Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge: July 2016

Friday, July 29, 2016

Fussy and Fancy Challenge 169 - A Walk in the Garden

Happy Friday
Fussy and Fancy followers!

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Our challenge for the next
fortnight is being hosted by our very talented..

Hi, Diane with you and hosting our challenge

which I chose the theme of
'A Walk In The Garden'.
I don't know about you, but I love to garden just about
as much as I do paper crafting.
I find so much beauty in both!
So, we would love to see your interpretation of
gardening, be it flowers, butterflies, bees or even veggies,
whatever 'your' idea of gardening is!

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Diane's challenge for the next fortnight is

"A Walk in the Garden"

Here is the beautiful card that Diane

created for this challenge!

This is such a lovely card, Diane! I love your Garden theme

and the flowers on your card are beautiful!

I love the embossing and gorgeous die cut that you

used for your elegant background.

Then, I think that the butterflies, bird house and

pretty pink bow add the perfect finishing touches

along with the pretty pink heart charm!

It looks like a lovely fresh spray of flowers

that you just picked from your garden!

For lots of inspiration, sit down with a cup of tea

or coffee and visit Diane's lovely blog!

Your sure to be in for a treat!

Diane's blog!

Nellies Nest

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We have a special gift voucher to

Noor! Design UK

for one very lucky winner!

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Diane will be choosing the

Top 5 Winners

for this fun challenge!

And now, with lots of fabulous creations

to inspire you for our

"A Walk in the Garden" challenge

I'm so very proud to present

the very talented and creative

Fussy and Fancy Girls!

Darlene Pavlick

Jo.

Sasha

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We hope you can pop by the girls blogs

to read about their lovely creations.

They would love a visit from you!

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You can also enter our challenges via email

We have an email entry blog set up where

your cards are placed, entered into the

challenge via the linking tool and

commented on by our design team.

Email: fussyandfancy@hotmail.com

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You have until midnight on 11th August (GMT) to enter

We look forward to seeing your

"A Walk in the Garden" creations!

**Happy Crafting**

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Introducing our newest Fussy and Fancy Girls!

Hello Fussy and Fancy Followers!

I hope that all of you have enjoyed your week and
that you are planning on squeezing some fun
crafty time into your weekend!

I am so very excited about announcing our newest

FUSSY AND FANCY GIRLS!

There was a huge response to our DT CALL!
I received lots of private e-mails inviting me to visit your
lovely blogs to admire your talent!

It certainly wasn't an easy decision as I hopped repeatedly

from one of your blogs to the next again and again!

There was so much talent to choose from!

For those of you who didn't make it this time, please try again

in the future. As you know, I could only choose so many

and I was specifically looking for a different range of talent and style

to share with and inspire our followers.

So now without further delay, I am so very

proud and pleased to announce our newest

FUSSY AND FANCY GIRLS!

Marlies

My name is Marlies and I live in Eindhoven in The Netherlands. I’m 57 years old, have been married for nearly 35 years and we have two sons and a daughter.

I’ve always been creative in some sort of way, knitting, sewing and crochet but the last years have stuck to making cards.

Although I love all sorts of styles in card making my own cards are usually in soft colours with lace, flowers and with a cute stamp coloured with distress ink or a vintage card.

I’m in two other DT’s of which one I’m also Co-owner.

http://scrapcardsbymarlies.blogspot.com

Jay

Hiya everyone, my name is Jay.

I was thrilled to be asked to be part of such a talented team of girls.

I live in the Wirral (UK) and I am married to my lovely hubby Paul,

who is not only the love of my life, but my best friend too.

We live with our daughter Ashleigh who is away from home at the moment,

studying at university.

I have been crafting one way or another all of my life, I used to make little felt dolls as a child, I

have also made lots of soft home furnishing all my life. However, card making has taken over the last decade!

I absolutely adore Magnolia images and I am currently Co DT lead at LHOSM challenge.

As you may have guessed my favourite kind of cards, are fussy, with lots of lovely embellishments.

Thank you to Sheryl, for including me in her team!!!

I look forward to seeing all your beautiful creations!

