Quick and Easy Floral card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I am sharing another quick and easy card. I used a gorgeous stamp from the Wild Meadow set and Mackintosh Sentiments. I stamped the images onto an ink spritzed background and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Materials:

• Wild Meadow and Mackintosh Sentiments stamp sets
• Cream card blank (approx. 12 X 19.5cm)
• Heavy cartridge paper (approx. 11.5 X 19cm)
• Versamark Inkpad
• WOW embossing powder (detail white)
• Ink sprays (red, green, yellow with gold mica)
• Alcohol ink marker (dark brown)
• PVA pearls

How to make it:

1. Spritz the background and dry fully. Tip: I tend to prepare large sheets of background papers in advance and then cut them down as I need. Great to use if you need something done in a hurry, or for batch making sets.
2. Stamp the flower and sentiment with Versamark and heat emboss with white powder. Tip: to prevent the powder sticking where you don’t want it (especially if your card is still a little damp), dust the surface with a little talc.
3. Edge with alcohol marker to frame and glue to the card blank. Finish with PVA pearls.

Quick and Easy Tall Trees Scene card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I am sharing a quick and easy card using stamps from the Tall Trees and Words of Wisdom stamp sets. The background was created by spritzing and splattering with lime green and bright pink ink sprays. I then quickly stamped the trees with lime and dark green ink. The sentiments were stamped in dark green ink. I used green alcohol marker to frame the image before gluing to the card and added faux stitching with a fine tipped pen. I finished with the obligatory PVA pearls and clear glitter glue for sparkle (I just cannot help myself – tee hee).

Materials:

• Tall Trees and Words of Wisdom stamp sets
• A5 blank card
• Heavy cartridge paper
• Spray inks (lime with mica and bright pink)
• Dye based inkpad (dark green)
• Alcohol marker and fine tipped pen (dark green)
• PVA pearls and clear glitter glue

How to make it:

1. Lightly spritz and splatter the background with lime green and bright pink ink sprays.
2. Quickly stamp some of the trees by picking up lime ink from your craft mat. Repeat stamp some without re-inking. Lightly spritz the stamp with water and stamp again to give some lovely splodged images and a watercolour effect. Repeat with the dark green ink.
3. Stamp the sentiments with dark green ink.
4. Use the alcohol marker to frame the image before gluing to the card and added faux stitching with a fine tipped pen.
5. Finish with PVA pearls and clear glitter glue for sparkle.

Christmas card created for Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 29

I always enjoy the monthly Colour Challenge. Here is my contribution for this week – a Christmas card using the lovely new Christmas Post stamp.

I used watercolour pencils to colour the image and combined with a winter themed die cut to frame. The background was created by partial stamping, inking just the tree branches on the top edge of the stamp. I added some sparkling chunky ‘glass’ glitter to give added sparkle and dimension.

Materials:

• Christmas Post single stamp
• 6 X 6 inch white card blank, white stamping card, white pearlescent card
• Versafine Inkpad (Vintage Sepia)
• Watercolour pencils (green, red, brown and gold)
• Wax crayons (light gold and dark brown)
• Fine tipped permanent pen (brown)
• Glossy Accents
• Chunky ‘glass’ glitter (Pinflair Ice Diamond) and clear glitter glue (Stickles Icicle)
• Winter themed frame die (Create & Craft Couture – Winter Flurries set)
• Foam pads or 3D glue

How to make it:

1. Cut decorative frame from pearlescent card. If you don’t have a suitable decorative die a plain frame looks nice and you could decorate it with winter foliage or snowflakes (die cut or readymade).
2. Stamp the image and cut out to fit behind the frame. Extend the scene on the left and right by drawing with the fine pen.
3. Draw onto the bricks with wax crayons to give some areas of texture. The wax resists the watercolour. Colour the image with watercolour pencils. Use a damp brush to pull out and blend the colour.
4. Stamp the branches onto the card blank.
5. Mount the topper and frame with foam pads or 3D glue.
6. Finish with chunky glitter and glitter glue. Add Glossy Accents to the tree baubles.

Floral Notes With Love card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I am sharing a quick card using the lovely new Floral Notes stamp set. There are so many gorgeous images in this set.

