Hi everyone!! I am absolutely melting while typing this so please excuse me if I make any spelling mistakes or it doesn't make sense....my brain is very dehydrated......Its been super hot for the past week and today I spent 5 hours trimming hedges which was extremely hard. Phoebe and I even went on the trampoline this afternoon with the sprinkler underneath, it was heavenly....
I'm on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog today with this sweet little shaped card, a good one for a little child maybe:
I had a lot of fun putting this together, although I don't know how I ended up with one foot darker than the other.....
I started by die-cutting some dark brown CS with the Huggable Critters body die. I then used the stitched-oval dies, stitched-paw dies and small oval die with white CS, cutting an extra stitched-oval die to cut in half and make the ears. I used Waffle Flower ink 'Coffee Loves Milk' and a mini-blending tool to colour all the pieces and glued them into place with Gina K Connect Glue. I then die-cut all the detail pieces from black CS and glued them in place, cutting up the whiskers to create bear claws.
For the heart there was one the size I wanted in the 'Hearts A2 Panel Fri-Die' so die-cut that area from some pink glitter paper and also twice more from white CS, gluing them all together and then to the paws. I then added Wink of Stella to the nose and feet details.
I wanted this to be an opening card, so came up with this idea:
I adhered the bear to a top-folding white card base, making sure the top of the head was just above the fold. I then cut around the body and the card was made!! I stamped the sentiment from the 'Little Huggables' stamp set and used the same Versafine Onyx ink to stamp the bear paws from the stamp set that comes with the 'Huggable Critters' set.
Hopefully this will give you a few ideas for making shaped cards and for using this die set if you have it. If your thinking you really must buy it, you can use my special code to save yourself 15%!!
Have a fantastic week and I'll see you back here next month with some more CAS-ual Fridays Stamps designs.
Take care
Shona
Yippee, yippee, its finally release day at Funky Fossil Designs!!!
All five new stamp sets are available to purchase now in the store, and while your there you can check out the previous stamp releases and all the incredible stencils Sarah has created!!
To celebrate this fabulous day I created a card using two of the new stamp sets:
I was trying to photograph this card the other day with our new kitten Remy, so please excuse the slight slant/lean to the right as she kept trying to jump in the photobox to play with the Studio Katia pearls.....
I stamped the floral and owl images from the 'Quirky Owls' and 'Blooming Birthday' stamp sets, using Gina K Amalgam black ink on white CS. I coloured them all with my Altenew Artist Markers and then fussy cut out.
To capture some of the marker colours I used, I cut out panels of green and lavender CS. The green was adhered straight to the card front and the lavender popped up on a piece of white foam. I arranged and glued the floral pieces on the panel and then put the owl on foam tape. I stamped the sentiment (from 'Quirky Owls') with Altenew 'Lavender Fields' ink and put on foam tape, along with some Neat and Tangled sequins.
There is a HUGE GIVEAWAY for this release. You could win yourself all of the five stamps released today, that would be amazing!!!! All you have to do is leave a comment on the Funky Fossil Design Release Day Blog Post. And you can increase your chances by leaving comments on the Design Team Release Day blog posts and Instagram posts too.
So excited to see what stamp sets you have your eyes on, and then to see all the gorgeous cards and projects you create with them. I'll be back again in a few days with some more cards using this new release.
Happy shopping and enjoy the weekend!
Take care
Shona
Well its been another boiling hot day and I loved it!! And the next 10 days look just as hot, so I better invest in a big bucket of sunscreen!
Its been so much fun this week sharing all the new Funky Fossil Designs stamp sets being released tomorrow (Saturday 25th Jan) and we have one more to show you. Introducing 'Scandi Home':
This is one amazing set. I love anything to do with Scandinavian style and retro themes, so this is right up my alley. There are so many ways you can use the images to create patterns, borders etc or just use them on their own. I think this one will be a big hit!!
For my card I immediately knew I wanted to create a blue/white design and my MISTI was a godsend for this:
These images stamp so beautifully with a MISTI and I used Catherine Pooler ink 'Suede Shoes' to get the most amazing coverage!
I had no idea what my pattern would be but wanted the house to be central. So I grabbed an A5 piece of white CS and stamped the house in the middle. From there I played around with the arrangement, trying to make sure I was stamping the images in the same spot/angle on each side. Once I had finished I cut the panel down with my Tim Holtz Paper Trimmer.
Turns out I don't have any blue CS that matched this colour for the background, so simply blended the same ink along each edge of the card front. The panel was popped up on white foam, as well as the sentiment, and I glued on some blue sequins from Neat and Tangled.
I really hope you've enjoyed seeing all the new stamp sets as much as I've enjoyed sharing my cards with you. Don't forget to pop over to the Funky Fossil Designs Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team did with this set. And I'll see you back here to celebrate the release tomorrow!!
Take care
Shona
