Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful

Hello!

Happy International Women's Day to you :)  I am delighted to be a participant and sponsor of this year's Women's Day blog hop which has been organised by an amazing team of talented women.  This is the second year of the hop and it looks set to be a fun and creativity filled event with lots of sponsors and inspiration along the way.

Funky Fossil is one of the sponsors - you can win a £15 voucher to spend in store!

We have so many stamps and stencils that would work for the theme 'Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful' but in the end I decided to use our Abstract Beauty stamp set to make this card:

I simply created a background by blending distress oxides and lightly inking over our Fierce Words stencil.  Stamped the image in black and used our Butterfly Flurry stencil with black paint.  I added some word stickers by Leonie Pujol and a strip of black cardstock at the bottom and the card was done!

I hope that you like it and that you enjoy the hop.  Jane's Doodles is the next stop to visit and if you have got lost or want to start from the beginning, head here for the full list....

Sarah x

Week in Review

Hello!

Life has been so busy over the past few weeks that I haven't had much time to share some of my cards here on the blog so I have a few pics below....

First up is a card that I have made with our new Swallows stencil:

I used a discarded piece of copy paper that I had used to take excess paint off my brayer as the background and sponged dark blue acrylic paint through the stencil.  I also added a few elements of the micro dots stencil around the edges.  The sentiment is by Stamplorations.  I shall link up at Simon's Monday Challenge where the theme is to recycle it.

Next up is a card that I made for the current challenge at Time Out where the theme is Celebrations (with the optional twist of one layer).  I used the butterflies from our Abstract Beauty stamp set to create the background and combined it with a Concord and 9th butterfly and Mama Elephant sentiment.

Finally, a card that I have made with our new Ornamental stencil and Cosmic Shimmer luna paste.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink

I shall link up at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge which, this month, is Tis the Season.  

Here are the products that I have used on these cards:

  

                        

They are all available in store at www.funkyfossil.co.uk.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

New DT announcement!

Hello!

I have been excited to share the news with you that Funky Fossil now has a Design Team and they are super talented.  I am very lucky to have such great friends and crafters supporting my little stamp and stencil business!

Let me introduce you to them and some of their wonderful designs.  Head over to their blog or insta account to see more inspiration - they each have a discount code to share with you :)

Jane Taylor from Purple Jet Loves Crafts: 

Shona Chambers from Twine Around:

Cornelia Wenokor from Fun Stamping:

Natalie Seddons from www.instagram.com/momma_sedds/

Samantha Squires from A Crafting Niche:

Aren't all of these samples gorgeous?!  Do check out their blogs and insta to see some more inspiring makes and access their discount codes.  The products that they have used are:

      

 

Thanks for stopping by, Sarah x

Shine

Hello!

I have another card to share with you using the Abstract Beauty stamp set.  I think that it is so stylish and is really easy to use with its open space and simple lines.  Here I have combined it with a roughly brayered background, my hibiscus stencil, rainbow words, micro dots and bubbles stencils:

I shall link up at Simon's Monday Challenge where the theme is 'S' which is for Shine and for Stencil and at Time Out where we are being fashionable!

Here are the products that I used which are available in store at www.funkyfossil.co.uk:

  

  

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Giveaway!

Hello,

Before my 5 new stamp sets are available for purchase tomorrow morning I wanted to run a little giveaway to find out which are your favourite designs.  Leave a comment saying which is your favourite set below by midnight on Monday, 26 August and I will pick a winner at random to receive that stamp set and 3 stencils of their choice :)

Here is a quick reminder of the 5 sets that are being released:

Wild Things and Woodland Wishes

  

Fa La La and Folksy Christmas

  

Abstract Beauty

Here are a few more cards that I have made with these stamps.....

  

I really hope that you like the stamps in this release.  Remember to leave a comment below saying which is your favourite to be in with a chance to win it!

Sarah x

Abstract Beauty - new stamp set

Hello,

As my final stamp set of the week I have something a bit different for you today in the shape of an A5 stamp set called Abstract Beauty.  I really like the simplicity of these single line illustrations which work perfectly for both graphic, CAS designs and mixed media styles.  Here are a few examples:

Here the image is simply stamped and paired up with a stencilled background along with some stencilled words.

I combined the face with some of the butterflies from the set on a watercolour background for this card and combined it with a sentiment from Beautiful Inside and Out.

I hope that you like these designs!  All 5 of my new stamp sets will be available to purchase from 9am on Saturday, 24 August.

I will be back tomorrow with a review of the week's releases and a giveaway so join me then :)

Sarah x