A bit of Home Decor by Brenda

Today I thought I would share one of my projects created for last months Craftalong with Lesley on Hochanda TV. I t was actually created way back in February but due to COVID the show had to be cancelled so my makes have been in wraps until recently.

The kit included some lovely stamps and frames aimed at home decor so I used all three of the large stamps to create my frame. I treated the wooden frame to acrylic paint and crackle glaze and carried the soft green through to the base pieces for the three apertures along with wilted violet DI. After stamping the three focal images I coloured them with Distress Markers and fixed all together into the frame.

This month saw the start of the new We Love Chocolate Baroque challenge, myself and the team have been thrilled to see so many entries and have enjoyed visiting them all. There are of course prizes from Chocolate Baroque and the winner will be announced on Friday 30th, when we will also announce our first Featured designer selected from entries using Chocolate baroque stamps. Future challenges wills start on the first Sunday of the month. All start and finish dates are listed on the challenge blog here.

Thanks as always for your kind visits and words of encouragement which always mean so much to myself and the CB family.

More Autumn inspirations (by Miranda)

 

Hello there,

It's me again with more Autumn inpirations........

a similar technique and also using the toadstools.....

This is my favorite technique and style although I als enjoy too play with other mediums and styles....

Watercolor backgrounds, using watercolor paints or Ecoline inks, acrylic inks....anything that can flow with water on the paper. And then adding color with color and pastel pencils......

these are the stamp sheets I have used:

Autumn Poppy rubber stamp set A4

Autumn edges rubber stamp set A5

and a little fun using some photo editing....

And some oldies but maybe not seen by everyone of you.....still love these ones......

Also nice to combine with some die cutting too! I will just add them for more inspiration but if you want to know more about these cards, just ask in the comments below......

On these two cards I have use the 

Nature Table rubber stamp sheet DL

On this card I have used the 

A year of stamping issue 10 stamp  

(A cling mounted stamp in a choice of two sizes (or multibuy) 

her I have used the 'Autumn Poppy' (see link above)

Here the 'Autumn Edges' (see link above)

Well, that was a whole lot of Autumn inspirations!

And you can see that I am a real lover......

Thanks for your visit and see you next time,

Magic mushrooms (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well.  I have a couple of vibrant projects to share with you today using stamps from The Shroom Clock stamp set featured on last month's TV shows from Hochanda.

My first project was created by using a background from my stash created with turquoise and green Brushos. I stamped the mushrooms onto some of the Seriously Gorgeous A6 Postcards using archival Ink, and cut them out. I adhered them to the background, and using a fineliner pen, I created a landscape for them to perch on. I added stamping using the small texture stamp from the plate which matches the mushrooms across the bottom of the background, and coloured the ground with pencils. I added white highlights on the mushrooms with a gel pen.

To finish my card, I stencilled in the sky area using the Chocolate Baroque Mask - Kaleidoscope of Butterflies and some turquoise Distress Ink. Finally, I added a sentiment.

To create my second project, I used another Brusho background, similar in colour to the first, to which I had added some stencilling with white ink to create a bokeh effect. I stamped the large Shroom Clock onto the background, and stamped this again onto a spare piece of card. I coloured the image using Koh-I-Noor watercolours, and cut the image out. I added some splatters of blue ink at the bottom of the background to create a feeling of grass, and added shading at the base of the mushrooms. I decoupaged the image onto the background, and added white highlights with a gel pen once more.

I will be back later in the month with more projects to share, take care, and stay safe,

Judith xx

There's not much room inside (by Rachel)

Hello there! Rachel here with some of the samples I made using the Shroom clock set from August's shows. In this first card I used the main image directly onto one of Lesley's beautiful postcards. It makes for such a bright card. I also used one of the worker stamps from the set to create the dotty background and added the 'you can do magic' sentiment.

For the next sample I used an acetate square that I stamped on using staz-on and then painted the mushroom on the reverse of the stamped image. I also added an opaque paint to form the background over the whole image and once dry mounted this on a card. 

For my final card I used flitterglu and flake with main image onto a piece of black board which I then mounted onto another of Lesley's postcards. 

