Christmas Baubles (by Shirley)

Hello everyone !

I have two Christmas designs today using Christmas Baubles, one of the new Big Bold Background stamps.   

This stamp image is so beautiful, I spent enjoyable time colouring it with Tom Bow Markers.  I used a white Gelly Roll pen for the centres of the Poinsettias.  I didn't want to add anything else except for the gauzy ribbon and a few of rhinestones.  

For the card below I cut out a couple of the baubles from the larger image.

The background sheet is from Love Letters- digital printable.   I over stamped with the Pine Cone branch from the New England Winter set.   I highlighted the cones a little with a white Prisma pencil.   I attached the two baubles that were painted with Tom Bow markers.  I added a little stickles on both baubles.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you will come back often to see beautiful designs by my talented team mates.

Shirley

Christmas Angels (by Shirley)

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well.

I've been having a great time with the new gorgeous Christmas stamps.   Yes it seems like Christmas is a long ways off, but personally I like to get started on my holiday cards early.

I have two cards and small gift tags using designs from the beautiful Gothic Angels set today.

The background for the above card is created with Blue & Teal Dylusions Inks.  I've over stamped with a Fragment and Window from Gothic Fragments.  I coloured the window a little with Prisma Pencils.  I embossed the window/wheel fragment from Steampunk Butterfly with silver around the edges.    I also embossed the Angel with Silver, coloured with Tombow markers and decoupaged her over the background.  Yuletide Greetings is from Gothic Angels.

And here is my 2nd design with the same beautiful Angel. 

Again Dylusions inks (blue & purple) were used in the background.  I also used TCW mini Solace Stencil and stamped a fragment from Gothic Fragments (hard to see in photo).    The collage of background images are from Gothic Angels which are stamped with black ink.   I embossed around the edge of the background with silver.     The angel is also embossed with Silver and coloured with my Tombow markers.  I had some pretty borders of pearls & rhinestones in my stash to finish off this design.  

I also made up some quick gift tags using the smaller images from the Gothic Angel set.

I used Cherry Pie & Grape Soda Dylusions on the backgrounds, stamped with black ink and highlighted with a white Gel Pen.  

I've rotated & enlarged the photo here

My talented team mates have lots to show this month so please come back often !

Thanks for visiting and have a great day,

Shirley

Christmas already?

I know it's hard to think about the season of snowflakes and festive cheer when there's a heatwave outside, but like all businesses, we have to think ahead. We have customers who make cards to sell, who design for magazines or who simply want to be organised enough to have all their hand made cards finished in time to relax and enjoy what Christmas is really all about.

So we always launch a range of Christmas stamps around the middle of the year to meet those needs and we have a beautiful selection for you this year.  First up is Gothic Angels.

Click on the image for more details

You absolutely loved the Big Bold Background stamps we launched earlier this year, so I'm delighted to launch these beautiful Christmas versions.  You'll see we have four different snowflake variations, baubles, holly and poinsettia.  You can save money by buying them as pairs as shown below, but they are also available individually.  Click here to see all the options.

Each bold background measures 14cm x 14cm (about 5 and a half inches) and they are stunning enough to use on their own or with just a simple greeting.  You will need a 6x6 inch acrylic block for best results and I recommend Cling-a-ling with large stamps as it helps to even out the pressure and minimise the risk of accidentally printing inky bits of background rubber.

The cards below are simply stamped onto 12.5cm square cards with Versafine. 

And of course they combine really well with our other Christmas designs.  The card below features a greeting from Christmas Cheer.

 

Then we have the simply stunning Gothic Angels which is already proving to be a big hit with the girls on the Design Team. You can read more about how I created this tag over on my own blog glendawaterworth.com.

So, I hope you like these and as always, keep an eye out for the beautiful artwork coming up from the rest of the Design Team.

Punky Ornaments (by Clare)

 Hi, all!  I hope this finds you all well and happy!

Chocolate Baroque has come up with some delicious new steampunk flora stamps, called Punky Flowers.  They are awesome, and will coordinate perfectly with your many other punky stamps from CB!  Two of the stamps, in the center top and bottom, will really go well with the Indian Elephant set, and many others in the CB line!  Just click on the name to go to the CB website where you can place your order for this fantastic set, and you can see it just below my sample.

For the ornaments, I used the cog-wheel "trees", embossed them in gold and silver, cut them out, and adhered them upside down.  I added a few die cut sprigs of greenery, a silver bow, and some pearls.  The white cardbase is covered with gold glittered tulle.  I can't wait to finish my next project! 

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Punky Flowers

January Stamp of the Month

It's almost the start of a fresh and shiny new year and for us that means we have new stamps coming out!  Yep, we have two sets of stamps and some individual clear stamps too.

First up, our January Stamp of the Month is this lovely set, Rose & Thistle - yes I know it sounds like somewhere you'd pop in for a swift half pint, but no, it's this lovely set of rubber stamps:

Then we have a complete change of mood with a new clear set called Eastern Landscapes.

This set will combine so well with our existing oriental themed clear stamps such as Moonlit Waterfall, Lily Pad and Oriental Crane.

Then we have a collection of Baroque Hearts - available both as single stamps and as a collection.

My Christmas card to Adrian this year featured the Elegant Baroque Heart done in Christmas colours.

and here are the same hearts in a different colourway.

I've managed to get some time in my craft room this week, so I have a few cards coming up to share with you.  You'll find one over on my own blog later today.

There's more to come from the DT too, so stay tuned for more inspiration.

