A special offer that you don't want to miss

Hi everyone!
I'm really excited to tell you about the special offer that is on over on my website.  I'm having a bit of a clear up and I thought it might be nice to offer you all a really great offer while I'm working on the nightmare that is my stockroom! So, here it is..

Yep, every downloadable collection and digital stamp on www.funkyhand.com is only £1.00! It's not going to be available forever of course.  Everything will go back to it's normal price on Friday 22nd August at midnight.  So there isn't too much time to waste.

When you think that some of the wordbook downloads are priced a £4.59 there are some serious deals to be had!  Am I mad?  I must be, but not for long!!

Grab a few deals while you can.
Anice xx

Sleigh Ride in Summer

Hello

It's Kathy here today and I'd like to share something I made this week using a new die and my fabulous Funky Hand stash.

Since becoming the proud owner of an eBosser machine, the world of A4 dies and embossing folders has been opened to me and I recently got my hands on a fab die for making a really neat gift bag. 

 The finished bag is 12cm wide. 18cm high and  7cm deep - so plenty of room for goodies in there!

As this is a big die making a good sized box, you need to cut the die twice and you need 2 sheets of A4 paper - so what better way to give the die a test run than with some Funky Hand designs.

Do you recognise these papers?

I chose to use "Sleigh Ride" which was one of the 2013 Christmas lines.  A little bit "left field" for crafting in the middle of August, I know, but I love these colours and several of the designs are not really Christmassy at all - it's such a shame not to use them for other projects, don't you think?

So I printed two copies of the gorgeous spotty pattern onto some white Bazzill card (any sturdy paper or thin card would do), plus another sheet to make the striped "border", the bow, gift card and flower decoration. As I knew both sides of the tag, bow and flower would be seen I printed on both sides of the card I needed to make these.

Then it was just a case of doing the die cuts and sticking it all together. 

I used one of the bits of waste (from the hole in the handle) to make a closure for the bag.

The bow and the tag come in the die package.

The bow is clever as its just one piece and you fold it up to create the bow.

I cut the tag twice, then tied the two pieces together with some seam binding.  I punched a tiny heart in the corner of the top piece

The flower is made with 5 punched flowers  here's a closer look at the decorative bit:

 Ingredients

"Sleigh Ride"  download from  Funky Hand

Paper or card for printing

Gift Bag with bow and tag; A4 die form Xcut 

SU Blossom punch, Tiny heart punch

Seam Binding or Ribbon

The bag was so quick to make and using Funky Hand papers means bags and boxes look great even before you start decorating them! 

I'm thinking this would look fab in the gorgeous deep blue shades of the Winter Wedding collection for a more masculine gift wrapping.  I have the lovely pin striped papers in mind, but I just need to figure out a more manly decoration that a bow and a flower and then give it a try.

That's it for now - I'm off to print out those Winter Wedding papers and

 have a go - if you pop by my blog sometime soon, you might find that I actually got it done ;) 

Stranger things happen at sea.....as my Grandad used to say.

Thanks for visiting - please leave a message - it lets us know we're not just talking to ourselves!

Happy Funky Crafting

Tammy DT - Button Babies

Morning all, Tammy here, this is my funky hand inspiration post. 

Today I have used papers from the fabulous Button Babies papers, and the image is of course Button Baby Girl. I love both the image and the papers, they are so cute!! The sentiment is computer generated and I added a button and a small charm along with some satin ribbon. The image I coloured in using Gimp, I used the papers to add different sections to the pram and the hair bow on the cute image! 

Thats all from me today! 

Thanks for looking. 

A Fading Home

Good Morning- wonder if the title was a bit of a give away- New Home card using Fading Beauty papers (A Fading Home!!)

A wonderful collection of papers that good enough to eat  and a bargain at only £2.99
Have a great day

AllisonX

Forgotten Funkies...Rainbow Polka Dots........

Good Morning everyone!!!

Its the time of month again for our 'Forgotten Funkies' showcase!!! and each month our fabulous Funkettes will be here on our blog showing off some new makes with our older downloads. 

Today's showcase is centered all around the dashingly dotty 'Rainbow Polkadots' download. Just look at these stunning papers, 26 of them in some stunning colour schemes, just right for these gorgeous sunny days!! so they are most definitely too good to be forgotten!!!

So that's enough of my wafflies - you want to see what our gorgeous girls have come up with don't you?

ok, ok here they are.......