I do hope this has given you a few more ideas of techniques you can use with these stamps.

Have a lovely day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

 

Lacework (by Doreen)

 

 

 

A simple but classic style of card and very effective no matter which colour background or embossing powder you use, although I would definitely recommend a very fine powder if you have no detail embossing powders.

Very short product list for this one:

• Lace Fragments stamp set
• Versamark inkpad
• Detail embossing powder
• Black card for stamping and a piece each of black and white card for matt and layering of card
• Heat gun
  

In this beautiful set of lacy stamps there are several borders to choose from as well as corners and hero images, all are very fine and very detailed.

I feel there is not a lot to tell you in the making of this card as it is really sel explanatory for us who have crafted for some time, but for those who are just starting out on their wonderful crafting adventure this is a technique that never gets boring.

1.Stamp using Versamark, then pour over your embossing powder, tap off the excess powder and decant back into pot.

2. Turn on your heat gun and allow to get hot then direct at the embossing powder, when it starts to melt, chase it round the image as it will burn and dull the powder if left too long on one area.

3. Matt and layer onto a card and apply topper using foam tape for extra dimension.

Although I have not added a sentiment this time of course one can be added later to suit the occasion or recipient of your artwork.

Thank you for looking,

Love Doreen.

Tick Tock floral clock by Zoe

Good morning Lovelies and welcome to my second post of the month.

Here are some samples I created for the show on Hochanda last month featuring these wonderful stamps.

My first card I created the background using alcohol inks. The Butterflies I stamped and heat embossed onto one of the gorgeous Postcards that were on the show.

I combined Stencils from a previous show and the stamps to create my second card.

I created a pretty Bookmark using part of one of the postcards from the show, the clocks I stamped using Versafine Claire Nocturne inkpad and heat embossed with clear EP and rubbed a foil over while it was still hot to get a bit of a random coverage.

Thank you for visiting, i do hope you like my creations? I loved using these stamps, they are so versatile.

I shall be back later this month with my 3rd post, I hope to see you then.

Have a wonderful day, big hugs xx Zoe xx 

parsley time (by Veronica)

 I have to admit that I think my favourite of the new stamps is this one, featuring the cow parsley - such a different flower, and so delicate.
My first card was very simple, stamped and white embossed onto black card - the parsley was actually coloured with pearlescent paints, but they only show up on the butterfly in the scan image.
The sentiment was just stamped using a white pigment ink

 The background to the second card is a distress ink one, with peeled paint , broken china and squeezed lemonade pads stamped onto a paint mat, spritzed with water and the drawing cartridge used to mop up the colours.
Butterfly coloured with watercolour pencils, and a white posca pen for the parsley flowers.

The last sample had distress oxide inks sponged onto a whiteboard heart and the top fo the parsley flowers stamped in white ink along the bottom, and repeated once in black ink.  The part of the image with the butterfly was then stamped in black - butterfly coloured with alcohol markers and white pen for the flowers.

Autumn is coming......(by Miranda)

Hi peeps,

Miranda here with some Autumn inspirations...........

Autumn is my favorite season(next to Spring), I love all the colors and the changing of the season....the smell.....

And most of all I love the toadstools!

Well CB has several sheets including toadstools so let's get started......

I had two lovely water colored backgrounds in my stash......most of the time I create a whole pile of these backgrounds so I have always something to work on...

These are the sheets I have used:

Autumn Poppy rubber stamp sheet A4

Texture fragments rubber stamp sheet A4

I worked with the Texture fragments in the background, definitely one of my most favorite and most used stamps!

I stamped and masked the toadstools and colored them using colored pencils and some pastel pencils.

When the background was made I have also used an Iridescent medium so there is a lot of shimmer.....always hard to catch on a photo....

here you can see some of the shimmer.....

Hope you did like my Autumn inspiration and maybe you are inspired to get these sheets out or maybe even buy them.......

Next time, more Autumn inspirations!

 

More Clocks and Shrooms

 Hello 

I am sharing some more of my samples from the August Hochanda show.

