Guest Designer Spot for Challenge 63 - New Baby

Hello and happy Friday!

Today the Fussy and Fancy girls are
pleased to announce our talented 

Featured Guest Designer

Linda McClain

Here is a little bit about Linda:

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without” 

Cecile B DeMille said that.

 If I'd have said it, it would have come out more like

 “Crafting is my Prozac”!
My favorite thing in the whole wide world is creating fun
projects with, and for, the people I love. 

The details of my gang and me are blissfully boring. 

 Mr McClain and I grew up in Indiana and we’ve lived in 

Texas now for over 25 years.  I like to blab on about him,
my two great kids, the dogs, my adorable twin sister,
hilarious brother, my traveling adventures inspecting
nursing homes, and you know, life in Texas ya’ll.

Here's Linda's card for our

current challenge - NEW BABY: 
 

How sweet is this card?  Your soft
muted colors and that plaid paper makes the
perfect background for that adorable baby
owl too especially with his paper pieced hat!

We love how you've coordinated your zig zag
punch with your ric rac ribbon and found

the perfect sentiment for this owl image to say
"hello" or to send congratulations on the birth
of a new baby boy!  Your sewing, the bow
and a button add the final finishing touches.

We hope that you can visit Linda's blog

Catered Crop
 

to read more details about her lovely card

and to see more of her beautiful work

It's been a real pleasure Linda - thank you!



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 62 - Guest Designer Winner and Top 5

 Hello and Happy Friday from all
of us here at Fussy and Fancy!

We want to thank everyone who entered 

challenge 62 and we had 107 gorgeous
entries using butterflies, ribbons & punches

What a treat it was for all the Fussy and
Fancy girls to see your lovely creations

With the help of Random.Org
we have chosen a new

Featured Guest Designer Winner

The lucky number is:

And the lucky winner is:

#20 Tammy

Here's Tammy's beautiful winning card:

Congratulations Tammy!

Please contact Sheryl at shercauble455@aol.com for your guest designer details

Here are our 

Top 5 Winners

 (in no particular order)

#18 Gro Tjeltveit

#23 Mandy

#69 Tracy Payne

#82 Sara

#96 Scrappellen

Congratulations to you all 

and please make sure that you 

take our Top 5 blinkie

from the side bar

Our current Challenge

NEW BABY

will run until midnight on 31st  May (GMT)

You could be our next featured Guest Designer!

We look forward to seeing your entries

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 63 - New Baby

Welcome to a new challenge
Fussy and Fancy followers

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Thanks to everyone that entered our butterflies,
ribbons and punches challenge - we certainly
have some talented crafters out there!
Did you check out all of the entries?

We did have a few entries that didn't include
all 3 elements and unfortunately they had
to be removed from the challenge.

Our new guest designer and top 5 will be
announced next Friday (25th May) so
please pop back then to see if you
are amongst the winners.

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For the next fortnight the theme is 

NEW BABY

I don't think this one needs any explanation, but I
know we'll see so many different kinds of cards!

It looks like the odds are stacked in favour of
the blues for our DT cards.  I wonder which one
will win for the challenge?  Blue or pink?
Maybe you'd like to add the words "blue" or
"pink" to your name when you enter the challenge
for the chance to win a little something extra?

Just in case you need inspiration, here's our own

midwives to showcase their own little creations.

These ladies form the second part of our new 
design team (group B) and this is their first 
challenge so please pop along to their blogs and 
check out their talents as they too have been working 
hard over the last few weeks to bring you their first
projects for Fussy and Fancy - you did great girls! 

Céline

Debbie


Karen


Sazzle

 Flying Fresian


Ann


Beth


Christine


Ashley


Sarah-Jane
Sarah-Jane is having computer problems at the moment
so is unable to join in with this challenge :-(

Hope you have fun with the challenge!

You have until midnight on 31st May GMT to enter


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Guest Designer Spot for Challenge 62 - Butterflies, Ribbons and Punches

Hello and happy Friday!

