Using Stampin' Up's Boys Will Be Boys. A Whole Weekend of Fun! Day Two.

Hello,

If you were here yesterday you would have seen I made a couple of cards using my favourite retiring stamp set Boys Will Be Boys. I made them for my part in yesterday's Jems "retiring products" blog hop. Did you hop here yesterday? If so, I hope you also enjoyed hopping around to see the other favourites of the lovely ladies in the Jems team? 

If you missed yesterday's post you can find it HERE.

So, when I was making the cards for the hop I got a tad carried away and ended up making four cards so I thought I'd save these two to share with you today :-) Take a look...

I'll start with the Robot card.
 So, I really wanted to use this stamp for something other than kids birthdays! I was going to give this to my hubby for our anniversary but I was so excited by it that I showed him, by accident! Doh!
Sentiment is from Words of Truth, love the typewriter font and the kind, encouraging words of this set and I used Chalk Lines (sold out) again for the hearts in the background.

I heat embossed this fella in silver for this card, heat embossing makes the colouring much easier ;-). I do love to watercolour this little robot but I always seem to end up colouring him using Smoky Slate - I suppose if it ain't broke....

And a top view to finish. I think this is my favourite of the four....

And similar to yesterdays Lego card I masked, stamped and heat embossed the Lego, except this time I masked the outer edges instead of across the middle. Then I coloured this one for a little boy in Pool Party, So Saffron and Mint Macaron.
 I like to use SU! thick white card to stamp, then colour all the Boys will Be Boys images.
I'm no artist and my colouring skills are basic at best, but you can find a simple VIDEO HERE on how I watercolour them, if you'd like :-)

More Chalk Lines stamps frame around the edges of the Lego and I stamped the sentiment onto vellum and heat embossed it in silver before tearing it.
Unfortunately found it didn't show up very well on it's own so my TIP: is use a little Smoky Slate ink and a sponge on the reverse of the vellum, this just makes the sentiment stand out a bit better :-)

and one more look at this card.

If you would like to see the other two cards in this series from yesterday, you can pop back HERE.
To see all the cards I have made using the Boys Will Be Boys stamps please click HERE, scroll and click "Older Posts" to see them all.

And here all four of this weekends makes together, to finish today :-)

Thanks so much for looking today, I'll be back tomorrow with something new!

'Till then,

Stampin' Hugs,

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Products Used to create this project:

Boys Will Be Boys Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Boys Will Be Boys Wood-Mount Stamp Set	Words Of Truth Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Words Of Truth Wood-Mount Stamp Set	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder	Aqua Painters	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad
Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock	Smoky Slate A4 Cardstock	Smoky Slate Thick Baker’s Twine	Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper	Stamping Sponges	Vellum A4 Cardstock	White Stampin' Emboss Powder

Using the Boys Will Be Boys Robot by Stampin' Up! with a Watercolour Emboss Resist

Hello,

Firstly today can I say a really big thank you for all the kind and sweet comments I had yesterday on my mis-counted, so bonus sixth day in my {Five days of} Botanical Blooms Series ;-) I had the most likes ever on Instagram for this card and lots of nice comments on Facebook too, so thank you!

 So, today I have a new card for you, it's one I made a little while ago but I am really loving the watercolour look right now and it's really everywhere, so here's my attempt at watercolour emboss resist with that cute lil' robot from Boys Will Be Boys....

I stamped the robot with versamark on watercolour paper and heat embossed it in white before washing over using an aqua painter, first in Soft Sky, then Marina Mist and finally a touch of Night Of Navy to get this look.

Once it was dry I off-set the watercolour paper panel on the slightly larger Soft Sky panel.

I used Timeless Textures to make a subtle background behind the main image.

And added some silver thread. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.
TIP: To make this cute silver stud I coloured a perfect accents spot using a silver sharpie.

and a side view to finish today

Well, I hope you liked this card, I adore this stamp set and I have all my fingers and toes crossed that it will stay in the new catalogue!! This is one set I'll be keeping in my stash though, whatever ;-)
That's all from me for today, thanks for looking

Stampin' Hugs,

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Products Used to create this project:

Boys Will Be Boys Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Boys Will Be Boys Wood-Mount Stamp Set	Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Timeless Textures Wood-Mount Stamp Set	Aqua Painters	Watercolor Paper	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad
Marina Mist Classic Stampin' Pad	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad	Silver Metallic Thread	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad	Smoky Slate A4 Cardstock	Multipurpose Liquid Glue	Stampin' Trimmer

Pool Party Robot using Stampin' Up's Boys Will Be Boys stamp set

Hello there,

Today's card is another using the adorable, ahem, I mean cool robot from Boys will be Boys. It's no secret I love this little stamp set and I think it's great value too if you have little (and not so little) boys around. Of course you can easily use it for girls cards (SEE HERE) but it is just fab for those tricky males. Lets see.... 

I do have a little video tutorial on how I watercolour this little robot (and more), if you want you can SEE IT HERE 

This card uses a strip of torn paper from the Cherry on Top paper stack wrapped with bakers twine and the sentiment is from the set punched with the washi label punch ;-)

and I couldn't resist adding some White Perfect Accents enamel dots too...

I used a Bermuda Bay base and added a Basic Grey layer too.

 And a final, top view for you to finish today.

 Well, that's it from me for tonight, I'm off to work now but I'll be back tomorrow with another make :-)

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Products Used to create this project:

Boys Will Be Boys Wood-Mount Stamp Set	Boys Will Be Boys Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Bermuda Bay Baker's Twine	Bermuda Bay A4 Cardstock	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock	Basic Gray A4 Cardstock	White Perfect Accents
Cherry On Top Designer Series Paper Stack	Jet Black Stazon Pad	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad	Aqua Painters	Washi Label Punch