Butterfly Poppy Collage card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. This is the last of my recent samples for shows on Hochanda using lovely poppy themed stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque. I have so enjoyed working with these gorgeous stamp sets.

 

Materials:

• Butterfly Poppy Collage and Pretty Poppies stamp sets
• 9 X 8 inch card blank (cream), watercolour card, white stamping card, scrap card (pink)
• Inkpads: Versafine (Vintage Sepia), Distress Ink (Forest Moss, Scattered Straw, Tea Dye, Tumbled Glass), archival dye inkpads (dark blue, dark pink)
• Watercolour pens (red, pink, blue, orange, green)
• Water based ink sprays (green, warm yellow and gold with mica)
• Alcohol ink pens: black and dark pink
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (gold)
• Glitter pens (blue and gold)
• Gel pen (opaque white)
• Stickles glitter glue (Icicle)
• Dies: Formal Flourish (Die-namics), Cut Mat Create rectangle (Heartfelt Creations), shaped square (Trimcraft?)

How to make it:

1. Wet the watercolour card and randomly spray with inks. When dry, lightly stamp all over with the large text collage stamp and Forest Moss Ink.
2. Cut to fit the card front leaving a frame of approx. 1cm base card showing. Stamp the right hand side using both blue and pink inks, and the left plus background butterfly with blue ink. Note: To get a good stamped image on textured watercolour card you will need to press the stamp down a little harder than usual. It will never be as clear and crisp as when stamping on smooth card.
3. Stamp the butterflies using blue ink onto the offcut piece of coloured watercolour card and cut out. Further colour the butterflies with alcohol and glitter pens. Add highlights to the butterflies and to the stamped poppy collage using white gel pen.
4. Cut the shaped square mat from smooth card and stamp the poppy image with Versafine. Colour the background with Tea Dye and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks, blending with a sponge. Splash with water and blot off colour to give a mottled background. Colour the poppies with watercolour pens and edge the mat with gold gilding wax. Add highlights with white gel pen.
5. Cut a rectangle mat in white card approx. 9 X 13cm (3.5” X 5”), stamp the text with Scattered Straw Ink, and blend in ink from around the edges. Further enhance the edges with black alcohol marker and mount the coloured poppy image to the left side using foam pads.
6. Align and position the mat onto the watercolour card and cut around the stamped poppy collage with a craft knife so that the mat can be tucked under the cut section. Cut 2 flourishes from pink card.
7. Finally glue everything to the card front, leaving the butterfly wings free for added dimension. Oooh, and add a bit of glitter to the poppy centres (got to be done – tee hee).

Poppy Shrine Card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. This was another of my recent samples for shows on Hochanda using lovely poppy themed stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque.

Materials:

• Butterfly Poppy Collage and Pretty Poppies stamp sets
• White card blank (smooth inkable), watercolour card, red metallic card, black card
• Versafine Inkpad (Onyx Black)
• Watercolour pens
• Fine tipped pen (opaque white) and Sakura Glaze Pen (Clear)
• PVA pearls (black)
• Stickles glitter glue (Icicle)
• Easel Creator die set for cutting card shape and frame (Tonic)

How it was made:

1. The shaped card base was cut with the outer plain die (overhanging it just over the left hand fold of the card). The decorative frame was cut from metallic card and a black mat was cut using the plain dies.
2. The text and poppies were stamped directly onto the card front. Colour was added with watercolour pens. The mat and frame were then mounted around the image with 3D foam for dimension.
3. The poppies were stamped again onto watercolour card using watercolour pens to colour the stamp. A water brush was used to drag out the colour and more colour was added where needed. The 2 poppy flowers and bud were then cut out. I felt that the watercolour outlines were not really sharp enough so I laid my stamp onto my craft mat, coated it with Versafine, then pressed down the cut out flowers over the inked stamp (Sheena Douglass style – this is how she stamps up her ‘Perfect Partner’ die cut images). This added back stronger outlines and detail. I also added a few highlights with white pen. These were lightly shaped and decoupaged over the main image.
4. Finally a little glitter glue was added to the poppy centres and butterfly. I also added clear glaze pen over parts of the leaves and butterfly.

Vintage Poppies True Friend card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. This is another of my recent samples created for Chocolate Baroque and Hochanda. This time I picked a pretty decorative paper to stamp onto. I am not sure where I got it from but think that it came in a mixed grab bag from Chocolate Baroque. You could use any suitable vintage decorative paper.

