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Friday 29 July 2016

...Petite Patisserie and some shiny blog candy


ED - the winner of the blog candy was:
This is such a darling set! Love the cake shop images and the sentiments. Your card is so amazing. Thanks for sharing the tip sheet. - Hussena, pop me a message on Fb or an email at claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com with your addy and I'll get your sparkly bits out to you!! Thank you to all who played along! I appreciate the comments!

Morning! You missed a great party at Stamp TV last night! Gina K released a whole bunch of new stamps and some of mine were in that mix! This card features one of my newest sets, Petite Patisserie! I am in love with this little cake shop! I'm in love with cake shops generally, and my current fave is Le Petit Parisien, a great little place in Wicklow St, Dublin, Ireland. If you are curious, you can see them here. I try to call in here for a cuppa if I'm in Dublin, which should be way more often...

The stamp set is a brand new set, available in clear photopolymer from Gina K's store here. This image shows you all of the stamps in the set:


For my card above, which I shared at the party last night, I used the main shop image. I stamped the image a few times on separate pieces of cardstock and then coloured with copics. I trimmed out the window shapes with a craft knife and then popped the matching cake stand and chandelier in behind the openings, I love the depth this gives. I also stamped the Patisserie sign and trimmed that out, popping it up on the roof. I was really chuffed with this set and I have loads more samples to show you. Pop by over the next couple of days to see!


Inside my card I added a simple panel. I used the larger of the cake stand images and added the interior sentiment underneath it. I love colouring those little croissants and buns and doughnuts! The delicate font choices suit my idea of fine dining...lol!


Just for inspiration, I made up this tip sheet - it shows a few examples of how the stamps from the set can be arranged to give nice little scenes, I really hope you like it! The store stamp is shown in black and all the other little co-ordinating stamps in orange. You can achieve these looks with simple stamping and/or a combination of simple masking or layering by trimming images out. There are FOUR different 'shop signs, so you could have yourself a little street! My current fave is the itty bitty curtains, check out the Caffetteria below!


I'd love to know what you think, so shoot me a comment on this post and I will pick a random winner on Sunday night to win a prize...lemme see, what can I give you....(rummaging in a drawer...) ah yes - how about some shiny things, I have some pretty sequins here left over from WMS - I will pop out 5 little baggies of sequins to one random commenter. It could be any combination of coloured sequins or maybe some shaker mix (pictured below) if I can find it!

24 comments:

  1. Adorable! Love how you can customise this!

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  2. Fabulous stamp set! Cute card!

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  3. What a darling stamp set! Brings up so many wonderful memories - my husband and I always went to cafes.

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  4. What a wonderful new set Claire - I can tell it's your design with all the sweet details - love all the fun options to fill the window display! Julia xx

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  5. This is one of the cutest "shoppes" set I have seen! I love the accessories and the overall size of the store. I sure hope there will be more to this series.

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  6. Love this set - and all the sayings. So many options for cards for all ages. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

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  7. adorable!! love this set so much; it is already on the way. By the way, please do not send me any sequins. I have more than I will ever use...

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  8. What an absolutely darling card! It's the next best thing than actually visiting a candy store! Thanks for the chance to win some "candy"!

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  9. WOW ! I am so happy to see your new stamp set ! It is so sweet and yummy ! I need to order some new stamps now !

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  10. Oh I love this set of stamps. Fantastic inspiration too!

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  11. I tried to comment yesterday but got an

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  12. Error message - this is just so super adorable!!! lOVE LOve LOVE!!!

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  13. This is such a darling set! Love the cake shop images and the sentiments. Your card is so amazing. Thanks for sharing the tip sheet.

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  14. Lovely set Claire, and so versatile, and your card is adorable

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  15. I love the stamp set and your card is so cute! Lovely colours.

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  16. Great stamp set! So happy for you that you are now a member of such a great team (although still a bit sad about WMS).

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  17. I love the detail in this set. So many possibilities.

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