Gathering Inspiration

For those of you who may not know, I hold a trade in decorative glass work, specialising in leadlighting and sandblasting. When I first saw the Baroque Motifs stamp set, I got to thinking of a Victorian period house I did a load of sandblasted glass work for, here is a pic of one of the side lights for the main entrance.

Mathew, the owner/builder is also a person with passion for his craft, he managed to get hold the original plans for a victorian style house and created his dream. He tried various places for his glass work until he heard about me, he wanted his glass work to be hand cut in the traditional slyle.

This small pannel of four roses took 5 hours from start to finish, the entire project included 36 roses, Then there were transomes and other little bits and pieces too. A huge job in all and I am yet to make it back to Melbourne to see the finished house…one day.

I am not working with glass at this point in my life as my son is only 3 1/2, when he is a little older I shall take it up again. So for now I will gather inspiration from the past to create in the now.

Now you know the story behind the design, let me share it with you. I have used the Versamark on the Rose Red cardstock with the vine design from Baroque Motifs. I then stamped 3 of the bolder style flower onto a piece of Regal Rose cardstock, I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to line them up too. I then popped a new blade into my craft knife and cut the stamped images out, turned it over and added some razzle dazzle with the rhinestone brads. A couple of thin strips of vanilla added to the underside edges and then used dimentionals to stick the rose strip to the red base.

The Ingredients List

Stamps:

• Baroque Motifs

Cardstock:

• Rose Red
• Regal Rose
• Very Vanilla

Ink:

• Versamark

Other Bits:

• Stampin’ Dimentionals
• Rhinestone Brads

If you’d like to know more about the products and techniques used in this project, please feel free to contact me.

Warmest wishes for your day,

Melanie Packham