Time to Re - Visit

Time to Re - Visit

Today we re - visit these lovely houses.

Dutch House

Italian House

Bridge House

Turret House

It was more than a pleasure to re-visit these lovely stamps, they really are very versatile.

I have used different mediums to colour but in the main they have been stamped with Versafine inkpads in either grey or black. 

Backgrounds have been coloured using Distress Inkpads smooshed onto a glass mat and applied with a paintbrush.

To extend the Bridge House I used a mask using the Masking Tissue.

This was also used in the making of the Turret House which also used a sentiment from Life Is So Much Better.

Thank you for looking in today

Love Doreen 

Be strong, be comforting, be loving by Brenda

Morning everyone, today is my Birthday so I am secretly pretending the day isn't happening!!

But I do need to share some cards with you and above I've gone all green with Dutch House, Turret House, and Bridge House, all stamped onto card sprayed with three shades of green Oxide Spray, cut out and arranged on an old book page. The base piece is stamped with Large Crackle Background. The sentiment strips are from Italian House.

A landscape DL card, a background built up with Pan Pastels and the trees from Orchard Design a Tree stamped several times to create a woodland scene.

This is Cotswold Stone another of Kim's new quirky houses and such fun to work with. I stamped the house onto an Oxide background and added a bit of shading. Foe the frame I stamped the flower from the Fuchsia set, coloured in and cut round the tops of the central ones and then used a die to cut the aperture (placing the bottom of the square behind the flowers). The sentiment is from my Life is so much Better set.

Hope you all have a good Sunday.

dreamy homes (by Veronica)

Two more samples using the gorgeous houses by Kim Moody to share today.

The Luv shack is the first one, stamped onto a distress ink background using black versafine ink, and again onto white card.The image on white card was coloured with pencils, then the main part of the house was cut out. I added colour to the hedge, balcony ,chimney and stepladder on the distress background before gluing the coloured house onto the background. The sentiment from Italian House was stamped in black on white card,cut out and edged with black pen.

The second card was an 8" square blank, with a distress ink background using hickory smoke and peeled paint and splashed with water. 

 The Urban Chic house was stamped at the bottom left and the Bottle and Jug at the top right - both left uncoloured as if through a mist.

The word letters were  cut from gold metallic card and glued diagonally across the card.
 

Introducing New Guest Design Team Member Tracy Thompson

Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you to another of our new Guest Design Team members, Tracy Thompson. She is joining us this month and will be sharing three posts to inspire you. We asked Tracy to tell us a little bit about herself and to add a photograph. Here is what Tracy had to say:

 

I have a lovely hubby John of 24 years and I'm Mum of three gorgeous children, Scott (who would be 25 (who has sadly passed away on 6th July 2018), Jodie 22 and Bobby 15. We have four cats and three dogs, all so adorable. I started crafting in 2008 and started my blog in 2009. I just love rubber stamping and getting inky so much, and I love blogging so much because every time I log on I'm inspired by so many talented crafters. I am at present part of three lovely design teams, Stamping Sensations, We Love Chocolate Baroque and Allsorts. Now gratefully on the GDT for Chocolate Baroque, there's no bigger buzz than seeing your creations on the television. 

Thank you Tracy x

This is my first post for the Team and a creation from my first TV show from last month May. I started by creating a background paper using Distress Oxides for the base of a gift bag. I then stamped my image, Italian House, I coloured it with Distress Inks. I added some trees from the Orchard Design a Tree stamps, and with Versafine Clair I added some blossom which comes with the tree stamps. I finished the scene with some grass and sky.

 

Hope to see you later in the month when I will be showing another creation from the show.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Multi coloured houses by Brenda

A very good morning to you all, I'm here to share a few cards from last month TV shows which was all about quirky houses. Above I used Dutch House, Turret House and Italian House, coloured in bright colours with Koh-i-Noor paints onto an A shape card, folding and cutting it so that some of the houses popped above the fold line.

I kept it all monochromatic using  one of the new stamps from Kim called Bottle and Jug, a bit of shading and some brickwork stencilling in the background.

For this one I made a Z fold card, used DI's and a stencil in the background and stamped Urban Chic, another of Kim's new designs, a tree from Orchard Design a Tree which was also in the shows and a quote from Words of Inspiration.

Have a good day and I hope I have provided a little inspiration.

