Keep In Touch with this great new download!

Hi everyone Anice here,

It's been ages since we have released a new backing paper download so, here's one for you!  Keep In Touch. It's a bright little number as you can see below, great for crafting for the young..and not so young as well!

It's a big old download, 22 A4 high resolution backing papers and 2 matching topper pages.  That's just over 10p a paper, and you have them to print off forever!

This download has proved popular with my Design Team ladies and they have created some amazing this using it.

Kathy has resized some of the toppers to use as embellishments on her card.  That the great thing about digital crafting you are incharge and can make the papers and images whatever size you need. Oh by the way what a cracking card this is eh?

Lou has decided to make some notelets and aren't they fab.  Funky Hand backing paper collections are not just for making handmade cards.  If you can think of any crafty project that you need paper for they can be used as they can be printed onto whatever you need.  As long as it will go through your printer of course!!

To see lots more fabulous crafty creations from the Design Team go over to the Funky Hand website www.funkyhand.com and take a look at the gallery on the Keep In Touch product page. 

While you're over there, why not add Keep In Touch to your basket?  You know you need it!

Speak again soon.

Anice xx

Sneak Peeks

Hello - it's Kathy here today and I'm sharing some sneaky peeks of things made with a paper collection that is currently "waiting in the wings"!  If you follow the Funky Hand Facebook page, you'll have seen Anice's little "Coming Soon from Funky Hand" post on Friday and know that there's a new paper collection about to be launched.

It's called Memories in Sepia and is a lovely set of papers with a romantic, vintage feel - I think the designs are just beautiful and I hope you'll agree

For this first card I used the new papers for the background and to make the flowers and punched butterfly, then added in some extra flowers made from a soft pink card, and some pink ribbon for good measure

The flowers on Card 2 are actually part of an all-over flower design, but they are so pretty I thought they deserved being made the main focus - so I made them a bit bigger,  printed a couple of copies and cut them out so that they could be layered up for extra dimension

Project 3 is a cute little gift bag - the swirly design of this paper made me think of butterfly "trails" so provided a good excuse to use my favourite butterfly die to make the embellishment.

So, those are my first three ideas for using a beautiful set of papers - and here is a little glimpse of more of the collection

I hope that's whetted your appetite!

Keep an eye on the Funky Hand website for more info over the coming days ;)

Happy Crafting

Love Love Love Box and Card

Hello, hello! Tabbatha here today to show you a lovely candy box and card for the upcoming Valentine's Day. I love giving away sweets on holidays and with V-Day only a couple weeks away I thought this was a perfect opportunity to play with some fabulous Love Love Love Valentine's Day Themed downloadables.

For these creations, I used a trick that Kathy uses all the time - I printed the Love Love Love papers on some textured white cardstock. I printed it on a full A4 sheet, so that I could easily use my Silhouette to cut out the box shapes.

The papers printed out so well that the box looks über cute and totally profs with the clear window. :) 

I used the same shapes and paper to create the card. I kept it simple, since the box is really the thing that I wanted to showcase. A pretty, sparkly bow adds a little bling, but not too much. 

So, here are two, easy and pretty creations that totally showcase the Love Love Love papers. Perfect for Valentine's day or any other day that you want to give someone special a reminder just how much you love them. :D

The tags the thing

Good morning, Tabbatha here again to show off a great Funky Hand creation! Today I'm continuing with my obsession of shaped cards using the various Funky Hand download. This one came about due to the fact that I had some lilac cardstock that needed to be used up. Does anyone else have a hard time with purples? I love purple, but finding the right purple paper is so hard - that is until I met the Winter Wedding Download. Seriously, this little set is packed full of gorgeous purple papers - as we've seen in my pwetty little butterfly card.

The style of this card is actually a tag! I love this card base, from SVGCuts, it really was perfect to go with the lovely Winter Wedding papers, while letting me use the Winter Wedding Alphas as well. :D

The backing paper is paper #11, a great dark purple striped, which looks great with paper #5, the ombre polka dotted paper. I also used paper #10 for the outer petals of the flower. To create the "love" letters, I used the Winter Wedding Alphabet Plus, which is included in the Winter Wedding Papers and Alphas Combined. Since the letters do not have a contrasting border, I was able to line them up touching and print it out. This way it looks like one solid word instead of the individual alphas. This is definitely something that is super easy to do when working digital products. :D

In the last few weeks I really have been combining my love of my Silhouette Cameo and Funky Hand to explore new styles, and new techniques. One thing that I love about having digital papers is that every part of this card that uses a Funky Hand paper was print and cut from the same sheet of cardstock. This means that I didn't have to print out each individual paper and then have all this extra scrap around, although the DT really shows you how to use up your scraps! Haha I'm just a "utilize as much space as possible with little waste" type of gal, so the digital product really helps me out there. :D

Well, I hope you have enjoyed this week's installment of Tabbatha's Shaped Card Adventure. I'll be back soon with some more awesomeness.

