Time to Re - Visit

Time to Re - Visit

Today we re - visit these lovely houses.

Dutch House

Italian House

Bridge House

Turret House

It was more than a pleasure to re-visit these lovely stamps, they really are very versatile.

I have used different mediums to colour but in the main they have been stamped with Versafine inkpads in either grey or black. 

Backgrounds have been coloured using Distress Inkpads smooshed onto a glass mat and applied with a paintbrush.

To extend the Bridge House I used a mask using the Masking Tissue.

This was also used in the making of the Turret House which also used a sentiment from Life Is So Much Better.

Thank you for looking in today

Love Doreen 

Be strong, be comforting, be loving by Brenda

Morning everyone, today is my Birthday so I am secretly pretending the day isn't happening!!

But I do need to share some cards with you and above I've gone all green with Dutch House, Turret House, and Bridge House, all stamped onto card sprayed with three shades of green Oxide Spray, cut out and arranged on an old book page. The base piece is stamped with Large Crackle Background. The sentiment strips are from Italian House.

A landscape DL card, a background built up with Pan Pastels and the trees from Orchard Design a Tree stamped several times to create a woodland scene.

This is Cotswold Stone another of Kim's new quirky houses and such fun to work with. I stamped the house onto an Oxide background and added a bit of shading. Foe the frame I stamped the flower from the Fuchsia set, coloured in and cut round the tops of the central ones and then used a die to cut the aperture (placing the bottom of the square behind the flowers). The sentiment is from my Life is so much Better set.

Hope you all have a good Sunday.

There's No Place Like Home

 Hello, I am sharing some more cards from The Craft Store show in May. 

These feature some more of the wonderful, quirky houses by Kim Moody and Orchard Design a Tree

My first card uses Urban Chic. Such a fun house.

For my backing I used the last piece of my master board that Lesley did as a Facebook live last year. I stamped the house with Versamark and embossed in white. I coloured using water colour inks. I then masked the house and stamped the trees and added foliage.  When it was all dry I removed the mask.

My next card uses the Luv Shack.

I stamped the house with Black Archival ink and used coloured pencils and a blending solution. For the flowers around the arch and across the house I used some flocking powder to give some texture. I added some distant hills using some torn paper and Distress Ink. I added a sentiment from Life is So Much Better.

This card uses the  Bottle and Jug set. 

Again, I stamped in black and coloured with pencils which I blended. I stamped and cut out the fence panels a couple of times to extend the front. I then added some colourful bunting.

My last card today uses the Cotswold Stone set.

I kept this very simple by stamping in Brown Archival and using brown and sepia pencils. I stamped the two trees in front of the house and used a peach colour ink for the blossom I finished with some  clouds using a stencil and a sentiment from the Dutch House set

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Introducing Julia Baker Our New Guest Design Team Member

Hello everyone, today sees the first of three posts from a new Guest Design Team member, Julia Baker. I am sure that you will all giver her a warm welcome to the Chocolate Baroque family. We asked Julia to tell us a little bit about herself, and to provide a photograph, so that you could put a face to the name. without further ado, here it what Julia had to say:

Name: Julia Baker

Position Required: Design Team Guest

Living In: The New Forest, near Southampton.

Profile:

I have been crafting all my adult life, starting with sewing, kinitting, and crochet when the girls were young.

I moved onto scrapbooking and photography about 25 years ago and have since progressed onto mixed media art and design projects, as well as stamping and journal making.

Over the years I have created altered books, altered Barbie Dolls, work-top mosaics, shadow boxes, murals, large and small canvases and even a few mannequins - decorated with mixed media and stamps.

I even once used bubble wrap and silver spray paint to decorate the hallway and stairs in our house!

Other than crafting in general I enjoy reading, dance music, gardening and birdwatching in the New Forest and along the coast. 

Instructions for Journal Page:

Background created from three shades of Brusho.

Distress Stain lightly sprayed through stencil.

When dry - use texture paste through brick stencil.

Leave to dry.

Stamp houses with Black Versafine and colour with Oxide Inks.

Draw in borders with fine liners and outline a few details.

 

 

 

 

 

Multi coloured houses by Brenda

A very good morning to you all, I'm here to share a few cards from last month TV shows which was all about quirky houses. Above I used Dutch House, Turret House and Italian House, coloured in bright colours with Koh-i-Noor paints onto an A shape card, folding and cutting it so that some of the houses popped above the fold line.