Debbie

                       

Lou using Georgie Birthday party too.

Allison

Tammy

Kathy 

Ruth - Also using Our Betty - Your Special Day acrylic stamp set

Some Coaster Fun

Morning.

It's Debbie here with something a little bit different - well it is for me anyway! I stepped out of my comfort zone and had a play with some coasters that I'd got through the post. To decorate my coasters I used: Memories in Sepia

1. I chose the papers I wanted to use and took them and the Full of beans digital stamp into my graphics program and printed them out.

2. I glued the papers onto the coasters and cut out the latte mugs and added the names onto the labels, then glued them all down.

3. I added some distress ink around the edges then to protect the coasters I sprayed some varnish onto them to protect them.

That's all from me today.Don't forget that we're on Facebook
as well as having a new facebook page called Funky Hand Crafting. We'd love to see any of your Funkyhand creations so please don't hold back.You can add your pics to the facebook pages or in the comments under this post.We need your link though so we can visit you and leave a comment.

Big Hugs Debbie x

Well Hello There Baby!

Hello

It's Kathy here today with a cute shaped card idea you might like to try.  If you've got the Colour Me Happy CD then you're bound to have spotted the fab elephant design I used as the template - but don't forget, you can use any of the CD or Download paper collections to  print the papers you need.

I love this cute elephant image from Funky Hand and have used it to make a fair few cards since it appeared on the Colour Me Happy CD a few years ago now. 

It's great to use as a fun Get Well Soon card and I've often used it as with this one, to welcome a new baby.  For some reason I always seem to make a shaped card with this image. maybe because it's such a clean, simple design - perfect for someone who isn't particularly neat at cutting out!

To begin with I printed the spotty patterned paper directly onto a sheet of A4 card, using the "fir to page" option, I turned the card over and chose a plainer design to print on what would be the inside of my card, using the same setting.

Next I cropped the flower design so that there were just a few of the flowers and resized so that each flower would be about 6cm across - this was just done by guesswork.  Again I printed the reverse using a plainer design.

Print job no 3 was to resize the spotty pattern so that it just took up half a sheet of the same A4 card -

The final printing task was to select the elephant image and "put" it onto the workspace on the CD, then expand the image to fill as much as possible of the lower half of the workspace.  As the full workspace is equivalent to a piece of A4 you can get a good idea how big the print will be.

This was printed and used as a cutting template for the elephant.

I cut around the paper copy of the elephant leaving a little margin all around the edge, then folded the A4 card in half and paper-clipped the paper copy in place - making sure to have the top lying above the fold so that you don't end up with just two, un-joined elephant shapes ;)

I used the A5 piece with the smaller dots just to cut out the head section and glued in place leaving the ear section unstuck, and also the part of the trunk where the ends of the wires will be hidden and sealed safely away

Then I used some black card just to cut the eyelashes piece from the template

For the flowers I cut around a couple of the flower shapes and punched some 1.5cm circles from some of the spare card for the flower centres, and some slightly larger circles to cover the ends of the wire on the reverse.

If you like using card candy, but end up being over-run by packets of the stuff,  try making your own, perfectly matching, in-the-size-you-want candy: Use craft punches, die cuts  (lots of dies have circles as part of the die cut) etc to cut the circle you need, from exactly the part of a design you want to use (like the spotty one in the centre of the green flower), next simply rub an embossing ball tool on the reverse to create the domed shape.

The wires are twirled around a bamboo skewer, leaving a few cms at each end  plain  for fixing in place. I'm a bit paranoid about  making sure the ends are all made into tight, flat spirals (using pliers) and glued into pieces of paper or card  before they are attached to the project - then I add a "cover" of a piece of card to keep everything in place and tidy.  On the trunk of this project the wire are concealed and glued with a strong glue inside the two layers of card.

Finally I made a little notice for the elephant to hold by printing the sentiment, cutting it out at an angle and adding it  to another piece of scrap card.  The ribbon bow just hides and neatens where the wires go inside the elephant's trunk sections.

I used:

Elephant Image from Colour Me Happy CD

Paper designs from Colour Me Happy CD

300gsm white card

Black Bazzill

Green wire

Very narrow pink ribbon

I hope you like it - remember, if you make anything using FH goodies, or following the ideas we post here we would REALLY love to see them!

Happy Crafting