pick a poppy

 I adore poppies, so this month's stamps  from Chocolate Baroque were definitely up my street! 

The first sample is fairly simple, with the main stamp from polygon poppies  stamped in versafine and coloured with koh-i-noor pencils. The background was sponged with distress oxide inks and randomly stamped in the same ink with some of the smaller stamps and one of the leafy stamps from walk tall

This one is a bit more fiddly, I made a similar  A4 background using distress oxides then trimmed it into 2 panels to fit an 8" square card blank with the front folded back. The main image stmaped in black versafine onto spare card , coloured with pencils and die cut into a hexagon, mounted onto a black hexagon and glued over the centre front fold. The smaller poppy hexagon stamp was stamped twice onto spare card, coloured with pencils and die cut, then matted onto black, and glued on the back panel to line up with the larger hexagon.

 My final sample used the larger poppy from flora and fauna stamped into the centre of a square of card. I then sponged distress oxide inks in blue and grey through a diecut mask to create a patchwork effect and randomly stamped images from polygon poppies in the grey ink.

The blue ink was blended round the main image which was coloured with pencils

 

Morning glory

 Good morning everyone, today I have three versions of the morning glory stamp from the flora and fauna set by Choolate Baroque to share with you.

For the first card I coloured the stamp with marker pens, spritzed lightly with water and stamped onto white card. I used a water brush to pull out the colour on the flowers and leaves. A matching green mat and the sentiment stamped using the  blue marker pen to finish.

The base card here was randomly stamped with parts of the image using grey distress ink and sponged round the edges to create a background. 
Image stamped in black versafine ink this time and coloured with distress inks and a waterbrush.

The final version is on a candle, stamped in versafine onto tissue paper and coloured with alcohol marker pens
 

majestic crane

 For my first post this month I am sharing two samples using the gorgeous big crane stamp from last month's Chocolate Baroque tv show on the Craft Channel.

The first is a card, rather darker in the scan than it really was. It was a bit of an experiment, 

I stamped the image in versamark ink onto black card and clear embossed it, then coloured it with pencils. In hindsight it would have been better on grey card........

The base card was 8" square, and the rushes were second generation stamped in grey across base, and the sentiment added. 

I found a  6" square box frame on a charity stall last month, and it was just the right size for the crane. I used the bridge image from kingfisher song stamped onto white card  and coloured with watercolour pencils for the background. The crane was stamped onto spare card, coloured with pencils and fussycut out.  The frame was quite deep, and the one image wasn't standing out enough - so another four stamped  cranes. I only cut out the actual body of the bird from these  and added behind the main image with foam pads. I left the rushes loose when adding the bird to the background in the hope it would add a it of movement to the scene - and also I didn't want to fussycut them out another four times!