Hello
"It's the most wonderful time of the year", I believe that's how the song goes and I totally agree.
I treated myself to a Tattered Lace Advent calendar.
Hello
"It's the most wonderful time of the year", I believe that's how the song goes and I totally agree.
I treated myself to a Tattered Lace Advent calendar.
We are having a relaxing time down on the farm over at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week.
So let us see your farmyard fun, it can be scarecrows, tractors, farmers, farm animals or a combination of all of them.
I have gone a bit CAS on this one
Hello and welcome to all the hoppers,
I am so happy to be hosting our very special challenge post here at Fab'n'Funky Challenges. I am also happy to be your first pot-of-call.
So I shall do my best not to give anything away, you have to follow the clues 😃
I believe Kraft is a very understated colour when it comes to card making, which is a shame.
Kraft always reminds me of freshly baked cookies and if you stick it with a colour like yellow........aah warm cookies on a sunny winters day. (oh dear, now I'm going to have to bake some cookies)
Enjoy your hop
Hugs & Happy thoughts
Buffy xx
What a busy week
Cards, curtains, sewing and building the SHE SHED....yippee. Unfortunately the shed isn't quite finished 😭 the good old-fashioned British weather decided to put a dampener on our hard graft.
I am entering this little creation into the CAS Colour & Sketch challenge, this is a colour challenge and the colours were yummy
As always it also has to been CAS and this gave me the perfect excuse to experiment with one of my forgotten dies.
Hello
So this week over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges we are thinking about
CHRISTMAS
Remember to leave some love for all the love DT's
Hello my lovelies,
So I have spotted that the Sisterhood of Crafters is doing a "Lots of Layers" which seemed like the perfect subject for my sis-in-laws birthday card.
Hello my lovelies,
Once again we have a Fabulous challenge for you over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges.
This week we are looking at
Birthdays
Yes that's right, good old birthdays. Let's face it we all have dozens of birthdays to card-make for every month.
BUT
If you are anything like me there is always that one birthday you only remember the night before, Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh.
On those days you need small and simple, so here you go
Compact but beautiful. No, I never put belated on the front of the card and sometimes I don't mention my error inside either.
Stamps is LOTV (proper stamp not digi) and a wide variety of ProMarkers.
I can tell you that I am getting very excited for Fab'n'Funky's #500 post, so amazing to know we have been sharing our passion with all of you for so long.
Please visit our lovely DT's and leave them some love.
Now, I got an interesting message the other day from my youngest daughter. It read
"Can I be cheeky and ask a favour?"
My first thought , oh dear what does she want me to make now, and I was correct. Then I received a jpg of a sketch she had done, then a delivery
Now I'm not going to share her sketch just yet, but the above fabric arrived. Best part is she ordered it from a local-ish company (they are just over the border in Leicester) so I'm very proud of her for that.
I will share this with you in the next couple of weeks, first I have to convert her sketch into a pattern 😅
Back soon with more sharing
Hugs & Happy Thoughts
Buffy xx
Hello again lovely peeps,
We are celebrating with Christmas cards over at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week.
I don't like being the bearer of bad news but Christmas is fast approaching, there are only 90 days until the big day 😲 Scary!!
A sweet little stamp from LOTV. I've gone for a Blue colour theme.
The squares in the corners are foam mosaic tiles I found in a little tub in my loft, I have absolutely no idea where I got them but I reckon they have been up there for at least 10yrs (so ashamed).
Hello lovely peeps,
So this week at Fab'n'Funky challenges we are adding buttons to thing.
We have all had great fun spreading the buttons and of course I had to dig out one of my favourite stamps for this.
I love this little guy, Sunflower Teddy from LOTV. He is the stamp I turn to when I really don't know what I want to create.
I think most of us have that little "Go To" item we rely on.
I went for simplicity, first I stamped my image using Tuxedo black momento ink and coloured it using ProMarkers (Sunflower, Ginger, Tan, Caramel, Burnt umber, Pear & Olive & Moss green, Pale rose, Orchid And Amethyst), A5 card blank, Kraft card-stock, ginham ribbon and butchers twine, TL flower & leaf dies, foam pads, double-sided tape and a Button (the vital ingredient.)
First I stuck down the Ginham ribbon using double-sided tape I then wrapped the butchers twine around the ribbon.
Now for our stamped image. Use Black ink for the stamp (Note: if you are using alcohol pens ( Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum noir, you need to use a water-based inkpad like Momento Ink)
First and most important decision is to which direction the light is coming from. I have a very simple rule, I always have my light coming from the top left corner of my image. This means I can instantly look at any stamped image and know where the "Dark-Side" is 😉
Hello and welcome to our second annual Holiday Tutorial Time.
Last year we went
through the "masking" technique. This time we are doing CAS, for
those of you new to card-making CAS stands for Clean And Simple.
Some purist might say it also has to be one layer, it definitely doesn’t.
It just has to have a lot of unused space.
So let's begin:
You will need:-
Stamping blocks, stamps/sentiment, Inkpads, Markers/pencils/crayons, card-blank, A4 white card, scissors, double-sided tape/foam-pads, blending pads, stencil, and a HUGE sense of fun
Don’t worry if you don’t have a shop-bought stencil
Here I show you a range of stencil, the top left I bought, the top right was free on a magazine, but my absolute favourite is the bottom stencil which I made myself. You can probably tell that it is well used and loved.
The first thing we will do is use our stencil
Use your low tack tape to hold it in place and prevent ink getting onto the card where it isn't wanted.
You could just use a black ink for the sentiment, but I like to colour coordinate.
Believe it or not you could just stop there. Or add a few gems
So that could be card one
But I said we would do the topper card, so let's go...
So now that we have our card base, we are going to stamp our topper (the decoration that will sit on top of the card)
Now colour in your stamped image. I am using ProMarkers, but
you can use whatever you have. Pencil crayons are great for beginners or young
children.
Then cut them out (daughter doing a little hand modelling here)
If you have sticky foam-pads the stick them to the back of
the cut-outs, if you do not have foam-pads then double-sided tape or glue will
do.
Find your ideal spot on your card and stick down your toppers.
Hey presto a lovely CAS card, with or without toppers.
Here’s a little secret, the card itself does not have to be
white, yeah I know, how about that.