I love... and Monochromatic

 

My DT cards today are for the new challenges we have at both We Love Chocolate Baroque  and Stamping Sensations.

Our new challenge at We Love Chocolate Baroque is for "I Love..." and I love the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and also stained glass. I attempted to make a stained glass window for my DT card by using Dressmaker's window with Mackintosh Beauty. I stamped the image twice leaving a gap between  the images to give the appearance of a frame. I coloured the image with intense pencils and then used water to activate them. I added a few highlights with a white gel pen. I stamped the window and then cut away the panes of glass to leave a frame which I coloured with shades of brown promarkers. 

I then embossed some card with a brick effect and and for the sentiment cut another piece of card which I placed on top to make a ledge and then used a sentiment from Canary Bird Rose behind a cut out.

This month we have two prizes on offer from Chocolate Baroque, the usual A4 or equivalent stamp set and the new Life Is So Much Better Sentiment stamp set.

My second DT card is for the Monochromatic challenge at Stamping Sensations. I decided to go with black and white for my grungy stationery themed card. I used a die set and stamp from CC and then added a stamp pointer hand from TH and various grunge stamps from other companies.

Our sponsor this month is 

Stamp Addicts is a family run business based in Bedfordshire and have been in business since 1992. We have watched the popularity of rubber stamping and all papercrafts steadily increase over time and now manufacture our own branded rubber stamps which frequently feature on Hochanda TV as well as exhibiting at craft shows across the UK.