Pan Pastel Postbox (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, today Gerrina is sharing the second of her posts for this month. She has created a pretty mixed media piece to inspire you.

Gerrina writes:

My second Guest Designer post at Chocolate Baroque! Three times this month you can see here at Chocolate Baroque, and also on my blog some of my creations... this time here is the second one:
Something practical to use and be inspired by every time I see it; a postbox made into an inspirational box to keep some of my hobby stash in:

Used Materials:

Stamps: Mackintosh Beauty, Mackintosh Windows, Sketchy Doodle Landscape and Sketchy Doodle Flowers
Inkpads: Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Barn Door, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, and Tattered Rose.
Other: Postbox, Pan Pastels in several colours, fixative and watercolour paper

Instructions:

Fold the box open/flat. Put a layer of gesso over the total surface and let dry. Stamp all of the images on the box with Versamark. Colour them with Pan Pastels and make a background with Pan Pastels. Fix the Pan Pastels with fixative and let dry. Stamp the 'beauty' image again with the black ink on a piece of stamping paper and colour her with a water brush and Distress Ink. Cut her out, and glue her to the box. Fold the box back up so that you can use it to put hobby materials in it.

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

(Gerrinascreatievewereld.blogspot.com)


Gerrina will be back with her final project of the month next week.

Sketchy Doodle Birthday Card (by Pat)

Hello everyone, it is with great pleasure that I am introducing the second of our new Guest Design Team members, Pat Moore. Pat has very kindly written a few words about herself so that you can get to know her a little better before she starts her month of blogging with us.

 Hi everybody, I'm so excited to have been given the opportunity to be part of the Guest Design Team, so thank you so much Lesley, and also to Judith for all her help thus far.

I have always crafted in one way or another, mainly knitting and needlecrafts and some oil and watercolour painting, and it was turning some small cross stitch designs into cards that lead me down this path about twelve years ago.

I started like many others with papercrafts including decoupage, but then crafting on the TV got me interested in stamping and I aquired my first Chocolate Baroque set of stamps, The Art of Chess. I was blown away by their quality and detail and was hooked....lol. I also started blogging about this time too, and my very first post featured this Art of Chess stamp set. I love colouring and getting inky, making my own backgrounds with stamps and stencils, and also enjoy trying out new techniques. I find it so satisfying  to look at my finished piece and know that it started out as just white card. I try not to restrict my cardmaking to one particular style and enjoy using dies and embossing folders as accompaniments to the stamping where appropriate, and the beauty of these stamps is that they lend themselves to all sorts of styles of cardmaking and mixed media. I am really looking forward to this new challenge!

This is the 'how to' for the Sketchy Doodle Flower card:

I have used the Sketchy Doodle Flowers stamp set.

The background was created with Distress Inks which were applied to the white card by laying the colours down on my glass mat and spritzing with water before placing the card over to pick up the colour, and this was repeated several times. When dry I stamped the four flowers using a dark blue Distress Ink and applied several of the colours using a water brush. I cut down the background to fit a 6" square card and blended some more of the dark blue around the edges. I also took some colour from the centres of the background flowers by lifting it out with water.

I stamped another of the flowers onto white card and heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I then fussy cut it and used the same colours as were used on the background flowers, again applied with a waterbrush.

I added a silver heat embossed sentiment to a piece of white vellum and wrapped it around and adhered it to one edge of the background before adding this to the card, then the additional flower was fixed over the top of the vellum.

Pat will be back with another post next week. You can find her blog here.

Sketchy Doodle Canvas (by Julie)

Hello, hope your Christmas plans are all going well. I thought today would be too late for any Christmas type projects so I went with something completely different...a mini 5" x 7" canvas.

I covered the entire canvas with blue and silver Aztec paint and when dry, applied molding paste through a harlequin diamond stencil, this was then left to dry.

The smaller flower and leaves were stamped and embossed in black, painted with silver and blue Aztec paint and set aside to dry. The larger flower was stamped onto Mulberry paper using a dark pink dye ink.

I inked up the sentiment with Onyx Black Versafine and stamped onto Mulberry Paper. Tear around the outside and apply to the canvas with Glue N Seal .

Next I took a palette knife and applied silver, Soft Form Relief Paste, making sure that I created an uneven surface.

Once everything is dry apply some Distress Crayons over the raised surfaces and blend with your finger. I also ran a black Distress Crayon around the entire outside edge.

Thread some beads onto Head Pins and assemble with the flower and leaves. Glue into place with 3d glue gel.

Thanks for popping in.

 I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year

Julie xx  

Sketchy Doodle Canvas (by Julie)

Hello, it's Julie here and today I have a little canvas to show you that I have made with the fabulous Sketchy Doodle Flower set.

 

I started by inking up the silhouette image with Imperial Purple Versafine and stamped it onto water-colour card, before colouring with brush markers. Highlights with a white paint pen and dabs of Crystal Stickles were added to finish off the centre panel before cutting to fit centrally on the mini canvas. 

