chocolate challenge

I hope everyone has been able to enjoy the wonderful weather today! This morning I treated myself to my weekly indulgence of a visit to our local Farmer's Market - I love to soak up the amazing array of tastes and smells offered by local producers, and of course to support their businesses. I treated my family to the must sumptious dressed crab, freshly caught off the Dorset coast yesterday - delish!

So from the savoury onto some sweetness:




This is the current (mouth-watering!) colour challenge at Stamp With Us, and here is my take on it:


Colours used are Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel - an equally mouth-watering sounding combination! Image is from Soft Summer, stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock and coloured with Copic markers, edges sponged with Close to Cocoa ink.

This is a joy-fold card, the scalloped circle holds the front of the card intact, when opened it looks like this:


I stamped the En Francais backgrounder on Creamy Caramel cardstock with Close to Cocoa ink, then sponged all the edges with the same ink.

Thanks for visiting, time for an evening walk with the dogs I think!

Recipe:

Stamps - Soft Summer/Circle of Friendship/En Francais backgrounder
Ink - Close to Cocoa/Chocolate Chip
Card - Very Vanilla/Close to Cocoa/Creamy Caramet/Chocolate Chip
Other - Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon/Copic markers/scalloped and 1 3/8 circle punches/sponges/rectangle nestabilities/adhesive pearls

Inspirations

I love fashion, I love design and I love taking inspiration for the latest trends for my papercrafting projects.

For today's Inspiration and Themes Challenge over on In Love With Stamping I chose this picture from the current Boden catalogue. Oh yep, and I love Boden too! Such wonderful colours and fantastic design detail - always a great source of inspiration for stamping.... and a great way to use your credit card too ;)



I'm loving the grey and yellow combinations we're seeing so much this season so I chose the dress on the left for my inspiration.


I used Going Grey and So Saffron and aren't they just fabulous together!! The stamp set is Soft Summer in the new Mini catalogue, and I love it. I stamped the Polka Dot backgrounder with Grey ink on the So Saffron base layer, then coloured the image with Copic markers.

The sentiment is one of the Circle of Friendship stamps, with part of the side cut off. The white vertical strip is punched with the spiral punch.

Ok, that's it for me - I have some choc-chip ice cream and some Sex and The City episodes to kick back with, still love those gals (and New York....sigh!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:
Stamps - Soft Summer/Circle of Friendship/Polka Dot backgrounder
Ink - Going Grey
Cardstock - Whisper White/Going Grey/So Saffron
Other - Crafter's Tool Kit/circle punches/white brads/spiral punch/Copic markers/grey taffeta ribbon/yellow button

Zingy flowers

How about something zingy on a very dull and damp day? I love this stamp set...how many flowers have you seen with bright pink stems though! Don't you love artistic licence!

I used Only Orange and Pink Passion markers to colour the stamp (Live Your Dream) and stamped the background with the Polka Dot backgrounder with Pink Passion. As we don't have Pink Passion ribbon I coloured some Whisper White grosgrain ribbon with the Pink Passion marker et voila.... perfect match!! I added some stickles to the flower centres and used the paper piercer to pierce around the edges.

Recipe

Stamps - Live Your Dream/Circle of Friendship/Polka Dot backgrounder
Ink - Only Orange/Pink Passion (markers)
Card - Whisper White/Only Orange/Pink Passion
Other - white grosgrain ribbon/crafter's tool kit/buttons/embroidery floss/circle punches/stickles

Thanks for visiting today!