Get Funky Challenge - March

The first of the month again and that means time for another Get Funky Challenge.

A huge thanks to everyone who took part last month. It was great to see all your wonderful projects for Anice's ‘I Love Crafting’ challenge.
So on to this month's challenge. It’s my turn Dolly to set the theme which is.

Girls Girls Girls!

We all like making girlie cards don’t we and with Mother’s Day on 14th March it’s a perfect opportunity to get out the Funky Hand papers and join in the fun. It doesn’t have to be a Mother’s Day card though, you can make any girlie card or project you like, as long as it has at least one Funky Hand paper or extra included on it you can be up for the £20.00 prize voucher.
I’m sure you’ll agree the Design Team have come up with some fantastic eye candy for you this month.  Be sure to check out their individual blogs for more photos and details of their projects.

Allison

Dreams Come True and Funky Daze

Anice

Dreams Come True

Corrina

Dreams Come True

Enfys

Dreams Come True

Jules

Dreams Come True

Kath

Dreams Come True

Kathy

Dreams Come True

Lythan

Funky Seasons

Ruth

Dreams Come True

Dolly
Dreams Come True

Looking forward to seeing what you all create this month.  Remember you have until 31st March to join in the challenge, the winner will be announced on 1st April.
Happy Crafting
from Anice & the Funky Hand Design Team

Winner of Feb Challenge

You all made it hard to choose a winners for this months challenge but I am pleased to announce that our winner of the £20.00 Funky Hand voucher is (drum roll...)

 Paula

I've also given blinkies to the following entants as you all made such fab cards,

Wendy

Jan

Pinky

Laney

Esme (Crafty Vet)

All you need to do is send me a message via the contact us page on my website www.funkyhand.com  giving me your email address and I'll get everything over to you.

Thanks very much for joining in and make sure you take a look at our new challenge for March.

Anice xx

Get Funky Challenge February

Here we are with another new months challenge, thank you to everyone who joined in with Lythans challenge last month we had some fab entries.


Now it's my turn again and as it's the month of love (Valentines day just incase you thought I was going a bit balmy!!) I thought my challenge this month would be completely open it's just... I love Crafting! Which I know you all do, so you can create anything you like and as long as it has at least one Funky Hand paper or extra included on it you can be up for the £20.00 prize voucher..now lets have a look at the lovely samples the Design Team have come up with to get you in the mood for a bit of crafting love!

First up we have a beautiful card from Kath, made using our newest craft CD release Dreams Come True.

Allison has also gone with a love theme with this super heart decoration, using Dreams Come True as well.

Now, I said you could make whatever you liked so Ruth has made these amazing flowers with papers from the Dreams Come True CD

Kathy also went way from card making for her contribution this month and made this wonderful memo pad. She also used the Dreams Come True CD for this creation.

Jules we are discovering is an old softy and she made this beautiful love wordbook for her husband..there are loads of other pages and they prove that she's really lovely dovey..which I think it just great. The wordbook was made using the word book generator on the Dreams Come True CD.

As soon as I saw Dollys entry I just fell in love..this word book is also made with the Dreams Come True and the attention to detail is just amazing..I love it!

Lythan used her considerable craft talent and Dreams Come True papers to make an acetate card

For our last example I'm being a bit naughty.. Corrina is my new office manager in Teapot Studios and she 'doesn't craft' until she got too close to all my stash!! She created this wonderful word book for her friend who has had a beautiful baby girl this week..as I helped her a bit with it I'm including it as a combined effort from both of us. The word book is made from the generator on the Dreams Come True CD..and I'm very proud of Corrinas start on the crafting journey!

So there you go..if you love crafting get making and posting them on your blogs..we are really looking forward to seeing what wonderful creations you will come up with this month.

Anice xx

January winner!

Wow what amazing cards and crafts you have made this month. It has been such fun to come to your blogs and see the wonderful amount of talent out there.
But there can only be one winner and this month it is...

Milliesmarvels

for the super cute sheep card!

Well done Jane you are the lucky winner of the £20 voucher to spend at Funky Hand
and a blinkie for your blog!

I'd also like to award some blinkies to
Bluebertie
Loopylou
Suzi B
Siobhan Cairney

for your eye catching designs

Congrats to you all. Contact Anice through the Contact Us section of her website www.funkyhand.com to get your blinkies and winners voucher. I hope you will join in with this month's challenge which is coming up soon!

Get Funky Challenge -January

Happy New Year everyone!

It's Lythan here and its my turn to set the challenge- the first of 2010. So I'm going to ease you in gently with a challenge that should be fun- and of course funky.
You can make ANYTHING you like as long as it uses something by Funky Hand and includes
SPOTS AND STRIPES on it

Now that should be easy because Anice shares my love of spots and stripes and they feature in every collection. It is a fab excuse to go back through your cd's and downloads and rediscover all the wonderful designs there. But you will see that some of the design team are also showcasing new papers from the soon to be released Dreams Come True CD which is a little bit different and absolutely wonderful!

As usual you have a whole month to complete the challenge and all you have to do to enter is use at least one Funky Hand product and leave a link here to your creation so we can come and visit you and you could be the winner of a £20 Funky Hand voucher to spend on Funky Hand products....like that new CD for example!

