Decorative Lamp (by Gerrina)

Today sees the final post this month from our Guest Design Team member Gerrina. She has created a beautiful piece of home decor to inspire you.

Gerrina writes:

So glad that it is my time for a Guest Designer post at Chocolate Baroque! Today is the last time this month. In one of our rooms we have a lamp in which you can slide a strip of paper and by doing that change the look of the lamp. We were bored with the look it has for a while. So after some deliberation, we decided that we wanted to have flowers and butterflies, so the choice to use Chocolate Baroque stamps was an easy one; they have so many beautiful and different flower and butterfly stamps...
It is a project that will take several hours of your time; just stamping all of the images takes a long time, and colouring even more!
I chose to work with a favourite technique of mine; Distress Ink and a waterbrush.

This is how the lamp now looks:

This is how the lamp looked before:

My project before it was put on the lamp:

Some details:

Used Materials:

Stamps: Fantasy Meadow, Harebell Butterfly, Floral Notes
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black and Distress Inks as per the photograph below:

Other: Lamp, large piece of paper, (I used 71cms x 31cms) on which you can watercolour, waterbrush.

Instructions:

Cut the paper to the size that you need. Start by stamping the biggest stamps in black ink and distribute them on the lower half of the paper. Next stamp the medium sized stamps, and finally, the smallest stamps. Make sure that you fill the lower half of the paper, and stamp some of the flowers not totally on the paper to let it look like they are going off the paper. Stamp some butterflies on the upper half of the paper, to tie the whole thing together. Watercolour everything by using different layers and drying in between to get shades/shadows. Let it dry completely and put the strip of paper in the lamp.

I had so much fun working on this and now we can enjoy this flower radiance even on the depressing Winter days....So glad that the rest of the family are happy with it as well!

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

(Gerrinascreatievewereld.blogspot.com)

Gerrina will be back with some more fabulous inspiration later in the year.

Birthday Calendar (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, this month we are welcoming back Gerrina, one of our regular Guest Designers to the Design Team Blog. She will be featuring throughout September for the next three weeks. Today, she has brought a delightful project to share with you, a calendar created using a canvas. This is such a clever idea that you will want to try for yourselves.

Materials:

Stamps: Texture Fragments, Nature Table, Fantasy Meadows
Distress Inks: Salty Ocean, Fired Brick, Mowed Lawn, Wild Honey, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke
Canvas
Gesso
12 x postcards, 12 x white cardstock, 12 x stamping paper
Watercolour paper postcards
Blending tool
Water based markers
Water mister ans water brush

Instructions:

I used the back of the canvas so that it could hold my twelve calendar months.
To start, I painted the canvas with gesso and let it dry before I stamped and sponged it. A sturdy band holds the paper calendar months in place when hanging, which I stamped as well before I put it in place.
The calendar months are printed on postcards and the edges are sponged carefully in the colours of the seasons.
Winter = blue, Spring = green, Summer = yellow, Autumn = red.
The background papers are white cardstock, and on some I stamped the same stamp as I used on the main image in a lighter colour.
The cards of the month images are all the same size as a postcard and made from different designs, depending on what the month requires.

I will be back next time with more of the calendar months!

Creatieve groetjes,


Gerrina

Thank you so much Gerrina for your beautiful project, we will look forward to the second instalment next week.

Guest Post - A Colourful Trio by Gerrina Poncin

Our guest blogger this week is Gerrina Poncin who lives in the Netherlands. She has designed three beautiful cards for us so please enjoy.

I started by stamping the flower from Fantasy Meadow onto white paper with Versafine Sepia, then sponged it all with Shaded Lilac distress ink and coloured it with distress inks and a water brush. I glued it on a brown piece of cardstock and put some pearls on it. Then I made the background by sponging through two stencils from Crafter's Workshop with Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers distress ink, then sponged the whole thing with Antique Linen. Next I stamped the text from Artistic Affirmations with Versafine Sepia and put some clear embossing powder on it that I heat set with the heat tool. Last I stamped, with the same Sepia ink, just the flowers from the flower stamp I had used on the white piece.

I stamped the flowers from Spring Foliage and the quote from Artistic Affirmations with Versafine Onyx Black.  Then sponged with Salty Ocean, Wild Honey, Bundled Sage and Gathered Twigs distress inks. I colored the flowers with a water brush using Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord and used Scatterd Straw on the the twigs. With the empty cardboard tube from a kitchen paper towel roll and Versamark I stamped circles and heat set them with clear embossing powder. The other circles are with the same tube and Spiced Marmalade distress ink.

On this card I stamped the text from Artistic Affirmations and flowers from Fantasy Meadow with Versafine Black Onyx. Then took the round blending tool and used that as a stamp for the coloured circles with Salty Ocean, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Shabby Shutters and Barn Door distress inks. The same colours and some water were used with the water brush to make the splatters.

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

Thank you so much for these colourful cards Gerrina, they really reflect a bright summer day. I hope you can leave a comment to show your appreciation and for more creative inspiration please visit Gerrina's blog, Gerrina's Creatieve Wereld