mosaic

Good morning everyone - for my last post this month I am using the mosaic flower stamp by Chocolate Baroque from last month's tv shows.

I was trying to be clever here, and i am not too sure it worked.

I was trying to create a traditional Roman style mosaic floor in the background using alcohol markers to colour the tiles and a blending pen to spread the colour out beyond the tiles. In hindsight I think it would have been better to be random rather than trying to make a square pattern!

The seed heads were also coloured with alcohol markers 

 

floral delight

Good mornign everyone, today I have two versions of a card using the floral delight stamp from the Chocolate Baroque show last month.

The first was stamped onto black card using versamark ink and gold embossing powder, then painted with some ancient h2o iridescent paints.

Then simply trimmed. aded to a gold mat then onto a 7" square white card blank, leaving room for a sentiment on the right

 The second version was stamped in black versafine ink and clear embossed onto a background of sponged distress oxide inks. The flowers were coloured with pencils. I held  the words from wish flower in my hand and stamped them round the flowers using versamark ink - it didn't matter that some letters didn't stamp as it was more to add interest to the background - and the rubbed a tissue over to remove some of the ink. The card was trimmed , edged by dragging across the black inkpad and added to a 6" square white card blank

wish flower

Two versions of cards using the Wish Flower stamp from Chocolate Baroque for you today, with similar cololur schemes but differing effects.

The first uses brusho powders for the background in blue and yellow, leaving a lighter patch towards the centre - not quite as large  as i would have liked, but you never know how the colours are going to end up! I stamped the image using bklack versafine and clear embossing powder into the yellow area, then used bleach to remove the colour from the flowers.

The second version used distress oxide inks salvaged patina and twisted citron for a softer look, with some of the words stamped in versamark as a background .

The flowers were coloured using pencils