Materials:

• Butterfly Poppy Collage and Pretty Poppies (the sentiment) stamp sets
• A5 card blank, decorative vintage paper, textured cream pearlescent card, piece waste acetate
• Versafine (Vintage Sepia), Distress Ink (Tea Dye)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens (Sage, Biscuit, Summer Sky, Smokey Quartz)
• Satin ribbon (green)
• PVA pearls (dark green/gold)
• Clear glitter glue
• Alcohol marker (dark brown)
• Glossy Accents
• Rectangle dies for creating mat & layer (Heartfelt Creations Cut, Mat, Create set)

How it was done:

1. The decorative paper was trimmed to fit the card front and a panel was cut out with the rectangle die. The topper and background were stamped using Versafine and coloured with sparkle pens. The card and topper were edged with Distress Ink and alcohol marker to frame. Note: The poppy image on the left hand side was ‘reverse stamped’ to create a mirror image. This was done by stamping onto waste acetate then transferring the ink by ‘stamping’ from the acetate. The background image on the right hand side was repeat stamped, lining up the diamonds, to extend it up the side of the card.
2. The butterfly was overlaid with Glossy Accents. A larger rectangle was cut from pearl card for matting.
3. The images were also stamped onto the pearl card and cut out to create the decorative embellishments. 3D glue gel was used to stick down elements.
4. I added PVA pearls and a little clear glitter glue for extra sparkle (cannot help myself – tee hee).

Poppy Scene card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. This was another of my recent show samples for Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda with lovely poppy themed stamps.

 

Materials:

• Pretty Poppies, Poppy Meadow, Natures Peace stamp sets
• 6 X 6 inch Kraft card blank, watercolour card
• Spectrum Aqua watercolour pens (greens and red/pinks)
• Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass)
• Alcohol marker (black)
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform or similar (optional but makes it much easier)

How it was made:

1. The stamps were coloured directly with different shades of red, pink and green watercolour pens. I used a stamping platform to create this one making it much easier to repeat stamp with different colours exactly positioning over the previous stamping. It can be done without but it’s a little more tricky. Colour the different areas of the stamp in one go and ‘huff’ (breath) over the image before stamping to activate the watercolour, alternatively lightly mist with water (but not too much).
2. A damp brush was then used to drag out the colour and produce shading. A little extra colour was applied where needed, picking up colour from a palette with a damp brush (using ink from the pens as a watercolour paint).
3. The card was trimmed and edged with Distress Ink. I also added a black border with alcohol marker to frame.

Because I Care Poppy Card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. This was another of my recent show samples for Hochanda using the lovely poppy themed stamps from Chocolate Baroque. I used Brushos on this one to create a loose watercolour background.

 

Materials:

• Pretty Poppies and Poppy Meadow stamp sets
• 14.5 X 16 cm card blank, white hammered card, pink card, watercolour card
• Versamark and Versafine (Vintage Sepia, Onyx Black)
• WOW embossing powder (detail white)
• Fine tipped pens (opaque white, black)
• Watercolour pens (pink, purple, green)
• Brusho Powders (Purple, Leaf Green)
• Cosmic Shimmer PVA Pearls (pink, pearl)
• Glitter glue (clear)
• Decorative border die (Crafters Companion Die’sire)

How it was made:

1. The border panel was cut from hammered card and glued to the card front.
2. The pink card was trimmed to fit and the sentiment stamped with Versamark and embossed with white powder. Faux stitching and little dots in the background were added with white pen.
3. The poppies were stamped onto watercolour card, ‘inking’ the stamp with the pink and green watercolour pens. To get the lovely watercolour effect the card was spritzed with water to get the stamping colours to bleed slightly. Brusho crystals were then dropped onto the background.
4. After drying the image was overstamped using Versafine (Vintage Sepia) to bring back some definition. I used a black pen to enhance some of the stamped outlines. More colour was added using watercolour pens and a damp brush. The sentiment was stamped with black ink.
5. The image was trimmed and glue to the card front. Finished the card with a few PVA pearls and yes …. obligatory glitter glue. Just cannot help myself x.

