Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge: January 2013

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

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:

Laila

Sam

Vicki

Alison

Ann

Christine

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

Coffee, Cocoa or Tea

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:

Elin

(using Hot Date)

Wendy

(using Coffee and Pie)

Nathalie

(using Coffee and Pie)

Sheryl

(using Hot Cocoa Girl rubber stamp)

Chrissy

(using Ladybug Teapot)

May

(using Ladybug Teapot)

Norma

(using Latte Love)

Mary

(using Thinking of You - Girl in Window)

Laila

Beate

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