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 

Top 3 #490

Good morning all

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

Creative-free-for-All

 

Here are my top 3 for the week

 

in no particular order

27. Viva

18. Sherri

11. Swissie

 

 

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 Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky girls xx

Don't forget to check out this weeks challenge - #491 Use Real Stamps No Digis

Challenge #484 - Down on the farm

Good Morning all

It's Buffy 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 

Down on the farm
(we want to see humorous farmyard fun 

and why not give CAS card a go)

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.

Buffy

Monika

Pat

Rachel

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!! 

 Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

#474 - Masculine winners

It's Buffy here with a big "Thank You" to everyone who joined in, we saw some super card. 

My top 3  

for our masculine challenge (in no particular order) are:

8. Maya

17. Nick

33. Green Monster

Please take our top three banner to display proudly on your blog.

Again I want to give a huge shout out to all the lovely crafter who took part. 
A shout out to all those crafters who aren't sure about joining in, give it a go. We always love to see everyone's  projects ( and you never know maybe you'll be one of our top 3 😉)

Hugs & Happy Thoughts 
From all of us here at Fab'n'Funky Challenges
p.s. I apologise for the lateness of this post, I been having major internet issues. Stay Safe xx

Challenge #452 - Halloween

Good morning all

It's Buffy here with our new challenge for this week here at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

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

Our challenge this week is 

Halloween

(We want to see your ghoulish and gruesome creations)

Mwaahaahaa

No sponsor this week, but a chance to earn our fabulous Winner/top 3 Badge to display 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.

Buffy 

   

Monika

      

Wendy

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 fun 

Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Summer Break Inspiration

We are currently taking our summer vacation. But that doesn't mean we aren't all crafting....

To help you through the long summer break, here is a tutorial. If you are new to card making we hope you find this help, if your a seasoned crafter then we hope this brings you inspiration. This is a good project for little hands

Simple Masked Aperture

You will need a selection of inks, stamps, sticky notes, bone-folder & card blank.
Plus either a circular punch or die or hand-cutting.

Cut the mask out of the sticky note and place in centre of card front

(you can off-set it if you want)

Start with the lightest ink  and largest stamp first

Slowly moving through the different size stamps and inks

Deliberately used the smallest stamp for the darkest ink

Remove the mask

You have a nice clean centre

Finally add your favourite sentiment

The die-cut sentiment was my favourite for this particular project.

What about adding some glitter or pale blue gems?

Have Fun

The Fab'n'Funky Girls xx

Challenge #429 Feel the Music

Good morning all

It's Buffy here with our new challenge for this week here at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge.  Pop back later today to see if you were our lucky winner or one of our top 3 

Our challenge this week is 

MUSIC

(show us your musical side, anything music related. From Boom-boxes to xylophones. As always make sure you have fun.)

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.

Pat

 Using an old Butterfly Kisses stamp

Buffy

Monika

Rachel

Using Visible Image Stamps

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 fun 

Buffy and the Fab'n'Funky Girls xx 

Inlinkz Link Party

Challenge#406 Winner and Top 3

It's Buffy here with the Top 3 Shout Out for last weeks challenge 

Now for the top three

No.10 Jenimc

No. 2 Granne

 

No.19 Beckie

Please take our top three banner to display proudly on your blog.

We would like to thank everyone who entered last weeks challenge  and we hope to see you again for the next exciting challenge

Hugs & Happy Thoughts 
Buffy & the Fab'n'Funky team