Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Monday 11 January 2021

Today is the day for me to show you my first creation for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group for January 2021.

Before I do I'd like to remind you that our challenge this month is:

"HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY” eg Happy New Year or Happy Birthday or Happy Christmas or even happy to get new crafting goodies.

This week the Design Team were challenged to "LET'S GO NEUTRAL" eg white/cream/black/grey or brown.

Here is my inspiration post with that theme.  

I personally found this a very hard challenge but it's not a challenge if all the time the topics are easy is it?

With being the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Blog and Facebook Challenge Design Team Leader I need a book every year to write all my notes in.

This started off as a plain black spiral bound notebook from Sainsburys.

I started off with tearing up and screwing up bits of tissue paper and sticking on the front to add some texture and dimension.  I then used various gold/copper/brown/black inks with lots of different texture stamps and stamped onto the tissue paper background to add some detail.

The Ching-Chou Kuik image I have used is called "Misty Moon" and I have coloured the image in with shades of brown/gold/rust/greys.  I added my Crafters Companion Stardust clear pen to the wings of the fairy.  I then used a pearlescent gold for the moon and a pearlescent silver Pan Pastel for the background.  I have just finished the image off with some Posca white dots.

I wanted the image to be the focal point so I have just added a die-cut clock, threads attached to the spiral binding and have then cut out "welcome" and "2021" 4 times and stuck on top of each other for dimension.

I am all ready now for my Design Team work for 2021.

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

Creative Craft Cottage - Must use a digi stamp

Creative Moments - Anything goes

Creatalicious - Anything goes with the option of good luck and charms

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Krafty Chicks - Stamp act (digital stamp used)

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the optional twist of food and/or drink

Polkadoodles - Anything goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Ally's Angels - Anything goes