Little Spruce Robin

Hello. Hope you are well. I cannot believe we are at the end of August already...Christmas really is fast approaching!

These two Christmas cards have been stamped with Chocolate Baroque's Robin The Spruce. I love this stamp set as the foliage is so useful and can be used on practically all of your Christmas card makes. As you can see, on my first card I have stamped the foliage around the edge of the base card. The little robin silhouette was stamped onto separate card-stock before being cut out with a circle die. I used a smaller circle aperture to create the sun/moon and everything has been lightly coloured with pale blues and oranges to give a very delicate feel of colour.

My second card is just one layer. I coloured the tree branch stamp with green and brown water-colour pens straight onto the rubber, before stamping onto the cards-stock and then stamped the berry branch in a very dark green dye ink.

The robin scene stamp was inked up with Sepia Versafine, stamped and then coloured with Polychromus pencils and then finished off by outlining with glitter glue.

Thanks for stopping by

Julie xx

What a lovely Pear

Hello, thanks for popping in. This Christmas card was stamped with Pears and Baubles from Chocolate Baroque.

I inked up the solid pear design with red dye based ink first and stamped onto white stamping card and also onto copy paper to create a mask. Cut out and place the mask over the stamping card design so that the green Pear can be stamped next to the first red pear, but just slightly to the back and overlapping.

Remove the mask and colour the background with Distress ink. I inked up the large background stamp from Pear and Baubles but didn't use it with a mount. I just dabbed the stamp onto the card with my fingers so that you get just bits of the design. This is my new favourite way of using large stamps for backgrounds.

I edged the base card with a gold marker pen, before cutting the stamped design to size and attaching to the front of the card.

Thanks for stopping by

Julie xx