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

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

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?

#16 Ellapu

Your hearts look great with a combination of finishes

and just adds to the vintage style of your tag

#20 Claire C

Your Xmas bunting is gorgeous and each one is unique

#46 Cristina

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

#55 Lynne

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

Furry Friends

which will run until midnight

on 10th January (GMT)

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Happy New Year

Here's hoping that 2013 brings

 you health, wealth and happiness

and loads of crafting time!

We're going to bring you plenty

more exciting challenges

throughout the year with a bit

of a change involved too...

The new changes will all become

clear in our first challenge on

Friday 11th January

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

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:

Christine

*Vicki*

Céline

Sazzle

Sylvia


Shell


Ann


Alison


Debbie

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