Funky Friday

I feel so lucky this week as I have had so much beautiful goodies to play with that it is sometimes difficult choosing what to use first......it's so difficult being on manufacture's design teams. Only joking, I feel truly honoured to be able to work with some fantastic team mates to bring you a little bit of inspiration for when you buy the products yourself.

This weekend will see the release of some fantastic products from Funky Hand. Anice has made a really beautiful collection of papers and alphabets in shades of pink and grey and it is called "Just For Jen". It is our little reminder that Breast Cancer affects so many of us at some time in our life and it only takes seconds to check our breasts on a regular basis. You are never too young and you are never too old, just be safe and if caught early it can be completely curable.

So onto my first card made just using the papers alone, oh and a piece of ribbon and a flat backed pearl, how easy is that.

I've used four of the papers on this card, the band and the flower are from scraps from other cards. The flower is made using a Tim Holtz die but it can easily be made without. Cut a strip of paper about 2cm wide and 30 cm in length and pleat it at approximately 1/2cm intervals. Tape the ends together and squash it down onto a smaller circle of paper covered in glue. Decorate as required and hey presto....a flower made to match any of your projects :)

I've used the same papers to make the following cards (and still have plenty left to make more cards) but have used a couple of new digi stamps which are also due for release shortly.

Both coloured in an assortment of pink and grey Promarkers to match the papers.

My lovely team mate Kathy posted some of her DT makes using the same kit, on the Get Funky And Craft blog yesterday and as always, they are amazing!

Well, I'm now off to try to use up the rest of my papers, thanks for dropping by. xx

Funky Friday

As I mentioned in the post above (you're not seeing things, I managed to change the date so it stayed at the top!) The design team received our Wishes and Kisses cd during last week and it is fabulous. Anice has got some really gorgeous papers into the collections. I use my other Funky Hand cds quite a bit and this one will definitely get used too :)


I'm still working on my samples for the Create and Craft show on 15th June but got a request earlier this week for 7 sympathy cards so I decided to use the new cd for this one. You will all appreciate just how difficult it is to make 7 cards of the same subject for any one person, especially when they are all being sent to the same person!

I used a digi stamp and sentiment from the cd and one of the papers from the In Sympathy section. A piece of black card and black ribbon and I had a card in minutes!


The cd is set out in categories we all use whilst making cards.....baby boy, girl and neutral congratulations, thanks, you're engaged, wedding, new home, new job, get well soon, you've retired, anniversary and sympathy. There are also images, word books and sentiments, in fact there are over 17000 elements on the cd plus thousands more combinations to be used. As always with Anice's cds they are really versatile and she gives us the most amazing papers to choose from.


The cd is available now and can be purchased from Funky Hand and at £15.99 with FREE p & p it's a steal :)


There is also still time to join in with the Get Funky! challenge which this month is Spots & Flowers and is being hosted by Ruth. It will give you a chance to use your new cd ;)


Happy crafting.

Craft The Year Away ......

...is the latest cd from Anice at Funky Hand which she premiered on Create and Craft on Sunday morning. I absolutely love the cd but have been  shrouded in secrecy until the release on Sunday. I thought I would show you what I came up with for the launch.

There are loads of yummy new papers on the cd along with digi stamps (which can be resized), the abily to layer images and text onto a sheet of the paper before you print it, word books using assorted coloured letters and fonts and loads more. I will definitely get a lot of use out of my copy. Anice is also adding more stuff to the web site including the ever popular Promarkers, buttons and ribbons.

Thanks for looking.

ICS #83

I am so late with this card today that I will be getting a slap from my lovely team mates on the ICS blog

Papers are all by Stampin Up, sentiment strip is by Pink Petticoat and the image was coloured with Promarkers.

We have a brand new sponsor this week, Taylor, Creator and owner of InStyle Stamps.

Taylor is given the winner of this challenge 4 Free Digi Images of their choice.

We would all love it if you could join in with our challenge and look forward to seeing your creations. Thanks for dropping by.