Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 96 - Spots and Stripes

 Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. There's a new challenge today on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog where the theme this time is 'spots and stripes'.

I made a card for a lovely friend using the gorgeous new Profile Face Right Dinky Stamp Set and the Mixed Media Template Set Profile Face Right these are for sale at an incredible price at the moment.

I started off this project with a left over gel print that had some splashes of gold paint in with some pink and peach toned distress Oxide inks. I'm enjoying using some WOW Pearl Gold Sparkle embossing powder at the moment as it's the first one I've found that keeps it's sparkle. I used it for the spots element of the challenge sponging embossing ink through a medium spot stencil and then embossing with the powder. 

The stripes element is added by scraping out some stripes with a craft knife from the gold cardstock which has kraft core and I really like the texture this gives. The colouring is Prismacolor Pencils over a base of Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in Nougat and Terracotta.

I hope you'll join us in the challenge, there's a lovely prize from Kim for the winner.

Have a great weekend!

Chris x

Paperbabe Stamps December Release - Fabulous Everything!

Hi everyone, I'm back today with my sample for the final gorgeous sentiment set from Kim at Paperbabe Stamps which is on sale from tomorrow with the other sets and is

Fabulous Everything! 

Once again a great large solid stamp of the word together with the beautiful swirly outline stamp and lots and lots and lots of small words to make a card for every fabulous occasion.

 To achieve this effect for the Fabulous word I first inked up the diagonal stripe kissing strip then I touched my fabulous solid stamp onto the kissing strip to pick up the inky pattern and stamped it onto white card (Kim has a lovely photo step by step on how to do this on Paperbabe Stamps blog today). Next I inked up the swirly outline with embossing ink and positioned it over the stamped fabulous then stamped down. I used some WOW turquoise embossing powder which is a really gorgeous fresh colour and heated it to melt then I cut the sentiment out leaving a border around the edge.

The background panel is made up by stamping the various outline clouds from the High in the sky set in black ink and I also stamped the rest of the sentiment stamps that I wanted to use from the Fabulous Everything set. I added some silk ribbon around the panel and mounted on dimension foam over the card base then added the fabulous cut out and finished off by embellishing with silver sequins.

Gorgeous inspiration from Kim is over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog and more details about the stamps. I'm back tomorrow for release day with some absolutely gorgeous Paperbabe Stamps winter cute! Thanks for your lovely comments, they always make my day!