True Love, Be Mine and a Quick Make (by Shirley)

Hello everyone I hope you are doing well.

I have several designs to show today featuring the new gorgeous Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts.

The background above was created with Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac Distress Inks using an acrylic block and water.   I also used a heart stencil with Distress Ink.     I stamped the bubbles from Decorative Edges with Seedless Preserves Distress ink and the large heart from Fluttering Hearts with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink.

The images were stamped with black Archival ink and bleached with a little bleach & water and then coloured with Dylusions inks mixed with water on my craft mat.

I dry embossed the heart on the balloon and centres of the flower hearts on the back with a stylus and foam mat.  I also highlighted with a white pen and added stickles.    'With Love' is from Mackintosh Sentiments.

I used the lovely balloon again for this design below but stamped a different sentiment in the centre:

I blended Distress Inks using ripped card stock as a mask to create the background above.  I also stamped two fragments from Texture Fragments and flowers from Patchwork Landscape.  The balloon from Punky Hearts was painted with water colour markers.

And below is a quick make:

The above card with the pretty heart from Fluttering Hearts can be made in 10 minutes or less.  I drew a pencil line where I wanted to stamp which was easy to erase.  Thank you is from the Amazing Birthday set.    I hand drew a squiggly line around the edge.  Easy!

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Colourful Hearts (by Asha)

Good morning, friends! Today I have 3 card projects to show you, featuring the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamps.

For my first card, I matched the Punky Hearts and Words Of Comfort & Cheer on this watercolour piece. The clouds in the background are from Seashore Scenes.

Next up is this delicate CAS (ish) number showcasing a stamp from Fluttering Hearts set, which is coloured with alcohol markers. For the background I used texture paste and glitter.

For my third card, the spotlight is on the large heart stamp from the Punky Hearts set.  To make the background I used the little hearts stamp from the same set. I finished the card with an embossed panel, eyelets, liquid pearls and some twine.

There you have it - 3 cards in different styles. I hope you've been inspired to play with your new stamps. Details of inks and colours are available on my blog. Don't forget to swing by regularly for more crafty ideas from the rest of the DT.

Beijinhos,
Asha

Pink Punky Hearts (by Miranda)

Hello there,

Today it's my turn to show you some creations made with the new lovely Fluttering hearts and Punky hearts! And as always a joy to work with the new designs. I have used the very traditional pink colors for the ' love' theme. I have combined the Punky hearts with one of my favorite sheets ' Key to my dreams'. I have made a background with Distress paints and lots of water misting on a heavy watercolor paper. On the background I have also used one of the fragments of the Tangled fragments sheet. The stamping is done wit Memento Dye and Memento de Luxe inks. The keys are embossed with Wow silver embossing powder and coloured with water based markers.

The text ' You hold the key to my heart'  is a combination from two sheets. You can find the first part on the Key to my dreams' sheet and the second one ' heart' on the ' Artistic Expressions' . Maybe just an idea to do some mixing and matching with words sometimes. 

I don't do it often but this time I've made a special inside for my card. You can find the tutorial/video here. So I had more space to fill in with the new stamps. I had some left over pieces made with similar colors and coloured the images with color pencils.

Now on to the 2nd card, also very pink and bright!

This background is made using fluid inks , water misting and salt. The balloon is embossed with Wow gold embossing powder and coloured with water based markers. 

I hope you did enjoy my take on these stamps and maybe you are inspired to get out the inks and stamps and have a play. If you have any questions about the cards please ask!

Thanks for your visit and I enjoy reading the comments, till next time,

Love, Clean & Simple! (by Maria)

Hello everyone, I hope you are fine and I wish you a lot of love!
I have some more samples to show you, this time I made some clean and simple cards with the new stampset. We don't have always so much time, but still it's so nice to give a card that we made ourselves.

 

I used some silver embossing powder and Versamark to stamp the images on black cardstock. I stamped the heart on white paper with blue Memento Ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder, cut it out and with 3D tape I placed it on my card. Then the words and the borders of my black card I also embossed with the same silver embossing powder, nice isn't it?

For this card I used some different colours but I worked the same way , as before.
I hope you like my samples and I hope you find some inspiration to show your love!

Greetings
Maria

Fluttering Hearts in Pink (by Shirley)

Happy New Year !  I hope you are having a fabulous and creative 2015 so far. 

I have a design to show today featuring the heart & butterfly from the new gorgeous Fluttering Hearts stamp set.   I also used stamps from other sets that compliment the new one very well.

 

The background was created by blending Persimmon and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks.  I over stamped with flowers from Sunny Sunflowers using the same inks.

The flowers, leaves, butterfly and heart were embossed with gold, painted with water colour markers, fancy cut (decoupaged) and layered as shown.   I used leaves from Sunny Sunflowers and Fresh Blooms.   'Beauty' is from the fabulous Artistic Expressions set, which I use a lot.  I added gold embossing power around the edge of the background with a glue pen (& heated). 

