Chantel's Stamping Studio: October 2017

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Hello Sunshine!

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You know I have always appreciated sunflowers but I have never really loved them...not like the way I love roses anyway... but maybe that is because I have only ever seen them up close a handful of times in my life... I have never really seen a huge field of sunflowers other than in the movies etc...

Why do YOU love sunflowers? Is it their size? Smell? Color? Shape? I would love to know what draws you to them...

I once was having an awful, terrible, no good kind of day...and my sweet husband had just finished cleaning up a catering event at work and was offered some of the center pieces... do you know he came out to me with not 1 but 2! of these beautiful center pieces!!! I lost in and couldn't stop crying because of how generous his gesture was.... ever since then I associate sunflowers with the kindness he showed me on that day... THAT is why I now LOVE sunflowers...

Below you will see my old buddy Lorenzo... I seriously cannot get enough of this guy!!! He just makes me feel happy and inspired!

Thanks for Stampin by....

Chantel

Now it's YOUR turn!

I hope I've inspired you to go CREATE something new today!

Don't forget to hop on over to You Tube and check out my growing list of "How To" videos!

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Lo Siento...

So I have been playing with gold leaf foils and I have to say I think I have finally met my match in the crafting world... it has definitely been a challenge but I did find one technique that was easy and fun and I was happy with at the end and that was the technique I used on the card below...

What I did to create the gold leafing design was use fun stampers journey white liner tape...I simply layed the tape down across my card AFTER I had stamped my image and used pan pastels (check out my you tube video for more on using pan pastels) and then I proceeded to dump the gold leafs all over the exposed tape

I then pressed the gold foil leafing down and smooshed it into the tape as best I could and followed that up by using a stiffer paint brush to brush any excess off... this part was rather soothing for me and I loved seeing the design come to life!