Funky Hand Blog Hop

Good morning on what is forecast to be another lovely day in the UK and welcome to another fabulous Blog Hop care of Anice, Ian and the Funky Hand Gang! 


This weekend we are celebrating the release (on Sunday) of another fabulous download by our super talented leader, no, not Ian....I mean the BOSS, Anice :) as I'm last on the list you should know what I'm talking about by now as the details are on the blogs of all those who come before me.


Spring is definitely in the air this weekend as the new download is called "Spring Has Sprung" It's a really pretty selection of pastel coloured papers and will be available to buy from Sunday 25th March and I just love it :)


Here are a couple of the samples I made with the fabulous download

So now you've seen the samples made by the dt you should be drooling good and proper (not long to wait now) so I will shut up and let you get on with a chance of winning the download for yourself. All the rules and regs are on Anice's blog.


You should have come to me from Allison's blog and you will need a letter from me, which is the letter 

I

As I'm the last on the list you will need to leave me a comment please the pop over to Anice's blog and leave your answer in her comments box.

Good luck and thanks for playing along.

This message will stay at the top until the winner is announced on Monday.

thanks for playing along with us.


The beautiful paper kit is now available to buy from Funky Hand.

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

It's time for another one of Kathy's wonderful sketches and this month it's a corker!! I took one look at the sketch and thought "OMG what am I supposed to do with that, it's way too difficult!) :)" However it turned out that finding matching paper snippets proved to be more challenging than the sketch lol  Iam on a resl mission about not using new sheets of paper until my snippets are all gone and I couldn't find enough for the card. I then remembered having some of the Funky Hand downloadable papers in my bags. The papers can be bought from here and here
and here is my effort so far (I have used the sketch for a couple of LOs so will reveal those another day.)
 As well as the pink and white sweets below and the fishbowl., do I need anuyhing else?


And so to my card

All papers and die cut lettering are by Funky Hand 
thanks for looking.
kind regards
Jackie


PS guess who forgot to add this card to the Pixie's Snippet playground!!!

What's on your.....

work desk? Yes people, Wednesday has arrived once more and this time I WILL make more of an effort to check out more crafty desks!

I would just like to say that those numbers aren't on my desk, our car is parked on the drive just outside my studio window :)


If you would like to join in with our nosy tour of work desks then please check out Julia's Blog 

Back later.

Wedding fayre

I've been meaning to post these photos since I got back from the wedding fayre yesterday but I got stuck into sorting my room out and forgot all about them. This was the first time I have been to a  Pastures Lodge Hotel wedding fayre, I have made the stationery and table decorations for a couple of weddings there but have never actually been to a wedding fayre. We had quite a good day even though it didn't stop raining once all day.

 I'm still stuck  into my stationery for the wedding on 24th but have almost finished. I've been making labels all day for 150 cake boxes :)


I must go and do a bit more before bed. Take care and I will see you tomorrow with the new sketch for Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

Less is more

Two very quick cards from me today as hubby is working tonight, doing a 50th birthday party but he hasn't been told if the party is for a lady or a gent!! My solution......make one of each then he has a spare for the next time :)
The Less Is More challenge this week is 

NEUTRALS

This could be anything from off white to black with any shade of beige, brown or grey in between

This one is done in shades of beige and brown with off cuts from the latest down loads from Funky Hand which are Steam Funk and Funky Kraft Stash, both can be found by clicking the links.

This one is the black and off white colour combination. The ribbon is an off cut off my tip of a desk and the flower is cut from a lovely shimmer paper but I don't know where it's from (I think it might have been a sample from somewhere). The glittered numbers are by Papermania and the gems are from my box.


Thanks for popping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. I'm getting my stuff ready this evening for a wedding fayre tomorrow and my plan for Sunday evening is TV and blog hopping, I'm seriously behind with WOYWW this week!


PS I just remembered that I haven't added it to Di's Snippet challenge!

Allsorts challenge

I was just browsing through the Allsorts week #4 challenge the other day and noticed the following paragraph

"We cant wait to see your entries this week and don't forget any type of crafter can enter Allsorts challenges whether your craft is knitting, crocheting, crossstitching, dressmaking, altered art , painting or papercrafting we would love to see your creations"

I wouldn't have thought about entering anything but a paper craft project until I saw that so without further ado here's one I finished on Tuesday evening :) So I am now going to enter it into the Allsorts week  4 challenge.

It's to be sent off to the Kids Company, along with several other, within the next few days and as soon as I get chance to photograph and update them, they will be on the Wrap Up A Kiddie 2012 page at the top of my blog.

Thanks for looking :)

Get Funky!

Well it's my turn again for the Get Funky! and it doesn't seem two minutes since I was here last :)
Allison chose the challenge Flying which to me is great because I love using butterflies on my cards so without further ado (ha ha).....

