CAS at CI

the theme for the group ATC swap was clean and simple - don't think you could get much simpler! 

Stamp set by Crafty Individuals, just black versafine ink on white card

Would like to add this to the challenge at tag-alongandatc  -  things with wings

Tag-along (and ATC's): September - Things with Wings

 following recent radiotherapy treatment, now have enough energy to start sorting out the craft stuff after my son 'tidied up', have now found some of the stamps I've been looking for......also the paints I wanted to use months ago......the charity shop and craft group gained lots of stuff I didn't know I had ( so won't miss it!) and not only can you see the floor there's even space on the desk......

Just playing

 A day of playing with alcohol inks at Tando Creative saw me coming away with a set of perspex tags and ideas.......thanks Di Oliver for a great day!

This is the first result - small tag coloured with blue, green and gold alcohol inks. Then the teasel stamp from Crafty Individuals was stamped in black versafine onto a piece of  leftover card coloured using the shaving foam technique that had lurked in the bit pile for yonks. I wasn't sure how to attach it to the tag, but decided to go with glossy accents, which worked a treat.

I am adding this to the new challenge blog Tag-Along(andATC's) , definitely an interesting take on the challenge theme and thankfully anything goes for the theme

fantasy flower

 card using a fantasy flower stamp from Chocolate Baroque and a stencil from Artisan Design,  - script in the background was an even older clear stamp,  anonymous but so useful!

magnolia

 Decided that I really must get back to doing some crafting  - have partially sorted out the chaos after my son tidied things up while i was in hospital last year, and need to make samples for a WI workshop later on using things I can actually find!

One of my finds was this lovely magnolia stamp from Chocolate Barqoue (think i have found most of my CB stamps now), the butterfly stencil from Aall& create and  anonymous script and music clear stamps that I have used in the background. The image is coloured with kuretake pens

I am linking this to challenges from Stamping Sensations

and We love stamping, both with themes of Hello Spring

collage

 It's been a long time since i shared anything, due to family and then personal illness - life is hopefully getting back to something approaching normal now!

it's also been a long time since I made an ATC, and i couldn/t believe how long it took to make this one....partly due to finding where all the craft stuff was!

This was for a collage challenge using Crafty Individuals stamps - I used the teasel in the background and fussycut the mushrooms 

I couldn't just post an ATC, so this was the card it went with - you can see more of the teasel stamp and the whole of the mushrooms stamp on a piece of brusho card, and very faintly in the background a meadow grasses stamp. The wonky word was handdrawn

measured moments

 Had to have a quick play with this lovely new set from Chocolate Baroque which arrived this week. 

Brusho background overstamped and stencilled with distress oxides, image stamped with versafine clair and coloured with ZIG clean colour pens

Linking to following challenges

the crafty addicts #9 anything goes

paper funday #61 anything goes

we love stamping something new

stamping sensations anything goes

january fairy

 The end of 2023 was pretty hectic, so blogging wne by the wayside - what passes for normal blogging is back now!

My offering today featrues new-to-me fairy tale stamps from Chocolate Baroque https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/january-fairy-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-dl.html and https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/magical-landscapes-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-a5.html plus the leaf stamp from an older set which I think may be discontinued.

I used a brusho background, stamped the castle using grey versafine clair ink and coloured with ZIG clean colour pens. The fairy was stamped on white card, coloured with the pens and metallic pencils and cut out before being seated among the leaves. The leaves were stamped onto more brusho-coloured card , cut out and glued along the borders

i would like to add this to the following challenges

love to craft #78 anything goes

stamping sensations anything goes

we love stamping something new

allsorts #762  anything goes

the crafty addicts #9 anything goes

poppy heart

 today's share is a card using pretty poppies from Chocolate Baroque. I love poppies, and for this one I coloured them the tradional red although I love the big blue variety.

The main image was stamped onto a  piece of white card coloured with brusho powders, painted using clearcolor pens  and then glued onto a whiteboard heart and trimmed.

The background was created using distress oxide inks, stencils from Lavinia and Aall & create and another poppy image from the same set, as is the sentiment

I would like ti add this to the tripleB challenge -birds/blooms/butterflies

over the moon

 Another share using the fab new stamp designs by Fiona Randall for Chocolate Baroque, this time using over the moon, very much a fantasy image but great fun to colour in !

simply stamped in black versafine clair and coloured with cleancolour pens, background inked with distress oxide and randomly stamped round the edges

adding to the following challenges, all with anything goes themes

creative fingers #260

the crafty addicts #04

paper funday #56

stamping sensations august

butterfly moon

 Another post using images from the lovely new  Over the Moon stamps by Fiona Randall for Chocolate Baroque,  - the stamps will be on the website this week.

