skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Hi all
I am sure many of us card makers are now in panic mode about those special cards we need to make. The Stamp of the Week stamp over at Chocolate Baroque this week is a set of four gorgeous festive script stamps, you can see them here as a special multi-buy special offer. These stamps have a beautiful timeless quality.
This is a card I made last year with the Poinsettia Script stamp for the Chocolate Baroque Christmas card swap some of us take part in each year. I started off with embossing the image in a coppery EP, then added shading with Vintage Photo DI and painted with Mica Magic ink refills. I decoupaged some extra layers on the flower. I finished off with a sentiment, some artificial holly leaves and mounted the whole lot onto a green gingham DP with a little bit of ribbon - I love gingham on Christmas cards.
I hope I can carve out some time for this year's cards very soon!
Elaine
Here is a scrapbook page I put together using some photos from our recent holiday in France.
I printed the pictures in sepia tones and matted them onto brown script paper. The background is a script paper from the Prima and I added a strip of torn paper on the right hand side.I added a stamped panel and some embossed images from the Chocolate Baroque Gothic Fragments set. I used a metallic copper EP and then carefully cut the images out. These stamps are perfect for the job, with such lovely architectural elements. I finished off with a title made from a Spellbinders fancy label and peel off letters which are from the new Papermania Art Deco range. It is very rare for me to use peel offs these days, but I rather like these.
Hope everyone is keeping safe and dry in this yukky weather we are having.
Have a good weekend.
Elaine x
There is a special offer on over at Chocolate Baroque with a stamp of the week - New England Winter
This set includes some lovely images including one of a pine cone that I am especially fond of. Here is a card I made way back with this stamp that has always been one of the favourites I have made over the years.
All the images were embossed in emerald green metallic EP. The shading is in Pine Needles Distress Ink. The mistletoe corner with added pearl berries is from another set that I fear has been discontinued. Matting is done with some dark green midnight glitter card and the cones have highlights of glitter snow using Glamour Dust glitter which is one of the few types I ever use. The sprigs of pine are from a punch that has since gone to the big crafting dustbin. (Note to self - never stand on a punch to get it through a reluctant piece of card - does this conjure pictures of a baby elephant doing a party trick?!)
Elaine x
I have been having fun playing with one of the new sets of clear stamps from Chocolate Baroque, Terrific Treescapes. I made this set of very quick thank you cards.
I embossed different tree images onto some script papers from this gorgeous pad. This is a lovely pad with a great range of colours and really nice quality and thick papers. I did two darker backgrounds with gold embossing and two lighter with a metallic copper EP. I added a little shading at the edges with Vintage Photo DI before mounting onto chocolate brown die cut nestie circles. I mounted the circles onto 4 x 4 kraft card blanks I made and added the "merci" sentiment from the Pretty Poppies plate stamped in Coffee archival ink.
If you haven't investigated these new clear stamps from CB, do have a look. I found these trees brilliant to use, not least because the index sheet allowed me to play about thinking out layouts before stamping landscapes. The storage folders which have little tabs which can be kept in ring binders are also proving very popular, so much so they can be bought separately too.
Elaine
Chocolate Baroque have released all sorts of great new stamps this month - a real variety of stamps in both clear and rubber. One of the new sets is Tangled Garden. This is a lovely mix of leaf, flower and butterfly designs inspired with patterns that will appeal to all fans of zentangle.
I love leaves and was tempted to get the masking tape out to make background patterns with the leaves. For this 8 x 4 gatefold card, I stamped the leaves using Memento Danube Blue onto blue card and just kept repeat stamping and masking until I had covered the panels. I added a little shading around the edges with Denim Adirondack ink before mounting the panels onto the card and adding a sentiment from the Pretty Poppies stamp set.
I have more samples to share later in the week and remember to pop over to the DT blog by clicking the link in my side bar and the Chocolate baroque on line store to see what special offers you can grab.
Elaine x
The new Gothic Fragments stamps from Chocolate Baroque are scrummy. I love architectural stamps, so I found them rather inspiring! Sorry it had to be done!
This is a sunset version. I masked a large sun, then inked with Adirondack dye inks in Sunshine Yellow, Watermelon and Cranberry and Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade. I know I am boring in that I often use this ink combo for skies with impact, but it works for me! I embossed the spire, dome and word in copper metallic EP and added highlights with Derwent Coloursoft pencils.
I have another project to show you soon, using this lovely stamps with some of my holiday pics from France.
Elaine
I am rather behind with posting my latest tags for the Chocolate Baroque alpha tag swap, what with our holiday and one thing and another.
My first is S for seahorse, using the Underwater stamp set. The seahorse is embossed in Moonglow Teal Obsidian embossing powder, with highlights added with a contrasting royal blue EP and bindi type gems. The background weed is stamped in green archival ink, with shading added in Distress and Adirondack inks.
Apologies for the appalling pic of this one, T is for tree! The light for photos has been so bad for weeks when I have been at home it seems! I was not entirely happy with this tag, but the deadline was upon me and I had to get it posted! I used the arboretum set of stamps for this one. I used a mixture of inks, including some Brilliance and embossing in pearl powder to add highlights.
The next is U for Unicorn. He was stamped and embossed in silver onto pearl card as I wanted him to be a little luminous as you might expect a unicorn to be if you happened upon one! The arch is from the Christmas creatures plate and the foliage from the Mini meadow set.
My last one for now is V for Velocipede!
The image is from the Edwardian Gentlemen set, embossed in Copper Obsidian powder and coloured with Vintage Photo Distress ink. I backed the tag with a piece of a facsimile antique OS map of Hampshire, again edged with Vintage Photo DI. I added some tissue tape, a piece of copper coloured German Scrap and a little clock charm.
Only four more tags to go now, but the letters are getting much more challenging to think of themes for!
Hope you are keeping warm in this chilly weather!
Elaine
