AAA Birthday Challenge #15

Hello!

Well July has begun and it is time for our next challenge at AAA Birthday :)  This month we are going 3D!

I have made a fun birthday card with the cute bee from Bees Knees on a spring to give him some wobble.  I have used our Banners and Bunting stencil to add a party feel!

I hope you like this happy card and I look forward to seeing what 3D creations you make.  The AAA Birthday DT have produced some fabulous designs!

Thank you for stopping by,

Sarah x

Release Day!

Hello!

I am so excited that we are finally able to make our new stamp sets available :)  There are five sets in the June release....our usual mix of cool and quirky images and sentiments to suit all styles.  Here are a few more projects that I have made with some of our new stamps:

This is a card using our Geo Bugs set.  Simple masking of the butterflies creates a colourful card.

I went for a simple monochrome colour scheme using Find Your Rainbow.

I used our Watercolour Lines stencil with one of the fab girls from She is Fierce and added wings from our Dragonfly Duo stencil.

Check out what the rest of the DT have to share with you on their blogs and instagram....

Donna Gray

Natalie Seddons

Sam Squires

Cornelia Wenokor

Samantha Read

Shona Chambers

Jane Taylor

I really hope you like these new stamps.....which you can buy from www.funkyfossil.co.uk

  

  

Thanks as always.  Have a great weekend!

Sarah x

Introducing She is Fierce

Hello!

Well, we have finally reached our last stamp set of the June release :)  All five sets will be available to buy from 9am tomorrow and I hope that you have seen something that you like!  Today is the turn of a fabulous set designed by Donna Gray.  She is Fierce is an A5 set featuring female faces that have been made from Donna's hand carved designs - they are really striking and I have loved working with them!

Here are just a few of my makes:

I have simply heat embossed, watercoloured and cut out the girl and attached her to a watercoloured background.  I used our Birds in Flight stencil to add the bird detail.

I used our Sunray stencil on this card along with our Small Print sentiments which are another new set from this release.  The girl is coloured with pencils.

The DT have had LOTS of fun with this stamp set so please check out their inspiring makes on their blogs and instagram:

Donna Gray

Natalie Seddons

Sam Squires

Cornelia Wenokor

Samantha Read

Shona Chambers

Jane Taylor

I hope that you like She is Fierce:

Tomorrow is release day so I shall be back again with more designs from our fab new stamps!  I will also be on Hochanda at 3pm so tune in to see me demo with some of these designs :)

See you then,

Sarah x

Introducing Starfish Wishes

Hello!

Today is our third reveal day where we share on of the five new stamp sets that will be available to purchase from 9am on Saturday this week.  It is the turn of Starfish Wishes, an A6 set which has a range of gorgeous shells and starfish - perfect for summer and ocean themed projects.  The images contain lovely doodled details....

Here are a few examples:

I heat embossed the shells in rose gold and watercoloured them in colours matching the paper from our In to the Blue paper pad which I used behind the heart aperture.  I love the soft blues and pinks.

I inked through our Mason Jar stencil and stamped and masked the shells before colouring them with pencils.  I glazed the jar several times with clear embossing powder to make it look like glass.

I hope you like these stamps!  The DT are sharing their inspiring makes with this set on their insta and blog posts so check out what they have made too :)

Donna Gray

Natalie Seddons

Sam Squires

Cornelia Wenokor

Samantha Read

Shona Chambers

Jane Taylor

I will be back tomorrow with our final reveal before the stamps are available to buy - it is a stunning set!

Sarah x

Introducing Geo Bugs!

Hello!

I hope you are enjoying a sunny week wherever you are:)  Today is our second day of introducing the five new stamp sets which will be available to purchase from this Saturday, 27 June.  I will also be featuring some of them on my Hochanda show at 3pm on Saturday :)

Today is the turn of our A5 set, Geo Bugs! I so enjoyed working with Bee Geometric so wanted some more insects and winged things that had a geometric twist.  I think it gives them a really contemporary edge!  The beetles in this set are gorgeous and there are so many possibilities of colouring them in bright colours :)

Here are a few examples....

I simply coloured this beetle in with pencils, masked and used our Linked Hexagons stencil in the background.  The set also comes with some hexagon stamps which I added for extra pattern.  I love how the background echoes the hexagon in his body!

I went bold and bright with this card!  I stamped the butterfly from the set and watercoloured a rainbow around it to echo the colours in its wings.  The butterfly is a good size (I think approx 8cm across) so makes a perfect focal point.

I hope that you like these examples and check out the amazing work that the DT have done with the Geo Bugs!

Donna Gray

Natalie Seddons

Sam Squires

Cornelia Wenokor

Samantha Read

Shona Chambers

Jane Taylor

Here is the full set:

I hope that you will stop by again tomorrow to see our next new stamp set :)

Sarah x

Funky Fossil June Release - Find Your Rainbow and Small Print

Hello!

I am excited to start sharing peeks of the 5 new stamp sets that we are releasing this Saturday, 27 June....I hope that you will like them :)  Today we are introducing two new sets - Find Your Rainbow and Small Print.  Find Your Rainbow is a scandi style set with loads of weather related images which are perfect for creating whimsical projects.  Small Print is a super versatile set which is packed full of small sentiments and inspirational words in a typewritten font.

Let me show you what I mean :)

The rainbow arcs, clouds, sunshines and raindrops in this set all have patterns in them which give a fun and doodly look to the images.  They look great stamped in bright colours :)

Here I have made a little set of notelets featuring elements from the rainbow set (except the stars which are from one of our stencils) and sentiments from Small Print.

These stamps work perfectly for clean and simple, fun and fresh designs!

I hope that you like the look of these two stamp sets:

  

Check out the inspiration from the rest of the DT on their blogs, FB and instagram:

Donna Gray

Natalie Seddons

Sam Squires

Cornelia Wenokor

Samantha Read

Shona Chambers

Jane Taylor

I hope to see you again tomorrow when we have another fab new set to share with you.  The stamps will be available from 9am on Saturday, 27 June.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Hello and Welcome!

It is time for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and Funky Fossil is delighted to be one of the sponsors again :)  

We have a £20 credit to the store on offer AND to celebrate this fab hop there is 15% off everything in store this week, until 29 May, when you use the code FOSSIL15 at checkout :)

I have made a couple of  coffee cards using our stencils and stamps to share with you:

Here I have used our coffee cup aperture stencil and inked up the new Boho Background stencil to create a wrap.  I masked the cup and added leaves from our In the Tropics stencil too.  A bit of pencil shading adds definition :)

For my second card I have used our new Caffeine Buzz stencil with our Splatters stencil.  A bit of texture from corrugated card and a sentiment from In the Meadow.

I hope you like my cards and enjoy hopping along with us!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x