Materials:

• Floral Notes and Mackintosh Sentiments stamp sets
• A6 scalloped card blank (red), white stamping card and a strip of copy paper
• Versafine inkpad (Onyx Black)
• Pencil and watercolour paint (red)
• Alcohol marker and fine tipped pens (black)
• Sparkle brush pen (clear)

How to make it:

1. Trim the stamping card to fit the card front. Cut a strip of copy paper and lay onto the card front (mask). Stamp the images in black. Stamp again onto spare card and cut out one of the flower heads.
2. Using the fine tipped pen draw the border and fill in any little gaps in the stamping (i.e. so that they join up with the border). Colour the lower edge of the border with pencil.
3. Colour the flower head with watercolour. Curl the petals slightly and glue to the card.
4. Brush over the flower petals with sparkle pen. Difficult to see in the photo but it just gives a little lift to the design.
5. Outline the topper with alcohol pen and glue to the card front.

Quick and Easy Still Reeds card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I am sharing another quick and easy card. I used the reeds border from the Owl Edges stamp set and sentiment from Words of Inspiration. I used ink sprays to colour the background and sparkling heat embossing powder for the reeds.

Materials:

• Owl Edges and Words of Inspiration stamp sets
• A6 yellow card blank (approx. 10 X 15cm)
• Heavy cartridge paper (approx 9.5 X 14.5cm)
• Ink sprays (red and yellow with gold mica)
• Versamark Inkpad
• Dye based archival inkpad (dark brown)
• WOW embossing powder (Halloween)
• Alcohol marker (dark brown)

How to make it:

1. Spritz the background and dry fully. Tip: I tend to prepare large sheets of background papers in advance and then cut them down as I need. Great to use if you need something done in a hurry, or for batch making sets.
2. Stamp the reeds with Versamark and heat emboss with the glitter powder. Tip: to prevent the powder sticking where you don’t want it (especially if your card is still a little damp), dust the surface with a little talc.
3. Stamp the sentiment with dark brown ink.
4. Edge with alcohol marker to frame and glue to the card blank.

Quick and Easy Tangled Christmas Tree cards created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. I hope that you like my quick and easy Christmas cards using the new Christmas Tree Tangle stamp. I split my stamp into 2 to give more versatility, and so that I could use them individually or change the arrangement of the sets of trees. I stamped them onto black card and heat embossed with glitter powder for sparkle. I used a water soluble semitransparent white pastel to add a bit of colour and an opaque white spritzer to create a snowy night scene. I also added a bit of clear mica spritz for added sheen. I finished with a metallic silver marker pen and peel off sentiment. Really quick and easy and great for batch making. Vary by using different colours of embossing powder and background card. I think that Kraft card and pale blue would look good – will have to try that.

Materials:

• Christmas Tree Tangle single stamp
• A6 white card blank and A6 black card
• Versamark Inkpad
• Glitter heat embossing powders (I used blue & silver)
• Metallic silver fine tipped marker pen
• Christmas sentiment peel off stickers (silver)
• Glitter gel pens (optional)
• Spritzer sprays (opaque white, clear mica)
• Alcohol marker (black)
• Watercolour brush
• Heat gun

How to make it:

1. Stamp with Versamark and heat emboss the image with glitter powder.
2. Dissolve some of the pastel pigment into water and paint over the scene with a brush. Add a little colour onto the trees with glitter pens if desired.
3. Spritz with opaque white spray to create the snow effect. Add some mica spray for extra shimmer.
4. Add peel off and trim the topper slightly to leave a border on the card front.
5. Quickly draw a border to frame using the metallic pen.
6. Glue to card front and add a border around the card blank with black pen.

Metallic Floral Notes card created for Chocolate Baroque

Materials:

• Floral Notes stamp set
• 6 X 6 white card blank and stamping card
• Inkpads: Versamark and Distress Ink (Peacock Feathers)
• Heat embossing powder (chunky metallic gold)
• Colourcraft Soft Form Relief Paste (Gold)
• Metallic pen (gold)
• PVA pearls (gold)
• Metallic braid (gold)
• Pricking tool

How to make it:

1. Spread the paste thinly over the stamp with a palette knife and leave to dry for 24-48 hours. Carefully peel away and trim off rough edges. This doesn’t harm the stamp and leaves the stamp clean.
2. Stamp the image with Versamark and heat emboss with the chunky powder. Note: using chunky powder gives a lovely distressed metallic effect but the image detail is lost. If you prefer a cleaner and more detailed stamped image then use a fine detail powder.
3. Trim the card and blend Distress Ink in around the edges. Colour the image with Distress Ink and a damp brush. Note: The embossed areas will resist the ink making colouring easy. When dry dab off any ink remaining on the embossed areas. The ink won’t dry when sat on top of the embossing, so this will avoid accidental smudging of the ink onto the background (as I had!).
4. Pierce the border and draw faux stitching and edging with metallic pen. Finish with a bow and PVA pearls.

