FFC #170 "Anything Goes"

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to another Fun~day Friday Challenge!!
Happy New Year!!
I hope all of you had a relaxing holiday season and I hope that 2017 is off to a great start for you. I have some very exciting news to share with you. Are you paying attention? You are going to love this news, promise! For 2017, we have been renewed for another year with almost all of our sponsors!!! AND we have gained 6 (Yes 6!!) new sponsors too! AND there is more....... Our challenges are now officially ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES!! That's right! Every week, every challenge, always anything goes!!! Are ya doing the happy dance!?! :)
Occasionally, we may add a sketch or color challenge in there for additional inspiration but it will still be anything goes! So would you like to know who our sponsors are this year?? Have a look!

Our Current sponsors for 2017
A Day for Daisies
Bugaboo Stamps
The Cutting Cafe
Di's Digis Stamps
Kenny K Stamps
Lawn Fawn
Limited Runs Digital Stamps

Little Blue Button Stamps

Sami Stamps

Our NEW sponsors for 2017

DigiStamps4Joy

Digital Delights by Louby Lou

Oddball Art

The Paper Shelter

Star Stampz

Sunny Studio Stamps

Quite a line up this year huh? Trust me, we are as thrilled as you are right about now!! Lots in store this year too! There will be more giveaways, more guest designer spots & more!  So let's move right on to our First challenge of the year!

 This week's Challenge:

"Always Anything Goes"

Our Sponsors this week are:

  The winner will win 4 digital images of their choice from the Bugaboo Store!

AND

The winner will win 4 digital images of their choice from the LBBS online shop!

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, January 6th   12:00AM

   Ends:  Friday, January 13th    6:00PM

(This blog and the challenges are on eastern standard time, USA)

Now let's see what the designers have created for you!

TEAM B

Joyce

Sue

AJ 

Monica

Kellie

 Heather

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)

Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until Jan. 13th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of Jan. 16th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

Until next time, enjoy life's blessings~

Thanks for stopping by!

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy New Year with Dies R Us!! And an Anything Goes Challenge to kick it off!!

Hello sweet friends! Welcome to 2017!

Welcome to our 1st challenge at Dies R US in this new year! Wow, still cannot believe that another year has gone and here we are starting a brand new one! I do hope that 2017 brings each of you more kindness, love, financial wealth, stability and lots of good health! And of course, lots of crafting!!! So, this is my very first project in the new year and I am super excited that it is with Dies R Us! Ok let's get to it because I'm excited to share with you what I created! Our challenge theme is Anything Goes using Dies! So with that being said, here it is!

I know that the holidays are all behind us now but I couldn't resist making a Holiday card! At least I have one done and on my way to a good start for the end of this year! Maybe if I do a holiday card a month, I will have a nice selection for next holiday season by the time it gets here and I won't have to stress about getting my cards completed. :) And yes I do have "2016" on my watermark because when I created it, it was still 2016! :)  So how about this snowman! Isn't he just so cute?

I used the "Build a snowman die set", by Cheery Lynn Designs to create this adorable little guy! I knew that I wanted him to be in some snowy hills so I hand tore some cardstock to create my snow hills and then just tucked him behind the first snow hill. Even die cut the broom in this die set and stuck it in the snow next to him! So my card is a standard A2 card size on some Bazzill cardstock base. My background layer is a piece of paper from Sizzix that I had in my stash from ages ago but it had little dots that resembled snow falling and I liked that for my background layer. At the top of the card front, I used the "Icicles" die from Precious Marieke, cut out of some DCWV glitter paper. I really love this die! It truly makes my snowy scene look very cold and icy all of a sudden!

My sentiment and the little snowflakes around it are from a MCT stamp set called, "Holiday Tags". But do you see the cute little frame around my sentiment? Well, I actually used some "corners" to build that cute frame. I used the "Heart & Loop" corner dies from Frantic Stamper! Really neat huh? I absolutely love these corner dies and they are so elegant. I just love how I was able to frame the sentiment and give it a classy look.  All of the dies that I used for this card can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE~

So to finish off the card, I added in some wood veneer trees and a little bit of white ink around the edges of them to give the look of fresh fallen snow. The papers that I used for this card are all from DCWV and Bazzill, with the exception of that one paper in the background which is from Sizzix.

I am adding this card to the following challenges:
Paper Sweeties- January Challenge

Well that is all I have for you today my friends. What a great way to start off the new year! Always nice to see things a bit "frosty" in the month of January! :) I hope you will play along in our very first challenge of the new year! Please link up!

I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to visit me and see what I am up to. Please don't forget to stop by the Dies R US challenge blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters have created for you today. And make sure to link up your own project too! And for more inspiration, check out the Dies R US Inspiration blog . There are so many gorgeous projects that will surely inspire you and get you creating! Thanks again for stopping by and Happy New Year again!

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Happy New Year!!!!!

May 2017 be a better year for all of us for health, finances, love, family and crafts! 

Until next time,

Enjoy life's blessings~