Kym's Inspiration Post - Monday 17 August 2015

Hello! This is Kym here again.  

It is Monday and therefore time for me to show you another inspiration post.  

Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 August 2015 of "a floral display" so it would be lovely if you could take part.

For my card I have used this stunning image from Ching-Chou Kuik called "Winter Fellows".

Pop on over to my blog to see full details of my card.

Make sure you keep on popping by every few days as there will be inspiration on this blog from other Design Members, showcased cards/creations from people have entered the challenge or posted on the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group, details of any new releases and details of any sales.

Anthony's inspiration post 15.8.15

Hello to you all and I hope your week was great and you are all finding time to craft,
so today is my inspiration day and card for the blog, . In a moment you may see my card, but for a bit of information,

so here are the links.

ETSY SHOP 

FACEBOOK PAGE

BLOG CHALLENGE

BLOG this is where you can see lots

 more inspiration posts from all the design team.


I am using the digi image
toadstool fairy

I have used spectrum noir pens neena card stock and ecraft ebrush and done the background with watercolor paper and the embrush 

I hope you can come on over to the Facebook page to have a look.

Until next time,

keep on crafting

Anthony  

Alica's Inspiration Post - Friday, August 14

Hello everyone,

It's Friday and that means my turn to show you another card using one of Ching-Chou Kuik's fabulous digis. This week I'm using one called Enter The Woods - you can find it here.

I decided to make the card monochromatic and enter it in our Facebook challenge.

For more details visit my blog.

Three New Design Team Members for the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog

We recently held a Design Team Call.  The level of people's crafting that applied and it was a very hard decision on which new Design Team Members to pick.  We were initially looking for 2 but ended up with 3.  If we were totally honest we would have liked to have taken everyone on but that just wasn't possible.

Now I would just like to introduce to you our three new DT Members:

 Our first new DT Member is Aurora and her blog can be found HERE.

 Our second new DT Member is Lozzy and her blog can be found HERE.

Our third new DT Member is Sylvia.  She has worked on both the Blog and Facebook DT in the past.

Ching-Chou Kuik and the rest of the Blog DT will look forward to working with Aurora, Lozzy and Sylvia.

As you might or might not know there is a Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group.  Today is also an exciting day as Bonnie the Facebook DT Leader will also be announcing the new Facebook Design Team Members.

The new Facebook Design Team Members are:

Laura

Samantha

Sande.

Thank you so much to everyone that applied for both the Blog Design Team and also the Facebook Design Team.  It would have been lovely if we could have taken everyone on but it was just not possible.

Dianne's Inspiration Post Wednesday 12th Aug - Purple DragonFly

HELLO 

Dianne here today with my inspiration post for CCK Digital Stamps as part of 

the Design Team 

Today I have used the gorgeous image 

'PURPLE DRAGONFLY' 

which you can find on CCK ETSY STORE - HERE.

I have made a gift bag to show you today.

I used my promarkers to colour the image, some of my fabulous dies 

and some fancy ribbon.

If you would like to know more about what I have used please pop

over to my blog - HERE 

And don't forget to join us on this month's challenge 

'FLORAL DISPLAY' 

It would be fabulous if you could join us. There are some fabulous prizes to win 

and you could be our next monthly GD- also if you use CCK images 

you will qualify to enter the challenge twice 

and if you fancy it we do have a challenge over on our 

FACEBOOK PAGE -HERE 

Well that's it from me today and you will see lots of 

fantastic work from all of my fellow teamies throughout the week 

for your inspiration 

See you soon 

Dianne xx 

Vannessa's Inspiration Post - Tuesday 11th August 2015

Good Morning and welcome to another of my inspiration posts for the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge blog. This week I am showcasing the gorgeous Heart of Spring. I decided on another purple palette for this one - I have a thing for purple with these images at the minute LOL

She has been coloured with Copics and you can read more about her here on my blogpost.

Don't forget to check out all the other gorgeous design team posts this week and why not join in the fun with our challenge this month? There are some fabulous prizes to be won! 

You can also join our Facebook group for more inspiration and we have a monthly Facebook Challenge as well.

Hugs, 

Kym's Inspiration Post - Monday 10 August 2015

Hello! This is Kym here again.  

It is Monday and therefore time for me to show you another inspiration post.  

Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 August 2015 of "a floral display" so it would be lovely if you could take part.

For my card I have used this stunning image from Ching-Chou Kuik called "Flowery".

Pop on over to my blog to see full details of my card.

Make sure you keep on popping by every few days as there will be inspiration on this blog from other Design Members, showcased cards/creations from people have entered the challenge or posted on the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group, details of any new releases and details of any sales.

Anthony's inspiration post 8/8/15

Hello to you all and I hope your week was great and you are all finding time to craft,
so today is my inspiration day and card for the blog, . In a moment you may see my card, but for a bit of information,

so here are the links.

ETSY SHOP 

FACEBOOK PAGE

BLOG CHALLENGE

BLOG this is where you can see lots

 more inspiration posts from all the design team.


I am using the digi image

Garden Daisy Fairy

I have used spectrum noir pens neena card stock and tonic dies and added some pearls.
also added some washi tape

I hope you can come on over to the Facebook page to have a look.

Until next time,

keep on crafting

Anthony 

UPDATE - Design Team Call - July 2015

For those of you that have applied for the Blog Design Team Call, this is to officially let you know that the Blog Design Team Call has now closed.

There has been an amazing selection of applicants.  This means it is going to take a few days for a decision to be made.  

Please bear with us during this time.

You will be personally contacted by myself if you have been successful in the Design Team Call 

OR 

if sadly on this occasion you haven't be successful.

Thank you to everyone that applied and I will be in touch as soon as I can.  Thank you for your patience.

Alica's Inspiration Post - August 7, 2015

Hello everyone.

Today I'll show you my creation for the Floral Display challenge using Heart of Spring digi. You can find it in Chin-Chou's Etsu store - here.

The girl is colored with Prismacolor pencils and the background is a watercolor wash. I didn't feel like making another card so I framed it in a flower decorated frame.

For more details visit my blog and make sure to come back soon for more fabulous creations of our DT members.

Inspiration by Linda "Hello Magnolia"

Good Morning to you all.  Today is my day for your inspirational card.  I chose "Hello Magnolia" for my image.  Our monthly theme this month is "Floral Design"  You can use extra flowers as I have or you can do an image with flowers in it.  I do love to make flowers, so that is what I did.  You can find the challenge here: http://cck-digitalstamps-challenge.blogspot.com/. 

I do hope you will all come and join the fun and try to make your own flowers. They really are quite easy. If you have never tried before there are lots of YouTube videos or you could use store bought flowers.

We also have a facebook page to play along on as well.  You can find that here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/721131444589832/. So if you're not a member I hope you will come join in the fun there as well.  

I want to wish everyone a happy crafting day.  Till next time.

Dianne's Inspiration DT Post -Spring is in the Air

Good Morning 

Dianne here today with my inspiration post as part of 

CCK Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog 

My card today is for the new challenge 

'FLORAL DISPLAY'. 

I have used the wonderful and beautiful image 

'SPRING IN THE AIR'

 You can find all the details for what I have used on my card today over on my 

blog HERE

Image from CCK ETSY STORE -HERE 

and you will see lots of gorgeous makes all through the week 

from all of the DT.

Hope you will be able to join us on this month's challenge . We look 

forward to seeing your fabulous makes. 

Bye for now 

Dianne xx

REMINDER - Design Team Call

Just a reminder that you have 3 days left to enter the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Blog Challenge Design Team.

We have had an amazing response thus far and deciding on who will join the Design Team from the amazing applicants will certainly not be an easy decision so please bear with us for the results.

The closing date for applications is Friday 7 August 2015.

For full details of the Design Team Call click HERE.

Vannessa's August Challenge Card - Flowery

Good Morning and welcome to my post for the new monthly challenge, here at Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge blog. This month our challenge is entitled "A Floral Display", so we would love to see either flowers in your image, on your patterned papers or as embellishments, or a combination of them all! As long as we can see your flowers!

I used the gorgeous Flowery and coloured her with Copic Markers. You can read more about her on my blog post here.

Don't forget to check out all the other gorgeous design team posts this week and why not join in the fun with our challenge this month? There are some fabulous prizes to be won! 

You can also join our Facebook group for more inspiration and we have a monthly Facebook Challenge as well.

Hugs, 

Newsflash - New Release and Special Introductory Offer for Image

There has been a new release to the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

This image is called "Exotic Night".

To celebrate its arrival in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store this image will be at an introductory offer of £2.70 (original price $4) until the end of 9 August 2015.

Hurry on over and grab a bargain and whilst there have a looking at the other amazing images in the Etsy Store.

Kym's Inspiration Post - Monday 3 August 2015

Hello! This is Kym here again.  

It is Monday and therefore time for me to show you another inspiration post.  

Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 August 2015 of "a floral display" so it would be lovely if you could take part.

For my card I have used this stunning image from Ching-Chou Kuik called "Swing in Spring".

Pop on over to my blog to see full details of my card.

Make sure you keep on popping by every few days as there will be inspiration on this blog from other Design Members, showcased cards/creations from people have entered the challenge or posted on the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group, details of any new releases and details of any sales.

Showcase Cards - Sunday 2 August 2015

Here is another selection of Showcase Cards/Creations.

Lynda has created this page and shared on the Facebook Group.

This card has been made by Pat and shared on the Facebook Group.

This card has been created by Valou and shared on the Facebook Group.

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog - August 2015 Challenge - A Floral Display

Thank you to all those crafters that entered last months' challenge.