Bookmark Houses

 

Hello. I'm sharing some of my samples from the May shows on The Craft Store.

These cards feature stamps from the Bookmark range of stamps

Turret House

For this card I used some alcohol inks applied with a felt applicator onto some silk art board. I used shades of blue and purple with some gold.  When it was dry I used my stamping platform to stamp the Turret House in Black Versafine. Whilst the ink was wet I added some embossing powder.  I left the stamp in place on my platform and coloured the turrets in gold paint. The paint covered the embossed areas, so I put the card back into the stamping platform and was able to stamp and emboss again.  I added a sentiment from Life is So Much Better, a layer of gold card and attached to a 8x8 card base.

Italian House

For this card I used two shades of yellow Distress Ink and a Sunshine stencil for my background. I added a little bit of green ink to the bottom of the card. I stamped the larger of the two trees from Design a Tree –Orchard and added flowers in pink ink.

I stamped the house onto some smooth cardstock with Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers and then cut it out.   I then used some foam pads to fix the house onto the card base.

 

 

Bridge House

For this card I used a design paper from a pad that had an old style map on it.

I stamped the Bridge House in the lower corner and embossed the image. I extended the hills and river part of the stamp to fill the base of the card and then coloured with watercolour inks. I added a sentiment from the set.

Dutch House

I used Distress Oxides for my background on this card. I stamped the House in Versafine and then masked it before stamping the tree. I added flowers to the tree in shades of pink and coloured the house with watercolour pencils.

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Bold and Beautiful Houses (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well and that you have been enjoying some better weather. I have a few projects to share with you over the next few weeks that will hopefully make you think of sunnier days, the colours are certainly bright and cheerful!

My first card was made using one of the bookmark style houses featured on last month's TV shows on The Craft Store, Turret House. This has a fairytale castle feel, with Russian elements in the rooftops. I have coloured the building in bright colours to match my background, which was created with Brushos. I placed a stencil over the top and added some Distress Ink. I used the Orchard Design A Tree stamp set, to create a forest around the building.

My second card was created using the lovely Italian House. I used lots of stamps from Make Your Mark to create the background, and added texture paste through a stencil. I coloured the images with pencils. The text comes from  the Words of Wisdom stamp set, and I have used the Orchard Design a Tree stamp set once again.

I will be back soon with more projects to share with you. 

Do look out for some of our new Guest Design Team members coming up this month. I know that they are very excited to share their projects with you.

Thanks for stopping by, and take care.

Judith xx

Colourful village

Morning Peeps, Brenda here again and this time I do have the right cards as the lovely Lesley very kindly took photos of my work (some will remember in my last post I explained I forgot to take photos before posting off my samples.......naughty corner for me), so a big thank you Lesley.

The card at the top uses all four of the new houses which you can find on the multi buy here, all were stamped in versafine black and masked so I could add the background, a Pan Pastel sky and some worker stamps around the houses. I coloured them with Koh-i-nor paints

I kept Kim Moody's Poppy Cottage fairly simple as I wanted to use red to reflect it's name stamping in Versafine Clair, adding just a little colour, matter and layered and some Poppies from Pretty Poppies which I coloured with pencils.

Here we have Bridge House which I stamped first onto acetate to get a reverse print and laid my card onto that, then stamping a second time to extend the house, coloured in with Koh-i-nor paints again as well as some Distress Markers and some foliage stamped in the foreground.

Both of these were stamped with Versafine Clair inks, some colouring added with pencils and stencilling in the background.

Poppy Cottage again, this time with a background stamped with Versafine Clair and Poppies again from the Pretty Poppies set. I added some colour to the doors of the house and inked around with DI's along with a sentiment from the same set.

Bridge House again, this time coloured in with Distress Inks and Markers, a tree created with stamps from Orchard Design a Tree along with more leaves from Take it or Leaf it set.

As always, many thanks for your visit today.

Let's play hide and seek- (by Magda)

Hello girls,
The second post of this month is a selection of 3 cards and three ATCs and I hope you will like them.

