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