A little Birdhouse in your Soul (by Rachel)

Sadly we have reached the final week of Rachel's Guest DT spot and this week she has created a magical piece of home decor. Would love this in my house.

This week I used a Tando Creative birdhouse kit which I covered with acrylic paint. Then I used the Rustic Fragments stamp set to stamp on the birdhouse and then glued it together. 

I added birds from the Fly Away with Me stamp set that I had stamped with Jet Black Archival ink and fussy cut. The greenery was part of the Tando kit and finally I added flowers stamped, coloured and cut from the Birdcage Collage stamp.

I hope you like it! I have really enjoyed designing my projects over the last three weeks and look forward to seeing you all again later in the year.

Rachel x

And we have so enjoyed seeing your beautiful creations Rachel, thank you for your time in the Guest DT seat.

Don't forget we have new projects still to come from the Design Team ladies, so please drop by again.

 

Dots 'n' Stripes Baroque Ornament (by Julie)

Hello, it's Julie here and I am so pleased it's my turn again, so that I can show you what I have made with these lovely new Ornament stamps. Both of my projects are created with the Dots 'n' Stripes Baroque Ornament

This first card is quite quite easy. I started by covering my base card with silver mirri and then cut a matt layer slightly smaller from plain white stamping card. Next I added a circle die cut to the centre and then stamped the Ornament twice onto spare card and coloured with pink and blue Pan Pastels. I cut them out and layered them up with 3d glue gel before adding a flat back gem to the centre, surrounded by clear sparkly glitter. I inked up the Ornament stamp with Versamark and stamped all around the white card that was cut earlier, which was then followed by applying pink and blue Pan Pastel all over the card, making sure it adheres to the wet Versamark ink. Carefully spray your card with a chalk fixative and when dry attach the wired ribbon and bow. 

Assemble the card with foam pads or 3d glue gel. 

My second project is a papier mache plaque that I coated with a light brown chalk paint, before applying Distress ink through a wood grain stencil. The three flowers were stamped onto thick acetate using black Staz-on. When the Staz-on is dry, cut out the flowers and then carefully shape the leaves by rolling them gently over a pencil, then paint the reverse with acrylic paint. If you shape them after painting you will crack the paint. 

You might notice one of the flowers is quite glittery. This was achieved by applying Turquoise and Yellow Stickles glue to the reverse and again like before shape the leaves before applying the glitter glue.

When everything is dry apply a flat back gem to the centre of your flowers and then adhere to the plaque with 3d glue gel.

Many thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon for more Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

Dots n' Stripes- Baroque Ornament (by Magda)

This is another beautiful stamp of the Baroque Ornament series, and here is my "Feeling Gratitude" card as my second post for this month.

Step by Step

Background:
1. Blend several colours of Distress Ink Pad on the cardstock
2. Stamp with water Dots 'n Stripes for the background
3. Stamp with Versafine or Archival the main image
4. Apply randomly white Gesso through the stencil

Sentiment:

5. Blend several colours of Distress Ink pad on the cardstock for the sentiment.
6. Stamp the sentiment from the Words of Gratitude stamp set with water first.
7. Stamp the same sentiment again not in exactly the same place with Versafine or Archival.
8. Stamp Dots 'n Stripes on a blank cardstock and cut out the shape.
9. Position the background on the blank cardstock and draw around the sentiment in order to cut it out later, using the arched edge of the Dots 'n Stripes stamp, where it is possible.
10. Cut and glue on the card background.
11. Add some Stickles dots to give light.

I enjoyed creating this project and hope you will try stamping with water. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thank you for stopping by,

Magda.

Dreams Rise In The East (by Asha)

Good morning, friends! I'm back with 2 more projects featuring the brand new Teardrop Baroque Ornament.

