I Love Promarkers - Challenge 379 - Dr Digi

Welcome to a new I ❤ Promarkers challenge!  We are sponsored by Dr Digi and the theme is

Anything Goes

I've used BBQ Bill and coloured him up with Promarkers plus coloured pencils.  The Dad word book is an old project that I printed some years ago but never got round to making it up and its from Funky Hand but is no longer available.

I've added some X Cut star dies plus the sentiment are dies from Clearly Besotted.  Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

The Male Room:  Green
Mod Squad:  Greens
Passion For Promarkers:  Birthday
Scrapbook Stamp Society:  Anything Goes plus option of Not Square  WINNER

Daring Card Makers - Getting To Know You

It's time for a new Daring Card Makers challenge and this week the theme is

Getting To Know You

So, what is your style or your favourite crafting technique?  I love making word books and turn to them time and time again and I do get asked to make them quite a lot!

Here is one I've made using a now retired and unavailable Funky Hand cd - all the pages can be printed and then made into a word.  I've just cut the 'pages' to size, layered the letters onto black card for extra depth and then added to the pages with foam pads and for a bit extra detail, added a faux stitched line around the edge.

Embroidery thread added to the bound edge and the Happy Birthday sentiment cut with a Cuttlebug die and added to a strip of acetate.  Actually quite quick to make and look great!

Good luck with the challenge!  I'd like to enter the following:

Alphabet Challenge:  Y is for Your Choice
Crafty Catz:  Layer It Up
Aud Sentiments:  Anything Goes with a Sentiment
CCEE Stampers:  Die Cut Words
Time Out Challenges:  Bold

Crimbo Crackers Challenge 48 - Jingle Bells

Apologies for the lateness of this post - I'm having issues with Blogger at the moment and my timing seems to be going awry when I schedule posts - either the times are 12 hours out or it forwards it to 2014!

It's time for a new Crimbo Crackers challenge and the theme for the fortnight is:

Jingle Bells

I've made this fab wordbook with one of the new Christmas downloads from Funky Hand which will be released very soon!  But before it is released there will be a very special 50% off sale starting Saturday 31 August until Monday 2 September!  You will need the special code, so pop back to my blog on Saturday for the code!

Here is the wordbook:

I simply printed all the letters out, printed a paper on the reverse and then assembled!  I've added glitter glue around the edges of the letters and threaded little green bells through each letter with embroidery thread.  So if you're not that fussed about colouring or simply want a project you can make whilst watching the tv, then give the wordbooks a go!

I find it really relaxing to make the wordbooks and all the left over parts are great for other projects too - I hate to throw any bit away!

All the letters in the alphabet are included along with numbers so you can make any word you want (as long as its not too long!)

Good luck with the challenge - for more details and to see the rules, please pop over to Crimbo Crackers!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

As you Like It:  Favourite Shape (word books because they are easy and relaxing to make!)
Aud Sentiments:  Any Sentiment
The House That Stamps Built:  No Squares
Creative Craft:  Not A Square

A Funky Blog Hop - Win Twelve Crafters Crafting cd!

It's the Funky Hand Blog Hop and it is our first ever hop!! And with all hops there is one fab prize on offer - a copy of the brand new not yet even released cd - Twelve Crafters Crafting!! It's launch is on 5 November BUT you can pre order it direct from Funky Hand so you know you'll be one of the first to have it!

Each of the Design Team (funnily enough, there are twelve of us....!) picked a paper collection to work with and I went with Jingle Bells which is the twelfth paper collection on the cd. As you can see its a bright and funky collection and I just could not resist making this wordbook - you know how much I like them!

Really easy - just print out the pages you want - you can select the letter to which ever paper you want and change the colour of the letter (now that is good eh?!) The little 'ho' has been made using the workspace area - you can make words or just random letters and they will match the colour collection you are using!!

I've added extra stars here and there from the offcuts and added glitter glue around the letters. Ribbon is from Meiflower.

Hop runs from NOW and Anice will accept the unscrambled phrase until midnight GMT tomorrow evening (Sunday). If you've not hopped through those before me, pop over to Anice who will explain how its all going to work and she will provide your instructions and the list of who to hop to!

So, if you've arrived at me from Jules then you are on the right track! My letter is:

E

Now leave me a comment and hop over to Amanda, all the way up in Bonnie Scotland!

Just remember to write down each of our letters and leave us a comment - you've got to be in it to win it!!

And talking of winning, one of my other little ventures, Crimbo Crackers, also has a copy of Twelve Crafters Crafting on offer!

Good luck with the hop and be quick!!

• All papers: Twelve Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand
• Ribbon: Meiflower
• Everything else: My stash
  

Chocolate and Pink Sixteen

You know how I like my wordbooks so here is another one that I've recently made this time for a friend who's daughter is turning sixteen. I've used papers from Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd and I've used wordart to make the letters.

