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