Baroque Ornament Palm Fan Silhouette Card (by Anne)

The Baroque Ornament stamps are simply gorgeous. Here is my first project using the Palm Fan Silhouette stamp. I combined it with a pretty background paper from Crafty Individuals.

Materials:

• Palm Fan Silhouette Baroque Ornament stamp and Indian Textiles stamp set
• 6X6 inch Crafty Individuals background paper – 2 sheets (Weekend in Seville)
• 7X7 inch white card base
• Inkpad: Versamark, dye based (pale ochre)
• Watercolour pens (purple, pink, yellow)
• Alcohol ink marker (black)
• WOW embossing powder (Blueberry and Honey)
• Gold PVA pearls
• Fine crystal glitter
• Glossy Accents and glue pen

Step By Step:

1. Stamp the ornament onto the centre of the patterned paper with Versamark. Emboss with a mix of the embossing powders to create a vintage effect.
2. Colour with the aqua pens and cut out. Cut around the central petals and lift to give shape. Glue to another patterned paper sheet.
3. Colour the outer border with the yellow pen and edge with the black marker.
4. Stamp the border onto the cad base with the pale ochre ink. Edge the card with the black pen to frame.
5. Glue to the topper onto the card front.
6. Add dots of glue around the border and sprinkle with the fine glitter. Add PVA pearls and sprinkle with glitter. Remove excess glitter when dry.
7. Finally add Glossy Accents to the outer layer of the ornament.

Baroque Ornament by Zoe pt - 2

Good morning Lovelies, I hope you are enjoying the summer so far?

So here I'm back with another post using these gorgeous new Stamps

My first is CAS card using the gorgeous Dots n Stripes Baroque Ornament stamp, I used white linen card which I die cut using a stitched nested die I simply stamped using Onyx Black Versafine Inkpad and heat embossed with black EP directly onto my topper and twice more onto my scrap linen card and cut out the layers to decoupage I offset the layers to create a sort of flower, I used a gold shimmery paint to just add a touch of colour to the top layers and finished off with some gold sequins and a sentiment

I used a long tag from the website and Gesso'd first and then sprayed using a mica spray ink, I had to give it about 3 layers between drying to build up the intensity of colour, I let it dribble and run to create interest, I used Tuxedo Black Archival Inkpad to stamp using the gorgeous Palm fan silhouette stamp, once it was all dry I just sprinkled over with some embossing powders and melted I wanted a very random effect, once molten I inked up my stamp with a gold pigment Inkpad and stamped directly into the EP carefully lining up the design to the black one as I wanted it to morph into each other, I added a light touch of gold gilding wax to the edges and the EP and coloured some areas of the black images using a gold glitter pen, added my sentiment using the Archival inkpad.

Thank you for visiting, I hope you like my creations and its inspired you to buy these gorgeous stamps, have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx

 

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Cards in a Flash- More Quick and Easy Projects

Hello everyone, are you looking for simple, easy cards to make? Do you feel put off by complicated designs and that they are beyond your capabilities? Are you looking for quick batch cards, or designs to make for craft stalls? If any of these questions apply to you, then we have the solution to your problem. Twice a month, the Design Team, and the Guest Design Team come together to create cards and projects that take no more than fifteen minutes to create. We want to show you that simple can be just as beautiful and effective as something that has taken several hours to make. There are so many fabulous Chocolate Baroque stamps that you may already have in your stash that could be used to create some of our examples. We hope that you will enjoy our selection in the first of our posts for this month.

Anne has created some lovely tags to match some cards that she made previously. She combined the cards and tags in the end to create a fabulous stationary set. Her tags would make a beautiful addition to any gift. By choosing different coloured background paper, but using the same stamp, and some glitter pens, you can create a beautiful co-ordinated set in a very short space of time:

Brenda has created two beautiful projects for our post this time. Her first card uses Pan Pastels to create a beautiful soft background, masking the sun, before applying the pastels. She used Distress Ink and a stencil to stencil in some sun rays. She stamped a tree from the Spinney stamp set in Black Archival Ink, and used two of the small stamps in the set to add leaves and blossom, using Distress Inks. Finally, she repeat stamped one of the sentiments from the Words of Inspiration stamp set.

For her second card, she stamped the butterfly from the Butterfly Flourish Swirls stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear detail powder. She then coloured the butterflies with Brushos Lilac and Yellow. Next she stamped a sentiment from the Pretty Poppies stamp set along the bottom of the piece, and using a fine line pen and a ruler, drew a box around to frame the stamping. She then matted and layered onto co-ordinating cardstock.

Claire has created a super quick five minute card, using Dylusion sprays to create her background, and added a gold embossed peacock as her focal point.

Dominike has made some beautiful vibrant backgrounds for her cards using Brushos. These are just perfect for creating quick cards, and every background is different. Whether you choose to use an image, or a sentiment as your focal point, as Dominike has done in her final example, you can create stunning cards.

