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

Lace Fragment Union Jack

Hello! Today I have another Craft Channel show card that I have stamped with the Lace Fragments set.

This was quite a fun card to make. I searched for a union jack template on the Internet and then printed it out 3 times. I then took a craft knife to cut out sections of the flag before sponging through red and blue distress ink and then over-stamping with the lace fragments.

Many thanks for having a peek.

Julie x

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 16

Hello, today is the start of a new week over on Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge and these are the chosen colours, which I think are really beautiful.

 

 The project I have made in the challenge colours has been stamped with the Patchwork Landscape set. This card was also on the recent Craft Channel show that featured a whole host of Chocolate Baroque goodies

I stamped all of the images in Sepia Versafine and coloured with Polychromos pencils. The base card was then brushed with Broken China Distress ink, followed by a few dabs of blue and yellow acrylic paint. I finished off the base card by edging it with Pickled Raspberry Distress ink.
I added the sunrise behind the cottage by sponging distress ink through a die cut circle and added the sun rays with more distress ink against a straight edge of scrap paper. I finished the central image off by dabbing light blue acrylic paint around the edge.

Many thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

A Little Bird Told Me......

Hello lovely people, I thought I would start showing the cards I created for the recent Chocolate Baroque television shows that Lesley did for The Craft Channel. This is the first one and has been stamped with A Little Bird Told Me set.

Sadly the picture doesn't show the clouds very well in the background, but I created these with Broken China Distress ink and stamped the little decorative stamp with grey Versafine ink. The bird and cage has been coloured with Polychromos pencils and the background on the bird panel was sponged with a wet wipe and Distress ink.

To get the bird peeking out of the panel I first cut around it's head with a pair of scissors. Then I placed  the torn edge die around the entire image and carefully lifted the birds head over the cutting edge to avoid beheading the little fella!

Many thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

Dreaming Of The Beach

Helloooo! Thought I would post this frame design I made in memory of the summer that has just passed. The Gesso washed over the Kraft card makes it looks quite wind swept so if you visit the beach in the next few days it's probably quite realistic, however Shabby Chic was the look I was aiming for so I will let you decide......

The Beach Huts is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque and comes from the Seaside Dreams set and the sea horse which I embossed in blue, comes from the Sea Shore set.

I stamped the beach huts over the dried Gesso with a Sepia Versafine and then coloured the image with Polychromos pencils.

I recycled the old picture frame by covering it with ready mixed wall filler and strips of burlap ribbon and when it was dry, painted with a pale blue acrylic paint.

Thanks for stopping by

Julie x

Halloween Party

Hi, just a quick post to share a last minute Halloween party idea, created using Chocolate Baroque stamps. This fantastic little set is called Put a Spell on You and I have made a place card and tag for your party bags.

The place card is just a square piece of card, but before folding in half, stamp the ghosts around the middle, then take a craft knife and cut out the top of the middle ghost and any of the other bits that will appear above the fold line. Crease and fold the card and then stamp the spider and cobweb before colouring with pencils and Distress Ink.

This little tag is designed to match the place cards and is just stamped with Black Onyx Versafine ink, coloured with a pale blue watercolour pencil and then Weathered Wood Distress ink applied over the top.

Many thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon

Julie x

Chocolate Baroque - Colour Challenge 15

Hi, today is a new week on the Challenge Blog over at Chocolate Baroque and here is the colour inspiration. Have to say that I really love this colour combination and hope you like the photo frame that I have altered to fit in with the challenge.

Materials:

Steampunk Butterfly stamp set

1 smooth coated photograph frame

White stamping card

Archival Inkpad: Watering Can 

Versafine inkpads: Onyx Black and Grey

light grey coloured pencil

Black alcohol marker pen

light, medium and dark grey, alcohol marker pens

Alcohol blending solution

Felt pads

Scrap paper for masking

3d glue or foam pads

Instructions:

Cut a piece of stamping card to fit the aperture of your frame.

Ink up the tulip stamp with the Archival inkpad and stamp onto the card you have just cut. Repeat this step twice but stamp onto the scrap paper and another piece of spare stamping card.

Cut out the tulip from  the scrap paper and use this as a mask to cover your main image.

Ink up the cog stamp with grey Versafine and stamp all over the masked image.

Remove the mask and colour the cog background with a light grey alcohol marker and coloured pencil.

Colour the tulip with the yellow and grey alcohol pens and also include the image you stamped onto the spare card. 

Cut out the leaf and tulip heads from the second image and decoupage them onto the main image using 3d glue or foam pads.

Squiggle the alcohol pens all over the front of the frame and then blend with the alcohol solution that you have applied to the foam pads.

Ink up the 3 keys stamp with the Onyx Black Versafine and stamp 3 times onto stamping card. Cut out and add to the name plate on the frame.

Reassemble the frame and display.

My photo frame already had the name plate attached, but obviously any frame that has a smooth coated finish can be used.

Thanks for looking and hope to see you again soon

Julie xx

Autumn Flowers

Hi, today's post is a bit of a test to see if this publishes from my iPad so will not go into too much detail....

All stamps used are from Chocolate Baroque and I have stamped a flower texture stamp into Sculpey clay to make the decorative buttons. The main image was coloured with pencils and Distress Ink was used to stamp and colour the base card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

Halloween Tags

Hello, just a quick post to show some of the fabulous new Halloween stamps from Chocolate Baroque. There are two sets to choose from, Hocus Pocus which I used to make the two small tags and Put A Spell On You for the larger tag. I used Distress ink and Polychromos pencils to colour the tags and stamped them with Onyx Black Versafine.

 Put A Spell On You

Hocus Pocus

Thanks for stopping by 

xxx