Thank you so much for spending your time visiting today.
Monday, 18 January 2021
Branching out - by Zoe
Thank you so much for spending your time visiting today.
Sunday, 17 January 2021
All in a row by Rachel
Hello there!
Rachel here today with some more makes from the Kim Moody stamps featured in one of December's shows. This time I am sharing the house stamps - this first one features Gran's house that I stamped multiple times and then highlighted a small area by colouring it.
Saturday, 16 January 2021
Take Flight - by Magda
Hello,
shall we take a good flight into the new year ? Well, I start wishing to everybody a Happy New Year with this journaling page.
The step by step will help you if you like to create a similar page
1. On a gessoed page, spinkle Distress Acrylic Paint Stormy Sky with a cotton buds for the sky
2. For the ground blend more green shades of Distress Acrylic Paint
3. Stamp with Archival jet black different hot air balloons of Steampunkery into the sky
4. Scribble with a wooden stick white Acrylic to emphasize the air and the moving clouds
5. Stamp in black the sentiment Take Flight of Steampunkery
6. Stencil the numbers 2021 and fill them with Distress Paint Abandoned Coral using a wooden stick
7. Blend dark green and brown of Distress Acrylic Paint on the foreground and stamp in black partially and randomly the lace of Steampunkery
I hope you will now have a go and post your creations, hugs
Magda
Friday, 15 January 2021
Floral Grunge by Brenda
Thursday, 14 January 2021
grand mansions.....
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Bright and Cheerful Flower (by Christine)
Hello everyone, today sees the first of three posts this month by our Guest Design Team member Christine Patch. She has created a colourful card to inspire you.
Christine writes:
May I start off by wishing you a very Happy New Year - let's keep our fingers crossed that it will be a considerable improvement on the year just finished, even if it might take a bit of time!
I decided to kick off my turn on the Blog with a very bright and cheerful design to be added to my journal.
I chose one of the designer papers and added some additional stamping to give it more detail. I used a Versafine Clair in a toning purple to add some butterflies and hatching.
Having picked one of the lovely postcards for a mat, the lovely large flower stamp allowed me to choose strong bright colours as decoration. I decided on Memento Tuxedo Black ink as I wanted to use Alcohol Pens for the colouring. I stamped two of the butterflies on white card and one on the same postcard for a point of difference. Glossy Accents added dimension to the bodies.
I found a wooden button in my stash that was the perfect colour and added that as an embellishment to the flower centre. I used the same flower stamp to edge the postcard and then the designer paper to bring it all together. Finally, I added a sentiment that I think is so pertinent to us all: Live life to your own design.
Chocolate Baroque products used:
Designer Papers 8" x 8" - Chic Script
Seriously Gorgeous A6 Postcards
Flower stamp taken from Tangled Garden stamp set
Open Weave cling mounted stamp
Just Butterflies stamp set
Sentiment taken from Freesia Blueprint stamp set
Happy Crafting!
Christine
xx
Monday, 11 January 2021
Tall Stories
Thanks for looking
Sandra x
Sunday, 10 January 2021
Messing About in the Water (by Judith)
Hello everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well in these uncertain times. Our thoughts go out to any of you who are unwell at this time, and we wish you a full and speedy recovery.
I have a couple of projects to share with you today. These projects feature stamps that we showcased during the December Tv shows on Hochanda. Unfortunately, I was unable to make any new samples for the shows, and found some older samples that I had made to send to Lesley for the shows. I have since had a chance to make a couple of projects to share with you, but will also show you a few of my older cards as well this month.
My first project is a card which mixes stamps from both Chocolate Baroque and those designed by Kim Moody. They work together so well. I coloured some drawing cartridge with some tea and let it dry thoroughly. I then stamped the larger piece with some images from A Dip in the Sea and Baroque Ephemera 1. I stamped the large postcard from Baroque Ephemera 2 onto a spare piece of background, and also the beach huts over the top. I stamped the beach huts once again onto spare card. I coloured the beach huts with Distress Ink, and decoupaged them onto the postcard. I added a couple of tickets behind the postcard, and coloured all of the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
My second project is a journal page. I enjoy using my journal to work out ideas for potential cards, or simply to play around with stamps and colour. I used two of Kim's larger stamps from Harbour Master and Jolly Roger, and stamped them on the same page. I linked them together with a fineliner pen, and added a few dots and dashes to finish the scenery. I coloured the image with watercolour pencils.
Here are a couple of my older cards using Kim's stamps:
I will be back later in the month to share more projects with you. Thanks for stopping by, take care,
Judith xx
Saturday, 9 January 2021
Home from home by Zoe
Thank you so much for spending your time visiting today. I hope you like my samples.
Thursday, 7 January 2021
All at Sea by Rachel
Hello there! Rachel here today with some makes from the December shows - but I am finding myself all at sea!
This first make is a porcelain bowl that I painted using the images from Kim Moody's Jolly roger stamp set. I stamped and panted the image (in glaze) three times before firing in the kiln.
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
Travel, Dream, Explore by Brenda
Sunday, 3 January 2021
sunny days
Good morning everyone, I hope that this may cheer you up if your weather is the same as mine!
This uses the quirky dip in the sea set by Kim Moody, which was featured on one of last months shows on Hochanda , really fun stamps to play with.
The background card was coloured with distress oxide inks, and randomly stmaped with the small images from the set to create a background. The actual stamp was stamped onto a piece of white card coloured with brusho powders, using versafine ink and clear embosing powder. The colour on the huts was taken out with bleach then the doors, roofs and window frames coloured with marker pens.Two thin dark brown mats to finish.
A quick heads up, Lesley will be back on Hochanda tomorrow (Monday) at 1800 and 2000 with some gorgeous new stamps for the one day special , and back on Tuesday at 0800, 1200 and 1600 if there are any left........there will also be some special offers to tempt you further!
Saturday, 2 January 2021
December Blog Comment Winner
Hello and welcome
to the Chocolate Baroque Design Team Blog.
We wish you all a
Happy and Healthy New Year
We truly appreciate
the time you take to let us know your thoughts about our designs, so each and
every comment is very important to us.
Each comment in December
was assigned a number and we used Random Org to draw a winner.
Congratulations to Sandma you have won this
month's £15.00 voucher to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps.
To claim your
prize, please email here to confirm your
email address and Lesley will send your gift certificate.
Lesley will be
giving another £15 gift voucher to another lucky winner drawn from January’s comments.
The more comments
you leave, the better your chances of being the winner.
Thank you so much
for all the kind comments you leave.
Good luck from all
on the Design Team
Here is another chance to see the beautiful creation by Guest Designer Anne
Friday, 1 January 2021
Happy New Year!
Hello everyone.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas despite the restrictions.
Today I am showing some of my cards made the the lovely Kim Moody range of stamps.
First is The Posh House
and Gran's House. I love the quirky drawings and crumbling exteriors.
Next is A Dip in the Sea with the fun beach houses. All the stamp sets come with "extras" like the deck chair, and bucket and spade.