Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog - November 2017

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. 

As the October Challenge celebrated THREE YEARS of the Inspiration and Challenge Blog there will not be one Monthly Challenge winner, not two but three!!

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

No 5 and that card has been created by Tracey.  This is the card that Tracey made:

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

No 7 and that card has been created by Jacki.  This is the card that Jacki made:

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

No 10 and that card has been created by Monika.  This is the card that Monika made:

Congratulations  Tracey, Jacki and Monika.  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.

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 October 2017 is No 9:

and that card is by Susan.  

Congratulations Susan.  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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Unfortunately nobody asked to be a Guest Designer for December 2017.  

Maybe it is because we are looming up to a busy time of the year.
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Today sees the start of another challenge.

For the month of November 2017 the challenge is:

"CHRISTMAS/WINTER".

First off it is time to show you the cards/creations for the Guest Designer for this month.  This month be are lucky to have Nelida as our Guest Designer and this is the card that they have created using the image called "Calling for snow":

This month Wendy from the Facebook Design Team has made a card as well to show you all:

She has used the image called "Christmas Tree".

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

Aurora

Using the image Gingerbread Man Parade

Dianne

Using the image Holly Angel 

Gloria

Using New Leaves

Kym

Using the image "Poinsettia Fairy" (this image comes in a set of three other images called "Holly Fairy", "Cherish Christmas" and "Merry Season").

Lozzy

Using the image After Midnight

Nicola

Using the image 'Snowflake Imprint'

Vannessa

Using the image Autumn Blessing

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 "So Long". 


 The set is called "Grayscale Digital Colouring Set 1".  

This image is called "Dahlia".

This image is called "Autumn Dragonflies".

This image is called "Under the Moonlight".

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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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.

New release

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

  The image is called "Under the Moonlight" and it is available as a special introductory price of $2.80 (instead of the original price of $4).  

  Hurry as this offer ends on  31 October 2017.

New release

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

  The image is called "Autumn Dragonflies" and it is available as a special introductory price of $2.80 (instead of the original price of $4).  

  Hurry as this offer ends on  28 October 2017.

Sunday Inspiration Post by RoRa

Hello.. RoRa is here again for my 3rd Inspiration post in October.. This time I showcase Ladybug which you can find here.. Colouring it with Copic marker.. And here's my simple card.. 

You can visit my blog for more details..

You still have time to join our October challenge to win some gorgeous images from Ching Chou Kuik.. It runs till end of this month.. Theme for this month is Halloween.. Click here for joining..

You also can join another challenge at Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook Group.. Click here for joining our facebook group challenge..

Thank you so much for stopping by today.. Don't forget to stop by again tomorrow for more inspiration post from other design team members.. So see you next time..

hugs,
~RoRa

Vannessa's Inspiration Post - Saturday 21st October 2017

Good morning and welcome to my last inspiration post for this month for Ching-Chou Kuik. This week I am sharing an older image, Wishing Stars, that I found the other day, completely coloured, but never used, so I thought I would add her to a card for today's post. Isn't she just gorgeous?!

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 20 October 2017

 Hello! This is Kym here again.  

Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 October 2017.  

The topic for this month is "HALLOWEEN/FRIGHT NIGHT".

This week the Design Team were challenged to the theme "anything goes".

This is my card inspired by this theme.

 For my card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Misty Reflections" and I have coloured her in with my Promarkers and I have used my Pan Pastels for the background.  For a change I have stamped the "Happy Halloween" stamp direct onto the image rather than separately on the card.

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. 

Just to give you a "heads up" that this months’ challenge is a VERY special challenge.

Yes it is amazing to think that we are celebrating our 3rd anniversary of the Monthly Blog Challenge on the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog.

As it is our third birthday there will not be just one Monthly Challenge Winner but THREE Monthly Challenge Winners as well as the Artist Choice Award Winner picked by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.

It would be lovely to see you taking part in our challenge in the October 3rd anniversary celebrations.

Nicola's Inspiration Post - Thursday 19th October

Welcome Crafty Peeps!

Have you all been enjoying the inspiration this month? 