Thanks for your visit, I hope you can come back often to see the beautiful designs created by my talented teammates.

Have a great day,
Shirleyx

All of a flutter (posted by Claire)

Good morning and Happy New Year, today is my first post of 2015 with this month's new release stamps which are perfect for getting ahead with those Valentine projects. This card uses stamps from Fluttering Hearts with one of the borders from Poppy Edges which co-ordinates beautifully with the new stamps.

I began by stamping the floral edge stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on a scrap of stamping card. I took a larger piece of card and stamped both the large and small bird/heart stamps, again with Memento Ink. I used Graph'It markers to colour the images before cutting out the floral edge.

I took a cloud template that I'd cut from some scrap card and used PanPastels to create a cloudy effect in the background. PanPastels are perfect for this as if you go over the image you can use a pencil eraser to remove the colour. I layered the floral edge over the little scene with 3d foam and used a layer of white and then pink card to mat the scene. Lastly I stamped the sentiment with black ink.

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Fluttering Hearts - Table Decoration and CAS cards By Florence

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope you have all had a lovely time over the holidays.

Today, I would like to share with you, a table decoration that I made using one of the stamps from the Fluttering Hearts Stamp Set. 

What a wonderful stamp set to start the Year with!

I had Easter in mind when I made this project but it could easily be used for Valentines Day or any other occasion.  It could also be used as a place name on a party table.

To make this project
Stamp the bird and heart image onto white card stock, color and fussy cut around the edges.
Attach a small lollipop stick to the reverse side of the cut out image using strong glue or silicon.
Take a very small plant pot and lightly cover it with a very thin coat of white craft paint and sand to give distressed look.
tip: Instead of a plant pot, a small tin can would work equally as well either painted or with a piece of pretty paper wrapped around it.
Place a small piece of florist oasis into the flower pot.
Make a card skirt to cover the Oasis.  I used a Rosette die but you could easily use circle(s) of card.  tip: Cut out a circle of card to the required size and cut from the outside edge of the circle to the center point and manipulate it to make a Chinese hat/cone shape.  A piece of fabric would also look great.
Place the lollipop stick through the center of your card skirt into the florist oasis as shown above.


Simple Cas Cards

Card 1

Card 2

Card 3

Brusho Background.
Card 4

All images on the cards have been stamped using a multi-colored ink pad.


Thank you for looking.

Florence x

Everyone should have a Heart (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have some heart-related makes to show you today, suitable for those occasions where a bit of romance might be involved; Anniversaries, Valentine's, etc. I am working with the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamp sets, and want to show you how versatile these sets can really be.

My first card is a very quick card for those occasions when you do not have much time to make something. I stamped a large flourish from the Butterfly Dreams stamp set onto a small square card using brown ink. On a piece of scrap paper from my stash, I stamped the apple and half of the butterfly from the Fluttering Hearts stamp sheet. I used waterbased markers to ink the stamps, enabling me to get the multi-toned effect. I also stamped a half butterfly directly onto the card. I cut the images out and attached them to the card, and finally added the sentiment in the bottom corner.

 My next card is again very CAS in style, as I wanted to create a masculine card suitable for an Anniversary or Valentine's card. I masked off a large area of the background, leaving only a horizontal strip showing, and then stamped the area with the floral heart using black ink, covering it with clear embossing powder. I then added some colour using three different tones of Distress Inks, before removing the paper masks. I stamped and embossed the heart once more onto a piece of kraft card, before cutting it out, and adding it to my design with 3D foam pads. Finally, I added a sentiment from the Words of Love stamp set and matted my background onto black card.

 My last project is a mixed media tag, using a real mixture of stamps, which I love to do when creating my projects. Full details of how I made this tag can be found on my blog if you are interested.

 I hope that I have given you some inspiration with my projects. Keep checking back every day to see what my Team mates have come up with, they have some delightful projects to show you. Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

Love in 2015! (by Maria)

Happy New Year to you and to all your family. I hope you enjoyed the start of another wonderful year. I wish you all a very heathy year, and a lot of stamping creativity with all the wonderful stamps of Chocolate Baroque. We go for it, I hope you do too!
Today I start with a lot of love for the new year, using the new stamp sets Fluttering Hearts and Punky Hearts I hope you like my samples.

To start the new year in a smooth way,  I stamped my images with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and coloured them with Distress Inks. I cut the images out, but left the die cut on the cards and used some Distress Inks to colour the borders of the images. After the ink was dry, I took some waterdrops and here and there I spread some drops on my background. With a heat tool I dried everything and I took the die cut off my card, so that I got a white border on the card.
For the first of a new year I didn't want it to be to difficult, I hope you like it!
Have fun!

Maria