenge this week should be real easy

your favourite colour combo

Doodle you'd think but no not for me

I really couldnt decide what my fav combo was

I think it really depends on what mood im in at the time

so Im going for the combo of green and mauve as I do really love it

and this is what I made

and not a copic in sight lol.

I wanted to use this gorgeous flower by Kaztlekraft and think it looks great in distress inks. I coloured straight onto the stamp with distress markers and then used distress inks for the mats and the background which is a cover the card stamp.

The image is quite big so kept the rest real simple bit of ribbon and a hat pin and bobs your uncle done.

Cant wait to see what combos you all choose and as always we have some terrific sponsors for you

Our first prize sponsor is 

Stampart Design by Kathryne

and we also have the lovely 

Flonzcraft

Moving with Fab n Funky

Hi Peeps

This weeks challenge has been set by Shirley who wants to see you all 

Get Moving.

Yep she wants you to show us something that has someone who is moving or doing some sort of activity! 

And to get you in to the swing (no pun intended lol) of things we have a great sponsor this week who has some amazing images that really fit for this challenge.

MAYZYART

and I was lucky enough to get this gorgeous MayzyArt footballer to play with

I've coloured him with copics, cut him out and using sticky pads placed him on the background which I made using a cloud stamp it all over stamp and distress inks.

The sentiment and little footballs are by Flowersoft.

Challenges 

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Sweet Stampin - Gingham
MayzArt Anything Goes

Fab n Funky Challenge - Winter

Happy New Year Everyone

Wow did that holiday go quick or what!!!!!!!!!!

The good thing about that is we are back with a brand new challenge for you this week at

Fab n Funky Challenges

As its still winter in this side of the world and the word is that its going to get cold again

were going with the theme

WINTER

We have two amazing sponsors this week

Digi Darla Designs

and

First prize sponsor StampArt Designs by Kathryne

I used these real cute Polar Bears

By StampArt

I kept the card real simple mainly because like a lot of people my craft room is the dining room table so had to do a major clear up and empty it off  (cant really see whats wrong with christmas dinner on your knee lol)

not having enough storage space hubby kindly put lots of stuff like scissors, glue, cutting mats, embellishments and a mound of other essential stuff up into the attic so the grandchildren couldnt get it - course its not all come back out yet so had to make do with what I could get my hands on., but I dont think it was too bad - roll on the weekend when I can claim my table back!

Challenges
crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge No father christmas
Top Tip Tuesday Fur or Feathers
sassy studio - snow;snowflakes

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