Today the Fussy and Fancy girls are

 very proud to introduce our very

 talented Featured Guest Designer

Mina Hartley

 Here is a little bit about Mina:

Hi everyone, I'm Mina.  I seem to have been crafting forever but
 it's really only been about four years!  My main love is papers,
papers, papers oh and ribbon of course.  Since I started my blog I've
met some wonderful crafters and I'm on some amazing DT's too.
There are so many talented people about aren't there?

I live in Northern Ireland with my ever patient and gorgeous
husband.  We've been married for 36 years and have a
stunningly beautiful daughter (yeah ok I'm a little bit biased).
I'm a Geordie girl at heart though and still speak with the accent
despite being in Ireland for a long time.  I mainly make cards, sometimes
altered objects, but as to style I don't think I really have one, but
I love trying new things!  I colour my images with distress inks using
a paint brush and water and I love cutting out from papers and using
every little bit of them.  I don't own a die cutter.... never felt the
need to really, as I would miss my teeny little scissors too much.

Sorry about the photo, it's a few years old and from my blog but I'm
one of those people who hide when a camera comes out.  Thanks
for taking the time to read this and huge thanks for choosing
me as your guest designer.  Enjoy your day everyone!

Mina xxx

Here's Mina's lovely card for our
Butterflies, Ribbons and Punches challenge:

Your card is absolutely gorgeous Mina!
Just look at those lovely soft and pretty shades of blue,
we love how you've coloured your adorable image
and how your papers compliment her so beautifully.
Accented with those gorgeously delicate butterflies,
the pretty white scalloped punch and blue ribbon
bow being kissed by a butterfly, these are the perfect
finishing touches for your card!


We hope you can visit Mina's blog


Pinkpuds


to read more details about her lovely card 
and to see lots more of her beautiful work


It's been a real pleasure Mina - thank you!




xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 61 - Guest Designer Winner and Top 5

Hello and Happy Friday from all of us here at

Fussy and Fancy!

We want to thank everyone that entered

challenge 61 using all of your fabulous 
punches and dies and we had 441 fabulous
entries - WOW!  

We couldn't have chosen only one
winner without the help of Random.org as
we had so many lovely entries, we'd have
chosen all of you, but unfortunately we
can only have one Featured Guest Designer.

The lucky number is:

And the lucky winner is:

#31 Linda McClain

Here's Linda's beautiful winning card:

Congratulations Linda!

Don't forget to grab our Guest Designer
badge to display proudly on your blog

Please contact Sheryl at shercauble455@aol.com for your guest designer details

Here are our

Top 5 Winners

(in no particular order)

#45 Tracy MacDonald

#95 Mandy

#215 Sara

#261 Gro Tjeltveit

#383 Suzie

Congratulations to you all and

please make sure that you collect our

Top 5 Blinkie from the side bar

Our current challenge 

Butterflies, Ribbons and Punches

will run until midnight on 17th May (GMT)

You could be our next featured guest designer!

We look forward to seeing all of your entries

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx 



Challenge 62 - Butterflies, Ribbons & Punches

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Thanks to everyone that entered our punches
and dies challenge.  WOW we certainly
found a challenge you all enjoy with a massive
441 entries! 

Our new guest designer and top 5 will be
announced next Friday (11th May) so
please pop back and see if you are
amongst the winners.

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This fortnights challenge is

BUTTERFLIES, RIBBONS & PUNCHES

You are not restricted to how many of each you use as

long as you use at least one of each - simples!!!!!

Here's the cards that our new design team (group A)
have created for your inspiration this week.  Please
pop along to their blogs to check out their talents
as they have all been working hard over the last
few weeks to bring you their first projects for
Fussy and Fancy - you did great girls!!!

Wendy


Laila aka Koneko


Lynn 


May


Sheryl C.


Chrissy


Natalie

Danielle


Nicola


Mary

We hope you have fun with this challenge and we
look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

You have until midnight on 17th May GMT to enter


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx