Birds and Beads

Good Morning! Today I have a card made with the Birdcage Collage cling mounted stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

I have coloured the design with Promarkers and added some beaded head pins to the bottom of the design.  The jump rings that the head pins hang from were put through the "holes" in the trellis background of the stamp. 

The base card was edged with Fired Brick Distress Ink and the cream background was embossed with a Sheena Douglass Taste of India embossing folder, before going over the embossed area with the Fired Brick.

The card was finished off with the With Love sentiment stamped with black Versafine, from the Mackintosh Sentiments clear stamp set.

Thanks for the visit and hope to see you again soon.

Butterfly Jewllery

 Hello there, thanks for stopping by. I have three simple pieces of jewellery to show today. They have all been created using the fabulous Butterfly Dress cling mounted stamp from Chocolate Baroque

 I just melted some ordinary silver and clear embossing powder together in my melt pot and then added a tiny bit of a Gelato crayon to add the colour. I inked up the stamp using black Staz-on, placed a metal cooking cutter over the stamp and then poured in the melted embossing liquid.

When the pieces had cooled I painted all of the edges with black acrylic and very lightly, dry brushed some white acrylic paint to highlight the texture left by the stamp. 

The necklace bale was glued to the back of the pendant with superglue and then I added a piece of faux leather. I attached some clasps to the leather and it was then ready to wear.

The brooch back was glued to the back of the butterfly with the superglue but before I stuck it to the back I attached three jump rings through the holes of the brooch pin before attaching three head pins that I had threaded with seed beads.

Many thanks for looking......will be back soon :-)

Monochrome Butterfly Lady

Hello and thanks for stopping by. The card I have for you today has been created using the fabulous Butterfly Dress cling mounted stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

• The base card has been repeatedly stamped with the dress part of the Butterfly Dress stamp, using black onyx Versfine Ink.
• The main image was stamped with Versamark before being heat embossed with a black sparkle embossing powder, and then mounted onto black card.
• As you can see the corners have been rounded which I did with a corner punch and three Candi buttons have been added for interest.

I think you will agree that if you need to make a card in a hurry then something like this would be ideal.

Be back soon xxx

Happy Easter

Good morning, hope you are all looking forward to Easter. Today I have a little card created with the Floral Eggs  and Spring Bird Crocus stamp sets which are both from Chocolate Baroque.

• I used the little decorative stamp from the Crocus set in conjunction with my Inkadinkadoo stamping system to create the circular design, which I coloured with Spectrum Noir Pencils. I also added this design in each corner of the base card.
• I decoupaged the centre egg which comes from the Floral Egg set. I stamped this using blue versafine which I clear embossed and then water coloured with Disress ink.
• The background has been coloured with Distress Ink and edged with a lavender chalk ink.

Thanks for looking and I will be back soon with another project.

Party Plate Flowers

Hello! Just thought I would show this plate I made a while back using Chocolate Baroque's Sketchy Doodle Flower set.
I picked up a set of left over Christmas Party plates in the supermarket with the intention of using them for "something". So I sprayed the gold plate with brown and deep red alcohol ink to give it this old copper tone. The main image was stamped onto tissue and then glued with Mod Podge to the centre of the plate and Molding Paste and seed beads were spread around the edges of the central image. I painted the paste with cerise acrylic paint and attached the stamped flowers and butterfly as a finishing touch.
Thanks for looking :-)

Colour Challenge 9

Hi everyone, the card I have today is for the Chocolate Baroque Challenge. The colour theme is:

The card I have designed for the challenge is:

The inks used are: Evergreen Bough, Bundled Sage, Chipped Sapphire and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks along with a blue Versafine. I used the Graceful Flower stencil along with one of the Floral Egg stamps which are brand new over at Chocolate Baroque and for the edging of the card I have used a little stamp from the Tangled Fragments set.

