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Friday, January 25, 2013

Challenge 81 - Circles


Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Our new guest designer and top 5 from
challenge 80 "Coffee, Cocoa & Tea" will
be announced next Friday (1st February)
so please pop back then to see if
you are amongst the winners

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Updated:  The new guest designer
and top 5 for challenge 81
"circles" can be found here

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I seem to be the bearer of bad news
just lately but I guess that's just
that way it goes eh?

Sadly we are saying goodbye to
2 more of our design team!
Chrissy and Alison

We would like to thank both of you
for sharing your talents with us,
especially Chrissy who has been with
us for over 18 months. We wish you
both well for the future and hope to see
you out there in blogland xx

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We do, however, have a new design
team member, Ivonne Hernandez, who
will be joining us for our next challenge



Ivonne please introduce yourself:

Hi, I live in San Juan, Puerto Rico and I'm a mother
to a 17 year old young lady who makes me proud
every day.  I work full time in an accounting firm
as an Information Technology Specialist.

I've been crafting since I was a little girl doing
things such as macrame, cold porcelain, scrapbooking
and mosaics to name a few.  I was introduced to card
making about a year and a half ago by my best friend
Kathya.  We started our blog in October 2011 and our
world got bigger immediately.  It's amazing how a
passion and a blog helps you make friends all
over the world.

I'm always learning new techniques, improving my
colouring skills and new ways to colour.  My
passion though is colouring, I love, love, love it,
it's my stress reliever!!

I'm honoured to have have been invited to be part of the
Fussy and Fancy design team.  I'm super excited and still
pinching myself to make sure I'm awake.  I'm sure
I'm going to learn a lot and have so much fun!

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Our challenge for the next fortnight
is hosted by Celine


and the theme she has chosen is:


Celine would like to see your projects
adorned in circles.  Loads of
possibilities here aren't there?

We've certainly had the design team
running around in circles with this
one so here's what they have for
your inspiration:





We hope you have fun with this challenge!

You have until midnight on
7th February GMT to enter


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx


Friday, January 18, 2013

Challenge 79 Guest Designer Winner and Top 5


Hello and Happy Friday
Fussy and Fancy followers

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Unfortunately the winner of the Featured
Guest Designer spot from our last
challenge "Tags and Banners" failed to
contact us so we don't have a spotlight
post this week for you

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Thank you to everyone that entered
our "Furry Friends" challenge.

It was great to see all of your
adorable cards and projects!

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With the help of Random.org
we have a new
Featured Guest Designer Winner


And the winner is:


Fiona Kate

Here's her cute furry friends card



Congratulations Fiona!

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)

#10 Annie
We loved your cute little dog and your bright colours and
layout really caught our eye

#51 Tessa Anke
Two adorable furry friends and who doesn't love Teddy Bo?

#109 Ivonne H
Your choice of image is brilliant and coloured fantastically
and the red colour scheme blends perfectly

#127 Pamela
How cute!  Those cuddly penguins are great and love
those big shimmery snowflakes!

#130 Sarah T
Love it! Such a fun card and excellent shading

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 24th January (GMT)



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx



Friday, January 11, 2013

Challenge 80 - Coffee, Cocoa or Tea


Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers

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Our new guest designer and top 5 from
challenge 79 "Furry Friends" will be
announced next Friday (18th January) so
please pop back then to see if you
are amongst the winners

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Welcome to the first challenge of 2013

We've decided to make a few 
minor changes to the way we do
things behind the scenes at F&F, but
thought you'd like to know about them 
(if not please skip to the next section!!)

Up until now the challenge themes
were set a year in advance by one
person and given to the design team,
but to make it more interesting each
design team member has now been
given the opportunity of choosing 
their own theme (on a rota basis)
and choosing their own top 5.

The guest design winner will still be
chosen by Random.org

As all of the design team members use
different techniques and skills in their
projects they too will be looking out
for different things from your entries
into their individual challenges!

Good luck in 2013

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Just to keep you in suspense for a bit
longer we'd like to introduce you
to a couple of new additions to our
design team, Sam Crowe and Jo Rice.
 They will both be joining team B in
 their first challenge on 25th
January, so please welcome them
to the Fussy and Fancy design team

Ladies please introduce yourselves:


(click on my photo to visit my blog)

Hi I'm Sam and I'm really honoured and excited to
have been asked to join the talented and friendly
design team here at Fussy and Fancy and
share my love of craft with you.

As a young child my Mam passed onto me her
vast knowledge in the basics of arts and crafts
which included sewing, knitting, tapestry, rug
making, dressmaking, painting and decorating.

