Simon Says: Stencil It

 

For this week there is a stencil challenge on the 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.

This is what I came up with:

I had seen Tim Holtz Easter/ Spring inspiration You Tube,

but I did not have the raffia (which I thought looked like fn).

I looked through all my stuff and asked around, but nobody

had any. Then today I went shopping and suddenly it was 

there waiting for me, yeah!!

So I had to try to make the carrot:

Borring! So I got out my stencils and new dies

and this is the result:

This is what I used:

Bottlebrush Trees CMS455

Crazy Talk CMS236

Bunny Stitch Thinlits

Thatched stencil THS104

Distress oxide inks

green raffia

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a wonderful

creative and caffinated day!

Critters in Cups 4

Hello Crafty Caffinated Friends!

I cannot stop playing with the Critters in Cups

by Funky Fossil Designs and the matching

Layering Cups metal dies.

I started with cutting the cups in rainbow colors.

I folded the paper and made sure the die was just a little

over the folded line, so the cups stayed together.

When I finished with all 6 colored, I glued first and last 

pages together, so it became a little booklet.

Click on the pictures for a larger version, 

so you can see everything much better!

For all of this mini book I used the new paper pad

and other stamps from different Funky Fossil sets too.

Also some stencils.

So below you see all the pages of my booklet,

if you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment

box (not anonymous, because than I cannot answer you).

1. You are my cup of tea!

Stencil Pawprint Background.

Vintage Script A7 stamp

2. Coffee (it is a die).

Stencil Lotsa Beans.

3. Bone-Jour!

(More Furry Friends)

Dog Bones stencil

4. You are tea-rrific!

Scribble Circles A7 stamp in the background

Bubbles stencil

5. Coffee!

A7 Don't make me laugh

Coffee Lover Die Set

6. Tea Time

(letter dies from my stash).

Zesty stencil

Hope you like my mini book

and gave you inspiration for your art.

Thank you for looking and 

have a creative caffinated weekend!

 

Critters in Cups 2

Hello my crafty friends.

This Critter in Cups set by

Funky Fossil Designs 

is keeping me busy! I get new ideas all the time,

so here is my 3rd card with this set.

This time it is a tea card. 

This set can be used to make tea or coffee cards.

I has 3 animals: a dog, a cat and  a bunny.

Today it is the bunny's turn for a card.

I started by stamping a border of teabags 

on the background of the card.

Coloring them with brown and red watercolor ink.

Next I cut the papers and the cup (with the dies)

After coloring the bunny and cutting him out,

I assembled all the pieces and glued everything together.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative

caffinated day!

 

Egg Hunt

Hello Crafty Friends!

Have you had a lovely Easter Sunday?

Hunting for eggs? Or for bargains??

I share with you another card made with

Funky Fossil Designs stencils

which are on sale for 20% until

midnight of April 5th.

For this card I used:

stencil mason jar and scenic borders

stamp set: Let's Party.

To make the eggs in the jar, I made my own stencil with this egg

paper punch trough a post it note and used the cutouts to cover

eggs if needed.

For the grass border I used the scenic border stencil.

With the inside of the mason jar I covered the pot

as not to get any grass on it.

The bunny from the Let's Party stamp set is stamped

and embossed with black embossing powder and colored

with stamping blend's markers. The punched out eggs

are from some left over Spring Geometric design paper.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe, keep crafting

and enjoy the eggs!

 

Day 4 and 5 of the new stamps by Funky Fossil Designs

Dear Crafty Friends,

I have been so busy with work and makes, 

that I have not shared the other two new sets by

Funky Fossil Designs.

The 4th new stamp set is called Blooming Wreath.

This is a wonderful set with a flower wreat,

flowers and cute birds. I have not even fully explored all

that is possible with this set but here are my first two

cards. One you see above and was started with

a piece of paper from the new 6"x 6" paper block

Spring geometrics.

