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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Fab ‘n’ Funky #449 - Add Pearls/Gems

Hi again Funky Folk!

Well, it's Wednesday again, and I'm such a divvy, I thought it was still Tuesday and so this post is ultra late - so sorry, life is a bit of a whirlwind at the moment and I hardly get time to draw breath, let alone do crafty stuff.

This card actually started life some time ago when I bought the background layering stamps from Crafters Companion, together with the Harmony Quick Dry inks - I have to say, I absolutely love these, they make amazingly quick cards (just what you need when you're already late to the party!).  The only reason this card took any time to make was because I put Nuvo drops on it and they needed time to dry before I finished everything off, I also used some really sparkly gems in the centre of a few flowers but for some reason this has not shown up particularly well on the photo.

Anyway, hope you've had a great "hump" day and can slide into the weekend in a sea of glitter and sparkle!

Look forward to seeing all your makes.

TTFN

Rach
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Stars &/or Stripes - Fab ‘n’ Funky #447

Well, doesn’t time fly, here we are and it’s time for another Fab ‘n’ Funky challenge.  With 4th July only tomorrow we have an American theme with Stars and/or Stripes.

I decided to go a little sideways on this one as I’m British and don’t celebrate Independence Day (has anyone seen that online letter from the Queen, telling the Americans that she’s revoking their independence?  It’s brilliant!).  Anyway, I’ve sort of used the stripes and turned them into wooden planks in the background of my card.

All the items on this card are from the Sara Signature Nautical Collection, which I love just about as much as I fell in love with the Shabby Chic collection.  The inks used for the images are from the Harmony Water Reactive collection and for the sentiment from the Harmony Quick Dry inks, I am super in love with this card and probably won't give it to anyone for ages!

Anyway, I am so sorry that this post is late today, I did start it this morning with every intention of finishing it and publishing, but ran out of time.  Hope you've all had a great day today and I look forward to seeing your makes.

TTFN

Rach
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Fab ‘n’ Funky #445 - Christmas!!

Well, here we are again, where does all the time go?  Time for another Fabulous and Funky Challenge, and the theme for this week is Christmas - yay!!!! Always my favourite.

This weeks card is a mahoosive 7x7 card to make appropriate space for the sentiment which takes centre stage, which along with the stamped sentiment are both old Sheena ones from Crafters Companion.  The background was made by smooshing a distress oxide colour onto acetate, then spritzing with water and then placing onto my card, you can lift and move around the acetate to give you some amazing effects and then dry, repeat and do the same with another colour.  Flick a bit of water over the top for some faux bleaching.

Then I put a bit of distress oxide onto my craft mat, added a bit of water and picked this up with a paintbrush and flicked onto the card to give intense colour splashes, used one of the colours to ink around the edge of the card, stamped some snowflakes in silver ink (can't see these very well in the picture).  Mounted onto some blue mirri and then onto a card base, adding the sentiment to the front.

Well, over to you, I'm really looking forward to all of the christmassy inspiration this week!

TTFN

Rach

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