I used Rainbow Polka Dot download from Funky Hand and the flower image is from the Happy Happy Birthday cd which is available on the Funky Hand web site. Please join us for our little challenge, all we say is that you must use a Funky Hand product. If you don't have anything Anice makes a fabulous freebie paper (which can be found in the download section of the Funky Hand web site) every month so you have no excuses now :) Add your name to Mr Linky on the Get Funky! blog and we will call round and have a look what you have made for us.


Thanks for dropping by.

Oh my word!

Yes Peeps, it's here again and to make matters worse..............it's March tomorrow!! Who on earth pinched February or am I really such a lousy blogger that dates keep disappearing due to my lack of posts which means the dates are inconsistent LOL So yes, the week has disappeared again and it's time to spread a little nosiness around the world. If you're not sure what I am waffling about then please take a trip over to Julia's blog and see what she started with the 'What's on your workdesk Wednesay #143'


Just look how tidy my desk is this week :)

Just look at all that space waiting to be filled! Well now I will let you into a little secret lol

I will start my hopping in a couple of hours, I'm going to bed :)


Back later. TFL

Half price downloads

50% off all Funky Hand craft downloads until 10am Monday 27 Feb 2012.

Penny Black

Where have the days gone again? I can't believe it's the weekend again already, I think someone is pinching hours from me!! Just a quick post today as I'm in mid preparation for a wedding fayre on Sunday and another one next Sunday. I meant to add this yesterday but got completely sidetracked and forgot all about it so I have a couple of bits including a challenge card to show (don't faint lol).

Items used

Image Cheesecake Party 1665K 

Papers and sentiments  Craftwork Cards

Large flower Sizzix Flower die #2

Pearls and lace from my stock 

Cord and sparkly bead Beads Direct

Please excuse my non cake decorating skills! Fiona was happy with it though as she hadn't had one at home so I told her I would make her one but it was a last minute thing so I had to use what I had to hand. :)
Paper - Free Romance from the Dreams Come True cd from Funky Hand

Now for the challenges entered
Penny Black Saturday Pearls and Lace
Mojo Monday Sketch
Di's Snippet challenge

While I'm on with challenges, there is still plenty of time to enter the Get Funky! challenge which this month is hosted by Allison and the remit is 

FLYING HIGH

so we want to see all sorts of flying things on your cards- birds, butterflies, planes, space ships etc

As always, Anice has designed a fabby freebie for those of you who would like to take part but don't have any Funky Hand products. Please show her some respect by joining in with the challenge if you download the paper, please don't just grab the paper and run :)

There is also still plenty of time to play along with Kathy's latest sketch at Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

Kathy's sketches are fabulous and they can be used in any way you see fit as long as we can still see the original sketch.

Whay not kill two birds with one stone and combine the two challenges. Don't forget to leave us a comment so we can drop by and leave a friendly comment on your work.

I'm now going to make a cup of coffee and start sticking diamantes on my new invitations.

Thanks for looking :)

WOYWW #142

As it is now Wednesday, and even though I took my photograph on Tuesday, I will be working on the same order all day this should count as my entry into the What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday #142 challenge for this week. 

So what is the strange looking creature? I'm sure there will be a couple of people out there who don't know what they are so you will have to call back and visit me to see the finished result :)


If you would like to know more about what this challenge is about then please click on the link above and have a mooch round Julia's blog and see what we're up to.....after you've had a mooch round mine of course! lol


Righteo, it's bed time now so I will be back soon.


Night and thanks for visiting my blog.  xx


Ps. For those who are interested, the mini album is in the post below this one.

Granny's brag book

As I mentioned yesterday, we flew down to Somerset over the weekend and delivered the Brag Book for mum in law's birthday today. She decided she was going to have a look ate what was in her bag on Saturday so I took the opportunity to explain to her what a Brag Book was and what to put in it etc. I made her an 'All About Me' scrapbook a couple of years ago and she was saying that she is really enjoying filling that one in.


I find it quite difficult to do an album if I don't have any photos to put in it as I find that once you decide which photo is going on which page, you're half way there! I find it really easy to pick out a couple of colours from the photo as a starting point, I then add decoration and any captions as I'm going along. I didn't really know what colours to use for this album so I let my snippet folders decide :) I've worked with pink quite a bit lately so went with the colours I had most of and that was greens, yellows and oranges.


And here it is

I recognise a couple of My Mind's Eye and K & Co papers but all are unmarked as they came from my 'scrap box' :) 

I've added templates for her to cut out the photos and added a few tags here and there....and Bob's your Auntie :)


I shall add the book to Di's Snippet Challenge (tomorrow morning cos I'm pooped!)


See you tomorrow for What's On Your Work desk


Bye for now :)

Football crazy!

Hi, I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. We whizzed down to Somerset on Saturday, met up with Hubby's Mum, brother and sister in law and sister for a fabulous meal and came home yesterday. I've just thought, I've spent approximately 8 hours on a train and over an hour on a bus!!
My son in law celebrated his 40th birthday on Friday. He is Liverpool FC daft so of course I have to make his cards in red and white (I keep them all in a folder on my lap top so I remember what I've made him in previous years lol,)
So anyway, onto the cards.....the first one is off hubby and myself.

 and this one is from my kids.