Although you can't really see it, I've dotted liquid pearls around the inners of each of the letters for a bit of detail.
The ribbons are from my stash and I've looped them around a few times to make a fancy bow and tied it all together with some very lovely chocolate brown satin ribbon. The charm is a little crown with 'princess' on it. It's one of a few that I've had for ages and bought from ebay.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Moving Along With The Times: Don't Be Square

Stampin' B's: Use Ribbon

Little Darlings: Girly

Celebrate the Occasion: Kids Birthday

Cupcake Craft: Birthdays with a Number

• Papers: Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd
• Ribbons: My stash
• Charm: My stash

In The Pink at 21!

I've had a run of these word books in the same papers too recently - have already made 2 and have another one in progress, but this is the first one to show. I was asked to make this card quite last minute for a good customer, so could not refuse! Plus I do like making these word books especially with these papers!

This fits the current Creative Card Crew Challenge which is:

Birthday's at Christmas

I've used papers from the Funky Hand download Girls and Boys, using the girl colourways and I've printed the large letters using wordart on the pc. The smaller 21 is cut using my Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet dies and then layered onto black card.

All the ribbon, flower sequins, gems and hat pins are from my stash.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and you are not suffering too much either from over eating or over drinking! Hope 2011 brings you all that is wished for!

• All papers: Girls and Boys download from Funky Hand
• Dies: Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet dies
• Everything else: My stash
  

Christmas Word Book

I need to be getting into the Christmas swing now as I've got to increase my box of Christmas cards somehow! So this fits perfectly with the Moving Along challenge which is:

Christmas

I've used the Christmas Word Book section on Funky Word Books cd from Funky Hand. I was having a little tidy up the other day (I say little as I'd take a month of Sundays to do a decent tidy up!) and found the pages already printed off in its own little folder (how organised was I?!) so it seemed a shame just to put it back, so I've finished it off!

The lettering along the front has been cut with my Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet die set and the card is Bazzil Basics in a lovely Christmas green.

Both ribbons are from my stash and I suspect they are from Blackburn market. The little bell I found in my Christmas stash box and probably originated from ebay!

And if you ever make these word books and struggle for envelopes, well, your prayers have been answered as you can buy them from Funky Hand!

• Word Book: Funky Word Books cd from Funky Hand
• Ribbon: Blackburn market
• Dies: Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet die
• Everything else: My stash
  

Happy Birthday Tara!

The Charisma Challenge this week is:

Any theme, any style!

So, I've made this little card, for a special little girl, who is having her third Birthday party today! The papers are taken from Funky Word Books - Positively Kiddies collection, but instead of making a word book, I've cut the letters out, run them through a Cuttlebug embossing folder and doodled the edges.



The words have had the same treatment but I've used my Sizzix round-a-bout alphabet dies.

The laces holding the 'pages' together are from the scrap store and matched quite well!

Happy Birthday Tara!

• Backing papers: Funky Word Books
• Dies: Cuttlebug embossing folder (square dots or something) and Sizzix round-a-bout alphabet set
• 'Laces': Scrap Store
  
  

Coffee Anyone?

This is the last sample I made for the launch of Funky Word Books - this is using Coffee Anyone? collection. I've individually cut out all the letters and added them to acetate pages - so a word book with a bit of a twist! It still opens like a conventional word book but the letters stand out more.

Flowers cut from a Cuttlebug flowers die with added card candy. Ribbon from my stash.

Hope you have liked seeing my samples - the cd is fantastic, which is what you would expect from Anice, but its great seeing all the different collections and the word books that you can make with them! The best bit is that each collection has numbers 1 to 9 so you can now make number word books or use them as card templates. So, why don't you give your imagination some fantastic papers - go and buy!!

Funky Flower

Another card made with For The Lads colour collection on the new Funky Hand cd Funky Word Books.


Quite easily made - I used a compass for the circles, roughly ripped the shape, feathered the edges and then inked them. Then layered up the flowers and added the wire embellishments and the button to hide what was underneath!


The curled paper was easy to do - cut thin strips and then wind them around a pencil or something thinner. The 'beads' on the wire were made by shaping some offcuts and then wrapping them again arounda pencil with the end glued.

The stems have been stamped with an acrylic Studio G stamp which is really for ornate corners but I picked the stamps that looked more like stems and just layered them up.

So go and buy your copy of Funky Word Books - its been on sale 5 days!!

By the time you read this, and if Mr Blogger is playing, I shall be on my holidays! I have a few posts scheduled for whilst I am away, but I shall be back on Sunday 24 May with hopefully, some holiday photos to share!

Positively Kiddies

Another of my samples for Funky Hand! Again using papers from the new word book Funky Word Books and just to prove that you can use the papers how ever you want! In fact, the cd can be bought from today from Funky Hand, so you too can create the lovely wordbooks!


This bunting uses the Positively Kiddies collection, and all I have done is printed the pages off (you get a full alphabet plus numbers 1 to 9) as if I'm going to make a word book but then cut the numbers off the end, rounded the edges of the 'pages' and added eyelets to the tops so I can thread the ribbon through.


I've dotted or dashed the edges of the panels (printed onto a lovely lightly hammered card), letters and numbers and then run the numbers through my Swiss Dots embossing folder - the words have been cut from the left overs (I had to be creative with the little bits I had left!) and I've used my Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet set and then run them through another Cuttlebug embossing folder (sorry can't think what it is called but its like a tiny mosaic!)




