Challenge #110 - "let's leap into action"

Many thanks to everyone who joined in last week and we loved how you used the colours to create your projects. Colour challenges are always good as we each see these colours in different shades making all our results so varied. However there can only be one winner and the lucky person, chosen by Ranom.Org, is . . .

The Sparkly Fairy

Before we get onto this weeks challenge, we have an announcement. Please give a warm welcome to the newest members of the Fab'n'Funky team:

Judith, Sheila and Judit

We know that they will settle in quickly and we can't wait to see their projects over the next weeks etc. Many thanks to everyone else who applied and we were extremely grateful that you considered joining us and allowing us to mooch around your blogs.

This week we are again sponsored by

who is offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in the shop

The theme this week is to celebrate the fact that today is 29th February and we are in a Leap Year, so the theme title is

"Let's leap into action"

Please interpret this as you think befitting; from leaping frogs or rabbits, bounding deer or even an action hero "leaping" in to save the day! What about a graceful (or not) dancer leaping into action? Alternatively use a suitable quote as your focal piece . . as always, have fun! Here is what the DT thought suited the theme:

Emma

Wendy

Pat

Anne-Marie

Judit

Judith

Sheila

Rachel

Happy "Leap Year" everyone,

The Fab'n'Funky DT

Challenge #97 - Planes, trains and automobiles . . .

Many thanks for joining in with our spooky challenge last week and as well as some frightening projects out there, we discovered some cute and cuddly halloween projects too . . .aaahhhh! We would like to also thank everyone who applied for the DT position and we will make our announcement shortly, explaining everything . . . mysterious !!!


The "Top 3" chosen by the Ginny from all the entries submitted in last weeks challenge are as follows:

21  Coops Cluttered Corner
45 Pamelas Craft Spot
3 Angelwoods Crafting Corner

(sorry for the delay I could not access Blogger yesterday)

Please grab your badge from the side bar and display it with pride and many congrats from everyone on the DT. The randomly chosen winner of last weeks prize is:

19. Brandi

A big "Well Done" from all of us and please email us with all your details so that we can send let you know how to claim your prize. Now before explain to you all about this weeks challenge, please give a warm welcome to

Dorte

who will be our GDT for November. Dorte won her GDT position early in the year and has very patiently waited to join in playing along with the rest of the F'n'F DT

Now this week we are extremely proud to be sponsored again by:

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and
is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a won derful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

Now the theme this week is called . .

"planes, trains & automobiles"

and when the DT originally though of this theme, it was to make a masculine inspired project however we have opened up the theme a little more. Let us explain . . .

1] make a project taking inspiration from the theme title or the transport names featured
or
2] make a project with any form of transport featured . . and as Christmas is near by we will allow a sleigh or sledge as a form of transport!

See the theme is not as complicated as it would appear as you can see from the DT examples:

Dorte (GDT for Nov)

And the DT:

Ginny

Sharon

Emma

Anne Marie :

Challenge #77 - "tempting templates"

We need to begin this post by introducing you to our newest DT members but firstly we want to say a big thank you to everyone who applied. We were honoured by the number of entries and your kindness in allowing us to have a nose on your blogs. So please give a big, warm crafting welcome to

Alexis

Cyndi

Pam

The girls will be joining in with us next week and to celebrate we will have 3 prizes to give away !!! More details in next weeks challenge post.

The GDT winners will be announced next week as we are still finalising all the details.

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Thank you for sharing all your "male" inspired projects with us last week. There definitely will be some very happy Dads out there when Father's Day arrives. The DT thoroughly enjoyed popping over and visiting you all.

Now the randomly chosen winner of the Karen's Doodles prize is number . . . 20 . . .

Sally from Sally's Creative Corner

Many congratulations and please email us to find out how to claim your prize. Please remember to put "Fab'n'Funky Challenge #76 winner" in the subject line and also don't forget to claim your Challenge Winners badge from the sidebar.

OK this week we are definitely going to challenge you all. Over the years we have all bought them, tried them once for a special present and then put them away . . . but now is the time to dust them off and make something else with them. So what are we talking about you wonder? Simple . . . templates and therefore our challenge couldn't really be called anything else but . .

"tempting templates"

We can't wait to see what templates you use from shaped or numbered book templates, unusual opening cards, boxes, bags . . . the list is endless and we know you have them hidden away !!! The DT were helped this week with this challenge but our wonderful sponsor

I'm Adela and I live in sunny Southern California with my husband and our two teenage girls! Crafting has been a passion of mine since I was a little girl. I love to sew, crochet, knit, draw, paper craft, stamp... I love anything related to crafting! With encouragement from many people, my love of paper crafting in 3D has led me to open an online shop which allows me to share some of my template designs. I feel so blessed and

I truly believe that God has given everyone their own special talents

and it is our privilege to share it with others.

Adela from Creations by AR has even got a FREEBIE section, so why not pop over and use one of the fab free templates and then join in with us on this challenge. Well the DT have been busy and heres what they have made:

Emma

Heidy

(using Tea Cottage)

Lou

(using Isn't she lovely)

Karen

(using Ribbon Keeper)

Andrea

(using House of Cards)

Ginny (Gift & Card Combo)

Jenny (using 'Ribbon Keeper')

We can't wait to see what template you use for this weeks challenge,

The Fab'n'Funky DT

Challenge #40 - "Get the photo vibe"

Oh My Goodness what a lot of entries last week . . we were blown away by you all and your continual support of the "Fab'n'Funky" Challenge blog. As you can appreciate, it does take a long while to get around to everyone and we apologise if you were missed out but please believe us, it wasn't deliberate . . we just ran out of time!

Now there can only be one winner of the FAB prize from Meljen's Designs and Mrs Random.Org has chosen . . .

194 - Wendy from Crafting Purple Crazy

Many congratulations from everyone on the "Fab'n'Funky" DT and please could you email Nicole from Meljen's Designs and she will arrange to get your prize to you. Please put "Fab'n'Funky" Challenge Winner in the subject line.

As you are all aware we had our DT call last week and we want to thank each and every person who entered - we thoroughly enjoyed nosing around your blogs. A full posting on the successful applicants can be found HERE and we hope you all extend them a warm welcome.

For this weeks theme we want you to lose yourself in this photo to make your project and

"get into the photo vibe"!

Use the theme of the photo or the colours or just one particular object and create your project/card from this starting point . . the worlds your oyster. We've also gotta add that this great dress is actually a CAKE . . how brilliant and creative is this?!?!? As is the tradition, here is what the DT have done with this weeks theme/photo:

Andrea

Lou

Linds

Emma

Ginny

Jenny

Have a great week everyone and as always, we can't wait to see how you interpretate this weeks challenge.

Please give a warm welcome . .

. . to the new Fab'n'Funky DT members

Shelly
Suzanne
Heidy
Sharon
Karen

The DT had a very hard decision to make and as you can see, we couldn't just settle on one or two new members so we chose 5 instead !

We must also say a HUGE thank you to everyone who entered the DT call; you were all magnificent and please do not be too disappointed if you were unsuccessful this time around and we hope that you keep entering the challenges and other DT calls - whether they are for this blog or for another challenge blog.

As we said earlier, the DT had a hard decision to make and have decided that we need extra people on a Guest DT (GDT) position on the Challenge Blog, so please congratulate the following:

Sandra T
Amanda
Trisha (aka Crafty Granny)
Sarah (Stressed Stamper)
Gardenia
Sarah (Rainmac's Place)

Please could you email Lou who will send you all the GDT bits and bobs . . please be patient as you might not get an answer straight away due to work commitments.

So please give a warm welcome to all the new DT members and you will see them in action next week!

Lou, Linds, Emma, Ginny, Jenny, Andrea and Jilly
The "Old" Fab'n'Funky DT !

Welcome to . ..

out new DT members . . .

Jennifer from My Inky Hands

Emma from Paper Addicts Anon

Please can we take the time to thank everyone who applied and everyone on the DT had a great difficulty narrowing down all the entrants to just 2 people. Please do not be disheartened if your name does not appear here as we (the DT) thoroughly enjoyed all the time we spent looking at all your fab blogs.

Now we all need to also welcome our fabby GDT for July, Lindsey, has she has agreed to become a fully fledged DT peeps, so please offically welcome her aboard.


We are having a little holiday this week so that our new members can familiarise themselves with all things that are "Fab'n'Funky" so we will be back with a new challenge on Wednesday 7th July and look forward to seeing everybody then.

Have a great week everyone,

Lou, Andrea, Ginny, Jilly, Emma, Linds & Jenny