Glue and Seal was spread onto the canvas, followed by a sprinkling of seed beads to create a frame effect. Once dry I then lightly spritzed the edges of the remaining white canvas with water before carefully adding tiny sprinkles of Brushos. It's really easy to be heavy handed with Brushos so to tone down the colour I added dots of the white paint pen.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again very soon.

Julie x

It Takes Two (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a collaberative project to share with you today, created by myself and Lesley. We live a long way apart from each other, and rarely get the chance to craft together. We thought that we would make a joint project with the aid of Royal Mail on this occasion. So, Lesley sent me a selection of scrumptious backgrounds that she had made, and I set to, making a project.

I chose a pretty purple/teal background from Lesley's selection as my inspiration; these are my favourite colours. I chose a floral stencil, and added some gesso to the background through the stencil first of all, before lightly dabbing some blue and teal Dylusions paint over the top. It is no secret that Lesley loves blue flowers, so I had to add some into my design!

I stamped the Swirl Centre Flowerhead stamp onto another piece of Lesley's background, and also a leafy stamp from the Sketchy Doodle Flower stamp set. I added some watered down teal paint to these images, to tone them in with the background. I cut the images out and stuck them to the background. I added a sentiment from the Birthday Words stamp set. Finally, I matted the background onto some teal card.

I had a lot of fun making this project 'with' Lesley, and hope that it is not too long before we get a chance to craft together face to face. Thanks for stopping by,

Guest Post - Masking with Sketchy Doodle Flowers by Corine van Kuilenburg

Today is the third and final post from Corine for the time being and this week she is entralling us with two beautful designs which feature the Sketchy Doodle Flower and Sketchy Doodle Landscape sets. 

This is my third and last post as a guest designer. In my first post you saw a card with the masking technique. It has been a long time sice I use this technique and I had forgotten how much fun it is. 

For this third post I made two cards with this technique and used two of my favorite sheets Sketchy Doodle Flowers and SketchyDoodle Landscape.

On both cards you can also see stamps from Rustic Fragments in the background. I really like the combination of Distress ink with Memento Luxe ink.

Chocolate Baroque stamps are my favorite. It is always a joy to go to work with these stamps. I hope I have been able to inspire with my cards. Thank you for looking at my creations and 'til next time.

Kind Regards

Corine

Thank you for sharing such beautiful projects with us over the last three weeks Corine, we have loved seeing your colourful take on our stamps. Corine will be back in the summer with more wonderful ideas and don't forget to drop in daily to see what other goodies the rest of the Design girls have for you.

On kraft paper (by Maria)

Hello crafters, here are some more samples with the Sketchy Doodle Flowers stamp set.

This time, I have made you some samples on kraft paper.  Using Versafine black ink on your stamps, stamp the flowers on some kraft paper. My white cardstock is 30cms x 11cms. I folded it in two so that I had a card of 15cms x 11cms. I took some larger kraft paper stamped my flowers, and looked at how I could  take the best part of the card and cut it out 1cm less than my cardstock so, 14cms x 10cms. I coloured the flowers with pencils and the white part I coloured with my white gelly pen. I placed the sentiment on a free spot, put some golden pearls for the contrast, then I took some black cardstock to frame the kraft paper with. I put it all on my white card. I hope you like these cards, they were very easy to make, enjoy!

Greetings,
Maria

Sketchy Doodle Flowers - Cards By Florence

Hi everyone

If, this is your first visit to the Chocolate Baroque blog, a big warm welcome. 

Today I would like to share two simple card designs using the new Sketchy Doodle Flower Stamps.

I hope you like them.

If you are new to rubber stamping sometimes it can be a little daunting stamping straight onto a large card.  A simple solution to this, is to use a smaller base canvas to stamp onto and then add it to your card as a topper.

I cut a circle out of white card stock and stamped the flower just off the edge of the circle and added a small butterfly.
I colored the flower and butterfly with water color crayons.
I then colored the edge of the stamped card circle using a sponge and Distress Inks.
For the base I stamped the Harlequin pattern and the sentiment onto a piece of white card and trimmed it to size.

I made the card up as seen using foam pads to attach the focal piece.

Ink used : Archival Ink - Black and Cornflower Blue.

Please note that the butterfly stamp I have used on both of these cards is not included in the Sketchy Doodle Flower Set but is from the Butterfly Doodle Set.

For the card above, I stamped the image using a multi colored dye ink pad onto coated card stock.
I added the small butterfly using Black Archival Ink.
For the heads of the flowers I stamped just the top of the flowers onto coated card stock using Vermillion Archival Ink, cut them out and then decoupaged them onto the main image.
I made the card up as seen.

It has been a real joy working with the new Sketchy Doodle Flower Stamps this month.  I have made a few more projects using these stamps which can be seen on my card blog here.

Thank you for looking
Happy Stamping

Florence x