Chocolate Baroque stamps and Aquablend markers

Morning everyone. Another blog from me for a card I made last night. Hope you enjoy and have fun playing. Any questions please feel free to ask in the comments. 

Things you'll need to make this card:

• Sheena card, Cream card, Black card.
• Chocolate Baroque Harlequin Rose stamp set
• Spectrum Noir Aquablend markers
• Glycerin
• Memento Black
• Chameleon pens 
• Spectrum noir clear overlay sparkle pen
• Ranger glossy accents
• Dusty concord distress ink

Step One:

Cut down some Sheena card to whatever size you wish. (As you know from my last blog I'm not one for measuring) Pick out a couple of colours of the aquablend markers. For this card I used Amber and Wildflower, but you can use whatever colours you want. Pour a little blob of glycerin onto your craft matt and scribble some colour down with the markers. Then get your blending tool or cut and dry and dab a bit of glycerin and work it into the foam. Pick up some colour and start blending on to your card in a circular motion. Repeat with the other colour/s untill you're happy with your background. For added effect I splatted some water over the top and dabbed off with a paper towel.

Step Two:

Take the small heat stamp from the set and inked it up with dusty concored distress, but use what ever colour to go with the colours you've use with thr aquablends. Then I just stamped randomly and done 2nd and 3rd generation stamping. Try not to over think where to put the stamps and stamp off the page aswell to give the background more flow.

Step Three:

Next take the main image from the stamp set which is the Harlequin rose, ink it up in black memento and stamp your image in the middle. As I was using my Tim Holtz stamping platform I stamped over a couple of times to get a darker image.

Step Four:

Decide what colour you want the rose and colour it in. I used Chameleon pens Burgendy, Evergreen and Purple Grape for the swirls. If you don't have any Chameleon pens any markers that you have will work just aswell. 

Step Five:

Once you're happy with your Rose, take the little swirly boarder stamp and just stamp round the image carfully and join it all up. If you miss some or can't line it up you can always take a black pen and join it up yourself.

Step Six:

Matt onto black card and layer onto whatever colour that goes with the colours you used. I couldn't find a colour card I liked, so I just took the amber aquablend and just coloured the edges and added some clear overlay sparkle pen on top. Then adhere down onto your card blank.

Step Seven:

Last but not least, place small drops of glossy accents over the rose and leaves in different sizes. While still wet take the end of your pokey tool or a needle and drag it through the glossy accents from bottom to top to create more of a rain drop look.

 Hope you enjoyed this blog/tutorial and I hope it's inspired you to have a play and get messy. Please feel free to leave a comment or any questions you have.

Untill next time 
Crafty Hugs
Charlee
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