01 August, 2009

Get Funky Challenge for August

Hello and a big welcome to our brand new, all shiny and fresh, Funky Hand Design Team Challenge Blog, Get Funky! I hope that you will join in the fun with us and make our first monthly challenge a big success!

First of all I thought I would run over the very simple rules for you..each month one of the Design Team members will be setting you a challenge to get your crafty juices flowing, it will be launched on the 1st of each month and you then have the whole month to join in. All you need to do to be able to have the chance of winning our £20.00 gift voucher prize is to include at least one Funky Hand paper or extra in your design. Enough of the rules lets get on to the fun part, the challenge for this month..

I volunteered to take the first month and as I love following sketches..that's what I decided to start you off with...


You can move the sketch elements about a bit, as long as we can still see the general idea of the sketch that will be just fine with us!

Here's what the Funky Hand Design Team came up with..


I used the Funky Freebie papers for my card.


Allison turned the sketch on it's head for her card, she used papers from the Now that's Funky CD.



Dolly decided not to make a card and created this great Sketch book using papers from the Funky Daze CD


Enfys was very creative and hand cut the funky flowers she included on this card, she used papers from the Funky Daze CD


Kath created this fab card with her usual style and flair using papers from the Shabby Saturday Download Collection.


Lythan joined me in using papers from the Funky Freebie collection for her creation but she did a better job than me..


Ruth has ventured way back into the Funky Hand past for her card these papers are from my first release The Funky One CD


Carols lovely scrummy cake card was created using papers from the Funky Daze CD

Now you've seen what we have been able to come up with..we can't wait to see your creations. All you need to do is post your creation on your blog and leave us a link here in the comments so we can come over and see what you have made. So what are you waiting for? GET FUNKY!

42 comments:

  1. Fabulous cards girls - each and everyone of them is so different but they are all gorgeous!!! Congratulations with your new challenge and good luck - I'm sure it's going to be very popular and sucessful. Love the sketch btw Anice. Right, I'm off to root out me papers, Hugs to all xxxxx

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  2. Great sketch, Anice, and the DT have done a tremendous job, too! Can't wait to join in, but busy day today, so back with you tomorrow! :o)

    Hugs,
    Chris xx

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  3. YIPPEE.......... blastoff has occurred....

    Well done Anice & all the DT on such a fab looking challenge blog & such gorgeous creations to get our juices flowing.

    I've got my papers all ready to go so just need to dash round the housework etc then I can get to work on the challenge.

    I know you can't see but I'm raising my glass to toast you Anice...

    Hugs to all
    Lorraine xxx

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  4. Hi Annice and the DT. I have been looking forward to this challenge blog. I think the DT cards are fantastic and thank you for the inspiration.

    Ali x

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  5. Fabulous line-up of gorgeous cards ladies! I am proud to be part of this 'funky' team.....thanks for having me ;-D

    Hugs
    Carol x

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  6. Good luck with your new challenge blog. All of the cards shown are fantastic and very inspiring, I look forward to joining you all later into the month!
    Keryn :D

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  7. Wow! All the cards look so fab and so different - but that is the versitile papers! So pleased and proud to be part of a very Funky Team!!

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  8. All the cards look so good, proud to be part of the uber-talented team.... Hope we get lots of fab eye candy cards to go and see xx

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  9. Good luck with the challenge blog, I've been looking forward to it starting, now I'll have to have a root through my stash and get thinking!

    Lovely cards from the design team :-)

    Rose xx

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  10. gorgeous cards from all my super talented teamies...looking forward to lots of fab entries from all the fab crafters out there....hugs kath xxxx

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  11. I just fell across your blog, as I haven't visited for some time (blush)and am delighted to find your new challenge. Looking forward to taking part.

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  12. here is the link to my creation
    http://creatingcards-grf.blogspot.com/
    I am new to this linking so hope this is how to do it

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  13. I'm back with the link to my card. I've been a bit liberal with your sketch (blush)but all the elements are in there somewhere lol!

    You can see my card HERE

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  14. Oh I'm so excited Anice to be joining in with your first ever challenge... fabby dabby dooo...

    You're DT have really supported you well here too with their fabulous creations & showcasing a super range of your papers into the bargain. You always provide us with so many gorgeous designs it sometimes makes it hard to decide which ones to use... we just want a little bit of them all...

    For the challenge I decided to work solely with your free download for this month so fingers crossed it looks ok...

    HERE is my card.

    Now I'll sit back & wait for yet another fab challenge in 1 months time.

