Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Friday 10 January 2020

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:

 "NEW YEAR OR NEW BEGINNINGS eg new baby, new home, new job or even new craft stash".

Here is my inspiration post with that theme. 

With being the Design Team Leader for both the Blog Challenge and Facebook Challenge I like to keep all my notes in one place so I decorate a notebook to use for the year.

The notebook was painted with white gesso and then two coats of Hobbycraft gold acrylic paint.  Once dry I sanded back areas to show the white to make it look distressed.

This year I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Poppy in Blue".  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers, highlighted areas with my white Posca pen and inked around the edge with Tim Holtz's Tea Dye distress ink.

Last year I won a challenge and was sent a prize.  Sadly it didn't arrive but a few months later another package arrived with some Studiolight dies and stamps as Jolanda felt bad that I'd not received the first prize so for my decorated notebook I have used the Studiolight die with like the page ripped out of a notebook and used the fancy die both ends of the mat and inked all around with the Tea Dye distress ink.

For my birthday I got some mdf die-cuts from a friend and one said "Hello" so I thought I would use it so I could say hello to 2020.  I used a gold pen to colour the image putting on two layers.

I have used various die-cuts:  the numbers "2020" were cut out twice in gold and cream so I could layer up for some dimension; John Next Door greenery die-cut and Sara Davies' mesh die-cut (from her nautical range).

I have finished the book cover off with a fabric butterfly, stamped Sheena Douglas poppy (which I did four layers of for dimension) and a button.

Last year my decorate notebook I added fibres and ribbons to it but sometimes I fold a book over like this and couldn't do it so this year it is fibres and ribbon free!!

I am entering this decorated notebook into the following challenges: 

Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything goes

Moving Along with the Times - All things new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)

Classic Design Challenge - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything goes

Love to Scrap - Anything goes
Digi Doodle Studio - Something new (new decorated book for my design team work)
Cardz 4 Galz - Haberdashery (button)
Craft Rocket - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Crafty Friends - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
Let's Craft and Create - Anything goes with the option of "love is in the air"
Dragonfly Dreams - Anything goes
Always Fun - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to make it shiny
Get Creative - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
Incy Wincy - Anything goes
Simon Says - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
A Place to Start - Anything goes with the option of CAS
Make my Monday - Anything but square
Creative Craft Cottage - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Something new (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes
Simon Says - Fun with Florals
Penny's Paper - Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - New beginnings (new decorated book for the start of 2020 to keep all my design team information in)
Through the Purple Haze - Anything goes
CRAFT - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Embellish! (flower and button)
Ally's Angels - Anything goes
Creative Fingers - Anything goes

QKR Stampede - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the optional twist of animals

Polkadoodles - Anything goes