More Christmas for Chocolate Baroque.

I have a post on the Chocolate Baroque blog today with some more of my makes with the new Christmas stamps. Here are the makes but if you want to know how I did them please check out the Design team blog!

Hugs

Rachel xx

A beautiful mushroom kind of day ...

Hello there! I am over on the Chocolate baroque DT blog today with a card from the May shows ... I hope you can join me over there... here's a sneaky peak....

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Oil Burner

Hello there! Today I have a piece on the chocolate Baroque blog - its the oil burner I painted for the March shows - please check out the blog post over there! 

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Cup and saucer

Hello there! Yay - I can finally reveal to you today that I am now a fully fledged member of the Chocolate Baroque Design Team! I was thrilled to be asked by Lesley and Judith back in May when I met them at Port Sunlight. Its been hard not to spill the beans!!!

My first post over on the design team blog is my cup and saucer from last months show.

I stamped the images in glaze - this time it was a bit tricky as the surface isn't flat but I managed! Then I painted in glaze.

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Final June GDT post - Chocolate baroque

Hello there! I have a piece over at the Chocolate Baroque Design team blog today - its my final GDT piece for June.

My third and final piece of inspiration for this month is a small tryptych. I have used the following stamp sets in creating this piece: Birdcage collage, a littlebird told me, rustic fragments and sunny sunflowers. 

I started by gessoing the tryptych then, once dry I stamped the birdcage collage and coloured it using a combination of acrylic stamps and distress inks. 

Then I painted the gessoed surface with distress ink before stamping over it with a rustic fragment stamp.

 Next I prepared some card with distress inks and stamped and fussy cut some of the flowers and leaves and also a bird. I added these to the sides of the tryptych and finally added the words 'a little bird told me'. 

I really enjoyed making this piece...its living in my craft room - formerly known as my dining room!

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Tealight holder

Hello there! Its my first GDT piece of the month of June over at the chocolate baroque blog today and I decided to go for a pottery piece - a tealight candle holder...

To make it I brayered the glaze onto a craft mat, picked up some on the stamp then added to the pot. The stamp is not mounted onto a block although on this occasion it could have been because the surface I was stamping onto is flat. I then used different coloured glazes to paint the image. The pot was then fired in a kiln and this is the result.

This image is the Floral delight image from Chocolate Baroque.

I do hope you like this!

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

15 minute chocolate baroque post

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are doing well. Today I have 3 cards made in 15 minutes each (or less) to share with you. There are also others on the chocolate baroque blog to inspire you here.

These first two just have simple stamping on a distress oxide background. On the first I also used a moon mask to add the idea of the sun. 

On the last one again I stamped on an offcut of distress oxide background and matted and layered. I also added the corners.

The stamps sets I used here include:

eastern-grasses

artistic-affirmations

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Uncle Bernards card

Hello there! How are you? Hopefully good and surviving the chilly weather! I have been wanting to use the stamp I have used in my card today for a while - its by Mark Gould and is sold by Chocolate Baroque. He's got 4 stamps in their catalogue and this is the first of two that I have. I made this card for my uncle Bernard.

I stamped, coloured and masked the image then used another chocolate baroque stamp from the year of stamping series to create a background. All colouring was done with distress inks. Lastly I added the ships wheel which is a tando creatives piece coloured with distress ink.

Here's a close up! Great image I think!

Hope you have a great day!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

More Festive makes for Chocolate Baroque

Hello there! I have another card on the Chocolate Baroque Design blog today - I'm remaining festive for this post although its more of a happy new year card!

I used a black card blank and stamped the image in black onto white card. I cut this to fit and added to the card blank. Next I used versamark and stamped the snowflakes and the sentiment then heat set with white embossing powder.

A very quick card - using fabulous chocolate baroque stamps!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Festive make at for Chocolate Baroque guest DT

Hello there! I am doing the post over at the Chocolate Baroque DT blog today and I have made something festive using the poinsettia background stamp....

I used gold relief paste all over the stamp and left it to dry. 24 hours later I peeled it off and this is the result. I think it looks pretty striking! Then I used the stamp to stamp the image onto red card multiple times and decoupaged up the single poinsettia. 

I do hope you like this! Big hugs Rachel xxx

One stamp, three ways

Hi there - I have an inspirational post over at stamps and stencils today ....

Check out how I made these three Seahorses using a chocolate baroque stamp here.

