Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Wednesday 22 July 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:

 "DIE-CUTS OR PUNCHES OR BOTH".

This week the Design Teams were challenged to "PEARLS OR GEMS OR SEQUINS"

Here is my inspiration post with that theme. 

 Here is a little 12.5x18cm canvas I have made to go in my craft room.  I do not do gardening and if I lived on my own I wouldn't be worried if I had no garden.  That said I do have two all time favourite flowers, poppies and sunflowers.  

I wanted to make a bright and cheery canvas so I decided to go with the Ching-Chou Kuik digital image called "Keep in Faith" but before I could finish my canvas a new image was released in the Etsy Store "Keep in Faith - Greyscale" so I had to colour that one and use that image instead.  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and distressed around the edge with Tim Holtz's Mustard Seed and Peeled Paint distress inks.

The background for my canvas took a while as there were so many layers done with my gelli plate and Tim Holtz's Peeled Paint, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade distress inks along with various stamps, stencils and bubble wrap.  I have tried my gelli plate with acrylic paints but it gets too messy with me so at this stage I prefer to use inks.

For Christmas I got some MDF sentiments.  I thought because sunflowers are such a cheery flower I would use the word "Smile" and inked with Spiced Marmalade distress ink and then stamped with a freebie leaf stamp from a crafting magazine with peeled Paint distress ink.

Then I made a sunflower using my Susan's Gardens sunflower die.  They take quite a while to make so I always make three when I do them ie enough for three projects.  I printed off some yellow paper from my Creative Crafting World CD and made sure I printed off onto both sides as I hate seeing flowers with white undersides but that is just me.  For the centres of the petals I used a gold Pan Pastel.  Once the whole sunflower was dry I dipped a small embossing tool into my Cosmic Shimmer Glistening Gold Shimmer Lustre Polish and added dots to the centres of each little bit in the centre of the sunflowers.

I have finally finished off the canvas with some Marianne Designs die-cut swirls which were one of the first dies I got when I started die-cutting, gold thread to hang my canvas and some sequins.

 Here is a picture of my canvas hanging in my craft room.  At least you know now why there was a bit of random thread showing in the first picture!!!

I am entering this altered art canvas into the following challenges: 

Creative Craft Cottage - Add a flower/flowers
Let's Craft and Create - Anything goes with the option of stars and stripes (USA/red, white and blue)
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option of the sentiment as the focus
Love to Scrap - Anything goes
Love to Craft - Anything goes
Through the Purple Haze - Anything goes with the option of planes, trains and automobiles
Classic Design Challenge - Anything goes
Morgan's Artworld - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the option of fairies
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Crafting Happiness - Anything goes
Digi Choosday - Anything goes
World Wide Open Design Team - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes with the option of colour inspiration
Penny's Paper - Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything goes