Challenge 79 - Furry Friends

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Our new guest designer and top 5 will be

announced next Friday (4th January) so

please pop back then to see if you

are amongst the winners

Updated: The new guest designer
and top 5 can be found here

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Before we announce our next challenge
we would like to introduce you to a
couple of new additions to our
design team.  Please join me
in welcoming Elin, Norma and Bea.

All three ladies were chosen from
previous top 5's, Elin from
challenge number 73, Norma from
challenge 74, Bea from challenge
66 and we're so pleased that
they decided to join us!

Ladies please introduce yourselves...

(click on my photo to visit my blog)

Hi everyone, I'm absolutely thrilled to have been

asked to join the talented DT bunch here at 

Fussy and Fancy!

I'm 34 years old and live with my husband and two

beautiful daughters in Hamar, Norway where I work

as a project manager.

I got hooked on making cards and other paper

projects nearly two years ago after making

invitations for my eldest daughters confirmation.  I

make cards in all styles, from vintage/shabby chic

to colourful cards and I love my flowers and

pearls!  My hobby gives me a break from every

day stress and also the opportunity to meet lovely

people both in real life and online too.

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(click on my photo to visit my blog)

Hi everyone!  I live in Vancouver, Canada.

I'm soooooo excited to be joining this team

and feel honoured and incredibly lucky to

have been asked to join.

I've been crafting for as long as I can 

remember (quilting, scrapbooking, woodworking,

cross stitching and cardmaking), but since I started

my blog in March 2009 everything else apart from

cardmaking seems to have fallen by the wayside!

Blogging keeps me hopping full time now, lol

I mainly coloured my images with promarkers

and Pantone Trias, but every now and then I

love to use my coloured pencils.  It gives me great

pleasure to be sharing my work with others.  In the

same way that I get inspiration from other crafters,

I hope that my work will inspire others too.

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(click on my photo to visit my blog)

Hi, my name is Beate, I'm 35 years old and I live in

Norway with my husband and two dogs.

My day job is as a secretary, but I spend all of my

free time in my scrap room.  I mostly make cards

and gift boxes and I use roses, lace, ribbon and

stitching on nearly everything I make.

I've been scrapping and making cards since 2007

and I really love this hobby because there are so

many different techniques and lovely embellishments

out there, that I want to try them all some day :-)

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We hope that you all had a good
Christmas and haven't over indulged
too much?

How many of you got crafting goodies?
Well hopefully we can help you to
use them with our new challenge!

Our challenge for the next fortnight is:

We would like to see all of your furry

friends, so it may be that you create

a scrapbook page around your 

pets or just use your favourite

furry animal stamp.  We can't wait

to see your projects!

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If you would like to enter our

challenges but don't have a blog,

please contact us via the email

address in the right hand side bar

attaching a picture of your project

and we will enter you into the 

challenge.  Please enter the

challenge theme as the subject of

the email and include your name

and we will do the rest for you

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Here are our own Dr Dolittle's

talking to their animals:

Christine

*Vicki*

Céline

Sazzle

Sylvia


Shell


Ann


Alison


Debbie

We hope you have fun with this challenge!

You have until midnight on

10th January GMT to enter

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

to everyone busy blogging!!

We hope that you have great

celebrations planned or just a

peaceful and healthy crafting time.

Our thoughts go out to those

who are less fortune and also 

to those of you that are

suffering from ill health.

Fingers crossed that you are

all able to spend Christmas

in your own homes and that

you haven't been driven out

by any of the floods.

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Guest Designer for Challenge 78 - Tags and Banners

Hello and happy Friday!

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Today the Fussy and Fancy girls

are happy to introduce

our very talented guest designer

Delphine 

Here is a little bit about Delphine:

Hi everyone, I've been making cards for three
years now and I started my blog in February
2010.  I'm completely, very seriously addicted to
colouring and love spending hours colouring at night.

 I'm a big copic lover but also love using pencils too

I'm very happy to join the Fussy and Fancy team
as their Guest Designer this week, thank you
very much for having me ladies!

I hope everyone will come and play with us
on the current challenge.

 Happy crafting xxx

Here is the adorable tag that Delphine

has made for our current challenge

Tags and Banners

What a pretty tag to place on a gift
to let somebody know that you
are thinking of them.

We love the soft mauve and Kraft
 colour combination.  The little girl
image is so very sweet and your
colouring is beautiful.

We especially like how you added
the fun banner along the top of
your tag.  It's simply lovely.

We hope that you can
visit Delphine's blog

Delphine's Place

to read more about this adorable

tag and to see more of her work

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

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 77 Guest Designer Winner & Top 5

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Thank you to everyone that entered
our "I Love Christmas" challenge
and it was great to see so many
beautiful Christmas projects

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With the help of Random.org

we have a new

Featured Guest Designer Winner

And the winner is:

Elaine

Here is Elaine's Christmas card

Congratulations Elaine!