Crafty Cuddles Jay xx

http://jayscraftycorner.blogspot.co.uk/

Darlene Pavlick

Hi! I’m Darlene Pavlick from Akron, Ohio, USA. My husband, Mark & I are originally from Pittsburgh, PA and that is where our families reside. We have one daughter who is married with two children, Morgan (24) and Jonathan (19) and has her own accounting business. She is the one who got me started in paper crafting more than 12 years ago. To make a long story short, once she introduced me to scrapbooking/card making, I’ve been paper crafting every day since. It is my passion and mental therapy! I am retired, have the basement of our home set up as my ‘crafting cave’ and spend lots of time there spreading my creative wings! I’ve been blessed to meet so many wonderfully talented people from around the world through this craft and many have become personal friends! I am thrilled to be one of the newest Fussy and Fancy Girls! http://www.darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

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Very Well Done Ladies!

Please feel free to visit our newest
Fussy and Fancy girls

on their blogs to welcome them and become their latest followers!

**Happy Crafting**

Friday, July 22, 2016

Fussy and Fancy Featured Guest Designer for challenge 168- Christmas in July

The Fussy and Fancy girls

are back to introduce

our very talented

Featured

Guest Designer

for our "Christmas in July" challenge!!

Dawn Sirdefield

Hi, my name is Dawn, I am married with one daughter and two darling grandsons who

have changed my life. I have been crafting for
the last 30+ years.

I started with Cross Stitch, Crocheting and Knitting and then when my daughter

was little I started making my own cards, initially because it was cheaper but I

fell in love with it. I started out with one of those boxes that the fellas use for their

tools and now I have a dedicated craft room - I guess I'm not alone in that though!

I would ideally like to get into making Wedding stationery but with working virtually full

time it is difficult to put enough time aside - maybe one day

Now here is the lovely card that Dawn has created for us...

Oh my goodness Dawn, what an adorable
Tilda image and your
colouring is beautiful! And what fun holiday ribbon!

The soft blue snowflake design paper is so pretty and
the lovely die cut and corner embellishment make the perfect
finishing touches!

Thank you Dawn for joining us this week as our
Featured Guest Designer here at

Fussy and Fancy!!

It's been a real pleasure to have you join us!

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Take some time and indulge yourself by visiting Dawn's blog!!

Her creations are beautiful!

xx Happy crafting xx

Fussy and Fancy winners for challenge 167 - Flowers and Lace

Happy Friday

Fussy and Fancy followers!

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Thank you to everyone

that entered our

Flowers and Lace Challenge

Hosted by me!

Sheryl

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We have lots of

WINNERS

to announce!

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But first, I want to announce that

Sweet Lilac Flowers will no longer be

the sponsor for this particular challenge.

Our sponsor will be

Mangnolia-licious!

I am actually on holiday and this computer here is
giving me a horrible time downloading pictures.
After sitting here for too long, I have finally decided
to just announce the winners and I can add the lovely
pictures next week when I am back home.
I am really sorry and I appreciate your patience!

#17 Ellen

Congratulations Ellen!

What a lovely album!

Please contact Sheryl at

fussyandfancy@hotmail.co.uk

to collect your prize!

and now for our next

Featured Guest Designer!

#47 Linda Simpson

Congratulations Linda!
This is so very soft and pretty!
Please contact Sheryl at
fussyandfancy@hotmail.co.uk
for your Featured Guest Designer details!
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And now for my Top 5 picks!

#25 Marianne's Craft room

#26 De Kaarten Van ons
Mam...Zonnige groeten

#57 RoRa

#58 Plony

#59 Pamellia

Beautiful cards ladies!
Congratulations to you all!
Please remember to pick up your
Top 5 blinky from the sidebar!

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Our current challenge is

"Christmas in July"

and our talented Hostess is

Norma

It will run until midnight on July 28th (GMT)

We hope that you can join us!!

xx Happy Crafting xx

Friday, July 15, 2016

Fussy and Fancy Challenge 168 - Christmas in July!

Happy Friday
Fussy and Fancy followers!

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Our challenge for the next
fortnight is being hosted by our very talented..

Norma

Hello! It's Norma here and I'm delighted to be hosting this challenge

for the next fortnight.

I've chosen the ever-popular 'Christmas in July' as our theme.

