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

Soft Summer sketches

When I sat down to do a few sketches at the weekend I wanted to use my Haiku papers, which were still unopened. Not colours I'd normally go to which stretched me a bit but that's not a bad thing!

So I chose three sketches to base my cards on, and the Soft Summer set from the Mini Catalogue.




First up, Amy's sketch...



and my card based on it:


This flower is proving to be an absolute favourite of mine. Coloured with Copics, scalloped edge punch used on the white layer which was then pierced around the sides.

Next up, last week's Mojo Monday sketch:



my card..


I used the outline berry-like image for this one, stamped in Really Rust ink, scallop edge punch along the bottom and More Mustard Grosgrain Ribbon. The felt flower is from the Flower Fusion Accents and Elements kit.

Finally the Stamps and Smiles sketch:



....and my card:


Again the outline image, stamped in Old Olive and watercoloured with More Mustard ink using a blender pen. More of those yummy felt flowers and Pumpkin pie brads in their centres.

Recipe:

Stamps - Soft Summer
Ink - More Mustard/Old Olive/Really Rust/Basic Black
Card - Whisper White/Old Olive/More Mustard
Papers - Haiku DSP
Other - Flower Fusion felt flowers/Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive brads/Nestabilities and Cuttlebug/Paper piercing kit/More Mustard and Grosgrain ribbon/Scallop Edge border punch


And finally I want to say a big helloooo and thank you to two of my loveliest blogging buddies Aimes and Sara for this cute award - thanks girls!!! Please go and visit them - they are both hugely talented and inspiring stampers and lovely ladies to boot! I've got to get off this computer but I'll pass this on very soon.


Thanks for visiting and hope to see you soon!

Kate x

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