Guest Design Post at Chocolate Baroque

Hello there! How are you! Today I can officially share with you that I was lucky enough to be asked to fill a post on the chocolate baroque guest design team - that means I get the opportunity to post three times this month for them and three times in a future month too! Woohoo! I was so very excited - I adore their stamps and hope you will enjoy what I have done with them.

Today I have a canvas to share with you. I used the mermaid-queen stamp set and seadragon stamp set. Here's the finished item and then I'll show you a step by step.

So to start with I had fun creating the background:

I worked on an 8x8 inch canvas board and used distress paints to create an initial wash.

Next I added distress ink spritz ....

and then some background stamping and some paste work through a stencil.

Lastly I did more stencil work including colouring and also dripped some paint from the top of the canvas. 

Then I got to stamping the chocolate baroque stamps and also fussy cut all the images.

There is so much detail in these images - they're fabulous!

Before sticking them onto the canvas I stamped the secrets of the deep words all over the background then arranged my images to create a scene.

So this is my first post for Chocolate Baroque ... I have more to share with you next week!

Big hugs!

Rachel xx