Fab 'n' Funky are back!!!

Hi everyone, well after an incredibly long summer break (hope you all enjoyed your time!), we are finally back with some more Fab 'n' Funky fun.  We are starting our time back with Challenge #450, which, with it being 25th of the month, is Christmas themed.

Now, anyone who knows me, knows that I really don't need more than a tiny twinkle of an excuse to break into carols and wrap tinsel round like its going out of fashion (please don't tell me it has, I won't accept that sort of negativity!).

So for my card today, I have picked one of my favourites from the recent Sara Signature Range launch, which was Enchanted Christmas, I so love those fairies!  This card is really simple to make too - I just stamped the scene at the bottom and coloured in any missing bits using a black marker.  Used one of the papers from the 6x6 pad on the inside of the card and stamped a sentiment in place, die cut an aperture in the front, which I then backed with acetate and framed with a bit of silver glitter card.  Die cut a fairy from black glitter, perching her neatly on the tree stump (xyron sticker maker is great for this) and then added a few stars, which look like she is blowing them across the sky.

The coordination in this set really does make everything work so well, every card I have seen made using this collection is just perfect, so lovely!

Well, I hope you can join us for our Christmas challenge, and welcome back everyone!

TTFN

Rach

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Fairy Merry Christmas!

Good morning all, hope your Monday morning is going to plan!

Today I'm sharing one of my makes for the Enchanted Christmas range, which was launched recently.  These fairies are more magical as they are floating on an acetate panel.  These fairies are so much fun and given the glitter and sparkle of Christmas is just perfect!

I really hope you've already got yourself this collection, absolutely everything in it is just incredible, the paper pads are to die for, there are stunning dowel stamps, embossing folders, dies, stencils, stamps and dies, dies and some gorgeous stamps too.

Anyway, I have to go and get ready for work early as I have an emergency run to carry out for my most forgetful daughter!

TTFN

Rach
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Launch Day!

Well, today's the day these fabulous new Pop up Word Dies launch on Create and Craft and I hope you've managed to clear time in your day (or just ordered them and set the video [how old am I!!!!] to record).

Here's another of my samples for the launch using 'Special Friend' this time.

I used paper from the Downton Abbey 12 x 12 paper pad, together with the rectangle frame, the flowers and the tag are from the Gemini Junior starter set.

Hope you like this and are enjoying hump day!

TTFN

Rach
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Fabulous new Dies!

Well, it's been ages since I came on and let you know what I'm up to, sorry about that, it's so easy to keep ploughing into life head first and not take a look up to see what's going on.  But I'm here now and I'm so lucky to have worked on some gorgeous new dies coming up on Create and Craft by Crafters Companion.

These are new Pop up Word dies, that allow you to have an incredibly large statement on the inside of your card and really make sure that most of the hard work is done for you.

As you can see, this one is the 'Thank You' sentiment, and will be so useful as we really need to be saying this phrase as often as possible.  I used the Sara Signature Shabby Chic collection for the papers and dies on this one and I cut the Thank You out of Centura Pearl Trends for the additional coloured layer.

I can definitely see these dies becoming a staple in my crafting arsenal (which is ever growing!), I really love the way the lettering is wonky, just gives it another fun edge!

Anyway, hope you will be able to tune in on Wednesday when these dies launch and you can see much more marvellous inspiration from the team.

Hope you've had a fabulous weekend.

TTFN

Rach

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