Please contact Sheryl at Shercauble455@aol.com

for your guest designer details

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And now onto our 

Top 5 Winners

(in no particular order)

 #128 Viv
We loved the vintage feel to your card

#231 JanR
WOW this is gorgeous and such a lot of work too, we love
it and I bet the surprises in each box were just as nice too!

#255 Shea Marshall
We loved this traditionally coloured easel box card
and your wreath looks great

#333 Michaela
Well what can we say apart from OMG!  You must have spent
hours on this project and it's stunning and such fun too

#492 Liz
What a great idea Liz and your wreath looks great in the
traditional Christmas colours

Congratulations to you all and

please make sure you grab our

Top 5 blinkie from the side bar

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Our current challenge is

Tags and Banners

which will run until midnight

on 27th December (GMT)

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 78 - Tags and Banners

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Our new guest designer and top 5 will be

announced next Friday (21st December) so

please pop back then to see if you

are amongst the lucky winners

Updated: The new guest designer
and top 5 can be found here

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Before we announce the new challenge
we have a couple of goodbyes to make.
Nicola, Lynn, Mel & Suzanne have
decided to step down from
the design team.

We wish them all well and thank each
of you for sharing your talents with
us.  Hope to see you out there
in blogland xx

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(click on my photo to visit my blog)

On a happier note we would would like
to welcome a newbie to the team.  You
may remember Sylvia from our last
guest designer spot
(see post below for more details)

We loved Sylvia's work and we were
so pleased when she accepted our
invitation to join the design team

You will see more of Sylvia's work
in our next challenge

Welcome to Fussy and Fancy Sylvia!

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Our challenge for the next fortnight is:

This is a great challenge for the
festive season as we've all got to make
tags for our presents and just think
what our New Years Eve Partys 
would be like without banners!

Here are our own festive creations:

Laila


May


Chrissy


Nathalie


Wendy


Mary


Mel


Sheryl C

We hope you have fun with this challenge

You have until midnight on
27th December GMT to enter

To help those of you not in the UK
there is a time zone converter in
the left hand side bar, just click on
the clock face and enter your location



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Guest Designer for Challenge 77 - I love Christmas

Hello and happy Friday!

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Today the Fussy and Fancy girls

are very happy to introduce

our very talented guest designer

Sylvia Blum

Here is a little bit about Sylvia:

Hi everyone, I'm so excited to be a guest designer for 

Fussy and Fancy this month!

I'm a full time working mom to four boys (plus two dogs)
and married to a wonderful and very supportive husband.

My family and I live in the very south west of Germany in
the beautiful Black Forest near Switzerland and France.

I've been addicted to stamping and paper crafting for some
years now and it all began because I wanted to create my
own birth announcements for my youngest son. 
That was 8 years ago!  ;-)

Being creative is my little escape from everyday stress and
I just love it when people tell me they feel inspired by my work!

I hope you feel inspired too and will join us for this challenge

Here's Sylvia's lovely Christmas tag that

she's made for our current challenge:

I Love Christmas

and here's a close up...

This is such a beautiful vintage Christmas
tag.  We love the distressed edges and the
pretty die cuts you've used.  The added
glitter and big red bow make the perfect
finishing touches to this very special
festive package topper!

We hope that you can

visit Sylvia's blog

...{Sylvias Stamping Place}...

to read more about this gorgeous

tag and to see more of her work

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

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Challenge 76 Guest Designer Winner & Top 5

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Thank you to everyone that entered our

feeling blue challenge.  It was great
so see so many lovely blue projects!

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With the help of Random.org

we have a new

Featured Guest Designer Winner

And the winner is:

Delphine

Here is Delphine's pretty blue card:

Congratulations Delphine!

Please contact Sheryl at Shercauble455@aol.com

for your guest designer details

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And not onto our 

Top 5 Winners

(in no particular order)

#27 Pami
Pami we loved the snowy scene you created with the icicle
die cut at the top and that great image from Elisabeth
Bell of the children building that enormous snowman

#45 Eileen
Eileen we loved this Saturated Canary image framed
in those beautiful die cut frames with all of those
gorgeous flowers

#72 Georgina B
Georgina we love that cute Teddy Bo image, but the
snowman looks a bit surprised doesn't he?  The snowflakes
and poinsettia add that extra special touch

#104 Sue bearhouse
Sue we loved the shape of your card and that cute penguin
from Pink Gem Designs as well as the snowflake die cuts

#141 Lena Katrine
Lena Katrine we loved that sweet image from Bildmalarna and
such a super envelope card with those hidden tags

Congratulations to you all and

please make sure you grab our

Top 5 blinkie from the side bar

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Our current challenge is

I Love Christmas

which will run until midnight

on 13th December (GMT)

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx