I'm the Happiest When I'm With You (by Corine)

Hello everyone, our Guest Design member Corine is with us this month, creating three blog posts for your inspiration. She has designed a beautiful floral card for her first post. 

Corine writes: 

Hello!

Here I am again. In February I will post three times a card as guest designer. I am very pleased to do this. My first project is a card with watercolour background.

I used stamps from the sheets:

Fancy Flowers

Gothic Fragments

Apply one colour of Distress Oxide to a craft sheet. Use light shades. Spray the ink and mist your paper with water. Run the paper through the wet ink. Let the ink 'run' on your paper and dry with a heat tool. Repeat this with a second colour.

Stamp with Distress Oxide the gothic window. Use bubble wrap to stamp the 'bubbles' with Distress Oxide.

Make sure your card is dry.

Emboss the flower with black embossing powder, colour it with watercolour markers.

Complete your card with a text. I chose a text from a collection of Tim Holtz. You can also stamp a text.

I used the colours Speckled Egg and Picked Raspberry.

 

I hope I have inspired you. If you want to try this technique, I wish you a lot of fun.

Kind regards,

Corine van Kuilenburg

 

Lacey Flower (by Corine)

It is week two for Corine to share her latest design with you, so without further ado here we go.

Hello!

Here I am again. This is my second post in July. I will show you today a card with a flower stamp from the sheet Fancy Flowers.

I used stamps from the sheets:

Fancy Flowers

Lace Fragments

On this Mixed Media background I placed a flower. For the background I used modeling paste, Distress ink, templates, embossing powder, water and Memento Luxe ink.

The lace and flower are embossed with Silver Pearl embossing powder. I coloured these with Distress Inks and ZIG-markers.

I love to create background with several layers.

Hope you enjoy this.

Kind regards,

Corine van Kuilenburg

Such a bright and pretty card, very delicate. Thank you Corine for yet another inspiring design. Wonder what she has in store for next week on what will be her final post.  We will wait in anticipation.

In the meantime join our regular Design Team girls every day  as they share even more loveliness with you.

Fancy Flower and Mixed Media (by Shirley)

Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the summer. 

I have a design today using a little mixed media along with another flower from the beautiful Fancy Flower set along with a fragment from Lace Fragments. .

I started with a sheet from the Leafy Brocade Printable set and glued it to water colour paper with Modge Podge.   I love the printable sheets, the designs are beautiful and you don't have to store paper, just simply print when you would like one.

Next I added a thin layer of Gesso and when dry I coloured in blotches with Neocolour II crayons (water soluble).   I spritzed water over top and let the colours run together.   I stamped the images with Teal Blue Stazon Ink (permanent water proof ink)  I coloured the flower with Tombow markers and blended with a brush & water.  I outlined with a water based Sharpie paint pen.   I added stickles to the center of the flower.    The sentiment is from Words of Gratitude. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Fancy Flower Clock (posted by Claire)

Good morning, I hope you're enjoying the glorious sunshine. I've got a project to share this morning using some of the lovely stamps from Fancy Flowers using some bright sunny colours.

I've used an MDF clock blank, painted with emulsion paint and sanded before giving it another base coat. I began by stamping the larger flowers and then masking them to stamp the smaller flowers and flourished. I stamped the buds too (using Memento Tuxedo Black) and then coloured the flowers with Graph'It markers. I stamped the gorgeous leafy stamp from Floral Edges around the edges using prgment ink, using first and second generation stamping to create some depth.  I used an old CD as a template to add the line connecting the sprays of flowers.  I sprayed the project with sealer and added some pearls for the remaining hours and lastly attached the clock mechanism.

Thanks for visiting today,

Claire xx

More Poppies and Fancy Flowers by Miranda

Hello there,

Today more creations with the new Poppy Meadow and the Fancy Flowers. This time I've used an heart shaped easl card for this stamps. On the first one I've used the Fancy flowers and coloured them with Copic markers. I've added a Memorybox die (flower heart) The quote in the bottom heart is from the Harlequin Rose sheet.

The 2nd one is made with the Poppy meadow sheet and this time in blue shades. Also used here some Memorybox dies. Behind the decorative heart frame die you can see the stamped Elegant Baroque heart. The sentiment is from the 'With Sympathy' sheet.

If you want you can also hop to my blog to see two other cards made with these stamps.......

Hope to see you next time and thanks for visiting!

heart greetings

Fancy Flowers by Clare

Chocolate Baroque has come up with some gorgeous new floral stamps, and you'll love working with them - I mean playing with them!  They are so fun to color!

This first card is made with stamps from the Fancy Flowers set.

This second card is so much different, even using the same stamp image!  Not a hard-to-do card at all!  I've touched up just the tips of the flower petals with a white pen, which makes them pop!  Check back soon for more inspiration!

A Blue Fancy Flower (by Shirley)

Happy Weekend everyone !

I have a quick post today with a design featuring a flower from the beautiful new Fancy Flowers set. 

I applied Shabby Shutters and Peel Paint Distress Inks to the background using the Acrylic Block Technique.     Next I stamped the Floral Damask Background stamp with Shabby Shutters.   When dry I stamped with a fragment from Textured Fragments and embossed with a blue glitter embossing powder.  I stamped the flower image from Fancy Flowers with black Stazon Ink and coloured with my Prisma pencils.   I used spellbinder dies for the shapes.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Altered Tag Book (posted by Judith)

Hi Folks I have a project for you today showcasing the Fancy Flowers stamp sheet. I have used a tag book which I covered with patterned papers, and stamped the edges of the front cover with a flower stamp from the Wisteria Lane stamp sheet. I then added a sentiment from the Artistic Affirmations stamp sheet. I stamped the flower head three times onto white card, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and coloured the images with my Copic markers. Once I had worked out the position of the flowers on the tag, I stamped the dotty stems, again, from the Wisteria Lane stamp sheet, onto the background. I then attached the flower heads.

For the tag, I stamped the texture background from the Texture Fragments stamp sheet,using clear embossing powder. I coloured the background using Distress Inks, and then ironed off the clear embossing powder, to create a faux batik effect. I sprinkled the background with water, and dried it with a heat gun. I stamped the flower image twice, using archival ink, masking the first image, before I stamped the second one. I bleached the images, and then coloured them using Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I added a sentiment from the Artistic Affirmations set to my tag, and a piece of lace that I coloured with Distress re-inkers and water. The swirls around the edge are from one of the flowers that also belong to this stamp sheet.

I'll be back in a few days with another sample, but I hope that you'll keep checking in for more inspiration from my team mates. Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

We have our winners ...

We have our winners courtesy of random.org - congratulations to you both.



First up, the winner of Fancy Flowers is Sunnyfae.  From her blog, I gather she has just started stamping this year and already she is creating some lovely artwork. Hope you enjoy your stamps Sunnyfae.

sunnyfae 28 June 2013 18:56

As always the stamps are stunning. I could think of so many uses for them.

Secondly it's LizM - you win the Poppy Meadow set Liz.  Looks like the lucky fairy really was smiling on you this time - enjoy!

LizM 29 June 2013 10:16

You've done it again!!! More FABULOUS flowers! I really love the Poppy Meadows - I do love a Poppy.....almost as much as I love a tree - ha ha. The Fancy Flowers are really cool, too.....I do think I need these stamps, honestly.
Looking forward to seeing how the Design Team use them...so inspirational.
Thanks for the chance, Glenda...hoping for the lucky fairy to smile on me.
all the best,  Liz M x

Can you both get in touch (click here for our contact page) to confirm your postal details and we'll get your freebies out to you asap.

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

Fancy Flowers by Miranda

Hello there,

Today I want to share my version of one of the Fancy Flowers and a corner element of the Poppy meadow. I fell in love with these designs the moment I lay my eyes on them! Aren't they gorgeous?
It challenged me to do a bit of extended drawing.......so come and look and be inspired........ This time I've been colouring with my Copics which are very neglected by me. I extended the flower with some lines and a put them into the corner. I was inspired by several Art Deco designs. I have made more of these designs, soon there will be more and in the mean time enjoy looking at all the gorgeous artwork our DT has been creating!

and here the 2nd one........ this time stamped with white ink on kraft paper and coloured with Derwent Soft Colour pencils. If you look at the sheet of these stamps you can see I've extended the flower and repeated the shape of the leaf. It's fun doing that!

Thanks for your visit and till next time,

Creative greet,

Miranda

A Fancy Flower (by Shirley)

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great weekend.

July is almost here and Glenda has announced new gorgeous stamp sets - Fancy Flowers and Poppy Meadow.    Each month it's like Christmas anticipating what yummy designs will be revealed. Today I have a design from the beautiful Fancy Flowers set.

 

I used a peach tone sheet of fairly solid designer paper for the backgrounds and stamped the images from Fancy Flowers with Cocoa Memento Dye Ink.   I coloured the beautiful flower with Prisma pencils and highlighted the center with a white Gelly Roll pen.   I blended a little Vintage Photo & Tumbled Glass DI around the background and added little pearls to the swirls of the flowers.

Please come back often as my talented teammates have beautiful designs to show you using the new Floral sets.   Also, don't forget to leave a comment at Glenda's Post here for a chance to win of one of them!  

Thanks for visiting and have a great day,
Shirley

July Stamps of the month - and a giveaway!

Hi everyone

it's new stamp time again and this month we've gone for a very classic Chocolate Baroque subject - timeless, elegant, beautiful florals.

We have a choice of the more traditional and realistic Poppy Meadow:

 and the slightly more contemporary Fancy Flowers:

And of course, we always like to offer you these at an introductory price so you can get them cheaper during their initial launch month.  You save even more when you go for the Poppy Meadow-Fancy Flower multibuy:

Click on any of the images to go straight to the product on the Chocolate Baroque website.

While I'm talking about prices (I really hate to do this) we will be increasing our stamp prices slightly next month.  We've held it off as long as we possibly can, but we just can't ignore the increased costs that go into making a stamp - everything from raw materials, labour, packaging, electricity - it's all gone up significantly in the last couple of years.

So take advantage of our current prices and don't forget to check out our Last Chance department too - we are retiring some older CDs and stamp - I've extended the date to the end of July, but after that they really will be going for good.

And finally - let's have a giveaway!  It's been ages since we've done that, so if you'd like to win a set of these gorgeous stamps, please leave me a comment below and I'll pick two winners at the end of next week.

Have a great weekend!