New Sunny Sunflower Stamps and TWO chances of winning a set

Today we are launching a gorgeous new A4 set of stamps called Sunny Sunflowers.  This is a large (A4) set with a mixture of big and small flowers and some gorgeous leaves too.  Altogether there are 17 stamps - enough to build a beautiful garden!

From June we are introducing a regular feature on the Chocolate Baroque website - the "Stamp of the Month" which is an introductory or special price on one stamp set for a whole month.  Our former Guild members are familiar with the concept, but as we are no longer running the Guild, we are making the Stamp of the Month open to all our customers, including our trade stockists.

We will be starting this properly in June with a 'Stamp of the Month' page on the website, but you'll be pleased to know that this particular set is being launched with an introductory price for it's first month!  Click here for details.

We have one set to give away here on the blog and one set on our Facebook page.  Please 'like' our page on Facebook to be in with a chance of winning over there, or leave a comment on this post here.  (Do both and you stand two chances of winning!)  I'll announce the winner on June 1st.

The card shown above was done with Versamark and PanPastels and the sentiment is from one of my most frequently used word sets - Loving Sentiments.

The Design Team have come up with some very creative projects using these stamps - please check back to see what they come up with, or why not become a follower?  You can also keep up on Facebook as we automatically link to all our blog posts over there too.

Any egg-scuse for Chocolate

If you read Craft Stamper, you may already have spotted that our advertisement this month features a new set of stamps called Baroque Eggs.

 

There are some eggsquisite designs on this plate and some eggcellent phrases - eggsactly what you need for Easter.  OK, ok, I'll stop with the eggstraordinarily bad eggy references now ...

I find myself very drawn to imagery of eggs, both natural and decorated.

 

I love the huge variations in colour that you find in nature.  

 

or the lavish fantasies of the Fabergé eggs - very baroque

and not forgetting a little chocolate of course!

Well you can indulge in as much Chocolate as you like this Easter - Chocolate Baroque Eggs have absolutely no calories whatsoever!  Oh, if only all chocolate was the same ...

Here are a few cards I've made with these scrummy new stamps - I'll post more details of how I made these over on my blog.

I seem to have been in a yellow and aqua kind of mood - it's a nice fresh spring palette don't you think?

Before I go, I suggest you keep a close eye on Miranda's blog - she may have a little surprise for her followers coming up soon.

We have more new stamps coming out this week too

Delightful New Spring Florals

I'm so excited to announce our new stamps for January.  Three beautiful and very useable floral sets.  I managed to get in some playtime with these over the Christmas holiday and found myself reaching for the inktense pencils and copic markers quite a bit.

The Rose Tree

Fragrant Honeysuckle

  

Wisteria Lane

Watch out for these cards and more appearing on the blog here or over on my own, glendawaterworth.com.  The DT have done some wonderful cards too - stay tuned for lots of sunny warm Springtime inspiration!

If the shoe fits ...

When Glenda asked the Design Team to put together shoes using papers from the companies CDs and stamps, the crafty side of my brain kicked in. There are a few templates around on the internet.
Glenda has put a template onto Chocolate Baroque website. It's a free download.
Print the template onto printable acetate, cut out and then you can place it where you want on beautiful papers. Or print it out on paper and draw around it on card ready to stamp on.



The photographs are a few of the shoes I had fun making and 2 of them were featured in the Chocolate Baroque newsletter.
I hope that the photos we have added will inspire you to have a go.
Have a crafty bank holiday weekend
Debbie

Time for a Giveaway!

Well, things are settling down a little now that we have launched the Chocolate Baroque online shop which can be found at www.chocolatebaroque.com.  Alongside that, we have also launched a community website run by Ning which is a buzzing place with over 500 photographs of artwork featuring our stamps and papers.  You can join up at www.chocolatebaroque.ning.com. 

In the What's New section of our website, you will find the mini stamps that were revealed here a few weeks ago, as well as three other new sets.

Firstly there are two A5 sized stamp sets that were designed to compliment the Craft Stamper butterfly covermount stamp that was included with the April issue.

Doodle Butterfly

Doodle Birds

As you can see, the DT have already started showing you some of their makes with these sets and I think you can see how versatile they are.

We also have an A4 set that is a personal favourite of mine

Butterfly Dreams.

The largest stamp in this set needs the large 6x6 inch acrylic block as it's a whopping 5.5 inches square.  Looks great on a Stampbord block.

So, I'm doing a little random giveaway - I'm giving away one of each set to three lucky winners, but you have to do something in return to be in with a chance.

In the past I have drawn winners from comments made on this blog, but this time, I am going to be drawing winners at random from comments left on here or on all of the Design Team's individual blogs.  Yes, I am encouraging you to visit their blogs and leave comments on their Chocolate Baroque artwork.  The more blogs you leave comments on, the more chance you have of winning.

Good luck!