• This is a very easy card to make. The main image was created by inking up the stencil with the blue versafine and using it like a stamp followed by water colouring with the Distress Inks. 
• The Floral Egg was also inked up with the Versafine but I clear embossed it before water colouring with the Distress Ink. 
• The edges were stamped with the Tangle Fragment stamp using Evergreen Bough. 
• The panel was mounted onto the base card which has been inked with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and a few dabs of Crystal Stickles have been added for interest.

Thanks for popping by.

Spring Birds

Good morning and hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I have another project using the fab Spring Birds rubber stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

I started by sponging Cracked Pistachio and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink on a plain piece of card and then stamped the birds from each of the 3 stamp sets before colouring with Spectrum Noir pencils. I then covered the stamped card with a coat of Acrylic Wax which creates a soft sheen to the card. When the paint was dry I brushed over some Vintage Photo Distress ink which has highlighted the brush stokes left from the acrylic wax.
The stamped sentiment, coloured with Mustard Seed Distress Ink is from the Artistic Expressions  stamp set which I stamped onto card and edged with ribbon from my stash along with the outside of the card. As you can see I have also added buttons to each of the corners for a finishing touch.
Thanks for looking.

An Easter Thank You

Hello and thanks for stopping by. This card is made with Chocolate Baroque's new stamp sets for Easter, but they have been cleverly designed so that they could fit most occasions.

The inks used are Evergreen Bough, Peeled Paint, Cracked Pistachio and Shaded Lilac Distress Ink along with blue Vesafine for stamping. Stamp sets used are Floral Eggs, Natural Eggs and the sentiment is from Mackintosh Sentiments

• The blank egg from the Natural set was inked up with Cracked Pistachio and Shaded lilac and stamped twice. Then the two floral stamps from the floral set were inked up with the Vesafine and stamped over the top. To add some interest to the panel Evergreen Bough and Peeled Paint was brushed around the edges.
• I coloured a 1cm wide piece of card with Peeled Paint and Evergreen Bough and then stamped one of the floral stamps over the top with the Versafine to make the decorative strip and after glueing to the card I added 3 buttons from my stash.
• The sentiment was stamped using the Versafine and along with the egg panel, was glued to a layer of card that had been inked with Peeled Paint and Evergreen Bough before attaching  to the base card using silicone glue.
• To finish off I highlighted a few areas of the design with a white paint pen.

Thanks for looking......

Spring Birds

Good morning and thank you for stopping by. This is my second post using the fantastic new Spring Bird stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque.

• This card is 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm and I started by edging the card blank with Pickled Raspberry Distress ink. I then dabbed it with Duo Embellishment Adhesive and when the glue was clear I added silver gilding flakes.
• I cut a panel of white card measuring 13.5 cm x 13.5 cm and stamped the birds from the Crocus and Daffodil sets using sepia Versafine. Cracked Pistachio Distress ink was then brushed from the edges and worked into the middle.
• Two die cut circles were cut from white card measuring 8.5cm and 8 cm in diameter. The larger circle has been edged with the Pickled Raspberry whilst the smaller circle was stamped with the bird from the Daffodil set and coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils. Crystal Stickles was added to the flower centres and the underneath of the bird.

Thank you for looking and I will be back very soon with another crafty creation.

Clarity Challenge - Anything But A Card

Hello lovely people. Today I have something a bit different. It's a small canvas that I have decided to enter into the Clarity - Anything But A Card challenge.

• I started by covering the canvas with yellow acrylic paint and then I sponged Vintage Photo and Barn Door Distress ink through the Ocean Swirl stencil. 
• Moulding Paste was then applied to the canvas through the Double Bubble stencil and then red, green and pale brown embossing powders were sprinkled over the wet paste.
• I stamped the Diamond strip using white and then red acrylic paint, followed by the Shard border which I inked up with black Versafine and coloured with alcohol pens.
• The butterfly was stamped into white Sculpey clay and baked. I then coloured with alcohol pens and added crystal stickles glue.
• When the moulding paste was dry I heated the embossing powder with a heat gun and then brushed over white acrylic paint with a dry brush and added some green stickles glue.
• The canvas was finished off by dabbing around the edges with black ink.

Many thanks for stopping by and if you feel like popping back you would be very welcome.

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.