dragon dance (by Veronica)

 For my last post  this month I had to share the gorgeous dragons, - I just had to buy  this set when it first came out, and I still love it.

I stamped the largest dragon three times, then sponged distress oxide inks round the dragons to create a fiery look, then coloured the dragons with distress markers in similar  colours. 

Using Lesley's technique of watering down stickles and painting I added glitter heavily to the wings and used the very diluted remnant of a very ancient bottle of stickles on the bodies. The glitter doesn't really show on the scan, but it is very definitely there!

Delightful Dragons (by Doreen)

Hello everyone, today sees the final post this month from our Guest Design Team member Doreen. She has created a project using a stamp set that is a personal favourite of mine, Here Be Dragons. 

Doreen writes:

This card is a bit of self indulgence on my part, I have always held a love for dragons, but I think it stems from a song that was popular when I was young, 'Puff the Magic Dragon'. I remember it well, though many of you I dare say, will be too young to have even heard of it.

I have had this set of stamps for quite some time but never quite got round to using it, but now that I have, I dare say it will be out again soon.

Products used in the making of this card:

Here Be Dragons stamp set
Round Gelli plate image made using inkpads and liquid Brushos
Stamped using Versafine Clair Nocturne
Coloured using watercolour brush pens
Base layer cut from card stash

Thanks for looking,

Doreen

Dragons on Guard by Penny

Goodly morning peeps, I hope you are all well.  Today it is my turn again to share a project with you, this is a canvas that I created for this post.  I have used stamps from the Here Be Dragons set; a canvas board from CB Canvas Boards, several different paints and gold gilding wax.

I am a huge Tolkein/Middle Earth fan and I have had these stamps for ages, I love to create artwork that is inspired by my favourite books. I took the canvass and gave it a coat of white gesso.  I then took two pieces of black card and embossed them with a folder from my stash, which depicts arches and halls of stone.  I gave the pieces of card a coat of grey chalk paint first and dried it, then I dry brushed with an irridescent green-blue acrylic and dried it again.  Next I used a metalic bronze acrylic to dry brush again and finished with adding gold gilding wax to the raised patterns.  I then attached both panels to the canvas.

I added some black sand texture paste across the bottom of the canvas and let it dry.  I stamped and embossed two dragons onto black card, and used metallic glitter paints to colour them.  I then fussy cut them.  I also stamped and embossed one wing from each dragon, painted them and fussy cut them ready to decoupage them.

When the texture paste was dry I painted it with light and dark gold acrylics to represent piles of gold, adding some small gems and sparkles from my stash.  Dragons are obsessed with gold, they plunder it and protect their hoards jealously.  I positioned my dragons on top of the 'gold' and decoupaged their wings.  I stamped and embossed a sentiment onto a piece of CB printed paper, and tore the paper around it.  I then added Distress ink to the edges and rolled one up before attaching it to the canvas.  I then stamped and embossed several small swirls onto acetate, coloured them with alcohol pens and fussy cut them before attaching them.  To complete this artwork I added a section of stone wall made from air dry clay, painted it as I did the background and attached it to the top of the canvas.

Thanks for dropping by today, I hope you have been a little inspired and don't forget to join my teamies here for more crafty fun!


Take care,


                             xx  Penny  xx

dragons

Another find among my stamps - this set  was used a lot when it first came out, then got forgotten.
It is a testament ot the quality of CB stamps that I had to scrub the dragons with a nail brush and stamp cleaner to try to remove remnants of a 3D glittery paste , and they still stamped beautifully afterwards (also had to renew the cling backing, which also had glittery bits on it)
This would be a fairly quick card if you stamped the dragons onto a white bit of the background.
I did it the hard way by stamping and masking the dragons before brushing distress inks over the 6" sq white card blank, then colouring the dragons with marker pens.

This April is Chocolate Baroque's 5th birthday, and there will be lots of offers coming up, so keep an eye out - you don't want to miss anything!
have fun, and don't forget to look at the older stamps while you're on line, just the one you've been looking for could have been there all the time.......

Veronica

Night Flight (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have another spooky card to share with you today, using the Hocus Pocus stamp sheet. As usual, I have mixed things up a bit using some older stamp sets as well, to create a night time scene.

I stamped the owl, and a dragon from the Here be Dragons stamp set onto a piece of smooth watercolour paper, and then covered them with a mask. I coloured the background with Distress Inks, and spritzed it with water. I added some foliage from the Spring Foliage stamp set. I added some stencilling with a spider's web mask, using the same colour inks as I had used on the original background.

I removed the masks and coloured the images with pencils. Finally, I added some bats randomly over the night sky.

Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

A Treasure Map

Here's something a little different - a treasure map made with the Steampunk Travel stamps and featuring a Sea Monster from the Here be Dragons stamp set.  Find out how it was made over on my blog.