Merry Christmas to everyone

Well, here it is again, Christmas seems to come around so quickly these days. Must be because I'm getting older! I just wanted to send a message out to all my lovely blog readers and customers of Funky Hand to say have a very merry Christmas. Thank you to all of you for making 2009 a fantastic year for Funky Hand. Here's to a great 2010 for everyone.
Keep safe and enjoy yourselves
Loads of love
Anice xx

I've sneaked in just a little crafting!

As you can probably imagine it's a mad house here at the moment as we try to get ready for Christmas and moving into Teapot Studios between Christmas and New Year.  My biggest problem at the moment is getting BT to get their backsides into gear and connect my telephone and broadband lines in the office..what fun I've been having!!
With all the mad rushing about getting presents delivered (we ordered everything on line this year..it was so much nicer than fighting the crowds in the shops I can tell you!) and sorting out everything for the office I have still been able to find a little time to craft.  I very small amount of time I have to admit.  I am ashamed to say it but..I had to buy my Christmas cards this year (Shocking!) I just haven't had the time to make them but I purchased cards from the MS society which of course is a charity close to my heart so that made me feel a little less guilty.

Anyway one of Ians nephews is unlucky enough to have a birthday two days after Christmas so he get lots of combined presents at Christmas that we have always thought wasn't fair so we always send him seperate gifts and two cards.  So unusually for this time of the year I got to make a birthday card as well as a Christmas one.

 

The birthday card has been made with papers and an image from my new CD Dreams Come True which isn't going to be released until January..keep your eyes peeled here for more details soon about the release date..just a little tease!! The Christmas card was made using a paper from my Christmas Word Book downloadable collection Blue Christmas and the topper is using an image from the Festive Fun digi stamp collection.

Well, I'd best get back to my HUGE list of things to do. Which I'm sure you all have as well. Before I go please don't forget that we still have a bit of time left before the end of the month for you to join in with this months challenge over on Get Funky!, Kath has set a great challenge to make a Xmas deco so please join in before the 31st if you can find time and have a chance to win a £20.00 voucher to spend on www.funkyhand.com in January..don't forget the new CD will be out!

Speak again very soon.
Anice xx

The start of something new...

It's a pretty exciting and scary time here at Funky Hand Towers as we start to prepare to move Funky Hand from here into new premises. The big joke here calling the house Funky Hand Towers always came from the show 'Only Fools and Horses' where Del used to say to Rodney 'this time next year Rodney..we'll be millionaires' and they lived in Mandela Towers. Now these Towers are just too small to hold Funky Hand anymore..I told you a few posts back about our new offices..well we picked up the keys a few days ago of the freshly finished office and we will be working full time out of them beginning in the new year. Here's me waiting for my desk to be delivered..

and here's me taking the position I intend to have the majority of the time..I am the boss don't you know!!

It's a massive job trying to get everything sorted..and everything is so much harder as it's Christmas in a few weeks! But I can not wait to be sitting in my Studio,in Teapot Studios surrounded with all the wonderful media companies and other creative companies that work out of these offices,ready to start 2010.. it's going to be a big year I just know it!

The new CD Dreams Come True is now with the manufacturers and I will be back very soon to give you the release date and details of our live show on Create and Craft, where you will be able see the amazing things my fabby Design Team are creating with the new product. As usual they are out doing themselves with their wonderful creativity.

I have lots of other things to tell you about the move and what is planned for next year but I'm going to keep a few things back and tell you later! What a tease I am!

Before I go, I still have a BIG sale going on my website of all my craft CD-Roms, they are selling pretty fast and the sale ends at 9pm on Sunday 13th December so don't miss out on getting a bargain. Get over to www.funkyhand.com and grab yourself an early Christmas pressie!
Oh, and once you've got yourself some Funky Hand papers why not join in with this months challenge over at the Get Funky! Challenge blog..there's £20s worth of vouchers to spend on the website to be won.

Speak again very soon.
Anice xx

Grab a bargain to celebrate our wash & brush up!!!

We've been working on a freshen up of our website www.funkyhand.com for a while and finally I am happy to announce that it is all live and kicking !  I'm really excited about the new look which is also a hint about how the new CD is going to look when we release it.

As a bit of a celebration of us finishing up all the redesign work and the imminent arrival of the delivery of the new CD into the warehouse we thought an end of year craft CD sale was in order.  So, over on the website you will find all the currently available Funky Hand CD collections reduced by 33% which takes them all down to just over £10 each or even less!   Grab them while you can, they are going to be on sale from today until Sunday 13th December.

Don't forget that postage and packing is always FREE to anywhere in the world when you buy your CDs from us. So pop over and have a look at the new website design and treat yourself to an early craft Christmas present..you know you deserve it!!

Speak again very soon
Anice xx

It's Get Funky Challenge time again!

Heck..is it really December already? Well it must be as today is the launch of a new challenge over at Get Funky! This month Kath is in charge and she has set us all the task of creating Christmas decorations! I can confirm that I had a few attempts at this challenge before I created anything that I was willing to share with you or the other members of the Design Team!! But finally I created these funky stockings to hang either on your Christmas tree or, if you are lucky enough to have one, on your fire place.



I used the stocking images from my new Christmas Digi Stamp download Festive Fun, I increased their size and then paper pieced them with papers from another of my Christmas download collections Funky Little Christmas.