You'll have to ignore the fact that I forgot to emboss the words six and nine - Jacob was keen for me to stick it on his wardrobe so I could take a photo of it! I did emboss them afterwards!

Hope you like it!

• All papers: Funky Word Books
• Dies: Cuttlebug embossing folders - Swiss Dots and Mosaic (I think!) and Sizzix Round-a-Bout Alphabet
• Everything else: From my stash
  
  

By The Seat of My Pants ....

.... I have just about made this card in time for the challenge and to leave it with my Mum (she ordered it) so Casey can actually get it for her Birthday! Such organisational skills I have!



Anyway, the Cupcake challenge this week is:

Numbers

The card looks a bit boring on the photo, but it isn't in real life - honest! Made using the Very-Soon-To-Be-Released Funky Word Books cd from Funky Hand (get it on Monday!) and the card is for Casey. She's also getting this card too so she will be all Funky Handed for her Fifth Birthday - lucky girly eh?!

I've cut the little letters with my Baby Face Cuttlebug alphabet set, the organza ribbon was actually a hairband from Primark but looks much better being used on cards! The little sparkly stars I cut off the said hairband. Card candy from Craftwork Cards (and they have been glittered but you can't really see) and eyelets from my stash.

• Backing paper: Funky Word Books
• Organza Ribbon: Primark hair band
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
• Everything else: My stash

Daisy for Casey

The ABC challenge for this week slotted in nicely with a card I need to make for my cousin Claire for her niece Casey as it is her Birthday at the end of the month and she will be 5.

The challenge is

List - 1 Ribbon, 3 Flowers and 6 Brads

I've used the brand new Funky Hand cd Funky Word Books (which, I am sorry to tease, will not be available to buy directly until 11 May!) and this collection is Daisy Chain - lovely green and pinks and a sort of sweet pea kind of pattern on one of the papers.

Anyway, the pages have been cut and then I've just lightly inked the edges in alternate pink and lime green, and dotted the edges of the letters with a pink gel pen for a little more definition. It may look like I have cheated, but I didn't count the centres of the flowers towards the 6 brads! And the brads are not really brads, but card candy which are like brads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

The flowers have been cut using a Cuttlebug flower die and then layered.

Sorry for awful pun in post title - only just dawned on me!

• Word Book papers: Funky Word Books (released 11 May)
• Dies: Cuttlebug Flowers
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

From Funky Word Books

A card I have made with the For The Lads papers on the new cd from Funky Hand - Funky Word Books.

Really easy to make with added vellum flowers and card candy! These papers are really versitile and great to use!

The cd will be on sale on the website from 11 May - so make sure you don't miss out as the live demo on telly sold out within the hour!

It's My Name!

Just in case you missed Anice on Monday evening on the telly demonstrating her newest cd - Funky Word Books here is one of my samples that I made especially for her to show on telly! I would have shown my samples sooner but had some technical hitches with Mr Blogger (loosing my posts and photos grrrr!)

This collection is Royal Grunge - the entire cd is devoted to Word Books and all have complementary sheets that you can print off on the reverse of the letter pages (no white bits!) and each collection has a co-ordinating alphabet.

I decided to make a word book with my name and instead of it opening like a normal book on the spine..

It opens from the top!

Although you can't see it, I made a little stand attached to the card so it will stay upright!

With a bit of luck I'll show the other samples that I made for the new cd over the next few days.

The cd sold out before the end of the hour show - good going eh?! So it just goes to show how good these papers are and how popular! Anice won't be selling the cd from her website until 11 May, so you'll just have to make do with my samples and those from the Design Team!

Funky Word Books - Last Sneak Peek!

And this is the last peek of my samples for Anice to show on Ideal World tomorrow evening at 6pm! Can you guess what it is yet?!

Tune in if you can as you will be able to see all the Design Team's creations - and they are stunning!

Ideal World - Sky at 6pm, Monday 27 April

Funky Word Books - Sneak Peek # 4

I really enjoyed working with this particular colour collection - very kiddies! This is my fourth sneak peak - the last one will be tomorrow evening and then I will reveal all the projects I made with the new Funky Hand cd - Funky Word Books. Live premier of the cd on Ideal World, 6pm Sky on Monday 27 April.

Funky Word Books - Sneak Peek # 3

Here is the third installment! You'll have to wait until Monday evening to see the big reveal of all my creations! See if you can spot them on telly!



Ideal World, Sky, 6pm Monday 27 April.

Funky Word Books - Sneak Peek # 2

Here is the second installment - sorry about the size of this one but I think you get the idea of the colours! This is a word book that I have created with the new Funky Word Books cd which will be premiered on Ideal World channel on Sky - Monday 27 April at 6pm.

Are You Ready?!

To see Anice on tv (Monday 27 April at 6pm) demonstrating her very new cd - Funky Word Books?!

Here is a little sneak peek of one of my projects I created using the new cd!

Anice won't be selling the new cd until 11 May, so if you want to be one of the first to own her new creation, then you'll have to tune in and buy from Ideal World! More details about the show are in my sidebar.

More sneak peeks in the lead up to Monday......