In my 30's (which wasn't THAT long ago!) I
rediscovered my interest and skills when I studied
painting and decorating, interior design and soft
furnishings.  A lot of the skills I learnt on a larger
scale then are just as much fun now when used
on tags and altered art.

When my Mam died a few years ago crafting really
helped me and I decided to take my hobby and passion
as far as I could.  I taught myself to blog and twitter
and have since joined pinterest as well as chatting to
endless crafty ladies on facebook.

I try and attend every craft fair and show that I can
as well as attending classes so that I am constantly
improving my skills and of course build up my stash!

I particularly love altered art, tags and twinchies but
most of all I just love to meet like minded people.

My latest achievement has been to join the
Splodgeaway design team so I hope to be able to use
some of their products in my projects here too.

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Hi I'm Jo, I'm 49 and married with 2 grown up sons
and my crafty companion is a 3 year old yellow
labrador called Tess.

I've been crafting for many years with my main
interest being card making and pyrography.  I am a
freelance designer and crafter running regular
workshops and I love to share ideas with
my fellow crafters.  

Last year began on a high when I was asked to
join the Hobby Art design team, followed by
IndigoBlu inviting me onto theirs and then to
round the year off Samuel Taylor approached
me too.  I'm loving working with all of their
products and you might get to see a few
of them in my projects here.

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Our challenge for the next fortnight
is hosted by Sheryl 


and the theme she has chosen is:

Coffee, Cocoa & Tea

Sheryl would like to see beverage
related projects i.e. pots of tea,
cups of coffee, people holding
a cup and not just using these
colours on your projects

We are being sponsored for this
challenge by Fresh Brewed Designs


As we are not normally a sponsored
challenge we thought it would be
nice, in addition to our featured guest
design winner, to ask Sheryl to
chose another winner who will
receive 3 digis of their choice from
Fresh Brewed Designs.

If you'd like to read more about Heather
and her inspiration behind the setting
up of Fresh Brewed Designs she was our
guest designer from challenge 72.

We'd like to thank Heather for sponsoring
this challenge and kindly letting the design
team use some of her images to
create their inspirational projects.


Here are their hot delights:

(using Hot Date)

(using Coffee and Pie)

(using Coffee and Pie)

(using Hot Cocoa Girl rubber stamp)

(using Ladybug Teapot)

(using Ladybug Teapot)

(using Latte Love)

(using Thinking of You - Girl in Window)




We hope you have fun with this challenge!

You have until midnight on
24th January GMT to enter



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx



Friday, January 4, 2013

Guest Designer for Challenge 79 - Furry Friends


Hello and happy Friday!

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Today the Fussy and Fancy girls
are happy to introduce
our very talented guest designer

Elaine Levett


Here is a little bit about Elaine:

I'm addicted to butterflies and crafting!

I began crafting after my Grandma passed away.
Whilst trying to find a hobby to take my mind off things
I found a box I inherited from my Grandma with all of
her crafting stash inside.  I often think it was like her
gift to me to find something I adore doing.

I began blogging in October 2010 and have loved
every second.  I've been blessed to both design and
guest design for some wonderful blogs and have been
featured in magazines too.  I love altering things and
have a particular passion for up cycling.  I won a
national up cycling competition in 2012 which spurred
me to start my own non card challenge on my blog to
showcase the wealth of talent in blog land.

I truly love the friendly crafting community!

Here is the adorable card that Elaine
has made for our current challenge

Furry Friends




We think your layout along with 
the soft pastel colors of your
papers make the perfect
background for this adorable little
girl and her sweet little kitty!

Your colouring is beautiful and
with the addition of the three bows
along the side these make the
perfect finishing embellishments

We hope you can visit
 Elaine's blog

Craft My Life


to read more about this adorable
card and to see more of her work

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



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx


Challenge 78 Guest Designer Winner & Top 5


Happy New Year
Fussy and Fancy followers
and welcome to 2013

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Thank you to everyone that entered
our "tags & banners" challenge.

It was great to see such a variety
of different styles although
I think we had more tags
entered than banners

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With the help of Random.org
we have a new
Featured Guest Designer Winner


And the winner is:

Arty Andrea

Here's one of her lovely tags



Congratulations Andrea!

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)


#12 Chris S
We loved your Tim Holtz style tag
and who doesn't like getting messy?

Your hearts look great with a combination of finishes
and just adds to the vintage style of your tag

Your Xmas bunting is gorgeous and each one is unique

What a brilliant idea for a gift and a card in one

What a gorgeous wall hanging for Carrie.  Hope it made
her feel better after her stay in hospital

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 10th January (GMT)


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx