Guest post - Floral Violin by Mary Draper

Today I would like to introduce you to our Guest designer, Mary Draper. Mary has designed this beautiful, delicate card which I know you are going to enjoy

Materials:   

                                                                                              

Floral Bouquet and Music Fanfare

Neenah card or other stamping card

Memento - Tuxedo Black

Lilac mirri card

Promarkers – Forest  Green, Pear, Aubergine, Amethyst, Orchid, Magenta, Cerise, Pink Carnation, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Tulip Yellow - or marker/pencils of your choice

Distress Inks – Dusty Concord, Picked Raspberry

Ink Duster, sponge or blending tool

White cardstock

Dry transfer lettering

• About 4cm in from the edges of the Neenah card lightly draw a square measuring 8cm with a pencil. Stamp sround this on each side using Tuxedo Black and the floral spray image, judging where the end leaf and the beginning of the spray are. Rub out the pencil lines and cut out a square around the image. This will probably measure about 13.5 cm. Tip: You may want to try this out on some copier paper first so that you can practise the spacing.

• Using Tuxedo Black stamp the violin in the centre of the design 
• Use Promarkers, or markers/pencils of your choice, to colour the image. 
• Take the ink duster, sponges or a blending tool, and the distress inks, and add colour to the background. 
• Cut out a square of mirri card. This should have a side length 8mm longer than your image square.Cut the white card stock to form a rectangle 6 inch by 12 inch. Score down the centre and fold to form a 6 inch square card. 
• Assemble the card as shown. (Square card, mirri card and finally image) 
• Apply the dry transfer lettering in a wavy line to imitate floating musical notes.  

A big thank you from us for your wonderful design Mary. Your idea for stamping the flower circle is excellent, will definitely have to try that one myself. I know Mary would welcome your comments and if you want to see more of her gorgeous artwork then please visit Drapers Creations.

Guest Post - A Thank You Bouquet by Jan Thompson

Our guest blog spot this week belongs to Jan Thompson, who has chosen to create this lovely tag. So it's all yours Jan.

I was so thrilled Glenda asked me to Guest DT for Chocolate Baroque so I had a play and this is what I came up with. 

• I cut the tag out on my Silhouette Portrait die cutting machine using Kraft card.
• Using Floral Bouquet I stamped the main image with Versamark and then embossed with black embossing powder. 
• I then coloured the flowers with Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves & Crushed Olive distress inks. Tip: Make sure each colour of ink is dry before adding the next one so that they don't bleed together.
• Next, to create a background, I stamped randomly around the main image with the Teeny Weeny Meadow stamps using Crushed Olive.
• When everything was completely dry I distressed the edges with the Picked Raspberry to emphasise the colour in the bouquet.
• Finally I added some twine and the Thank You message.

Hope you like it.

 

We did and our thanks to you Jan for taking the time to design this tag for us. I hope you show your appreciation by leaving a comment and if you would like to see more of Jan's work then please visit her blog Jan Loves to Craft.