New Nautical Stamps from Kim Moody

Hello everyone, today we are sharing a compilation of projects showcasing the fabulous range of stamps from Kim Moody that launched earlier this month on Hochanda. Kim's stamps, which are manufactured by Chocolate Baroque, are a delightful, quirky representation of life on, and by the sea. They follow his previously brilliant house range of stamps that were launched at the end of last year. There are four A6 sets in the range, featuring a large hero image, accompanied by some great little worker stamps to help you complete some scenes, and these can be mixed and matched amongst the sets. The Design Team had a lot of fun working with the stamps, and we hope that you will enjoy this post, and get lots of inspiration from our projects.

Our first projects are from Kim himself, he coloured A Dip in the Sea using pencils, to create a soft effect, adding lots of the smaller images to build up a beach scene.

The next three images have all been painted with Koh-I-Noor paints, and the watercolour effect is just fabulous. The addition of the smaller images brings each scene to life. Love the seagull coming to land on the Jolly Roger.

The Harbour Master is packed full of details; love the washing hanging out to dry!

Finally Looking out to See! Kim has created an extended path leading to the cafe or the beach, you decide. The seagull looks like he wants to go for a cuppa or a bacon roll, maybe? You can have a lot of fun adding details as you wish, and using your own colour choices with these fabulous stamps.

Brenda created a brilliant selection of samples for the show, her first project was a card using A Dip in the Sea. She created a dark background with lots of sparkle, and used white embossing for the image. She added some Chocolate Baroque foliage stamps and a favourite quote from a book.

To create her next project, she brayered Distress Inks over a background, and die cut a clock. She stamped the beach huts with Versafine Onyx Black onto patterned papers and cut them out and placed to represent the hours of the clock.

Her next few projects are made using a range of alternative surfaces, showing how great these stamps are for home decor projects. She painted white acrylic paint onto a wood panel, stamped the images and coloured them with water based markers. She sponged in the sun rays with Distress Inks using a torn edge of paper and a punched circle.

She coloured a lolly stick base with Distress Inks, masking a sun, then stamped the ship, masked the wall and stamped again to extend at both ends and coloured the image with water based markers. She stamped the other images and added the sentiment.

She used an MDF monolith onto which she applied gesso, then added Distress Ink. She stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and coloured with water based markers.

A few cards now, she stamped the ship, masked and extended the wall, stamped the other images to create a scene, and coloured with Distress Inks and pan pastels.

She stamped with Versafine Onyx Black, and masked in the middle to add another 'level'. She coloured the image with watercolour.

The background for this card was created with gesso and a fine crackle glaze. Brenda stamped the image with a blue Versafine ink. She added some extra pen lines and stencilling.

The background was brayered and stencilled, she then stamped the image with Versafine Onyx Black Ink, and added a touch of colour with water based markers.

I used one of Lesley's My Floral Soul papers to stamp the Harbour Master image, using a dark blue Versafine ink. I coloured the image using pencils, coordinating the colours with the paper itself. I added a large 'porthole' cut from metallic card, and added some screw brads to complete the effect. A sentiment was stamped onto a piece of scrap card left from another project.

I stamped the main image from A Dip In The Sea onto kraft card using brown Archival Ink. I coloured the image using pencils, deliberately keeping the image muted. I stamped the smaller images onto three circles from the White Board Hearts and Circles pack. I added a bit of colour around the edges and coloured them in the same colours as before, before adding a thick glaze, and distressing the edges with brown ink.

I chose another piece of Lesley's paper as a background, and then stamped the lighthouse from Looking out to See! onto a piece of Drawing Cartridge. I extended the scene using a permanent black marker, and like Kim, chose to add the signs to complete the foreground. I masked the lighthouse and the signs before painting the background with Koh-I-Noor paints, stamping the clouds with Distress Inks. I edged the panel with black ink before attaching it to the patterned paper, and added a sentiment to finish.

Rachel's cards are all coloured using watercolour pencils, she has created a set of beautiful projects. This beach scene is so cheery, and reminiscent of Summer Holidays.

