Good morning, I have been away for a few days so haven't been around much. I shall try and catch up with things over the next few days, so hope to see you soon. Next weekend I shall be driving to collect my grandchildren and bringing them home to stay for a few days, so I am likely to be absent again for a while. I am really looking forward to seeing them properly as it has been so long, but I am concerned that my energy might run out! I have booked a beach hut so they can exhaust themselves on the beach, so I am hoping for fine weather.
Today is the 18th of the month so it is reminder day for the current challenge at
we love Chocolate Baroque, the theme this month is:
**Beautiful Blooms**
I have been really enjoying using my new stash of
Chocolate Baroque stamps and after using 4 different stamp sets on my last card you will be relieved to hear that today I have only used 1 so my supplies list is much shorter.
I started with an A6 piece of Bristol board and blended 2 colours of blue Distress Ink. Once I was happy with the blending I chose my stencil to enhance the background, laid it over the panel and sponged white pigment ink onto the panel. I really love the look you get from using white ink. After removing the stencil I went over the panel again with the DI until I was happy with the way it looked.
I stamped the rose with Versafine Clair twilight ink (I am definitely going to be buying more colours of this ink, it is quite amazing) and clear heat embossed it.
To enhance the rose I took a damp paintbrush and lifted colour from sections and added a little extra colour to the nooks and crannies of the rose. I cut the panel down and mounted it on a white card leaving just a small edge and mounted that onto a dark blue card base.
When I first started making cards I very rarely added a sentiment to the front, but that changed over time now I very rarely don't add a sentiment. I decided that I really like this card and didn't want anything to detract from it. I hope you like it too.
You have until 30th of the month to join us over at we love Chocolate Baroque and although you don't have to use Chocolate Baroque stamps it would be lovely if you did. There is also a prize to be won.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Bristol Board; Bringmann 300gsm photo mounting board
Ink: Distress ink salty ocean and blueprint sketch; white pigment ink
Stencil: Spellbinders Impressabilities Pebbles
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