Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

Good morning everyone and welcome to another sketch challenge on Kathy's Waffle Sketch File. We have a brand new sketch to get your creative juices going, especially when Mr Mojo goes walkabout!

 

For my card I've used a new
Star Cake - Funky Hand
Papers - Hey Baby Boy - Wishes & Kisses cd, 
                Jingle Bells - Twelve Crafters Crafting  
Sentiment - Funky Freebie from April 2012
Sentiment 
Promarkers, 
Siver mirri card
Card Candi


I'll be adding this to the following challenge (s)

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes (with yellow being an optional extra - I've used yellow on my cake!)

Passion For Promarkers - Boys & Their Toys

We would love you to have a little play with us :)
Thanks for dropping by.

Funky Friday

Firstly I need to apologise for my Kanban post, it was written out ready to post and I forgot to click on the "publish" button. I've just checked in to write my Funky Friday post, albeit late and my Kanban post was sat waiting for me!!!
Also, the update on the chimney saga. It turned out, according to the insurance assessor, that it didn't belong to us but next door :) However, it was recommended that because it isn't in use any more, that it was taken down a few courses, which was done yesterday.
So onto my Funky Friday card and I'm still using the papers from the new collection on the Funky Hand web site, Just For Jen. They are so versatile and I just love 'em! :)

 All the papers on this card are from the Just For Jen collection. The sentiment stamp, stamped onto a price tag, is from the Stepping Out collection by Clearly Besotted.

New cake image is the Star Cake digi stamp from Funky Hand (coloured with Promarkers), Papers used are Hey Baby Boy- Wishes & Kisses, Jingle Bells from Twelve Crafters Crafting,  the Funky Freebie from April 2012, silver mirri card and finally Card Candi in blue.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely weekend :)

Funky Friday

I know it should now be Funky Sunday but I haven't known what day it's been all week, I've thought it has been Saturday since Thursday!!! Hubby works a lot at this time of year and mix that with my 18 and 19 hour days at the mo and it sort of throws one a bit :)

I had a slight accident this morning too. I'm working on a largish project for my first post on the new look Get Funky blog which is now called Get Funky & Craft! I got myself to a strategic point this morning and photographed the pieces I'd done and moved them off my desk onto my open top drawer which, at the moment is an extension of my desk.....and promptly tipped my coffee everywhere. It missed my lap top, thank goodness, but went all over me and some jewellery components which were on my desk so I had to move everything to mop up and clean the desk down. I'm just thankful that I moved my mystery project :)

My cards this week were made on Thursday ready to go out on Friday as part of an order for 21 assorted cards.

Papers used are from the fabulous new Christmas down load section of the Funky Hand web site and all of the images are from last year's Christmas section which are on the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd

That's it for this evening folks. i'm up at  six and have another busy day ahead of me so I will playcatch up shortly.
Take care and thanks for reading.

Funky Friday

Our super friend and team mate (Kathy's Waffle) has started a Facebook page just for us lazy so and so's who start out blogging with all good intentions but then it drops off without us realising it BUT (and in my case it's a big butt ;)) you have to make a card too :) Here are the details in Kathy's own words

"I've just started a Facebook group called "a Card a Day" and I'm hoping that lots of fellow-card makers will use it as a virtual "prod" to get those cards made - it's an "open" group so anyone can join in, and enlist their friends too. I'm hoping it will encourage us all to use our own blogs more and to visit and leave a message on each others' blogs too - Just a "hello" to say you were there if time is short. We all need and appreciate knowing we're not just talking to ourselves, don't we?Hopefully this will help with all that Christmas card making - and any other cards too so please come along and join us. If you're not on FB you can still join in by leaving a comment on Kathy's blog and she will post a link to your blog on the FB page for you
Of course, a little bit of cheating is allowed - so making a few cards on one day and then sharing one at a time is perfectly acceptable...;)"

So here are my 'Funky Friday' and my 'Card a Day' makes

 This card is made using left over paper from the "October Freebie" from Anice at Funky Hand for anyone who would love to take part in the Get Funky challenge but doesn't own any Funky Hand products. The sentiment is from Twelve Crafters Crafting and the tree is a Memory Box die. 

 Papers from Traditional Ole Xmas by Funky Hand. This paper hasn't been released yet but most of the other new papers and digi stamps are now available on the Funky Hand web site

You should really take a look at the papers, they are seriously gorgeous :)

I made the bottom card using the sketch from Mojo Monday
I can also add them to Di Snippets
and Sarn's Penultimate Rudolf day

I now need to go and make my son's birthday cards, it's his birthday tomorrow (the sign of a true crafter lol )

Thanks for looking.

