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Fancy Friday Freebie! + FFF Inspiration

Enjoy this free Saint Nick Candy Canes download and add something sweet to your digital and paper crafting projects!

And here's more to enjoy! Some inspiration from Piradee and Suzanne using some of our past Fancy Friday Freebies!!

Memories by Piradee Talvanna
Piradee says, "Hi Everyone, hope you guys are enjoying this month's Fancy Friday Freebies and just loving the sweet fall colors from the Summer's End collection that are being used to created these. Here I selected the November calendar download to create a fun calendar layout to capture some of the "memories" being created this month. Even though the files are created using the colors and elements from the Summer's End collection, I found that the Hopscotch collection works perfectly and went about embellishing the page with die cut leaves and chipboard/buttons from the collection.




Also I double punched the circle rings to be used to highlight the key dates. At the moment, I can't wait to get back from my trip to Italy to add even more events to the calendar!"

Life Is So Good! by Suzanne Sergi
Suzane says, "My daughter recently took a few snapshots of me, and thought I would use them today with the bright The Good Life collection. I used The Good Life Ribbon download, but did not scale down the original size. I love big, and bold embellishments on my pages! On the ribbon image, I cut around the large circle with the sentiment, Life is good. I added a bit of texture to it by running it through a dots embossing folder. Cut just a tad from the left hand side, so it could sit flush against the page. I also cut two of the banner ribbons, and tucked them underneath. Super fast to download, and perfect as is. However, with scissors, and embossing folders, you can turn it into something more special!"

I hope you keep coming back to the Fancy Pants Designs blog for more inspiration. We love sharing!!

Also, be sure to come back next week, we have yet to announce our Sketch Time November Challenge Winner. So, stay tuned!

-Amy Peterman

Fancy Friday Freebie!

It's Turkey Time! Help yourself to some more turkey ... inspired by the Summer's End collection! Download this adorable, free turkey printable today!

-Amy Peterman

Fancy Friday Freebie!

Give thanks for family with this title piece from our Summer's End collection. Available to download FREE! And it coordinates with our November Calendar download!

Happy Friday!

-Amy Peterman

Fancy Friday Freebie!

Welcome back to another Fancy Friday!!! We've got this adorable November 2012 Calendar (created using our Summer's End collection) ready for your downloading-printing-digi scrapping pleasure! Enjoy and happy Friday!

-Amy Peterman

Fancy This: Hanging Luminaries

Fall ... it's such a beautiful time of year isn't it? I have always loved this time of year. I thought it was a great time to create a project with the Summer's End line. Temperatures have really dropped here the past couple of weeks. Enough so that I made a pot of chili the other night. (Empting a few more jars of my canned garden tomatoes). The next morning when I pulled those clean sparkling quart canning jars out of the dishwasher ... an idea popped into my head. What pretty luminaries they would make, hanging in a tree by the deck. So I got started.
 
If you'd like to make some, here is what you'll need.


 
Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Summer's End: Flocked Transparency (or from any matching Fancy Pants Designs line)
Summer's End: Chipboard Banners
Summer's End: Filter Embellishment
Summer's End: Buttons
 
Other supplies:
Canning Jars ( quart or pint) I used quart
Wire
hot glue or other quick dry adhesive
Wire cutter
battery operated tea lights
 
Instructions:
1. You'll want to start by cutting two pieces of wire the same length. The length you cut will vary depending on how long you want the wire handle to be, but I made my pieces approximately 24 inches long, and that gave me more than enough to work with. Once you have them cut, you will put one on either side of your jar (making sure that before you connect them and twist them tight, that you have them under the bottom lip of the jar... where the lid would screw on). You can have one of the lengths of wire on each side, left much shorter than the other, as it will just be cut and curled a bit. Twist the wires tightly where they meet on two side of the jar.



 
2. Now you can cut the shorter piece of wire on each side, to about 4 inches. To curl it, wrap it around a pencil, then just pull the pencil out.


 
3. After you have both sides curled, pull the two long wires you will be hanging your jar from, straight up to meet above the jar ( to the length you desire), then twist them together to hold tightly.


 
4. Now ... it's time to have fun assembling your tissue flowers and add buttons to the centers. (I use hot glue to assemble these).


 
5. Before adding your flowers to the jars, measure and cut pieces of flocked transparency to line the inside of your jar. Drop the cut transparency into the jar, with the flocking facing out ward, to you see it when you look at the outside of the jar. You dont have to be concerned with the transparency overlapping itself. Much better that it over lap a bit then to be to short. Once you cut it and drop it into the jar, it will naturally stay against the edges of the jar, so no adhesive is even necessary. Once you have at finished you can add your flowers to your jar, and add the banner pieces below them.


 
6. Now all that is left to do is add the light to the inside of the jar, hang them and enjoy!



I hope you get a chance to give these a try. They look so pretty when you light them up at night :)

-Vicki Chrisman

Sketch Time: October Card Challenge

Hello again friends! I missed you last week, but I'm back and ready for the month of October (I think)! It's going to be a fun month ahead! I wanted to thank EVERYONE for their participation in our September Sketch challenge ... it was so fun to see all of the different takes on one simple sketch—and congrats to our winner, too! We saw some brand new product as well as some of our 'older' products pop up ... that is always fun to see the mix of supplies that our fans are using!  

For the month of October we have World Card Making Day ... yay! So, our sketch must be a card sketch, right? Right! I actually designed the card a while ago using our Summer's End collection and I liked how it turned out—simple, yet sophisticated—so I thought it made for the perfect sketch—there is so much you can do with this one and I can't wait to see what you come up with! Layers are really hip right now, so layer it up on this one!



Plus, we're working with Operation Write Home this month to collect cards for our soldiers, so please consider participating in that as well (we'll have more details on the blog this Saturday)! We are very blessed to have brave men and women fighting for our freedoms day in and day out!  

Thanks for being the best fans any company could ask for ... we're looking forward to seeing your designs (sketch or no sketch), and stay tuned for some fun new stuff coming soon from Fancy Pants Designs!

*To take our October Card Challenge, create a card based on the sketch in this post, using some of your Fancy Pants Designs stash, then post your Card Challenge entry to the Fancy Pants Designs Facebook page. This challenge is open to US and International residents. Projects posted to our Facebook page prior to Oct. 3, 2012 do not qualify. Entries are due by midnight MST, Monday, October 29th, 2012. We will post the winner on Thursday, October 30th on our blog and Facebook, so be sure to check back then to see if you've won.

Also, be sure to join us here this Saturday, World Card Making Day, for a for Blog Hop with Operation Write Home! There will be fun and prizes!

-Jodi Sanford