Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Monthly Challenge Blog - Kym's Inspiration Post - Friday 8 January 2016

Due to a Design Team member leaving I am now posting my inspiration posts on a Friday for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Monthly Challenge Blog.  It's going to take me a long while getting used to as I was panicking on Monday when my project wasn't showing on the blog and then I realised I now post on a Friday!!

Before I do I'd like to remind you that our challenge this month is "Use something new".

For my "Happy New Year" card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik digital stamp called "Let's go party".  I have added Stickles glitter glue to the wings and moon.  I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers and dotted around the image with yellow, pink, blue and green.  It took a very long time to build up the colour but well worth it in the end.

I have used a piece of paper from The Works.

I have die-cut two different clocks and added a stamped sentiment to the larger one.  I have die-cut some flowers and used a new stamp by Finnabair and it is distressed so I used my Tim Holtz's Stormy Sky to stamp it onto the flower layers, scrunched them up, edged with a chalk ink pad and added some buttons.

I have finished the card off with two Marianne Designs die-cuts and ribbon.

So what is "something new"?  That has to be my new distressed stamp, the new chalk ink pad and I recently won a challenge sponsored by Crafty Ribbons and in the order they added some new "Happy New Year 2016" ribbon as a freebie.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the optional twist of CAS card/project

Robyn's Fetish - Anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Not Just Cards - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Ooh La La Creations - Girlie
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes/twist of the winter blues
Love to Scrap - New beginnings (New Year, new distressed stamp and new chalk ink pad)
Crafty Boots - Something old, something new (old is the buttons that I must have had 5+ years and new is New Year, new stamp and new ink pad)
Crafty Musketeers - New beginnings (New Year)
Whoopsi Daisy - New to you!  (New Year, new stamp and new ink pad)
Quirky Crafts - Let's quirky celebrate (New Year)
Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper January Challenge - Anything goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Blog - Anything goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
Cuttlebug Mania - Use the word "new"
Creative Inspirations - Florals
Double D Challenge - Forget me not
Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
Simon Says Challenge - Something new (stamp and inkpad)
Inky Impressions - All things new (stamp and inkpad)
Creative Moments - Anything goes with the optional twist of new beginnings
The Paper Shelter - Punches and/or dies
Ruby's Rainbow - Show us something new (stamp and inkpad)
Fab n Funky - Something new (stamp and inkpad)
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Hey what's new? (stamp and inkpad)
Cardz 4 Galz - Something new (stamp and inkpad)
Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Flowers (I have made two stamped/die-cut flowers)
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Mixed Media Challenge - Blue
Craft Rocket - Happy anything
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Graph'it - Winter blues
Simply Create Too - It's party time!
Spellbinding Stamps - New to you (stamp and inkpad)