This was on an 8"x8" base card blank, so quite large. I stamped the smaller image four times, offsetting two of them slightly from the centre. The card background was coloured with distress oxide inks - tumbled glass, broken china and chipped sapphire. Added part of a stencil from Aall&create in the corners using chipped sapphire again and parts of one of the sentiment stamps from the set randomly stamped in the gaps.

The butterfly was stamped twice onto spare card, coloured using cleancolor pens. The flower and leafy bits of the background images were also coloured to match. The butterflies were fussy cut out and glued into place across the centre with foam pads under the wings to give a bit of dimension

I would like to add this to the following challenges

paper dragonfly #20 anything flies

dd tripleb - August bird/butterflies/blooms

the crafty addicts - #04 anyhting goes

paper funday - #56 anything goes

allsorts - all cratures great and small

stamping sensations - anything goes

matchbox

Something a bit out of my comfort zone today! Having bought some matchbox kits from Tando Creative, I decided to use one with the gorgeous new stamps designed by Fiona Randall for Chocolate Baroque. The set I used was reach for the sun, which isn't on their  website yet, but is on the Create & Craft site

The matchbox went together easily and  i painted it black.then stencilled stars and part of a ray image randomly before brushing gold paint round the edges.

I stamped the sun onto black card using versamark ink and embossed it in copper, then fussy cut it out. and painted the ionner ring with sparkly silver watercolour. stamped and embossed again onto white card and cut out the sunface. Glued into place, added the sentiment cut into halves

Did the same for the back of the box,

but using the moon image this time

without the silver paint.

The other stamps from the set were stamped directly onto the painted tiles and embossed in copper

Things to remember for next time 

1 buy the larger size box!

2 use brighter colours

I would like ti link this to creative artiste challenge blog, -anything mixed media goes

memory candle

I made a memory candle using the Over the rainbow stamp set from Chocolate Baroque - the silhouette worked out nicely as we have had 2 all-black cats in the past!

Very easy to do, stamp onto white tissue paper, colour with pens then heat seal; onto the candle.

I would like to add this to these challenges

countryview crafts - 4 legged friends

creativefingers - anything goes

loveto craft - anything goes

paperfunday - anything goes
 

remember your pet day

 Apparently Wednesday 5th July is Remember Your Pet Day - surprising what pops up on facebook, but fits in nicely with my shares today!

I loved using the new- last -month stamps designed by Donna St Pierre for Chocolate Baroque, Heavenly Pets and Over the rainbow and these are some of my makes

The first card uses stamps from over the rainbow, with the rainbow stamped onto a scrap of paper coloured with brusho powders and white embossed. This was cut into an arch shape before the cutout silhouette cat was added. The dog was stamped onto the base card blank along with the sentiment add the arch shape glued on

Here the rainbow was stmaped opnto another brusho background and coloured with pens after stamping the cat. the pawprints in the background are from the same set, as is the sentiment.

Here the three silhouettes were stamped onto another piece of brusho background that uses the feather image from I shall be your wings - sorry, I do love my brusho powders!

They are here again , this time with the feather from Heavenly pets stamped and embossed in white and the dog image cutout and added

The final two cards use the main images from heavenly pets, with brusho again for the background of the dog.The rainbpw image was stamped over this, then the dog angel stamped onto spare card, coloured with pencils and fussy cut out then glued in place.

The cat image was just stamped onto white card and coloured with pencils, but you haven't escaped the brusho curse as the background uses another piece of brusho coloured card

Often it is difficult to know what to use if you want to send a card to someone who has lost a treasured furry friend, but these stamps are perfect

magnolias

 This time a card using the magnolia stamp from Chocolate Baroque again - and this time I have used it the right way up!

The background was created with brusho powders, using leaf green and turquoise on drawing cartridge and cut down to fit a 8"square card blank.

The magnolia was stamped twice down the left side using grey versafine ink. Once the ink was dry, I used bleach on the blossoms and then coloured the image using zig clearcolour pens.

