Pretty Cute Stamps Blog: A Jawsome Day!

Karla here today! I am LOVIN' playing with these adorable stamps from Pretty Cute Stamps! I am so honoured to be on the Design Team with all the other super talented members, and I am so excited to be able to bring you all some inspiration!

For my first Design Team post I chose the super cute stamp set Jawsome to work with. I love all the coordinating sentiments - so many possibilities! Here in Canada our summer seems so short, so I want to enjoy every minute of it - seeing this palm tree made me think of a hot, holiday getaway and I had to use it in coordination with a Polaroid photo scene.

I created my own background by stamping a bunch of the sentiments with Pumice Stone Distress Ink on a gray paper to create a tone-on-tone effect.

I stamped this cute shark on white paper and used Prismacolor Markers, which are alcohol based, to colour him in. I pieced my background together - the sky is a white cardstock sponged with Distress Inks in pink and orange to create a sunset sky, the water is a patterned paper I cut with 'wave' scissors that I've had in my stash for-EVER, lol and edged with Salty Ocean Distress Ink, and the sand is an embossed piece of paper using Shabby White Stampendous embossing powder - I love the flecks of gold in it!

I popped up the frame, which I cut with my Cricut Gyspy, and the shark head to give some dimension.

I couldn't resist making just one more! I used the cute girl hammerhead shark for this one, layering the background as above and using some Simple Stories papers. She is so sweet!

I coloured her in with Prismacolor Markers again and added a little coloured pencil blush to her cheeks. I tucked her in between the waves and popped the top of her head and her tail up with foam dots.