Top3 #494 - Add a Button

 Good morning all

Thank you so much for all you lovely entries for our last challenge

Add a Button

Here is my top 3 for the week

in no particular order

2. Jeni Mc

3. Jane Willis

6. MA-MI

Well done to you all - beautiful designs

Please take our top 3 badge from the sidebar to display with pride
and come back later to play along in our brand new challenge this week

hugs Neva and the fab'n'funky girls xx

Challenge #494 - Add a Button

Good Morning all

It's Neva here with the new challenge for the week 
at 
Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge.  
Scroll down to see if you were  one of our top 3 

Our challenge this week is 

Add a Button

We want to see how you use 'buttons' on your creations. Can't wait to see what you'll do!

No sponsor this week 

- it's just for fun- 

and the honour of displaying our top 3 badge on your blog : ) 

Now it's time for some inspiration from the DT.  We always appreciate a visit so if you click the name you can hop over and leave a comment.

N-Eva using  ELLA BELLA BUTTONS

Chris

Ginny

Pat K  (slimline card front)

Pat K (flaps opened)

Judith

Julieanne

We  hope you will be able to join us in with our challenge this week. We look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. Please be sure to post a link back to Fab'n'Funky Challenges in your blog post in order to be eligible for this weeks prize! The deadline for entries is Tuesday evening (8pm GMT).

So all that's left is for you to get creative and link up your entry to the linky at the bottom of the page

Have lots of  fun!! 

 Neva and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx

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Click here to enter

Challenge #493 Circles - Top 3

 Good Evening Peeps,

Pat here bringing you the Top 3 for the above challege.  Thank you for all your beautiful entries, it was lovely to see all of you joining in with our challenge after the summer break.

On now to our Top 3 in no particular order:

#1 XMas Ans Gilbert

 

#9 - Jolanda

 

10. Nick

 

Congratulations to you all, please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar to proudly display on your blog.

Our new challenge will be posted on the blog at 9.00am tomorrow and we hope to see you all joining in with us again this week.

Challenge #493 - Circles

 

Good Morning All,

 Pat here to welcome you back to Fab & Funky Challenges after our summer break, I do hope you have all had time to relax in some sunshine despite the restrictions and are all eager to get down to some crafting.

No sponsor this week just the honour of being chosen in our top 3.

 Our challenge for this week is:

CIRCLES

Now it’s time for some inspiration from the Design Team, we always appreciate a visit from you so if you click on the name you can hop over and leave a comment.

Pat

 

Monika

Chris

We hope you can find the time to join in with our challenge this week.   We always look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please be sure to include a link in your post to Fab’n’Funky.  The deadline for entries is Tuesday evening (8pm GMT)

So all that’s left is for you to get creative and link up your entry to the linky at the bottom of this post.

Have fun!

Pat and the Fab’n’Funky Girls

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Shabby Chic Holiday Tutorial

 Hello and welcome to our next tutorial time.
This time we are going to make a simple Shabby Chic card. We have seen so many heavily embossed Shabby chic cards that look downright complicated, so we hope this tutorial will make it an enjoyable.
You will need:

Inks, Card blank, A4 card-stock,  patterned paper/card (double-sided), foam-pad/brush/daubers, sticky foam-pads, glue/tape, ribbon/lace/twine, buttons/charms, gems/pearls
Cut a piece of the  doubled-sided patterned card/paper so it is approximately 4mm smaller than the card blank. This should leave a 2mm gap all the way round. Also cut a piece of plain card-stock/paper so that it is 10mm smaller than the patterned card-stock/paper.

Now using a pair of scissors rough-up the edges of the patterned card/paper. You do this by dragging the blade against the edge. You could also use sandpaper to get an aged effect.

Get your ink and blending foam/brush/dauber and using circular motions, ink the edges of the patterned card/paper, the edge of the card blank and the edge of the plain card/paper.

Once the edges are inked, take the patterned card and curl two corners. You can do this either with your fingers, a pen/pencil or a tooth pick.

Now using a stamp of your choice stamp your image slightly off-set so you have room to add ribbon or lace.

Place a strip of doubled-sided sticky tape or glue onto the stamped topper and stick on the ribbon or lace. If you have some twine then stick this over the ribbon/lace. Your topper is now ready.

Add foam pads to the back of the stamped topper.

Time to assemble all the parts. Using glue/tape stick the roughed patterned paper/card to the card blank.

Now stick your topper to the centre of the patterned paper/card.

Using whatever embellishments you have,  gems/pearls, buttons, flowers, start spreading these around the card until you are happy with your design, then stick them in place.

Hey PRESTO!! you have a simple Shabby Chic card

Now lets see what our lovely design team have to inspire you

                                                                            Chris

We look forward to seeing what you have created

Most important ingredient is have fun 

Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx 

Holiday Time Tutorial

 Hello and welcome to our second annual Holiday Time Tutorial session.
Here at Fab'n'Funky Challenges we are taking our summer holiday but that doesn't mean we aren't here for you.
That's why we have tutorial time

This post will be here for two weeks.

Last year we went through the "masking" technique. This time we are going 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 lets begin:
You will need:-

Stamping blocks, stamps/sentiment, Ink-pads, Markers, card-blank, A4 white card, scissors, double-sided tape/foam-pads/glue, 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, just lots of plain open space.

 

Here are a couple of examples from our lovely design team

                                                                           Chris 

 

 

 Pat

We look forward to seeing what you have created

Most important ingredient is have fun 

Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx 

Top 3 - Challenge #492 - Christmas

Good Evening Peeps,

Pat here bringing you the Top 3 for our Christmas challenge.  Thank you all so much for all your lovely entries I would have liked to pick you all.  In no particular order here are my choices:

#9 - Cards by Beckie

#12 - Vicki

#38 - Meg

Please take your Top 3 badge from ou side bar to proudly display on your blog.

Pat and the Fab & Funky girls