There were three sets of stamps on the show - Floral Clock, Parsley Clock and The Shroom Clock

My cards today are mainly from the Parsley Clock set.

I used one of the Parsley images to stamp randomly on my card blank to create a background. I then created a Postcard which Lesley demonstrated a while back on a FaceBook live. I used the postcard stamp from Baroque Ephemera 2 and aged  it with distress inks, I then stamped the Parsley with the small butterfly onto the postcard and coloured with watercolour pencils. I stamped the clock face and butterfly onto some card, coloured them and cut them out and then layered onto the postcard. 

For this card I used the individual butterfly and  used some embossing glaze to make them glossy. I put them onto one of Lesley's Seriously Gorgeous Postcards and added on of the lovely sentiments.

My last card I made a back ground using torn paper and distress inks, I stamped the Parsley and butterflies and coloured with marker pens.

Thanks for stopping by

Sandra x

Floral Fancy (by Rachel)

 Hello there! Rachel here today with some inspiration from August's shows...I absolutely adored the new stamps - but this one in particular. Firstly I used it to paint a ceramic plate - I painted in glaze and then the plate was fired in the kiln. 

Next I used the Floral clock main image to make a card by stamping over a gel press print that I had already created. I also added colouring of the image using water colour pencils.

Finally I used one of Lesley's Hearts and I stamped one of the smaller stamps onto this ..I teamed this with a crackle background stamp too and added it onto a hessian base.

This stamp is just beautiful! I do hope you are enjoying using your stamp if you bought it!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Pretty Steampunk Christmas (by Doreen)

Oh no, I hear you cry... lol but Christmas really isn't far away now. With all the hot weather we have been experiencing this year I have found it quite hard to start making mine and a break in the weather and looking through stamps for this blog, this set caught my eye out of the Steampunk Christmas, as it had this beautiful tree, different from the norm but so very pretty.

Products used in the making of this card: 

Chocolate Baroque Steampunk Christmas A4 set of stamps

Chalk inkpads in pastel shades of pink and lilac

Wink of Stella clear brushpen or any other sparkle pen you have will be fine

Micro beads in lilac and clear drying PVA

Darker shade of lilac card for mounting

For the background randomly stamp 2nd and 3rd generation images in both the pink and lilac.

Ink and stamp the main image and sentiment.

Take the ink pad and on a mat lay down some ink, picking the ink up with your clear sparkle brush pen extend the flow of the base of the tree to ground it. Then add sparkle wherever you choose.

Dot PVA on the fronds of the snowflakes that make up the tree and add a bead to each. 

Matt and layer onto your card.

Thank you for looking

Love Doreen.

Let the Butterflies Dance by Brenda

Morning Peeps, I have a couple of cards to share using the beautiful stamps from last months Hochanda shows which all centred around Lesley's vintage clocks.

And please do make a note to tune in tomorrow as Lesley will be back on our screens with a One Day Special and I promise you won't want to miss out on the new stamps which are absolutely beautiful...................OK I'm a bit biased, but honestly they are.

After building up a background with Distress Oxides and some of the worker stamps from Stroom Clock I stamped and cut out the floral and Butterfly elements from Floral Clock, coloured it in and placed over a die cut circle frame. Sentiments from both stamp sets, some white splatters and a couple of metal index clips.

The Seriously Gorgeous Postcards designed by Lesley were also released in the shows and here I have used one, stamped the single Parsley from Parsley Clock using Stayzon and given them a little colour, added some grasses from Wild Meadow and Shrink Plastic Butterflies. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

And here's one using the entire Parsley Clock stamped onto a stencilled background, I added two coloured of Oxide to a stencil, spritzed with water then stamped the focal image with Versafine black, stamped another of the flower heads along the bottom and coloured all. A Butterfly and sentiment from the same set.

Have a good Tuesday everyone.

Shooting Stars - by Magda (Scrumptious Succulents, Music Fanfare, Words to Dazzle & Sparkle)

 A warm hello to everyone with my first post of September.