First up is an Art Journal page. Actually, its my very first attempt at art journalling. The design is inspired by a Dreamcatcher dancing in the wind at sunrise. I heat embossed the Teardrop Baroque Ornament, with black EP, onto a piece of vellum. I also heat embossed the tassels in the same way. These little elements are from Indian Textiles and Indian Elephant. To create the background I used Distress Paints. For texture and interest, I used the Miniscript from the Mini Stamps Multibuy set and randomly stencilled in some texture paste. To put it all together, I fussy cut the Teardrop Baroque Ornament and supporting elements and adhered them to the page. Finally, I added some string to the tassels.

The second project is an easy one. This time I heat embossed the Teardrop Baroque Ornament onto some black cardstock using white EP and coloured it with Faber Castell Polychromos. For a dramatic finish I added little dots a Silver Sharpie.  And there you have it - a super simple all occasion card.

If, like me, you find Art Journals intimidating, I'd like to encourage you to give it a go. It can be a stratifying experience. Unlike a card, an Art Journal isn't going anywhere. It's for your pleasure and, best of all,  you don't have to worry if the recipient is going to like it. Over at my blog I've got more pictures and details of all the materials used on this project.

Have a lovely weekend and don't forget to swing by often for more fabulous ideas from the rest of the team.

Beijinhos,
Asha

Rainbow Garden (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a colourful project for you today, using two of this month's Baroque Ornament stamps.

I created a background spritzing water based sprays onto a damp piece of watercolour paper, and added some more water to blend them. I blotted the paper with a spare piece of card, to help smooth out the colour, and also to create another piece of coloured card for my project. I edged the background with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, and added some stencilling with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink.

I spritzed some blue, pink and yellow spray onto a craft mat, and picking the spray up with some water, created a wash of each colour onto some more watercolour paper. I dried each piece of paper thoroughly with a heat gun. I stamped several of the Dots 'n Stripes Baroque Ornament the Tangled Baroque Ornament, plus the centre of one of the flowers from the Tangled Garden stamp set, and the clear Tangled Butterfly stamp onto the coloured backgrounds using Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear embossing powder. I cut all of the shapes out, and layered them up onto the background. I added a small amount of colour to the butterfly using water based markers.

I drew some stems for the flowers using a fine-tipped pen and added some colour, before adding some doodles to complement the flower designs.

Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

palm fan 2

 Two slightly different takes today using the lovely new baroque ornaments stamps.
For the first card, I wanted to use up some leftover background pieces, using the palm fan embossed in white then coloured with turquoise and leaf green brusho powders.
I cut strips of background, cut streamer edges on the bottom of the strips, then glued them onto white card. The mat was a matching piece of turquoise card, and the base card is 20cm sqaure white card blank.
 I used a darker piece of brushoed card in similar colours to stamp and emboss the palm fan in black, cut it out, added it with foam pads.

The second uses the teardrop stamp as well as the palm fan, but only bits of them!
I had several stamped images that didn't quite work with the brusho backgrounds, and this way I could still use them.
Background was a piece of plain brusho, using leaf green and turquoise again, and a think black mat. Wording is from words of inspiration, stamped in black versafine
( I won't argue if you think it is more of a nightmare, it was one of those 3am ideas!)
I cut out the large fans from the palm fan images and the flowery edges from the teardrop images, and glued them down to represent flowers.
Base card blank is white 15cm square
I hope this has given you some different ideas on how to use these lovely stamps (or even how not!)
Veronica

See Beauty (by Rachel)

It's the second week of Rachel guest designer spot and today she is treating us to a beautful twenties design.

Hi everyone, this week is a simple make for those times when we need a card in a flash!

• I stamped the lady from the gorgeous Fabulous Flappers, masked the image and then used distress and stencils to create the circle and sunburst. 
• I then coloured the lady and stamped the CB sentiment. 
• This layer was then added to a larger card where I had used the same colour of distress and another stencil.

I really enjoyed making this and am really looking forward sharing with you again next week.

Rachel x

Once again thank you for another wonderful design Rachel, just love that sunburst behind our Flapper lady.  And of course we will have more projects for you from our Design Team, so please keep tuning in to catch all the latest inspiration.

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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