Her final card has a vibrant background, she stamped the image over the top, and again she has coloured the image with watercolour pencils.

We have some fabulous envelope art from Zoe up next, these are really clean and simple to look at, but how special it would be to receive one of these in the post. They are coloured using Inktense pencils.

Another project using Inktense pencils, this time, a tag:

Zoe's final project incorporates one of Lesley's papers, and she has combined two of Kim's sets together to create a scene.

Finally, we have had some help from one of our friends Pete Simpson, with samples for this show. Pete very kindly created a batch of gorgeous projects, and clearly enjoyed working with Kim's stamps! He has used a range of colouring mediums on the stamps; pencils, pastels and watercolour. All of the sentiments are from Chocolate Baroque.The first batch of cards are all clean and simple in their style, showing the main images can be stamped with a bit of added colour, and maybe using the extra images as an embellishment here or there, or to create a patterned border.

The next batch of cards show a range of backgrounds created with acrylic paints, Distress Oxides, pigment inks, and spritzers. He has created some really atmospheric backgrounds, great for stormy seas, and our mixed weather conditions!

His final two cards have a real wow factor, using white embossing against a bold background.

We hope that you have enjoyed the selection of cards and other projects that we have shared with you today. You can find the stamps we have used in the Kim Moody section of the website. Thanks for stopping by,

Chorus of Birds (by Julie)

Hello, today I have two more bird themed cards.

My first card is a simple little card stamped with Let Your Heart Sing and Live Out Loud.

The little bird and foliage silhouette from Let Your Heart Sing was inked up with blue Versafine and stamped along the bottom edge of the card blank. The rest of the card blank was edged and coloured with Distress inks.

The topper is from Live Out Loud and was stamped onto spare stamping card with blue Versafine, before being coloured with coloured pencils. You will see the edges have been torn and then coloured with Distress ink, before mounting onto the card base with 3D foam pads.

I started the background of this card by applying Distress inks and stamping the small feathers from Let Your Heart Sing and Dawn Chorus randomly across the card using Sepia Versafine. The lines were added by inking the side of a stamping block and applying to the card as well as adding brown inky splodges, to create a grungy looking background.

The tree silhouette from Live Out Loud was stamped onto spare card, before being cut out with a circle die and then coloured with Distress inks. The bird house was stamped onto spare card with Crimson Versafine, before being cut out. Both were attached to the card with 3D foam pads.

The card was finished off with the Live Out Loud sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by and please call back soon for daily Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

tweet tweet (by Rachel)

Hello there! Rachel here today with another post with samples from the December shows. I love these stamps...I think they are so very versatile.  In this birdhouse I used stamps from  live-out-loud and fly-away-with-me.

I also used a script stamp in the background and added a melting pot flower too.

For this card I used the same two stamp sets working this time onto a gelli background that I had created using paints.

Finally in this card I used wise owl rubber stamp sheet - firstly with the gelli plate to create the background and also stamping in paint and fussy cutting the main image. I also used the sentiment from the live out loud sheet.

I hope you feel inspired by these makes and use the ideas to inform your own makes! Big hugs rachel xx

Floral notes (by Miranda)

Hello there,

Today my 2nd blogpost as guest designer for CB........

Today I have played with another favorite of mine(there are quit a lot LOL) from the beautiful CB stamps. I like the stylish designs of Sue, they are so elegant and crisp!

This is the Floral Notes sheet and the word is from the Artistic Expressions. In the background I have used the lovely background stamp from the Dusky Damask set.

I had this inky background in my stash for quit a while and I don't remember exactly what I did use.......I am certain that is was done using water reactive inks and a lot of water.....than some sparkly spatters but you can't see it very good on the photo's. 

I have used Memento inks to stamp the flowers. I like to stamp in colors so there are no hard outlines.

Than I have colored them using color pencils.....also one of my favorite techniques. Some beautiful music in the background and I had the house for myself so that is a bit of quality time!

Here some close-ups........hear you can see a bit of the sparkles on the left side......

