Floral Fantasy for Funky Hand

The first of the month always means a brand new challenge over at Get Funky. This month it was Kathy's turn to set the challenge, and chose

Floral Fantasy

She wants lots of dimension on the projects, hop over there and take a look at the truly fabulous creations that the design team have come up with

I used the Colour Me Happy CD, and printed the background paper directly onto a scalloped card base, I love doing this, it can be tricky making putting pattern papers onto these scalloped cards, but this works beautifully. The flowers were cut from one of the pattern papers, with punched circle centres, all put on with foam pads. The branch was cut in black at 4" from Wildcard with my Cricut, and the bird is a digi stamp from the CD. The sentiment is an old one I have had for years.

I coloured the bird with Promarkers to coordinate perfectly with the papers. This is a BIG card - 8" x 8", it was one of the samples I sent off to Anice for her show on Create and Craft TV, and I have learnt that small cards just get lost when the presenter is flipping through them. Why not join in with the challenge? As always, there is a £20 ($30) Funky Hand voucher for the winner.

A paragraph in the paper yesterday caught my eye. Apparently a team of researchers from some university have been doing some research for the past year, and have published their results. Women do not wear all the clothes they pack for a holiday
That's it? They have been working for a year to come to that conclusion? Well, I could have saved them the trouble, and the taxpayers some money, next time, come to me. I have all the necessary information you need right at my fingertips.
However much I plan for a holiday, making endless lists, I never get it quite right. If I pack carefully chosen 'outfits', you can bet that at the last minute a wave of panic comes over me 'oh no, I am going to be overweight at check-in'
So I hurl various items out of the case. There, that's better. Except that when I get to my destination, I have the oddest mix of stuff you have ever seen. An orange skirt (looks fabulous with a tan and that pretty top, hmmm, the top seems to have been culled in the last minute panic). Two odd sandals - more victims of the cull. A green top that I have not worn, ever, because I have nothing that matches it. How did that get in there when vital stuff has gone missing? Will it go with the orange skirt? Well, if I want to be mistaken for a mobile traffic light it would I suppose.......................................and so it goes on.
So every year I read articles in newspapers and magazines about capsule holiday wardrobes. What planet are these people on? They reckon that all you need is a swimsuit, bikini and a silk sarong (handmade by a million silkworms in Outer Mongolia and a bargain at only £560) and you have the basis of a whole week's wardrobe. You knot the silk sarong artfully in various ways to make a beach cover up, evening dress, a slinky top and probably a raincoat in case you get caught out by a monsoon or hurricane. Well I don't know about you, but I have to have a good supply of 'just in case' stuff. I have to be prepared for eventualities of Biblical proportions - you never want to be caught in a plague of locusts wearing the wrong clothes do you?
See you tomorrow