Happy Royal Wedding Day

Hellooooo and welcome on this fine Royal Wedding Friday to the next card for Deb's Spots and Stripes Challenge. Now I could say I made this card with the Royal Wedding in mind but to be honest I had a wedding card to make and when I sat down to write this post I realised it was apt LOL

My spots are the Rainbow Polkadots Download which I have to admit I am LOVING the colours are fabby. The stripes were made with my scoring tool and score board and they don't show up so well in the photo. They are quite subtle (not something said in relation to me very often haha) but I like them.

A Love sentiment and a few sticky pearls and it was done, nice and simple :o)

For anyone not familiar with the Get Funky Challenge there are only two rules.......

1. Have at least one Funky Hand product on your item. To make the challenges easy for everyone to enter Anice designs a new paper freebie for each challenge, it's here or why not treat yourself over at Funky Hand there are loads of gorgeous paper downloads and of course the fabulous craft cds too.

2. Have fun!!

So come and join in the funky fun!!

A little late for an important date...

Hi Funky Hand Fans! Jenny here! I know, I know it's now AFTER Easter! A little mix-up with my dates has meant that my card for this months Spots & Stripes Challenge is a little bit 'after the fact'. However, rather than show you something else, I really wanted to show you how versatile the wobble card template on Craft The Year Away really is! The wobbly nest was super easy to make with strips of brown patterned paper glued randomly onto the wobble card blank. All that was needed then was some of the super cute Easter Eggs, also from Craft The Year Away, to pop in the nest. The little sentiment flag is made with half a cocktail stick & by using the writer word generator in Papercraft Factory. A little bow & some Glossy Accents on the spots & stripes on the eggs add the finishing touches.

There's plenty more Egg-cellent (groan!) inspiration coming your way from the Design Team over the next few weeks so keep checking back in every few days for fun new projects!

Need to know all the details on how to enter this month's Spots & Stripes challenge? Click here!

Spots and Stripes - The Best of British!

Hello everyone, it's Paula here.

I'd just like to start by thanking you for joining me on Funky Hand's challenge blog today and also to wish all our Funky Hand readers a very Happy Easter Monday.

Well, it's my turn to share with you what i've been up to with this months challenge that our Debs kicked off on the Funky Fifteenth of April with her beautiful card. Go here if you want to check it out again.

This months challenge of 'Spots and Stripes' has been one of my favourite to date, especially as Debs quite rightly pointed out that Anice has created a fabulous paper collection of rainbow polka dots recently (oh, and remember that until 10pm on Easter Monday, there is 25% to take off the price of this very collection).

The polka dots collection perfectly matches with the feebie

that Anice has kindly provided for you to use - and which our Ruth used when she made her gorgeous set of matching cards which can be seen in the last post.

I decided to go for something that two of the colours in the new polka dot collection particularly conjoured up for me when i saw them together - and particularly as feels a bit topical this week, with rumour of a special event happening towards the end of it!

I made my card into a Birthday card instead - but all things patriotic and the fabulous polka dot selection definitely inspired me.

I have attached the sentiment (on stripes) to acetate which I made slightly larger than A5 so that I could fasten it around the back of the card. This is because I didn't want to attach it to the actual card because it would have detracted from the corner of the flag - and I thought attaching it to the acetate made it look like it was floating.

Here's a pic of the inside of the card

The white square blank bit is where you would write your message.

Here is the back of the card:

I added a strip of the red stripe (from another card i'd done) to hide where i'd attached the acetate just to finish it off at the back.

I thought making a Union Jack would be much easier than it was - but then realised that making a rectangular shaped flag go onto a 6x6 square card was never gonna happen!!! Therefore, my card is actually now A5 in size. I had to mock on up by doing a template in Microsoft Publisher - so that I could cut each component of it up in order to make individual templates for all the dotty bits of paper.

While I was working on this project, my son's friend said "are you copying the picture on your kitchen mat Paula?"...(erm, no) - then the penny dropped... that's where i'd seen it before! I have a glass kitchen cutting mat that has a retro Union Jack on - the cross is a polka dot pattern - and believe it or not, I hadn't realised until Andy had said (doh)! I only 'see' it every day! Amazing what you look at without actually 'seeing' it or noticing it huh?

Anyway - with the Royal Wedding taking end at the end of this week, and having just had St. George's day - I'm feeling suitably patriotic.

