Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 22 March 2019

Here is my weekly 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 "SPRING/EASTER".

This week the Design Team were challenged to "USE SOME FLOWERS".

Here is my inspiration post with that theme.

For my bright and cheery card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Autumn's Here".  I have coloured her in with my Promarkers and used pearlescent chalks for a delicate background.

I have used some new Sue Wilson octagonal dies that I got from Christmas "from me to me"!!  I used a sunflower stamp and a toffee Versafine ink pad to stamp the sunflowers onto some yellow card before cutting out with the dies.  I then used kraft card for the card base.  Normally I print four images to a page but to make sure the image would fit in the die I printed two images per page so I had a bit of legroom when placing the image before cutting with one of the plain dies.

From some of the backing paper I made with the stamps I cut out the sunflowers, cut between some leaves, inked around with a brown Versa chalk ink pad, shaped and then added brown seed beads to the centre.

I have finished the card off with some greenery die-cuts which I coloured with a bright green Promarker and a die-cut sentiment.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal

Hair - Cinnamon, Tan and Caramel

Dress - Pastel Pink, Salmon Pink and Blush

Sunflowers/leaves/other flowers - Lemon, Yellow, Cocoa, Umber, Bright Green, Leaf Green and Antique Pink.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Love to Scrap - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything goes

Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge - Anything goes
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything goes
Get Creative - Anything goes with the option of anything but a card
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes
Di's Digi Designs - Tic-tac-toe (1st horizontal line of sentiment, flowers and hand coloured image)
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes
Ally's Angels - Anything goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society - Anything goes with the option of flowers
Crafty Creations - Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes
As You Like It - Favourite - dies or stencils (I have to say I like both but if I had to choose one it would have to be dies.  I love the flexibility of dies as you can use them as a focal point (shaped dies), use them for your sentiments (either the sentiment as a die or as a mount for a stamped sentiment) and as embellishments (like borders, corners, greenery and my absolute favourite making flowers with dies)
Creatalicious - Anything goes with the option of monochrome
A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Shaped cards
Passion for Promarkers - Springtime (flowers and bright and cheery colours)
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Digi Choosday - Anything goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes with the option to use something blue
Crafting by Designs - Blooming flowers
The Paper Shelter - Girl power
Penny's Paper - Anything goes
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Creative Moments - Anything goes
QKR Stampede - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the option of "make it square"
Polkadoodles - Anything goes