Guest Post - Mixed Media Butterfly by Corine van Kuilenburg

We are already at the second post from Guest Team member Corine and this week she has chosen to combine Chocolate Baroque stamps with Brushos. Enjoy.

Today is my second post as guest designer. I hope you liked my first post. This time I created a mixed media card. 

• First paste on a piece of card stock book paper. Paint this with gesso. Emboss an image from Dusky Damask with clear embossing powder. Use 2 or 3 colours of Brusho and spritz with water. Make sure your whole card  is covered with Brusho. Let everything dry completely.
• Use stencils and inks to add more detail to your background. Stamp with black ink one or two images from Rustic Fragments.
• Emboss the butterfly from Tangled Garden on watercolor paper and color it in with markers and a water brush. Cut out and glue to your background.

I hope I have inpired you.

Corine

 

You have certainly inspired me to get out a selection of papers, stamps and colour Corine, thank you. And if you enjoy being inspired by our Design Team then please visit us again, there is sure to be something to whet your appetite.

Girly Gears and Soft Steampunk (by Asha)

Good morning, friends. I'm back with two projects featuring stamps from the Steampunk Butterfly A5 sheet.

First up is this this feminine number with soft colours. I inked up the background with Distress Inks and stamped the gears from Steampunk Butterfly with light grey ink. Then I heat embossed the large butterfly on purple cardstock with gold embossing powder and popped it up with foam tape.  The sentiment is from Patchwork Landscape A4 sheet.

My second card is a striking red-black-white combo. For this card I stamped the quarter lace fragment from the Steampunk Butterfly A5 sheet to form a complete circle and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. And voila - a lace doily! Keeping it simple with a sentiment from the  Pretty Poppies A5 sheet, heat embossed in red onto a piece of vellum. In keeping with the focal image, I also rounded the corners of the card.

There you have it - my feminine take on the steampunk style. I hope you'll have fun playing with these stamps.

Thank you for stopping by today and don't forget to come back for more mind-blowing designs from the rest of the team.

Beijinhos,
Asha 

Two Butterflies (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I love to revist old stamp sets, to mix them up with newer sets, and to use materials that I did not have the first time around. The Steampunk Butterfly stamp set featured on the recent Craft Channel TV shows is no exception; it is a really versatile stamp set, with some lovely stamps in the set.

I created a background using gelatos, and then stamped the cog fragment using Distress Ink. I used some pretty background papers from the Crafty Individuals range to create a bit of paper weaving, and also stamped and embossed two of the large butterflies onto the same papers, using silver embossing powder. I stamped a sentiment from the Awesome Diva clear stamp set onto the background. Finally, I used some co-ordinating card to mat and layer the background.

Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

Steampunk travel (by Miranda)

Hi there,

Today another one of my Steampunk travel posts. I have used both the Steampunk travel and the Steampunkery sheets. I have mad a background using Brusho and Bister pigment powders onto water based paper (300 grs.). It creates a real old and worn look.

I have stamped both sizes of the balloon and used all of the words which are on both sheets. I have colored them with pencils and added some gear die cuts.

Thanks for your visit and till the 31st for my last blogpost!

Have a lovely day,

walled garden

this is a BIG stamp, almost 5" across, and easily makes a card on it's own.
I stamped using black versafine onto white card, and also onto masking tissue. I cut out the archway from the masking tissue, and masked off the rest of the image so that I could create a scene in the archway using the mini tree stamp that comes as an extra.I used distress ink for the tree, stamping aagain without re-inking for the further tree and using a waterbrush to drag the colour out to make the grass. A tiny bit of tumbled glass added for the sky with the waterbrush.
The main image was coloured with a waterbrush to pick up watercolour markers scribbled onto an acrylic block.
Image cut to size, matted onto an olive green card, then onto a base of watercolour paper coloured with brusho powders that I had lying around that just seemed to go with the colours I had used.
The white base card was 15x15cm, and was complately coverd by the watercolour paper.

Steampunk skies (posted by Claire)

Good morning folks, Claire here with a steampunk themed card. I've used stamps from Steampunk Travel to create this card which would be great for someone perhaps leaving work or going on their travels.

I began with some ivory linen card and inked around the edges with some Black Soot Distress Ink. I took some dictionary pages and cut out some cloud shapes and again inked them with a little black ink before glueing them onto the linen card.

I stamped the images with versamark ink and embossed with Gold embossing powder and added some colour with a little more black ink. I cut the images out and layered them up with 3D foam pads. The words were stamped in black ink, cut out and again inked around the edges with black ink. to finish off  I layered the linen card over some glitter card and popped some gold faux pearls in the corners.

