Fuschia Heart for Valentine's Day

Hi, everyone!  I can't believe that it will be Valentines's Day soon! But as you probably know, it's never too late too start on the next "holiday's" cards - I don't want to get behind like I did last year!

This card is made with the Fuschia Baroque Heart, a clear stamp from Chocolate Baroque's new line. There are four separate Baroque Heart stamps, but you can also buy the four as a set. Click here for the set.

It was an easy card to make, and I just used a hobby knife to cut around the top of the heart to "pop" it up a little. The background was done with a swirly stencil in the same colors, and I added a little bit of die cutting to the top. The word "Passion" is from the Butterfly Dreams stamp set.





I've got to get to making the rest of my Valentine's, so I wish you well, and Happy New Year!

Hugs, Clare

Patience!

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Christmas Wreaths

Christmas is Near!

Merry Christmas, everyone! As you've heard many times before, and have probably said it a few, it's Christmas again! It seems like it was just hot and humid, buggy and summer! Time flies faster and faster! Is it the same for you?

I've got a couple of projects to share with you, and I hope you like them. These are swing cards, made using the wreath stamp from the Chocolate Baroque Christmas set, called Hearth and Home Unmounted Rubber Stamp Sheet - A4. (click on name to go to the page on the CB website)

I stamped the wreath in Versafine Onyx ink, and colored it in with water-based markers. The image was cut out with scissors, and popped-up with foam adhesives. Pearls or rhinestones were added to the centers of the flowers and the holly berries for dimension and bling. The papers were from my stash, and coordinated beautifully together.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you'll leave a comment below!  Happy holidays, and may your new year be filled with blessings, love and laughter!

 

This card is my favorite! I never thought I'd like
the lighter green for Christmas, but I do!

Pink is not my first choice for Christmas, but it was in this
Christmas paper, and coordinated with everything well!

Peace on Earth Arch

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Hello, again! Don't you just love the Chocolate Baroque Gothic Fragments set, released in October this year? I had stamped several, then colored them differently, and thought this color combo looked striking! I love the stained glass windows in cathedrals and churches, and this looks regal to me.

I stamped and enbossed the arch in gold, then colored it with yellows and golds, grays and blacks. I had the background cardstock in my stash (the black and tan embossed pattern), and the gold patterned paper was in a new stack of old-timey Christmas paper. I cut just a little rectangle from a shiny gold matte from a picture I had taken out of a frame, and layered the "Peace" over that. It was embossed in silver, then detailed with a black glaze pen. The inside of the card was stamped with another stamp from the Gothic Fragments set, and the sentiment is from the Chocolate Baroque Joyful Christmas set. A little bit of gold ribbon, overlayed with some black sequined trim, and that's it! I hope you're inspired!

Snowy Icy Trees

Hello! It has gotten downright chilly here in Tennessee! I do wish it would snow, but until then (and if it does) I'll have to settle for trying to make the ambiance with my stamps, paper, colors, hot chocolate and the fireplace!

This card was made using the Chocolate Baroque stamp set, Terrific Treescapes. Just click on the name to go to the web page so see more details on it. This set is so versatile! I used an embossing folder, and some glittery die cut snowflakes given to me by my friend, Donna, to accent the main image. I applied some snowy glitter to the trees, which you can see better in the second photo. Just a little bit of blue sheer ribbon tops this card off.  This makes me feel a little more chilly! Yay!

A Christmas Ornament

Merry Christmas, everyone! It's that time of year to celebrate again, and the Chocolate Baroque set Pears and Baubles is an awesome one to start your cards with! The detail on these stamps is so exquisite and fine! It was a lot of fun, and very relaxing to sit and color all the little spaces! This is one set I will be using over and over again!

 The word "Joy" is from the Chocolate Baroque set, Ivy Trails. I stamped the bauble in black ink and colored it in with water-based markers, then cut it out close to the outline. Some little shiny round stickers were placed in the center, on the word 'Joy", around the periphery of the ball, and on the bottom left corner. I used the smaller ornaments for the inside of the card.  I must apologize for not knowing where I got the inside sentiment!  I'm sorry!  It's a great one!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a blessed New Year!

Fall "Waterfall" card

"Happy Fall, Y'all," as they say here in the South! The colors are so beautiful, and one more good rain storm and a little wind, and the trees won't have anything left on them! I love the crunch when one walks on fallen leaves!

