Vannessa's Challenge Post - Saturday 12th May 2018

Good morning and welcome to my post for the monthly challenge from Ching-Chou Kuik Stamps and Inspiration blog. This month our challenge is for you to add pearls or gems to your project.

For this card I used the gorgeous Keep In Faith and went with a yellow and green colour combo. Not a colour combo I would usually go for, but one which works really well with the sunflowers in this digital stamp.

This gorgeous image has been coloured with Copics and you can find out more about her here in 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.

Kym's Inspiration Post - Friday 11 May 2018

 Hello! This is Kym here again.  

The the new challenge started on 1 May 2018.  

 The topic for this month is "PEARLS/GEMS".

Here is my inspiration post with this theme.

  For my card I have used the image called "Little Talks" and I have coloured my image in with Promarkers.

Full details of this card can be found on my blog HERE.

Make sure you keep on popping by every few days as there will be inspiration on this blog from other Design Members, details of any new releases and details of any sales. 

Nicola's Inspiration Post - Thursday 10th May

Hello Crafty Peeps, 

It's my first Inspiration Post for May and finally spring has come!

Our theme this month is PEARLS/GEMS and you can enter the challenge here

I have used 'Embrace The Ocean' to create a celebration card

You can find more information on my blog post here

{Hugs}

Dianne's Inspiration Wednesday 9th May

HELLO 

Dianne  here today with my inspiration 

This week my card is to co-inside with our New Monthly Challenge 

'PEARL'S AND GEM'S ' 

So the image i have used is the gorgeous 

'FLOWING IN BLUE' 

( from a set of three  greyscale images) 

The image you can Here 

and if you would like to know more about what i have used 

on my card you can find this on my blog Here 

Hope you will join us on this month's challenge 

it would be fabulous to see you there 

I will be back next week when i will have more inspiration 

for using one of the many gorgeous images from 

Ching Chou Kuik 

Thank you for looking 

Dianne xx 

Bonnie's Inspiration Post - Misty Moon

Ching Chou Kuik's May Challenge started last week!

The theme this month is "Pearls/Gems"

You can find May's challenge here!

Here is my card using Ching Chou Kuik image, Misty Moon

I turned this image into a 3D image by coloring the layers 4 times, 

cutting them out and adding foam tape to give dimension.

I have used Prismacolor Pencils to color this image.

Ching Chou Kuik image - Misty Moon available here.

Did you know there is a Ching Chou Kuik Challenge on Facebook also?

Click here to see the Ching Chou Kuik Facebook challenge!

You can see all of Ching Chou Kuick's beautiful images at her Etsy Store called, Gjzcck.

Click here to visit her store!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Bonnie

Inspirational Post by Lozzy

Hi everyone..

 Lozzy here today with my DT card as a reminder about our "Pearls/Gems" challenge. Have used  Ching-Chou Kuik beautiful Clover Fairy image.

Hope you keep popping back as we have more gorgeous creations from the lovely design team coming your way plus dont forget this months challenge where you could win Ching-Chou Kuik beautiful images. 

There's lots of gorgeous images over at Ching-Chou Kuik store.

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

Take care

Hugs Lozzy xx

New releases

 Today sees the arrival of a set of new images in the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Etsy Store:

 This set is called "Fantasy Fairy Set 1".

In this set you will get three GRAYSCALE images called "Red Poppy", "Merbutterfly Fairy Freedom" and "Green Dragonfly".

They are available at a special introductory price of $4.50 (instead of the original price of $6.00).

 Hurry as this offer ends on 8 May 2018.

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog - May 2018

Firstly I have something to mention to you before I give details of winners of the last challenge and details of the new challenge.

There are new regulations coming into force in Europe on 25 May 2018 regarding general data protection. These changes will mean that the monthly challenge post showing details of the winner of the Monthly Blog Challenge, winner of the Artist Choice Award and the details of the Guest Designer for a future challenge WILL NOT have direct links to their blogs. I shall continue to show the winner’s cards as entered into Linky Tools but it will be the responsibility of the winners to make contact to claim their prizes using the e-mail contact on the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge Blog.

Those crafters that enter the Monthly Blog Challenge and add their details into Linky Tools do so in the knowledge that their names and blog links are visible to all who visit the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge Blog and it is considered that the crafter’s consent that their name and blog link are visible to all visiting the blog and could appear in the following month’s post if they are one of the winners or a future Guest Designer.

If you make a comment on the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge Blog you understand that your name and blog link will be visible for others to see.

To make sure that this Blog is compliant with the new laws come 25 May 2018 these changes will be made immediately.

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

To enter this challenge you need to use a rubber stamp or digital stamp (black-and-white/grayscale or partially pre-coloured). 
Just coloured in images are NOT allowed.
NO fully digital cards are allowed. 

 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 4 and that card has been created by Lillian.  This is the card that Lillan made:

Congratulations Lillian.  

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.

Please note: when selecting digital stamps for a prize, stamp sets do not count as one digital stamp. You may choose individual digital stamps from a stamp set but you must clarify carefully what image you would like.

 Every month there is an "Artist's Choice Award".  The winner of this award will be picked by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.  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 pick 5 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" for April 2018 is No 12:

and that card has been created by Jackie Cornfield.

Congratulations Jackie.

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.

Please note: when selecting digital stamps for a prize, stamp sets do not count as one digital stamp. You may choose individual digital stamps from a stamp set but you must clarify carefully what image you would like.

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Now is the time to reveal the name of the Guest Designer for June 2018.

The lucky winner is Jackie Cornfield.  

I will be in touch shortly with details of the challenge and to ask you to pick an image from the Etsy Store to use for your card/creation as a "thank you" for being the Guest Designer.
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Today sees the start of another challenge.

For the month of May 2018 the challenge is:

"PEARLS/GEMS" .

First off it is time to show you the cards/creations for the Guest Designers for this month.  As we had no Guest Designer last month I picked two for this month, Marlene and Wanda.

This is the card that Marlene has made using the image "Believe in Faith".

This is the card that Wanda has made using the image "Butterflies Fly".

Aren't these two stunning creations?

Wendy, Facebook Design Team Member has made this gorgeous creation using the image "Misty Eyes".

Time to show you now the cards/creations made by the Design Team.

Aurora

Using the image "Crimson Moon"  

Bonnie

Using the image"Misty Moon"  

Dianne

Using the image "Flowing in Blue''  

Kym

Using the image "Little Talks".  

Lozzy

Using the image Clover Fairy  

Nicola

Using the image 'Embrace The Ocean'  

Vannessa

Using the image Keep In Faith

The "rules" of the monthy 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 "Little Daisy".  You will get a black-and-white image and a partially coloured digital stamp by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.

This image is called "Peony Dawn".  In this set you will get two levels of grayscale images.

This image is called "Peony Dawn".  This time you will get the Pre-coloured Digital Decoupage Art.

This set is called "Under the Sea 2".  It is a set of grayscale images including "Far Away Moon", "Crimson Dream" and "Blue Sea Illusion".

This image is called "Spring Flower".  In this set you will get a black and white image and a partially coloured image by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.

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?

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.

Ching-Chou Kuik is now a proud sponsor over at the Passionate Paper Creations and Friends Facebook Group.

Why not pop on over and take a look.

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.  

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

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To enter this challenge you need to use a rubber stamp or digital stamp (black-and-white/grayscale or partially pre-coloured). 

Just coloured in images are NOT allowed.

NO fully digital cards are allowed. 

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 Linky Tools 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.