Harlequin Bouquet Canvas created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. Today I am sharing a small canvas created with the lovely floral collage stamp (Harlequin Bouquet) from Chocolate Baroque.

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet, Loving Sentiments
• Useful Leaves stencil, Kaleidoscope of Butterflies stencil
• 20cm square canvas board, white stamping and watercolour card (or thick cartridge paper)
• Inkpads: Versafine (Onyx Black), StazOn (Black)
• WOW Embossing Powder (Clear Gloss)
• Ultra thick embossing enamel (UTEE clear)
• Ink sprays with mica, sparkle and watercolour pens (pinks, teals, lilacs)
• Fine tipped alcohol pen (black)
• Glitter glue (pale aqua and lilac)
• Viva Décor glitter paste (teal) and modelling paste (pale aqua)
• Decorative oval frame die

How to make it:

1. Stamp the image onto stamping card with Versafine and heat emboss with clear powder. Colour with water based pens.
2. Randomly Spritz the canvas background and cover with UTEE while wet. Heat to melt. I wanted a bit of a random texture rather than smooth glass effect. If you want more texture pour a bit more powder onto the hot UTEE and melt. Ink the sentiment with StazOn and press into the molten UTEE. Leave until it sets before peeling away. I found the image was a little feint so darkened using an alcohol pen – drawing into the impressed lettering.
3. Apply the glitter paste with a palette knife onto the background using the leaf stencil. Apply modelling paste through the butterfly stencil. Leave to dry.
4. Lightly spritz the watercolour card with inks (you want it to be lighter than the canvas background so that it stands out). Cut out the frame with the decorative die and apply some ink to the edges with a sponge to define. Trim the main image to fit behind the frame and glue together. Mount onto the canvas with 3D foam.
5. Finish with touches of glitter glue.

Quick and easy floral cards created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Here are a set of quick and easy 6 X 6 inch cards. Each can be made in under 15 minutes, so they are great for those speedy last minute makes.

 

I used patterned papers from Crafty Individuals (Travels in Italy or Springtime) for the background. Stamps include Harlequin Bouquet, Crackling Rose, Floribunda Net, Flora Musica and Loving Sentiments.

All were stamped with Versafine (Onyx Black) and heat embossed with WOW Embossing Powder (Clear Gloss). This makes colouring really quick and easy as the embossed lines resist the watercolour. I used watercolour pens, Distress Inks, gouache paints and sparkle pens to colour. Gouache paints are semi opaque watercolours which are great where some coverage of the underlying patterned paper is needed.

Harlequin Bouquet card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. Just catching up with blogging a few more of my recent show samples created for Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda. This one was created with the Harlequin Bouquet stamp.

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet and Loving Sentiments stamps
• 5 ¾ inch square card blank, harlequin patterned paper (Crafty Individuals Springtime)
• Inkpads: Versafine (Onyx Black) and Distress Ink (Milled Lavender)
• WOW Embossing Powder (Clear Gloss)
• Fine tipped pen (black)
• Spectrum Aqua watercolour pens (aqua, green)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens (clear, gold)
• Spectrum Noir Alcohol Marker (black)
• Gouache watercolour paint (opaque white)
• Faux gems (clear and aqua flower) and ribbon (yellow)
• Small tag die

How to make it:

1. Trim the patterned paper to make a panel approx. 5 ¾ inch X 4 ¼ wide. From the offcut cut a tag to fit the sentiment.
2. Stamp the image and sentiment with Versafine and heat emboss with the clear powder.
3. Colour the image with watercolour and sparkle pens. Add a little opaque gouache to give a bit more coverage over the patterned background (mix on a palette).
4. Stamp the right hand side of the card blank with Distress Ink and heat emboss with clear powder. Edge with black pen to frame.
5. Add faux stitching to the panel and tag using the fine tipped pen and glue to the card front.
6. Finish with ribbon and faux gems.

Harlequin Bouquet Birthday card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. Just catching up with blogging a few more of my recent show samples created for Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda. This one was created with the Harlequin Bouquet stamp.

I experimented a bit with the Soft Form Relief Paste on this one. I tried inking the stamp before coating with the paste (using Archival Ink) with the hope to transfer the ink into the paste embellishment. I wasn’t sure if the ink would just diffuse and bleed into the paste making a smudgy mess. I was really pleased with the result – the inked image stayed clean and sharp and transferred perfectly.

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet and Loving Sentiments stamps
• 17.5 X 14cm black card blank plus a scrap piece for the sentiment panel
• Inkpads: Archival Ink (Jet Black), Versamark
• WOW Embossing Powder (Gold Rich)
• Soft Form Relief Paste (Gold)
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (Renaissance Gold)
• Glossy Accents
• PVA pearls (gold)
• Black ribbon
• Harlequin embossing folder

How to make it:

1. Ink the stamp with Archival Ink and spread the relief paste over the top with a palette knife. Leave to fully dry before peeling away. This will not spoil the stamp in any way and the dried paste stays flexible and is easily removed. Drying times can vary and I find that it usually takes 2 days for me (I don’t have heating). So you need to plan ahead a bit when using this but the results are worth it.
2. Emboss the card blank with the harlequin folder and rub over with a little gilding wax.
3. Stamp the sentiment with Versamark onto a separate piece of card and heat emboss with the gold powder. Note: I would advise dusting the card with antistatic powder before embossing. I usually do this but forgot in this case so got some stray embossing powder over the background. However, I thought it looked ok and made it a bit more vintage looking in this case.
4. Trim the sentiment panel and glue to the card front along with the paste embellishment. Add Glossy Accents over the flowers and leaves to make them stand out.
5. Finish with a bow and PVA pearls.

Harlequin Bouquet With Love card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good evening. Just catching up with blogging a few more of my recent show samples created for Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda. This one was created with the Harlequin Bouquet stamp.

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet and Loving Sentiments stamps
• A5 hammered card blank, Kraft card, white stamping card
• Inkpads: Archival Ink (Jet Black), Distress Ink (Antique Linen), pigment ink (gold)
• WOW embossing Powder (Clear Gloss)
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolour Pens, Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens and coloured pencils (turquoise, purple, red, yellow, green, tan)
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (Empire Gold)
• Decorative oval frame die

How to make it:

1. Ink up the harlequin part of the stamp with Distress Ink and stamp over the card blank to create background texture.
2. Repeat stamp the sentiment with gold pigment ink and heat emboss with the clear powder.
3. Stamp the image with Archival Ink and colour with watercolour and sparkle pens. Add some pencil shading for added texture.
4. Cut the oval frame from Kraft card and rub over with a little gilding wax.
5. Trim the topper and glue behind the frame. Attach to the card front with 3D foam for added depth.

Sneak Peek shows coming from Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda tomorrow

Hi all – this is a little sneaky peek. There are more shows with Lesley Wharton and Chocolate Baroque coming to Hochanda TV tomorrow (9 Aug 7am and 12pm). Watch live on Freeview Channel 85 (or online via the website – they also keep videos available for a couple of weeks). Truly gorgeous stamps x.

 

Quick and Easy Floral card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I have a quick and easy card to share – made in under 15 minutes. I had to make a couple of samples in a last minute hurry for Lesley Wharton’s recent TV shows on the Craft Channel. I hope that you like it.

On the Chocolate Baroque DT Blog are more quick makes from my Teamies today.

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet stamp
• 14 X 17 cm white card blank, 11.5 X 14.5cm black card for mounting, 10 X 13cm white stamping card
• Versamark Inkpad
• WOW embossing powder (Black Glint)
• Black alcohol marker (Spectrum Noir)
• Spectrum Noir Aquatints (orange, yellow and purple)
• Glitter pens (red, green, yellow) and white gel pen
• Talc or antistatic pad

How to make it:

1. Colour the stamping card quickly with aquatints (or use Brusho’s, watercolours or spritzer inks) dropping colours on ‘wet in wet’. Blot off excess with kitchen towel and dry with a heat gun.
2. Dust the surface with talc, antistatic powder or corn flour. This stops the embossing powder sticking where you don’t want it. Stamp the image with Versamark. Heat emboss with the black sparkle powder.
3. Colour parts of the image quickly with the glitter pens and add highlights with the white pen (just ‘scribble’ quickly around the flower petal edges).
4. Outline the card with black marker, glue and mount to the card front.

Floral Cards created for Chocolate Baroque–Lesley on TV today

Oooh – Lesley Wharton is on The Craft Channel today with Dave Bradford demonstrating some gorgeous floral stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

Here are some of my projects:

Floral Musica and Harlequin Bouquet Cards created for Chocolate Baroque

I have two cards to share with you today using the lovely new floral collage stamps – Floral Musica and Harlequin Bouquet.

I hope that you like the new stamps this month as much as we all have on the DT.

Happy crafting, Anne x.

 

Materials:

• Harlequin Bouquet, Floral Musica, Mackintosh Sentiments and Butterfly Poppy Collage stamp sets
• Turquoise A5 and 7 X 7 cream card blanks, watercolour card, and plain card in cream, purple, pale blue and gold
• Versafine Inkpad (Black Onyx), Distress Inkpads (Seedless Preserves and Tumbled Glass)
• Alcohol pen and fine tipped marker (black)
• Pebeo Drawing Gum
• Watercolour marker pens (pinks, blues, greens, purples and yellow)
• PVA pearls (aqua and gold), organza ribbon (aqua), glitter glue (aqua) and gilding wax (gold)
• Dies to cut toppers and foliage, and ready-made floral embellishments
• Script and harlequin embossing folders

How it was done:

The images were stamped onto watercolour card with Versamark (Black Onyx). They were then masked with Pebeo Drawing Gum. I love this masking fluid. It is so easy to apply, and remove. Also brushes are cleaned easily with water.

The background washes were created by scribbling ink onto my glass mat and picking up with a wet brush and painting onto dampened card.

The masking fluid was then removed and the flowers coloured with watercolour markers, using a damp brush to blend.

The images were then cut out with dies. Seedless Preserves Distress Ink was blended in from around the edges to frame.

Harlequin Bouquet:

The topper was edged with black pen and a little glitter.

Pale blue card was embossed with harlequin texture on the top left and bottom right corners. The flat areas of the background were stamped using the floral stamp and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Faux stitching was added with black marker. Seedless Preserves Distress Ink was blended in from the edges. Organza ribbon was attached and the mat glued to the card front. The topper was attached with foam pads for added depth.

The butterflies were stamped onto pale blue card, coloured with watercolour pens, cut out and glued to the card front. The card was finished with a little more glitter glue and PVA pearls.

Floral Musica:

The topper was edged with black pen and a little gilding wax.

Cream and purple card were embossed with a script embossing folder. The dark card was sanded back to enhance the texture. Seedless Preserves Distress Ink and a little gilding wax were then used to further enhance the texture. The pieces were glued to the card front.

The sentiment was stamped onto a die cut tag using pink and purple watercolour pens to give varied shades when stamped.

Foliage was cut from gold card and glued to the card front along with ready made flowers and butterflies (these were in my CB Stash Box special offer that was recently available). The topper and tag were attached with 3D foam.

The card was finished with faux stitching and some gold PVA pearls.