I kept it all monochromatic using  one of the new stamps from Kim called Bottle and Jug, a bit of shading and some brickwork stencilling in the background.

For this one I made a Z fold card, used DI's and a stencil in the background and stamped Urban Chic, another of Kim's new designs, a tree from Orchard Design a Tree which was also in the shows and a quote from Words of Inspiration.

Have a good day and I hope I have provided a little inspiration.

Bookmark Houses

 

Hello. I'm sharing some of my samples from the May shows on The Craft Store.

These cards feature stamps from the Bookmark range of stamps

Turret House

For this card I used some alcohol inks applied with a felt applicator onto some silk art board. I used shades of blue and purple with some gold.  When it was dry I used my stamping platform to stamp the Turret House in Black Versafine. Whilst the ink was wet I added some embossing powder.  I left the stamp in place on my platform and coloured the turrets in gold paint. The paint covered the embossed areas, so I put the card back into the stamping platform and was able to stamp and emboss again.  I added a sentiment from Life is So Much Better, a layer of gold card and attached to a 8x8 card base.

Italian House

For this card I used two shades of yellow Distress Ink and a Sunshine stencil for my background. I added a little bit of green ink to the bottom of the card. I stamped the larger of the two trees from Design a Tree –Orchard and added flowers in pink ink.

I stamped the house onto some smooth cardstock with Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers and then cut it out.   I then used some foam pads to fix the house onto the card base.

 

 

Bridge House

For this card I used a design paper from a pad that had an old style map on it.

I stamped the Bridge House in the lower corner and embossed the image. I extended the hills and river part of the stamp to fill the base of the card and then coloured with watercolour inks. I added a sentiment from the set.

Dutch House

I used Distress Oxides for my background on this card. I stamped the House in Versafine and then masked it before stamping the tree. I added flowers to the tree in shades of pink and coloured the house with watercolour pencils.

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Colourful village

Morning Peeps, Brenda here again and this time I do have the right cards as the lovely Lesley very kindly took photos of my work (some will remember in my last post I explained I forgot to take photos before posting off my samples.......naughty corner for me), so a big thank you Lesley.

The card at the top uses all four of the new houses which you can find on the multi buy here, all were stamped in versafine black and masked so I could add the background, a Pan Pastel sky and some worker stamps around the houses. I coloured them with Koh-i-nor paints

I kept Kim Moody's Poppy Cottage fairly simple as I wanted to use red to reflect it's name stamping in Versafine Clair, adding just a little colour, matter and layered and some Poppies from Pretty Poppies which I coloured with pencils.

Here we have Bridge House which I stamped first onto acetate to get a reverse print and laid my card onto that, then stamping a second time to extend the house, coloured in with Koh-i-nor paints again as well as some Distress Markers and some foliage stamped in the foreground.

Both of these were stamped with Versafine Clair inks, some colouring added with pencils and stencilling in the background.

Poppy Cottage again, this time with a background stamped with Versafine Clair and Poppies again from the Pretty Poppies set. I added some colour to the doors of the house and inked around with DI's along with a sentiment from the same set.

Bridge House again, this time coloured in with Distress Inks and Markers, a tree created with stamps from Orchard Design a Tree along with more leaves from Take it or Leaf it set.

As always, many thanks for your visit today.

Let's play hide and seek- (by Magda)

Hello girls,
The second post of this month is a selection of 3 cards and three ATCs and I hope you will like them.

For this Simple Card I used :
Dutch House and its sentiment, Punky Hearts stamp,  Archival Black Jet, Archival Red, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle

For Rainbow card :

Turret House,  Archival Black Jet,  Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle, May Fairy

Let's play hide and seek card:

Italian House stamp, A Tomte Christmas stamp, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle, Distress Ink Pad for the background,  Seasonal Elements stencils , Embossing Paste

ATCs :

Italian House stamp, Turret House, Dutch House,  and their sentiments. stencil, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle

Thank you for passing by
Magda

More house makes by Rachel

Hello there. Rachel here today with some more ideas of ways to use your house stamps from the August shows. Today I want to share three samples I made using house stamps.

In this first one I stamped the Turret house onto some card and added brushos to that before matting and layering. The background I created using different inks on a cloud mask. I applied the ink using stencil brushes.

