Holiday Tutorial Time

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.

Ink up your sponge/dauber/foam and gently rub over your stencil.

You should have something that looks a bit like this. Now before you remove your stencil we will add our sentiment in the same colour ink.

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.

Hugs & Happy Thoughts

Buffy xx

Christmas in Spring

Hello all,

It might be the end of April but we at Fab'n'Funky challenges are getting ready for that time of year,

Christmas

(We want to see all your christmassy creations)

I used a Woodware stamp - Bubble Christmas Tree and a sentiment from WMS (I miss waltzing mouse stamps)

It's quite difficult to see on this photo but I used a Sakura sparkle gelly roll pen (green) for all the bubbles

Layers are a nice way of adding a little bit of depth and I used a black layer to tie in with the black on the tree image and the sentiment.

I toned down and simplified this card by using green glitter-card from my stash to make the background pop. I have basically tried to make it as masculine as possible. One of our friends is determined to stay a single man...😁

Please pop over and give our lovely team some well earned love

Back soon

Hugs & Happy Thoughts

Buffy xx

Peek at Prizes and Pretty Projects

I have two Candy prizes to give away and here they are

First we have the UK/Ireland Candy

then we have the Worldwide Candy

This will be going live in a couple of days. To be in with a chance of winning one of these lovely Candy giveaways there are only 4 simple rules;

1. Follow my blog (click the follow button)
2. Click the linky (to follow in a couple of days)
3. Name and where you are (example; Buffy - UK/Ire or Buffy - World)
4. Leave a link to the candy post on your blog

The Candy post will go live on the  Friday 5th January 2018, I look forward to seeing everyone link up 😊

So I have been putting some of my advent dies together to create a little greetings card. I have used Advent dies 18-butterfly, 20-Heart, 24-Special day:

 

For this project I used:

LOTV - Twirling Ivy stamp, Certainly Celery SU cardstock, Flowery backing-paper (can't remember where - possibly TL magazine) and Honey-Doo Pink Sapphire mica powder.

Plus Promarkers - Sunkissed Pink, Dusky Rose, Apple Cider, Moss Green, Cool Grey 3, Ice grey 3.

I am entering this card into;

• Creatalious Challenges - Anything goes
• Passion for Promarkers - Add a Sentiment
• Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

I have a wonderful bit of news to share..........Santa brougth me a Scan N Cut
AND my husband & I have manage to create a Oriental Rice Box cutting file, so for all of you who already have this wonderful machine I will try to add the file to my downloads page. (please be patient - it took us two days to work out how to create it - might take a couple more to get it onto my blog)
Here is the little gift box I made using our homemade file.

I have used a few more Advent dies on this little project - 5 (Hamdmade for you), 12 (Flower), and 22 (Bunny). I will be writing up the instructions for making the box and this will aslo become available in my downloads section (again please be patient).

I am entering this little project into;

• Aurora Wings - Anything but a card

Back soon with a lovely Candy giveaway
Hugs and Happy thoughts
Buffy xx

Masked Coffee Man

So back to crafting, I had a card to make for one of my workmates and lucky for me he's mad about coffee. Why is this lucky for me...because I bought a fabulous coffee stamp set a few months ago and I have been dying to make the perfect birthday card with it.

The Male Room are having a Masking challenge which is just right for the design I dreamt up.

So I stamped the cafetiere first on a post-it note then onto a white piece of card. I covered the cafetiere with the cut out post-it image and stamped the the coffee cup. I raised the cup image up a little to give a slightly more dimensional feel.
Card:- S.U. Chocolate Chip,
Stamp-set:- For the Love of Stamps - Coffee Time
Promarkers - Tan, Cinnamon and Henna

Back soon with more sharing
Hugs
Buffy xx

Ring ring

Back again with a new challenge card.

Brown Sugar Challenges is going with an "anythings goes" challenge and my daughter needed a card for one of her friends so.....I decided to create this

This is my new step set, For the Love of Stamps - #iluvmyfone. I am now cool....
I double stamped the mobile then cut out the centre of one so the "screen" would be fractionally lower than the body. After colouring it in I used camelion glitter.
The insert needed to be a bit more "in-ya-face"

So I filled it with app symbols. Hopefully it will be a hit.

Back soon
Hugs
Buffy xx

A new challenge and a bit of revenge

My sister in law hates cute and girly, so to kill two birds with one stone, I've created this card for the Truely Scrumptious challenge #50 and her birthday next week..... : )

This was this times challenge sketch

I only hope this effort is worthy of the Truly Scrumptious challenge sketch.

                                                                                          TSC50

I've used three lovely girly colours for the background, a peel-off I coloured pink using a sharpie pen, the reflective image was created using a rectangular make-up sponge. I topped it off with a multi-coloured paper flower and butterfly pee-off.

• Papers - pink pearlescent, blue nancy watt design freebie and yellow freebie
• Free dog & dragonfly stamp
• Promarkers - (main image) Tan, Cool grey 2, Mint green, Tulip yellow, Orchid and Powder blue.
•                       (reflection)  Satin, Cool grey 1, Pastel green, Buttercup, Bluebell & Pastel blue
• Tim Holtz distress inks - Stormy sky & Brushed corduroy
• Fizzy Moon - Clelebrations paper blossoms
• Peel-off - I think they are Anita's peel-offs, but I can't remember

 See you soon
 Buffy x