Transparent Poppies card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. Today I am sharing one of my samples for the recent shows on Hochanda featuring the Pretty Poppies and Poppy Meadow stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

I coloured my scene using the fabulous alcohol markers from Chameleon. I simply love the new Color Tops that allow you to blend 2 completely different colours seamlessly – very tricky to do with standard alcohol pens.

Materials:

• Pretty Poppies, Poppy Meadow, Nature Table, Butterfly Poppy Collage stamp sets
• 8 X 8 inch card blank, 6.5 inch square card suitable for alcohol ink (I used Velvet Card) and scrap copy paper (to make masks)
• Inkpads: Versafine (Onyx Black), Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass), Memento Dye Ink (London Fog)
• WOW embossing powder (Clear Gloss)
• Zig 2 way glue (temporary adhesive for masks)
• Alcohol pens (yellow, green, blue, beige and pink): Chameleon Pens (YG3, YL2, BL3) and Color Tops (NU0, PK3)
• Permanent marker (black)
• Coloured pencils (black, green and pink/purple)
• Water based fine tipped pen (light grey)
• Gel pen (Hybrid Ink – black with metallic red)
• Stickles glitter glue (Crystal)

How it was done:

1. The card background was stamped with the honesty stamp and Distress Ink. The corners were stamped with Versafine and the edges blended lightly with Distress Ink.
2. The foreground poppies were stamped onto copy paper and cut out to create masks. Small dots of zig glue were added to the back and left to dry (turns from blue to clear) to create a temporary stick to hold them in place.
3. The foreground poppies were stamped with Memento (water based ink that will not bleed when colouring with alcohol ink pens) and then covered with the masks before stamping the background poppies.
4. The stems were extended where needed by drawing with the fine tipped pen (NB. Make sure it is suitable for colouring with alcohol pens without bleeding – test if unsure).
5. The image was then coloured with alcohol pens. I love the delicate transparent finish – perfect for delicate poppies. I used the new Chameleon pens with Color Tops. These enable really easy one step blending of one colour into the next. Leaves were coloured with YG3 and NU0 Color Top, Flowers with BL3 and PK3 Color Top, Buds with BL3 and NU0 Color Top, Butterfly with YL2 and and PK3 Color Top.
6. A little texture and extra shading was added where needed with coloured pencils. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine and heat embossed with clear powder to emphasise. The card was edged with black marker to frame and glued to the card front with 3D foam for added dimension.
7. The butterfly was stamped with Memento onto a spare scarp of card, coloured with alcohol pens and cut out. To enhance the butterfly details (the grey ink was a bit pale) I overstamped it with Versafine Ink.
8. A little metallic ink was used on the butterfly and stamens. Further sparkle was added with Stickles glue.

Quick and Easy Thank You card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Another quick and easy card for you this morning. Small thank you card created with the Pretty Poppies stamp set. Stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with ‘sticky’ powder (Wonder Glue Powder). This leaves a tacky residue suitable for adding foils, mica or gilding flakes. I rubbed over with multi coloured gold flakes.

Friendship Gives Wings card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good afternoon. This is one of my recent show samples using the Pretty Poppies and Butterfly Poppy Collage stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

 

Materials:

• Pretty Poppies, Butterfly Poppy Collage stamp sets
• A5 black card blank, watercolour and stamping card
• Versafine Inkpad (Black Onyx)
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolour Pens (Bud Green, Moss, Crimson and Scarlet)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen (Clear overlay)
• Glossy Accents
• Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles glitter glue (Aqua)
• PVA pearls (black)
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform (Tonic)

How it was done:

1. The poppies were stamped onto watercolour card and the stamps coloured with watercolour markers. I used a stamping press for this project – it is perfect for adding the different colours in layers and repeat stamping perfectly aligning with the previously stamped sections of the image. Similar can be done by applying all the colours needed over the stamp then huffing or very lightly spritzing to ensure that the watercolours are activated (otherwise some areas dry up a bit while working and don’t stamp well).
2. The card was very lightly spritzed with water to encourage a little bleeding of the stamped image giving a soft watercolour effect. More colour was applied to the foreground poppies, picking up colour and applying with a damp brush.
3. The sentiment and butterflies were stamped with Versafine. The butterflies were cut out, coloured and lightly shaped for added dimension.
4. I painted over the butterflies with clear sparkle pen, and added dots of glitter glue on the butterflies and stamens.
5. Finished with PVA pearls and added Glossy Accents to the butterfly bodies.