3D Flower Card

Hello, hello! Tabbatha here again and showing off a super easy and awesome card I made using the pretty Summer Wedding backing papers. That is one amazing thing about any of the Funky Hand papers - they are so versatile!

Today I created a vintage, soft, muted card using 3 of the Summer Wedding backing papers - taking care to pick the more soft pink tones in the paper. The card project was a Silhouette Cameo project, but that is why I love Funky Hand downloadables so much - they are super easy to use with my Silhouette!

To create this card I pulled in each Summer Wedding paper that I wanted to use into my Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. With that particular edition, all I needed to do was drag and drop the paper over the shape I was going to cut out! I used the gorgeous and classy Summer Wedding Paper #2 for my packing paper, which is adhered to a muted mauve cardstock. I then used Summer Wedding Paper #3 for the strip on the bottom, which I fancied up by attaching a white lace border strip. I made care to use the more muted pink tones in Paper #3, that way it matched up with the flower. The 3D flower was made using the awesome Summer Wedding Paper #9!

**I should note here that there is variability from printer to printer. While my printer, with next to full ink, printed the Funky Hand patterns in a more muted tone, the set is quite bright, which would also make this look fabulous!

I think my favorite things to do with the Funky Hand papers are to make 3D flowers. They seriously rock for it! That and my Silhouette...hehe. I don't know where I would be without that thing, it really lets me explore what I can do with the Funky Hand papers. :D

Scraplings

Hello

Welcome back to "Get Funky and Craft!" - the Inspiration blog for the Fabulous Funky Hand shop.

This weekend sees the launch on the website of a wonderful, brand new download collection called

"Just for Jen"

You'll see that it's a lovely mix of greys and pinks, hearts and flowers and generally suitably pretty with Valentines Day looming on the horizon.  With this collection we're also trying to do our bit to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness.  No nagging, drum-beating or banner-waving, just a gentle reminder that we all need to check that all is well....

The new papers are adorable, and really versatile so I'm sure you're going to love using them - you'll get 16 paper designs, plus 5 alphabet sheets in matching colours.  You can print them as many times as you like, in any size you fancy, and on different papers (or even on some fabrics!) so try experimenting - it's great fun!

 Scraplings

I thought I'd share some Scraplings today - if you cut your square card blanks from sheets of A4 then like me you'll be left with a narrow strip of card each time.  I must admit that usually I buy my favourite 14cm sq cards "ready to use" but occasionally I do make my own and gradually a little stack of  these card strips grows quite big.  Eventually I know I'm not going to use them all for backing strips and other scrap card purposes.  So I make some Scraplings.

Scraplings are just the narrow strips (usually about 7cm wide) folded in half.  They are fun to make and are just great for "hello", "Just for You" or "Just Because" cards.

I had a whale of a time making these three - the "Just for Jen" papers, lots of my favourite dies and techniques, some ribbon and lace and lots of bling - what more fun can a papercrafter ask for on a snowy, chilly day, hehe

Here are photos of each, plus a run down of what I used.

All papers "Just for Jen" by Funky Hand

coiled roses made from scraps of the papers, Pink Seam Binding, White Lace, Grey Ric-rac braid, Lots of tiny gems in silver and pink

All papers "Just for Jen" by Funky Hand

Die cut Flower and Leaf Swirl by Marianne

Border Punch: EK Success, Pink Card Candy

All papers "Just for Jen" by Funky Hand

 Pink paper is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, then given a very light "dusting" of white ink to highlight the tiny hearts

Paper Flowers in grey and pink are cut from one of the papers

Memory Box die is cut from silver-grey card. Lots of tiny gems and pearls in silver, grey. black and pink

I hope you like these and will feel inspired to raid your own scraps box for any oddments of card that you could turn into fun size cards.  One of the things I'd like to do this year is to send more "just Because" cards as it's just such a lovely surprise to get something like this landing on your doormat - it makes a change from bills, doesn't it?

Here at Funky Central, we would really LOVE to see the things you make with Funky Hand stash.  Whether you've been crafting for years or are new to the whole thing, it's good to share - so please add your own projects to the Linky so that we can come and say hello!

That's all for this time

Happy Crafting

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