Floral (by Corine)

It almost the end of the month and this is the last project from Corine for a while. She has already treated us to two very beautiful projects and today's is no exception. All that said I shall hand you over to Corine.

Hello!

Today it is my 3rd and last time to post a card as guest designer. I hope you enjoyed my samples.

I used stamps from the sheets:

Floral Notes

Fresh Blooms

Decorative Edges 

• Stamp on watercolour paper the harlequin stamp several times, with two colours of Distress Oxide ink, using the Stamping Platform. Let dry!
• Stamp the flower with Stazon Jet Black and colour with aquarel pencils. 
• Highlight details with a glitterpen.
• Stamp text with Stazon Jet Black.
• Mat and layer onto complementary card.

Thank you for joining me for these weeks, see you again soon.

Kind regards,

Corine van Kuilenburg

It has been a pleasure to feature your inspiring projects over the last three weeks Corine and we shall look forward to seeing you again later this year. If you would like to see more of Corine's gorgeous artwork then please visit her blog.

Join us again soon for more stunning creations from our talented design team ladies. 

Floral Pen Holder (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, today sees the second post from our Guest Designer Gerrina, this month. She has created a pretty holder for her pens, decorated with floral images. 

Gerrina writes:

It is already the second of my Guest Design Team posts at Chocolate Baroque this month. This time I have made something that can make your craft room an inspirational place and is still so useful. I have altered another glass jar that I use for markers:

Used Materials:

Stamps: Floral Notes
Ink: Memento - Sky Blue, Cantaloupe, Love Bug, Teal Zeal, Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves, Lilac Posies, Tuxedo Black
Other: Glass jar, white linen cardstock, crayons

Work Process:

Cut a piece of linen cardstock that fits the jar that you want to use.
Choose some beautiful flower stamps from Chocolate Baroque, two background stamps and one or two grass stamps.
Stamp the two background stamps with a light blue and a light yellow ink. They might overlap.
Stamp the flowers without masking, and 'ground' them by stamping the grass stamps at the bottom of the cardstock.
I inked the stamps directly with the inkpads.
Colour the flowers with the same ink colours and a water brush. If you wish, you can draw some extra grass.

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

Thank you Gerrina for another fabulous project.

Gerrina will be back next week with her final project of the month.

seasonal ladies

 I have three of my sample cards for last month's tv shows to show you today. It was hard to have favourite ladies, but I think these two stamps are well in the running!
For both cards the summer fayre stamp was stmaped using black versafine ink and coloured with watercolour pencils, masked with masking fluid, and brusho backgrounds added.
For the first card I partially diecut the lady out, leaving the butterfly and poppies outside the die. The base card was coloured with distress oxide inks, leaves added using the useful leaves stencil and overstamped with the large crackle stamp. The poppies in the foreground are from the floral notes plate, stamped onto leftover paper coloured with brushos and fussy cut out.



The base card was done in the same way for the second version, but the lady was cut down to a rectangle and matted onto gold card. I  sprinkled red brusho over the green background to try to create a poppy field effect, but it didn't quite work....




For the autumn medley stamp I tried to create a wood effect with the brushos, using my version of a  technique found on Youtube. I started with a piece of white card, sprinkled brown and red powder at the top, and used a damp sponge to drag the colour down the page. The colours are more blended together than the original, which used acrylic paints to blend the powders, but i was quite pleased with the result. back ground mounted onto black and gold, then onto white base card blank.
The lady was stamped with black versafine ink,  coloured with pencils and fussy cut out. I stamped the hair part again several times onto a spare piece of card coloured with orange, yellow and brown brushos, and fussy cut out the best leaves and decoupaged them onto the original.

Journaling Tag ( by Magda)

Journaling is very popular and I think you know already how to do it.
Well in this Giant Nr. 12 Manila Tag I mixed blending, stamping, colouring and doodling, using the following items:

Distress Ink Pad  ( instead of Dylusions Ink Spray) for the background
Dylusions Stencil 5" x 8" Dotted Flowers
March Fairy Rubber Stamp Sheet
May Fairy Rubber Stamp Sheet
Fantasy Castles Rubber Stamp Sheet
Floral Notes  ( for the sentiment)
Versafine Inkpad Satin Red
Versafine Inkpad Onyx Black
Stickles - Star Dust
White and Black Fineliner

I hope you liked the project I have proposed this week and have fun in creating your Tag.

Magda

Notepads (by Gerrina)

Here is the second of Gerrina's Guest Design Team posts on The Design Team Blog this month.

This time I made some presents; two small and one large paper pad on which I stamped and coloured the front:

Materials:

Stamps: Floral Notes stamp set
Versafine Onyx Black inkpad
Other: Paper pads, aquarel paper, watercolour pens, elegant writer pen, ribbon

Instructions for the smaller notepads:
Colour the flowers using watercolour markers and mist lightly with water. Stamp the images onto aquarel paper, and pull the colour into the images using a waterbrush or a brush and water. Glue some ribbon on the glued side of the paper pad and glue the aquarel paper onto the notepad.

