May Your Birthday Wishes Sparkle

Thanks for visiting...

It's been a tough week, saying goodbye to my beautiful Grandmother. 

But I needed a birthday card and had a go at split stamping for the new anything goes challenge on the blog today...

The stamping platform really comes into it's own for techniques like this, I first stamped the Peony & Bud in clear embossing ink removed panel applied wow embossing powder and then stamped again for the back layer in black ink. I also used the Pop dots to add a little more interest.

The panel was a blend of saltwater taffy, seedless preserves and chipped sapphire distress oxides.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on acetate, I adhered it to the top of the panel and used a little clear dimensional adhesive so it's floats for a little shadow play.

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative

weekend ♥ HuGs Kim x

Journal Prompt Cards ~ Paperbabe Stamps Challenge

 Hello, so happy you're here,

we have a new challenge over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today,

and here's my fun very arty journal prompt cards.

I created these journal prompt cards, as part of a class with Katy a few years ago and wanted to share them here, as they are still inspiring prompts now.

You can make out quite a few of the stamped images like the smoke from bottle of, the dinky female face, stars, pop dots alongside a few stencils. It was fun to play with the face placement, I liked them stamped half off etc.

The prompt words were printed.

they are atc size and I have the perfect little handmade bowl to store them in.

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Thank you for visiting,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend,

Keep safe ♥ HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps ~ Beanie Hats and Glasses

Morning! today we are showcasing the new mixed media templates and stencils over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

Here is my sample,

I didn't get time to create as much as I wanted, but decided to use all todays release in another comic pop art style card as it's my new favourite.

This is a large A5 card, I have drawn in order the hat, the first hair piece, the head, fringe of her hair then the neck and shoulders all in pencil first, as I needed to move the glasses down her face, it was so easy to replace the templates to fix any rubbed out lines.

I then stamped most of the facial features before colouring in copic markers. I must mention that it's probably best to draw the hat first before the other steps of the templates as you will need to adjust some of the hairstyles to fit in under the hat band. I will try and get a video created as soon as I can to show you.

I have used distress inks over my copic colouring to get the texture and dots. I used the negative part of the pre cut hat template as a mask when inking through the knit stencil. As I did with the hair when stamping on the face.

Then I cut the whole figure out and ran my black copic over the edges to hide the white and enhance the comic look. I've added a few pop dots to the edge of my background in black embossing.

I used the glasses as a mask when I stamped her eyelashes to really give them perspective.

Paperbabe Stamps ~ Pop Dots and Polkas

Morning! I have a few cards showcasing the new Pop Dots stamp set and polka dot stencils being introduced on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

This is using the medium 1cm dot stencil with white paint onto kraft card, when dry I stamped little hearts from the doll face stamp set and heat set in gold embossing powder.

I have then stamped my sentiment in blue embossing powder onto vellum die cut and added a circle of white card to help the sentiment to pop! Finished with a flourish of glitter paper.

For my next card

I wanted to create a fashion style print, using the larger female head and torso mixed media templates with the flick and fringe hairstyle, I drew the girl first onto watercolour paper, stamped her facial features and roughly added a wash of distress inks to look like watercolours.

I masked her eyes to then use the same distress inks to stamp the polka dots varying the colours on different areas of the card.

 I stamped her eyelashes last and went over my pencil lines very roughly with a gel pen.

Now this card...

has to be my absolute favourite this year, it makes me smile!!! 

It was created using the mini head and torso with loose plait mixed media templates, with mini female face stamp set. Like in the above card I simply drew my girl first in pencil, stamped her face and coloured in using copics. 

Now this type of copic colouring I actually find difficult, it's not easy for me to get a smooth comic colour, but thankfully the dots so helped there, they were stamped using distress inks, it worked so well. 

I masked the different areas before stamping the polks dots. Then I went around all the pencil lines with my black posca pen, you can very easily reposition the templates and use them again. Then I fussy cut her out, the background shows off the halftone stamping in white embossing powder. Finished off with a little sentiment created using Birthday wishes shown yesterday.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you feel inspired to try something different on your cards!

HuGs Kim x