All papers are from Pink Petticoat, (but from my scrap box
Image is from Bugaboo stamps a long time ago (I think)
Coloured with Promarkers
Numbers are hand cut using large wooden letters as templates
Sentiment is from Craftwork Cards
Die cut beer glass is cut using a Quickutz die (now Lifestyle Crafts) 
Ribbon is from my box
I now have to make a bracelet and 18th birthday card for DD2 to give to her friend tomorrow, fill some favour boxes and bring out guest name tags for the favours. 
Back tomorrow, take care.

Punches and Die Cuts

The new challenge on the Less Is More blog is (as it says in my title) to use 'Punches and/or Dies The availability of dies for use in cardmaking seems to have exploded recently, with many new ones appearing almost daily... do show us what you can do with them.' I've made two lots of invitations this week using die cuts and they both qualify for the Less Is More challenge. The first is a wedding invitation

Die used is a Sizzix Daisy #2.


The second 

The dies used on this one is by Cuttlebug.

Right, I'm off now, I have a train to catch but hair to dry first :) Enjoy your weekend.

A new baby boy card

Good morning from a very grey, windy and miserable Scruff's Corner today. It's been like this since I got up an hour ago so I think it's time Mr Sunshine was woken up, we want blue skies now, not grey :)


I received an email on Thursday from a very good customer of mine with a list of cards to do over the next couple of weeks or so with the most urgent being a baby boy card for her sister as he was 'due in the next two weeks' I thought I would make a start on that one first. Good job really, he arrived yesterday! So here we have one frantically finished card lol

It's difficult to make out but baby's name is actually in the train....it says Dexter. I've always got a stash of knitted bootees and hats but always forget I've got them, until now. Everything was from my stash. But don't faint, I actually had to print off a sheet of the gingham card as I didn't have a large enough 'Snippet' (sorry Di :))


Sorry about the rubbish photos, they don't look so bad when you click and enlarge them. As I said earlier, we had grey skies and it doesn't warrant decent photos, however, the sun has made an appearance now that the card has gone:)


I would like to enter the card into the following challenges


Allsorts Challenge - week 3 of the anything goes challenges
Secret Crafter - Bingo week and I chose brads, flowers and bows (my flowers are on the beautiful 'Marianne' frame. I really like the flower and leaf detail on this one!)


Thanks for looking.

WOYWW #141

Wow, not only can I not believe that Wednesday here again (I'm sure someone is pinching a couple of days whilst I'm in bed!) but also how much WOYWW has grown since I started showing my desk about 6 months ago. I made a claim to myself last Wednesday that I would carry on all week and visit all the participating blogs. Well it didn't happen, I gave up last night and had visited well over 100 but not being able to sit at the lap top 24/7 (life got in the way, oh, and so did crafting). I'm still pleased with myself though. Will I manage it this week? Who knows, we are away at the weekend (while the kids are home alone, yay)


If you're not too sure what I'm waffling about, take a look at Julia's blog, The Stamping Ground where she explains all, however, you do need to be of a nosey disposition to take part lol 


Righto, on to my desk this week

It's a bit tidier than it was on Saturday I'm making a 6" x 6" album at the moment and these are the snippets I'm using for it.


Have a wonderful day and don't work too hard :)

Flippin men!

Just a quick card today made for someone who has a rugby loving grandson in law!

I have had these sheets since they came out and keep forgetting I have them. I bought loads of them and still have quite a few left. I must find the Flippin Women sheets out too and get them made up otherwise they will sit in the drawer forever.


Materials used are
Flippin Men sheet by Jak Heath (I don't know where sells them any more as I got mine from a craft show)
off cuts of paper are by DCWV and ribbon and charms from my stock.


Another one for the Snippet challenge


Tfl xx

Less is more

I'm really getting into this style of card making and enjoying it very much. I've always gone for an uncluttered look in my work (you wouldn't believe that if  you saw my craft studio lol) and this morning I decided to take part in the new challenge, which is to use stripes on your card, at the Less Is More blog. I've been really busy for the last couple of weeks so this makes a nice change. Having said that I'm back on a wedding tomorrow.

The stamp is from Pink Cat Studio and I've had the set for years and have used it loads :) I coloured the image with Prisma pencils on their own as I didn't want anything to soak through the card like Promarkers or Sansador would! I used this image as she is sat on a striped hat box and stripey thing are definitely lacking in my craft stuff. I don't know if the ribbon counts as another layer and whether it should be removed till I've blogged it but I'm sure someone will tell me and I can always remove the ribbon and photograph it again ;)


Thanks for looking and for all the lovely comments you leave. Also before I go, can anyone recommend any other challenges and I'm also looking for some decent sentiment rub ons if anyone knows of any. I used to buy MSE and Crate rub ons but the craft outlet I bought them from has closed down and I'm finding it very difficult to source them.


Right, off to make tea now.