It's good to be back for a visit and to share a Christmas project! (by Lesley Ebdon)

As I announced last week we are starting a new Guest Design Team who will feature here three times a month and today I want to reveal their identities.   

The following talented ladies are all going to contribute to the GT so, in no particular order, here are the names of the six team members:

Corine Van Kulenberg

Veronica Pell

Gerrina Poncin

Brenda Weatherill

Shilpa Nagaonkar

Lesley Ebdon

I know that you will be inspired by their diverse creations. So without further ado, here is the very first project which is designed by Lesley.

Hi everyone, my name is Lesley and having been a Chocolate Baroque addict since seeing Glenda on TV a good few years ago now, I've previously been privileged to be a member of the Design Team in the past. Unfortunately real life got in the way for a while (as it does sometimes) and I had to 'drop out' but my love of Chocolate Baroque has never wavered so I am thrilled to be rejoining the team briefly and doing a guest spot or three this month with some pretty awesome new Christmas stamps. 

Nobody does Christmas better than Chocolate Baroque in my opinion so I was more than happy that I got to play with these pretty sets, Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees.  Thanks Lesley W, they're fab! They are really finely detailed and stamp beautifully (as always) and have got me off to an early start with my Christmas cards. I hope you like the first piece I'm sharing today which is a gift as well a card.

Christmas Luminary Card

 

My current favourite style is quite a clean look.  I won't say simple because this style does call for very careful stamping but it does allow the gorgeous stamp designs to take centre stage.

Most of the products I've used are available from Chocolate Baroque and include a mix of metallic Pan Pastels, gilding flakes and embossing powder.  If you would like to see how I created my luminary I'd love to see you over on my blog  http://craftymammalovenhugs.blogspot.co.uk/.

You can also find me on good old Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/lesley.ebdon  

and on Pinterest here https://www.pinterest.com/craftymamma2/

I'd love if you have time to leave a comment and I'll be back next Wednesday to share another project with you. Have a lovely week in the meantime. 

Hugs

Lesley  Xx

Thanks for kicking off our new feature with such a fab project Lesley, can't to see what you have in store for us next week. I will be back again tomorrow to reveal the next stamp in our Year of Stamping series. Bye for now

  

Nordic Style (by Anne)

Hi, I'm Anne and this is my very first post as a Design Team member for Chocolate Baroque. I am so excited to be of this team and am really looking forward to the coming months and working with some fabulous stamps.

Hope that you like this Nordic styled card using the Sparkling Trees stamp set. I just love the reindeer – a bit fiddly to cut out but well worth the effort.

• Make a side folded card base with Kraft Card, prick a border around the edge and add faux stitching with white gel pen.
• Cut a large circle approx. 5.5” (14cm), and smaller circle approx. 2.75” (7cm) diameter from blue card. Stamp the smaller circle with the stars and the larger with snowflakes using Versamark and heat emboss with gold powder. Use Distress ink around the circle edges and add dots of clear and gold glitter glue for sparkle. Glue the larger circle and mount the smaller circle with foam, onto the card front. Draw more faux stitching lines around the circle.
• Stamp the fir tree branch with Versamark, 3 times onto blue card. Cut out and add dots of clear glitter glue. Mount onto card front and draw ‘landscape’ lines with white gel pen and add a bit more glitter sparkle.
• Stamp the sentiment onto Kraft Card, and the reindeer onto white card, with Versafine. Colour with brown pencil and the lettering with white gel pen. Add Glossy Accents to both, cut out and glue to card with 3D gel. Finish with PVA pearls around the large circle.

If you want the full list of what I used to create this card, plus a more detailed step by step please take a look at my blog.

Thanks for looking in and please come back again to see more designs from the rest of the team.

Anne