For this Simple Card I used :
Dutch House and its sentiment, Punky Hearts stamp,  Archival Black Jet, Archival Red, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle

For Rainbow card :

Turret House,  Archival Black Jet,  Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle, May Fairy

Let's play hide and seek card:

Italian House stamp, A Tomte Christmas stamp, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle, Distress Ink Pad for the background,  Seasonal Elements stencils , Embossing Paste

ATCs :

Italian House stamp, Turret House, Dutch House,  and their sentiments. stencil, Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle

Thank you for passing by
Magda

Joy flower by Brenda

Good morning, Brenda here with a few shares but sadly not of the work I made for Lesley's recent shows which featured lots of lovely quirky house stamps..........in my rush to get my samples posted off to Chocolate Baroque HQ before we left for our holiday I totally forgot to take photos! So instead I am sharing a few older creations which had not been blogged.

The card above featured the lovely bloom from Floral Delight, stamping the entire image onto a die cut circle and colouring in the blooms with some watery ink flicked onto the background. I then masked the flower and repeat stamped the words to create a side panel, again flicking watery ink onto the piece to carry the colours.

The image I used for this one is a favourite from the Thistle/Honeysuckle Butterfly stamp multi-buy, stamped with Versafine black and coloured in, DI's used around the image and then placed behind a die cut frame with foam used to raise the top panel. The sentiment is from my all time favourite CB sentiment set Words of Inspiration.

Update: This original post was scheduled but feeling rather guilty about my oversight I found time the other day to create another couple of cards using some of the quirky house stamps which this post should have been all about! The background on the above one has been created with Distress Inks and masks, then stamping the Dutch, Italian and Turret Houses in Versafine Clair and colouring in with pens.

And I had to do one using Kim Moody's Poppy Cottage which is Judith's house, I have kept it pretty simple, a Poppy background to compliment the name of the cottage, stamped the cottage with Versafine black and added just a little cottage to draw the eye. This was a limited edition stamp run, but when last I looked there were still a few available on the web site.

Many thanks for your visit today and kind words, myself and the team always appreciate your encouragement.

Stylised Houses

Hello
I am sharing some of the cards I made for the August show on Hochanda with the Bookmark Stylised House Collection.

My first card features the Turret House stamps.
I stamped and embossed with white embossing powder.  I coloured on kraft card with soft pastels in rainbow colours to match the sentiment. I also added some gold to the turrets. The backgroud is sprinkled with Brushos.

 

My second card is using the Italian House set. 

This time I stamped the house with Archival to the right of the card, masked it and stamped again to the left. I coloured with water-colour pens. I made a background using trees from the Teeny Weeny Meadow set

 

The next card is the Dutch House.

I stamped with Archival and coloured with water-colour pencils.  I mat and layered onto a U-Fold card which folds flat for posting. Crackle stamp is from Echos of Italy set.

The last card I am sharing today I used all the house stamps from the collection and did a lot of masking! I think these stamps really lend themselves to scene building.

Thanks for looking, I'll be back soon with some more cards to share.
Sandra x

Dutch, Italian and Turret houses by Rachel.

Hello there! Rachel here today with some samples from the August shows. The first piece I wanted to share with you was my pottery piece...

To make this I stamped the Turret house in ink - it doesn't matter which sort you stamp in as it will burn off in the kiln. I then painted the image using coloured glazes before firing.

This one is the Italian house and I stamped this onto rice paper and coloured with pencils before adding the image to a small canvas.Then I added the words and the stencilling.

Lastly the Dutch house that I stamped in black ink and then repeated areas on AT coins. I painted the AT coins and added to the black and white background image. 

I hope you have enjoyed reading about how I used these stamps!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Sentiments and Midnight Tags- (by Magda)

Hello everyone,
The sentiments, you can find on the new stamp of Chocolate Baroque  "Turret House", inspired my journaling page for this month as well as 3 Tags.

For my page I used :  white gesso, Distress Paint acrylic colours, drawing pencil, Archival Ink Jet Black, Turret House stamp and Fantasy Castles stamp. The Turret House stamp and decoupage are colored with Faber Castel Art Grip Aquarelle pencils 

Midnight Tags
The three new houses stamps. Dutch House, Bridge House, and Italian House reflect their lights through the sentiments in the dark night. To make this trilogy I used besides the house stamps, black tags, Versamark Ink Pad, Mica, Archival Ink Jet Black, Brusho,  Glitter and a ribbon.

What shall I propose you next time with these gorgeous stamps ?  I will meet you on the 23rd, so please save the date,  hugs

Magda