A Positive start to your day (by Lesley)

I haven't made any ATCs for quite a long time and I really love these miniature works of art. Being a small canvas you can make them fairly quickly and you feel a fabulous sense of achievement when you have a pile of colourful pieces in front of you.

All the backgrounds on these ATCs were made with a Gelli plate then over stamped with images from both of the sets in the latest in our fragments series; Rustic Fragments and Seasonal Fragments.

I then decided to add words from the Positive Beauty and Awesome Diva to start a set of Affirmation Cards.  I love the idea of picking one of these cards at random first thing in the morning and then carrying it around with me as my 'theme' for the day.

How about you? Why not create your own affirmation cards or design a 'pack' of them to give to someone special, maybe someone who needs a little positivity in their life right now.

Thanks for dropping in today and keep watching for more imaginative creations from the rest of the Design Team.

Squares and Seasonal fragments by Miranda

Hi there,

Today I want to show you my first play with those gorgeous new fragments stamps from Chocolate Baroque. I had a play with the Seasonal fragments and there is also the Rustic Fragments. If I had to buy them I really could not choose so there is also a great multi-buy available. Treat yourself!

I have also combined this pattern with a matching pattern from the Tangled Fragments.

All the fragment/structure stamp sheets from Chocolate Baroque are so versatile and great to play with! For all kind of styles, classic stamping, CAS cards, Mixed media, Art journaling, and much more techniques!

Here is my card.......

 I went for a simple card with a great contrast. Black& white with a splash of green and turquoise. Coloured with alcohol based markers.

I've used a grid die cut for the center frame. It cuts out the frame as well as the squares. I have also a larger version of this one, very handy!

At last I've added accents with pearl pens.

At the last moment I've also created a similar version but with lots of embossed layers......I have embossed the frame also and added some glitter embossing powder here and there for a nice sparkle. I've embossed all the patterns with WOW white pearl and sponged afterwards with Distress inks.

The sentiment is from the Amazing Birthday sheet. In the center of the frame I have triple embossed a square tile and pressed the pattern into it. Finally added some perfect pearl powders.

Here it is.......

Well, I have been playing with more shapes and frames....so keep watching if you like this style!

Thanks for visiting and always nice to read your comments! Don't forget to look here  for more inspirations of our talented bunch of designers!

A Little Sunshine (by Asha)

Good morning, friends! Have you seen the new stamps for June 2015? They are AWESOME! I'm playing with the Seasonal Fragments A4 sheet. There are twelve designs, each group of 3 depicting the seasons in the year. 

My card features one of the two leafy fragments from the sheet. I've paired it with a bold sunflower from the Sunny Sunflowers A4 sheet and a sentiment from the Loving Sentiments A5 sheet.  I blended a couple of green Distress Inks in the background and coloured the images with Polychromos. Finally, for some texture, I added little dots of Liquid Pearls in the middle of the sunflower, which I fussy cut and adhered to the card with some foam tape.

As the name suggests, the entire sheet is made up of little fragments but there's so much you can do with them. I hope you'll have fun with your Seasonal Fragments stamps too. Come back tomorrow for more amazing ideas from the rest of the team.

Beijinhos,
Asha

New Fragment Stamps launched today

Well here we are almost the end of another month and it's time to launch some fabulous new stamps.  We are continually being told by you that you love our range of Fragment related stamps so this month we're adding to the series with two more stunning examples.

First there is Rustic Fragments

closely followed by Seasonal Fragments.

Both these A4 sets are available individually or as one of our ever popular multi-buys.

There are loads of brilliant images on these stamps ranging from fabric to basket weave and snowflakes to leaves. All of these stamps can be used with many other crafty products; I stamped through a stencil for the card featured here today but you can use them with paints, inks, clay, UTEE, there are so many possibilities.

Also available today are a selection of clear word stamps. These are being released in two sizes, first we have

Awesome Diva

and Positive Beauty

Each of these sets will arrive packed in one of our A5 storage wallets and are excellent for card making etc 

However, for those of you who love journalling and mixed media projects we have decided to also offer these in a larger format, which will really make a statement on your artwork. Once again they are packaged in an A5 wallet for easy storage.

So we have the same words, only much larger, and they are released in the following four sets:

Awesome Today

Rockstar Diva

Positive Pants

and finally See Beauty

Now you can have your own sets of journalling words to complement your creativity. Just please bear in mind that we only have a limited stock of all the clear word set so you may have to wait a little while for more stocks to arrive, but they are definitely worth the wait. If you are concerned on which size may be suitable for your projects the description on the website of each stamp set contains the measurements of both the smallest and largest stamps.

I am really excited about all our new releases as I can see so many ways in which they can be used and I know you are going to just love them.

As usual the Design Team girls have been creating magic with the new Fragment sets so there will be lots of inspirational artwork for you to see over the next month. Hope you can join us and have a thoroughy wonderful stamping time.