A Winter Birthday

Happy Monday all!

Did you have a nice weekend? Last Friday night, hubs and me went for a great meal; 7 magnificent courses and some great wine. Well, you have to treat yourself once in a while, right? ;) Thankfully we did have a voucher, so we didn't break the bank!

As it's Monday again, it's time for another Ooh La La Challenge and this time the theme is a fairly easy one: "Birthday". I made a birthday card for my FIL; he loves golf and has his birthday in December, so what better image than a snowy golf course? Let's see your birthday cards, come and link up with us :)

Materials:
* Ooh La La Winter Golf pyramage image from the Boys to Men CD
* Papermania Birdsong DPs
* W R Memory Keepers Vintage T Textured CS
* Joy! Craft Flower punch
* MS Pine Tree & Snow Man border punch
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Paper Creator's Craft (Birthday)
* Natalie & Amy (For the Boys)
* C.R.A.F.T. (Inspiration Picture) Snowy Trees and Landscape
* Cards in Envy (Punch It)
* Clear It Out (Theme: Anything Goes, Stash: Snowflakes)
* Aud Sentiments (Any Sentiment)
* Simply Create Too (Snow or Only White) I've used Snow
* Left of Center (No People)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Show Us Some Snow)
* Sentimental Sundays (Winter Wonderland)

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Birthday Celebrations Continued

Hello all!

Bet you didn't expect a post from me on Saturday ;) But the Birthday Celebrations over @ Fab 'n Funky are still ongoing until the new challenge starts this Wednesday, so here I am with another inspiration . Our challenge this fortnight continues to be "Anything Goes", we just want you to join the party and share your projects!

Here is mine, I made another Christmas card:

Why don't you check out the lovely projects from my fellow DT mates at the challenge blog? See you there!

Materials:
* Lacy Sunshine Decking the Halls digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Hely Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DP
* Crafter's Companion Christmas Embossing board
* Pumice Stone Distress Ink
* Hely Cuppleditch Special Delivery Twine
* Kars Christmas charm
* Studio Light sentiment
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Twisted Tuesdays (Pop Dots & Polka Dots) the leaves are on pop dots
* Creative Card Crew (Pearls)
* Hobby House (Pearls)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas)
* AnMaCreatief (Kerst/Winter)
* OneCrazyStamper (Christmas)
* Crafty Calendar (All Things Christmas)
* Crafty Sentiments (Christmas)
* City Crafter (Decorate It)
* Stamp & Create (Feathers or Leaves)

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Mistletoe Kisses for Our Birthday!

Ooooh, I'm late for our birthday party! That's right: Fab 'n Funky is turning 4 and to celebrate we have some great challenges and sponsors set up. If you want to join, it's easy, as our theme is "Anything Goes". Here's my card for this week:

Materials:
* Inky Impressions Merry Kissmas Penguins, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Dovecraft Let it Snow & Hely Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DPs
* Eline's Winterhuis Jingle Bells Stamp Set
* Seedless Preserves & Tumbled Glass Distress Inks
* Sentiment, ribbon and gems from stash

Come on and join us, we'd love to see your work!

Challenges:
* LEJ Designs (Season's Greetings)
* ABC Challenges (Winter Wishes)
* Sweet Stampin' (Christmas is Coming)
* Sentimental Sundays (Warm & Cozy)
* Color me Creative (Wintry, Frosty, Cold)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas)
* AnMa Creatief (Kerst/Winter)
* Lisa B Design (Contemporary Christmas)
* One Crazy Stamper (Christmas)
* Cards Galore (Animals)

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Butterfly Beliefs

Happy Monday all!

Time is truly flying by now; so much to do but so little time in which to do it before the big C ;) We had a lovely Halloween, thankfully the movie wasn't too scary (Jaws) although I did jump up once or twice!

This fortnight's challenge at Ooh La La is "Stitching, Real or Faux". I opted for real stitching, using some lovely twine I won in a challenge recently. A little different from what I have been working on recently (i.e. Christmas cards), a welcome relief really. I'm curious to see what you will be making of this theme, as usual you have two weeks to link up!

Materials:
* Believe Digi & DP from the Shawn Jenkins CD
* We R Memory Keepers Vintage T Textured CS
* Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Hely Cuppleditch Special Delivery Pastels Twine
* Wooden Butterflies from local store (Xenos)
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Digi Galore (Wings)
* Creative Corner Challenges (Sing, Sing a Song) I Believe I can Fly by R. Kelly
* Alphabet Challenge (T for Twine)
* Craftitude (Anything Goes/Use Twine or String)
* Daring Cardmakers (Other Occasions and Reasons - No Birthday or Christmas cards)
* Left of Center (Twine or Washi Tape)
* Aud Sentiments (Feminine)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Card Mania (Anything Goes)

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Traditional Santa

Hi all!

Is the flu roaming around where you are too? Here it is creating havoc, hubs just having recovered and now I'm getting it! At work it's also a complete disaster, with me having to cover for colleagues who can't come in. All in all a pretty busy week!

However, there's also good news, as a new Fab 'n Funky challenge is staring today! This week, Judith is challenging you to use "Traditional Christmas Colours". You don't need to make a Christmas themed project, just as long as you use colours that are traditionally associated with Christmas. We are sponsored this week by DigiDarla, which also provided the jolly fella below.

I did make a Christmas card, as I need to do several more. I'm really pretty pleased with this card; even though it isn't very high on embellishments I spent the entire night playing with ideas and adding finishing touches, taking them off and putting them back on again. I ended up with a pretty striking card, I think. Love it :)

Hope you can join the fun this week!

Materials:
* Digi Darla Santa Clause 2 digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Basic Grey Jovial DP plus some unknown DP from stash
* Eline's Winterhuis Jingle Bells Stamp Set
* Vintage Photo & Forest Moss Distress Inks plus Distressing Tool
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Brad from stash

Challenges:
* Card & Scrap (Christmas Card)
* One Crazy Stamper (Christmas)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas)
* AnMa Creatief (Kerst/Winter)
* Live & Love Crafts (Christmas Inspiration Collage) The Vintage feel and the Santa's
* A Gem of a Challenge (Christmas is Coming)
* Crafty Calendar Challenge (All Things Christmas)
* Marker Pop (Anything Goes)
* Crafts & Me (Christmas Vintage)
* Allsorts (Christmas Cheer)

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