Chocolate Baroque Daffodil

Good morning everyone! Today I have some exciting news to share, drum roll please......I am now a member of the Chocolate Baroque design team!!!!!!  I am completely over the moon about this as I never thought my creations would be good enough but apparently they are... So I will definitly be blogging on a much more regular basis, so please do come back and check out all the new stuff from Chocolate Baroque.
The card I have today is made using the new Spring Bird Daffodil stamp set and a couple of Crafters Workshop Templates: Viva La Art & Tattered Lace.
The daffodils have been coloured using Distress Markers and the background has been created with the Workshop Templates and Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink. I have added bronze gilding flakes for added interest which I glued into place using the fabulous Duo Embellishing Adhesive.
Many thanks for popping by and if you wish to leave a comment it would be very gratefully received.

Chocolate Baroque Rose Frame

Afternoon all. Just remembered that I had not added this up-cycled picture frame that I created using Chocolate Baroque's Punky Heart stamp set. This was my first post as the January guest designer.

• I used a melt pot to pour UTEE over the frame before stamping into it with the swirly heart and the cluster of hearts stamps. If you don't have a melt pot then embossing powder heated using a heat gun straight onto the picture frame would work just as well. 
• In between the embossed areas I added coloured micro beads glued into place with Glossy Accents along with brown jute that I coloured with an alcohol pen. 
• I stamped the clockwork heart into black Cloud Clay and when it was dry I wiped over DecoArt Metallic Lustre in gold and attached to the frame with silicon glue.
• The picture was stamped and coloured with watercolour pencils and when it was dry I went over it with a couple of coats of Colourcraft Acrylic Wax. When that was dry I gave it a buff with an old cloth which I think has given it a softer look.

Thanks for looking and I will be back very soon with some more creations.

Balloon Frame

Hello lovely people, today I thought I would share what I made for my guest designer post over on the Chocolate Baroque Design Team blog. You can find the details of how I made it here, but basically it is an up-cycled picture frame and the stamps I used were from the Punk Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque.
Thanks for looking.

Musical Canvas

Hello and thanks for stopping by. I have another mini canvas to share today that I made using the Musical Fanfare stamp set from Chocolate Baroque.
I started off by stamping the cello image onto tissue paper and then sticking it to the canvas with matt Mod Podge. I then smeared Molding Paste around the stamped image and whilst it was still wet I stuck lace, seed beads, buttons and flowers into it. When it was dry I painted over it with cream and gold acrylic paints. I also added Peacock Feathers Distress Stains as well as the Picket Fence stain around the edges. I cut a treble clef on my scan n cut and stamped the musical heart stamp over it, coloured with dried marigold distress ink and then glued to the canvas. I also stamped the heart onto tissue and then glued it to the canvas before covering with Matt Accents.
A few of the flowers from the main stamped image have been decoupaged and glittered and gold gilding wax has been dabbed here and there.
Thanks for the visit.

Bird Canvas

Hello all. Today's post here and over on Chocolate Baroque Design Teams blog marks the end of me being the guest designer for January. I have really enjoyed it and loved playing with the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamp sets. Today I have a mini canvas that I created using stamps from both sets. The main bird image was stamped into Iridescent Paste and coloured with Promarkers. The heart strings have been highlighted with glitter and Glossy Accents, the "grass" was created from green jute and a few seed beads and the border has been made from string and gold Perfect Pearl paint pen.

Many thanks for popping by and I will be back very soon with more makes.....

CD Plaque

Hi, thanks for stopping by. Today my second post as a guest designer is over on the Chocolate Baroque design team blog, that I created using the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamp sets. I have absolutley loved playing with both of these stamp sets so for my own post today I decided to use the Fluttering Heart set to make this little CD plaque. I cut a piece of card to cover the old CD and then  stamped the border with sepia Versa Fine and then coloured the whole area with blue Distress ink. The little hearts were coloured with Promarkers and then glittered with crystal Stickles. The flower, heart and butterfly are part of two different stamps but I picked out these elements from the two images to use in there own right. I coloured them all with Promarkers and added a few splodges of crystal Stickles. To save faffing with the butterfly's antenna I decided to be brutal and cut them off, but replace them with some beaded wire. I edged the disc with a black Promarker and mounted the disc in a die cut stand.

Thanks for looking and I will be back soon with another post along with my last guest post for Chocolate Baroque design team.

Chocolate Baroque Door Hanger

Hello and thanks for stopping by. If you have arrived here via the Chocolate Baroque Design Team blog then I hope you liked my very first guest design team post. I was so excited to be invited as January's guest designer and could not wait to get started with these fantastic stamps.

My little blog has been a bit neglected over the past couple of years but I am hoping to turn that around this year and make it a proper showcase for my crafty creations, so I would be most grateful for your return visit.
 The two stamp sets that Chocolate Baroque sent me for the January blog posts were Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts and have used stamps from both sets to create this resist technique, door hanger.
I started by covering the wooden door hanger with Peacock Feathers Distress Stain and then stamped and embossed the heart stamps with white embossing powder. I added some Teal and Cranberry Tinka Billa inks and then wiped the excess from the embossed images. I stamped and embossed the butterfly and heart image using black detail embossing powder and painted with cranberry, teal and orange Tinka Billa inks. After cutting out and mounting onto the hanger with Pinflair Glue Gel I finished the design off with some beads attached to a strip of chipboard using eyelets and jump-rings.
Many thanks for looking and any comments would be most welcome. I hope to be back soon with more Chocolate Baroque makes.

Christmas Round-up........late I know!

Happy New Year blogger Peeps. I thought I would just do a quick post to show what I made as my Christmas card selection this year. I know it is a tad late and the shear lack of posts in the past year or two has been underwhelming to say the least, but I hope to rectify the problem this year. Well we can start off with good intentions can't we..........

Wall Hanging

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

Hello, this is my entry for another Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge. The colours permitted this time are displayed below and the stamp set I used was called Mackintosh Windows from Chocolate Baroque's website. I coloured the main image with Promarkers. I then cut the image out and stuck to the base card using Pinflair glue gel. The base card was created using promarkers and a perfect spritzer tool to create an airbrush effect. 

Thanks for looking and see you soon!

Hi, thanks for stopping by. The card I have to share with you today was made for a friend's birthday using the oriental stamp set that came with one of the monthly Creative Stamping magazines. The little flower background stamp was from my stash but not sure who designed it.
The main image was stamped with Memento Ink and then coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils. I cut it out using a Spellbinders die and mounted onto pick card that I had die cut using the same circular die shape. The base card was stamped with the little flower stamp using a brown distress ink and then brushed over using the same ink. The Happy Birthday was stamped using Memento Ink and there you have it, one simple birthday card.

Chocolate Baroque Challenge 3

Haven't added anything to the blog for ages......so today I have a post for the Chocolate Baroque monthly challenge which has to include the above colours.

I have used a current stamp (Artistic Expressions) set from Chocolate Baroque and a retired Elusive Images set called Filligree Fusion. I stamped onto a hammered, white card and quite like the mottled effect it gave when I brushed over the Distress Ink. The main image was created by stamping the swirl leaf design, four times and then coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils.
Thanks for looking!