Simon Says Monday Challenge - Bold Stamping

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend. I'm scraping in on the last moments of this week's challenge at Simon Says Monday Challenge which Bold Stamping - Boldly Go.

I realises I hadn't added this bird house to my blog yet and as stamping onto wooden 3d items is always a bold challenge I thought it would fit the theme :-).

I painted several layers of Paperartsy paints onto the wood and sanded back through them here and there so that several of the colours showed through. The stamping is done with chalk inks which I dried off with a heat gun and afterwards sprayed over with a sealer. The roof is embossed with multiple colours of stampendous embossing powders and I've wired some die cut and glittered flowers and leaves for the top of the house which can be bent and shaped to suit. I stamped with a lovely Crafty Individuals stamp set and a Kaisercraft texture stamp.

Enjoy your day.

Chris x

 

 

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Craft Barn DT project - Handmade flowers

Hi everyone! It's all about handmade flowers on the Craft Barn Blog today and Dawn has done a lovely step by step on how she makes her beautiful blooms which can be downloaded from the Craft Barn website as a pdf if you'd like to make them. My DT friends have also made their own gorgeous versions of handmade flowers so there's plenty of inspiration.

I made a poinsettia flower as part of my shadow box frame using Sizzix Alterations Tattered leaves die which I've seen around on the internet beautifully done using fabric to make it. My flower is made from cream card and spritzed with distress ink and mica powder mixtures. The materials list and how I made it details are all on the Craft Barn blog. Have a lovely Friday.

Colour Create #38 – It’s our birthday

Hi everyone, it’s all celebration on Colour Create this challenge as we’re now one year old! There are fantastic prizes from our very generous sponsors including sets of stamps from Whimsy Stamps and Michelle’s Scrapbooking (a discount on purchases too!). There are also guest designer spots as part of the prize and blog candy on some of my DT friends blogs, and even nicer is our friend Tara and founder of the challenge is joining us with her gorgeous DT card for this challenge, hope you’ll pop over and join the party.

As my part of the prize I’ll be offering two single digital images from my digi shop and the winner will be randomly chosen from the commenters on this post.


Our colours for this challenge are red, white/off white, chocolate and pink and were picked by our lovely Di. Thanks Di it’s a gorgeous combo. The option this time is to use hearts and silver.

I’ve made a Valentine gift set. The little bird house gift box was made using a very sweet template from the MagnoliaINK magazine #1 and was very easy to put together. I stamped it with a Crafty Individuals music background stamp in walnut stain distress ink and also used some Crafty secrets stamps from the birds set. All the edges of the bird house and card are sponged with walnut stain and fired brick distress inks. There are some heart scalloped die cuts on the roof, a die cut frame on the circle entry, die cut and glittered hearts and buttons and all topped off with the big red ribbon bow. The card is made with the same stamps with the addition of the Tim Holtz love and frame stamps, flowers and punched leaves. For the silver element I’ve used silver stickles glue. The left side of the roof lifts up to put the gift inside, I’ve got red heart chocolates in mine. TFL and see you tomorrow with my DU2DS card.

Colour Create 37 – soft pink, soft blue, white and silver

Hi everyone, a card today for our new challenge on Colour Create and a gorgeous colour combo chosen by our lovely Jo of soft pink, soft blue, white and silver which is gorgeous and is my new current favourite :D, thanks Jo!  As always there’s amazing inspiration from my DT friends and a prize from our sponsor Stretch and Bubbles so I hope you can join us.
The bird postcard stamp is by Crafty Individuals as is the postmark stamp at the top right. All I’ve done to colour is sponge with distress inks and then dripped some water onto the ink for water marks to give an aged look. The background paper is BasicGrey and some book print which has been glimmer misted in blue and pink. I also glimmer misted the lace and the ruffled paper flower made from scalloped nestie circle dies and there’s a video ‘how to’ for these cute flowers here on Dawn McVey’s blog. To finish I added the Tim Holtz adage ticket, some prima crystal swirls, the pink ribbon and buttons.
Thank you as always for the lovely you comments you leave, you’re all so sweet and I appreciate them very much. Take care and see you tomorrow with my DU card. TFL.

Basic Grey 10 – Colour Combo

 

Hi everyone, hope you’re all well and getting organised for Christmas, I don’t know where the time is going, the weeks are speeding by so fast! A card today for BasicGrey Challenges and a lovely colour combination this time of cream, pink and blue. Fantastic inspiration awaits you from my DT friends so I hope you can join us. This is the last challenge until 9th January as we’re having a little break over Christmas and as always there’s a lovely prize on offer as long as you use a BasicGrey product on your creation.
I’ve gone for a cream card blank, mat layer and the centre of the heart for the cream part of the colour combo and used BG Wisteria paper for the blue with nestie die cuts, ribbon and pearls for the pink. The gorgeous Christmas stamp is from Crafty Individuals and I’ve stamped it and then sponged with Ranger distress inks in Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Broken China and then added some stickles to the wings. Sentiment stamp is by Woodware and there’s some doodling with a pink sparkle gel pen. Hope you have a lovely weekend. TFL.