Steampunk Parrot from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, today's card is one that I didn't get round to blogging when the fab Steampunk Birds stamps were released at Chocolate Baroque, I adore these stamps and this one is a particular favourite as I just love parrots too.

The background was made with distress inks in assorted shades of green and overstamped with the fern leaf from the Autumn Fairies stamps. The verse is another old favourite stamp from Chocolate Baroque. I've used a die cut bird card and some little flowers punched from fantasy film left over from making the birdie.

I made the bird using scraps of fantasy film and fibre, inking up the stamp with Gold Stazon and layering the image up to build the colours - this is actually a yellow crowned steampunk amazong lol. Here's my parrot Sammy who was my inspiration for this card

Isn't he a handsome boy? He's a very cheeky chappie too, his favourit trick is to lift his wing up and say 'Tickle Tickle Tickle' bless him :-)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes

Dream Valley: No Designer paper

Fantasy Stampers: anything with wings

Quirky Crafts: birds, bugs and butterflies

Sugar Creek Hollow: Fibres and texture

Stamplorations: stamps and feathers

Stempel sonne: animals

thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Peony from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, goodness me Glenda has released some gorgeous new stamp over at Chocolate Baroque, as well as some stunning Steampunk Birds, there are 4 beautiful clear flower stamps. for my first sample this month I've used the beautiful Peony Clear stamp for this card, peonies are one of my favourite flowers and I couldn't resist sitting this lovely little fairy from the September Fairies set on one of the flowers

I created the background with Picked Raspberry and a little Shabby Shutters distress inks, I popped some on my ink blending mat, misted with water and swooshed the card through it, once dry I stamped the peony here and there with more Picked Raspberry ink.

To create the focal image I stamped the fairy with black ink, (I only inked up the fairy, not the toadstools) and then masked her to stamp the flowers. I coloured the flowers with Graph'It markers and then used some Fantasy Film from my stash to stamp the wing and attached it with a little silicone glue. I used a shaving brush to dust ink around the image and matted it on white and then black card. To finish off I added some black lace, ribbon  and a little button from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
2 sisters: anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes
Craftitude: button up
Docerela Creations: anything goes

Emergency Crafters: anything but Christmas
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge: anything goes
Wags'n'Whiskers: things with wings

Christmas is really sneaking up on us isn't it, I took the dogs out last night and loads of people seem to have got their Christmas decs up already. I think I'll try and get ours up at the weekend although Barney is still full of puppy mischief so I expect it will be fun and frolics lol. Have a great day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

The Stampman challenge ... music

This set of stamps was one of the first I got from the Stampman and I still love them. I've used lots of inky techniques to make this card for the latest challenge from The Stampman challenge which is 'Musical'

The base card is stamped with text using vinage photo DI. The next layer is some card which was 'sloshed' with loads of moonshadow inks in golden dubloon and ethereal emerald (the MOST gorgeous colour isn't it??). The next layer is vellum stamped randomly with the dragonfly text stamp. Then paperlace and ribbon were added (I coloured them with the leftover moonshadow inks on my craft mat). I stamped the focal image with vintage photo DI and stamped the dragonflies twice on some fantasy film. The sentiment is from Elusive images. Everything was torn and inked with lots more DI before being layered up to make the finished card.

I'm entering this in the following challenges too

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Layers

Artful Inkables: Distressing

Creatalicious:Vintage

My Partner in Crafting Crime: Vintage

Thanks for looking,

Claire xx