Hugs

Rachel xx

Joanna sheen cardswap

Hello there! Well just to report that my big girl had a great first day at high school. She looked a treat when she went out of the house in the morning and was still beaming on her return!

Long may it continue!!!

Today I want to share with you a card I made for the Joanna Sheen cardswap. The theme was all things nautical and I used a chocolate baroque set to make my card. I had seen something similar that my mum had made at her craft club so the design is pinched!

 outside ....

inside ....

altogether!

Since taking the pictures I have extended the post at the bottom into the sand! 

Hope you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Running late!

Hello there - well I should have put this post out at 7am - but I forgot it was the 15th today - so sorry its late but better late than never!

This simple card took less than 15 mins to make. I simply stamped the image in versamark and heat set the image in white embossing powder. I then used colouring pencils to colour the flowers and leaves.

There is much more quick inspiration from my teamies over on the DT blog here.

Big hugs

Rachel xx

One day special by Chocolate Baroque at Hochanda

Hi there! Did you see Lesley's launch last night of the new one day special? If not you can catch her at 9am, 1pm and 5pm on Hochanda! Here are a couple of samples to wet your appetite!

This one is a portion of one of the colouring pages ...

This one is using the chequered flowers stamp. I made this by stamping with versamark and heat setting white embossing powder. I repeated this aroud the edges too and coloured with spectrum noir crayons.

The other ladies have done some amazing things! I hope you have chance to check out the shows today!

Hugs

Rachel x

choclate baroque summer

Hello there - I didn't have chance to make anything yesterday - apart from stuff that I can't show just now - so I thought I would share my summer samples with you today from the chocolate baroque seasons show. I know one of them is missing because my photo wasn't good, and one you have already seen - but I wanted to log them here.

This one was a distress oxides background and then was stencilled with the sun and leaves. The image was coloured with pencils which was then fussy cut and added to the card.

This one was already showed to you - distress pens and brushos on a stepper box card!

I hope you have a great Wednesday - I am running my final Rainbows session - all the current rainbows are too old now and I have decided to stop running the unit. After 6 years I feel I have done a good job and its time to move on!!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Chocolate Baroque guest design

Hello there! Well its 24 hours late but here's my post for the chocolate baroque guest design team....i am becoming muddled!!! Oh dear!!!

I used all chocolate baroque stamps, stamping and masking to create the scene - I then used distress inks to create the background and do the colouring!!! It was my mums card for her recent birthday - she liked it!!!

Big hugs - have a great day!

Rachel x

Final Mackintosh samples

Hello there. How are you? I am ok but my leg is still causing me trouble so I'm not running again today - I think I'll swim though!!!

Today I want to show you my final samples from the show before last for chocolate baroque - the mackintosh style stamps...

I really enjoyed making this one - its a ceramic moneybox...I used starlight paints and mackintosh beauty stamps.

This one involved repeat stamping in versamark setting in white embossing powder on the black background. 

The photo of this one has got scrambled but you get the general idea. I think this one got quite a few good comments from Charlie when the shows were on!!!

Have a great Tuesday!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Second GDT post for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning to you! I do hope you are well! I have my second of three pieces this month made for the Chocolate Baroque Design team blog which you can find here. This time I whipped out my distress oxides and made a card!

The flowers are from the sunny-sunflowers-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet. I stamped them on the bottom of the same piece of card that I cut the main background from. Fussy cutting wasn't too time consuming with these images either.

The butterfly is from the just-butterflies-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet and I added pearls for the body.

In the background you can see that I have overstamped in DIO using rustic-fragments-rubber-stamp-sheet.

I hope you like the effect of the distress oxides - I love them!

Big hugs Rachel x

Quick makes for Chocolate Baroque

Hello there! I do hope you're having a great day? I have two super quick makes for the Chocolate baroque blog today. These cards took 15 minutes of less. These are pretty simple brusho makes!

Both cards were made in the same way - stamping onto watercolour card then adding brushos and spritzing. Effective and quick! What do you think?

Hugs

Rachel x

Guest DT at Chocolate Baroque

Hello there! Well I have my first guest DT post for June over on the chocolatebaroque blog today. This is my favourite piece I made for TV shows in May. I adore the stamp and think the result is very effective. And that frame was an IKEA special!!!!

For full details check out the blog post on the chocolatebaroque blog

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x