Stamped the magnolia twice onto smooth white card, coloured and fussycut out, then layered over the first images

i would like to add this to the following challenges

stamping sensations - anything goes

corrosive challenges - #4 anything goes

we love stamping - anything stamped

we love 2 create - #3 anything goes

allsorts - wk724 anything goes

my time to craft - #505 easter/spring flowers

March candles

I am addicted to decorating candles, and last month's samples for Chocolate Baroque included two candles.

The first was a candle and matching box using the lovely magnolia stamps from Happy Flowers Day-- and yes, I do know that magnolia flowers are upright, I just like them hanging down| 

I did use the stamp both ways on the box, though......i used zig brushpens to colour the images, they blend beautifully

My second candle used the Year of Stamping  image for
 April, featuring butterflies - I left the background plain and just coloured the butterflies with the zig pens again-  this was a larger candle as the stamp is roughly 6" square.

It looks quite different below as a card using brusho powder in grey!

hummingbird

 a card to share today using the hummingbird image from A vase full of love by Chocolate Baroque.  The stamps was inked with distress oxide pads in salvaged patina and wilted violet and spritzed with water before stamping. Normally I would have overstamped in grey ink to add definition , but this time I decided to leave it as it was - I really liked the pastel effect

adding this to the following challenges

we love stamping - anything stamped

allsorts - anything goes (option of wings)

stamping sensations - anything stamped

timeless

 The saying that older you get the faster time flies is defintely true - at least for me! I meant to add this after the February 3 shows by Chocolate Baroque on Create and craft tv,  and just got round to doing it ...........

This 8x8 card uses a black mount stamped with the dandelion heads from an older set  fragrant honeysuckle and embossed in white and the main image from timeless stamped onto a jigsaw card piece. The jigsaw was partly completed and the remaining pieces scattered about.

adding this to the following challenges

moving alongwith the times - #151 numbers (bit of a stretch, I know, but plenty on the clock                                                            faces!)

through the purple haze- #201 anything goes

creative fingers - #24 always anythng goes

imagination

 Really loved playing with these  stamps from Chocolate Baroque and usiing up a brusho background from my stash at the same time was a bonus!  The background was one of those mop-up pieces that didn't work at the time,. but the drippy effect just fitted this time.

The capital letters were from just useful, but I separated the letters and stamped  them fairly randomly , then outlined them with a fine line pen. The sentiment is from loud and proud, which isn't on the Chocolate Baroque website yet, but is available from Create and Craft

I would like to enter this for the following challenges

we love stamping - anything goes

country view challenges - be sentimental

lets craft and create - use sentiment

if you give a crafter a cookie - use mainly orange

we three kings

 

A traditonal image to share this time, but in the background for a change - all stamps by Chocolate Baroque

Background created with distress oxide inks, star embossed in silver and silver and gold embossing powders scattered randomly about without any versamark and heated - doesn't stay where it started, but I like the random effect!

The kings were stamped using the darkest ink shade from the background , and the words in black. 

The scroll was a piece of paper stained with cold tea, words from gold, frankincense and myrrh stamped in black once the paper was  dry. 

Torn round the edges, top and bottom rolled round a paintbrush, then glued at an angle.

I would like to add this to the following challenges

dragonfly dreams - Christmas

international art and soul -#146 Christmas

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/ - #27 Christmas

stamping sensations - Christmas celebrations

we love stamping - Christmas

crafty hazelnuts challenge - #619 Christmas

christmas angel

It's getting  to the time to really start to think  about Christmas cards - i usually am the one rushing to make the last posting date! With the cost of stamps going up , I am sending fewer cards this year, but will be making them all  ( fingers crossed)

This is a quick card using stamps from Chocolate Baroque, though it does involve masking.

It is a 6" square card blank, with a slightly smaller square of black (any strong color will work, but i just like black and gold!) card for the image. The angel from the old set  A Child is Born was stamped in versamark and gold embossed. Stamped again in black on masking tissue, cut out and laid over the angel, then the Christmas words from the Slim Word Strip 2 were stamped across using white pigment ink. Once the ink was dry, i rubbed the edges of the card with more versamark ink, and dipped the edges into gold embossing poiwder and heated it.

I would like to enter this to the follwing challenges

crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge #164 - anything Christmas goes

the holly and the ivy#124 anything christmas

addicted to stamps #439 - any occasion

sweet stampin - christmas in september