This week at Stamp Review Crew we are celebrating the beautiful “Balloon Celebration stamp set” from the Occasions catalogue.
Because this is a blog hop, there’s a round the world trip to see all the beautiful crafty creations. You might have travelled via Nikki showing off her talents or be starting here. Either way, you’re in for a treat.
If you get lost along the way, click on the banner above and it will take you to the main page where you can see the full list of participants.
Balloon Celebration is a great stamp set because it has a variety of sweet images – balloons, dandeloins, clouds, a wheel (?), stars, a bow and more if you’ve got a great imagination.
Which gives you so many options (as you’ll see on this hop!). There’s also fabulous sentiments which means you can use it for practically any card. Or combine it with other stamp set or product suite (it goes perfectly with the Have A Cuppa range) and the card options are endless!
Today I’ve decided to showcase the cloud stamp from the set – and include as much sparkle as I could!
The balloons are wonderful, but there’s just so much you can do with this set to stop at the balloons.
The first card I’m sharing is my favourite – I can’t wait to send it off to a new little princess!
The balloons are double stamped to give them a deeper colour {because you can do that sooooo easily with photopolymer stamps!} and finished off with a generous splash of clear Wink of Stella.
The awesome sentiment stamps on this card are from the Happy Happenings stamp set in the Annual Catalogue.
As an aside, it’s getting to that time of the year when I’m nervous to see what will & won’t carry over in to the new catalogue. Not too much longer to wait now!
Once I was on a roll with the subtles colour scheme, this was the next card with sparkly clouds & pastel stripes. I think it will make a perfect birthday card for one of Alexa’s little classmates.
The clouds are embossed with the simply stunning Iridescent Ice embossing powder – so much sparkle! And how lovely is that Pool Party ribbon???
Of course, I couldn’t make a card without adding some of those signature balloons using the coordinating punch (because we all love sets with coordinating punches).
It ended up being a subtle feature, but I actually tried to add in some shading on the balloons by stamping over the original image twice – each time blotting off ink from the right side of the balloon (which ends up being the left side of the stamped image!). This is a great technique to use with photopolymer stamps as you can see through them to get that second & third inking just right.
That’s it from me today. Keep hopping so you can get the full inspiration intake from the crew. Next up is Dawn, who despite a self-confessed lack of mojo is totally rocking this stamp set! Gold embossing powder is always a winner!
If you have time to leave us a comment or two as you hop around, we sure love hearing from you! Kelly x
Product List – Bonjour Beautiful Baby Clouds
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Product List – Glittery Clouds Birthday Card
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Product List – Balloon Bouquet Celebrate Card
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Kelly, this is a great set of cards showing Balloon Celebration! I love all of them. The clouds, along with the stars, for a new baby is amazing and so sweet. The balloons done in subtles amongst all those clouds is fantastic!
Thanks Dawn. I always marvel at which cards people enjoy the most. I love the baby one best 🙂
Three fabulous creations Kelly! Love them all. Love the colours. Love the shimmer! Love the techniques! LOVE! Rochelle xo
Thanks Rochelle. But we love the shimmer the most – right? 🙂
This is a great use of the set! I like all your cards but that baby card so adorable!
Thanks Holly – that was my favourite too!
What fabulous cards, Kelly! I love all of the shimmer on them!! I never even really noticed that cloud shape.
Thanks Yapha!
I love how used the clouds in this set! Beautiful cards!
Thanks Linda!
I love how you used the clouds in each of your projects. Believe it or not, I haven’t even used that stamp yet. Great projects!
Thanks Heidi!
All great cards! I love your color choices. Especially love the baby one! The shimmer is gorgeous too. Love all the clouds!
Thanks Shana!
these are all so great Kelly – but I agree with you – that first card is stunning! So pretty – I will try to case it for a friend’s little one, but I don’t know if i can do it justice! ❤
Thanks Holly. I’d love to see your version – it’ll be amazing!
These sparkly creations are so pretty Kelly. I love the stripey one, it reminds me of bed sheets l had as a kid and just loved…:0) xx
Thanks Nikki. Isn’t it funny the memories we keep!
Oh Kelly! These are all fabulous!! Enough to make me want to pull out this set and CAS all of them right now 🙂
Thanks Tanya. This was a fun stamp set to hop with.