There is also wonderful new washi tape:

Monochrome set of two rolls.

With only 2 flowers and a sentiment the card is

quickly finished.

The next card is also made with the flowers from the 

set. These roses come in two sizes and the larger one 

has a leave too. I colored the roses with zig markers

On top of the rosed I added silver glitter

embossing powder with  an embossing pen.

The cute bird is also part of this set.

I added som splatter to make the background

more interresting.

For this card i used the girl from the

She is Fierce stamp set.

The last set that is new this month is

Paisley Print.

This set has lots of stamps and perfect for

mandala's, backgrounds and lots of creativeness.

Here I used one of the papers behind the stamped part of

the card. I also used the Paisly Petals stencil in the background.

I only used a few of the elements from the set, colored them, 

cut them out and glued them to the card with foam tape.

For this card I went all out. This is an old technique called

Modern Grid by Technique Junkies.

You see I also used the Let's Party bunny and cat and 

the Be.You.Tiful stencil.

All 5 new sets are now available at

Funky Fossils Design.

Sarah Gray, the owner, was also on

Hochanda TV

and you can watch the rewinds and get even

more ideas of what to do with the new stamps.

Thank you for looking

and I do hope you come back tomorrow

for I have a tutorial and a stampset to

give away!!

Stay safe, healthy

and keep crafting!

I 

Guest Designer for Funky Fossil Designs

Hello my crafty friends!

This month I am a guest designer for

FUNKY FOSSIL DESIGNS.

At the end of this week there are 5 new 

stamp sets and trough the coming week

you will see what sets they are.

Today the first set is "Let's Party" designed by Donna Grey

for Funky Fossil Designs.

As this month is the celebration of 

2 years of Funky Fossil Designs, you will receive

the Happy Birthday stencil with every order you place.

I love to share with you how versetile this stencil is.

Here I used the stencil as a background and

a bunny from the soon to be released Let´s Party stampset

added on top with a piece of foam tape.

Here a variation with the happybirthday stencil ad background

iun various colors. For this card I used the cat from the set

and a paw embossing folder for the kraft colored strip.

There will also be a die added to all the items in the shop.

A metal Happy Birthday die with a tiny heart in the middle

of the sentiment. The number six I added (before I knew of

the 2nd year celebration) thinking of the 6th birthday of my

grandsons.

For the background of this card I used the  Musings

stampset. The numbers do not give a special birthday,

but you can highligt any number you want.

Here you see the wonderful Let's PArty stampset.

The images i colored with my zig markers.

The metal cutting die for the Happy Birthday sentiment.

I created a special envelop with this birthday card.

At the end of this week

(after you have seen more samples of the

other sets too) all sets are available to order

and you receive the wonderful birthday stencil free.

Thank you for looking and

see you again tomorrow

for more new things!

Stay safe and

keep crafting!

 

Easter Tag

Hello everyone!

Hope you all are safe at home.

Today I share with you a tag for

a bag of Easter eggs.

Yeas it is Monday on the 

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

and it is Anything but a Card Day!

So here is my tag, with this cute  Bunny Easter Egg

digital image. This background was in my stash

of papers I keep for cards and just pefect for making it into

a tagfor the Easter egg bag. You may wonder why I added

the line on the egg. Well i just did not want to add the name

of the person who it is for ;-)

I used stampin'blends for coloring.

Here a close up of the tag. You can see 

also some stamped eggs on the background.

This is a stamp by Michael Strong.

Thank you for looking

and stay safe and 

be creative!

Color Trowdown 536

Playing with colors today!

Colors for the challenge on the

Color Throwdown.

I made a direct to paper background with 

distress inks on cream paper. The circles

are stamped with a clear stamp from

Stampin'Up!'s Playful Backgrounds set.

The cup and saucer are Tim Holtz dies

and the sentiment on the egg is by

Create with TLC.

And here is the inside of the card

with a bunny die by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!