How about a hop to see the new 'Boys Will Be Boys' release?

 
Hello everyone,

Welcome to our New Boys will be Boys release blog hop. My Design Team is so excited about this new download that they have decided that we should have a good old hop to showcase everyone's makes with it and get you all inspired!!

There are fabulous new backing papers and an amazing new Digital stamp character,'Bot',to meet along the way. The papers and Bot are available to buy in the shop ( www.funkyhand.com ) from 9am today  BUT we wanted to invite you on a little hop around to see what the gorgeous Funkettes have been busy making with them and give one lucky person the chance to win the new Boys will be Boys download collection and a Bot digital stamp!!

The hop is starting right here,

 Monday 30th September at 5:00am GMT until 12 midnight GMT Tuesday 1st October. 

The winnner will be announced at 8am on Wednesday 2nd October.

All you need to do is pop in on all the girls blogs and leave a comment for the chance to win the downloads yourself!! 

Here is a look at a card I created with the new downloads to get the hop started!

 OK, so here's the hop order so if you get lost along the way pop back here for the links!!

Anice.

Allison.

Debbie.

Kathy.

Lou.

Ruth.

Sam.

Tabbatha.

Get Funky inspiration blog.

Have fun hopping, see you soon!!!!

Anice xx

Sneak Peek!

My Design Team have been playing around with the new backing paper download and digital stamp, they have been making some fantastic creations that I can't wait to share with you.

I thought I would give you a little sneaky look at what I have created with them before the official blog hop launch next Monday (30th Sept)

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Just a little look to wet your appetite!  Come back on Monday to join in with the blog hop and get a better look at the new downloads and have a chance to win them.

See you then.
Anice xx 

Lets get Hopping !

Welcome to the Funky Hand blog hop to release the new Funky Hand Christmas downloads.

I'm so pleased to be able to tell you about the new downloads for 2013.  But to get us properly started we wanted to have a blog hop around all the Design Team blogs to show you just what you could be creating with these collections. This hop will last from Saturday 7th Sept until Midnight Sunday 8th September.

Here are my cards:

Papers used: Sleigh Ride (Available NOW www.funkyhand.com )
Digital Stamp: Doodlewords Happy Christmas (Available NOW www.funkyhand.com )

Papers used: Silent Night  (Available NOW www.funkyhand.com )
Digital Stamp: Doodlewords Merry Christmas (Available NOW www.funkyhand.com )


OK, what do you need to do?  It's really easy, just hop from one blog post to the next using the links on each post. Visit all the blogs to see great creations made by the Funky Hand Design Team using the new downloads.  As you 'hop' around there will be a letter given to you by each DT member.  Collect these letters and once you have all nine letters, mix them around to make a crafty word (or words 'hint hint') Enter that word into comments on the last blog you visit, which should be the Get Funky & Craft inspiration blog.

Please leave a little comment on each of the blogs that you visit so the girls know that you have been there.

Why should you collect the letters?  Well, there's a prize of a complete collection of one of the new Christmas Downloads available to one lucky winner.  That's a backing paper collection, matching wordbook and all four new Christmas Digital stamps. The prize is worth over £11.00 !

My Letter for you to collect :  G

So, lets get hopping..  go over to see what Allison has for you to see.  Don't worry if you have missed any blogs here's a list of them all..

Anice
Allison
Debbie
Kathy
Lou
Ruth
Sam
Tabbatha
Get Funky & Craft

Good luck and Happy Hopping !
Anice xx

Something for Christmas?

I've been naughty over on the Get Funky & Craft blog today and given everyone a little sneak peek of the new Funky Hand Christmas downloads for this year.  They are going to be released at the weekend so I'l be back then and give you all the information about them.

Here's the peek I have shared..

I'll be back on Saturday with a blog hop and details of a fab prize for a lucky hopper.

See you then
Anice xx

Secret Sale on the Funky Hand website

I thought you might like to know that there is a HUGE SALE going on over on my website. www.funkyhand.com it starts today Saturday 31st August until Monday 2nd September.

But, it's a secret sale.. if you were on the website now you wouldn't know anything about it!  You need to use the code on the image below.

OK, what do you need to do with it?  Go to my the Funky Hand website, put anything that you would like from there, craft download collections, craft CD ROMs, digital stamps, craft stash..infact anything available on the website into your basket. Go to the checkout and then, in the voucher box, add that code and you will get everything for HALF PRICE. Pretty good eh? Don't wait, you might miss out. Once products sell out I'm afraid they are gone!

But as I said it's a secret sale so, this is just between us right?!

Speak again soon
Anice xx 

How to colour Funky Hand Doodlewords digital stamps

Hi there! Once again it has been too long since I have posted here.  It's for a good reason I promise, I've been working on the Christmas Funky Hand releases which my wonderful Design Team are pretty much finished with so, they will be released very soon.  Look out for some Bloggy fun to celebrate the releases.

On the Get Funky and Craft Blog I posted a technique for matching your Promarker colours to the backing papers you want to use when colouring in the Funky Hand Doodlewords digital stamps.  I thought I would share it here as well incase you had missed it there.

Here are my tips for colouring in Funky Hand Doodlewords digital stamps.  Obviously this is my own idea for matching up the colours. If you have any other tips please add them in the comment section, I'd love to hear more ideas.

Ok, so first off you need to decide which Doodlewords Digital stamp you want to colour, there are quite a few now and very soon there will be Christmas themed ones.  Then, you need to decide on your Funky Hand backing paper collection.  I've chosen the Thank You Doodleword digital stamp and the backing paper is from the Spring Has Sprung download.

When I design all the backing papers for Funky Hand, whether they are on downloadable collections or on the craft CD ROMs, I always use FIVE different colours.  Each backing paper pattern may not have all the colours on but they are all made up of the same five colours.  That's why it is easy to mix and match the backing papers in a collection together.  Anyway, there is pretty much always a striped paper and when colouring your Doodleword digital stamps to match with a collection this is where you will find all the colours in that collection laid out nicely. 

So, print off the striped paper from the collection and the digital stamp. I have printed my digital stamp onto Neenah Classic Crest card which is great for using Promarkers on as they blend well on it. The backing paper I printed onto white card. This is where the fun starts, matching the colours.  I have used Promarkers but the same technique will work for any pens you want to use.

 
The image above is the striped backing paper on the white card underneath some scrap Neenah Classic Crest card, the same as I have printed my digital stamp onto.  It's important to use the same product that you have printed your stamp on to or the colours wont come out the same when you colour the stamp.  Now start testing the Promarkers you have against the backing paper collection colours.  As you can see it took me a few goes with different pens until I found the match I was happy with.  Something I have learned is that you should allow the ink you have matched to dry for a few seconds as the colour changes and many times I have tried a pen colour, thought it was too dark and put it away only to discover it was perfect and I couldn't remember which one it was!

I decided on my five colours for this digital stamp..

They are, Tropical Orchid (Special Edition), Powder Blue, Pink Carnation, Eggnog and Leaf Green.  I've told you what colours I decided on just for interest.  These ones are possibly not what you would choose using the same backing paper download collection.  The reasons for that are, what paper or card you print your backing papers onto which will have an effect on the colours that you will see.  It also depends on the printer you are using if it's an Inkjet or Laser.  How much ink is in your printer? If even one colour is low that can have an effect on the colours that you get when you print out the digital backing paper. So, don't just follow what I have said, test it out for yourself.

So, Promarker colours are chosen, now you need to think about how you want to colour the letters in the Doodlewords digital stamp. The images are quite whimsical so you can mix all the colours together on one letter like this..

 
Or perhaps you would prefer to only use two colours like this..

The colouring is completely up to you.  These stamps are great for newer colourers, like me, as they are pretty easy to colour but you can get a really great effect. Which makes the colouring more fun when you start out as you actually want to use what you have coloured on your card creations.

Here is the Thank You Doodlewords digital stamp completed, layered over the striped backing paper...

I think it has matched the backing paper pretty well, what do you think?

OK, so there you are my tips for colouring Doodlewords digital stamps.  I hope you found them helpful.  As I said at the beginning of this post the new Christmas downloads will be released pretty soon and they include three Christmas themed Doodlewords digital stamps.  I've had fun using this technique matching up the colours from the new backing paper collections.  As it's Christmas maybe I will use those Metallic markers as well.  We shall see.

Thanks for visiting, speak again soon
Anice xx 

Welcome to a new Funky Hand Design Team Member

I'm so pleased to tell you about the brand new member of the Funky Hand Design Team:

Welcome to Tabbatha Sandoval.

Tabbatha is a wonderful crafter and we are looking forward to her bringing us some fantastic creations. 

To get us started she has created a great card using the I Love You Sew download and the Hug In A Mug digital stamp.

If you would like to see other things that Tabbatha has created and find more about her, visit her amazing blog The Zadis Project.  I promise you, you'll be hooked!

Well, that's my good news for today. Don't forget to pop over to the Funky Hand Facebook Page to see daily updates. Also, there are competitions every now and again, don't miss out!

I'll speak to you again very soon.

Anice xx

Creative Stamping - Card Four (last but not least!)

Hello to you all.  I hope you have been enjoying getting a look at the cards that I made for a piece in the latest issue of Creative Stamping.  This is the last card that I made so you can all sigh with relief that it's over. Until one of the other two mags Funky Hand are included in this month is released hehe!

OK, so this is the final card..

The backing papers on this card are from my craft CD Dreams Come True and the digital stamp is one of my latest releases Doodlewords - Happy Birthday.  When I created this card and sent it into the magazine for them to photograph.I hadn't even released this digital stamp so I took a big chance incase all the stamps in the collection weren't finished and available on the website.  Thankfully they were and you will find everything you need to create a card like this on www.funkyhand.com

I thought I would leave you with a close up of the Happy Birthday stamp.  I'm really pleased with all the Doodlewords digital stamps, and there will be more soon. They are so simple to colour for beginners, like me, and offer lots of options for blending and shading for more experienced colourers.

OK, that's it for me today until the next time we speak enjoy your crafting and take care.
Anice xx

Creative Stamping - Card Three

Hello and here I am again with a card that I made for inclusion in the latest issue of Creative Stamping Magazine.  Don't worry I only made four cards so there will be only one more post about this! 

I wont mess about today, here is the third card that I created..

This card is one of my favourite cards that I have made in a while.  The backing papers are from the Funky Hand download Steam Funk.  The digital stamp is Flower Cake. I had fun making this, I love the colour red so using a red base card was a great way to start the red theme on this card.

So, another short blog post to share a card with you from this magazine, just one more left to go. Speak again very soon.
Anice xx

Creative Stamping - Card Two..

Here I am again to share another card that I created for this months Creative Stamping Magazine.  The magazine is available now, it has loads of great stuff in it, not just Funky Hand. There's colouring techniques from Sandra Wright of the House of Zandra, she's a really lovely lady and a very talented designer. I met her and we had a nice chat at a local craft show up here in Newcastle last year.

Anyway, less of my musings about people I have met! Lets see the next card I made...

This card has some handmade flowers on that if you know anything about me, was a big deal in itself!  I don't do much in the way of handmade embelishments.  I have alot of trouble making them because of my right hand being a bit funny and also I'm pretty lazy!! So, just stop and look at the picture and be amazed..it will be a while before you see anything like this again on one of my cards!

The backing papers on this card are from a Funky Hand CD ROM Colour Me Happy. The digital stamp is from the Where The Faeries Live set , it's No.1 Tree Stump Lane.  The CD and the digital stamp are available on my website www.funkyhand.com

OK, that's it for today. Speak to you again with another card soon.
Anice xx