#500th Challenge Post

 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)

As you may have already guess I use this stamp a lot. I think out of all of my LOTV stamps he is my absolute favourite.

 I used  sandstone, tan & cinnamon ProMarkers for the bear and lemon, sunflower & gold for the flower, the stem & leaves are pear green with a hint of forest green. The flower were created using a punch from S.U. and their centres are tiny wooden gems.

I hope you have enjoyed my post, don't forget to leave a comment before you take your next hop.

Your next clue word is 

Favourite

Enjoy your hop

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

CAS Colours

 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.

I wanted to create a unisex card, because there is always that birthday you only remember at the last moment.

I had this lovely musical die collecting dust, but it works so well with a darker underlay. I used SU crumb cake ink and a WHS birthday sentiment. The ribbons were also long forgotten stash.

It's so nice when you finally find a project for old stash.

I was so inspired by the colours that I also created a girly Non-CAS versions

See how one small colour palette can create to extremely different card. Here the stamped (LOTV vintage heart) image is crumb cake and the sentiment is in night of navy. The small love-heart pendent die-cut is in dapper denim. 

I used kraft cardstock for the main card, layered the colours in dark to pale and cut them level with the edge of the card.

The flowers were cut with a TL flower die from the 2018 TL Advent calender. And of course they had to have corresponding gem centres.

Back soon with more sharing

Hug & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

  

Christmas is coming

 Hello 

So this week over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges we are thinking about

CHRISTMAS

That's right, with only 10 weeks left until the big day, we just have to think about all those cards.
Especially if you have loved ones in far off places. Those Last Post dates will be here in no time.

There is also the important job of ensuring all Eggnog ingredients are present and correct 😉

But now for the important sharing part, I've gone all 3D with this little project. 

I used the Sizzix Thinlits 661555

It starts Life as a flat card basically 

But when you stand it up

Add a tealight 

(please note:- As this is a paper project only a small electronic tealight is safe)

And it becomes something much more magical

I have coated the snowflakes and sentiment in iridescent glitter to give them a frosty feel. 
For the open panel sections I used iron-on interfacing from my sewing stash (I knew it had more uses 😉) and just glue it around the edges.

Remember to leave some love for all the love DT's

Hugs & Happy Thoughts
Buffy xx

Layering it up

 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.

I used a Dolly Dimples stamp

The flower was coloured using ProMarkers (orchid, amethyst, plum & magenta) and pear green with a little moss green for the leaves.

The layers consist of Olive green, Pale peach and Perfect plum cardstock.

My flower and leaf embellishments are TL dies, the lower layer of the flower is cut from the pale peach and the top layer is cut from greaseproof paper. 

Whilst the leaves are in the Olive green cardstock and one edge is coloured with moss green ProMarker to give a little depth.

A little amethyst gem to finish it off.

Back soon with more sharing

Hugs & Happy thoughts 

Buffy xx

Belated Birthday

 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