June Fairy

June Fairy

                                                                                                                                

Products Used :

Chocolate Baroque June Fairy stamps

Watercolour Card

Distress Oxide inkpads :

Chipped Sapphire

Mermaid Lagoon

Salty Ocean

Distress inkpad 

Chipped Sapphire

White Gel Pen

Gold Gel Pen

Circular Mask 

 Thank you for looking

          

Love

Doreen

        

            

Natures Silhouettes

Nature's silhouettes

Products used ;

Chocolate Baroque White paper

Baroque Meadow stamp

Chocolate Baroque Kaleidoscope of Butterflies stencil 

A little heavy gesso 

Distress ink pads : Mowed Lawn, Chipped Sapphire and Wild Honey applied using soft blending brushes.

Sentiment from the Essence of Nature stamp set.

Black Archival ink pad

Thank you for looking

love Doreen 

Beautiful Blue Poppies

Beautiful Blue Poppies

   Products used :

Chocolate Baroque Pretty Poppies
Acrylic paints
Deco art easy pour
Canvas Board
Black ink pad
Alcohol Pens to colour

Simple if a little time consuming regarding drying time needed after pour.
Mix the acrylic paints of your choice with the easy pour medium, pour directly onto canvas board and leave to dry.
Stamp onto dried pour and on reflection I would heat emboss if only to make the line work more visible in a photo.
Colour to compliment the colours used in your pour.

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen 

15 Minute Projects with Chocolate Baroque

15 Minute Projects 

with 

Chocolate Baroque

Hi everyone, I as everyone I know who crafts likes to be able to make a quick card every now and then or possibly even needs to .... 

A favourite thing of mine is to use odds and ends and backing papers that I have made myself or scraps left over from other projects ... why waste them ? 

The following projects do just that and they are quick too, all stamps are available on the Chocolate Baroque Website.

Honey Bee Bookmark

The bookmark is using stamps from the Honey Bee stamp set. 

Take a white off cut from any previous project and if need be cut to suit your bookmark sleeve with a piece of backing card.

Stamp and Emboss the image and sentiment. Using a clear gel pen to make some trails around the image randomly. Whilst this is drying add some colour to the bee. 

Using a blender pad add colour to your white card ( you gel pen should be dry by now ) mount on background, pop into bookmark sleeve and add ribbon if desired. 

The Rose Tree

The Rose Tree stamps set.

Stamp image and verse onto white card using a permanent brown inkpad ( I used the Versafine Habanero)  As I used Inktense Pencils to add a little colour to the tree itself and to ground it, so as it wouldn't appear to be floating in mid air. Use either a clear sparkle brush pen or plain water brush to activate colour. Mount onto black card and then to ready folded card of choice.

Nature

Essence of Nature Stamp Set

Both coloured backgrounds on this card are from my stash .... Just cut to size desired stamp and heat emboss the image and a sentiment of your choice. Mount onto card.

Serenity

Serenity Stamp Set

For this card I simply used another background from my stash .... this one has been made using spray inks with a mica to add shine, if I remember correctly but any background will do the backing card is just a bought paper cut to size.

Stamp and heat emboss and using colours of choice add some colour to image. Mount onto card.

Thank you for looking

love 

Doreen x

Punky Romance

Chocolate Baroque

Punky Romance

This card was inspired when I was listening to men in the tea room complain about how 'slushy'  Valentines cards are .... they don't have to be I thought and so here is how I made it : 

Products used include 

Chocolate Baroque Punky Romance Stamp Set

Water Colour Card

 Sparkle Brush Pens

Black Card

7" Square card Blank

Versafine Habanero Inkpad

Metallic Gel Pens

Take the water colour card and make a rectangle using the Blue sparkle brush Pen, then using a large wide wet paint brush, drag the colour out to fill the centre of the rectangle.

I used diagonal strokes of the brush and found that it left the edges of the card slightly darker.

Let this dry naturally. Cut this down to size to give you your desired size topper for the 7"card blank.

Choose stamps from the set and stamp these onto the card when dry using the Versafine Habanero Inkpad. 

Check this is dry, then enhance the stamped image using the Metallic Gel Pens the image does not need colouring .... just random highlights of the image.

Then take a paintbrush and a pot of water with a tissue or kitchen roll to blot, remove the colour from the background in areas of the stamped image to give a faux bleached effect. 

I decided that apart from the large Love stamp from the set this card needed no other sentiment ..... I think it says everything it needs to. Making a not too 'slushy' Valentines Card for a man. 

Using a piece of black card mat and layer onto the 7" card blank.

Thank you for Looking 

Love Doreen

Chocolate Baroque Butterfly Dreams

Chocolate Baroque

Butterfly Dreams

                                                        

Products used include

Chocolate Baroque Butterfly Dreams 

Glossy Card Black and White

Distress ink pads : Twisted Citron

                           Wild Honey

                                      Picked Raspberry

Speedball Brayer

Stickles

Stazon Jet Black ink pad 

Clear embossing powder


Before I begin may I just take this opportunity to say this is my first blog post for Chocolate Baroque and I can not begin to say how excited I am to have been given this chance to join the Guest Design Team. My Thanks go out to Lesley, David and Judith.

I have come a very long way since beginning to make cards with decoupage kits when the very thought of stamping terrified me but the more I watched the more I wanted to give it a try .... 

This is the first of the Chocolate Baroque stamps I ever used and bought after attending a workshop with the talented Eileen Godwin who took me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to bright colours and so began my love of Chocolate Baroque stamps  .... they can be dressed up or down or just stamped and left they look good no matter what you do with them. 

Take the Distress inks and using a blending mat put one stripe of each colour on the mat and blend them into one another then onto the white card. 

I used diagonal strokes as my choice but vertical or horizontal will work well too.Leave to dry.

When dry use an anti static bag all over the coloured card. Stamp image and heat emboss using the clear embossing powder.

Cut coloured card to 5 and a half inches square saving the scrap piece of card to stamp and emboss a sentiment on. Then cut the Black card to 5 and 3/4 inches square. Mat and layer the two together and mount onto a 7" square card blank. 

Apply stickles randomly to the card and set aside to dry. Then take the left over pieces of card stamp,emboss and layer a sentiment onto the card. When I did mine I chose to cut a funky shape to match the shape the stamp made this can easily be done using a large pair of scissors. Add sentiment to card using either glue gel or foam pads to 3d it above the stamped image.

Thank you for looking

Love Doreen