Instructions:
Colour directly with the elegant writer pen on the stamp. Make sure that you do not miss anywhere. Spritz  a very light mist of water over the stamp and stamp it on a piece of aquarel paper. Work the lines with a water brush or a brush and some water. The colour will change with more or less water, and dabbing with a piece of kitchen paper before it is dry.



The back:

Creative greetings,

Gerrina

New Year Wishes (by Judith)

Hello everyone, as we say goodbye to 2016, and head into 2017, it is a good time to look back over the past twelve months and reflect on the events that have unfolded in our lives. Will you be glad to see the back of the past year, or have you had an amazing time? Like me, you may have had a mixture of both, but a new year always offers new possibilities and opportunities.

Here at Chocoloate Baroque, things have not always run smoothly throughout the year, but we are looking forward to a bright start in 2017; the new TV shows with Hochanda are airing on 4th January at 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., so do be sure to try and watch those. The Design Team girls have been busy creating some beautiful samples, and Lesley will no doubt weave her creative magic on the shows themselves.

We are looking forward to bringing you lots of new stamps and continuing on with some of our favourite features too; our Fifteen Minute Blog posts are proving to be very helpful we know, when you are looking for inspiration for a quick card to make. Our Challenge Blog is another source of invaluable inspiration, as there is a host of Design Team artwork offered on the blog each month, all revolving around colour-based swatches. We hope that you will continue to keep coming back to see us on the blogs, as we love to share our ideas with you all.

I have made a simple card to share with you for today's post, using some of my favourite bits and pieces. I stamped a flower image from the Floral Notes stamp set onto some pretty paper, using brown ink and clear embossing powder. I cut the flowers out, and edged them with a tiny bit of Distress Ink.

I created a Brusho background on a piece of smooth watercolour paper, using lemon, violet, rose red, white and sea green. Once the background was completely dry, I stamped a swirl from the Nature Swirls stamp set twice onto the background. I stuck the flowers to the background, added a sentiment, and then edged the background with some Distress Ink. I added a layer of pink card to mat the background, before adhering to a card blank.

I would just like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, and may you have health, happiness and lots of creativity in the year ahead.

floral notes (by Veronica)

 For my last post this year I have made two cards that could be used as thank you cards

Both cards have brusho backgrounds, and use the same stamp from the floral notes set. For both cards I stamped the image first using versafine and clear EP, then masked it using masking fluid.  I sprinkled the brusho powders over and spritzed with water, then rubbed off the masking once the card was thoroughly dry.

For the first card I coloured the image with promarkers, then diecut it and added a diecut matt.




The second card I left the image white, and used silver mirri and black matts, and added the sentiment from Mackintosh sentiments clear stamp set.

I wish you all a  very happy, healthy and crafty New Year.

Veronica

Frame & Cut for Flower Notes (by Magda)

Hi ladies, today I want to use both the frame and the cut to make two cards.

Frame
1. Blend a mat with Distress Inkpad Brushed Corduroy and Walnut Stain and cut it with a frame die
2. Glue the frame on the card with Ranger Triangular Collage Glue Stick on the white card
3. Stamp a flower of Floral Notes Rubber Stamp sheet  in the frame with Versamark - Watermark 
    Stamp Pad and emboss with WOW  Embossing Powder Metallic Gold Sparkle
4. Darken the edges of the white card with Distress Inkpad Brushed Corduroy  and put a golden
    ribbon as decoration

Cut
1.  Use the cut of point 1 of the Card Frame
2.  Stamp on it a flower of Floral Notes Rubber Stamp sheet with Versamark - Watermark 
     Stamp Pad and emboss with white Embossing Powder
3.  Glue the cut with Ranger Triangular Collage Glue Stick  on the white card
4.  Darken the edges of the white card with Distress Inkpad Brushed Corduroy  and put a golden
    ribbon as decoration

As you can see the result is quite different, even though  my idea was to do two similar cards to use as " Thank You"  cards.

In the meantime I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Magda

Floral tags (posted by Claire)f

Good morning, Claire here with a project made using the beautiful new stamps Floral Notes. I love Christmas crafting but these new stamps are perfect if, like me you fancy a change from making all those Christmas cards.

I took some black tags and used a sticky embossing powder that I've had forever, I wasn't sure if it had gone off so I put it to the test, stamping with versamark and applying the powder before heating. Once I'd heated the powder I applied mica powders with a small brush. I heat embossed the sentiments and applied some gilding wax around the edges of the tags and added some rainbow ribbon to finish off.

Well I'd better get back to those Christmas cards now lol

Keep popping back as my teamies have got lots of beautiful inspiration for you

Claire xx