Colour Challenge 20

Hi, today marks the start of a brand new Colour Challenge over at Chocolate Baroque, so here is the card and colour inspiration,

The card I have created simply uses the Daisy Ring Centre cling mounted stamp.

I stamped the daisy with Onyx Black Versafine and created a mask. This is so that I could place it over my original flower before stamping the remaining 3 flowers and not show the overlap. I have coloured with Zig Clean Colour Brush Pens and then mounted onto black card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will give the Colour Challenge a go!

Julie

Harlequin Bouquet

Hi, just a quick post to share a card made with Chocolate Baroque's brand new Harlequin Bouquet stamp.

I stamped and water-coloured the main image before cutting out as an oval using my Scan n Cut and then mounted onto a red card-stock oval. The background is from the Floral Eggs set and Harlequin Fragments

Hope you are all having a lovely Valentines day

Hugs

Julie xx

For My Valentine

Hello. Thought I would show a card idea for Valentine's Day that is fast approaching.

It is stamped using Chocolate Baroque's Punky Romance set and coloured with Pan Pastels and water-colour brush-markers.

I started by inking up the cog stamp with Versamark and stamping around the base card before carefully applying red and black Pan Pastel with a large soft bristle brush, remember to brush off the excess and then spray with fixative.

Next I inked up the flying heart stamp with Watering Can Archival ink and stamped onto the centre of the card and 3 times onto spare white stamping card. 

I coloured the layers of wings with the brush-markers and then layered up onto the main card with 3d glue gel.

The Love sentiment was stamped with Onyx Black Versafine and white highlights were added to the background and sentiment.

Thanks for looking!

Julie xx

Colour Challenge 19

It's the start of a new week over on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog and this is the colour inspiration for this month:

This is my take on the Challenge. I have used the Song Thrush stamp as the main image, a small flower from the Fresh Blooms for decoration in the background and the sentiment is from Mackintosh Sentiments.

The card is very simple, I stamped all of the images with Sepia Versafine and coloured with watercolour pens. The background is Broken China, Squeezed Lemonade and Tea Dye Distress ink and I have used some scrap green card as an extra layer.

Many thanks for stopping by

Julie xx

Flower Lady Part 2

Hi! Here is a very quick post just showing another version of the card I posted the other day. A selection of various stamps from my stash, along with a Crafters Workshop face template and then all coloured with Pan Pastel and Polychromos pencils.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon.

Julie xx

Flower Lady

Hi folks, can't believe we are two weeks into the new year and this is my first post, so I will whisper "Happy New Year" as it's way too late......My mojo has definitely gone walkies, but hopefully not too far as I would love to get cracking on some new projects. 

I created this card using Inkadinkadoo stamps and a Crafters Workshop stencil that I found in the Chocolate Baroque sale.

I started by inking through the face stencil onto white card, followed by stamping the "hair" with the Inkadinkadoo hibiscus flower stamp. I coloured with Polychromos pencils and added three die cut flowers to add a bit of dimension. The face and background were coloured with Pan Pastels and then I stamped the Inkadinkadoo bird around the background. I used a rubber to remove some of the Pan Pastel to make the lines around the face and of course finished with generous blobs of Crystal Stickles.

Many thanks for stopping by

Julie x

Colour Challenge 18

Hello. Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. This is probably my last blog post for this year so I will wish you all a very happy new year and hope to see you all again in 2016!

Today marks week 3 over at the Chocolate Baroque Challenge blog so you still have time to enter.

Here is the colour inspiration:

And here is my card using the Challenge colours:

I have used the Dotty Centre Flower Head stamp along with the Thank You stamp from Mackintosh sentiments.

I have stamped onto self adhesive address labels and coloured with Festive Berries Distress ink, before adding white highlights with a Zig paint pen. If you want further details you can find them over at the Chocolate Baroque Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie x

Merry Christmas

Hi ya! Like most people this time of the year I am quite busy getting ready for Christmas and sadly I have not had enough time to make new projects for my blog so I have decided to show a few festive cards that I made earlier in the year for when Chocolate Baroque released their Christmas stamps.

This card was stamped with the Welcome Home cling mounted stamp and coloured with Polychromos pencils

I love the Christmas Candle Light set that this card come from as you can build up festive backgrounds with the little holly leaf stamp

This card is a combination of Festive Candle Light and Sparkling Trees. I have built up the background from the small pine cone stamp and the central panel was stamped with the twiggy tree. All coloured with Polychromas pencils and Distress Inks

My last card is from Sparkling Trees. The background has been made with Aqua Tints and over stamped with Versafine. The decorative panel is Viva Crystal Gel that I spread onto a non stick craft sheet and when it was dry I peeled it off and coloured with alcohol inks.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon.

Julie x

Autumn Edges

Hello. As Autumn is now turning into Winter I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to post my last Autumnal themed card as a goodbye to the lovely golden leaves and hello to the cold, damp, yucky days to come.......ha ha.

The stamp set used is Autumn Edges. I inked up the naked trees with Sepia Versafine and stamped in the centre of the card and added a light blue water colour to the sky. The grass was created by dabbing a wet wipe coloured with Distress Ink to get the stipple effect. I also used this technique to colour around the edge of the card.

The leaf edges were stamped and coloured, top and bottom of the trees and then stamped onto spare card so that I could water colour before cutting them out.

The individual leaves were arranged around the trees and stuck into place with 3d glue gel. To finish off I applied Crystal Stickles to most of the leaves to create a bit of shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

Colour Challenge 17

Hello there, today is the start of the second week over at the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog

I really love the colour combo and have created this Steam Punk balloon card from the Punky Hearts collection

It is really simple, just stamped and water coloured and mounted onto black card. As there is a luxury gold element in the challenge colours I decided to use this as gilding flakes and applied the flakes around the edge of my design using Duo Embellishing Adhesive.

Many thanks for looking and hope to see your card in this month's Challenge.

Julie x

Haberdashery Fan

Hi, thanks for stopping by. Just thought I would share another card from one of the recent television shows that Lesley did on The Craft Channel.

I have taken elements from 3 of the stamp sets that were featured, starting with the fan which was created with the scissors from Haberdashery. I started by stamping the scissors as close to each other as possible and kept going until I had formed a semi circle. After cutting out I scored the card so it was easier to concertina up and fold as a fan. The corner and rose are from the Lace Fragments and the Create sentiment comes courtesy of Artistic Expressions.

Many thanks for looking.

Julie x

Autumnal Edges

Hi there, thanks for stopping by. Just a quick post to share an Autumnal card made with Chocolate Baroque's Autumn Edges

I started by inking up the solid leaf border with a rainbow dye ink pad and stamping the base card as shown. On separate card I stamped the leaf, mushroom and berry borders 3 times each so that I could select which parts I wanted to cut out with my circle die.

Once cut I coloured with pencils and matched up the designs and glued into place with 3d glue gel.

Thanks for looking

Julie x