May Day Magic (by Asha)

Hello and welcome to the start of a brand new month of creative inspiration here at Chocolate Baroque. Let's get this party going with a little May Day Magic! Here's an Art Journal Page depicting just what that looks like in my head. :)

This project features the fairy from the May Fairy DL sheet, which is part of the Spring Fairy Collection. You would have seen our Lesley showcase these stamps on Hochanda.

The extra foliage and flowers are from the June Fairy and July Fairy DL sheets, respectively. These stamps are also available as the 3-stamp set called Summer Fairy Collection.

As always, on my blog, you'll find more pics as well as details of paints and inks I've used to create this page.

Please swing by often for more project ideas from the rest of the team.

Have a Magical May, everyone!

Beijinhos,
Asha

Fly Away With Me (by Asha)

Hello and Happy Friday, everyone. Today I want to show you a card I made showcasing the Butterfly Dress individual cling stamp.

I stamped the image onto a piece of bleed-proof paper and coloured it with alcohol markers. The extra sunflowers are from the July Fairy DL stamp sheet. I masked the images to get the flowers to overlap. The sentiment is from the Butterfly Dreams A4 sheet.

Here's a close up of the Butterfly Dress project. With a sharp craft knife I cut around the wings of the butterflies to expose the blue layering card stock below. The butterflies look like they are about to take flight...

Butterfly Dress is undeniably a gorgeous image, which can be worked in so many different ways. I hope you'll find time to play with your stamps this weekend. As always, on my blog you will find more pictures and details of products used.

Have a super crafty weekend!

Beijinhos,
Asha

Green Harlequin by Doreen

Hello to you all, Doreen here sharing one of my samples made using the gorgeous new

Harlequin Fragments 

I have started by inking some white card with Antique Linen Distress Ink then using Evergreen Bough stamped my background. I inked the edges with some more Evergreen Bough and then edged with Black Soot.

I die-cut a small piece of green card and stamped the flower silhouette from the July Fairy stamp sheet twice without re-inking the stamp. Finally I stamped the sentiment  and mounted it onto foam pads.