mini concertina book

 my final share for Chocolate Baroque this month is this small concertina book, with flowers on one side and underwater bits on the other.
 I risked sanity by playing with editing effects and managed to brighten the photos up a bit, but the colours look a bit pale now.
I cheated and used the strip of ready scored drawing cartridge from the craftalong pack as the base , and coloured both sides using distress oxides and water on my craft mat.
I cut pieces of drawing cartridge for the panels and covers, and inked the covers to match the base piece.

Images stamped in black versafine ink and coloured with watercolour pencils , apart from the cog image which was randomly inked with distress oxide pads.
You will be relieved to hear that the scanner is now talking to the computer - well, I am anyway!- so better pix next time.

here be dragons

The background was made at a workshop, revisiting an old technique using crumpled tissue paper and gilding wax - once it was done, it was crying out for my favourite dragon stamps to be added, rather than the flowers I was supposed to be using.......
Dragons from Chocolate Baroque were stamped onto white card with versafine black ink, clear embossed, then painted with H2O  paints, fussy cut out and mounted onto the background.
Fairly appropriate for Chinese New Year too

I am linking this to challenges
corrosive challenges  - anything goes
stamping sensations - favourite stamps
addicted to stamps - holidays
the fairy and unicorn challenge - anything goes fantasy themed
as you like it - anything goes

punky flowers

 sharing some samples from last month's Chocolate Baroque show on Hochanda - apologies for the poor photos, had to take them in a rush in rather poor light as the scanner refused to have anything to do with the computer after an upgrade, grrr. and I'm not good enough with IT to fiddle with the results

Both using the same stamp from the
punky flowers sheet, just changing the size of the card by .5" magically gave me the square in the centre rather than a mess of stems that needed the circle sentiment!
I do use a stamping platform for these, makes it so much easier!
Edging on both cards using a marker pen, and images coloured with watercolour pencils.








This one has a distress ink background, just  to make a change from brusho, image stmaped in black versafine and coloured with pencils again




The box lid was triple embossed with copper EP, the large flower from the same set stamped into the EP while it was still hot

Olga's flowers

Sunday was our usual craft club, and being awkward as usual while everyone else was playing happily with the Aall & Create cutie stamps (which I detest) I grabbed Olga's lovely flower stamps instead.
Janet brought gelli plates and paints along too, and this was my final piece for the afternoon.
I didn't let the paint dry enough between layers, so lost the blue somewhere along the way and forgot that you don't stamp text stamps onto a gelli plate unless you want the letters backwards....
The main images were stamped onto white card and painted with Koh-i-noor watercolours, cut out and glued on


Second pic shows the main image from the A4 set just stamped onto white card and coloured with pencils - it is a huge stamp, just under 8" across, and fortunately I have some 7x10 card blanks I can use........
A lovley peaceful painty afternoon, then back to catch up with recorded ODS programmes with Chocolate Baroque - couldn't quite believe how quickly they sold out!