Friday, December 28, 2012

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:





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



Monday, December 24, 2012

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


Friday, December 21, 2012

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


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

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


which will run until midnight
on 27th December (GMT)


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Friday, December 14, 2012

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




Friday, December 7, 2012

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


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:


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



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

********

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:


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


which will run until midnight
on 13th December (GMT)


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx