Ready Steady Stamp – challenge 10

Hi everyone, I’m just in the knick of time to enter Ready-Steady-Stamp which is the second part of the banner challenge.I’ve made two for this one, I think I need seven all together so will need to get two done for the next two challenges. I’ve added the recipe picture detailing what we needed to do apart from using the colours we picked for the first one and I had fun creating my own stamp from cut and dry foam apart from the fact that I couldn’t find anything very interesting to take an impression of :). In the end I used a sushi rolling mat (sushi rolls are yummy :D ), which is made of thin pieces of bamboo threaded together with string and it worked very well. I used this to stamp the background in a lime green ink on one of the banners and I also used it with darker Peeled paint distress ink for my hand cut out Christmas tree shapes. The patterned papers are by Imaginisce and K&Co., Kraft card is from Elzybells. I stamped some Christmas trees from the Kadoodle Joi de noel stamp set in gold ink on top of the homemade stamped image for the banner on the right, used white eyelets and cream raffia to keep my colours going. Hope you’re having a good week. TFL.

Colour Create 32 – Green, Red and White

Hi everyone, there’s a new challenge on Colour Create today and it’s a gorgeous Christmassy combo chosen by our lovely Mina, thanks Mina, loved this one, these are my favourite Christmas colours. So the colours are green, red and white and the option is Christmas, hope you can join us this time, there’s some amazing inspiration from my DT friends which will make you want to go off and make Christmas cards :D!! Our sponsor for this challenge is Simon Says Stamp so there’s a lovely prize on offer too.
For my card I’ve followed a great sketch on Friday Sketchers which I’m also entering my card into


and I’ve used one of the gorgeous Whiff of Joy gnome stamps, Uru and bird which is coloured with distress inks. The paper is by K&Co from Christmas speciality pad, I’ve sponged all the edges with white ink and done some faux stitching. On the green bazzil card I’ve stamped a magnolia fir tree branch in white ink and then added stickles, I did the same with the flowers but without the stickles. To finish off I added some buttons to the flowers and some chenille fibre to the one at the bottom and a Woodware sentiment stamped in white ink which I’ve gone over with a white gel pen. TFL.

OCC Clear Thinking

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a great Christmas, lots of lovely presents and fun. My card today is for Our Creative Corner where the challenge this week is to add something clear to your project. My clear elements are clear gems and clear glossy accents all over the window in the image panel and on the butterfly which doesn't show up at all in the photograph! The digital images are printed out, allowed to dry for a good while, water coloured with distress inks and the girl on the seat is cut out and attached over the background image. There's lots of stickles dotted around and on the flowers in the paper at the top of the card.

Materials
Image: Girls about town digital download by Louise Brigden from Charmed Cards and Crafts
Colouring: Watercoloured with Distress Inks in black soot, peeled paint, shabby shutters, broken china, scattered straw, frayed burlap, vintage photo, fired brick, dried marigold, spiced marmalade, yellow. Edges and sentiment sponged with black soot and scattered straw.
Paper: K&Co Hydranga pad, white card for base
Embellishments: clear crystal gems, green organza ribbon, glossy accents, stickles

TFL. Back soon,
Chris