Christmas Post card created for Chocolate Baroque

Here is my contribution for the Chocolate Baroque DT Blog this week – a Christmas card using the lovely new Christmas Post stamp.

I stamped the image and cut out elements to decoupage and add dimension. Distress Inks were used to colour the image and winter themed die cuts were used to frame and embellish. I added some sparkling chunky ‘glass’ glitter to give added sparkle and dimension.

Materials:

• Christmas Post single stamp
• A5 white card blank, white stamping card, blue glitter card and gold satin card
• Inkpads: Versamark and Distress Inks (Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass and Tea Dye)
• Pearlescent blue heat embossing powder (Lyndy’s Stamp Gang – Morning Glory Azure)
• Fine tipped pen (metallic gold)
• Wax crayons (blue)
• Glossy Accents
• Chunky ‘glass’ glitter (Pinflair Ice Diamond)
• Winter themed frame and edger dies (Create & Craft Couture – Winter Flurries set)
• Snowflake dies (Robert Addams and Marianne dies)
• Foam pads or 3D glue

How to make it:

1. Edge the base card by blending with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.
2. Cut the background mat from gold card with edger dies. Cut the frame from glitter card. If you don’t have a suitable decorative die set a plain frame would look nice and you could decorate it with winter foliage or snowflakes (die cut or readymade).
3. Stamp the image with Versamark and heat emboss. Cut out to fit behind the frame.
4. Draw onto the bricks with wax crayon to give some areas of texture. The wax resists the Distress Ink. Colour the image with Distress Inks and use a damp brush to pull out and blend the colour. Add touches of gold pen.
5. Stamp and emboss the image again and cut out elements for decoupage. Colour with Distress Inks. Use 3D glue gel to overlay onto main topper. I used the tree top branches to create overhanging branches in the foreground.
6. Mount the background, topper and frame with foam pads or 3D glue.
7. Add die cut snowflakes (cut from gold and glitter card) to decorate.
8. Finish with chunky glitter and Glossy Accents on the tree baubles.

Christmas Gift Tag created for Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 28

Good morning. I am really enjoying the Colour Challenge this month. Here I have created a pretty Christmas tag using stamps from the Sparkling Trees set. The tag was coloured and splattered with spray inks and the images stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with pearl yellow and white powders. Dark blue ink was blended in from the edges and an alcohol marker used to frame the tag. Finished with yellow and blue ribbon and of course some glitter glue for sparkle.
Materials:

• Sparkling Trees stamp set
• Watercolour card tag (approx. 6 X 12.5cm)
• Inkpads: Versamark and dye based (blue)
• Spray inks (light and dark blue, yellow and green – some with mica)
• Heat embossing powders (pearlescent yellow and detail white)
• Alcohol marker (dark blue)
• Yellow and blue organza ribbon

How to make it:

1. Spritz and splatter the tag with spray inks and dry fully.
2. Stamp the Trees with Versamark and heat emboss with the yellow powder. Stamp the snowflakes and heat emboss with white powder. Tip: to prevent the powder sticking where you don’t want it (especially if your card is still a little damp), dust the surface with a little talc.
3. Blend blue dye ink in from the edges and frame with dark blue marker.
4. Finish by adding ribbons and a little glitter glue for added sparkle.

Still Reeds card created for Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 28

Good morning. Today I am sharing one of my projects for the Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge. I used the reeds border from the Owl Edges stamp set and sentiment from Words of Inspiration (Chocolate Baroque). I used ink sprays to colour the background and some die cuts to finish.

Materials:

·         Owl Edges and Words of Inspiration stamp sets

·         A6 white card blank (approx. 10 X 15cm)

·         Die cut white stamping card (approx 9.5 X 12cm)

·         Ink sprays (green, yellow, blue)

·         Dye based inkpad (dark blue)

·         Alcohol marker and fine tipped pen (dark blue)

·         Glitter glue (light and dark blue)

·         Die cuts to finish (Spellbinders)

How to make it:

1.    Spray green and yellow ink onto a craft mat and pick up colour onto lower half of stamping panel. Paint blue ink across the top and dry.

2.    Stamp the sentiment and reeds, use second generation stamping to create the fainter background reeds. Edge with blue marker and glue to card front.

3.    Glue on the die cuts. Finish by drawing a faux stitched border and adding glitter glue.

4.    If you don’t have dies just trim down the card base to fit the stamped mat and it will still look good.