Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps - New release

  Today sees the arrival of two new images in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

 In this Halloween set of images you will get "Exotic October" and "Halloween Duo".

 This set of images is available in the Etsy Store at a special introductory price of $4.00 (original price of $6.00).

Hurry as this offer ends on 31 August 2019.

Good Luck Card

Here is a good luck card I made using a kit by Janet Briggs, CraftsUPrint called "How Old ROFL".  He looks such a mischievous character.  The funny thing is that I purchased this kit and made the card and found out that the recipient actually has a dog like this but just a different colour - strange or what?

In this kit you get a topper, decoupage and lots and lots of sentiments.  I printed the kit out twice so I could do lots and lots of decoupage inside and out as the card was being hand delivered to someone at work.

I finished the card quite simply as this cute dog needed to do all the talking so I just added a stamped sentiment, ribbon and a button.

I was quite nervous about giving the card but the recipient LOVED IT!!!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creatalicious - Anything goes with the option of sparkle
Crafty Friends - Add some embellishments (ribbon and button)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Alphabet Challenge - K is for kind thoughts (I hope good luck is OK)

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

Allsorts - Feminine

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 23 August 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 "FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS".

Here is my inspiration post with that theme.

For my birthday card this week I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Papillon".  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and made the background with chalks.

The backing papers are from my stash.

I recently won a goodie bag over at the Allsorts Challenge Blog to celebrate their birthday.  Part of my goodie bag included a flowers quilling set so I have used one of the flowers dies, quilled them and made these flowers which I have added pearls to the centre.

I have finished the card off with some Sue Wilson die-cut greenery, wide navy lace and a die-cut sentiment.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal 

Hair - Caramel, Cocoa, Cinnamon

Dress - Arctic Blue, Sky Blue and Azura

Dog - Pastel Blue, Coral, Ice Grey 1, 2, 3 and 4.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to create or decorate a container

Crafty Calendar - Anything goes

Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Crafty Critters - Anything goes with critters

Craft Rocket - Anything goes

Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge - Anything goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything goes

Cute as a Button - Anything goes with the option of anything to do with summer

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything goes

Brown Sugar - Anything goes

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything goes

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Animal

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Penny's Paper - Anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Face it

Creative Moments - Anything goes with the option of lovely ladies

QKR Stampede - Anything goes

Polkadoodles - Anything goes

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps - New release

 Today sees the arrival of a new image in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

 This image is called "Little Magic".

In this set you will get a black-and-white image and one partially coloured by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.

 It is at a special introductory price of $2.80 (original price of $4.00).

Hurry as this offer ends on 25 August 2019.

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 16 August 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 "FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS".

Here is my inspiration post with this theme.

For my birthday card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Greyhound".  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers.

I decided to try a Dutch Fold card today.  I think if I did one again I'd try another way of doing it but overall I am pleased with the result even if it did need a little tweaking!!!  For my card I have gone with a purple and black colour scheme.  The purple foiled paper I have used is from a paper pad from The Works.

I have finished the card off with lots and lots of Die-cut flowers and greenery, ribbon and a stamped sentiment.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal 

Hair - Sandstone, Cinnamon and Caramel

Greyhound - Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 2 and Ice Grey 3

Flowers/greenery - Orchid, Amethyst, Purple, Leaf Green and Bright Green.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Crafty Critters - Anything goes with critters

Craft Rocket - Anything goes

Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge - Anything goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything goes

Brown Sugar - Anything goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to create or decorate a container

Crafty Calendar - Anything goes

Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything goes

Get Creative - Anything goes

Let's Craft and Create - Anything goes with the option of entwined

Unicorn Challenge - Fully loaded or CAS (fully loaded for me!!)

Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes (congratulations on your 100th challenge - here's to the next 100!!)

Ally's Angels - Anything goes

Crafty Friends - Lace/ribbon

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - Dies and/or punches (dies used for the flowers and greenery)

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Punches and dies (dies used for the flowers and greenery)

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything goes

QKR Stampede - Anything goes

Polkadoodles - Anything goes

Are you having a Giraffe? Hope your birthday is as special as you are Son

Here is the card that I have made for my eldest son's 27th birthday (oh that does make me feel old!!).  He has a good sense of humour so a giraffe wearing posh glasses will suit him.

Virtually all of the card I have used the stamp set from Pink Ink Designs called "Giraffe".  I like the way that you have the main image and other smaller images to "set the scene".

For the first mount of the card I stamped various leaf stamps from the set which I also repeated inside the card.  The larger of the leaf stamps I coloured in with Promarkers.  For the top mount I stamped the giraffe (and stamped the head again onto a spare piece of card so I could do decoupage of the head) and then used two of the stamps from the set using 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation stamping of the leaf stamp.  I have coloured the giraffe in with Promarkers and highlighted areas with my white Posca pen.

I then decided to do some very intricate work as I wanted the giraffe to have proper "posh" glasses.  My son wears glasses and when he buys new ones he is very particular on the ones he gets.  I have stamped the glasses onto card, cut the lenses out, glued on acetate and left to dry, cut around the shape of the glasses which was quite hard and then added red stripes to the glasses so he ended up with red-white-blue glasses.  Sticking them on proved a challenge as I wanted them to stick up so I glued the frame at the bottom and at the top and when dry just gently pushed up the sides of the glasses and weighed down for some hours with a paperweight.

I then stamped lots of the leaf and flower stamps, coloured them in with Promarkers, cut them all out and used them to decorate inside and outside of the card.

The card is finished off with a sentiment off the stamp set "Are you having a Giraffe?", a happy birthday sentiment with another stamp "son" added to the bottom and some gorgeous gingham ribbon.

The Promarkers that I have used are:

Giraffe - Honeycomb, Pumpkin, Spice, Leaf Green and Bright Green

Flowers and leaves - Leaf Green, Bright Green, Honeycomb, Pumpkin, Spice and Blue Pearl
Glasses - Indigo Blue and Poppy.

Fingers crossed my son likes his card as it took many hours to make.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes

Craft Rocket - Anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - 3+ layers

Creatalicious Challenge - Anything goes with the option of to distress it

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes

Cute as a Button - Anything goes with the option of anything to do with summer

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything goes

Brown Sugar - Anything goes

Let's Craft and Create - Anything goes with the option of entwined

Unicorn Challenge - Fully loaded or CAS (fully loaded for me!!)

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to create or decorate a container

Get Creative - Anything goes

Crafty Calendar - Anything goes
Incy Wincy - Fantasy (giraffes are not orange with leaf and scroll prints over them and don't go around with glasses on!!!)

Double D Challenge - It's a jungle out there
Creative Moments - Anything goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes
More Mixed Media - Anything goes with the option of bright (very bright for me!!!)
QKR Stampede - Anything goes
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes (congratulations on your 100th challenge - here's to the next 100!!)
Ally's Angels - Anything goes
Crafty Friends - Lace/ribbon
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
Digi Choosday - Anything goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps - New release

 Today sees the arrival of a new image in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

 This image is called "Nocturnal Sparkle".  

In this set you will get a black-and-white image and a grayscale image.

 It is at a special introductory price of $3.00 (original price of $4.00).

Hurry as this offer ends on 18 August 2019.

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 9 August 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 "FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS".

Here is my inspiration post with this theme.

For my birthday card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Purple Night Adventure - Grayscale" (which comes in a set along with "Lavender Night Adventure - Grayscale" and "Daisy Night Adventure - Grayscale").  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers.

The backing papers are from my 6x6 stash.

I have finished the card off with some wide blue satin ribbon, white lace, white satin ribbon, bought flowers I was given which I inked with a blue and a grey chalk ink pad to match the colour scheme, sentiment and some Sue Wilson die-cut greenery.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal 

Hair - Cinnamon, Caramel and Cocoa

Wings - Sunkissed Pink, Coral and Antique Pink

Dog - Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 2 and Ice Grey 3

Flowers/leaves/mountains/sun - Duck Egg, Turquoise, Bright Green, Leaf Green Buttercup, Ivory, Primrose, Pastel Blue

Background - Powder Blue.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes (congratulations on your 4th anniversary)

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to create or decorate a container

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - Flower power

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Creative Moments - Anything goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Simon Says - Add a die-cut (Sue Wilson die-cut greenery)

Colour Crazy Challenge Blog - Friday 9 August 2019

  It is time for another challenge over at the Colour Crazy Challenge Blog.

The topic this week is "anything goes".

PLEASE NOTE:  We are a colouring challenge and therefore to take part in the challenge you MUST have coloured something on your card/creation and you MUST specify the colouring medium you have used.

This week we are being sponsored by "A Day for Daisies".

I decided to make another Christmas card ready for December.  I have used the A Day for Daisies image called "Gentle Baby".  I have coloured my image in with Promarkers.

The backing papers I have used are from Hobbycraft.

I have finished the card off quite simply with some gold trim ribbon and a sentiment from a Debbi Moore CD.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal 

Mary - Cinnamon, Tan, Putty, Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 2 and Ice Grey 3

Baby Jesus - Terracotta, Raw Sienna, Ice Grey 1

Background/star - Powder Blue, Yellow and Gold.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes (congratulations on your 4th anniversary)

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Creative Moments - Anything goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas

Creative Inspirations - Something seasonal ( I have gone for Winter ie Christmas time)

CRAFT - Christmas

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps - New release

 Today sees the arrival of a new image in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

 This image is called "Harmony".  

In this set you will get two grayscale images - one lighter and one darker.

  It is at a special introductory price of $3.00 (original price of $4.00).

Hurry as this offer ends on 13 August 2019.

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps August 2019 Facebook Challenge - FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS

Today is the start of the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group Monthly Challenge.

The topic for the Facebook August 2019 challenge is 
"FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS".

Here is my inspiration post with this theme.  

For my birthday card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Red Panda - Grayscale" (it comes in a set along with Gentleness and Autumn Fantasy).  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and distressed around the edge with Tim Holtz's Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink.  I have added white Nuvo drops to the image for the snow falling.

The backing papers are from my stash.  The blue glitter card is from an "Under the Sea" paper pad from Hobbycrafts.

I have finished the card off with a sentiment from a CD, wide orange lace, spotty blue ribbon, die-cut flowers which I have inked around the edges, stamped blue dots onto and added orange buttons to the centre.

The Promarkers that I have used are: 

Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal 

Hair - Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 2 and Ice Grey 3

Panda - Pumpkin, Spice and Burnt Orange

Trees/branches - Sandstone, Khaki, Henna

Background - Royal Blue.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Creative Moments - Anything goes

QKR Stampede - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the optional theme of "on the beach"

Polkadoodles - Anything goes

Di's Digis - Things with wings or a tail

Simon Says - Bright and cheerful

We Love to Create - Anything goes

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Furry friends

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes

Crafty Critters - Anything goes with critters

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes (congratulations on your 4th anniversary)

Pearly Sparkles - Something beginning with "B" (blue, birthday and buttons)

Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge - Anything goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - 3+ layers

Creatalicious Challenge - Anything goes with the option of to distress it

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything goes

Penny's Paper - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Cute as a Button - Anything goes with the option of anything to do with summer

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything goes