15 minutes or less

Good morning Lovelies, I hope you're all well? 

I'm here today sharing with you 2 CAS cards for our monthly feature on the Chocolate Baroque DT blog.

This feature has been setup to show the versatility of Chocolate Baroque stamps. 

These cards were made in less than 15 minutes so great for bulk making.

Both of my cards today are featuring the fab new stamps that were on Hochanda recently.

Silhouette Grasses, Words to Dazzle and Sparkle and the butterflies from Baroque Meadow

   

Thank you for visiting today, I hope I've inspired you, have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx

Mid month reminder for Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge

Good evening Lovelies, just posting a quick mid month reminder of Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge. You could win £40 in vouchers to spend on Lavinia Stamps products and you don't need a blog either, pop along to the challenge here, all the info you need to enter is there.

Here's my mid month sample.

 

I hope you like it, thanks for visiting, have a good evening xx Zoe xx 

A very productive day with Eileen

Good morning Lovelies, I hope you're all keeping warm, it's sunny here at the moment which is rather lovely.

Well as my title suggests I had a very productive day down at Allhallows on Saturday at Eileen Godwin's Workshop, such a fab day, very chilled.

Sadly it was quieter than usual because of the flurries of snow during the morning, which put some people off coming and forced some people to leave early! However, I stayed, in spite the fact it's an hours drive for me, but it's mostly motorway and the roads were clear, I wasn't gonna let a little bit of snow stop me, and I didn't, I made 8 toppers.

Thank you as always Eileen for the fab day and the ladies for the laughs, chit chat and banter, not forgetting Barbara's wonderful cakes and baked goods.

It was a mostly "Visible Image" stamps day.

      

   

   

I combined my projects with Chocolate Baroque Sentiments.

Thank you for visiting, have a great day xx Zoe xx

Chocolate Baroque Journal cover

Good morning Lovelies I hope you're all well? My lovely hubby has shared his cold with me so I'm feeling rather boo boo at the moment, but it's a good excuse to sit around in trackies and warm jumpers drinking tea and doing some crafting lol!

Today I'm sharing with you an ongoing project, it's a Grey board Journal I purchased a while back from Chocolate Baroque and I'm making it my Chocolate Baroque Journal, I've already made a few pages which will be revealed at some point, but for now I'm sharing the front cover that I finished last night, I'm so pleased with how it turned out!

I've combined several techniques and mediums to create texture and interest, the stamps are all Chocolate Baroque.

I even used Gothic Fragments stamped into texture Paste. 

I've used die cuts and used Rusty Patina and gold Gilding wax to get an aged look, they were also stamped with Chocolate Baroque Sentiments for texture, I heat embossed in gold the heart in places and also using the same heart I mixed texture Paste with two different colour mica powders to create a two toned heart, I left it over night to dry then rubbed gold Gilding wax on it.

My background I used strips of scrap paper adhered with a Matt gel medium, then Gessoed over the top I then did my stamped into texture Paste and once dry used Gelato's and my finger to add colour and blend.

The butterfly again heat embossed in black and Gelato's blended with finger again, all finished off with some gold micro beads, bigger beads and Gilding wax all around the edges.

                       

     

                                                        

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you like my Chocolate Baroque Journal Cover as much as I loved creating it.

Have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx 

Zoe - Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge - February "Full Moon"

Good morning Lovelies, well it's mild but wet here down on the South East coast.

Today is the launch of Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge for February and the theme this month is "Full Moon" it's easy to take part, you don't need a blog, just visit the link above and all will be explained.

There's an amazing £40 to spend online on Lavinia Stamps products for the winner, which is chosen at random by Python random generator, all you have to do is post your project using Lavinia Stamp products.

So here are my projects. 

All products available at    Lavinia Stamps

My first card I used Yupo paper with Alcohol inks which I simply blobbed onto the paper along with a few drops of blending solution crumpled up some cling film laid it over the ink and made more wrinkles in the cling film and left it over night to dry, I used a stencil and blending solution on a sponge to remove some ink to create my moon, which I then stamped using the fabulous moon stamp. I used Archival inkpads to stamp my images.

Yupo paper is a synthetic paper!

My tag I used Distress inkpads and my third project I used Adirondack inkpads applied with brushes.

 

 

 

Thank you for visiting today, I hope I've inspired you to join in? Have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx

15 minutes or less

Good morning Lovelies, I hope you're all managing to keep warm, can you believe its February tomorrow? 

Today I'm sharing with you 3 samples I've made for our monthly feature over on the Chocolate Baroque DT blog.

 As a Design Team member for such a wonderful company it's our responsibility to show off Lesley's fabulous stamps and their versatility and that doesn't always mean, Fancy, Arty stuff, some people like simple, quick and easy cards in particular for batch making etc. So we are featuring each month some projects that take 15 mins or less from start to finish.

My first card is simply 10.5 cm wide, it was an off cut of some Linen texture card which I've folded, it opens from the bottom, most of my cards do, I just prefer how they sit opening from bottom rather than the side. I had used Brushos on a project previously with bubble wrap and had some left on the bubble wrap, so rather than waste it I just plopped it onto my card and randomly stamped over with the flowers, added my sentiment, few sequins and bish, bash, bosh, done! 

Stamps I've used are listed and linked under my last card.

 

My tag I started with distress crayons, scribbled then smudged, I inked over using Distress ink and blending sponge, spritzed with water to get texture then using a heart stencil with more distress ink and prizing again to make them wick and run a bit, once dry I splattered with black Dylusions spray ink, stamped the "Love" with Black Versafine ink, added some highlights to the word using a Liquid Chrome pen, few sequins and edges the tag in black DI.

 

Very simple my last card, I stamped the gorgeous rose with Versamark Inkpad, heat embossed using a pink Pearlescent EP and blended Distress inks over - Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick and then just matted and altered using black card and a textured white card.

 

Sketchy Doodle Landscape

Mackintosh Sentiments

Words of Love

Harlequin Rose

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you like my projects and they've inspired you to have a go? Have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx 

Chocolate Baroque Coasters

Good morning Lovelies, welcome to my blog, I hope you're managing to keep warm? 

Today I'm sharing a set of 4 coasters I've made using the lovely Big Bold Background Leafy Background stamp.

I had these wooden coasters sitting around in my stash for ages and I'd already painted them with Black Gesso a while back and couldn't decide what to do with them and then yesterday I just thought how great the Leafy Background would look.

I stamped using a Versamark Inkpad and covered with a gold glittery embossing powder, heat set and then coloured in one side of each leaf with a gold glittery gel pen, I then generously sprayed them with Spray and Shine, very simple and quick. 

I hope you like them? Please leave a comment.

 

Thank you for visiting today, have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx