Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration Post - Monday 10 January 2022

Today is the day for me to show you another creation for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group.

Our challenge this month is:

"SOMETHING NEW eg NEW YEAR or NEW HOME or NEW JOB or NEW CRAFTY ITEMS TO USE".

This week the Design Team were challenged to "MAKE IT SPARKLE eg gems, sequins, glitter, mica, sparkle glitter drops etc".

Here is my inspiration post with that theme.

Recently on the television I saw a Tando Creative show on The Craft Store with a MDF hanger and stand.  I thought this would be perfect to use for keep an eye on birthday/other cards needed throughout the year.  In the set you get the MDF box, 12 hanging tags and 12 loop hanging tags and finally the bolt.  As you can see below I have not been well enough to finish the box but will do as soon as I can.

For my first tag for January I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Iris Mermaid - Greyscale".

I have coloured the image in with Promarkers, add Sakura Stardust clear sparkle pen to her tail as a mermaid needs a sparkly tail doesn't she and finally I edged the image with Tim Holtz's Peacock Feathers distress ink.

I painted the tag both sides  with white gesso and then a turquoise blue acrylic paint.  I then stamped the background with some Trudie Howard Sentimentally Yours fish stamps with some pearlescent Brilliance ink pads in blue and black.  I have had these since I first started crafting and they are still juicy and sparkly.  I used my Tim Holtz stamping platform and inked the images twice to get a good silhouette.  I finished the background off with some dotty stamps to look like bubbles.

I then used a font on the computer to generate the "JANUARY", added an "ahoy" die-cut and finally a die-cut seagull.

Here is where the hanger will eventually hang so I can keep an eye on cards that I need to make throughout the year.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Pearly Sparkles - January blues
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes with the option to use a die
We Love Stamping - Anything goes with the option of wings
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes
Morgan's Artworld - Anything goes
Cute as a Button - Anything goes
QKR Stampede - Anything goes
Love to Scrap - Anything goes
Love to Craft - Anything goes
Mix it Up - Anything goes with the option of foiling
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes
A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything goes
Creatalicious - Anything goes with the option to use something new
Jan's Digi Stamps - Anything goes
Crafting Happiness - Anything goes
Unicorn Challenge - Layer it up
Passion for Markers - January blues
Digi Choosday - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes with the option of get well
Paper Funday - Anything goes with the option of winter landscapes
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
Classic Design Challenge - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Simon Says - Something new (my something new is my tag holder and tags that will be completed throughout the year.  Each tag will have an image etc on the front and details of the cards I need to make that month ie for birthdays, anniversaries and weddings etc)
Craft Rocket - Use dies
Krafty Chicks - Stamp act
CD Sunday - Anything goes (digital image used)
Crafty Calendar - Anything goes
Di's Digi Challenge - Try/Use something new (I have used a new tag banner stand to decorate the tags for birthday details for each month can be added on the back of the tag with decoration on the front)
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Through the Purple Haze - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the option of clean and simple
Colour Crazy - Anything goes
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Allsorts - Anything goes with the option to use something new (I have used a new tag banner stand to decorate the tags for birthday details for each month can be added on the back of the tag with decoration on the front)
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes