You can't keep me away from Christmas for long!

This weeks challenge on Fab n Funky (#455) is Christmas, and although it's not really my turn to take part, I soo love Christmas I thought I'd take part anyway.  It also gave me a chance to finally use one of my birthday presents (thank you so much Susan!).

I have used one of the cut n emboss dies from Crafters Companion for a quite traditional card, which you can knock up in no time, and I have to say at Christmas, when you discover you've got more relatives than cards made (or is that just me?), you really need this!

I cut & embossed onto Centura Pearl Hint of Gold, then used some gilding wax to highlight the swirls round the outside, mounted this piece on foam pads onto a slightly larger piece of Centura Pearl Gold, then onto a base card, bit of ribbon and a sentiment layered up and you're done.

Well, hopefully you will be able to join us this week, I know so many of you are full on into your Christmas crafting now (only 8 weeks to go!).

TTFN

Rach
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A change from Christmas

Well, I actually remembered what day it was today & that I'm supposed to be taking part in the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #454, whose theme this week is Wedding.

I was really happy with this theme as I have some lovely dies & papers from Sara's Signature Rustic Wedding collection, and I also have just taken possession of some of the new Vintage Lace collection as well - Happy days!

This card is quite simple, but then when it comes to Wedding cards I think that is probably best - this edger die is just fabulous, though I have to admit it did take a few passes through the machine to get all of the pieces to cut.  I resorted to my favourite torn roses, these are so easy to make but look just perfect for this.  Behind the roses, you can see swirls and leaves from the new Vintage Lace, which seemed to be just perfect for this.

Anyway, hope you like this and will join us at Fab 'n' Funky!

TTFN

Rach

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I'm a numpty!

It's official, life got so hectic that I lost track of what week was what and I completely missed my slot last week on Fab 'n' Funky.  I can't believe that I missed it, especially as it was a Halloween theme (I had some lovely dies I could have used!), anyway, I'm so sorry to all and so to make up for it, I'm taking part in my down week and will also take part next week (providing there are no more brain farts!).

Anyway, this weeks theme is 'Feature a Creature', I have a lovely stamp from Visible Image (love their work) of a Seahorse, which I wanted to play with and here's what I've come up with.  The background is made using my favourite smooshing & layering technique with distress oxides.  I've also used one of the accessory stamps to create bubbly swirls and added Nuvo drops as well.

The sentiment is also one of Visible Image's which was stamped in versamark and embossed with black embossing powder.

Anyway, hope you all have a great week and I'm looking forward to seeing all of your creations.

TTFN

Rach

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