Birthday card created with the Russian Floral Egg stamp from Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. Today I am sharing another of my TV show samples (Hochanda) created using the Russian Floral Egg stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

It started off as a completely different project. I wanted to create an opulent golden Easter egg with an aged effect. I stamped the egg onto mirror card and covered it with Ranger Crackle Accents. I was hoping that it would give me a crackle background which I could paint over with brown acrylic, wipe off the surface, and leave an aged effect. However, the crackle didn’t develop as expected. All I got was a few deep crackles and not the crazed crackle effect that I was after. Obviously Crackle Accents doesn’t work too well on shiny mirror surfaces. So I learned something new.

I decided to cut out a tag shape from my ‘disaster’ and mount it onto a card front. I added a bit of colour using alcohol pens, and stamped the crackle effect on top using the background stamp and StazOn ink.

I partially stamped the egg onto the orange background mat, coloured with sparkle pens (spritzed & splattered background), and added more texture and crackle by stamping with gold paint.

Materials:

• Russian Floral Egg, Large Crackle Background and Mackintosh Sentiments stamps
• 12.5 X 17 cm card blank, card (black, orange, gold mirror)
• Inkpads: StazOn (Black), Versafine (Onyx Black)
• Ranger Crackle Accents
• Alcohol ink pen (coral)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens (orange and black)
• Pebeo acrylic paint (metallic gold)
• Organza ribbon and PVA pearls (black)
• Tag die (Tattered Lace)

Easter Egg Card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good morning. The recent shows on Hochanda featuring the Russian themed stamps and stencils from Chocolate Baroque were simply brill – great demos and such a lovely range of samples from my Teamies. If you missed the shows they do remain available online (23/24^th March) for a while so you can catch up on the FAB demos from Lesley Wharton.

 

I am sharing one of my show samples today created with the lovely Russian Floral egg, Katya and crackle stamps. These stamps are exclusive to Hochanda until the end of the month. After that they will be available directly from Chocolate Baroque.

 

I used the decorative headdress from the beautiful Katya stamp to create a shaped card on which to mount the egg.

 

Materials:

• Russian Floral Egg, Katya and Large Crackle Background (sold out individually on Hochanda)
• A5 white card blank, coloured card (lemon, Kraft and black)
• Inkpads: Versafine (Onyx Black), Distress Ink (Chipped Sapphire), Versamark
• Polychromos pencil (blue)
• Heat embossing powder with mica (Lindy’s Stamp Gang – Hyacinth Blue Jade)
• Pebeo Studio acrylic paint (Iridescent Gold)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen (gold)
• Glossy Accents
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (Empire Gold)
• Satin ribbon and sequins (blue)

 

How to make it:

1. Stamp the Katya headdress twice onto black card with Versamark and heat emboss with the powder. Colour the images with gold sparkle pen and blue pencil. Cut out to make a shaped topper, making the top and bottom edges parallel, horizontal and straight. Edge with gilding wax. Mount onto lemon card and cut out to leave a fine border.
2. Glue the topper to the card blank aligning the top horizontal edge with the fold on the card blank. Trim away the card blank (omitting the top edge) to make the shaped card. Add Glossy Accents to emphasise some of the patterned areas and glue on sequins.
3. Using the crackle stamp add texture to the Kraft card by stamping with Distress Ink and gold acrylic. Stamp the egg with Versafine and cut out. Colour with gold sparkle pen and blue pencil. Mount onto black card and cut out to give a fine border. Edge with gilding wax. Apply Glossy Accents over the floral, swirl and leaf elements. Mount onto the card front with 3D foam and finish with a bow.

Easter Treat Box created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good afternoon. The recent shows on Hochanda featuring the Russian themed stamps and stencils from Chocolate Baroque were simply brill – great demos and such a lovely range of samples from my Teamies. If you missed the shows they do remain available online for a while so you can catch up on the FAB demos from Lesley Wharton.

I am sharing one of my show samples today created with the lovely Russian Floral egg and crackle stamps. These stamps are exclusive to Hochanda until the end of the month. After that they will be available directly from Chocolate Baroque.

Hope that you like my Easter treat box – ideal for filling with chocolates.