If you feel inspired by this or any other card that your fabulous DT has brought to you this month - upload an image of your card by clicking on the blue frog at the end of this post.

Good luck if you do, but remember to make sure your creation has at LEAST ONE FUNKY HAND PRODUCT in it to qualify - if you ever think you have uploaded by mistake - just let the team know. Also - as a help to the design team when coming to view your blog, please could you mention which Funky Hand product you've included in your creation - and which CD or downloadable it was from - or just mention that you used the freebie.

Watch this space for more fabulous DT creations which will be posted right up until the new challenge is brought to you on the Funky Fifteenth - of May!!!!

Paula x x x

Using The Funky Freebie!

Yes its me again! Just popping by to show you what you can make with this challenge's Funky Freebie! If you go to the download section on the Funky Hand website, you can download free of charge this fab rainbow stripey paper!

I've printed it to fit 9 times on a sheet of A4 and then used my Nesties to cut out the patterned shape and then layered onto a slightly larger shape and then onto the card blank.

These cards are quite diddy - 9cm square so I can get 3 from a sheet of A4 card. I've added gems either horizontally or vertically depending on the stripey pattern.

And although you can't tell, I've added a dotted line round the larger white layer with a gel pen the same colour as the gems.

Good luck with the challenge - please remember to follow the theme and to use a Funky Hand product in your creation and link your creation via the blue frog below! The challenge ends on 14 May when the new theme is set on the 15 May. The winner receives a Funky Hand download of their choice and the top three get a blinkie!

You won't see me again until the next challenge, but there are plenty of other stunning creations coming your way this month!

Spots and Stripes - Windmills!

Welcome to my version of the current Get Funky challenge for Spots and Stripes! I've used the Craft The Year Away cd and printed spots on one side of the thin card and stripes on the other - there is always a spots and stripes in each of Anice's collections!!

I've used Kebab sticks and brads from my stash along with grosgrain ribbon to pretty the backs up! And amazingly, the brads and ribbon matched the green of the papers!



I've used a template for the three windmill layers - I got it ages ago from Lakeland when they still sold craft stash, but if you google windmill templates there are probably many to choose from!
Don't forget that you need to follow the challenge theme, which is spots and stripes, and also use a Funky Hand product. We make this last part really easy as Anice offers each month a freebie download that fits the challenge - just go to the download section on the website to snag it! The winner from the challenge will get a download of their choice and the top three a blinkie!

Good luck - and please enter via the blue frog below!

April Showers

Morning Lovely People! It's Sunday today, wooohooo! I hope you have plans for a day filled with crafting? I mean, you'll need to make something with Spots and Stripes, if you've not already, so you can join in with the Get Funky Fun...

Don't forget you need to use a Funky Hand product on your makes, but don't worry if you don't have any, as Anice has created this gorgeous freebie for you to play with:

Be sure to snag it here, as it's only available until 14 May. :)

I love the rainbow colours in this paper and it made me think of the weather, so this is what I came up with. My spots are 'hidden' because I wanted the paper to do all the talking. Or should that be singing 'Somewhere over the rainbow'? (I dare you to try and not sing that all day now!) The image is from the Craft The Year Away CD Rom, which is absolutely crammed with images and scrummy papers to use. Not got it yet? Oh, you need it!

Right, I'm off for some breakfast, is it too early for a cupcake?

Funky 15th - Spots & Stripes - Simples!

Hi everyone it's Debs here with a new theme for our Funky 15th challenge and this time it's simply SPOTS & STRIPES How easy is that especially as the lovely Anice has designed so many gorgeous Spots & Stripes designer papers in most (if not all) the paper collections from Funky Hand There are even collections that are just SPOTS

and very soon there will be a matching collection of just

STRIPES And what's more Anice is also offering a Funky Freebie download that could be used for this challenge available on the Funky Hand website www.funkyhand.com.
 

I have kept my sample card very 'simples' - just because you can lol!!!

I have used some gorgeous Spotty paper from the Rainbow Dots collection (see above)

and the Stripey paper from Dreams Come True Papercraft CD Just Happy Collection

Punched butterflies and few adhesives gems and a sweet sentiment - job done - simples!

So come and join us this month - don't forget to use a Funky Hand product in order to be in with a chance to win the scrummy prize - just click the link below.

Look out for some more fabulous funky inspiration from my funkette teamies every few days over the next 4 weeks.

TTFN

Debs xx