Rainy Day Crafting

Hello!

I hope that you have stayed warm and dry today....it has been very wet and windy here so I have had no choice but to retreat to my craft room :)  

There is a new challenge over at Less is More so I thought that I would play along with some of the smaller stamps from our Scandi Home stamp set.  The theme is More but still CAS....

Here is what I made:

I simply masked a circle in the centre and used that as a guide to stamp the heart and mini flower motif from our Scandi Home stamp set.  I think that teal and red is a lovely combo!  The sentiment in the centre is from our Blooming Birthday stamp set.

I shall also link up at Seize the Birthday's challenge where the twist is white space and at Time Out where I have used birthday as my prompt from the word inspiration which celebrates Uniko's 8th birthday!

I have also made a second card for the current love challenge at The Male Room and there is not a heart in sight!

I used some That's Crafty texture paste through our Distressed Triangles stencil, die cut an aperture and added one of our mdf positive words and mdf minis painted white.

If you like any of the products that I have used on today's makes, remember that we currently have 15% off everything in store when you use the code HEART15 before midnight on Monday 17 February :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

A few more ideas....

Hello!

Thank you for your positive response and feedback to our new stamp sets which were released for sale yesterday - you can see the launch post here and there is still time to comment to be in with a chance of winning the entire release!

I wanted to share a few more ideas with you - as you can imagine, I have been making a lot of samples with these new sets.....

You don't always need to use the focal images from the Adventure set - here I just used the feathers and a sentiment:

I shall link up at Less is More where the challenge is a one layer card and off centre stamping.

The Adventure set also plays well with so many of our other products at www.funkyfossil.co.uk including our mdf artboards, mdf stag and tree elements and our stencils.  Here I used Retro Starburst, Messy Rainbows, In to the Wild and Birds in Flight.

I shall link up at Simon's Monday Challenge where we are making pieces of home decor.

And finally I wanted to share another card made using Blooming Birthday.  I love the clean florals on this set and repeat stamped them on a DL card.

Here are the products that I have used today:

 

 

 

Check them all out in store at www.funkyfossil.co.uk.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Funky Fossil Release Day and Giveaway!!

Hello!

Finally, our five new stamp sets are available for sale at www.funkyfossil.co.uk :)  Hopefully this release has a stamp set for every taste and style and you have been inspired by our preview posts this week!

There are 3 A6 stamp sets - Quirky Owls, Blooming Birthday and Serenity:

And 2 A5 stamp sets - Adventure and Scandi Home:

 

We want to celebrate the release with a giveaway of all 5 sets to one lucky person drawn at random from comments left on this and the DT blogs/insta feeds.  You have until midnight on Wednesday 29 January to leave a comment :)

Here are a few more cards that I have made with these sets:

I have used one of the fab focal images from Adventure along with our Distressed Diamonds and Splatter stencils.  I also made my own washi by stamping the swallow images on to some mop up rice paper.

This card features images from Scandi Home white embossed on grey with one of the corner stamps creating the patterned red background.

Here is Serenity which features the yoga silhouette against an alcohol ink circle with the cosmic symbols stamped in pale pink in the background.

I haven't even got time to show you more of the cards that I have made with Blooming Birthday and Quirky Owls as I want you to be able to check out the inspiring makes from the DT.  They have created such beautiful projects with these stamps:  

Jane Taylor 

Sam Squires  

Shona Chambers 

Cornelia Wenokor 

Natalie Seddons 

Remember, every comment that you leave will increase your chances of winning the whole release!

I would love to know which of the sets are your favourite - leave me a comment to tell me what you think :)

Sarah x

Funky Fossil January Release - Blooming Birthday and Serenity

Hello!

We are back for a second day of previews of the 5 new stamp sets which will be available for sale at www.funkyfossil.co.uk from 9am on Saturday :)  Today the two A6 sets that I want to introduce are Blooming Birthday featuring illustrations by Maggie Molloy and Serenity which features designs by Lana Elanor.  I have loved crafting with both of them!

Here are a few examples:

Blooming Birthday

I love the simple lines of this stamp set.  It looks great as white on kraft or coloured up.  

Here I have stamped the different grasses and flowers from the set in shades of green around the card front and combined them with a sentiment from Beautiful Inside and Out.

Serenity

The yoga silhouette from this set goes perfectly with our new Lotus Flower stencil!

Here I have combined the yoga silhouette with our Boho Flowers stamp set to show how they can work together.  It would work equally well with the images from Blooming Birthday!

The fab DT have been working their magic again.  Check out the inspirational makes that they have to share here:

Jane Taylor at https://purplejetlovescrafts.blogspot.com/

Sam Squires at https://acraftingniche.blogspot.com/

Shona Chambers at https://twinearound.blogspot.com/

Cornelia Wenokor at https://fun-stamping.blogspot.com/

Natalie Seddons at https://www.instagram.com/momma_sedds/

Here are the stamp sets:

We have an A5 stamp set to share with you tomorrow and lots more inspiration :)

Also, if you aren't already a subscriber to our store newsletter, head over to www.funkyfossil.co.uk and sign up as I shall be sharing a subscriber discount for the new release later this week :)

See you tomorrow!

Sarah x