Hope you did enjoy my take on the Floral notes. I enjoyed reading your comments last time and I did try several times to leave a comment but it wouldn't work so I will do it here.

Always appreciate that!

Hope to see you next week for my last post this time,

Have a lovely day,

Katja dreams Spring (by Magda)

Hello everyone,
Here my second post for this month, I would say Katya represents me well, because Winter isn't
really my favorite season. Therefore this journaling page wants to be an anticipation of the Spring.

White Gesso, colours such as grey, blue, green, yellow, orange of Distress Ink Pad, stencils, swirls and feather from "Dawn Chorus", birds and sentiment from "Let Your Heart Sing", embellishments  are all dancing as a dream around " Katya".

I hope you liked my Journaling Page. Hugs
Magda

wildest dreams (by Veronica)

  This stamp set seemed to cry out for monochrome , or at least this stamp strip did.....
Both the bird strip and the words were stamped in black versafine ink and clear embossed, trimmed down and edged with black ink. The central bird was coloured with marker pens, then both pieces mounted onto a white card blank.

This image from sing your song was stamped in black versafine ink and clear embossed, then coloured with brusho powders using s damp paintbrush to add the colours, and baby wipe to reomove some of the colour to try to give an impression of a misty sun.
The white card blank was randomly stamped with the same image using grey ink and holding the stamp so that only the bubbly bit was used. The words stamped over the top with black versafine before adding the trimmed down image.

New Home (by Doreen)

Hello everyone, Doreen is back with her second post this month, a delightful New Home card created for a family member. Doreen has written a detailed set of instructions for her card so that you can have a go at recreating the project for yourselves.

Doreen writes:

The reason for this New Home card is a personal one, my Daughter and her family have been living at home with my Husband and myself and though somewhat cramped, we have got through relatively well. They move into a new home in the coming week or two, hence the card....

Products used are:

Chocolate Baroque Home Sweet Home stamp set
Chocolate Baroque Masking Tissue
Vaersafine ink pad
Distress Inks: Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, and Bundled Sage, Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Pumice Stone

Permanent ink pen
Black card for mat and card blank

To make this card:

1. Stamp the image onto card and another of the image onto masking tissue, cut out the mask on the inside of the outside edge line. There is no need to cut out the tree just the house is fine.
2. Place mask over image.
3. Punch or die cut a mask from the centre of a piece of copy paper, put the circle punched out to one side and keep, then place the outer around the house, this can either be held in place or taped if desired. Using stencil brushes add Squeezed Lemonade to the centre taking colour from side to side over the house mask and this will give you your 'sun'. Remove copy paper and using small piece of low tack tape, put your centre circle over the sun to protect from colour contamination. Add Tumbled Glass to the area above the sun allowing it to fade towards the top of the card. Do the same with Bumdled Sage below the house.
4. Remove masks.
5. Colour the roof using Rusty Hinge and Wild Honey (I used a tile to put some colour onto and picked this up with a damp paintbrush, adding water to dilute the colour as needed). Crushed Olive and Forest Moss were used for the grassy area, bushes and I added some budsto the bare tree. Finally I added the Pumice Stone for shadows under facias, window sills and a watered down wash over the white areas of the house.
6. With the permanent ink pen I formed a border to the card using dots and dashes.
5. Finally stamp and add the sentiment and raise from the image using double sided foam tape.

Mat and layer using foam pads between the black card and the topper.

Thank you for looking and leaving your comments.

Love Doreen

Golden Dawn - by Penny

Goodly morning peeps, I hope this finds you all well and warm today.  I'm back today with my second post of this month, a cheerful card from the December tv shows featuring the beautiful Bird stamps.  So for this project I have used stamps from the Let Your Heart Sing, Dawn Chorus, and Live Out Loud  sets; Distress Inks, Versamark ink and gold EP.

I took a piece of white card and, using a couple of stencils from my stash I created a scenic background with a bright sunburst created with Distress Inks.  

