Chocolate Baroque Giveaway- Home Sweet Home

There is a giveaway over on the Chocolate Baroque Blog at the moment. There is a new release of stamps called Home Sweet Home, and Glenda is giving away a set of these stamps to a lucky commenter, either on the Design Team Blog, or one of the blogs belonging to the Design Team members, including her own blog. There are links in my sidebar to the other Design Team members' blogs.

I was fortunate enough to work with these fabulous stamps recently, and one of the samples I made involved a card with a secret gift inside.

I wanted to make a very simple card from the outside, and chose very soft muted colours for the image. I used the same colours for the inner pocket.

I then decided to make a Chotski pin to go inside the inner pocket. Chotski pins are a bit like kilt pins with loops on. You can hang charms on them. Normally they are a bit grungier than the ones I have made here, but they can be whatever style you choose to make. I altered a couple of bottle caps, added some beads, used some silver plated charms, lots of odds and ends, and some jewellery findings. I stamped some of the words onto shrink plastic, and coloured some pieces of card to set behind the shrink plastic, in typical Clarice Cliff style colours, then mounted these into the bottle caps.

I stamped the smallest house stamp onto an acrylic heart tag, and coloured the reverse with Copic markers.
I had a lot of fun making this piece.

Hopefully, I've inspired you to have a look at these lovely new stamps, and given you a few ideas as to how to use them. Thanks for stopping by xx

Forgotten Friday 20- Giveaway

Hi Folks, it's Friday again, and time to rummage through your stash. Make something with what you find, and leave a comment on my blog, and I'll come and take a look.

This week I've been ill, and unfortunately, I haven't been able to make anything to show you myself. However, I have still had a rummage through my forgotten stash. These are my embellishment boxes, and I have left a box of Copic markers in front as a guide to the size of them.

I keep lots of my larger items in here like Stampbord, tins of brads, chipboard embellishments, etc. Lots of stuff gets forgotten about. I have had a good rummage, and pulled out lots of items that I am going to give away to one person this week. All you have to do, is make something with your forgotten stash, and leave a comment on my blog. You do not need to be a follower of my Blog.

Now I have two regular contributors to this slot every week, and I already have a package of goodies made up for them, they know who they are. However, if they happen to get drawn at random again, they they will be doubly lucky, I am not going to discount them for their loyalty. I am also going to rummage through my stamps today, and add one or two of those to the pile of goodies, so there will be more coming someone's way than shown in the photograph. Please join in, the deadline is 6.00 p.m. Thursday 16th June, when I will get my OH to draw a name from all of the contributors who have actually made an item with their forgotten stash.

Good luck to all who take part, thanks for popping by, Judith xx