Thanks for visiting, hope you have a lovely crafty day

Claire xx

Shuttered window by Zoe

Hello again, my turn to showcase another one of the gorgeous new stamps, this time it's The Shuttered Window, check out the fabulous stamps from Chocolate Baroque

I heat embossed using a Versamark inkpad and Black fine detail embossing powder onto watercolour card, I used liquid watercolour inks like a wash across my card, very slapdash, I used a silver ink to add some highlights and a bit of shimmer and just added some light and shade by faux bleaching in some places and adding darker inks in others, voila!

I'd like to thank you for visiting and leaving a comment, have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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Guest Post - Masking Technique by Corine van Kuilenburg

Today it is my pleasure to introduce the last, but by no means least, new member of the Guest Design Team, Corine van Kuilenburgh. Many of you may know this lovely lady from blogland and other social media and we are delighted to have her on board.  Today is her very first post in her new role, so it's over to you Corine.

Hello there! My name is Corine van Kuilenburg and I am delighted to be joining you for the first time as a member of the Chocolate Baroque Guest Design Team! I do hope you will enjoy what I have made for your inspiration.

My first piece shows a card made with the masking technique. I used Stazon Jet Black, Distress Ink and three stamps. The stamps I used are from the Tangled Fragments, Mackintosh Sentiments and DecorativeEdges. I will explain you how I made this card. 

1.  Stamp the rubberstamp on white cardstock with Stazon Jet Black.
2.  Stamp again on masking tape. Cut the biggest piece and place the masking tape exactly on the  stamped image.
3.  Use 2 or 3 colours Distress ink and sponge the image.
4.  Stamp the bubbles from Decorative Edges with Distress ink.
5.  Remove the masking tape.
6.  Use a water brush and Distress ink to the white part coloring.
7.  For a finishing touch you can place a text on your card.
8.  Paste your image, when its finished, on brown cardstock and on a topaz card.
9.  Finally the card measures 13.5 x 13.5 cm.

I hope you have enjoyed what I have done with these beautiful stamp!

Big Hugs

Corine

We love the rich golden shades of this card, thank you Corine, we look forward to what you have designed for us next week. In the meantime, please keep calling in regularly to see what other delights have been created by our talented Design girls.

 

Italian Brick Wall (by Debbie)

Good morning.

The New Year started quietly here , just as I like it, sitting with a little bit of colouring in and crochet.

 

I made this card before Christmas for Lesley to take onto The Craft Channel with her and was delighted to see it on the counter displayed. This stamp makes me think of sitting in a beautiful Italian garden drinking a large coffee in the morning sunlight.

 

 

For the white base card, it was die cut with a square die and the flower stem was coloured with blue and green watercolour pens then breathed onto the stamp to activate the ink. A second square slightly smaller was cut from blue card and fixed into position. The Brick Wall stamp was stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with black powder. The colouring is done using alcohol pens and watercolour pencils. I only added a little colour to the brickwork as subtle shading because I wanted them to look as though it has been white washed. The stamped piece of card was added behind the frame and the sentiment was fixed to the top corner.

Many thanks for visiting

Debbie

Steampunk Butterfly (by Julie)

Hello, thanks for stopping by. Today I have two projects to show you that have been created with the very versatile Steampunk Butterfly set.

I covered the canvas with a base of pink and green liquid watercolour before inking up the decorative corner with black acrylic paint and stamping in opposite corners of the canvas. I found I got a better image by just using the rubber stamp pressed onto the stretched canvas with my fingers as the stamp block makes it harder to get a clear impression. When the black paint was dry I over-stamped with Picket Fence Distress paint.

The cogs have been die cut from chipboard, painted with black acrylic paint and then stamped with Picket Fence Distress paint using the cog stamp.

The butterfly was inked up with Onyx Black Versafine, stamped into white polymer clay, cut out and baked according to the packet instructions before being painted with watercolour and finished off with gilding wax. The little key stamps were inked with Brass Distress paint and randomly stamped around the canvas followed by black acrylic paint dabbed around the edges of the canvas.

My second project is a DL card. The base has been coloured with Pan Pastels and then sprayed with a fixative before being over-stamped with the cogs. The butterflies and bat have been stamped with Sepia Versafine and coloured with Pan Pastels, sprayed with fixative, before being finished off with black Stickles. To add interest I inked up the trio key stamp with Onyx Black Versafine and stamped around the base card, I then took a white opaque pen to add highlights to the keys.

Please stop by again soon to catch some more Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

Steampunk Travel Turbine (by Anne)

Today I am sharing my first book fold project. I have used the Steampunk Travel stamp set (recently featured on the Craft Channel TV show) to decorate and embellish. This one was quite a challenge, nobody saw me for days (tee hee), but I had enormous fun making it. I just love Fantasy themes.  

 

 

 I hope that my project inspires you to play. Happy Crafting, Anne xxx.  Materials:

• Steampunk Travel stamp set
• Recycled paperback book (440 pages, 220 page folds) – 17.5 X 11cm size
• White stamping card, Kraft card and black card
• Inkpads: Memento (Tuxedo Black), Ranger Archival (Coffee)
• Gilding wax and metallic pen (gold)
• Alcohol ink pens (purples, lilac, dark reds and blues)
• Dies and embossing folders to suit the Steampunk theme
• Air dry paper clay and silicone moulds
• Adhesive and 3D glue gel

Summary of how it was made:  · I created the book fold to make a shape resembling a turbine – suitable for the theme. First I used simple folding to create an upside down vase shape. I then added further folds and some cutting until I was happy with my ‘industrial’ shape. I glued a barbeque stick through the centre to provide a scaffold to build upon on the top.  

  · I added a die cut lattice across the top which divided it into 2 halves. This provided and area to attach embellishments but also made it easier to design something that looks good from all angles. I didn’t want ugly backs of cut out stamped images to be obvious.  · Flowers and leaves were cut from black card, embossed to give texture, and rubbed over with gilding wax to make them look metallic. I also made lots of little embellishments using lightweight air dry paper clay and moulds.  · Images were stamped onto white card with black ink, coloured with alcohol pens, and cut out.

An Old Postcard (by Asha)

Good morning, fellow Chocoholics. My turn today to share a project and I'm playing with one of the new cling singles called Walled Garden. Here's a simple project that you could easily make without getting too inky. I was inspired by my grandmother's very old holiday snaps. 

To recreate this old postcard look, start by stamping the image on cream cardstock. I coloured it with alcohol markers, but pencils will work well too. Lastly, ink the edges with Distress Ink. To soften the wall I added stamped the falling ivy from the June Fairy DL sheet.

I've made a simple card but with this stamp you can do so much more. Come back soon and be prepared to be wowed by the rest of the team. As always you'll find more detail about this card on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Beijinhos,
Asha

Celebrate the New Year with New Stamps (by Lesley)

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year and are feeling ready to face 2016.  I wouldn't blame you if you weren't. Rubbish weather, back to work, dark mornings and nights - not a lot to put a smile on your face there. So I hope that seeing these gorgeous new stamps will gladden your heart just a little and inspire to get back to stamping and crafting.

Last month we exclusively launched two new individual cling mounted stamps on the Craft Channel and today they are now on general release.  Walled Garden and Another Brick in the Walled Garden are cling mounted and cut out ready to use as soon as you receive them. And both stamps benefit from having a Free unmounted bonus stamp included in the pack.

Here is the Walled Garden, with the silhouette tree that stamps perfectly in the archway.

Another Brick in the Walled Garden (and yes the association with Pink Floyd's immortal song is intentional!) has a silhouette flower stem that can be used to add extra interest around the wall.

Sue has drawn two wonderful images that will be can be stamped and coloured with whatever medium you choose.  Whether you are a novice stamper or you have a wealth of experience these stamps will be so useful for a variety of projects and occasions.

You will have already seen some of the excellent samples from the Design Team girls and I have to say they really did the stamps justice with all their TV creations. They featured on the TV along with our Steampunk Butterfly and Steampunk Travel sets, so watch out for more inspiration using all these stamps during this month.

Chocolate Baroque Reader's Gallery- your turn in the spotlight!

Hello everyone, and a Happy New year to you all from all of the Design Team. We hope that you have had an enjoyable festive season, and are looking forward to a year full of new crafting possibilities stretching ahead.

Today, we are looking back on your crafting endeavours throughout the month of December, and what you created in Blogland, on the Ning Group, and on the Chocolate Baroque Facebook page. So take a look at a few samples of what we found on our recent trip around the Internet.