I then stamped the Dawn Chorus collage image at the bottom of the panel using Versamark ink and embossed it in gold.  I repeated the process with two bird in the grass images.  I wanted the images to be seen clearly above the first one, so after embossing them I lengthened the grass on one of the images by painting an extension with a fine brush and glycerine, then embossed it as normal.  I stamped and embossed the poem at the top of the panel and added gold pen around the edges of the panel.   

I matted the panel onto black card and set it aside.  On a white base card I stamped several worker stamps from all the sets around the edges with DI then attached the focal panel to it.

Thank you for popping in today and spending a few minutes with me and these beautiful stamps.  I'll be back later in the month with some more crafty fun and inspiration.

Take care until next time

                         xx  Penny xx

Bright Brusho Bird (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I am sharing a project featuring stamps from last month's TV shows on Hochanda. During these dull Winter days, I wanted to create something colourful and vibrant, and so I turned to my Brushos to make some backgrounds. I made some spare backgrounds for later projects, and chose some bright, zingy colours, adding in some gold Sprinkle It for a bit of sparkle.

I stamped the large bird panel from the Sing Your Song stamp plate onto a spare piece of the blue green background, using Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear embossing powder. I also stamped the central part of the image onto a piece of my orange background. I cut the circle from the blue/green panel, and adhered the orange panel behind. I stamped and embossed the words onto a piece of the orange background for added contrast.

I matted the bird panel onto a piece of black card, trimming this to loosely match the shape of the panel. I edged all of the other pieces of card with black ink.

I will be back later in the month with more bird related projects to share with you. Thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx

Fifteen Minute Cards

Hello everyone, and welcome to our first Fifteen Minute blog post of 2019! We hope that you all had a good break over the festive season and that you are ready to be inspired by what the DT have created for you this month. Our speedy projects and top tips aim to help you create cards in next to no time at all. We hope that you will feel inspired to try out some of our ideas and that they will be helpful whether you are looking for something quick and easy to make, if you need a card in a hurry, or you want to make batch cards for a craft fair or some other occasion like a Wedding, for example. Maybe you are really keen and want to get cracking with your Christmas cards nice early!

So grab a cuppa, and scroll through our blog post, enjoy what we have created, then why not get some crafty stash out and have a go at making something yourselves....?

We have a fabulous selection of cards from Brenda to start us off this month. Her first card was created with Distrss Oxides and white embossing.

She has used acrylic paint and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to create her second card.

She has used Pan Pastels and Versafine black ink for her third card:

To create her next card, she used water based pens to ink the stamp and spritzed the stamp with water before stamping. She used the small flourish stamp to stamp directly onto the card base.

For her final card, she used a window stencil and Distress Inks, then stamped the image and sentiment with Versafine black ink.

I have used a Brusho background from my stash, and then added a mixture of images simply using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I added a sentiment to create a quick and easy Anniversary card.

Pat has created two pretty cards using Lesley's fabulous new My Floral Soul papers. For her first card, she stamped the image from Let Your Heart Sing using a purple Distress Ink. She then applied yellow and orange inks using a stencil and applied the ink with a blending tool. She added the sun with the round shape of the blending tool. She layered the background onto a piece of dark blue card, and then onto a white card base.

For her second card, she heat embossed the image from the Live Out Loud stamp set using white embossing powder. She coloured the image using blue and purple Distress Inks and a waterbrush. She cut the image out and mounted it onto some coordinating blue card, before attaching it to the patterned paper.  She finished by adding the sentiment using some dark blue permanent ink.

Rachel has used some gelli print backgrounds from her stash to create two vibrant cards. The first card has feathers stamped on the background, and she has added a circle with the stamped bird on it.

The second gelli print has simple black stamping to complete the card.

Three cards from Penny next, for her first card, she stamped the bird trio from the Fly Away With Me stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black ink, and embossed with clear powder. She painted each one with a different colour, cut them out, and edged the panels with a gold pen. She used a Brusho background from her stash and stamped the tree and bird image, embossing it with clear powder as before. She stamped the curly bird's tail around the edges of the base card.The sentiment comes from the Birthday Words set.

