Speshink DT - Louise - The Gent steampunk style.

Afternoon all, 

I hope everyone is keeping well? Today the Dt is back with Louise who has created this beautiful Steampunk style card using my 'The Gent' stamp. I love all the patina effect Louise has created on the cogs. Here is what Louise hase done xx.

Hi All its time for Cogs " Colours must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel" Han Hofmann Quote i rather like. 

So here is what i did to make this card 

Taking a square of card i painted it in a shade of ochre and then embossed it a few times with a Xcut Cut and emboss folder called Steampunk Cogs xcu 503812

To highlight the cogs i used Ocean Teal Gilding Polish and buffed it up and then added some black distress crayon to tone it down in places 

The Gent was coloured in wax pencils and cut out adding an extra flower for depth 

Bronze paint was flicked over the background for more interest 

The embossed card was mounted onto silver and black card hey presto completed thanks for looking.

Morning all, and as always a big thanks for stopping by. Today Neil Walker  is sharing a colorful apron he has made using my Sailor Jim stamp, available from my shop at the top of the page or through Chocolate Baroque Here.

Good morning friends.

My turn on the Mark Gould DT this week sees me heading sea side.....

I decided to add some interest to a plain white craft apron that I have had knocking about for a while now, just waiting for inspiration. Which arrived in the form of Mark's Sailor Jim

This was a fun project to do and I took things very casually.

To start I used Infusions to add some colours blends and dried it off.

The focal image was stamped onto the fabric and onto white card (cut out to create a mask)

With the paper mask in place the background was filled in with a random assortment of my stamps from The Artistic Stamper..

Painting on fabric has it's own challenges so I just decided I was not going to get too hung up on staying in the lines.  I used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics to paint with. Sailor Jim is the focal point of course so I spent  more time  painting him

Then just some simple highlighting and fun to tie the background together.

I added the sentiment using a Sharpie

I hope you like it. I had a good time making it. Sailor Jim is available HERE

Thank you for stopping by, Head back next Monday to see a new creation from the Speshink DT. xxx

Mothers Day Tags

With mothers day in the UK arriving this Sunday I needed to get my craft on and create something for my mum, I am also on double duty as my Sister had a little sprog just over a year ago and till said sprog is able to head to the shops and select a card i have decided to cover all the important occasions for her.

I used an MDF tag from That Craft Place and picked out a design paper for my back ground.

The Tim Holtz stamp platform really comes into its own for me with this technique, and is the reason I picked one up. I was initially skeptical on how the platform would work with a thick substrate, (the mdf is 4mm thick) and i was worried about how accurate the over stamping would be, I needn't have worried, By placing the tag towards the outside edge of the platform I had no trouble getting my image to stamp and it lined up perfectly when I cam back to over stamp.

( I will do a proper little step by step soon )

The Image was stamped using black archival ink and the image was painted using Decoart Media Fluids, you can be quite bold with the paint and it doesn't matter if you paint up to or onto the black ink lines. Once all the painting is done, carefully place the tag back on the stamp platform using the magnets as position guides, re ink the stamp and stamp over the top of the painted image, as the platform is so accurate the lines match up and there is no double image, it really tidies up the painted image and makes using acrylic paints much easier to work with stamped images.

My second tag has been turned into a tag card and I have gone for a more clean and simple look using a faux chalk board finish and this time the Gypsy Rose image has been stamped using a versamark ink pad, some Stamp n Bond from Stampendous (basically a glue that works like an embossing powder) this stuff is great, no more mess with wet glues like the flitter/flutter stuff that is just to sticky and messy. once the stamp n bond has been heated up and turned clear the silver leaf flakes were added for a little bling ;)

Hopefully my Mum ad Sister will like them.

You can find the Gypsy Rose Stamp as well as my other stamps in the Shop section at the top of the page or on the Chocolate Baroque web page under Mark Gould.

Stay Tuned for the new Mark Gould/Speshink DT that will be hitting this blog very soon.

Simon Says Stamps Monday challenge this week is Whatever The Weather and they are asking us to use any Tim Holtz Product, I have used the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform for my Painted Gypsy Rose.