In this second one I created the background using a mop up method with distress oxides then added some stencilling with a chocolate baroque stencil. The main image is part of the Dutch house and it is done on an acrylic piece, painted and with mirror product added in the background. 

Finally I covered a notebook in rice paper and stamped the Bridge House image onto plain rice paper before colouring in pencil and adding to the book. 

I hope I have given you some different ideas of ways to use the stamps.

Big hugs

Rachel x

A Trio of House Projects (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I am sharing a few projects today showcasing the beautiful stamps that we shared on last month's TV shows on Hochanda. These lovely house stamps designed by Sue Page were such a delight to work with, and demonstrate, as always, Sue's eye for detail and her talent as a designer. We celebrated Sue's wonderful work during these shows, and she will be sadly missed. Her artwork will continue to be appreciated through your projects and creativity.

My first project is a colourful street created using the Dutch House stamp set. I stamped the image several times, masking the image to enable me to add the subsequent images slightly behind the first central image. I also added some background foliage by stamping a tree from Trees A Crowd. I coloured the background using Distress Ink, then set to colouring the houses with pencils.

For my second project, I stamped the Bridge House onto a piece of scrapbook paper using Archival Ink, and coloured it with pencils. I stamped foliage from Silhouette Grasses onto an Acrylic Tag using Archival Ink and allowed this to dry completely. I covered the paper with Matte Medium and stuck it to the tag.

My final project was a TV demo, showing how to create a project with just three colours. I used some Koh-I-Noor acrylic paints to splatter across a piece of kraft card to create a very quick background. I then stamped the Turret House onto a piece of watercolour paper and coloured the image using the same three colours of paint; red, blue and yellow, mixing them to create orange, purple, brown and grey, by simply adding a little bit of one of the colours each time.

Thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx

Joy flower by Brenda

Good morning, Brenda here with a few shares but sadly not of the work I made for Lesley's recent shows which featured lots of lovely quirky house stamps..........in my rush to get my samples posted off to Chocolate Baroque HQ before we left for our holiday I totally forgot to take photos! So instead I am sharing a few older creations which had not been blogged.

The card above featured the lovely bloom from Floral Delight, stamping the entire image onto a die cut circle and colouring in the blooms with some watery ink flicked onto the background. I then masked the flower and repeat stamped the words to create a side panel, again flicking watery ink onto the piece to carry the colours.

The image I used for this one is a favourite from the Thistle/Honeysuckle Butterfly stamp multi-buy, stamped with Versafine black and coloured in, DI's used around the image and then placed behind a die cut frame with foam used to raise the top panel. The sentiment is from my all time favourite CB sentiment set Words of Inspiration.

Update: This original post was scheduled but feeling rather guilty about my oversight I found time the other day to create another couple of cards using some of the quirky house stamps which this post should have been all about! The background on the above one has been created with Distress Inks and masks, then stamping the Dutch, Italian and Turret Houses in Versafine Clair and colouring in with pens.

And I had to do one using Kim Moody's Poppy Cottage which is Judith's house, I have kept it pretty simple, a Poppy background to compliment the name of the cottage, stamped the cottage with Versafine black and added just a little cottage to draw the eye. This was a limited edition stamp run, but when last I looked there were still a few available on the web site.

Many thanks for your visit today and kind words, myself and the team always appreciate your encouragement.

Stylised Houses

Hello
I am sharing some of the cards I made for the August show on Hochanda with the Bookmark Stylised House Collection.

My first card features the Turret House stamps.
I stamped and embossed with white embossing powder.  I coloured on kraft card with soft pastels in rainbow colours to match the sentiment. I also added some gold to the turrets. The backgroud is sprinkled with Brushos.

 

My second card is using the Italian House set. 

This time I stamped the house with Archival to the right of the card, masked it and stamped again to the left. I coloured with water-colour pens. I made a background using trees from the Teeny Weeny Meadow set

 

The next card is the Dutch House.

I stamped with Archival and coloured with water-colour pencils.  I mat and layered onto a U-Fold card which folds flat for posting. Crackle stamp is from Echos of Italy set.

The last card I am sharing today I used all the house stamps from the collection and did a lot of masking! I think these stamps really lend themselves to scene building.

Thanks for looking, I'll be back soon with some more cards to share.
Sandra x