She stamped the negative bird collage imagefrom the Sing Your Song stamp set using Versamark, and used three two-tone embossing powders to colour the image. She stamped some scrolls from the Wise Owl stamp set at the top and bottom of a white base card, embossing them with silver powder. The focal panel was edged with silver pen and matted onto black card. A sentiment was added at the bottom of the card.

For her final card she stamped the bird in tree image from the Sing Your Song stamp set in Versamark, and embossed with red powder. She did the same with the sentiment. She added glitter to the branches and dots with a gold pen. She edged the panel with the gold pen and attached it to a white base card.

Some envelope art from Zoe is up next. These fabulous pieces of artwork would really brighten up your doormat, wouldn't they? Simple masking, inking and black stamping completes these projects.

A very clever idea from Julie here on her card, she has repeat stamped the background image from the Live Out Loud stamp set to fill the area. The bird on the flower from Let Your Heart Sing has been added to a die cut circle. The monochrome colour scheme is very effective, and you could use this idea for feminine or masculine cards.

Magda has created three fabulous ATCs for us next, she has added stencilling with Distress Ink, stamped the images with Versafine Ink, and added some washi tape. Great colour combinations, Magda.

Her second project was super quick; she stamped the bird and then spritzed the background with blue and orange, another great colour combination.

Our final project is from Carole, she has used Pumice Stone Distress Ink and dabbed it along a masked area of her card and then over stamped it with the same colour. The mask was removed and the main image and sentiment were stamped in black ink. The flower heads were coloured with pencils, in muted pink and green shades.

That concludes our projects for this month. We hope that you have enjoyed what we have created. Please do keep visiting the blog for a daily dose of inspiration from the regular Design Team posts, and we will be back with more fifteen minute makes next month.

Thanks for stopping by,

Still one of my favorites (by Miranda)

Hello everyone, today sees the turn of our Guest Design Team member Miranda Degenaars to inspire you with her beautiful project. Miranda has used some of her favourite stamps sets to create her card, and the stunning colour combination will definitely brighten up your day.

Hello there,

I am happy to be here again and do some guest posts. CB will always have a place in my heart.

I have played with two of my favorite Cb sheets, 'Dusky Damask' and 'Pretty Poppies'. I have worked a lot with these sheets and I never get bored using them. They are simply beautiful and so versatile to use.

I have made a background using Distress inks, resist embossing using clear embossing powder and plain stamping using Distress inks.

The focal image has been colored with Distress inks and colored pencils. Also some stronger accents with a white acrylic marker. One of the must-haves!

 The edge is embossed using snowflake embossing powder.

And ooh I forgot to mention my 3rd favorite sheet ' Artistic Expressions'.......can't do without that one together with the Artistic Affirmations!

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! 

Thanks for your visit and hope to see you again next week with my 2nd guest post,

Look at the Birdies (by Zoe)

Good morning Lovelies and welcome to my second post for January featuring these stunning bird themed stamp sets.


My tag is greyboard which I used Distress Oxide inkpads to colour using a blending tool and a little water sprinkled on and dried to give a little texture. I heat embossed in gold the fab verse before adhering the little squares which I'd stamped onto some Gel Press prints I'd made a while back.

I made the Christmas card using watercolour paper and sparkle brush pens and water to get that "wash" effect, and added a few little splatters of water dabbed to create some texture before drying and stamping.

Another watercolour background which I created using re-inkers onto my waterproof craft mat and lots of water, then popped the watercolour card onto it and dried. I heat embossed the image using Versafine black inkpad and clear embossing powder, and a little bit of white and gold gel pen here and there to highlight.

I started my Wise Owl card by stamping him using Versamark inkpad and heat embossing in silver embossing powder. I placed a large circle as a mask over him, then blended Distress Oxide inkpads around him and the mask with a blending tool. With the mask still in place I used a patterned stencil/mask over the whole thing and spritzed with water, carefully blotting with a dry cloth, then removing the stencil and blotting again to reveal the subtle and interesting water marks. Once completely dry I second generation stamped using a grey inkpad the verse randomly in the background.

Thank you for taking the time to visit and leave a comment, I love to read what you think.
Have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx