Red Postbox (by Magda) - Vintage Postbox

I like to experiment and thought it would be interesting for me to see the result of transforming a school blackboard into a Christmas decoration.

Here for you the result of this project :

1. Clean a school blackboard and wipe it with the Magic Anti-Static Bag
2. Stamp on the blackboard the new stamp Vintage Postbox Single Rubber Stamp  with Versamark and emboss with Wow Embossing Powder Clear Gloss
3. Colour the postbox with Distress Paint -  Fired Brick  several times till you are happy with the colour 
4. Colour the fence with Distress Paint - Walnut Stain
5. Put some Distress Paint - Fired Brick and Mowed Lawn on both sides of the bottom of the postbox  
6. Add Soft Form Relief Paste - Pearl to create the snowflakes using a stencil, the snow on the fence, on the postbox and on the ground using a spatula
7. Colour the wooden frame of the blackboard  with Distress Paint - Black Soot, then use a gold metallic acrylic to give an antique look to the frame. 
8. Punch some holly leaves and colour them with gold metallic acrylic and with Distress Paint - Mowed Lawn and glue the leaves as decoration
9. Finish the project adding a golden ribbon and some Stickles - Star Dust on the snow and on the leaves

I hope you will try to paint a school blackboard too and will enjoy this experiment.

Magda

Snow Vintage Postbox Shaker card (posted by Claire)

Good morning, Claire here with a Christmas card featuring  the beautiful Vintage Postbox stamp. This is a lovely stamp and not just for Christmas lol. It's a beautiful image to colour and by varying the colours you could use it all year round.

I coloured the image with Graph'It markers and added some glitter for a frosty sparkle. I decided to make a shaker card so I cut a square aperture in a piece of cardstock and used border punch to add some interest. I lined this with acetate and used 3d foam tape to create my shaker card adding some sparkly faux snow.

I dusted off some old border peel offs to frame the image and added  a sentiment with a little bow and a button to finish off.. 

I love to sit and colour on these cold evenings so I think I'll be making a few more of these. How are you doing with your Christmas cards? Keep checking back as my lovely teamies have got lots of inspiration lined up for you.

Claire xx

Christmas Time! (by Julie)

Hello and welcome. Have you started your Christmas cards or are you a bit last minute like me? Well today, I have two Christmas card ideas to get you in the mood, made with the fantastic new stamps that Chocolate Baroque have just released.

My first card is made with Vintage Postbox. It is a versatile stamp as after it has been coloured (I used polychromos pencils) you can choose to add snow or leave it plain. As Christmas is in mind I chose to add the snow with a white paint marker and added sprinkles of glitter...

I used an oval die, to cut the image out before applying double-sided tape on the reverse edges so that the red ribbon could be securely attached.   

The base card has been stamped with the snow flakes from Seasonal Fragments and lightly coloured with Broken China Distress ink.

My second card is a very cute Robin, sat on a tasty mince pie. I decided that this lovely Mr Robin would look good on a piece of parchment. I really am no expert (as you can probably see...lol) when it comes to parchment but the lovely clear drawing of this Robin makes it very easy to stamp and emboss onto parchment.

I inked the Robin up with Picket Fence Distress ink and then went over the stamped image with a 

3 mm ball tool. I added colour on the reverse with Distress Crayons and blended them with a cotton bud that I moistened with a baby wipe. Once dry I attached the parchment to the base card with double sided tape around the edges. I decided to hide the tape with a handy die cut frame that I embossed with a snowflake embossing folder.
The base card was stamped with the snow flake from Last Minute Christmas and the card was finished off with a piece of gold elastic, threaded with a few decorative beads.

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again very soon

Julie xx