More Autumn inspirations (by Miranda)

 

Hello there,

It's me again with more Autumn inpirations........

a similar technique and also using the toadstools.....

This is my favorite technique and style although I als enjoy too play with other mediums and styles....

Watercolor backgrounds, using watercolor paints or Ecoline inks, acrylic inks....anything that can flow with water on the paper. And then adding color with color and pastel pencils......

these are the stamp sheets I have used:

Autumn Poppy rubber stamp set A4

Autumn edges rubber stamp set A5

and a little fun using some photo editing....

And some oldies but maybe not seen by everyone of you.....still love these ones......

Also nice to combine with some die cutting too! I will just add them for more inspiration but if you want to know more about these cards, just ask in the comments below......

On these two cards I have use the 

Nature Table rubber stamp sheet DL

On this card I have used the 

A year of stamping issue 10 stamp  

(A cling mounted stamp in a choice of two sizes (or multibuy) 

her I have used the 'Autumn Poppy' (see link above)

Here the 'Autumn Edges' (see link above)

Well, that was a whole lot of Autumn inspirations!

And you can see that I am a real lover......

Thanks for your visit and see you next time,

Upcycled Box (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, today sees the return of our Guest Design Team member Gerrina for her second post this month. She has upcycled a box that has been unused for some time, using some of our beautiful Autumn themed stamps.

Gerrina writes:

Feels so good...it is my turn again to show some things I made for the Guest Design Team at Chocolate Baroque! Three weeks in a row you will find not only here, but also at my blog, makes from me with the beautiful stamps from Chocolate Baroque....
This week is the second one already, and today I choose to go again with the Autumn season with this box that has been standing so plain and dull in my craft room for years:

Used materials:

Stamps:
Autumn Edges, Autumn Poppy, Nature Table, Nature's Peace, Lace Fragments
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink: Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint. Forest Moss. Memento: Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves, Potter's Clay, Tangelo, London Fog.
Other: Box, Aquarel and masking paper, water brush, black fineliner, washi tape, brown cardstock.

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina.

Autumn Mushrooms (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, our regular Guest Team Design member Gerrina is her with us this month. She will be creating three projects for your inspiration, and here is the first one, a lovely Autumnal scene:

Feels so good: it is my turn again for my posts as a member of the Guest Design Team! Three weeks in a row you will find not only here, but also on my blog, makes from me with the beautiful stamps from Chocolate Baroque.
This week the first one of this month, I made an Art Journal page for my long Art Journal. Because it is Autumn, I used the gorgeous mushrooms from two Chocolate Baroque stamp sets:

Used Materials:

Stamps: Autumn Edges, Autumn Poppy
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, several colours of Distress Ink

Other: Art journal, watercolour paper, masking tissue, brush, water.


Creatieve groetjes



                              Gerrina

A Trio of Mushrooms (by Julie)

Hello, today I have three cards with a mushroom theme.

My first card is from a new set called the Toadstool Garden. It is such a beautiful design and takes any hard work out of designing a card as it's all done for you. I simply stamped the image with Warm Breeze, Versafine Clair ink and coloured with pencils. I sponged Distress ink in the background with a few dabs of Crystal Stickles for added interest and the card was done.

My second card is made with Autumn Poppy and Autumn Edges

To start with I inked up the mushroom design from Autumn Poppy using Sepia Versafine ink and stamped in the centre of my card blank, followed by colouring in with pencils. The leaf border was inked up with the same ink and stamped around the edge. By more luck than judgement  I chose a card size that fitted the border and did not need masking, making this quite a quick card. To finish off I applied Mustard Seed Distress ink around the edges

My third card is stamped with another new design called Mushroom House and can be used very simply by just stamping and colouring with pencils. I have just layered the design onto a DL card and added some glitter glue to the tops of the mushrooms.

Thanks for stopping by. Please call back soon for more Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

A Fenland walk by Brenda

Good morning to you all, Brenda here with some more samples using the Autumnal stamps showcased on Hochanda last month.

My top creation is my take on an Autumnal wander in the Fenland fields where I live, the trees are losing their leaves and there is an abundance of fungi to be found underfoot. 

I stamped a piece of card with the trees from Autumn Edges and added some background using Koh-I-Noor paints, a mask for the sun and some hand drawn birds. Next I stamped the Toadstools from the same stamp set, stamping a few more at both ends to extending the line, then I cut around the tops of the central ones and used a die to create a frame (when doing this tuck the bottom of the die behind those you have cut out so that section is not cut by the die). I coloured in with pencils and used foam tape to raise the frame over the trees.

The Artichoke from Autumn Edges was stamped with Versafine Clair and I then used Distress Inks and a stencil to create some background interest, matted and layered onto a die cut hexagonal shaped card.

I have used the trees from Autumn Edges to create a concertina card through the seasons, using various colours of Distress Inks for the background, a mask for the sun and various colours of Versafine Clair for the trees.

I stamped The Toadstool Garden using Versafine black onto an Oxide background, bleached out the colour from some elements of the image and them painted in some of the flowers with coordinating colour.

Mushroom House has been stamped onto a shaving foam background using Versafine Clair, then stamped again onto some yellow DP, but our and paper pieced.

And I couldn't finish this post without including at least one Poppy which is the one from Autumn Poppy stamped with Versafne black onto an Oxide background , bleached out and then coloured in with paint and stencilling added around the image.

Many thanks as always for your visits and encouragement.

Bountiful Birthday and Magic Mushrooms by Penny

Goodly morning lovely peeps, I hope you are all happy and well.  I'm here with my first post of the month, a couple of lovely projects featuring the beautiful stamps that were showcased in May's shows.  

Bountiful Birthday

I have used stamps from the Mellow Fruitfulness, Autumn Edges  and Birthday Words  sets; Distress Inks, Versamark ink,white EP and CB Kraft Card. 

I began by stamping the large artichoke image, using Versamark ink and embossing it with white EP.  I did the same with  the fruits and a sentiment, then I painted the images with DIs.  I matted the panel onto orange paper. 
I took a cream base card and stamped the collection of fruits and nuts images along the edges of the card in DI, then I attached the focal panel to the base card. 
 

A beautiful and simple card that you could use for a lot of occasions and recipients.

Magic Mushrooms.

A tag for you now using stamps from the Mushroom House, Tag Tastic and May Fairy sets; black Versafine ink, clear EP, gold EP, Versamark ink, Koh-I-Noor paints, a white pen and a sparkle pen from my stash.  

On a piece of white card I stamped the tag with Versamark ink and embossed it in gold EP.  I then stamped the Mushroom House image inside the tag, using black ink and clear EP.  I took another piece of white card and stamped and embossed the fairy.  I then painted all the images, adding white pen dots to the mushrooms and sparkle pen to the fairy and her wings.  I attached the card tag to a greyboard tag then cut around it.  I fussy cut the fairy and attached her to the tag.  I also stamped, embossed, painted and cut out a small butterfly and attached it to the tag.  

     

I then added some ribbon from my stash to complete the tag design.

This pretty tag could be a bookmark or a keepsake, and it would suit a recipient of any age.  

Thank you so much for popping in today and spending a few minutes with me, I hope that you've enjoyed my post.  I'll be back later this month with more crafty fun!

   

                         xx  Penny  xx

Autumn Glory by Brenda

Good morning, Brenda here and I am delighted to welcome you to our first post of June where this month myself and the team will be sharing our creations using the stamps Lesley showcased on Hochanda TV which included the beautiful new Mushroom House and The Toadstool Garden.

My first share above is a monolith which I treated to a mixture of acrylic paint, distress ink and crackle glaze. I stamped the lovely Chinese Lanterns from Autumn Poppy twice, cut them out and coloured with Kon-I-Noor paint and mounted onto the base, stamped the wording from Acorn House, cut it up and fixed into place.

This is the beautiful new The Toadstool Garden which I stamped with Versafine black ink and coloured in with pencils and added a pale wash of Distress Ink around it, matted and layered and added some ribbons

Here are the lovely Poppies from Autumn Poppy simple stamped in black onto a oxide ink background, I blotted off a good deal of the ink while still wet as I wanted a soft finish. The Poppies are coloured with pencils and the Butterfly stamped again onto vellum, coloured on the back and decoupaged.

My starting point for this one was to use distress inks to create a vintage look and then stamped the fruits from Mellow Fruitfulness using Distress Markers to ink the stamps, spritzing with water before stamping. The sentiment in the middle is from Mushroom House.

Here we have Mushroom House, I machine stitched a pattern around the edges and took my colours from the aqua coloured cotton. The background was created with Pan Pastels, the house stamped with Versafine Clair, stamped again onto coordinating DP's and paper pieced.

My final share for today stamped from Autumn Edges and Autumn Poppy all stamped in black Versafine onto a background of Distress Inks and Gesso and mounted onto coordinating papers which with a die cut edge.

My thanks for your visits today and I hope I have offered some inspiration on using the stamps which you will find over at the web site.

Autumn Layout (by Gerrina)

Today sees the second post this month from our Guest Design Team member Gerrina. She has created a colourful scrapbook page for your inspiration.

Gerrina writes:

Hello, I am back again with a layout I made for the Guest Design Team here at Chocolate Baroque. You will find this one not only here, but also at my blog. This week the second one; a Layout with a memory walk in a Castle garden for my 30cms x 30cms photo book:

Used Materials:

Stamps: Autumn Poppy, Autumn Edges
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink: Salty Ocean, Spiced Marmelade, Fired Brick, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, and Worn Lipstick
Other: 30cms x 30cms Mixed Media paper (or cardstock), masking paper, blending tool, water brush, stamping paper, cork washi tape, string, photo, and black, green and turquoise cardstock.

Instructions:

Mat the photo on several pieces of coloured cardstock and lay aside. Stamp the mushrooms onto watercolour paper and colour them in with Distress Ink and a water brush. Cut them out. Mask a diagonal line with a strip of masking tape on the 30cms x 30cms piece of Mixed Media paper (or cardstock), and sponge the blue colour, a bit darker close to the line. Replace the making paper at the same diagonal angle for the other colours and repeat the spomging. Place and glue the rest as you like, just glue the mushrooms placing them a bit on top of each other to get some dimension.

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

Autumn Medley (by Carole)

Hello everyone, here is the final post this month from Carole, a beautiful Autumnal project, using a mixture of stamp sets.

Carole writes:

Hello again.
My final project for this Guest Design Team session is Autumn based, a beautiful time of the year.
As the foliage is changing colour rapidly where I live and the leaves are falling, I have used a favourite stamp of mine called Autumn Medley and an Autumn Edges stamp.
I think this is a beautiful image and the foliage hair can be used on its own, to create lovely autumnal backgrounds.

Products used:-
Stamps: Autumn Medley, Autumn Edges, Essence of Nature (words)
Versafine inkpads: Onyx Black, Satin Red, Spanish Moss
Gold glitter embossing powder
Distress inkpads- various Autumn colours
Gold gel pen

I created a background using a variety of Distress Inks in Autumn colours.
This was then spritzed with water so the colours bled into each other then I over-stamped with the border while it was still damp, so this bled too.
It was left to dry and then over-stamped again with the green and red Versafine inkpads.
The main image was stamped with black Versafine and covered with embossing powder, but only over the hair foliage. When heated this gives a very pretty effect over the black. Unfortunately my photograph does not show this well. The image was coloured with Distress Inks and the hair highlighted with a gold gel pen.
It was then cut out and the edges inked.
I have a couple of other projects using these stamps on my blog. Hope you'll get a chance to visit.
I have enjoyed showing you my three projects and I look forward to visiting next time.
Bye for now and happy crafting.

Carole 😊

More Autumn by Brenda

Hello Peeps, I am back again with some more of my samples from Lesley's recent Autumn shows on Hochanda.

So more indulgence in inky Autumn colours and Poppies and my starting point for the top card was a background of  Mica powders spritzed with pearl mica spray to bleed the colours and add some sparkle. I then stamped the Poppy heads from the Poppy Meadow set along with some smaller ones from Natures Table and some grasses from the same set. Next I used a stencil and Distress Inks to add some sun rays, then stamped some more poppy heads across the top. The sentiment is from Natures Peace which is one one of the sets in the multi buy. I added colour to the Poppy heads using the same mica powders and highlighted with a white pen.

Scenes are something I really enjoy creating and for the card above I started with a cloudy sky using distress inks and bleaching out some clouds. I then stamped trees from the Autumn Edges and Tall Trees using Gathered Twigs DI and added leaves with DI's using just the top of one of the larger stamps in the same set. Using watered down DI I painted in some hills and stamped leaves along the top using another stamp from the same set. The fauna in the foreground is stamped with an image from Silhouette Grasses and sentiment from Birthday Words.

On this one I tried to create warmth using DI's for the background and then added some stenciling. The focal images is from Fantasy Woodland. After cleaning the larger stamp I masked off a section so I could ink and stamp just the tiny trees alongside the small tree to the right. Inking just the tip of the flower stamp in the set I added a border around the piece and finally stamped a sentiment from Birthday Words.

Another Oxide background here with some stenciling, followed by some background stamping using the scrip stamps from Butterfly Poppy Collage and then the lovely harlequin and Poppy head stamp using Versafine Black. After stamping I cleaned the stamp, masked the Poppy heads and inked just the harlequins to extend the pattern. The two Butterflies are from the same set and coloured in with the same inks used for the background.

I hope you all have a lovely day with some crafty time as well.