Christmas is Near! (posted by Clare)

Merry Christmas, everyone!  As you've heard many times before, and have probably said it a few, it's Christmas again!  It seems like it was just hot and humid, buggy and summer!  Time flies faster and faster!  Is it the same for you?

I've got a couple of projects to share with you, and I hope you like them.  These are swing cards, made using the wreath stamp from the Chocolate Baroque Christmas set, called Hearth and Home Unmounted Rubber Stamp Sheet - A4.  (click on name to go to the page on the CB website) 

I stamped the wreath in Versafine Onyx ink, and colored it in with water-based markers.  The image was cut out with scissors, and popped-up with foam adhesives.  Pearls or rhinestones were added to the centers of the flowers and the holly berries for dimension and bling.  The papers were from my stash, and coordinated beautifully together.

 

This card is my favorite!  I never thought I'd like
 the lighter green for Christmas!

 

Pink is not my first choice for Christmas, but it was in this
Christmas paper, and coordinated with everything well!

Peace Arch (by Clare)

Hello, again!  Don't you just love the Chocolate Baroque Gothic Fragments set, released in October this year?  I had stamped several, then colored them differently, and thought this color combo looked striking!  I love the stained glass windows in cathedrals and churches, and this looks regal to me.

I stamped and enbossed the arch in gold, then colored it with yellows and golds, grays and blacks.  I had the background cardstock in my stash (the black and tan embossed pattern), and the gold patterned paper was in a new stack of old-timey Christmas paper.  I cut just a little rectangle from a shiny gold matte from a picture I had taken out of a frame, and layered the "Peace" over that.  It was embossed in silver, then detailed with a black glaze pen.  The inside of the card was stamped with another stamp from the Gothic Fragments set, and the sentiment is from the Chocolate Baroque Joyful Christmas set.  A little bit of gold ribbon, overlayed with some black sequined trim, and that's it!  I hope you're inspired!

 

Snow Tree (by Clare)

Hello!  It has gotten downright chilly here in Tennessee!  I do wish it would snow, but until then (and if it does) I'll have to settle for trying to make the abience with my stamps, paper and the rest!

This card was made using the Chocolate Baroque stamp set, Terrific Treescapes.  Just click on the name to go to the webpage so see more details on it.  This set is so versatile, and there are so many choices!  I used an embossing folder, and some glittery diecuts to accent the main image.  I applied some snowy glitter to the trees, which you can see better in the second photo.  This makes me feel a little more chilly!   Yay! 

A Christmas Bauble (by Clare)

Merry Christmas, everyone!  It's that time of year to celebrate again, and the Chocolate Baroque set Pears and Baubles is an awesome one to start your cards with!  The detail on these stamps is so exquisite and fine!  It was a lot of fun, and very relaxing to sit and color all the little spaces!  This is one set I will be using over and over again!  The word "Joy" is from the Chocolate Baroque set, Ivy Trails.  I stamped the bauble in black ink and colored it in with water-based markers, then cut it out close to the outline.  Some little shiny round stickers were placed in the center, on the word 'Joy", around the periphery of the ball, and on the bottom left corner.  I used the smaller ornaments for the inside of the card. 



Getting ready for Christmas

I know it's far too early for many people, myself included if I'm honest, but we have just launched two fantastic Christmas stamp sets.  If you are one of the many who make cards for yourself, for charity or school fundraising, or even to sell, then you will be all too aware that you can never start too soon.

I hope these delicious designs give your creativity a boost and get you in the mood for some Christmas crafting.

First up we have Christmas Creatures. When I first revealed this on our weekly chat, there were choruses of "ooh, the owls" from which I infer that owls are as popular as ever!  I've just sent off a lovely card to Craft Stamper magazine featuring stamps from this set, which I hope they will publish this autumn.

Then we have  The Gift of Christmas, a very versatile set - especially the tower of gifts which is deliberately designed to be usable all year round and would work for birthdays and with the right colours you could possibly turn it into a wedding cake rather than a pile of gifts.

And of course, we love to make sure you have the chance of a bargain, so both of these sets are priced at Stamp of the Month introductory prices (for trade too) and there's a super duper multi-buy deal in our Stamp Promotions department.

(All these introductory prices go up on September 1st, so don't miss out.)


The card featured above has been coloured with Copics and Promarkers and sits on one of our printable downloads from the Spirit of Christmas collection.

And talking of Christmas Spirit, here's a flashback to 2007 when we had a bit of fun at one of our open days!

If that doesn't bring a smile to your face, then perhaps our little giveaway will.  Just leave a comment and tell us what the true meaning of Christmas is for you.

PS - it brings a huge smile to my face - that last picture really shows how much weight I've lost - woohoo!

Yummy Scrummy Christmas Stamps

OK, I know you  have all been waiting to see these, so here are the latest Chocolate Baroque Christmas stamp sets.

Firstly we have Fat Robin - a full A4 sheet of gorgeousness.

Then we have three A5 sets which are all so incredibly versatile and usable.

Stained Glass Christmas

Christmas Cheer

Peace on Earth

The girls have all come up with some stunning artwork to illustrate the possibilities of this set and we have a series of blog posts scheduled over the next few days, so do check back or subscribe to our blog feed so you don't miss out.

I am doing a blog candy giveaway, but I've decided to do it over on my own blog for a change - it's been a while since I did that, so pop over to glendawaterworth.com and check out some of my Christmas makes with these delicious new stamps.

And please check back on Sunday - I have a new Design Team member to introduce to you all!