A set of Quick and Easy Cards using the Seasonal Beauty Stamps from Chocolate Baroque

I made this quick and easy set in under an hour with the Seasonal beauties stamps (Spring Awakening, Summer Fayre, Autumn Medley and Winter Dawn), along with the new stencils (Useful Leaves, Seasonal Elements and Seasonal Journey) – recently featured on Hochanda.

Making them in a batch made it really quick and easy. I trimmed the stamping card (14 X 20cm) to fit a ready made A5 card blank. I then stamped all the images with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink, stencilled all the background components and lettering, and sponged ink around the edges.

I then used a damp brush to quickly colour the ladies, dragging colour from the stamped image. Where I needed stronger colour I picked up extra ink from my craft mat using water to dilute the ink as needed. I didn't fuss over the details but just swept the water over areas, dropping in darker colour where extra shadows were needed.

Finally I added swirls of fine clear glitter glue through their hair and on the flowers and snow balls as desired.

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)