And to get you started here is some amazing inspiration to share with you all from our Get Funky Design Team

Allison has made some wonderful calendars using Now That's Funky
These are such a great idea for a New Year gift with so many gorgeous details on them. I love the stitching and the hand cut leaf stems

Kathy's card is soft and pretty. She has such a great eye for design and placementKathy used the Paper Blossom download. I really like the layered greeting in the bottom corner

Anice shows us that spots and stripes are great for a more masculine feel too
These are some of the new Dreams Come True papers. By printing on both sides of the paper Anice has given her card a really professional edge. So classy!

Jules card features some wonderful hand made flowers and showcases the Funky Daze CD
The strong geometric shapes of the card design set off those intricate flowers so well.

Kath has more of Dreams Come True to reveal
Isn't that big bold design just superb? And inking and doodling are the perfect finishing touches. There is something special on this card too...

Ruth is brilliant at making crafty items like this amazing bag
There are loads of spots and stripes on this bag but because all the papers are from one Dreams Come True colour palette they don't overwhelm. The double sided paper ribbon gives wonderful dimension to the flower

Enfys' card is a real tweet! Again it features something special and new on the CD. Have you worked it out yet?
Aren't those button berries just wonderful?I love the way the background spots and stripes peek through the branches of the hand cut tree.

And then there's my card

This uses Dreams Come True as well. And I've got something special on my card as well. Can you work out what is new to the CD?
Yes, Kath,Enfys and I have used the new Funky Hand digi stamps. How cool is it that there was a spotty cup and tea pot? You can do all sorts with the stamps so look out for more design team examples in the weeks to come.

I can't wait to see your spotty and stripey creations so let your imagination fly. Have Fun and get Funky!

The Winner of the Deck The Halls Challenge

Happy New Year Everyone and a big thank you to all that took time out from their frantic Christmas preparations to join in December's challenge......we loved all the gorgeous Christmas decorations that you made....and it was so hard to choose just one winner.........

Congratulations

TERI

you are the lucky winner of the £20 voucher to spend at Funky Hand
and a blinkie for your blog

I loved Teri's fabulous Christmas trees made with paper strips

she must have the patience of a saint

I f you contact Anice through the "Contact Us" section on the Funky Hand website...she will arrange for you to spend your voucher and we look forward to seeing what you make with your prize.

Pop back soon for January's Challenge set by our lovely teamie LYTHAN.
Hugs Kath xxxxxxx

GET FUNKY CHALLENGE - DECEMBER...

Morning Everyone.....we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge and congratulations to the lucky winner.
Can you believe it's the 1st of December already...we really are on the countdown to Christmas now.

It's my turn (Kath) to set this month's challenge and I don't think you will need too many guesses....oh yes I have gone with a Christmas theme

DECK THE HALLS

with boughs of holly....

fa..la la la la.....la la la

What I would like you to do this month is to create a Christmas decoration to decorate your wall...mantlepiece Christmas table or to hang on your tree.....a Christmas Gift or perhaps a box or gift wrapping

In these credit crunch times.....wouldn't it be nice to save a few pennies and make some of your Christmas gifts this year....all wrapped up in hand-made boxes and I know that your family and friends would be over the moon to receive something that you had lovingly made or perhaps you have looked out your tree trimmings and quite frankly they have seen better days....looking a bit sad....so why not make your own.

As usual you have a whole month to complete the challenge and all you have to do to enter is use at least one Funky Hand product and leave a link here to your creation so we can come and visit you and you could be the winner of a £20 Funky Hand voucher to spend on Funky Hand products....a great start to the new crafting year.
And as always.....we have some fabulous inspiration to share with you all from our Get Funky Design Team

ANICE.....used Festive Fun Digi Stamp images....resizing them and paper piecing with papers from "Funky Little Christmas" download....super cute or what and perfect for hanging from your mantlepiece or to decorate your tree.....and love those little pegs.

ALLISON..... has made a gorgeous wall hanging using papers from "Yule Be Funky" CD....images from Festive Fun Digi Stamps and alphabets from various Funky Hand products.......and I love the cute paperclips

AND IN CLOSE UP

DOLLY.........loving this decoration made with "Funky Christmas time" download...great for your mantlepiece or on your Christmas Table filled with yummy chocs...a modern twist on the traditional red and green

ENFYS......covered a silver ornament that she found in a dollar bin in the US using papers from "Blue Christmas Word Book" download and I love those cute little snow dudes cut with her Cricut

JULES....well what can I say....this is straight out of a magazine....gorgeous table decorations with papers from "Yule Be Funky" CD....I may just try and wangle an invitation to Jules' house for Christmas Lunch

KATHY......made a pillow box and a tag using papers from "Blue Xmas Word Book" download...absolutely stunning and something anyone would be over the moon to receive on Christmas morning......and she also made one of those curly bows......very clever

LYTHAN.....I absolutely adore this Christmas Tree decoration...so simple but so beautiful......paper from "Funky Seasons" CD printed onto acetate and decorated with a little bit of bling.....so easy to make lots of these and wouldn't they look gorgeous on your tree sparkling in the light.

RUTH......and wow how cool are these guys....."We Three Kings of Orient Are".......all from Ruth's own template using papers from "Funky Daze" CD....made using cut down loo roll inserts....us crafters throw nothing away

KATH...I made my wall decoration from 3 old CD's....the ones that you get free nearly every week with the Sunday newspapers....papers and letters from "Tis The Season Word Book" download and lots of bits and pieces from my stash.

We hope you will find loads of inspiration for some Christmas Fun and look forward to seeing what you all create this month......remember you have until 31st December to join in the challenge.

Happy Crafting

from Anice & the Design Team at Funky Hand