Guest Designer - Chocolate Baroque Card 1

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I am delighted to have been asked to become a guest designer for Chocolate Baroque, recently.
It's great, as I have liked and used their stamps for many years now and they never fail to please.

So, here goes. This is my first post out of three. Hope you like it.

 

 

Stamps used: Garden Lace Scene

Harlequin Rose border

Summer Poppies - words

Distress inkpads: Evergreen Bough

Cracked Pistachio

Red Brick

VersaMark inkpad

Clear embossing powder

Versafine inkpad : Onyx black

Embellishments: swirl die ( think it was a Marianne)

Flowers: handmade from a circle shape.

Wink of Stella clear pen

Spray mount

 

 I stamped  the border with a  VersaMark inkpad , onto white card, and clear embossed it.

The scene was then stamped alongside it with Versafine black and left to dry thoroughly.

The background can be done with Cut-n-dry foam or brushes, whichever method you prefer with the Distress inks.

I then coloured the scene with the inks too and pulled out with a Wink of Stella pen to add light shimmer. This is difficult to see in the photo.

 

The words were stamped onto a piece of vellum parchment paper and clear embossed.

You could use StazOn ink to do this, then it would not need embossing. I like to stamp words onto vellum as it gives a lovely soft effect.

When dry, tear or cut around the edge of the parchment. This was stuck on with spray mount.

 

Finally the embellishments. Cut the swirl as many times as required and make three flowers  out of ordinary white copy paper. I made these from small circles, cut in a spiral and folded around. This  makes a lovely, rose type, flower.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog and I  hope you enjoyed my project.

I will be showing another card next week, using the lovely Song Thrush stamp.

 

Happy crafting

Carole