Funky Friday

Late again but at least I'm still on the right day. I'm having a nightmare with one of my printers and it's thrown the whole day out with faffing about with it. I use two printers...one I use for printing of papers because it will take compatible inks. I've had it for years but it needs a kick every so often as the pink/red prints like a dirty brown and it usually works again once I've pampered it with a head clean etc but today I had two put 2 different lots of magenta ink in it for it to work. It seems to 'refuse' to work properly whenever I buy new ink for my other printer which I use just for my wedding stationery so maybe it just doesn't like the competition lol.

I sort of got carried away early this morning and instead of just the one card, I made 3 :) Anice has come up with a couple of fabby new downloads called Santa Baby and Christmas Tree from a new collection called Oh Come All Ye Crafters. The downloads are available as papers, word books or both together at a discounted price. I printed off two of the papers then I decided that I would use one of the solid colours as a mat for the patterned papers, then I decided that I wanted another paper but not much of it so I printed this at A5. I then needed another sheet which made 5 in total which is how I came to make 3 cards. My challenge to myself now is to see how many cards or projects I can get out of these four A4 and one A5 sheets of patterned paper. Watch this space......(and I haven't even started on the Christmas Tree selection :)

The Santa image is a pre coloured digital stamp from The Twelve Crafters Crafting cd from last year, I went over his belt and boots with a black Sakura Glaze pen.

Right, I'm now away to print off my Christmas Tree papers and hope Mr Mojo stays right where he is lol.

Sleep tight and thanks for looking :)

Get Funky!

Good morning from a very white and bright Scruff's Corner, I hope everyone is well this morning and managing to keep warm in this horrible cold weather! I don't mind the snow especially if I don't have to go out in it but I absolutely hate the cold. I would love to hibernate at the beginning of November and wake up at the beginning of March ready for my big girl's birthday :)


So onto the Get Funk! challenge. It's my turn today to post my project over on the Get Funky! blog. Lou (Loopylou) set the "January Blues"challenge for this month and she wants you to make a something blue. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it incorporates something from Funky Hand. As always, Anice has provided a freebie paper for those who would like to take part but don't own any FH products.

Papers used are from Xmas Presents on the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd and Birthday Boy on the Happy Happy Birthday cd. If you haven't got these cds yet you really don't know what you're missing, they are both fab!!


I'm entering my card into Di's Snippet challenge as my first one this week. I only made my challenge 'projects' this week as I've been busy with wedding stationery.


Thanks for looking and I hope you manage to join in with us on our Get Funky! challenge.

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

December 11, Take 5 The new sketch is now available on the Kathy's Waffle Sketch File blog and true to form it is definitely challenging! I often look at Kathy's sketches and come over all faint lol, then it takes me ages to come up with something worth showing in public. I suppose that is what these challenges are for though....no point whatsoever in doing them if they are easy every month!!
So here we go, the sketch

and my card

I think the papers are by My Mind's Eye but I'm not sure. The lovely little robin is a pre-coloured image from The Twelve Crafters Crafting cd from Funky Hand, the sentiment was done on the computer and the sparkly brad is from my craft box.
Tfl xx

Still messy!

I am slowly but surely sorting out the mess which used to be my house! I'm trying to get the contents of an old two bedroomed terrace house (the shop) into a three bed semi or rather one room in a three bed semi :)) I suppose I'm quite luck really as my wonderful mum in law has just taken delivery of a box of jewellery etc in Somerset, my mum is doing a school Christmas fete on 1st December, I have a cabinet in a beauty salon near my home and a cabinet and shelving unit is going into a town centre hairdressers later this week. I have a friend coming tomorrow to sort through some of my stuff for the craft club at school and a pile of stuff which is going for sale on my blog later this week. Without those I think I would really be in the mire as my space is filling up really fast but I am taking this chance to downsize my craft stock! My desk and chair are now in contact with each other for the first time since last Thursday so that's something as I really must work tomorrow as I've some orders which need doing.
I had a busy few days and had a jewellery party on Monday evening. I made the gift wallets on Monday afternoon and they all went!

The papers are all 'snippets' from work done for Anice's appearance on Create and Craft at the launch of her Christmas cd, Twelve Crafters Crafting. I shall head over and add them to the following challenges

 Jules blog 

 Papertake Weekly- Christmas Crackers/anything festive

Passion For Promarkers - Swirls & Sparkles (I have swirly trees and lots of glitter/glamour dust)

Supplies used

Papers - Twelve Crafters Crafting, Funky Hand

Images - Pink Petticoat, Funky Hand, magazine freebie, Cuddly Buddly

Thanks for looking

Sad news

and that is that I'm shutting my shop this week as it hasn't worked out as I wanted it to. As I'm going to be busy for most of the week I shall be scheduling some posts as I have done quite a few orders in the last few days.

All of the above cards have been made with the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd from Funky Hand.

I will be back later in the week with my Create and Craft projects from last Wednesday and a tutorial for my flowers (see the blog hop post below).
Thanks for looking.