It's Get Funky December Challenge!

Hi Everyone, Anice here, hope you are enjoying the lovely weather we are having! Can you believe that the year is coming to an end..maybe it's just me getting older but boy time really flies these days! Congratulations to our winner Sally from last month and welcome to this months Get Funky! Challenge.

We are very lucky, this month to be combining our challenge with another challenge blog Kathys Waffle Sketch File so you will have two chances of being a winner!! Kathy of course is a wonderful member of our Design Team so, as this is the last month of the year, and I needed some help this month getting everything together for the challenge, Kathy stepped in like an angel and offered us this wonderful sketch to follow for this months Get Funky Challenge:

Now, I know how you all like a good sketch to follow so I'd like to see plenty of entries this month to round the year off nicely. I have to hang my head in shame as I haven't been able to get to my office for almost a week because of the snow and all my crafting stash is locked up in there so..I haven't been able to make an inspiration card so far..but I'll post it up here as soon as it's done. Though we still have some wonderful cards from the rest of the Design Team to offer you some inspiration,

First up is a wonderful creation from Kathy our sketch angel this month. She has created a fabby note pad using papers from the Colour Me Happy CD Rom. Isn't it just great? I'm so lucky to have such talented crafters to work with.
Next we have a creation from Allison:

Allison created this card using the Funky Hand Salt and Pepper download collection..and very classy it is as well!

Debs decided on a Christmas themed card..which I think she is allowed at this time of the year. She has used paper from the Colour Me Happy Cd Rom and a Christmas Tree image from the digi stamps included in the All I want for Xmas download collection. I just love the pom poms on this one!

Enfys has given us another Christmas card but with a very different feel made with papers from the Colour Me Happy CD ROM I love the idea of the house representing the family.

Jane has decided to go the Christmas theme way as well with this fab gingham creation using papers from the Colour Me Happy CD ROM. I love how warm the card appears being based with the craft coloured card.

Jules has created a beautiful layered card using papers from one of the Funky Hand original collection CD Roms Funky Seasons (which if you didn't know, have all be permanently reduced in price on our website) and the most amazing coloured snow flakes it's a beautiful use of the sketch.

Lou has created a card away from the Christmas trend using papers and digi stamps from the Dreams Come True CD Rom. I love the stitching on this card it is just wonderful.

Last but by no means least I bring you Ruths creation for this month..

I just love the card Ruth has created using the sketch and papers from the Colour Me Happy CD ROM. What a great idea to add the iccicles to the card..we were told on the the DT forum that she buys up Christmas decorations in the January sales ready for next years Christmas cards..now theres a good little tip for you!

Well I hope all this wonderful inspiration will encourage you to join in with our challenge this month. We love to see your creations and visit your blogs.

As Get Funky! has now got through it's first year we have decided that it's time for a bit of a change around. So from the New Year we are going to have a few changes happening around here. We are still working on the finer details but there is going to be much more for you to come and have a look at during the month, each month on the challenge blog and we have decided to change our challenge start date from the first of the month to the Funky 15th! That's just the first of the changes so, we'll see you here at the beginning of next year with the winner of the final Get Funky! challenge for 2010 and by then we will be able to share a few more details about what 2011 is going to involve.

Now, go on Get Funky! and join in with this months challenge we are waiting to see what you create with Kathys fab sketch.

Have a wonderful end to the year from us all here at Funky Hand in the office and on the Design Team.
Anice xx

November's Tag it challenge winner.

Good Morning!! Its Lou here to announce the winners of my challenge.

Big thanks everyone who participated by managing to "Tag it" .

The funky hand DT loved wombling over to your blogs and peeking at your gorgeous taggy creations, i was lovely to see some new faces too so make sure you pop back to check out Anice's challenge today.



.....And so onto the winner of the £20 gift voucher for the Funky Hand shop who is......

Sally

I loved Sally's cute little shaker tag card, fabby idea Sally!!

And runner up blinkies go to....

Sam

Jenny

Fiona

Congratuations to you all! please contact Anice on the Funky Hand website www.funkyhand.com and send a message using the 'contact us page' so she can send you details of your winners voucher (Sally) and runner up blinkies!