Marga created this beautiful Rose card in lovely soft colours:

and another using one of our newest background stamps:

Barbara created this beautiful butterfly frame, so pretty, and shows how the stamps can be used for home decor pieces:

Akkina created a colouful fantasy scene using bold colours behind gold embossing:

Liz Gittins created these fabulous colourful Stampbord pieces:

Spotted on the Ning group, a fabulous card using one of Lesley's downloads, made by Joan Carnell:

Ballie has created a beautiful romantic card, found on her blog:

We hope that you enjoy this month's selection of projects, and find lots of inspiration amongst the wonderful artwork. If you do not have a blog, or have access to the Facebook Group, we would be delighted if you would send good quality photographs of your artwork to Lesley to sales@chocolatebaroque.com and we can then upload them to the gallery for you. We would love to share more of your creative artwork with everyone, so please do not be shy!

Oranges and Lemons (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a cheery project to share with you today, one that will hopefully banish the Winter blues, and bring thoughts of warmer days. I have created a card using the new individual Another Brick in the Walled Garden stamp, and created a garden scene.

I drew a square frame onto a piece of kraft card, roughly the size of the walled shutter stamp, and then stamped the orange tree from the Fantasy Woodland stamp set on either side, with the leaves from each tree creeping over the edge of the frame slightly. I created a mask for each tree, and then stamped the small brick texture stamp from the Abstract Fragments stamp set over the background. I then trimmed away inside the frame, cutting around the tree leaves where necessary.

I stamped the walled shutter image onto a spare piece of kraft card, and coloured the images with pencils. I added the foliage to the tree on the main image by colouring the stamp with a water based marker. I added some shading around the edge of the frame with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I adhered the frame to a piece of dark olive card, and trimmed inside the frame, leaving a narrow border of olive green card showing. I then stuck the main image inside the frame. Finally, I added some Glossy Accents to the lemons on the tree.

Keep popping back to see more inspiration from my Design Team mates across the month, Judith xx

Steampunk travel (by Miranda)

Hi lovely people,

Hope you all did enjoy your Christmastime and holidays! The Old year is gone and a whole New year is ahead of us........

Maybe you have already heard the news on my blog but I will quit doing DT work. I am a bit sad about it because my time with this DT was precious to me. We have and had(all the other DT girls which have been on board during the years) a lovely time together. Always encouraging each other and also in the private sphere.
But sometimes life demands taking action and doing necessary things.
So I won't disappear completely but at this time I don't know exactly where life is taking me.......

Anyway, I want to thank you also for your lovely comments and encouragement along the way! Stay creative and keep on loving Chocolate Baroque!

I will be finishing my promised blogposts for Chocolate Baroque and this time I have worked with the great Steampunk Travel sheet. It's in a multi-buy with the Steampunkery sheet.

I had this background left over from one of the Colour challenges so these colors matches perfect with this theme I think.

I just stamped the center image in plain black and the other ones with gray ink. Coloured with color pencils and added some gears from the Steampunk butterfly sheet. Chocolate Baroque has some lovely Steampunk sheets with that elegant twist.

Hope to have inspired you to get your ' gears' going!

Have a lovely day,

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

Blog Comment Winner for December

 

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well and Happy New Year.

Once again we would like to thank you all for your visits here at the Design Team blog.  We truly appreciate the time you take to let us know your thoughts about our designs.  
Each comment in December was assigned a number and we used Random Org to draw a winner.  Congratulations to CrafyJo you have won a £15.00 voucher to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps!  Please send a quick email here to confirm your email address and Lesley will send you your gift certificate.
Lesley will be giving a £15 gift voucher to another lucky winner drawn from January's comments. There's lots of inspiration to come from the Team throughout January. The more comments you leave the better your chances to win!

Thank you for your kind words and comments,
Good luck from the Design Team!

 

  

Arched Wall by Zoe

Good morning Lovelies and Happy New Year, I hope you all had a fab evening and aren't suffering too badly lol, we stayed in as we are past it lol, plus having a lively 11 month old foster baby to look after I don't think it would help having a hangover lol.

Today I'm sharing with you one of my samples that featured on The Craft Channel, it's one of the new fabulous stamps called "Arched Wall" very simple to create, I heat embossed using Versamark ink and Black embossing powder, using a circle die cut as a mask I inked all over using Distress inks, I removed the mask and then used the negative to ink the moon with Distress inks, and coloured the image using the distress inks and a waterbrush I used a water brush and soft dry cloth to Faux Bleach areas as highlights, I stamped the sentiment "Positive Pants" using Versafine ink.

Thank you so much for visiting today and please pop along each day to look at what my fabulously talented teamies created for you, have a wonderful day and a healthy 2016 xx Zoe xx

 

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