Fairytale (by Corine)

Hello!

Here I am again. This is my second post this month. Today I share a fairy tale with you. I had so much fun making this card with the masking technique.

I used stamps from the sheets:

Autumn Poppy

October Fairy

Gothic Fragments

Apply to a craft sheet Distress Ink Peeled Paint. Spray it wet with water and run the paper through it. You repeat this step in sequence with the following colours Carved Pumpkin and Salvaged Patina. Make sure that each step is completely dry before you start the next. 

Stamp the fairy on the mushroom with black waterproof ink using a stamping tool. Partly mask the fairy and stamp the gothic window. I stamped the branch on the right with Archival Vintage Photo.

Colour the mushrooms and the window with watercolour markers. Mask the window again and sponge with Distress Ink Prize Ribbon and Villainous Potion. Then stamp the leaves with Archival Peeled Paint.

Sponge at the bottom with Distress Ink Vintage Photo.

With a glitter gel pen you can add some accents in the image. 

To get more depth, you can create shadows with a charcoal pencil. Carefully spread the charcoal with a feather.

It's quite a lot of work, but fun to do. 

I hope I have inspired you. If you want to try this technique, I wish you a lot of fun.

Until next week!

Kind regards,

Corine van Kuilenburg

past times (by Veronica)

Today I have samples using the Timeless and Scripts and Timepieces stamp sets. - anything with script images is right up my street, so i loved these.

My first sample  used the Scripts and Timepieces along with a window stamp from Gothic Fragments in the background. The background panel was inked with distress inks and stamped the large script and the window using the same inks.

I stamped the script panel on a separate piece of white card using a stamping platform. I inked the stamp up using the Koh-i-Noor marker pens , using the red pen for the initial flourish and odd words in the the script and black for the rest. Once it was dry I cleaned the stamp then inked the initial flourish using a versamark pen and stamped again - the stamping  platform meant that it lined up beautifully - then embossed in gold.  I tore the image out then inked round the edges before curling it up and  over to look like a scroll and gluing onto the   background.

 The Timeless set for the second card, stamped twice onto white card in black and once in versamark and gold embossed. One black image was overstamped  and gold embossed using a versamark pen and coloured with distress inks. Watch faces were cut out of the other images and decoupaged onto the main image, which was ddded to a distress ink background. The sentiment is from Say it Vertically 

I'm the Happiest When I'm With You (by Corine)

Hello everyone, our Guest Design member Corine is with us this month, creating three blog posts for your inspiration. She has designed a beautiful floral card for her first post. 

Corine writes: 

Hello!

Here I am again. In February I will post three times a card as guest designer. I am very pleased to do this. My first project is a card with watercolour background.

I used stamps from the sheets:

Fancy Flowers

Gothic Fragments

Apply one colour of Distress Oxide to a craft sheet. Use light shades. Spray the ink and mist your paper with water. Run the paper through the wet ink. Let the ink 'run' on your paper and dry with a heat tool. Repeat this with a second colour.

Stamp with Distress Oxide the gothic window. Use bubble wrap to stamp the 'bubbles' with Distress Oxide.

Make sure your card is dry.

Emboss the flower with black embossing powder, colour it with watercolour markers.

Complete your card with a text. I chose a text from a collection of Tim Holtz. You can also stamp a text.

I used the colours Speckled Egg and Picked Raspberry.

 

I hope I have inspired you. If you want to try this technique, I wish you a lot of fun.

Kind regards,

Corine van Kuilenburg

 

Decrated Box (by Gerrina)

It is my turn again to show you what I made for the Guest Designer Team at Chocolate Baroque! Three weeks in a row you will find not only here, but also at my blog, something I made with the beautiful stamps from Chocolate Baroque... This week the third and last time this month. It is also a very special one; it is the thirtieth time that I am Guest Designer here, and a lot of those thirty times as a member of the Guest Designer Team! It is so much fun doing this!

Today I pimped one of the boxes that I use to store some of my craft stash:

Upper side:

Bottom:

Used materials:

Stamps: The Rose Tree, Gothic Fragments, Artistic Affirmations, Tangled Fragments,

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Oxide Speckled Egg, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron,

Other: Postbox, gesso, blending tool, water brush, black Stabilo All pencil

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

First Stamps -- (by Magda)

Hello,
Which are your first stamps you bought from Chocolate Baroque ?
I am fond of mine  "Serenity and " Gothic Fragments" both bought in 2011 and that I use every time with a particular sense of respect.

I propose you today a card and a page of my Journaling Book, in oder to arrive soon at the last page of it and I can start a new one.


Serenity , Gothic Fragments, Archival Jet Black,  Distress Ink Pad,  stencil

Gothic Fragments,   Words to Dazzle and Sparkle, Archival Jet Black,  Distress Ink Pad, stencil

Thank you for passing by, and see you next month again.

Magda. 

Spring part 2 - (by Magda)

Here I am again with butterflies which are dancing in the warm air and in my projects of today.

Sadness flies away card

I used  a Brush wash on a white cardstock for the background

Stamped with Jet Black Archival the sentiment from Butterfly Perfumery rubber sheet, and 

Gothic Fragments  while  the butterfly from Butterfly Poppy Collage is stamped with Carnation Archival  

Happy Dance page
                                   

step by step

1.  Colour a pice of white cardstock with Distress Ink Pad green, blue and yellow
2.  Stamp on in the Butterfly from Just Butterflies in black and randomly a swirl from Butterfly Florals in
     red with Distress Ink Pad
3.  Cover all with white Gesso
4.   Squeeze a tissue towel and glue it on top of the cardstock with  Inkssential Glue n Seal

5.  Blend again with the colors of point 1.

6.  Stamp with Archival Jet Black the flower from Wisteria Lane

7.  Stamp with Archival violet  the butterflies from Just Butterflies, on a white cardstock, colored

     with a light coat of Distress Ink Pad Seedless Preserves and cut them out

8.  Stamp with Archival Jet Black the sentiment from the plate Butterfly Perfumery  on a white     

     cardstock coloured with yellow Aquarelle Pencil

9.  Glue the butterflies, the sentiment on the mat  as shown

10. For the big background of the page :  blend Distress Ink Pad Seedless Preserves  ( same color of 

      point 7. used for the butterflies)

11. Stamp randomly with water all around butterflies of  Just Butterflies plate.

12. Glue  the mat on the page.

I hope you enjoyed my March "Spring" month.  Thanks for passing by

Magda

Key to my Dreams (by Corine)

Hello everyone, Corine is back with her final post of the month:

Hello! Today it is my third and last time to post a card as a guest designer.

I used stamps from the sheets:
Dusky Damask
Texture Fragments
Key to My Dreams
Gothic Fragments

Choose three colours of Distress Oxide Inks. Apply this on an acrylic block. Spray water on this. Also spray water on your watercolour paper. Print the block on the paper. Let the inks blend nicely, dry it with the heat tool.
Stamp with various colours of Distress Oxide inks, various prints on the paper.
Stamp the text with waterproof black ink.
Emboss the keys with copper embossing powder on watercolour paper. Colour these with watercolour markers and cut them out. Stick them on the background. Create a shadow with a charcoal pencil and draw a line along the keys with a black fineliner (0.2mm).

I hope I have inspired you with my cards.

Kind regards,
Corine van Kuilenburg