Don't forget we have extra prizes for our 3rd Anniversary.  Check the challenge post here for all the details and to enter your spooky makes

This week is Anything Goes for the team, so I have made a cancer awareness card using the wonderful 'Believe In Faith'.  October is generally recognised as Breast Cancer Awareness month, but I have gone with a lavender theme to represent all cancers. You can find more info on my blog here with a link to the other awareness months and ribbon colours

Thanks for stopping by

Dianne's Inspiration Wednesday 18th Oct

HELLO 

Dianne here today with my inspiration

On my card today i have used the beautiful image 

'SWEET SNUGGLING' 

Just love this beautiful mermaid image 

you can find this image -Here and many more from CCK Etsy Store 

and if you would like to know how i made my card and what i have used 

you can find this over on my blog -Here 

Have you joined us yet? on our Monthly Challenge 

you still have time to join us this month's theme is 

'HALLOWEEN' 

Please join us if you can and i look forward to seeing 

you next time when i will have more inspiration 

Dianne xx 

Dianne's Inspiration Post Extra Tuesday 17th Oct

Hi Everyone 

Today i am here with a little extra inspiration 

for you i have used on my card today the gorgeous image 

'LOVE' 

You can find the image i have used -Here 

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

please pop over to my blog -Here 

I will be back tomorrow with some more inspiration 

using one of the many gorgeous images from 

CHING CHOU KUIK ETSY STORE 

See you tomorrow  

Dianne xx 

Inspirational Post by Lozzy

Hi everyone..

 Lozzy here today with a card i made using Ching-Chou Kuik beautiful Spooky Blue 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

Sunday Inspiration Post by RoRa

Olla.. RoRa is here again for my 2nd inspiration post in October.. this time the theme for DT is Use Flowers.. I choose to showcase Summer Goddess.. Colouring the beautiful goddess with Copic marker.. And here's my simple card..

You can visit my blog for more details..

Don't forget to join our October challenge to win some gorgeous images from Ching Chou Kuik.. It runs till end of this month.. Theme for this month is Halloween.. Click here for joining..

You also can join another challenge at Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook Group.. Click here for joining our facebook group challenge..

Thank you so much for stopping by today.. Don't forget to stop by again tomorrow for more inspiration post from other design team members.. So see you next time..

hugs,
~RoRa

Vannessa's Inspiration Post - Saturday 14th October 2017

Good Morning and welcome to my inspiration post this week for Ching-Chou Kuik. This week I am sharing another Hallowe'en card with you, using the gorgeous The Perfect Pumpkin. This image could easily be used for an Autumn/Fall project too.

I am trying to use up lots of my old patterned papers and am slowly making my way through this pack from Doodlebug that I bought for Hallowe'en projects last year, but to be honest it is not very Hallowe'en-y in my opinion, just the colours are. Still makes a nice bright card though.

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 13 October 2017

  Hello! This is Kym here again.  

Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 October 2017.  

The topic for this month is "HALLOWEEN/FRIGHT NIGHT".

This week the Design Team were challenged to the theme "use some flowers".

This is my card inspired by this theme.

  For my card I have used the Ching-Chou Kuik image called "Autumn Trio" (this comes in a set of three others images called Fox Allure, Forest Companion and Tender Cuddle).    I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and highlighted ares with my white gel pen and my Crafter's Companion clear overlay sparkle pen.

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. 

Just to give you a "heads up" that this months’ challenge is a VERY special challenge.

Yes it is amazing to think that we are celebrating our 3rd anniversary of the Monthly Blog Challenge on the Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog.

As it is our third birthday there will not be just one Monthly Challenge Winner but THREE Monthly Challenge Winners as well as the Artist Choice Award Winner picked by Ching-Chou Kuik herself.

It would be lovely to see you taking part in our challenge in the October 3rd anniversary celebrations.

New release - Dahlia

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

  The image is called "Dahlia" and it is available as a special introductory price of $2.80 (instead of the original price of $4).  

  Hurry as this offer ends on 17 October 2017.

Nicola's Inspiration Post - Thursday 12th October

We are in full swing with our anniversary challenge and inspiration posts.  Please come and enter your spooky makes here

Don't forget there are extra prizes up for grabs this month!!

The team were challenged to use some flowers this week, so I have created a bright card using 'Peony Kimono Maiden'

You can find more info on my blog post here

Don't forget we also have a monthly challenge on our Facebook Group here

{Hugs}

Dianne's Inspiration Wednesday 11th Oct

GOOD MORNING 

Hope you are all well today it is my turn Dianne 

to give you some inspiration using one of the many gorgeous 

images from 

CHING CHOU KUIK 

My inspiration this week i have used the gorgeous and beautiful image 

'LOTUS IN JUNE' 

I just love this image and if you would like to know about 

what i have used please pop over to my blog -Here 

You can find the image and many more -Here 

We still have our Monthly Challenge taking place so please 

join us this month's theme is 

'HALLOWEEN' 

See you there and next time with some more inspiration 

Dianne xx 

Inspiration Post by Wendy, Facebook Design Team

As one of our Design Team members is taking some time off some of the Blog and Facebook Design Team members are making creations for you to see to keep you inspired with the use of Ching-Chou Kuik's digital stamps available from her Etsy Store.

This card has been made by Wendy, Facebook Design Team Member.

Wendy's card has been created with the Ching-Chou Kuik digital stamp called "Keep in Faith".