Now if you want to see some inspired crafting get yourself over to Get Funky and see what my wonderfully talented Design Team came up with for this challenge. If you can find the time please join in with us, we'd love to see your last minute Christmas creations..who knows you could be lucky and win the £20.00 Funky Hand voucher to spend on stash in the new year!

Speak again very soon
Anice xx

I've extended my birthday discount. for one more day

I must be getting soft in my old age! Everyone was so lovely yesterday with it being my birthday I have decided to extend my 41% discount code 41TODAY on all my products on my website www.funkyhand.com for another day. So, you have until midnight tonight (26th November 2009) to take advantage of the discount. Just add everything you want into your basket and head for checkout, there you will find a box to enter the discount code and the 41% will be deducted automatically.

Speak again real soon and I'll share the wonderful handmade cards I received from my design team for you to drool over..just like I did when I opened them!

Anice xx

It's my Birthday..so it's discounts for everyone!

Yep it's that time of year again..it's my birthday! I swear it's coming faster and faster each time now. Well, it was the big 40 last year so..this year there's no party just a nice meal out with friends and I get to open up all my lovely pressies and cards! While I was thinking about that I thought it might be nice to give my lovely blog readers a little present as well, so you can celebrate along with me.

So from today 25th November until 26th November you can get 41% discount (as I'm 41 today I thought it was appropriate!)on any item for sale on my website www.funkyhand.com. Just enter this code 41TODAY when you check out and the discount will be deducted automatically. You can use the code as many times as you like over the discount period so go and grab some last minute Christmas downloads or treat yourself to one of my CD rom collections.

Oh, and don't forget that this months Get Funky Challenge still has a few days to run, so why not buy some Funky Hand papers and join in, you never know you could be the lucky winner of a £20.00 voucher.

Speak again soon
Anice xx

New Xmas themed Digi stamps available

Oops I've been so busy getting everything else done that I have completely forgotten to tell you about my new download product available on my website www.funkyhand.com



If you haven't started your Christmas cards yet..like I haven't (!) my new Digital stamps Festive Fun might be just the thing you need to top off those last minute Christmas makes. They are great for colouring in or printing onto other backing papers to paper piece. To get a good look at the sort of things you could make using them don't forget to have a look at the gallery of the fabby creations my wonderful Design Team have pulled together using them. You'll find the galley on the sales page. Oh, another great thing about these Digital stamps is that they are priced at only £1.99 so they are not going to break the bank either, a very important thing at this time of the year as we all try to get ready for Christmas.

And before I go don't forget to make sure you join in with this months challenge over at the Get Funky! Challenge Blog you could win a £20.00 voucher to spend on my website on Funky Hand goodies!

Speak again real soon.
Anice xx

Funky Hand Towers is on the move..

I've been hinting for a while that I had things to tell you and I'm not very good at keeping secrets for very long so I thought I would tell you one of them...

I am moving into my first office! I am so excited I could burst, where I'll be based is a really cool collection of offices that are being developed in an old pottery forge just outside the centre of Newcastle. It is a really fabby community of media companies and designers so it will hopefully bring me lots of inspiration.(There is also a wonderful cafe based in the old clock tower on site which I imagine wont be so good for my figure!!) My office should be finished at the beginning of December and I'll be moving all the Funky Hand business stuff over there during the month and be working full time out of it from January. Woo hoo! I'm so excited that the business has grown so much that I can't work from home any longer. I know I have all my wonderful customers to thank for that and I want you to know I can't tell you how much I appreciate all your support over the last couple of years.

As I mentioned earlier the offices are being built in a wonderful old pottery forge building so they have the most amazing old brickwork interiors, when the bricks have been sand blasted back to their orginal condition they are the most beautiful browns,oranges and reds..you just don't get bricks like them these days. But even though the forge is old the designs of the offices are very high tech.. We visited the site a couple of months ago and took some photos of where our office is going to be..the big white arrow is pointing at my office window!



The development has moved on somewhat from this picture of course and as soon as I have my hands on the keys I will share the pictures of my all new Funky Hand Towers.

The new CD is taking a little longer to perfect than we had originally thought but if something is worth doing it's worth doing properly so I'll hopefully be back very soon with a release date and a time when you can have a good look at it on Create and Craft TV.

We do have a few new things in the pipeline to share with you very soon..my poor design gang girls are working away getting fabby images of cards they've made with the new product so I'll be back to share all the details with you very soon.

Well, I'd best get back to making cards with the new CD, it's word books today so I'd best get printing!

Speak again very soon
Anice xx

Another new Funky Hand DT member..

I am very pleased to introduce you to another wonderful crafter who has agreed to join our Funky Hand Design Team Gang, Kathy Black. You can see Kathys amazing work on her fab blog Kathys Waffle. I've been a big fan of Kathys work for years so I am very honoured that she has joined the team. Welcome Kathy!

With all this getting the new CD ready I have been very lax with doing much crafting at all. So, I thought I would share a card that I made for my Dads 60th birthday last week.



It's so difficult to get a decent picture at the moment here the light is really dim so please forgive the rather poor quality picture but at least it's a card!! I made it using papers from my new CD Dreams Come True which I will have more info about a release date very soon..I hope!

Don't forget to pop over to the Funky Hand DT challenge blog Get Funky! and join in with this months new challenge from Enfys. There's a £20.00 Funky Hand voucher to be won and as they say you have to be in it to win it!!

Well that's it from me today..I'll be back real soon.
Anice xx