Russian Spires card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good afternoon. Today I am sharing a set of cards created with the new stencils from Chocolate Baroque. These are fairly quick makes.

I decided to try running the Russian Spires stencil through my die cut machine on the embossing setting to get added texture. I also brayered over the stencil with glycerine before embossing. This transferred to the card providing a medium on which to sprinkle embossing powders. I experimented and played with different colours, adding additional colouring with pens or pencils. I quite liked the distressed effect.

Materials:

• Russian Spires, Silhouette Palaces 1 and 2 stencils, and Words to Dazzle & Sparkle stamp set
• Card blanks (20.5 X 15cm), smooth card (black and white), glitter card (lilac, cream, blue)
• Glycerine (available from the chemist)
• Heat embossing powders (gold, pink, amethyst)
• Versamark embossing pen
• Alcohol markers (black, grey)
• Acrylic pen (opaque white)
• Metallic coloured pencils (Faber Castell)
• Watercolour and Sparkle pens (Spectrum Noir)
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (gold, silver)
• Die to cut sentiment panel (Tattered Lace Pin Dot Rectangles)