Published in Craftstamper Magazine!

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  I haven't been around in blog land much as we have been busy and so crafting hasn't been on the agenda these days.  

I don't have anything new for you today but thought I would show you this design that I made in the Spring.  
I was honored to have this card published in the April 2015 edition of the fantastic Craftstamper magazine.  It's been a few months so I can now show it to you.

The background was inspired by Anneke De Clerck's design in the February 2015 edition of Craftstamper.   

I used a Tim Holtz stencil with Distress Inks rubbed over top, spritzed with water and then used as a 'stamp' over the background.   The pretty image and sentiment are from Chocolate Baroque's Fluttering Hearts stamp set which I coloured using the same inks with a paint brush and water.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week,
Shirley

Published in Craft Stamper Magazine !

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.   I've been extremely busy and behind in blogging and visiting blogs.   I apologise that I haven't been around to see most of you lately.  I'm also having trouble with blogger (or our Internet system) taking forever to download pages, and I just don't have time right now.  It's slower when there are lots of photos.   The joys of living in the country with satellite Internet.  Also it seems that I cannot no longer join as a follower with Google Friends connect.  Will have to look into doing something else ?  

We are now experiencing a 'colder than normal' April and where we live there is still a lot of snow & ice.   Spring is very slow arriving.

I was honoured to see this card below published in the May issue of the wonderful Craft Stamper magazine (from the U.K.).     I was inspired to use a technique described by Helen Chilton in the February 2014 issue, "Make your Mark" article & designs.

The background is glossy cardstock and a lot of the stamping was done with Tombow markers direct to the stamp.  The black images is with black Stazon ink.    I also used a white Gellyroll pen for highlighting.   The stamps are from two Crafty Individual sets available from Chocolate Baroque:  Young Girl and Lace and  Lace Hearts.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by
Shirley

Published in Craftstamper!

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week.

I was excited to learn that this card design was published in the July issue of the Craftstamper magazine (which is full of inspiration, techniques and printed in the UK).

I was inspired to use techniques described in an article by Liesbeth Fidder:  "Awash with Colour" on page 10 of the June 2012 issue of Craftstamper .   I used Neocolour II crayons vs Aquacolour crayons.   All stamped images are by Chocolate Baroque
  

I started by adhering designer paper to water colour paper with modge podge.   After drying, I painted Gesso over top.   Next I used Neocolour II (water soluble) crayons to add colour and sprayed with water to let it run.  

When dry I stamped the fragment around the edge from Textured Fragments using Black Soot Distress Ink.    The words are from Artistic Affirmations and the beautiful flowers are from Fantasy Meadow which I stamped with Black Stazon ink.   The flowers were painted with Tombow markers and I finished by adding stickles. 

Well that's my excitement for today, thanks for stopping by.
Cheers
Shirley