Lady's Slipper Orchid (by Jodie)

Hello everyone, today sees the first of three posts this month from our Guest Design Team member Jodie Heuser.

Jodie writes:

 

Good morning everyone,

I'm extremely excited to have been asked to be a Guest Design team member for this month.

Chocolate Baroque has so many new and exciting designs in stamps it's often hard to choose which ones to use.

 

Since we are in the middle of the dog days of summer here in Florida, I decided to go with a flower theme. 

Supplies:

Stamps- Loving Sentiments Rubber Stamp sheet- A5, Ladys Slipper Orchid

Colour- Brusho Crystal Colour (Set of 24- Crimson, Violet, Lemon Yellow, Sea Gree, and Turquoise)

Ranger Archival Ink- Jet Black

paper- Watercolour paper, cardstock

Waterbrush- detailer tip 

Water Spritzer Bottles- 2 pack

Double sided foam tape

Gold photo corner stickers

Cut the watercolour paper to 4" x 5 1/4" (10.16cm x 13.34cm) and stamp the image using Archival ink.

When you first begin using your Brusho colours, take a thumb tack, and pierce a hole in the top. I cannot stress enough that a little goes a long way.

Lightly spritz the paper with water. This will help the colours blend easier.

Begin by sprinkling which ever colour of Brusho you want to start with onto a non stick surface, then using your watercolour brush, mix a bit of water with the crystals and begin painting in the image. 

Use less water if you want to have deeper colours, and you can mix the colours together to create a specific shade.

Let each colour dry before going on to the next colour, which will help lessen the chance of colours bleeding together.

Once the piece is dry, cut a piece of purple cardstock to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (13.97cm x 21.59cm) and fold in half.

Cut a piece of light purple cardstock to 4" x 5 1/4" (10.16cm x 13.34cm) and layer onto cardstock base. Next cut a strip of medium purple cardstock, 4" x 1 3/4" (10.16cm x 4.45cm) and place on the right hand side of mat.

Cut out your image and layer onto card using foam tape.

Stamp the saying onto white cardstock with Archival ink, and mat with gold cardstock.

Attach the saying to the front, then adhere the photo corner stickers.

Thank you so much for checking out my project, and please join me next week, when I will use inks to colour in the stamps.   

Monochromatic Butterflies by Brenda

Hello everyone, Brenda here and I hope you are ready for some more inspiration using the stamps Lesley showcased on Hochanda in September.

I rather fancied the idea of making monochromatic card with the lovely Butterfly Dress image so I started by stamping her with Versafine black onto my cardstock, followed by one of the stamps from Floral Edges along the bottom and another from Decorative Edges across the top. Next I used some sticky noted to roughly cover the focal image, masked a sun/moon and flicked some watery Distress Inks. I then stamped the image a couple more times, cut out the Butterflies and added to her skirt, three more fluttering past and some shading around the moon.

A grey board tag was my starting point here which I inked with Distress Inks and used Floral Edges along the bottom and around the top stamped with Versafine Majestic Blue. Some stencilled bricks and flowers stamped from the same stamp set, coloured and arranged on the tag. Finally some ribbon and sentiment from Amazing Mackintosh Words.

After masking a sun I used stamps from Floral Edges joining them to extend across the card using Versafine Olympia Green, sponged some sun rays using a piece of torn paper.........I find it easiest to start from the top and keep moving the paper down so that you can see where you have been. Finally a sentiment from Words of Inspiration, I have had this set for years and it remain a firm favourite which I use repeatedly.

For the background panel I used one of the stamps from Floral Edges, stamped with Versamark, heat embossed with detail white powder and then added Distress Inks. Lady's Slipper Orchid has been stamped with Versafine black onto a piece of card coloured with the same inks. A bow and sentiment from Amazing Mackintosh Words.

Finally one more using Butterfly Dress stamped with Versafine black onto a Distress Oxide background, coloured with pencils and some random background stamping using Decorative Edges. Again the sentiment of from Amazing Mackintosh Words.

I hope I have inspired you to go and check out these lovely stamps on the website.

brusho orchid (by Veronica)

For my second post this month featuring stamps from the September TV show I have gone back to form and used brusho powders.
I created a pile of backgrounds with the brusho first - they take a bit to dry, so I like to do several at a time,( and I often blot them using another sheet of card if they come out too dark)  and the ones I don't use always come in handy later on....
For both cards I stamped the lady's slipper orchid using versamark and embosssed with white embossing powder.
The first card has a darker background, and I used more brusho as a watercolour to colour the leaves and the flower. I added a purple card mat the same size as the trimmed image, and glued both at an angle onto a square white card blank.



The second was a much more delicate image, and I again coloured the flower and some of the  leaves, but this time with very watered down brusho.
The card blank was randomly stamped with the flower head using an almost-dried out purple ink pad before adding a mat of purple card

Lady's Slipper Orchid (By Marga)

Hello everyone, today it's my turn to show you something. 

This card I have made with watercolours and pencils. The background I stamped with a yellow ink.

These are the stamps I used:

Ladys Slipper Orchid and Dusky Damask

Big hugs

Marga.

   

Lady's slipper orchid and decorative edges (by Rachel)

Good morning! Rachel here with you today to show you some of my makes with the lady's slipper orchid stamp plus a little pottery painted using one of the decorative edge stamps.

In this first one I stamped the image in flitterglu and then added metallic flake. Before I cut the whole thing out I also used metallic pens to colour the flower.

In this card I stamped three times but only coloured the central image using pens. 

And finally my ceramic recipe book stand - I used one of the decorative edges here - I thought it looked very art deco so teamed it up with some writing of the style.

I do hope these pieces have brought you a little inspiration today.

Big hugs and best wishes for a great day!

Rachel xx