Papers and Paint (by Nikki K)

Hello everyone, Nikki K is sharing another sneak peek of those beautiful papers designed by Lesley, and the fabulous new stamps from this month's TV shows on Hochanda. The rest of the Design Team will be sharing their projects with you next month.

Nikki writes:

Morning all,

it's my second post for the Guest Design Team this month, and I've had so much fun with the new stamps! I'm sharing another card with you today using Movie Strip Collage.

 I started this card using the lovely background paper with script from Lesley's new collection of papers, adhered to a card base. The Movie Script Collage stamp was stamped in black ink and embossed clear, to give me an outline. I usually use clear embossing powder quickly over ink, it works well as an embossing ink in most cases, and doesn't leave an embossing powder colour showing where you don't want it. I cut the corners of the card, and shortened the fromt for added detail.

I used the 'tag hole' stamp from Tagtastic to add detail to a couple of corners, and coloured in the flower with acrylic paint in Pthalo Turquoise and Primary Magenta, matching the colours on the card, but just making the flower slightly darker to stand out. The movie strip was painted in a wash of Quinacridone Gold to give it a vintage hue.

I edged the front of the card with Quinacridone Gold, and then went round the card edges with black ink. I repeated the stamping of the film strip on the inside edge of the card, and coloured in a wash of the turquoise and Quin Gold paints.

This stamp is so versatile as you can use parts of it like I have on the inside edge of the card, or you could just use the flower, and fussy cut it and layer it up decoupage style. The papers take paint really well, and it doesn't sit on the surface or resist it, it hardly warped with wet paint on either. They also take inks and stamping really well.

Hope you like my card today, don't forget to check out my teamies' other blog posts.

Best Wishes,

Nikki K.
xxx

Four Panel Card (by Nikki K)

Today we have a post from our Guest Design Team member Nikki. She is giving a sneak peek of the new stamps and designer papers that we brought on the recent TV shows on Hochanda. The Design Team will be sharing their projects with you next month.

Nikki writes:

Hi all,

it's great to be back for my second stint as Guest Designer on the blog for Chocolate Baroque this year. I've been doing some samples over the year too, and wanted to share some with you.

Today I have a card I made for the TV show last week.

I have created a four panel card, using the fab new papers that Lesley had on the show. I absolutely love the inky background look!

I added to the background with second generation stamping in co-ordinating colour inks, using the tag 'holes' from the new Tagtastic stamp, and also stamped the distressed harlequin stamp from a previous show, in grey ink to add detail.

I cut the background paper into four equal parts, putting it neatlyback together and then stamping and heat embossing Movie Strip Collage, first in white one way round, and then in black, turning the image so the white underneath showed as background detail.

I added a spattering of white paint, and roughed up the edges of the pieces of card with scissors. It was then mounted on black card, leaving a gap between the four pieces, just enough to make a feature, but so you can still see the image clearly.

Having the background papers made this a really quick and simple make, but it's still as striking as if I'd painted the background myself.

Hope you like it, don't forget to check out my team mates' other makes on the blog. x

Best Wishes,

Nikki K.

xxx