Christmas - Fab 'n' Funky #441

Well, another couple of weeks has just flown by, and this week I'm cheating with my card as this is one I made some time ago before I had my brief spell away from the Crafters Companion Design Team and I realised that I had not posted this card on my blog (shame on me!)



The Theme (if you couldn't tell from the title) for this weeks challenge is Christmas, in the hope that we will all have a few extra cards ready when the festive season looms (trust me it will be here before you know it!).  Anyway, this gorgeous card (sorry, blowing my own trumpet here) was made using the build a scene dies that Crafters Companion launched last year, I really did not need to do very much here to create a fab design, the dies did most of the work with just a bit of gilding wax and white gel pen.  These cards I would not say are particularly quick to make but they really do have impact with the fabulous 3D effect.

Anyway, I hope you have fun creating with this weeks theme and add to your Christmas stash - I'd love to see what you come up with.

TTFN

Rach
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Anything Goes! - Fab 'N' Funky #439

Well, this week over at Fab 'n' Funky, you've got free reign to create whatever you like, and as I've just taken possession of the complete collection (had to, its the law!) of Sara's latest Signature Collection - Nautical, it was the perfect opportunity to have some fun with that.

The design team did an absolutely awesome job with samples on this one and so anything I now do with it is going to pale into insignificance, but I just love this collection, the colours are fabulous, and as I live by the sea, it's just perfect!.



I decided to make a box card and use the porthole as the aperture in the middle, the lighthouse in the background is one of the 6x6 backing papers, the wood effect on the front is created with one of the embossing folders which having run through my Gemini, I then water coloured with some Harmony water reactive inks (Ocean Blue & Green Topaz), and then inked over with Friar Brown, I love the effect it created.  All of the other embellishments on the card are also in the collection, including the shells at the bottom which look so realistic but are also just bits of card stamped with the shells and then die cut - they come with their own dies!!!! just amazing!

Anyway, enough of me getting all excited and over to you - what will you share with us at Fab 'n' Funky this week?

TTFN

Rach
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