 

Materials:

• Russian Floral Egg and Large Crackle Background (sold out individually on Hochanda)
• 15 cm square egg stencil (Claritystamp)
• 21cm square white card (box base) and blue card (box lid), gold mirror card (for decoration) and 15cm square grey board
• Stazon Inkpad (Black)
• Soft Form Relief Paste (Gold)
• Pebeo Modelling Paste
• Gesso (black), Pebeo acrylic paint (Iridescent Gold) and Martha Stewart satin acrylic (Indigo)
• Pebeo Gilding Wax (Empire Gold)
• Boxer Board (Crafters Companion)
• Glossy Accents and PVA pearls (gold)
• Satin ribbon (blue)
• Happy Easter die (Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood Collection)

How to make it:

1. To make the box using the boxer board, score around each side of the square at a depth of 3cm, choosing the box base and box lid score lines on the board. I used a 21cm square of white card for the base and blue card for the top. Using the score board makes it really easy. The score line measurements are slightly offset on the base side of the board so that it automatically makes a base slightly smaller than the top so that they fit together. Snip into the corners to create the gluing tabs. Before constructing the lid stamp the sides with the crackle stamp and gold paint.
2. Coat the egg stamp with a layer of Soft Form Relief Paste and leave to fully dry. This can take 2 days depending on room temperature and humidity conditions. Gentle peel away from the stamp and trim off any rough edges. Paint over the whole surface with blue acrylic paint. Quickly wipe across the surface with a damp cloth to remove paint from the upper surface level, leaving the blue colour in the deeper level. When dry, mount onto blue and gold card and glue to the box top with 3D foam for depth. I also added Glossy Accents into the blue leafy swirls for added shine, and added some PVA pearls.
3. Die cut the sentiment in both blue and gold card. Layer together slightly offset to create depth. Glue to the box top. Coat with Glossy Accents for added shine.
4. Stamp the egg 5 times onto gold mirror card with Stazon (only need the central area with the flower and leafy swirls). Cut out and shape the flowers slightly. Glue to the box sides and onto the paste egg topper. Add small PVA dots to flower centres. Initially I wanted to make these embellishments with the Relief Paste but I ran out of time rushing to get this ready to post for the shows. I don’t have central heating so the paste takes 2 days for each layer to dry!
5. To make the box topper coat the grey board with gesso to seal. When dry apply modelling paste through the stencil with a palette knife. Leave it to dry for around 10-15 minutes and press the crackle stamp into the paste to create texture. Leave to fully dry and apply another coat of Gesso. Stamp the crackle over the surface using gold paint. Rub over the surface and edges with gilding wax. Glue to the box top.
6. Finish with a large ribbon bow.

Easter Bunting created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good evening. The recent shows on Hochanda featuring the Russian themed stamps and stencils from Chocolate Baroque were simply brill – great demos and such a lovely range of samples from my Teamies. If you missed the shows they do remain available online for a while so you can catch up on the FAB demos from Lesley Wharton.

I am sharing one of my show samples today created with the lovely Russian Floral egg. These stamps are exclusive to Hochanda until the end of the month. After that they will be available directly from Chocolate Baroque.

This stamp would also make lovely bunting for a summer garden party or wedding, stamped onto flag or triangular card or fabric joined with ribbon.

 

Materials:

• Russian Floral Egg (sold out individually on Hochanda) and Spring Bird Daffodil stamp sets
• Coloured pastel card (blues, pinks, purples, lemon)
• Detail heat embossing powder (opaque white)
• Sparkle pens (clear and gold)
• Versamark Inkpad
• Pinflair Craft Glaze
• Alphabet dies (Create & Craft Couture)
• Mini wooden pegs
• Florists ribbon (white) and embroidery thread (variegated sparkly metallic)

 

How to make it:

1. Stamp the eggs 6 times with Versamark onto coloured card and heat emboss with white powder. Colour with clear sparkle pen and cut out. Paint over some areas with clear glaze (darkens the background colour and enhances the glitter effect).
2. Die cut the letters and coat with glaze. Glue to the wooden pegs. Glue the pegs to the easter eggs catching in the thread for hanging.
3. Stamp and emboss the large daffodil bunch onto lemon card 10 times. You only need the area with the large flower head. Colour with gold sparkle pen blending out the colour with water. Cut out the daffodil head. Glue the daffodils back to back along the thread between the eggs. Note: the daffodils do tend to flip along the strand which is why I backed them with another flower head.
4. Finish by tying on small strips of florist ribbon (curl with the edge of your scissors).