Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Monthly Challenge Blog - Kym's Inspiration Post - Monday 3 August 2015

It is Monday and therefore time for me to show you my Inspiration Post for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Monthly Challenge Blog.

Before I do I'd like to remind you that our challenge this month is "a floral display".  This could be that you use an image with flowers, backing papers with flowers, flowers as embellishments or all of these.  It would be lovely if you could take part.

For my card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamp called "Swing in Spring".  I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers and Stickles glitter glue added to the centres of the flowers.  The background around the image is done with some pearlescent chalks for some sparkle.

I decided not to use any bought backing papers or ones generated from CDs etc and instead made my own courtesy of my Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers.

For the background I scribbled various shaded of blue, yellow, pink and green onto a large white tile and spritzed with water.  I then swirled some watercolour card around and returned areas to the tile that hadn't collected colour the first time.  I then flicked some water onto my fingers onto the card, left it a minute and blotted away some of the colour.  I repeated this on some extra watercolour card to make the flowers and sentiment.

I then drew on the tile with a couple of shades of dark pink, spritzed and then used a piece of cut-and-dry foam to colour through my Dutch Doobadoo mesh mask and flower mask.

I recently saw the new Crafter's Companion Inspiration Magazine advertised and I had to have it as it came with a poppy die and stamp.  On the card that I coloured with the Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers I stamped with a red Versafine ink pad and then die-cut the shapes.  In hindsight next time I'd do it the other way by cutting out the shape with the poppy die and then laying this over the inked stamp.  There were a few areas not right so I just snipped them with the scissors.  I then did mountain and valley folds with the poppy layers to add dimension and finished the flowers off with some die-cut greenery and some buttons.

I have finished the card off with a sentiment from the magazine stamps, organza ribbon and a flower shaped button.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
Simon Says Challenge - Anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Use ribbon or twine
The Crafter's Cafe - Use some buttons
Create and Inspire - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
I Love Promarkers - 3 or more layers
Creative Inspirations - Flowers
Fab n Funky - No patterned papers
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything goes
Graph'it - Inspired by florals
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything goes
Simply Create Too - Anything goes
Crafty Calendar - BINGO board (last vertical column of ribbon/lace, blue and buttons)
Paper Creator - Dies and/or punches (die used to cut our sentiment and a Sheena Douglass poppy die used to make the flowers)
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes
A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes
The Ribbon Girl - Card Challenge
Glitter n Sparkle - Anything goes
Love to Create - Anything mixed media/creative/inky goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with option of happy birthday
Come and Get It - Fun in the sun
A Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes/with a twist of water
Spectrum Noir Facebook August Challenge - Anything goes