Tag It!!!

Wow! November all ready?!!!

Before I kick off this months challenge I just want to thank everybody for taking part in last months Take 5 challenge set by the lovely Lythan, I have to tell you that your creations were just awesome and visiting your blogs was a complete pleasure for all of the DT.

So here I am nervously posting my first challenge on Get Funky!!! and here it is .....

TAG IT !!

All you need to do is have fun creating a TAG using your favourite funky hand papers. You can create any kind of tag or project including a tag for this challenge!!

The other thing to remember is that your project will only be eligible for the prize if you use at least one Funky Hand product - there are LOADS of papers and extras to choose from so that bit won't be difficult! Click HERE for a quick link to the Funky Hand website ;-).
Here's how to be in with a chance of winning this month's £20.00 voucher to spend in the Funky Hand on-line shop:
1. Add your 'TAG IT' project to your blog,
2. Don't forget to say which Funky Hand product(s) you've used,
3. Come back before midnight on Tuesday 30th November (UK time) and add your challenge entry to our little inlinkz gadget at the bottom of this post!! easy peasy!!

So to inspire you and get you all creating here's what the fabulous team Funky have been busy creating.....

Anice used papers from Colour Me Happy and got out her ribbons and prima's to create her beautiful tag.

Enfys used a whole load of tags on hers used a tag to make her awesome tri-fold card and papers from Colour Me Happy. Lou ( thats me!!) used the Funky Daze cd for papers and the fabulous little ship digi that is on Dreams Come True to make a birthday card fit for any little pirate!!

Ruth made the cutest ever tag book, please click on her name and go and check out her blog for the rest of the pages, all I can say is awwwwwwwww!!!
Kathy used a wordbook page and other papers from the All I Want For Christmas download and cut her stars from the alphbits with a little star punch, how cute are they?!

Jules headed straight for her fav download, Salt and Pepper to make this gorgeous tag, topped up with some extremely funky alphabits to spell out her sentiment.

Debs used the All I want for xmas download to make her beautiful tag book, oooh loving the bright and cheery christmas colours.
Jane is getting in the christmas mood with her funky festive tag, made using papers from theAll I want for xmas download, and yes that gorgeous little sentiment digi is included in the download too!!.Allison made this gorgeous butterfly tag using the Colour me happy cd. I love the soft fluffy feather behind that gorgeous flower.

So now we've given you some inspiration we can't wait to see what you come up with!!

October winners

It's Lythan here to announce the winners of my challenge. I'd like to thank everyone who participated by managing to "Take 5" . It is great to see all the creativity that was inspired. It is helped by the fact that Anice's papers go together so well I know but it may have been outside your comfort zone. I hope you enjoyed the making of your entries as much as the team enjoyed visiting your blogs.

And so onto the winner of the £20 gift voucher for the Funky Hand shop. For me it just had to be the labour of love produced by

Sheila

Runner up blinkies are to go to

Sheryl
Julie
Jodpea

Congratulations to you all! Please contact Anice at Funky Hand for your prizes. There will be a new challenge launched very soon so happy crafting!

Take 5

It was fabulous to see your bouquet of flowers for Kathy's challenge last month. Here's hoping you like my challenge too! It is quite simple and therefore versatile so you can run free with your creativity

Take 5

I want to see something that uses 5 (or more!) different papers. Simples!

So - any project you like - could be cards, books, hangings, decorations... whatever, it all counts as long as there are 5 different papers within for us to see! The other thing to remember is that your project will only be eligible for the prize if you use at least one Funky Hand product - there are LOADS of papers and extras to choose from so that bit won't be difficult! Click HERE for a quick link to the Funky Hand website ;-).

Here's how to be in with a chance of winning this month's £20.00 voucher to spend in the Funky Hand on-line shop:

1. Add your project to your blog,

2. Don't forget to say which Funky Hand product(s) you've used,

3. Come back before midnight October 31st (UK time) and leave a message with a link so that we can see what you've made.
Here's what the Funky Hand Gang have made this month, we hope you'll find something here to inspire you to join in. You'll notice that some of us are preparing for a certain celebration at the end of December ... and some are in denial... but I'm sure you will find something to kick start your creativity

Allison has made this wonderful card using Now That's Funky Papers and letters from the All I Want for Xmas Trad Wordbook download

Anice made a really romantic card for someone special. It uses papers from the Shabby Saturday download collection and lots of love!
Enfys has made a Wordbook using one of the new downloads ... Xmas Trad Wordbooks
Debs is saying "All I want for Xmas" with this fab dimensional tree

and Jane is continuing with the Christmas feeling. How pretty are these colours for Christmas?
The papers are from Funky Seasons

I'm so glad that Jules is reminding us that there is a whole season to go before Christmas (can you tell I don't like to start preparing yet!)
This richly coloured card uses Colour Me Happy papers.

Lou has made some darling little crackers with the All I want for Xmas download

Clever Kathy demonstrates that a pile of patterns can be stylishly monochromatic with the Salt and Pepper Download set
Ruth has made a wonderful address book to keep her organised using Dreams Come True
and finally I have made a card using Colour Me Happy and my favourite border punch.
Now its over to you. Happy crafting!

September Winners

Thank you sooooo much for the wonderful bouquet of dimensional flower projects you shared with us during September. 

It was a hard decision, but in the end I've chosen 

Kerry

as winner of the our September £20 voucher to spend at the Funky Hand Shop.

I loved the simplicity of the background which showed off 

the lovely flower beautifully.

There are three blinkie winners too, they are

Paula

Lynn 

Sal (Mrs K)

I hope your blogs will wear them with pride!

Please contact Anice at Funky Hand for your prizes - and now, stay tuned for the next challenge which will be on it's way verrrrrry soon!

A Funky Flower Festival for September

 Hi there

Another month, another new challenge here on Get Funky! 

Thank you to all who joined in our First Birthday Celebratory challenge last month - for our September challenge I'd like you to help me (Kathy) celebrate my own birthday which occurs in the middle of this month!

If you've ever visited my personal blog, you'll already know that I just can't stop using flowers on my cards and projects, so what I'd really love to see is a

Fabulous Funky Floral Fantasy

The catch is that I need to see lots of dimension in the way you use the flowers, so just a flower patterned paper, or a flat flowery image just won't cut it!  Think lots of layers or try making some of the wonderful 3d flowers that are around at the moment - there are lots of tutorials and you-tube videos out there to get you started.

So - any project you like - could be cards, books, Scrapbook pages.... whatever, it all counts as long as there are some luscious 3d flowers for us to see! The other thing to remember is that your project will only be eligible for the prize if you use at least one Funky Hand product - there are LOADS of papers and extras to choose from so that bit won't be difficult! Click HERE for a quick link to the Funky Hand website ;-).

Here's how to be in with a chance of winning this month's £20.00 voucher to spend in the Funky Hand on-line shop:

1. Add your Fabulous Funky Floral Fantasy. project to your blog,

2. Don't forget to say which Funky Hand product(s) you've used,

3. Come back before midnight Sept 30th (UK time) and leave a message with a link so that we can see what you've made.
Here's what the Funky Hand Gang have made this month, we hope you'll find something here to inspire you to join in

This month sees the first Get Funky! submissions from our three latest DT members, so look out for the fab projects Debs, Jane and Lou have made.
Right, here we go - lots and lots of flowers for you delight!

Firstly, just look at the wonderful layered flower Allison made using designs from the Colour Me Happy CD

Enfys printed a design from the Colour Me Happy CD directly onto a scalloped edge card base, the flowers were also cut from one of the pattern papers.

Lou also used designs from the Colour Me Happy CD to make the background and those fabulous pleated flowers

Sumptuous - there's no better word to describe  the card Jules has made this month, these papers are from the Dreams Come True CD

The "Blissful Baby" collection from the Colour Me Happy CD was Dolly's choice of paper for this fabulous shaped card. I just adore her beautiful handmade flower

Next, a veritable bouquet of lovely layered blooms adorning the corner of Jane's gorgeous project! These papers are from the Dreams Come True CD

Debs used papers from one of the Funky Hand Download collections (Hearts & Flowers) to create this soft and oh-so-pretty card

 I love the pot of flowers with the string bow that Kath has made this month - and the flower border panel just sets it all off so perfectly, these lovely papers are from the "Now That's Funky" CD

 Lythan's fabulous central layered flower is just sooooo striking, it really grams your attention. I just love the colours and mix of paper designs she's chosen to use for this card.  These designs are more from the latest CD "Colour Me Happy"

Just look at the wonderful bunch of flowers that Ruth has made using papers printed from the Funky Daze CD.  Wouldn't they be just perfect for taking to a loved one in a hospital with a "no real flowers" rule?

Below we have Bold and Beautiful colours and patterns for the layered flowers from Anice. These designs are from the Colour Me Happy CD.  That's "real" sewing you can see on there (Anice seemed keen that we should know that....hehe)

Which just leaves me (Kathy) to add a couple of photos of the caddy and flower centre I made using one of my fave sets (Contented Coffee) from the Colour Me Happy CD.  I had such a ball making all these flowers - it was actually hard to stop myself from making even more!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing what we've been making - you can click on any of these photos and have a closer look, btw. Hopefully you now just can't wait to get started making some flowery creations of your own!  I'm really looking forward to seeing the flowers you make for this challenge.

Happy Crafting

Kathy

August winner!

Firstly I'd like to thank you all for entering such wonderful projects for August's 'Pocket' challenge.

The winner is....

Lynn

You win the £20 Funky Hand gift voucher and the 'Birthday' freebie

Doreen
Siobhan
Sheila
Lynda
MrsK

You all win the 'Birthday' freebie

Congratulations!! Please email Anice via the Funky Hand 'contact us' section on the website for further details.

August Challenge - Pockets!

It’s Dolly here this month to set the challenge. But before we get on to this months theme I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to all who joined in with Ruth's 'Something New' challenge last month – Lots of lovely entries but there can only be one winner, so scroll down for more details.

Happy Birthday Get Funky!!

Would you believe Get Funky is one year old today, and hasn’t the year just flown?
To celebrate our first birthday we’re offering more prizes this month but on to that a little later firstly let’s get on with this month's theme which is ...

Pockets

It could be anything you like – a card, a mini album, a wordbook as long as it has some kind of pocket and you use at least one Funky Hand paper or extra.  Now on to the 3 all important rules.

1. Add your ‘Pocket’ project to your blog,

2. Don't forget to say which Funky Hand product(s) you've used,

3. Come back here before midnight August 31st (UK time) and leave a comment with a link so that we can see what you've made.

The prize as usual for the winner is a £20 voucher to spend on the Funky Hand website plus blinkies for the runners up.

*As an extra something to celebrate our 1st birthday all entries that follow the 3 all important rules will also receive a prize.*

Our DT have made these fantastic ‘Pockets’ to help get you started. Be sure to visit their personal blogs for more photos and info on their projects.

Ruth has used papers from Colour Me Happy to make this fab and funky 'Thank you' pocket. A lovely photo of her 2 boys too.

Kathy has made this elegant heart filled 'Anniversary' pocket using Colour Me Happy

Don’t you just love the colour mix on this 'For You' pocket from Kath, so cute. 

A 'Stitched' pocket from Jules, using Colour Me Happy. I love the key and keyring, so clever.

Funky Hand meets Tim Holtz on this pretty ‘Flower’ pocket from Enfys. The flowers were made with TH dies and FH digi stamps from Dreams Come True, genius!

Anice has made a ‘Christmas’ pocket, teasing us with new paper designs from the soon to be released FH Christmas download. Love the candy cane.

A fab ‘New Baby’ pocket from Allison, using that cute little elephant digi stamp and papers from Colour Me Happy.

And I (Dolly) have made a 'Gift Card' pocket, using papers from Colour Me Happy.
 

 
Looking forward to see what you all create using pockets. Don’t forget the extra special birthday gift on offer this month all you need to do is follow the 3 simple rules to win a prize.