The 11th of August was the night of the shooting stars and I filled the sky of my project with them. Here below the recipe

1.  Stamp the flowers of Scrumptious Succulents with Archival Ink jet black                                               2.  Cover all the flowers with a Masking Fluid using a large silicone clay tool and scribble the fluid with a      brush across the sky.                                                                                                                                        3.  Colour with a dark blue wash of Distress Ink Pad  the sky section and with an earth colour the ground.                         4.  Let well dry, remove the masking fluid scratching very gently with your finger.                                      5.  Colour your flowers with Distress Ink Pad                                                                                                 6.  Stamp the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock of the same plate Scrumptious Succulents with Archival Ink jet black and colour it with the same earth ground colour used previously

For this next card I used only a Gelli Plate as a base to work on.  I stenciled, colored with Distress Ink Pad 

stamped at the end Music Fanfare stamp before lifting all with the white cardstock. On a left over piece I stamped with Distress Ink Pad  the sentiment of Words to Dazzle & Sparkle and the little decoupage flower of Music Fanfare

I hope you enjoyed my projects today, hugs

Magda

shroom magic (by Veronica)

 Today it is my turn to show some of the samples from the August tv shows which featured vintage clock faces. Here they are combined with rather psychedelic mushrooms.
My first card has a brusho background, with the image simply stamped on top , clear embossed and the mushrooms coloured with alcohol markers.
The sentiment was stamped onto a spare piece of card inked with distress inks and edged with the same inks.

 The second sample was simply stamped onto one of the lovely postcards also in the show, using archival black ink - a very quick card that almost felt like cheating!










The last sample was a fabric bag, stamped using versafine clair ink, with the small mushrooms stamped along the top and bottom. Again the large mushrooms were coloured with alcohol markers.
For those who wondered, I washed the first bag I tried (with a very wonky image) and the image didn't fade at all.

Clocks and Shrooms 1

 Hello

I am showing some of the cards I made for the August shows on Hochanda. There were three sets of rubber stamps to choose from - Floral Clock, Parsley Clock and The Shroom Clock.

My cards today feature The Shroom Clock set, but they all work so well together.

First, I made a small box from a die set and put an embossed Tree Ring in the back. I then added the trio of Shrooms, which I heat embossed and I added some lichen from the garden to the base.

My next card I used the Shrooms and Clock stamp and used bright coloured pencils on the mushrooms to contrast with the aged look on the clock.  A lovely fun card to make.

This card in contrast has a much calmer feel to it. I embossed in white and used one of Lesley's lovely Seriously Gorgeous Postcards. A nice and quick card to make.

My last card uses another of the lovely postcards. I made a mountain scene in the background with some torn copy paper and Archival Ink.  I stamped and embossed the mushrooms and cut them out, but this time I left them black and white.

I shall be back soon with some more samples.

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Vintage Clocks and Butterflies (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a couple of projects to share with you today. I have used stamps that were featured on last month's TV shows on Hochanda, a beautiful mix of clocks and florals.

 

My first project was created by using a piece of drawing cartridge coloured with tea. I love this method of colouring a background, as it gives an instant vintage feel to a project. I stamped the main image from the Parsley Clock stamp set using brown ink, and added the splatter stamp randomly over the background as well. The splatter stamp is just brilliant for creating an aged look to the images. If you caught the shows, you will have heard Lesley say that all of the clock images are based on original metal clocks that she has bought, they are just fabulous.

I coloured the image with Koh-I-Noor Polycolour pencils, using the cream pencil to blend the other colours. By using a grey pencil for shading around the image, it helps to create a three dimensional effect, as if I had decoupaged the image. I added a sentiment, and matted the background onto brown card.

 

To create my second project, I made a masterboard, using a technique that Lesley showed us recently in one of the Butterfly Tree get togethers recently. I painted a piece of scrapbook paper with Tinting Medium, (you could use gesso or white paint), and added Distress Ink over the top with a roller. I added stamps and stencils to finish.

I coloured three butterflies from Parsley Clock and Floral Clock stamp sets to match the background, and added a sentiment.

I will be back later in the month with more projects to share with you, thanks for stopping by. Stay safe and take care,

Judith xx