Enjoy the show part 2

Hello I'm back today with two more cards using the paper smooches stamp set Enjoy the show.

Yesterdays card were bold and bright and went with the obvious theme of the set.

Today i am showing two very different looks.

My first card above uses the circle stamps from the set to create the Bokeh effect.

Which was done by simply stamping the circles in 3 shades, two blues and one white.

I used the Balloon dies with glitter card and some Silver twine..

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment  from Happy birthday in silver.

I finished by adding some teeny tiny rhinestones.

This card uses the elephant from the set for a baby card. 

Simply coloured softly using copics and layered with some patterned paper.

I added some dots of liquid pearls randomly on the paper.

The sentiment is from salutations.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing different ways to use this set.

We would love to see anything you make using products from the store.

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Enjoy the show part 1

hello.

I have two cards today using the paper smooches set Enjoy the show.

The first card above i wanted to look like a circus tent...shouldn't make stuff when I'm tired lol.

I used the Rainbow die in three colours for the curtains...i think they just needed to be angled better  to achieve the look i wanted:)

The images are all coloured with Pro markers.

I framed the scene with the large frame from Chains die.

And the sentiment is from Happy birthday. 

This card is much simpler than the first.

I focused on the clown and coloured him with copics.

As i have previously invested in copics i wanted to try and use them more and tried to ground the clown... as you can see its gonna take some practise but it does seem to look darker than it is in real life.

I used a Spritzer tool with my copic pens to make it look more airbrushed.

Although this was my first go i would recommend it.

Products used.....

I will be back tomorrow with part two .

Thanks for looking.

A Bit of Kissing!!!

Did that blog title catch you eye???? Well I've been kissing for the first time... stamp kissing that is :0)

Paper Smooches have released a couple of stamp sets called Kissables and they arrived in store last week so I thought I'd have a play.....

I've used the houndstooth pattern from Kissables 1 and the lovely armchair from Lawn Fawns Dad's Day which is out of stock at the moment but any solid stamp works well for this technique, I used the chair because this card is for the Masculine card challenge over at Less is More this week, don't forget we are one of the challenge sponsors this month so another good reason to join in the fun :0)

It's good to have a practice with this technique because some inks work better than others but the general rule is a light coloured ink on the solid stamp, I used SU Crumb Cake, and a darker coloured ink on the pattern, SU Early Espresso. Ink both stamps and then gently press the solid stamp onto the pattern, being careful not to slide the stamps together, seperate them and stamp the solid image onto your finished cardstock. To add depth to the chair I applied more crumb cake ink to the chair stamp with an ink dauber so I could concentrate it to the areas needing shadow and then over stamped the same image.... solid images are much easier to line-up again :0)
Do you like the sentiment..... its the fun side of cheeky!!! It's from a great new Paper Smooches set called Happy Birthday which is full of classic and fun sentiments in different fonts for you to mix and match... the sentiment above is two different stamps which meant I could arrange the placement to fit my card :0)
Here are the stamp sets I've used....

             

See you again next week :0)
Jenny x