    Keep up the good work... we all love it.

    Hugs
    Lorraine xxx

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  15. Great Sketch - thanks for the freebie and love the DT work.

    Here's my card.

    Lynda xxx

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  16. Good luck with the blog and hope you gets heaps of entries. The DT's cards are a great inspiration.

    Here is my take on the sketch.

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  17. I am sure the blog will be a roaring success and hope that each challenge gets loads of entries.

    Here is my take on the sketch.

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  18. OMG, this was so much fun!! :o)

    My entry for the challenge is HERE

    Now off to see what everyone else has done (so far)! :o)

    Hugs,
    Chris xx

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  19. I love challenges, but I have two questions: Is this challenge only for making things with the special paper you all use? And doesn't it take a lot of inkt to print the beautiful free papers?

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  20. Yes, Bianca you do need to use at least one Funky Hand paper or extra on your creation to join in with the challenge. Printing the papers takes a bit of ink of course but the results are usually worth it as you can see from the Design Team card entries. Why not try downloading the Funky Freebie and trying it out for yourself. If printing them uses more ink than you'd like then at least getting the papers hasn't cost you any pennys!
    Anice xx

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  21. Hi all, I'm really pleased to be in on your first challenge. Hope I've done you justice. The freebies are great. Fab colours!! Can't do the "HERE" thing but my card is here:-http://lynnescraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/funky-hand-challenge.html#links
    Many thanks
    Lynne

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  22. My card is at www.madebyalison.blogspot.com - it may be a bit down the page as I haven't yet worked out how to call each posting by a separate name!

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  23. This is a fabulous sketch, I used it with your delightful freebie to cover a notepad. Here is My Creation

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  24. I got funky lol xxx Girls, I really enjoyed this challenge. Love the sketch and your DT cards are all so beautiful.

    here’s mine

    Thanks for looking and hugs to all xxxxx

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  25. Wow Girls! You have really excelled yourselves here, fantastic inspiration!!
    You can see my card here
    Love Becky xx

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  26. here's my card , I turned it 45 degrees.
    Thanks - this card went together quickly!
    Have a great day
    ~Sheryl

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  27. What lovely DT cards and sketch book, I made a card today using some papers from the latest Word book cd.
    You can see my card here!

    Looking forward to the next Challenge!
    Jane
    x

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  28. I really enjoyed making this card, hope you like it.

    Here is my card link, sorry I can't work out how to do the HERE button yet, ha! ha!

    http://crazicards.blogspot.com/2009/08/get-funky-challenge-my-card.html

    Angie
    x

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  29. Thanks for a new great challenge blog!
    The DT-cards are beautiful!

    Here is my card.

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  30. Hi!
    Below is the link to my attempt at the challenge!

    http://stamperlousplace.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-baby-card-and-challenge-to-boot.html
    Thanks for looking!
    Lou
    xx

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  31. I love all the cards from the design team and thanks for offering such a great prize. Here's my card. I hope you like it.

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  32. What lovely free papers and a great sketch to work with - thanks for both - really enjoyed the challenge and hope you like the card I've made.

    Here's my entry

    Hope the link works!

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  33. Yey!!!! finally got it done!!!
    Here is my card!!

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  34. Congrats on your new blog Anice, you’ve put a fab and talented team together there!

    Here’s my card for the first challenge, it’s using your Hearts and Flowers download.

    Thanks for looking
    Sue
    x

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  35. Hello, great DT cards and lovely sketch to launch the challenge. My card is here

    Thanks

    Jan x

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  36. Hi Girls - great challenge and I had fun making it from the fab Funky Daze CD. You can see my card at http://serendipitydragonfly.blogspot.com/

    Thanks for looking and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

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  37. Hi Girls - great challenge and thoroughly enjoyed taking part. My entry can be seen at:
    http://serendipitydragonfly.blogspot.com/

    I haven't figured out the "here" thing either!!! LOL

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  38. Gorgeous cards & projects from the DT. Rather challenging sketch but thanks for the challange, you'll find my card here

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  39. Lovely design team examples. I made a card for my friend's 50th birthday. You can find it here.

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  40. Great samples from the design team. I finally got around to making my card so please take a look here. Looking forward to the September Challenge now.

    Lynn x

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  41. Just love the cards of all the DT. This is my first challenge and not sure how to get it to show, but it can be seen at http://www.ursulauphof.blogspot.com/
    This is all quite new and exciting for me. Just loe all the papers,
    Warm wishes

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