We Love Stamping November Challenge

Today is the first Sunday of the month so time for a new challenge over at We Love Stamping. The challenge where you can showcase your stamps. This month we are introducing a change. Although we love stamping, with so many new products and techniques available to crafters we want to be more inclusive of different styles. So with immediate effect, we now require at least one stamped element on entries. Of course, as seasoned stampers, we will still love seeing fully stamped entries, but from now on your entry will be welcome as long as there is at least one stamped element on your card, regardless of whether it is the focal point or not.

This month our theme is:

**Anything Stamped or Christmas Characters**

We would love to see all sorts of Christmas Characters, from Gnomes to Robins, Santa to Angels. 

I started this by taking a piece of watercolour paper and stamping and clear heat embossing the wreath. I then spritzed it with water and shook some brusho powders onto the damp paper, lots of spritzing and mopping later I was happy with the look.

The little robin was stamped and heat embossed and his red breast coloured with a red pen. I mounted him onto another larger circle that I had coloured with the same ink (Catherine Pooler icing on the cake), finishing off with a few tiny gems.  The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed.

Don't forget there is always a prize to be won and this month there are three prizes, two dies from Sizzix and stamp from Craft Stash  Why don't you head over to the challenge blog to check it out? The prize winner is selected randomly and in addition the DT will choose one entry to join us as a guest designer for a future challenge.

I hope I have inspired you to join us this month, all you have to do is ensure stamping (including digi) is the main focus on your card. It would be great if you could join in with our theme, but anythings goes is always an option if you are out of ideas. The challenge will close at noon (UK time) on Wednesday 29th November.

I am looking forward to seeing you in the gallery.

I am also sharing this at:

NBUS #56: the wreath and robin are NBUS

Supplies:

Ink: Brusho powders; Catherine Pooler icing on the cake; versamark

Stamps: Stamps by Chloe, leafy wreath; Woodware JGS824 bubble large tops; Tonic Studios stamp club stamp and die set 12 Christmas rose

Dies: Nesting circle and scalloped edge

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