alliums

 Today's share features the allium blueprint  stamps from Chocolate Barqoue

The first card has a brushed distress ink rainbow background, with some light stamping in one corner . the main allium image was stamped on the right using black versafine ink, and then coloured with watercolour pencils. sentiment comes from the same set

the second card uses the main image stamped onto a piece of drawing cartridge coloured using distress inks and coloured with watercolour pencils. The single flower was stam,ped three times onto spare card, coloured with brusho powders, fussy cut out and glued at the base of the main image.The background card square was also coloured with distress inks and randomly stamped with smaller stamps  using the same inks

 As a coffe drinker I soon acquire  a stash of empty cans, whcih i hate to throw in the bin - I recycled two into pencil/brush holders. I measured pieces of drawing cartidge to fit with a slight overlap, then coloured them using distress inks. Various images from all the new blueprint sets were stamped using versafine ink and the completed strips fastened onto the cans using redline tape.

by eck, it's echinacea

 

 Good morning everyone, hopefully the weather is better where you are!

Today I am sharing some samples using the echinacea blueprint stamps from Chocolate Baroque

- or the eckythump stamps according to David....

My first idea was to decorate a small greyboard binder from Tando Creative  - by the time I had done it, I had worked out how to decorate it around the ready-fixed ring mechanism....... hopefully the next time I do this the result will be neater at least as I still have a binder to use.....

I had trouble using a brayer to add paint, so resorted to splodging paint on with a flat brush instead which doesn't give the same softer result. Next time I wil prop the binder up between two hardback books to give a level surface to work on ( and will also make sure I have enough desk space to lay the books out on as well!) I used three browny shades of paint, and then a darker brown over the edges and the the spine. I used black archival ink to stamp the large stamp and the smaller sentiment stamps, then stamped the image again onto white card and coloured the flowers with marker pens. The coloured image was fussy cut out and glued onto the binder

These are some of the inner pages of the binder using some the other blueprint stamps with pockets and tags or foldout pages as a change from ordinary pages.

lupin lights

Today I am sharing two cards made using the new lupin blueprint stamps from Chocolate Baroque

The first card uses a brusho back ground, with the main image stamped in black and clear embossed. This was also stamped and embossed onto spare white card. The flowers on both images were painted with watercolours, and those on the second image cut out and glued at an angle over the first image.

This was matted onto brown card and added to a card blank coloured with distress oxide inks and randomly stamped with smaller images form the set to create a background.

Brusho powders were also used on the second card, but this time sprinkled over after the image was stamped in versamark and white embossed onto white card. Once dry, the flowers were painted using brusho powders an the sentiment added in black ink. The crad blank was coloured with distress oxide inks and randomly stamped with  smaller stamps from the set