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

With deepest sympathy (posted by Elaine)

As well as baubles, the Artist's Baubles set has some other lovely elements, a cross, corners and a lovely classical motif which are very useful.

I have used the cross to make a sympathy card. I wanted to add a little colour to what would otherwise have been a monochrome card.

I used the tail of the bird from Doodle Butterfly stamped in grey as the flourish behind the cross. I used my stamp positioner to make sure I paced the stamp in the right placed and used masking tape to cut off the rest of the bird when I inked the stamp.

I stamped the cross in black Versafine and cut it out, before mounting on foam pads. I used the small butterfly stamp from the same set to stamp around the main design. I added a sentiment from the With Sympathy stamp set, some two tone paper roses and punches leaves and tiny butterflies to complete.

Elaine

some creations with the doodle butterflies........

Hello there,

Just want to show you some creations with the doodle butterflies sheet. I like those stamps very much because they are so great to stamp with white ink and colour over with pencils. One of my favourite techniques. Most of the time I stamp with white colorbox ink but recently I heard that the Adirondack white is great to use. So I will certainly try that.... Well off to the cards now...

Maybe I have inspired you to get your pencils out........ and have some fun!, creative greetz, Miranda

Time for a Giveaway!

Well, things are settling down a little now that we have launched the Chocolate Baroque online shop which can be found at www.chocolatebaroque.com.  Alongside that, we have also launched a community website run by Ning which is a buzzing place with over 500 photographs of artwork featuring our stamps and papers.  You can join up at www.chocolatebaroque.ning.com. 

In the What's New section of our website, you will find the mini stamps that were revealed here a few weeks ago, as well as three other new sets.

Firstly there are two A5 sized stamp sets that were designed to compliment the Craft Stamper butterfly covermount stamp that was included with the April issue.

Doodle Butterfly

Doodle Birds

As you can see, the DT have already started showing you some of their makes with these sets and I think you can see how versatile they are.

We also have an A4 set that is a personal favourite of mine

Butterfly Dreams.

The largest stamp in this set needs the large 6x6 inch acrylic block as it's a whopping 5.5 inches square.  Looks great on a Stampbord block.

So, I'm doing a little random giveaway - I'm giving away one of each set to three lucky winners, but you have to do something in return to be in with a chance.

In the past I have drawn winners from comments made on this blog, but this time, I am going to be drawing winners at random from comments left on here or on all of the Design Team's individual blogs.  Yes, I am encouraging you to visit their blogs and leave comments on their Chocolate Baroque artwork.  The more blogs you leave comments on, the more chance you have of winning.

Good luck!