Funky Hand Sale!

Just a flying visit to tell you about a fantastic crafty sale over at Funky Hand!! The gorgeous Anice (who doesn't look her age btw) is 43 today (happy birthday boss lol) and to celebrate she is having a one day sale today, she is giving everyone 43% off everything!!! WOW almost half price!

So get your crafty boots on and get on over to Funky Hand and pick up some bargains :o)

Twelve Crafters Crafting

I thought it was about time I got ma backside in gear and showed a couple of the samples for the newest Funky Hand cd Twelve Crafters Crafting. When the new cd arrived in the post a few weeks ago I was feeling a bit blarghhh with my crafting, mrs mojo had taken a long holiday and was sunning herself on some beach somewhere with some young hot looking summer fling lucky beggar and I just wasn't enjoying crafting. So with a little trepidation I loaded the cd into the pc and oooooh mammmmma!!! mrs mojo wasn't happy at having to come straight home from the beach but hey there was work to be done and after 20 minutes scrolling through the papers and images I was already filled with ideas lol

My first make was this wee angel bauble. I saved this packaging from a gift I received ages and ages ago and this was exactly the thing I had in mind for it! I printed the angel image twice and coloured it with my promarkers, attached them to a scalloped cirlce embossed with the snowflake embossign folder and attached some eyelash ribbon between the two layers.I first saw one of these Finnish Stars on Debbi's blog The Crafty Cuttings of Wiccababe and I HAD to have a go. The instructions said a 12"x12" sheet of paper so I printed both sides of two A4 sheets and had a wee go........I am definetely making some of these for the house this year, I think they will look lovely in the windows Next up I used a die cut cracker I received in a card making kit and covered it with a sheet of the paper then cut it out and put a wee tag on. I am making more of these for myself as placemarkers for the Christmas table :o)

Of course with all the Funky Hand cds comes the fabulous wordbook maker so I thought I'd have a go at one of them too lol

I have to admit I will ba making most of my cards this year using the cd, would you believe I still haven't made any Christmas cards yet? Ooohhhh shocking lol I have come to the decition I am not making all my cards this year, some people just don't appreciate them so I am only making for the folk I know will really love them and appreciate the time and effort!!

I've got a couple of more bits n pieces to show but will save them for another day :o)

Card for Lily

It was my gorgeous girl's 8th birthday on Tuesday! Awwww what a fab 8 years they have been though it doesn't feel that long! She had a lovely day, plenty of cards and pressies and a Hello Kitty cake :o) My card was made following the sketch from the Sugar Bowl and one of my favourite Gorjuss Girls, had to be one of them for my own gorgeous girl lol. She's very into bright colours these days as opposed to the pastel pink from when she was younger so I used these scrummy papers I got in a cardmakers kit. The flowers are all from my stash box. Letter cut with cuttlekids alphabet and glittered with Stampin Up dazzling diamonds. DDs also used on the heart. The text stamp is stampin Up.

Challenges:

Sugar Bowl ~ sketch

Charisma Cardz ~ cutesy

Oldie but a Goodie ~ Buttons and Bows

Cupcake Craft ~ textalicious

vroom vroom lol

Hehehe I had fun making this card!!! My friend's little boy will be three later this month and he is a bit mad on Lightening McQueen, so I wanted to make him a card with that in mind but without going down the whole printing an image of it road. The paper and car template are from the Happy Happy Birthday cd by Funky Hand. The black square of card is embossed with an industrial looking folder, like the tread on metal stairs, the car buttons were bought yonks ago when I was knitting for Alfie and I couldn't resist them lolI used some acetate for the windscreen, some more buttons for headlights and some card candy too. The card goes round to the back of the card too, with rear lights, will take a pic later if I remember (wouldn't hold your breath tho lol) I hope he likes it :o)

Challenges:
Fab n Funky ~ planes, trains and automobiles
Polkadoodles ~ shaped cards
Simon Says ~ Buttons
Paper Play ~ Button Up

mmmmmm cupcakes :o)

Evening!! Friday night again how did that happen? I've no idea where the days go lol Since we moved I have been able to get out and about a lot more. Alfie and I go swimming every week and toddlers twice a week and swimming with Lily every week. It is fabulous!! I am loving it :o) This card was made using die cut decouage sheets and matching papers from Dovecraft that I bought ages ago. The tag stamp was bought at the secc as were the flower shaped nestie type things. I've used glossy accents on the cherry and icing, lace is from stash and the pink card stock was in the scrap drawer.

A few challenges to enter with this one :

Crafty Card makers ~ pink, brown and cream
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes
Moving Along With the Times ~ Food and Drink
Crafty Ribbons ~ Bingo (lace, embossing, gems)
Willow Sketchie ~ sketch
Truly Scrumptious ~ Bingo (Lace, gems, embossing)

awww a wee cutie

Had a lovely evening in the craft room a few days ago, tidied away all my SECC goodies and made a wee card........who needs anything else? LOL

The card is for a wee girl who just turned 1 on Sunday.

The image is Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit, paper is Funky Hand, Happy Happy Birthday, tag stamp, cardstock, card base all from secc stash. Also used the Martha Stewart border punch and Lacey Circles Nestie. Rest is all from my stash :o)

Challenges:

Simon Says ~ Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Boots ~ Young at Heart

Die Cut Dreams ~ So charming

Sketch and Stash ~ Sketch

Blog Hop weekend is here :o)

Good Morning!!! And welcome to the Funky Hand Blog Hop.

Hopefully you will have come to my blog from the lovely Ruth's blog TipTop Toppers Things, if not then please head to the Funky Hand Blog and start from there as the instructions and blog hop order are all there for you.

The blog hop is to celebrate the release of the newest cd from Funky Hand called 12 Crafters Crafting and as the name suggests it's a festive cd full of gorgeous scrummy papers and images for all things Christmassy!! Some of you will have lots of your cards already made but if you are anything like me you won't be that organised lol In fact I haven't made any cards yet! I know I know lol My report card would say "must do better" hehe I have to admit I wasn't exactly full of festive spirit when the cd arrived, but within minutes of flicking through all the gorgeous papers, templates and images I was full of ideas and HAD to get started straight away!

Spookily enough with a name like 12 Crafter's Crafting there are 12 paper collections and luckily there are 12 members of the DT. We all picked a collection to use and I picked the one called Xmas Presents.

The prize for picking up all the letters, rearranging them into the right word/phrase and remembering to leave a comment on everyone's blogs is a copy of the gorgeous 12 Crafters Crafting However if you simply can't wait to see if you have won the prize it is available right now to pre order before it's official release on 5th November.

My project uses the lovely angel image, isn't she the cutest? I coloured her with promarkers and attached her to a nestie cut circle embossed with the snowflake embossing folder. Between the two layers is some angel hair cord just to set it off. The plastic casing was saved from a gift I received many Christmases ago, I thought it would be perfect for just this kind of project :o)

Please leave a comment on this post and then head on over to the gorgeous Paula to see her fabulous project and collect the next letter. Don't worry if your comment doesn't appear straight away, I have comment moderation on

(Oh and just in case you didn't get my subtle hint my letter is A lol)