Seashell Collage from Chocolate Baroque.

Good morning my lovelies, the weekend has whizzed by again and Monday is here but before I dash off to work, here's  a card made using one of my old favourite stamp sets, Seashell Collage from Chocolate Baroque. This month the DT are posting Summer themed projects using some of their old favourite stamps so it's well worth checking in to the Chocolate Baroque Blog when you have a minute.

I began by stamping and masking the focal image before creating the sea using a brayer that had been inked and rolled over crumpled paper. I removed the mask, coloured the images with my Graph'it markers and then inked in the sky using a mask. To create the impression of the posts through the water, just extend the colouring a little using slightly softer shades of brown.

I stamped the sentiment using archival ink and added some string and some embellishments that I d stamped and coloured.  The edges were inked with Vintage Photo distress ink and I've popped the topped on a kraft card blank.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Artistic Stamper: anything goes

Creative Artiste: Anything goes
Frilly and Funkie: By the sea

We Love Vintage: Sun/sea/beach
Worldwide Open DT Challenge: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Mermaid Fragments

Good morning, well its Monday already but I'm counting the days until my week off work next week! I can't wait :-) Today's card features the gorgeous new stamps from Chocolate Baroque, Tangled Fragments. I've combined them with an old favourite, the beautiful mermaid from Underwater Kingdom

 

I began by stamping the mermaid with Memento Tuxedo Black and colouring her with Graph'It markers before masking her with some masking tissue. I stamped the lovely fragment in the background using a Waterfall Big & Juicy inkpad and then inked around the edges very lightly with distress inks (Tumbled Glass and Shabby Shutters). I  removed the masking tissue and added a shadow around the mermaid with my markers

The background was made with the Waterfall Big & Juicy inkpad, I swiped it over my craft mat and misted the ink with water before mopping up with a square of white card. I over stamped with the same inkpad, again using the beautiful fragment stamp. I used the excess ink on my craft mat to colour some seam binding ribbon.

I used some little pearls in the corners and added a sentiment from Loving Sentiments and popped on a little turtle charm to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: nautical

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Cards Galore Encore: digital/rubber stamping

Live and Love Crafts: by the sea

Ruby's Rainbow: stamping

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Sparkly snowflakes from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, todays card is a super quick and easy card made using the delicate snowflakes from Winter Edges by Chocolate Baroque.

My original plan was just to stamp the snowflakes with a waterfall Big'n'Juicy inkpad and keep it CAS but I couldn't resist adding some faux gems and of course some seam binding ribbon

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Christmas Card challenges: bling

Creative Creations: sparkle and shine

Going grey with scrap creations: make it sparkle

Paper Playtime: sparkle

Treasured Times: non traditional Christmas colours

Phew I seem to be meeting myself coming back this week, as always work is a real horror and we're extra short staffed at the minute so its worse than usual. I think if I didn't craft I'd go completely crackers lol

Thanks for popping by today, have a good day

Claire xx

#184 A white Christmas for Rainbow Lady

Hi there, I'm back with another Christmas card, this one is my DT project for Rainbow Lady's Challenge where Cynthia wants to see projects inspired by the theme White Christmas. 

I've used some of my favourite stamps for this card, they are all from 'Snow is Falling' by Chocolate Baroque. It was a really quick card to make as I've just stamped the image on silk coated card using a big and juicy waterfall inkpad and added some Judikins prisma glitter, matted the image on card brayered with the same ink and then on a layer of white card. The background was made using snowflake stamps from the same themeplate and the same inkpad. I've added some lace, seambinding coloured with waterfall ink and a glittery snowflake made with a Marianne die and attached to the bow with a snowflake brad.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Snowflakes

Creative Inspirations Paint: The holidays

Christmas Card Challenges: Non traditional Christmas colours 

Lexi's creations: Untraditional Christmas colours

Stamps+fun =creativity: favourite material for cardmaking (mine is my brayer)

Top Tip Tuesday: Christmas

Thanks for popping by

hugs

Claire xx