Getting Fruity

Morning all!

Ooh, the weather is so lovely, it really is starting to look like summer! And about time if you ask me, I'm looking forward to skirts and dresses without tights and bare feet :)

First of all, thank you all again for your lovely comment you've left me over the week and my apologies for not coming to visit you. There was barely enough time to take care of my DT duties and the entire month of June seems to be about the same. But I will come and return the favour and visit your lovely blogs, bear with me :)

In the mean time, I have a card to share with you for the new challenge @ Fab 'n Funky, where we challenge you to get your five a day by using fruit in creations. We are sponsored this week by the lovely Stamp Fairy and we received some images to play with, here's Lenny holding some cherries:

Materials:
* Stampfairy Lenny Fruits 3, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV Street Lace, Echo Park For the Record & Flower Fairies DPs
* MS Doily Lace edge punch
* Card Candi Vintage Berries
* Red Twinkles
* Whimsy Stamps Summertime sentiments

I basically had to search through my entire crafty stash, as I didn't seem to have anything fruity at all in my stash! No papers, no embellishments, nothing! Safe to say, a huge oversight on my part, which I'm sure I will rectify fairly shortly ;) I finally dug up some paper from the bottom of the pile with cherries on, so I did manage after all. I hope you can join us, I am looking forward to your vitamin-C rich creations :)

Challenges:
* My Heart Pieces (Use a Sentiment)
* Whimsy Stamps (Anything Goes)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Shelley's Images (Show Us What You Got)
* Get Inky (Good Golly Glitter)
* Cutie Pie (3,2,1 Recipe) I used 3 DPs, 2 Card Candi & 1 image
* Mayzy Art (Sweets)
* Songbird (All Creatures Great and Small)
* Robin's Fetish (Use a Digi)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Anything with a B) Bear, Berries

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Getting Boxed In

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Time for another Fab 'n Funky and this time I'm your hostess! This week, I'm challenging you to create a "Box", something a little different. It can be any shape of box for any occasion, have a look at the challenge blog to see what my wonderful teamies have come up with, there's lots of variety!

I found this great template on the web for a milk carton box and decided to use it for my project this week. I've filled it with plain chocolate Easter eggs and will bring it to my parents when I go visiting this weekend. I'm sure they will be appreciated!

Our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy, the DT were given some of their great images to work with. I've used Lenny Flowers 3.

Materials:
* Stamp Fairy Lenny Flowers 3 digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Sentiment digi from the Internet
* Create & Craft CS
* Template from Template by Belle (www.bellesprintables.com)
* DCWV Textured Brights CS scraps
* Flower peeloffs from stash

Challenges:
* Craft Us Crazy (Anything but a Card)
* Crafting 4 All Seasons (Anything but a Card)
* Simon Says Stamp (Easter/Spring)
* Paper Creators Craft (Spring has Sprung)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Spring or Pastel)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Color me Creative (Spring Colours)
* Anything but a Card (Spring or Alice in Wonderland)
* Forever Friends Monthly (Lots of Flowers)
* Stamp & Create (Fur or Feathers)

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Indoors Decoration

Good morning everyone!

It has been very quiet on my blog this week and I haven't been able to visit all the other blogs I love as I have been struck down with the flu :( Thankfully I am feeling much better again now, as a new challenge is starting today at Fab 'n Funky themed "WHAT'S INSIDE", one of my teamie Beccy's ideas, meaning that we want you to decorate the inside of your card. I always do that anyway, a great way of using up scraps of paper, but thought I would make a bit more of an effort this time around. I got to play with my new purchase, Card Candi, which I really enjoyed, so versatile but it doesn't add much in terms of weight to your card (very important if you want to mail your cards, which I usually will).

Here is my Christmas-themed card, both inside and out!

We are sponsored by Stampfairy this week, it would be great if you could come and play along with us!

Materials:
* Stampfairy Gingerbread Babies Hoola Hoop, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Red Glitter
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DPs + some scraps
* Forest Moss Distress Ink & Silver Ink
* Vintage Berries Candi
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Button
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Joycraft Snowflake punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Christmas Sentiment Stamps
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Mayzy Art (Anything Goes)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Use it Tuesdays (Fasteners) Hoarded items are the SEI Accents & Red Glitter
* Natalie & Amy (Something Old & Something New) Old: SEI Accents & Glitter, New: Candi
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Anything Goes)
* Craft Room Challenges (Make Your Own Embellishments) Rosettes
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with Your Favourite Colours) For Christmas, it has to be Green & Red

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My Favourite Colour Combo

Good morning all!

Another Wednesday, another Fab 'n Funky Challenge! This week, my lucky teamie Ginny (lucky as she is in Bali as the moment) picked the theme, asking you to share your "FAVOURITE COLOUR COMBO" with us and make a project with those colours. My Favourite Colour Combination has to be Pink and Purple, it seems to work for so many occasions, including Christmas. Yes, it's out there, I've said it....CHRISTMAS. I am back on the Christmas card bandwagon folks, maybe a little early but I love making those cards and I never seem to have enough of them anyway, how many I make during the year. So why not start early? For those of you who don't have to stomach for it yet (totally understandable btw) of course you can make a card for any other occasion, as long as you tell us what your fave colour combo is and use them in your project.

Here's my card, I hope you have time to join us! I got to use my new Lace stamp, which was a Christmas gift, it's a really great stamp and I think it gives a lot of texture and detail. I think you can expect to see this stamp in quite a few projects!

Materials:
* Stampfairy Jake Poinsettias 1 digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Art Talent DP
* DCWV Pastels Textured CS
* Kaisercraft Lace stamp
* Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Joy Crafts Flower Punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Sentiment stamp set
* Pearls & ribbons from stash

Challenges:
* Bearly Mine (Tic Tac Toe) I've used Lots of Layers,Pearls,Stamped Image, Lace (Stamp)
* Card Crafter's Circle (Layers)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Ribbon)
* Created with Love (Anything Goes)
* Sweet 'n Sassy (Something New)
* Sweet Stampin' (Show Us Yer Frillies)
* Digital Tuesdays (Use Your Favourite Colour Combination)
* Sugar Creek Hollow (Tic Tac Toe) I've used Lace (Stamp), Ribbon & Pearls
* Forever Friends (Use your Favourite Embellishment) Pearls
* Passion for Promarkers (Use Your Favourite Colour Combination)

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A Non-Traditional Christmas

Good morning all!

This week I'm hosting my first challenge at Fab 'n Funky, so exciting! I've chosen a theme that I am sure will appeal to you: "A Non-Traditional Christmas"! So use either an image or colour scheme that we don't traditionally associate with Christmas. Easy peasy right? We are sponsored by Stamp Fairy this week and I got to pick a couple of images for the DT girls to work with. I am using Santa's World 1 for my project, what a wonderful image to colour in! I think the colouring came out particularly well this time.

Materials:
* Stamp Fairy Santa's World 1, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Create & Craft CS
* DCWV Brights Glitter CS
* First Edition Spring Feast DP
* Digital Delights Winter Tickets sentiment, coloured with Promarkers & Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* MS Snow Men Border Punch
* Joy Craft Flower punch
* cArt-Us present charm
* Sew Easy Quick Sand Floss
* Ribbon & pearl from my stash

Hope you can make it to our challenge!

Challenges:
* Sparkles Christmas (Button or Bow)
* QKR Stampede (It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (Christmas Chaos)
* 2 Sisters (Christmas Sparkle)
* Color Me Creative Classroom (Non-Traditional Holiday Colours)
* Sentimental Sundays (Non-Traditional Christmas Colours)
* Dream Valley (Non-Traditional Christmas Colours)
* Forever Friends (Glitter & Sparkle)
* Incy Wincy (Non-Traditional Christmas Colours)
* Ladybug Crafts (Sparklicious)

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