If you haven't started this year's Christmas-card collection already,

now's a good time to start. It will lighten the Christmas stress and rush!

I hope you will join us. We look forward to seeing all your creations.

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Here is the beautiful card that Norma

created for her

Christmas in July Challenge!

Norma

(using 'Christmas Tilda with Cat' from Magnolia Stamps)

This is such a Beautiful card, Norma! What an adorable Tilda

image and the sentiment is purr-fect!

I love the soft aqua blue and neutral tones.

The die cuts are so pretty and lacey!

And your handmade creamy white poinsettias

are gorgeous!

You are always in for a special treat with lots of inspiration

when you pop on over to

Norma's blog!

She makes so many beautiful Magnolia cards and

projects with wonderful tutorials or links for instructions!

Our FABULOUS sponsor for this challenge is...

Magnolia-licious

The very sweet and generous

Diana is offering

a special prize

for one lucky winner!

Magnolia-licious is

Your source for all Magnolia, Wee, Saturated Canary, From The Hollow-Fairy Stamps,

Candibeans Stamps, Dollhouse Collection from Little Darlings Stamps

Alota Mini Stamps, Wild Rose Studios and Penny Black stamps.

They also have a wonderful selection of dies from various companies like Memory Box,

Magnolia doohickey, Sue Wison dies, La La Land, Cheery Lynn,

Marianne and many more!

Their sister business is Scor-Pal Products where they sell quality made products which are essential tools for serious paper crafters and card makers.

I promise that you will have lots of fun browsing through their shop!

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Norma will be choosing the

Top 5 Winners

for this fun challenge!

And now, with lots of fabulous creations

to inspire you for our

"Christmas in July" Challenge

I'm so very proud to present
the very talented and creative

Fussy and Fancy Girls!

Nikki

Nathalie

(using Magnolia Tilda image)

Theresa

using Tilda

JUDY

Using Magnolia Tilda image

Lozzy

Using Magnolia Tilda image

Gina

Using Magnolia image

Pat K

We hope you can pop by the girls blogs

to read about their lovely creations.

They would love a visit from you!

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You can also enter our challenges via email

We have an email entry blog set up where

your cards are placed, entered into the

challenge via the linking tool and

commented on by our design team.

Email: fussyandfancy@hotmail.co.uk

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You have until midnight on 28th July (GMT) to enter

We look forward to seeing your

"Christmas in July" creations!

**Happy Crafting**

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Friday, July 8, 2016

Fussy and Fancy Featured Guest Designer 167 - FLowers and Lace/DT CALL

Hello once again!

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The Fussy and Fancy girls

are back to introduce

our very talented

Featured
Guest Designer

for our "Flowers and Lace" challenge!!

Nataša P.

Hi! My name is Nataša or Narobe hiša – Nataša P. I come from a land that's pretty small but has everything (mountains, lots of forest, clean water in rivers and sea) – it's a fairyland called Slovenia. I'm 36 years old and I have a beautiful 7 year old son, he is a light in my life and also amazing and I have an understanding husband that overlooks all the »craft mess« I create.

I have been crafting for as long as I can remember. But I started card making about 10 years ago,

and started blogging a year ago.

Crafting is like a big hug for my soul – a gentle touch that I need… to relax,

to fill my lungs with positive energy.

I love the crafting world, because I can learn something new every day and it also gets me connected to many interesting, funny and creative people all over the world.

I am very pleased to be the Featured Guest Designer at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge this week.

Many thanks to Sheryl and the DTs!

You can see more of my creations at https://narobehisa.blogspot.si/

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Here is the fabulous explosion box that Nataša has created!

Oh my goodness Nataša, this is such a
special treat for whoever
receives this beautiful surprise explosion box!
I love the pretty flowers, lady bugs
and the lovely lacy doily embellishments!
Your wonderful description of Slovenia makes me want to visit there!
And I'm sure that a lot of us paper crafters
share your feelings
about how very relaxing and fulfilling it is for us!
To see more of Nataša's talented work and explosion boxes
please visit her lovely blog!

Thank you Nataša for joining us this week as our
Featured Guest Designer here at

Fussy and Fancy!!

It's been a real pleasure!

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xx Happy crafting xx