As mentioned anyone that entered that used an image from the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamp Etsy Store would get a second entry into the draw. 

The winner of 2 digital images from the Etsy Store is:

No 13 and that card has been created by Art Jypsy.  This is Art Jypsy's cards that she made:

Congratulations Art Jypsy.  Please pop on over to the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamp Etsy Store and e-mail me with your choice of 2 images.  Make sure you take your Monthly Challenge Winner badge from the sidebar to add to your blog.

As mentioned in the post on 1 November 2014, there is now an "Artist's Choice Award" every month.  To be in with a chance of winning this award you need to use one of Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps from her Etsy Store for your card/creation.  At the end of the month Ching-Chou Kuik will look at all those cards/creations using one of her digital stamps from the Etsy Store and pick one winner that will get the "Artist's Choice Award" and will also get to pic 3 digital stamps of their choice from the Etsy Store.

Ching-Chou Kuik certainly had a lot of beautiful cards/creations to choose from but the winner of the "Artist's Choice Award is No 8:

and that card is by Aurora.  Congratulations Aurora.

Please pop on over to the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamp Etsy Store and e-mail me with your choice of 5 images.  Make sure you take your Monthly Challenge Winner badge from the sidebar to add to your blog.
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Now is time to reveal the name of the Guest Designer.  As mentioned previously we are now going to have a Guest Designer join us for the monthly challenge from May 2015 onwards.

Out of the names that said they would like to be considered in being a Guest Designer, the lucky winner for the Guest Designer for September 2015 is No 5 and this card is by Lozzy:

Congratulations Lozzy.  I will be in touch with you shortly to give you details of the September Challenge and for you to let me know what image you would like to use for the challenge as a "thank you" for being the Guest Designer.

For those that were not lucky there is always next month.
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Today sees the start of another challenge.

For the month of August 2015 the challenge is "A Floral Display" ie flowers in your image, flowers in your backing papers, flowers used as embellishments or all of these.

Don't forget if you would like to be a Guest Designer for a forthcoming challenge please remember to add "GDT" after you name in the InLinkz or add a comment in the comment box.

Our lucky Guest Designer for August is Sylvia.  She has made this gorgeous card using the Ching-Chou Kuik digital stamp called "Heart of Spring":

Here are some creations from the Design Team to give you some inspiration:

Alica

Using the image "Heart of Spring"

Anthony

Using the image "Garden Daisy Fairy"

Dianne

Using the image 'Spring in the Air'

Kym

Using the image "Swing in Spring"

Linda

Using the image "Hello Magnolia"

Vannessa

Using the image"Flowery"

The "rules" of the monthly challenge are very basic and can be found in the blog sidebar or in a page at the top of the blog.

It would be lovely if you could play along with the challenge this month.

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You might or might not be aware but they have been some stunning additions to the Etsy Store recently and these include:

This image is called "Flowery"

This image is called "Lily's Lullaby"

There is an amazing array of beautiful digital stamps in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store.

Why don't you pop on over and take a look?

If like us you love using the amazing images by Ching-Chou Kuik and you actively post on a blog why not enter the Design Team Call we are having for 2 new Design Team Members.  Please click HERE for more details.  Make sure you hurry though as the Blog Design Team Call ends on 7 August 2015.
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There is also a Facebook Group where all new members are very welcome. The Facebook Group can be found HERE.  Here crafters will share their creations made with a Ching-Chou Kuik image.

On the Facebook Group there will also be the details of the monthly Facebook Challenge and details of any sales etc.  The Facebook Challenge for August is "monocromatic".  Full details of this challenge can be found HERE.

If you love using Ching-Chou Kuik's images but don't have a blog the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Facebook Group is having a Design Team Call for 2 new Design Team Members.  Click HERE for more details.  Hurry as the Facebook Group DT call ends on 9 August 2015.

Over at Kit and Clowder you will find details of various on-line classes that you can buy and participate in.  Ching-Chou Kuik is one of the sponsors.  At the moment the various classes are as follows:

Alcohol Markers - Skin and Hair Technique Class

Alcohol Markers - Clothing Technique Class

Alcohol Markers - Lightsource Technique Class

Alcohol Markers - All About Animals Class

Alcohol Markers - Creative Confidence Class

Alcohol Markers - Whimsical Class

Watercolours - Distress Ink Class

Pencils - Perfecting Pencils Class 

If you want to find out a bit more about colouring techniques pop on over to Kit and Clowder and have a look.

Don't forget if you would like to be a Guest Designer for a forthcoming challenge please remember to add "GDT" after you name in the InLinkz or add a comment in the comment box.

Please remember when linking to this challenge you MUST link to your blog post and not just your actual blog.  As you have taken the time to create something to enter into the challenge the Design Team members like to leave you comments but this is made more difficult when they have to look through your blog to find the right card/creation to comment on.  Thank you for your understanding.

An InLinkz Link-up