I know that it is currently very warm, and the last thing you are thinking of is preparing for Christmas. However, I have created three Christmas card ideas for you, because it is never too early to start getting your Christmas cards started! I have used embossing on all three cards, and Brushos, selecting some of our Big Bold Background stamps, which make creating cards so quick and easy.

For this first example, I chose blue and purple Brushos, added white embossing, and stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of card which I trimmed from the original background. I added a few gems in the centre of the snowflakes, and used blue card for matting and layering.

This second card was completed in much the same way, using gold embossing, but sprinkling the red, yellow and orange Brushos onto the baubles, and using the green for the background areas, before spritzing with water. I left the card to dry naturally before matting onto co-ordinating card.

For my final card, I stamped with Versafine OnyxBlack Ink, and used clear embossing powder, for a crisp image. I painted the baubles using green, turquoise and lilac Brushos and a waterbrush. I then painted the background areas liberally with a waterbrush before sprinkling Black Brusho onto the areas very carefully. Again, I chose a toning card to mat the background.

Magda has created a very pretty card using a gelli plate background and our newest clear heart stamp. She has added some glitter detail to the flowers.

Finally three colourful samples from Zoe. She has used her gelli plate to create the first two shaped cards.

Her third card is so cheery with these bright zingy colours, and upbeat message.

We hope that you have enjoyed our varied selection this time around, and that we have inspired you to create something using the tips and techniques that we have shared with our projects. You can click on any of our names to visit our blogs, where you will see lots more inspiration. Look out for our second Fifteen Minute blog post coming later in the month.

Thanks for stopping by,

Tulip Journal Page (by Shilpa)

Today sees the first post from Shilpa as a regular member of our Design Team, she is making the move from the Guest Design Team to become one of our regular contibutors. We would like to welcome Shilpa to her new role.

Shilpa writes:

Hello everyone, I am sharing my mixed media journal page today for which I've used the Chocolate Baroque Spring bird Tulip stamp set.

To create the background, first I adhered different washi tapes onto the page.

Next I spritzed blue and green inks randomlly on the surface, I used more water to spread the colour on the surface. Dried it with a heat tool.

For extra texture I applied coloured Gel medium through a stencil.

My focal point are these wonderful tulips, which I stamped in black Archival Ink. I've also stamped cute dragonflies from the Just Butterflies stamp set.

I hope you liked my journal page. Thanks so much for stopping by, Shilpa.

Palm Fan Dream (by Julie)

Hello and welcome. I hope you are loving the new Ornament stamps this month. I have had so much fun playing with them and today I have two creations to show you, made with the pretty Palm Fan Baroque Ornament

My first card is on a base of Kraft card, which I have then matted with a piece of wood effect, embossed card. I decided to keep it pale so just sponged over some Old Paper Distress ink.

The Palm Fan was stamped and embossed with white embossing powder, onto Kraft card, coloured with Polychromas pencils and then cut out with a circle die. I inked up the stamp with Potting Soil Archival ink and stamped twice onto shrink plastic. Before shrinking I punched a small hole in each of the images so that I could attach a jump ring to each piece, making it easier to attach the cord. Once the beads and shrink plastic Ornaments were threaded I attached the cords to a hat pin with 3 more jump rings. Both ends of the hat pin have been secured with foam pads and the main image placed over the top.

My second design is a bit of a play on the Dream Catcher theme. As before I have stamped and embossed with white powder onto Kraft card and coloured with Polychromos pencils followed by die cutting with a circle. I then punched three holes along the bottom of the circle for the jump rings, so the acetate feathers could be attached. 

The feathers are from Dawn Chorus which I stamped with purple Staz-on and then cut out. I punched a hole in each and attached the jump rings so that the cord could be attached.

The Dream sentiment is from Artistic Expressions and the background is Dusty Concord and Abandoned Coral sponged over the card using a piece of kitchen towel.

Thank you for popping in and please call back tomorrow for some more Design Team Inspiration.

Julie xx

Alcohol and Baroque Ornament (by Dominike)

Hello

Few weeks ago I made a workshop introducing alcohol inks. So, after that, I had a lot of tries.
It is the opportunity to show you two cards made with those tries.
I used : alcool ink, rodhoïd, cardstock, glossy, black stazon  and the beautiful stamp here.

I hope you enjoy.
Kind regards.

A song in your Heart (by Rachel)

This week we welcome back Rachel Fisher in her second guest design team spot.  Rachel has been combining several stamp sets with Brushos to create this fiery card. Enjoy

Hi everyone

So nice to be back here in the Design Team blog.  My design this week is all about contrasts, I love the idea of the bird silhouetted against the bright sky, almost like a morning sunrise.

To make the topper I used reds and orange Brushos for the background then overstamped using the main image from Let Your Heart Sing.

To create the card background I have used a combination of distress inks in similar colours to the topper and then I stamped images from the same set with Archival black ink. Finally I added a couple of stamps from the Texture Fragments set..

Hope you like the splash of colour, see you again next week

Rachel x

We love colour Rachel so this is a great start to the day. Look forward to seeing your next post.

If this design has inspired you then please drop by again tomorrow to see more wonderful artwork from our fabulous Design Team girls.