Time Flying Past

Hello all,

You wonder what happened to my Tuesday (P)Inspirational Post? Yeah, me too, seems time has played tricks on me and make me forget things. Currently in beautiful Padua, Italy, attending a work conference and with all the preparations and flights totally forgot about my post! Well, better late than never, eh? 

So, without further ado, the inspirational pic for the coming two (well, 1.5 now) weeks is:

Lovely colours, flowers, dots. stripes, a lot of potential here! This is my take:

I have had the background paper in my stash for quite some time and really wanted to finally use it forever but wanted to do it 'justice'. So pretty! So to showcase it, I used the full sheet as my starting point. I love the outcome and so another beautiful paper finally goes into my album! This LO is about me turning 40, the photo was taken on my birthday too.

Challenges:

* Lasting Memories (Polka Dots) 30/9

* Kreative Inkauf (Anything but a Card) 14/9

* Sparkles Challenge (Birthday) 14/9

* Moving Along with the Times (Add a Number) 13/9

* Making Memories (AG or Use the Mood Board) 30/9

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Spotty or Stripey......or even both!

Hello everyone,

There, the week's in half! Just a couple more days and then it's the weekend once more! I never got around to scrapping last weekend, will it happen this weekend? Probably not ;)

I have a gift voucher holder for this week's Fab 'n Funky challenge; the lovely Wendy picked the theme of "Spots or Stripes or even both". Great theme Wendy :) I made this for a dear colleague who has left for another job, but never actually gave it to her as other arrangements were made for her sending off-present. Thankfully she won't be away completely, as we still will be collaborating on research projects, but she won't be around as much. Nevertheless, we work really well together and this was meant to be my thank you to her (the sentiment reads: Thank you very much!). I have made a few of these holders recently and they are really cute; the middle is a sleeve which holds the card together. The middle section is a sleeve which holds the card in place. Inside I stuck an envelope with room for a voucher.

As the theme is fairly broad, we are expecting a large variety of participating projects, so come and join our party and link up :)

Materials:
* Echo Park For the Record DPs
* Eline's Vintage Sentiment Stamp set
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Pile It On (Sentiment as the Focus)
* QKR Stampede (Sentiment Only)
* Cutie Pie (Cute with Spots & Dots)
* Pinspirational Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Shopping Our Stash (Make Your Own Embellishment) I made the rosettes from DP
* Flourishes (A Lotta Polka Dots)
* Lisa Somerville (2 or more Patterned Papers)
* Crafty Sentiments (Anything Goes)
* Sweet Stamps Technique Challenge (Fun Folds)
* AnMa Creatief (Aantal-3) 3 papier dessins

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Double Triple Threat

Hi all!

We're a week into our birthday celebrations @ Fab 'n Funky and our challenge continues for another week! Since we didn't get as much entries as we wanted for our birthday challenge, we've decided to change the theme a little bit so you can also participate with any Winter/Holiday themed projects you are most likely working on. So it could be a project for any occasion, but you still need to use "Three of the same things or number 3". Here's another example to get you inspired, again with a birthday theme. We got to use some images from the lovely DigiDarla, another one of our sponsors. I've used three pearls on my card.

Materials:
* DigiDarla My Fair Lady digi, paper pieced and coloured with Promarkers
* Create & Craft CS
* Papermania Summer Bloom DP
* MS Doily Lace border punch
* Kars sentiment stamp set "Gefeliciflapsteerd"
* Vine peel off from local store (Xenos)
* Button, pearls, flower & ribbon from stash

Come on over to the challenge blog and help celebrate our third birthday with us and link up your lovely projects!

Challenges:
* Joanna Sheen (Anything but Christmas)
* MAWTT (Let's Go Dotty)
* Crazy 4 Challenges (Put a Bow on It)
* A Gem of a Challenge (Paper Piecing)
* Glitter & Sparkle (Ribbon and/or Lace)
* One Stitch at a Time (Fabric, Ribbon or Lace)
* Pile it On (Anything but Christmas card)
* Deep Ocean (Pastel Colours)
* Stampin' for the Weekend (Add some Texture)
* Ooh La La (Spots & Dots)

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