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

AAA Birthday

Hello!

It is time for our 5th challenge at AAA Birthday - can you believe it?!  I am excited about this month's theme as it is to use a stencil on your birthday cards.  As someone who makes and sells stencils that couldn't be a better topic for me :)

I have made a couple of cards:

On this simple card I have inked up my 3D Cubes stencil in Blueprint Sketch and Evergreen Bough and simply added a fab outline sentiment from Uniko.  The effect of the stencil makes this an eye catching card but it is super quick!

Here I simply masked the middle panel of the card and inked up the Random Rectangles stencil in oranges and pinks.  I added some of the Micro Dots to make the design a bit grungier.  I used the same sentiment from Uniko - I love the fact that you can customise your sentiment by colouring in or leaving the words as outlines.

I hope that I have given you a few ideas of ways that you can use stencils to create really effective and quick birthday cards.  The rest of the DT have more great inspiration to share with you over at AAA Birthday.  

Here are the stencils that I used:

 

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

Midsummer Blues

Hello!

Blues and greens are my favourite colours so when the Simon Says Challenges asked for cards featuring blue, I got my stencils out straight away :)

Here is a card using my new Mini Cube stencil along with my Micro Dots stencil and some great grungy elements from Studio Light which I shall link up at Simon's Monday Challenge:

On this card I used my umbrellas stencil and masked off a heart shape for the sentiment.  I shall link this card up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge.

They were both very quick and easy to make.  I love the fact that just inking through a stencil can produce a card front in minutes!

Here are the stencils that I have used today:

   

We are back from our holidays on Wednesday so will be shipping orders from the end of next week :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x