Chocolate Baroque GDT post 2 - February 2019 - Mackintosh Beauty/Exquisite Edges

Hello everyone.
Time for my next post. Where does the time go?

When I was tidying my craft stuff, I use this term loosely, I found a beautiful background piece that I had made with my Brushos. I don't use them very often as my colours are a little bright for my liking generally.
But this piece was crying out to be used.
 I have teamed it up with an image from one of my other favourite sets the Mackintosh Beauty.


I have used her in one of my previous GDT posts, in fact exactly a year ago, but because you can snip away various parts of the design she can look different each time you use her. I like this versatility in a stamp.

Products used:-
Stamps - Exquisite Edges, Mackintosh Beauty, tiny butterflies from the Essence of Nature
words from Loving Sentiments

Brushos,  VersaMark, clear embossing powder, Versamagic Aloe Vera, Majestic Blue Versafine, black Staz-on inkpad, parchment paper.


I stamped the background with Versamagic  and clear embossed it.
I used a paint brush to wet the inside of all the flower shapes and then lightly sprinkled a blue Brusho over. The water tends to be contained within the embossed areas so the colour doesn't spread  too far and the splatters spread into the sky area. The colour was spread through the petals with a fine brush.

I left this to dry and then coloured the lower section with the Aloe Vera  inkpad.

The lady and tiny butterflies are stamped with the blue Versafine and clear embossed.  Her dress was then trimmed and coloured with the same colours as the background.
The words are stamped with the Stazon ( permanent inkpad) , onto the parchment paper.

It was a little time consuming to cut the butterflies out but I  thought they were cute.

 

Thank you for visiting today and I hope you have enjoyed my project.

It is always a pleasure creating projects with such beautiful stamps as these.

 

Bye for now and happy crafting

Carole

Chocolate Baroque 15 minute card - Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus

Hello.
It's 15 minute card time again on Chocolate Baroque.

This is my contribution for this month.

Stamps used:

Dawn Chorus
Fly Away with me
Wise Owl

 The background was created  with Abandoned coral and  Fossilized amber Distress inks and then over stamped  using various elements from the three sets.

The Dawn Chorus image was stamped with black Versafine.

Hope you will visit the blog to see other DT members 15 minute creations.

 

Thanks for visiting

Carole

Chocolate Baroque GDT post 1 - February 2019 - Poppy Meadow

Poppy Congratulations

Good morning everyone.

I am back again as a guest design team member for Chocolate Baroque, this being my first of three posts during February.

I have used the beautiful poppy stamp from Poppy Meadow and the centre of Song Thrush. It is relatively quick to make too.

 

 

Products used:-  Poppy Meadow, Song Thrush, word from Loving sentiments stamps, Versafine Black and Majestic blue inkpads, Artcuts  wooden heart, white acrylic paint, watercolour pencils, DL card base.

 

 

The poppy has been stamped with Versafine black and clear  embossed to fit onto a DL card base. 

I have used a  heart shape as the central element.

As my shape was wood and I wanted the blue to be crisp and clear, I painted it with slightly watered down, white acrylic paint.

When dry, the centre of the Song Thrush stamp was inked with Blue Versafine  and the heart was placed over the section I wanted to stamp.

 

All the colouring has been done with water colour pencils.

For the top and bottom edges I drew a line using the same blue as the rest of the card . Then I pulled a damp wipe along the edge to smudge and soften it slightly.

 

The joy of the poppy stamps is that you can colour them almost any colour you like. This shape reminded me of the blue Icelandic poppies.

Hope you have enjoyed my post and see you next week with my second project.

 

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting

Carole

Chocolate Baroque 15 minute card - Harebell Butterfly

Hello to you all.

!5 minute card time again on the Chocolate Baroque blog.

My card uses the lovely stamps on the Harebell Butterfly set and words from Loving Sentiments.

 

 

I like these colours together and thought this would be good as a man's card, especially if they were a gardener.

 

I have used a Pumice Stone Distress inkpad and dabbed it along   a masked area of the card and then over stamped it with the same colour.

The mask was then removed and the main image was stamped with black. The flower heads were coloured with pencils in a muted pink and green.

 

Hope you enjoy the rest of the Design team samples on the blog.

Happy Crafting.

Carole

Chocolate Baroque 15 minute card - Sing your song - Christmas

Good morning.

A fifteen minute Christmas card today. Useful for the last minute cards..

 

 

 

This uses a stamp from the Sing a Song set https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/sing-your-song-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-a5.html

As soon as I saw this I thought it would make a good Christmas card as well as a general greeting card. It can be embellished in various ways depending on how much time you have.

I started with a backing paper made with pink and blue inkpads. This was over stamped, in the same colours, with the snowflake border stamp from Winter Edges https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/winter-edges-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-a5.html

The main bird image and greeting uses Versafine ink.
I then added a border around the edge to finish it off.

The samples below show cards with slight variations.

Thank you for visiting and I wish you  a very Happy Christmas and a lovely 2019.

Bye for now and happy crafting

Carole

 

Yellow and grey

 

 

 

 

Hello to anyone visiting.

 

 I have a thing about yellow and grey at the moment, and seem to be homing in on anything with these colours.  Seems to be a lot of it about in home décor.

So I thought I would show you a  card I have made recently, with this colour combination.

 

 

 

I like this stamp as you can use it any way around. It is called Mosaic flower and was featured last January on the Hochanda show. Reminds me of Chinese lanterns.



This is my card I made for the show, don't think I've shown this before.

The central heart is French Heart.

 

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting.

Carole

Chocolate Baroque 15 minute card - Harlequin Bouquet

Hello again.
How time flies. Another month gone and the 15 minute card slot is here again.

I have used the lovely Harlequin Bouquet stamp for my card this time.
It's a very pretty image.

Stamps used:- Harlequin Bouquet
                        Loving Sentiments - words

Sunray stencil
Distress inks

Stamp the words first, onto the right hand side of the card, then tear a mask from paper that will cover the words and stamp the flowers over the top.
Use the stencil to ink the sunrays.
Cut the oval around the stamped image and ink the edges.
Cut the black matting layer or the edge could be inked with a black pen.
Mount onto a card base and add the sentiment and bow.

Hope you have a good day and check out the other 15 minute cards on the Chocolate Baroque blog.

Bye for now

Carole