At long last..my new paper packs are available on Funky Hand digital 'Funky Fellas' and 'Funky Females' are paper packs of co ordinating backing papers printed on high quality (135gsm) acid free paper so they are good for scrapbooking as well as card making. Here is a scrapbook page I made with the papers when I was designing them.

Now I can focus on being excited for exhibiting at the Craft, Hobby and Stitch trade show at the NEC in Birmingham on 18th - 20th Feb. I will be there in the Bright Sparks Pavillion Stand BS21 so if you are attending please come and say Hello! I have loads left to do to get ready and it's all very exciting (and a little scary!!) so I had best get back to it.

Love is in the air here at Funky Hand as I have been designing Valentine cards for the last few days. For Christmas my parents bought me a book about making wire and metal embellishments so I have included some simple designs in these new cards. It's great fun messing with the wire using the different pliers for cutting and bending the wire. The trouble is I could play making the embellishments all day and never make any cards! I have started work on my next CD, so far I have decided on the colour collections and the themes for the extra collections and designed two sets of papers.. a long way to go yet! I had best get back to it I suppose...

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas, I was sunning myself on a Caribbean cruise over the Christmas period far away from the cold weather here in Newcastle. I arrived back yesterday just in time to see the new year in. What will 2007 bring to Funky Hand I wonder? I have lots of exciting things to look forward to. I will be launching my new paper packs (see images in my last post) on my website funkyhanddigital.com in the next week or so and starting work on my new CD release. Everything is full steam ahead for showing at the Craft and Hobby, Stitch trade show at the NEC, Birmingham in Feb, I am really excited about that, meeting new customers and a few old friends no doubt! After my trip away I am completely re-energerised and ready to make 2007 a great year. I look forward to keeping you up dated on how things are going.

I have been busily getting on with a new set of products to go onto www.funkyhanddigital.com it's all very exciting, I have designed two sets of high quality backing papers on 135gsm acid free paper (so they are good for scrapbooking as well as card making) and they have now been printed and will be ready for sale very soon. Here are a couple of photos to give you a little hint of what they are like. I will update you when they are ready for sale on the site.



Things are getting busy here as we get closer to Christmas as I am trying to get everything ready for the trade fair next year, buy all the Xmas presents and get ready for going on holiday! We leave on 17th so time is really getting tight. Did a long day shopping yesturday so the majority of pressies are purchased just a couple more to go...still haven't done my cards though, at this rate I will have to buy some! Can you imagine?!

Happy Birthday to me..for yesterday! Yes I became another year older yesterday and I wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes. I also want to say a massive thank you to all my lovely internet buddies from Making Cards forum who sent me a collection of the most lovely handmade birthday cards. Thank you all very much! I will be back soon to tell you all about some new exciting Funky Hand products that will be available in the near future. I'm very excited..but I will tell you all later.
Here is a card that my Mom made for me for my birthday..she's an avid card maker so I wanted to show you it.

As Christmas approaches it's getting lovely to walk around the shops looking at all the decorations and wrapping paper. I love Christmas so I enjoyed just wandering around listening to the music and looking at all the tinsel and pretty decoration displays. Ian really hates shopping around Christmas because it gets so busy, so this year I am doing the shopping during the day to miss the crowds, trouble is I want to buy all the decorations because I keep thinking of cards I could make with this and that. I have to keep my money in my purse!
Ians Grandma had a fall a couple of days ago and broke her collar bone. As she is in her 90's things like this take such a long time to heal she is pretty unwell. I made her a card to wish her better, I thought I would show it to you. Something simple but pretty, hope she likes it.

Finally I have found time to sit down and design my own Christmas cards for this year. As I am so busy I decided to keep them pretty simple and easy to make. Last year I had more time and spent ages shrinkng plastic, stamping, glittering etc.. this year it's all much more simple. My friends and family will think there is something wrong with me!


Now that is decided I just have to find time to make enough to go round!!

I just never seem to have time to sit down and really get on with making some cards recently so I was really please when I got to make a couple of cards yesterday afternoon using my new papers. I thought I would let you have a look...




The papers are from my new CD It's Funky Too There have been a few changes here at Funky Hand over the last few weeks, Ian my techie has been freshening up the sites and finally it's all finished! I am really happy with the changes.
On the home front we have been trying to decided what we were going to do at Christmas this year. After much talk we have decided to leave the cold of the UK jump on a plane and head off on a Carribean cruise! I am really looking forward to having Christmas day in hot weather! There is still loads to organise for Christmas though even though we wont be here.. we have to buy and then share presents with friends and families early so that is our focus at the moment. I haven't even started my Christmas cards yet! I have decided on the designs just have to get started! I hope you are more organised than I am..

I am so excited! My site www.funkyhanddigital.com has had a facelift! Please go and have a look at it..it should be wrinkle free now! I have also released my new CD as well, It's Funky Too. Have tons of card orders to make today so I have to go now but I will be back soon.

Finally I have completed the designs for my next CD. It wont be available for a few weeks whilst Ian gets it up and running, but here is a sneak preview of some of the designs.

As you can see it is going to be called 'It's Funky Too' as it's my second full CD! The other two 'The Funky One' and 'Yule Be Funky' are still available on Funky Hand Digital
It's been all go since I returned from my trip to Barcelona. What a great city it is. I got lots of inspiration from everything that I saw there, even the paths on the streets have great designs on them which would make great patterns on papers. The weather was ok most of the time but we did have one day when it tipped down with rain. Overall it was a good experience, and Lisa had a nice birthday I think, I hope! because after all thats why we were there!
I am looking out of my office window and the rain is coming down, the sky is grey, winter is really coming our way now. But that at least means Christmas is approaching..but first I have to get through my birthday next month..I wonder if I will get nice crafty pressies or not??