Floral notes from Chocolate Baroque

Hello folks, my second post today and this one features the beautiful Floral Notes stamps from Chocolate Baroque. A lovely set of beautiful floral stamps, perfect if you need a break from Christmas cards!

I stamped the images using black archival ink, using second and third generation stamping to give some depth. I then created a background using distress inks in shades of blue and green. Once that was dry I coloured the flowers with Lyra pencils and stamped the sentiment which is also from Floral Notes. I distressed the image and layered it up over white and then blue card and added a shabby bow topped with a pretty wooden button.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: distressing

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Crafty Catz: anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

Wonderful Wednesdays: Anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, a quick post to share my DT project for our Anything Goes challenge at Polkadoodles. As always our lucky winner will receive a fabulous prize from the Polkadoodles shop and Top 3 honours will be up for grabs too. The DT were challenged to create a project with a theme of traditional Christmas and I made this card using the lovely Winnie Winterland collection.

I've made a quick card using the fabulous design sheets from Winnie Winterland, just adding ribbon, lace a charm and of course some glitter! 

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons: Christmas
Creative Knockouts: Winter wonderland/festive fun
Crimbo Crackers: Animals
Inky Chicks: Christmas in traditional colours
Southern Girls: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

All Dressed Up at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge and our theme  is Anything Goes. Our lucky winner will receive a prize from All Dressed Up and I was lucky enough to be able to colour this adorable image from our sponsor this week.

The image is called Little Angel and of course I coloured her with my Graph'It Markers. You can find a full list of the colours I used over on the challenge blog. I created a border around the image with some of the lovely stamps from Polkadoodles Stamp Soup collection.

I added lace and bow topped with a little wooden button to finish off. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Come and Get It: Christmas

Crafty Sentiments: Anything goes

Creative Moments: anything goes

Dream Valley: Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas: Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy: Christmas/Winter holiday

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Blue Christmas or Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks it's inspiration week over at Polkadoodles and our challenge theme is 'Anything Goes'. There is a fab prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner and Top 3 honours up for grabs too,  The DT have been challenged to create a project with the theme of 'Blue Christmas' and my teamies have created some stunning projects so pop over and have a peek if you've got time.

I've made this card using the adorable Winnie, this image is called Bearing Gifts and you can get it as a digi stamp here or treat yourself and buy the full collection here.  I coloured Winnie with Lyra pencils. I die cut the image using my favourite Bubblicious frames die and added some distress ink and frantage powder. The background and sentiment were made using stamps from the Red Red Robin Stamp Soup collection.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations: anything goes

A Snoflake promise: Anything goes

Christmas with the cuties: anything cute and Christmassy goes

Colour Inspiration Monday: anything goes with a coloured image

Cutie Pie: cute plus no  designer paper

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Mica tags from Chocolate Baroque

Good morninf folks, today's project features the beautiful new stamps Floral Notes from Chocolate Baroque. I love Christmas crafting but these new stamps are perfect if, like me you fancy a change from making all those Christmas cards.

I took some black tags and used a sticky embossing powder that I've had forever, I wasn't sure if it had gone off so I put it to the test, stamping with versamark and applying the powder before heating. Once I'd heated the powder I applied mica powders with a small brush. I heat embossed the sentiments and applied some gilding wax around the edges of the tags and added some rainbow ribbon to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafting Musketeers: anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: Anything goes

Crafty Enjoyments: anything goes

HeARTful Stamping Challenge: anything stamped

Stamping Sensations: floral fancies

Well I'd better get back to those Christmas cards now lol. If you a minute do pop over to the Chocolate Baroque DT blog as my teamies have got lots of beautiful inspiration for you

Claire xx

Anything Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, well Christmas is getting nearer so for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create I've made another Christmas card using my PanPastels. You can make whatever you like though as our theme is 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes'. We've got some lovely crafty stash for our lucky winners thanks to our sponsors Premium Craft Brands and you don't even have to use our products to enter!

I stamped the little scene using some of my favourite Andy Skinner stamps and then coloured the scene using my Pans (you can find links to the colours used at the end of the post.

The sentiment is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped in black. I didn't add any ribbon or embellies to this one, just lots of glitter but you can't see that in the pic.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge:  T is for trees

Crafty Creations: Christmas

Fab'n'Funky: Christmas

Kitty Bee Designs:  Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: O Christmas Tree

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Black fine Pearl	White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels	White Coarse Pearl Medium	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel
Permanent Red	Hansa Yellow	Burnt sienna shade	Raw Umber PanPastel	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Anything Christmas at Eclectic Ellapu

Hello my lovelies, I'm running very late with this post as I totally forgot to publish it. After months of chaos at work we had our quality visit yesterday so this week has been a bit of a whirlwind. Everything went well though so hopefully now things will settle down and I'll finally manage to be a bit more organised lol. Anyway, it's the launch of our new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu and the pink team's theme this month is Anything Christmas so you can make a card, a home decor project or perhaps a pressie for someone! 

I've made a card using one of my favourite stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque, New England Winter. I began by stamping the little cottage and colouring it with Lyra pencils. I then stamped in the boughs using a mixture of green and brown memento ink. I masked the cottage and the moon and then inked in the sky using brushes and shades of blue distress inks. I tore a mask to ink in the hills. Once all the inking was done I removed the masks and added a little sparkle to the moon with a silver Graph'It shake pen and added some glamour dust  to the hills and house for a frost sparkle. I decorate the trees with Halo Silver glitter which is soooooo pretty and sparkly but very hard to catch with my dubious photography skills lol.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Craft Rocket: winter time

Moving along with the times: anything goes with Christmas

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Through the purple haze: winter/Christmas colours

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx