Happy Birthday..

Hi everyone.

My very first inspiration post here on the blog and i'm delighted to be here.

Ive made a little card to share for a bit of inspiration today.

Ive used the "Happy Birthday" doodle word as well as  the 

"Funky Kraft Stach" papers.

I am well know for loving all things vintage and distressed and I decided to show that, that style works real well, even with a fun and funky image.

 The backing paper already have little "bubbles" on it, but to accentuate them a bit more, and to really distress the papers, I stamped over the paper witha bubble stamp. I stamped using distress inks, and then sprayed with water.

It made the stamping "run" so i simply dried it with my heatgun.

This little butterfly is indeed a Funky Hand Image as well.

It is indeed from the "Flutterby Flowers" digital stamp pack.

I simply printed and cut out. Then gave it a good smudge of the same distress ink I used on the card, sprayed with water, and again dried with the heatgun till fully dry.
As the colour fully dried, it changed colour.

Finished my card with a few gems and Voila...

And that is it from me today. I hope you liked what Ive made.

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments left behind.

If you want to see more of my work, visit my blog HERE

How to colour Funky Hand Doodlewords digital stamps.

Hello everyone, Anice here this time to share my tips for colouring in Funky Hand Doodlewords digital stamps.  Obviously this is my own idea for matching up the colours. If you have any other tips please add them in the comment section, I'd love to hear more ideas.

Ok, so first off you need to decide which Doodlewords Digital stamp you want to colour, there are quite a few now and very soon there will be Christmas themed ones.  Then, you need to decide on your Funky Hand backing paper collection.  I've chosen the Thank You Doodleword digital stamp and the backing paper is from the Spring Has Sprung download.

When I design all the backing papers for Funky Hand, whether they are on downloadable collections or on the craft CD ROMs, I always use FIVE different colours.  Each backing paper pattern may not have all the colours on but they are all made up of the same five colours.  That's why it is easy to mix and match the backing papers in a collection together.  Anyway, there is pretty much always a striped paper and when colouring your Doodleword digital stamps to match with a collection this is where you will find all the colours in that collection laid out nicely. 

So, print off the striped paper from the collection and the digital stamp. I have printed my digital stamp onto Neenah Classic Crest card which is great for using Promarkers on as they blend well on it. The backing paper I printed onto white card. This is where the fun starts, matching the colours.  I have used Promarkers but the same technique will work for any pens you want to use.

 
The image above is the striped backing paper on the white card underneath some scrap Neenah Classic Crest card, the same as I have printed my digital stamp onto.  It's important to use the same product that you have printed your stamp on to or the colours wont come out the same when you colour the stamp.  Now start testing the Promarkers you have against the backing paper collection colours.  As you can see it took me a few goes with different pens until I found the match I was happy with.  Something I have learned is that you should allow the ink you have matched to dry for a few seconds as the colour changes and many times I have tried a pen colour, thought it was too dark and put it away only to discover it was perfect and I couldn't remember which one it was!

I decided on my five colours for this digital stamp..

They are, Tropical Orchid (Special Edition), Powder Blue, Pink Carnation, Eggnog and Leaf Green.  I've told you what colours I decided on just for interest.  These ones are possibly not what you would choose using the same backing paper download collection.  The reasons for that are, what paper or card you print your backing papers onto which will have an effect on the colours that you will see.  It also depends on the printer you are using if it's an Inkjet or Laser.  How much ink is in your printer? If even one colour is low that can have an effect on the colours that you get when you print out the digital backing paper. So, don't just follow what I have said, test it out for yourself.

So, Promarker colours are chosen, now you need to think about how you want to colour the letters in the Doodlewords digital stamp. The images are quite whimsical so you can mix all the colours together on one letter like this..

 
Or perhaps you would prefer to only use two colours like this..

The colouring is completely up to you.  These stamps are great for newer colourers, like me, as they are pretty easy to colour but you can get a really great effect. Which makes the colouring more fun when you start out as you actually want to use what you have coloured on your card creations.

Here is the Thank You Doodlewords digital stamp completed, layered over the striped backing paper...

I think it has matched the backing paper pretty well, what do you think?

Thanks for visiting
Anice xx

Sneak peep at a new digital stamp

Hi Anice here, I had to make a birthday card for Ian's Dad this week and I decided to use one of my yet to be released digital stamps.  The collection is called Doodlewords and you will find them available very soon  on the Funky Hand website.

Right lets get to the card...

You must know by now I'm a pretty simple style card maker but even more so when it a mans card. I used a black 6'' x 6'' card base and cut four different papers from the Colour Me Happy CD ROM  the Jovial Man collection, 2 1/2" by 2 1/2" square and then glued them to the base card leaving just a small edge around them and the base cards edge.  I liked the larger spaces of the black card that were left crossing the card. It made a nice background to add the topper.  I printed the digital stamp on Neenah Classic Crest Card and then layered it with some scrap white card left over from another project. I inked both around the edges so they stood out from each other

Here's a closer look at the new digital stamp..

I know alot of crafters are a little scared of colouring any sort of stamps but I've created these ones to be easy as pie to colour.  I used Promarkers to colour them choosing ones that matched the papers as closely as possible.  If you are interested I used, Moss, Indigo Blue, Sky Blue, Apple and Cool Grey 1 to outline around the edges.  I'm not a great colourer but I think this turned out pretty OK!

Well that's me done for this month, look out for some more inspiration from the Funky Hand Design Team, over here at the weekend.

Oh, and don't forget if you have created anything either using Funky Hand products or the techniques that have been shared with you over the previous posts please share it with us using the linky below.  We would love to see what you have created and visit your blogs.

See you again soon
Anice xx