Here's a new card that reflects the golden splendor of Autumn, using the new Terrific Treescapes clear rubber stamp set from Chocolate Baroque! Just click on the name above, and you will be taken to the CB website page for this set. Adding any of these trees to a hilly landscape will give you the perfect panorama view of Tennessee in the fall, and perhaps where you are, too. Autumn is probably just as beautiful where you are, but I'm partial to my "neck of the woods", with our rolling hills, tall trees and thick forest. There are birch, persimmon, oak, pine, juniper, Bradford pear, maple, cherry, and so many others!

This type of card is called a "Waterfall" card. The tab can be added any direction you want, to open the flipping layers. It wasn't hard to make at all! As you pull the tab out, each layer flips over.



The leaves were stamped using different images from the new Chocolate Baroque clear stamp set called Tangled Garden.  I used metallic gold, copper and other inks. The gold leaf was stamped in craft ink onto a piece of gold mat board, then cut out. The sentiment is one from my stash of vellum sayings, and this particular one is from Jim Bishop. The background paper is from a DCWV stack of just photographs, and the solid cardstocks are from a small 3"x3" stack of textured stock from DCWV, and Stampin' Up. I used two eyelets to keep the vertical bar in place, and an eyelet and several different types of cord/fibers for the pull. If you have any questions, please contact us!

Have a wonderful Autumn (or what's left of it now that Thanksgiving is over)! Love that cooler air!

Gothic Leaf

I love Autumn! I love fall! I love the coolness and the colors! I love Glenda's Gothics!

This Gothic Fragments spire has leaves on it, and was perfect for coloring for fall. I thought the shape looked like a leaf, so I attempted to make it look like one. I used an embossing folder to make the leaf imprint on the two background panels (one of which is a copper shiny cardstock) and used some fall paper from my stash. The ribbon was new - some beautiful glittered ribbon I found at the Dollar Store. I stamped the image in dark green, then used Stampin' Up markers to color the leaves in, and Stampin' Up classic ink pads and sponge daubers to shade in the rest. This was a very easy card to make!




























This is the new Gothic Fragments set, and you can go directly
to the page to see and order it by clicking HERE.

 
I used the little pinecone stamp from this new clear stamp set called Ivy Trails.  You can find it by clicking here on the Chocolate Baroque website. 

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you're "fall-inspired"!  My best to you!

Christmas Creatures

Hello, everyone! Thanks for stopping by!  This new set of stamps, just in time to use for Christmas, is just too cute! I'm getting a head-start on my supply of cards for the holidays! I was going through a broken plastic cardstock and paper container, when I came across this red and white background paper - perfect for these stamps! The stamp set is called Christmas Creatures, (shown below) released this month by Chocolate Baroque! (click on the name, and it will take you directly to the page on the Chocolate Baroque site) I absolutely love owls, and I am a fan of the Snowy Owl. I think this little guy is in need of a trip to the hair salon, though!

 

I went out into the backyard, and found a little stick to use as her perch. I used a branch punch and cut just two sets of the three "toes" from the ends of the branch for Owl's feet. I cut apart some white turkey feathers from my stash, and glued them in layers over the stamped image. I found some shiny black rhinestones to use for her eyes.

Below, I wanted to show that the mistletoeflake had gotten stuck in the tree branches, and part of it was dangling down over the owl's head. Am I overthinking this? The snowflake is from the Gift of Christmas set, shown below.

I love the fact that this little bird even decorated her small plain tree with a beautiful bauble!



Christmas Creatures



I hope you've enjoyed your visit, leave with some inspiration, and ordered your new clear stamps! You can save some money if you order the two sets as a "Multi-Buy"! Click here to see this offer.



 





 







Chocolate Baroque Stamps - Poinsettia Joy

Hello!   It's not too early to start thinking about Christmas, as it's already September!  Only three months to go! 

Now, don't you just LOVE these images? The Poinsettia flowers and the word "Joy" are from one of Chocolate Baroque's new clear stamp sets, called Joyful Christmas being released this month! The chapel image is from a new clear set called Christmas Creatures. That's one of the reasons I love, love, love Chocolate Baroque stamps - they coordinate so well with other stamps they produce!

The chapel image was heat embossed in gold, then colored in with Stampin' Up and Copic markers.



This card was very easy to make. It consists of two different styles of image, the shadowed chapel image, and the stylized poinsettia's. The ribbon is 1" wide burgundy grosgrain. I hope you've been inspired, and please come back soon for more new and awesome stamps and examples!  Here are photos of the two stamp sets listed above.