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Trend: The Circus

October 5, 2009 by Heather Holbrook

image by My Cute Stamps

image by My Cute Stamps

A really fun trend I’ve seen popping up in stamping and paper crafting is the Circus. Use bright primary colors for fun cards and layouts, they are perfect for children’s birthday party invites or for a card for anyone who is young at heart. Here are some fun stamping products I’ve found with a circus theme.

My Cute stamps has an adorable clear circus set:

image by My Cute Stamps

image by My Cute Stamps

Basic Grey also has a wonderful clear stamp set called Build a Clown:

image by Basic Grey

image by Basic Grey

Tim Holtz has a very fun ATC (artist trading card) sized stamp called Circus Freak:

image by Simon Says and Stampers Anonymous

image by Simon Says and Stampers Anonymous

 

and he also has an unmounted circus set:
image by Alphastamps and Tim Holtz

image by Alphastamps and Tim Holtz

here’s a wonderful fun book by Lisa Kettel called Altered Art Circus:

image by Amazon and Lisa Kettel

image by Amazon and Lisa Kettel

And here’s an entire website devoted to the theme called Jim Marcus’ Circustamps:
image by Laura Jacobs and Circustamps

image by Laura Jacobs and Circustamps

 

and lastly here’s a cute card I made using Close To My Hearts Life’s a Jungle set:
image by Heather Holbrook

image by Heather Holbrook

 

-Heather
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Comments

  1. Mark says

    October 5, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Lovely! Love the circus stamp.

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