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The challenge at Just for Fun this week to use distressing techniques on a male project. It is appropriate to have 'distress' as a challenge cause it is going to be the last one at JFF :(. I am sure most of us have so looked forward to the challenges there each week since it started up-I know I have and will miss them so much. I have learnt such a lot from the team and the other people who have posted such amazing project ideas. This is a male card but the Good Luck and the Love are aimed at everyone who has made JFF a lovely place to visit. I used Von's brayer tutorial to make the background with distressed inks then distressed the edges with various colours. I even distressed the wooden accents. I am going to pin this card onto my wall so I can think of Just for Fun whenever I look at it. It has been Fun, thank you and I hope to be able to keep in touch with the marvelous people I have met while I have been here.

I have made this card for 3 challenges firstly for the Saturday Sketch Challenge  , always great sketches there, secondly for The Crafty Pad Challenge  where the theme is blue, red and green. The digital image is one from The Crafty Pad. Lastly I will enter it in One Stop Craft Challenges  where it is to create your own background. I made the patterned background from the hat image and made the red, swirl paper as well all in Paint Shop Pro. Not really colours that I would normally put together but the card is very bright and cheerful.

This is the template I made and you can print it any size you like onto some medium strength card. Stick the small flaps to the sides and stick the corners with the square corner underneath the shaped one. Cut-out the shape and score and fold along the dotted lines.  Stick the small flaps to the sides and stick the corner with the square corner underneath the shaped one. That's it really all it needs now is decoration and imagination. I added a packet of chicken cuppa soup to one-I made a label for anyone to use as the packet I had was just plain, and a small happiness book to the other. Lots of ideas of other things to add to more of these type of cards and would love to hear anyone else's ideas. outside inside ouside Any questions about the tutorial just ask and I will try to answer them

I would like to say a big thankyou to everyone who leaves comments on my blog. It is always lovely to hear from everyone and encourages me to try to improve my crafting and my design ideas as well. My apologies are for all of the people who ask a question in their comments and wonder why I never answer them. Well! I would love to answer them but haven't a clue how to send a personal message on a blog?? Please feel free to use any of my ideas in anyway you wish-share them, change them, make them your own-whatever you like. That should answer one question lol. Now if anyone can help me to find the way to send personal comments on blogs I will happily answer anything at all. Love as always Chrissie xx

Two nice challenges at C-R-A-F-T Challenge  it is no designer paper and at Moving Along with the Times  they have a Get Well Soon challenge. I decided that Chicken soup is the best medicine so designed this box card  to be able to put a packet of chicken soup inside. No papers used at all just a couple of images from way back when and a few peel-offs card outside inside

Still things for men at Just for Fun  this week and the challenge was to use something sporty. I searched through my stamps and the stamped images that people have sent to me but the only one I could find was the boy footballers that Von sent to me a long time ago. All men are really small boys at heart and I thought the quote was appropriate for any age so please forgive me if this doesn't seem to be for an adult--it may well be sent to an adult male by me lol. I imagine the older boy is saying the quote to the smaller one as a dad would say to his lad or even his lass if it was my dad lol For everyone who thinks I use loads of stuff that Von has sent to me--you are quite right! I would never have found Just for Fun without her and may even have been stuck in the fluffy rabbit and cute mice type of crafting. Nice to be able to venture into both now and learn so many new things. Great samples as always thanks girls. The netting represents the goal net :)

Vic knows how much I love beach huts so one day last summer he said he was going out into the garden and I said I was doing some crafting. A couple of hours later he said would I like to join him for coffee outside and the first thing I saw was this lovely 'beach hut' :) It was a dingy dark green before and now it is lovely and bright and cheerful. Still full of the essential men's junk inside but I don't see that. Thanks Vic it still looks just as good as the day you painted it for me.