Christmas Joy (by Asha)

Good morning, friends. It's my turn to show a couple of projects featuring this month's fabulous festive stamps.

My first card showcases one of the new individual cling mounted stamps called Rejoice!. I prepared the background by blending several colours of Distress Inks and masking off sections to create mountains. I stamped and coloured the angel with alcohol markers and the wings are heat embossed on vellum. I fussy cut and adhered both onto the inked background, leaving most of the wings free so she looks like she's flying.

My second card is an easy number. I started by making the background by blending Distress Inks. Then I stamped the deer, trees and snowflakes from the Sparkling Trees A5 sheet and created a scene. Next,  I coloured the images with water colour pencils and finished the project with Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you're having fun with these stamps and getting ahead with your Christmas makes. The rest of the team have lots of design inspiration to share so please swing by often. As always, more pictures and details of all products used can be seen at my blog.

Beijinhos,
Asha 

It's Christmas! (by Lesley)

No don't worry, you haven't woken up in another world, it is still only the end of July but for us here at Chocolate Baroque Christmas has arrived. And by that I mean I am thrilled to bits to be launching the first of our Christmas stamps for this year.

This is also my first official Christmas release as owner of Chocolate Baroque so I'm doubly excited and I hope you are going to be as delighted with these new stamps as I am; I have to say Sue has really done us proud.  So without further ado here we go.

To begin with we have two A5 sets, Christmas Candlelight

followed by Sparkling Trees

and of course both are available as a money saving multi-buy

We have a wonderful mix of traditional and contemporary here, so whatever style you prefer I am sure there is something here to help make your Christmas projects special.

In addition to these sets, we are also releasing five individual cling mounted rubber stamps that are truly beautiful.

First we have Serena, Bearing Gifts and In Her Arms

and finally Rejoice! and Welcome Home.

If you would really like to treat yourself these are available as a brilliant money saving multi-buy

There are so many possibilities with these and, of course, they complement many of our other Christmas designs. I haven't had time to play with them much myself yet, but as a colourist I can't wait to try these images with my pencils and paints.

However, there are a few ladies who have been flexing their crafting muscles and over the course of the next month there will be some fabulous projects and ideas from our Design Team, so please keep tuned. In fact if you are not yet a follower please click on the 'Follow this Blog' link located in the right hand column and then you will never miss another inspirational post.

Is it too soon to say 'Merry Christmas'?