The Walled Garden (by Julie)

Hello there, thanks for popping in. Today I have two cards to show you that I have made with the new single, cling stamps.

My first card is made with the Walled Garden, cling stamp. This is going to be one of my favourite stamps as I just love this scene as it makes me imagine what could be through the beautiful, brick archway.

I decided to keep it simple to really showcase the stamp design so I have just stamped with Onyx Black Versafine and  water-coloured, before mounting onto green card.

For my second card I decided to echo the brick design from the stamped image into the background, so I sponged some Barn Door and Hickory Smoke Distress ink through a brick wall stencil. I over-stamped the stencil with the little bonus foliage stamp using Onyx Black Versafine.

The main image is the Another Brick In the Walled Garden, cling stamp, which I have water-coloured. I have again used the bonus stamp to add interest to the wall by sponging red acrylic paint onto the stamp before applying it to the stamped wall.

To finish off I have added Crystal Stickles to highlight the design.

Many thanks for stopping by.

Julie x

brick wall

Happy New Year everyone, hoping that you have all had a happy Christmas and received loads of crafty goodies - if by any chance you haven't, the Chocolate Baroque sale ends today, so you still have time to put the lack of goodies right!

I have shown a couple of samples from the last TV shows for you today - the first one uses the steampunk butterfly set with a background technique I learnt from Lesley using crackle medium and brusho powders, as well as Lesley's sticky label method.


The second sample uses one of the new garden stamps, which are only now on the website after being exclusive to the Craft Channel. Both of these are big stamps, and come with a mini stamp as well.
I chose to use the brickwall stamp, stamped in sepia versafine onto kraft card, the the bricks coloured with white and brown pencils. I added white and pale blue pencils to the shutters, and green to the leaves of the bush and the ground.
The mini stamp was used to create the background on the card blank.
More details on my blog if you would like to check it out

Thank you for looking, and don't forget to check everyday for some fab samples from the rest of the team - there are some real goodies coming up!

Veronica

Brick wall (posted by Claire)

Good morning and Happy New Year! Here's to another year of fun, creativity and stamping with Chocolate Baroque. It's  Claire here with a card made using one of this month's beautiful new garden stamps, this one is called Brick Wall and features a lovely shuttered window and a pretty tree too. You may have seen this stamp before as it was featured on The Craft Channel recently. 

I made my background using distress inks in shadeds of green and brown and then used a brick stencil and texure paste over the top. I stamped the image and coloured it with pencils, adding some flowers using a little silhouette flower stamp. I tore the coloured image out and distressed the edges with a little Gathered Twigs distress ink before layering it up over some kraft card. 

I've popped a scrap of hessian under the image and added a button topped with an old brass button to finish off. 

I'm sure my teamies beautiful projects are going to inspire you again this month so don't forget to pop back as there is lots of inspiration on its way!

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx