catch-up

My third post this month for Chocolate Baroque is a bit of a mixture, catching up on other stamps featured in the April show on Create and Craft.

The  canary bird rose stamp is lovely to colour in, but I just used bleach to take the colour out. The background was from a batch made using the inky plate and distress inks with some added stencilling- the leaves and stem were coloured with pencils 

Another inky plate background for the tree from be at peace, with a reflection below it created using acetate, coloured with pencils again. the sentiment was stamped on an offcut of the background piece, cut out and edged with black ink

Another inky plate background, with the open weave  background stamped in grey first, then the floral weave stamp coloured with felt tip marker pens stamped twice to build up the colour - I used a stamping platform for this.

Sentiment on a scrap of the background and a black mat.

 The final card used the flower from life is wonderful stamped in black ink onto a sponged background. The flower was coloured with pencils and the butterfly with shimmer paints. The flower head was stamped onto spare card, painted with watercolours ,fussy cut out and glued over the original image.  Random parts of the open weave stamp were stamped on the background using a green distress ink and then I doodled round the edges with a fineliner pen. The sentiment was stamped onto spare card, cut out , more doodled edges.

 

dream petals

 For my second batch of samples from the Chocolate Baroque shows in April on Create and Craft I have used stamps from gerbera and friends and dream petals as the main images

The first two are very similar, both using  backing sheets coloured with brusho powders sprayed with water. A separate sheet of card was coloured using green, turquoise and purple powders and the flower from dream petals was stamped 5 times in black versafine ink and fussy cut out. 

I chose 3 flowers to mount onto the bluey background which was trimmed to fit an 8" square card blank and edged with black by dragging across the ink pad before gluing on.

The greeny one was trimmed to fit a 7" square card blank and edged by using an alcohol marker pen in green before adding the 2 remaining flowers.

This one took a bit longer to do -  The flower was stamped first in black versafine ink and clear embossed  befoe painting with ko-i-nor water colour paints. The sentiment comes from be at peace. I then brushed distress ink around the flower, and added  random parts of the lattice stamp to add texture. I also used several worker stamps from older sets to add interest to the background.

 

The last one used the sunflowers stamped in bl;ack versafine ink onto a scrap of  leftover card with an inky splodgy background which I trimmed right down and edged with black ink before mounting on a white card blank. The sentiment was stamped in black in the corner to finish

blown away

 

 For my first post this month using stamps from the April shows for Chocolate Baroque I chose to use the lovely dandelion stamps from the Gerbera and friends stamp plate

I used a  splodgy background from a previous session, which had just the right colours. The base card blank was 7" square, and the front was cut in half - the background piece was trimmed to make 2 pieces , one to fit the half card front and a narrower one to go on the inner.

The images were stamped using a white pigment ink pad - it's a fairly new ink pad, but gives a very muted image , so once the first images were dry I stamped again and white embossed them. Narrow black mats and a sentiment from say it vertically to finish.

 I couldn't resist another candle ,  images simply stamped in black versafine ink, torn out and fused on. It would have been easier to stamp all the images onto a single piece of tissue paper rather than doing them singly as I did - you live and learn!

canvas boards

 My final shares for this month are two canvas boards I decorated using the A4 strip stamps from Chocolate Baroque, phenomenal butterfly and floral paraphernalia

I used decor art paints to cover the canvas boards, using browns and blues, just slapping the paint on randomly to get rid of the white.- - one ended up with stronger colours  than the first

I used brown versaclair ink to randomly stamp parts of the images round the edges of the boards to create the background.

The strip stamps were stamped onto copy paper using black versafine ink, and the white paper was coloured using a soggy teabag. Once dry, the images were coloured using alcohol marker pens and torn round and glued onto the boards using modge podge.

 

floral trio

 Three cards to share today using the floral paraphernalia stamp from Chocolate Baroque

The first two actually started out as one A4 image, with cold tea splodged round as a background  - some colour added with a brush and some with the teabag dragged over. All the images were coloured with alcohol markers before cuuting to make two separate cards.

The second card has a random background stamped onto the card blank using parts of the same stamp.

The third version uses the top part of the image again, stamped onto a  sponged distress oxide background in salvaged patina and twisted citron. I stamped the flower from the companion set floral paraphernalia elements elements  and the letters to create a background. The flowers and leaves were coloured with pencils

 

zero calories!

 I love getting inky, and if coffee and cake just happens to come with it, that's a bonus! 

So it is no wonder my current stamp of the moment has to be the fab new set by Bipasha for Aall & Create. The background was created using ground espresso and salvaged patina distress inks on an inky plate ( a bit similar to a gelli plate, but a lot cheaper, available from Chocolate Baroque). I love the fact that you never get two results the same, and I thought that the watery effect worked well with the stamps.

The coffee cup was stamped onto the background using black versafine ink, and again onto spare card, coloured with pencils and cut out then glued over the first image. The cake was also stamped onto spare card, coloured and cut out., then glued next to the coffee cup.

I am linking this to two challenges

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floral candle

  Good morning everyone, hopefully you are enjoying some welcome sunshine today, even if it does come with a breeze.

My share today is a candle decorated using part of the floral paraphernalia stamp launched at the beginning of March by Chocolate Baroque

The top part of the long A4 size stamp was stamped onto white tissue paper using black versafine ink, I tend to stamp onto the smooth side of the tissue paper and colour on the rougher side, but that is just my personal preference.

The image was coloured with alcohol marker pens, then I painted with water round the image and tore it out very carefully.

I positioned the tornout image onto the candle, then wrapped a sheet of copy paper tightly round the candle over the image leaving enough to hold the candle. Using a heat gun  - I use a very ancient hairdryer type gun, as the heat is gentler than the newer ones -  heat the image area gently until it starts to show through the paper.

Remove the copy paper and your image should be attached to the candle.

I do use my decorated candles, you do need to keep the tissue paper trimmed down level with the top of the candle as the candle burns down.