quick cards

A few quick cards today, showing some of the samples from the last Chocolate Baroque show on Hochanda.
The first card is a 6" square white blank card, stamped with the buddha image from tranquility in dark brown ink, with the colour dragged out with a wet paintbrush to give shading. The bulrushes were coloured with pencils .
I sponged peeled paint distress ink through a bamboo stencil along both sides, making sure I didn't go over the image.
You could add a sentiment as I have on the second version, which took a fair bit longer as it was coloured with watercolour pencils and a waterbrush and I masked out the image with drawing gum.





















The last two both used offcuts of card that had been coloured with Brusho powders.
The first was a 5"x7" card using the outlined grasses image from eastern grasses  simply stamped in blackversafine ink and clear embossed at the bottom of the piece of green card. A thin black mat round the trimmed  image was all that was needed.












Last one was very quick, just five spare pieces of brushoed card cut into squares. Four toning pieces gluedobto an 8" square white card blank, sentiment also from artistic affirmations stamped onto last piece in black versafine ink, edged with the same ink direct from the pad, mounted onto a square of white card and glued in the centre.

tranquility

 I fell in love with this Clarity Stamp stencil, and couldn't resist trying it out with the large stamp from the Chocolate Baroque tranquility stamp set, especially as the bullrushes sort of match!
The stencil is a 7"x7" two-part one, with an inner and an outer, and I used both - admittedly, the outer one was just to show the space I had to stamp in. I lightly pencilled round the inside of the frame on a 6"x6" piece of white card before removing the outer stencil and stamping the figure. I wanted a dreamy misty look, so used versafine smoky grey to stamp with, and watercolour pencils to add some colour to the statue. I was trying to get the effect of moss and lichen on an old statue. The background was sponged with distress inks, mainly broken china and peeled paint, and some foliage from the same set was added at the top. I then tried to match up the inner stencil over the stamped image and sponged round it with a mix of forest moss, tea dye and chipped sapphire inks - forest moss seems to have come out as the dominant colour, but the others are there.
A simple mat of green card before mounting onto a
white 8"x8" card blank.
The second version uses the same sizes, this time with a cream base card. This time I reversed the stencil and twisted it around so that the bullrushes matched better with the stamp, and stamped the image with butterscotch adirondack ink. I coloured the image with the same ink using a waterbrush and added touches of peeled paint distress ink, a more definite image and more resembling stone.
Background with distress inks in tumbled glass, peeled paint and faded jeans using inkduster brushes and the traditional torn copy paper.
The stencil was sponged round with tea dye ink for the bullrushes and forest moss for the rest, this time dragging some of the ink to the edges of the card.
Mounts were dull gold and green, card blank is a cream pearlescent - wording is a Penny Black stamp I found when rummaging in a sale bin at the last Thetford show, a bargain at 50p!

Eastern promise

I was trying to create a Chinese-style landscape scene behind my Buddha  - not too sure how successful it was, but definitely mountains! All the stamps are from Chocolate Baroque, and the scenery is all created using brushes, distress inks  and torn paper masks - lots of fun..
I stamped the buddha figure first, coloured with inktense pencils, then with a versamark pen and clear embossed it. Mountains are black soot distress ink, with tree stamp from teeny weeny meadow peeking out in places. The same tree stamp was used in the meadow-type bits, and the large single tree was part of a stamp from terrific treescapes  coloured with marker pens. Wisteria stamp  in the foreground  also comes from the tranquiility set along with the buddha, and was stamped using 3 different green inkpads.
I am entering this for two challenges,
Make my Monday - Eastern promise
Craftascene - make your own theme