Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 15 July 2016

 Here is my weekly inspiration post for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Monthly Challenge Blog. 

The week the Design Team have been given the topic of "make your own background".

Before I do I'd like to remind you that our challenge this month is "YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR".

 I decided to make a mixed media canvas.  I used my very unloved Lyra Watercolour crayons to colour the canvas in various shades of blue to representa a watery background and left to dry overnight.  I then used a dotty mask and some Dutch Doobadoo texture paste which I mixed in some Cosmic Shimmer Aqua Lagoon Pixie Powder to make a light blue paste.  I then left this overnight to dry and then used a Crafter's Companion Textures Stamp and Tim Holtz's Chipped Sapphire distress ink and stamped around the canvas.

Here is a close-up of an area that has the background coloured, the texture paste and then the stamped details.

The image that I have used is Ching-Chou Kuik's "Lilies Commitment" and I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and highlighted areas with my Wink of Stella clear pen and then cut around the image.

The canvas has then been finished off with some cheesecloth, mesh, real shells, die-cut shells/seahorses/greenery, stamped sentiment, pearls and ribbon.

 I am entering this mixed media project into the following challenges: 

More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything goes with the option of pastel colours

Noor! Design UK - Anything goes with the option of chipboard

Crafty Calendar - Punches and/or dies

Delicious Doodles - Beside the Sea

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes

Creative Ladybirds - Anything goes

Altered Eclectics - Anything goes mixed media

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything goes

Little Claire's Challenge - Anything goes

The Pencil Case - Whatever/anything goes

Come and Get It - Make your own background

Robyn's Fetish - Anything with water

The Corrosive Challenge - Nature/animals

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the optional twist to use birds or feathers or both

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Not Just Cards - Colour scheme 

Crafting from the Heart - Always anything goes

A Snowflake's Promise - Summertime (when I think of summer I think of things to do with the seabeach)

Passion for Promarkers - Summer days (when I think of summer I think of things to do with the sea/beach)

Digi Choosday - For the girls

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes

Create and Inspire - Anything goes

As You Like It - Your trademark style and why (I love making CAS cards/projects for those that have to be posted but for those that are hand-delivered or people appreciate the work involved in cardmaking/project making I really prefer/love making more fussy and fancy cards/projects.  Yes they can take a long time to plan/execute but they are so worth it)

Cute Card Thursday - Embossing (all the die-cuts I have used have been embossed)

Aud Sentiments - For a girl and sentiment

QKR Stampede - By the seaside

Crafty Catz - Add some bling (pearls for me)

Polkadoodles - Summer  (when I think of summer I think of things to do with the sea/beach)

Crafting with Friends - Always anything goes

The East Wind - Photo inspiration

Simply Papercrafts - Always anything goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes