Follow your heart, it knows where it wants to go (by Miranda

Hi crafty people,

Happy to be back again to share some of my crafty moments with you.

A very true quote ' Follow your heart, it knows where it wants to go. How often I do not listen to that? Do you recognize that?

Well, now on to the less serious part.......

I had a play with the The Folk Art Garden Rubber Stamp sheet - A5. This is such a beautiful and large stamp with lots of beautiful designs in it. So you can imagine that it took me a while to colour every element.......

I did stamp using black Versafine ink on a colorful distress background.

Then I started coloring using my color pencils and using Acrylic markers for accents. I also used some gold accents using glitter pens.

On the photos below you can see the shine of the gold much better.....

Thanks for your visit and always enjoy reading your comments. 

Till next week....

Stay safe and stay creative!

Mask Card (by Magda) - Baroque Meadow, Gratitude Words

Hello,  nice to see you again.
After sewing several fabric masks, I thought of making one with the same template using
instead of fabric, thread and  sawing machine, just  scissors, inks and stamps.

Here I list the items used:
White Cardstock
Distress Ink Pad blending blue and green and violet colors
Archival Jet Black
Glue 
Baroque Meadow and Gratitude Words
   

 Thanks for passing by and save the date of our next appointment on the 28th July,  Hugs

Magda 

timeless....? (by Veronica)

Good morning everyone, hopefully you are all well and enjoying some nice weather...

Today I have a couple of ideas to share using the big stamp from the timeless sheet. 

The first shows the whole stamp on a candle  - one side stamped in black onto white tissue paper and left naked, the other side stamped in black again but the background coloured with marker pens 

This is a big stamp, and I had to search to find a tall enough candle  - as it was so big, I used one image on each side so you could choose which fit the colour scheme better.  It was quite difficult holding the copy paper tightly enough when using the heat gun to apply the images to the candle - I should really have used a an oven glove but couldn't stop and look for one halfway.

My second sample just uses the clock faces to decorate a small A6 notebook. I was lucky that the notebook came with a black cover so I could just add my grungy image. The background was a page torn from an old diary, crumpled up and sprayed with diluted walnut stain ink. Once it was dry, I tore it to fit the cover, then swiped a dark brown ink pad over the creases and very roughly round the edges. 

I stamped the images twice onto white card using versamark, and embossed one in silver and one in gold. I cut the four clock faces out of the silver one, and just the large one from the gold then glued them onto the front of the cover.

Baroque Katya and Sunshine Meadow

Good morning everyone, I'm here with my first post of this month featuring the fabulous Chocolate Baroque stamps from last month's tv shows.  

Baroque Katya.

For my first project I have used stamps from the Katya, Baroque Meadow and Words of Inspiration sets; spray inks, black Versafine ink, clear EP, Versamark ink, white EP, white texture paste, CB Stencil - Russian Spires.

On a piece of Drawing Cartridge I stamped and embossed Katya then masked her .  I used a couple of spray inks to create a colourful background then added interest by using white texture paste through a stencil on one side of Katya and stamped and embossed the meadow flowers in white.   

I removed the mask and painted Katya.  I added some gems to her headdress and edged the panel with gold pen.   I then matted the panel onto a piece of embossed and gilded card and attached them both to a white base card, and added a sentiment tag.

Sunshine Meadow.

For the second project I used stamps from the Baroque Meadow and Words of Inspiration sets; 

Kraft Card, Distress Inks, Versamark ink, white EP and a stencil from my stash.

On a piece of Kraft Card I stamped and embossed the meadow flowers in white.  I then applied yellow Distress Ink through a stencil of sunrays and blended green ink  along the bottom of the panel to ground the flowers.  I blended ink around the edges of the panel then matted it onto green card and attached it to a base card.  I created a sentiment panel and added that to the front of the card.

Thank you all for dropping by today, I hope you've enjoyed my post and perhaps I've helped to spark your Mojo!  I shall be back later in the month with more crafty fun so until then stay safe and stay well,

                                x x Penny x x

Grungy Collage (by Gerrina)

Hello everyone, today sees the first of three posts from our regular Guest Team design member Gerrina. She has created a fabulous project for your inspiration.

Gerrina writes:

Feels so good...it is my turn again to show some things I made for the Guest Design Team here at Chocolate Baroque!
Three weeks in a row you will find not only here, but also at my blog, makes from me with the beautiful stamps from Chocolate Baroque...
This week the first. I made a grungy collage with stamps from two stamp sets on a card from one of my Art Journals.

Used materials:
Stamps: Country Views and Artistic Affirmations
Stencil: made by me
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Salty Ocean, Wild Honey, Mowed Lawn, Barn Door and Dusty Concord
Other: Aquarelpaper, Masking Tissue, blending tool, black fine pencil and waterbrush

Creatieve groetjes,

Gerrina

Looking at Backgrounds (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well. Even in times like these, I hope that you have been able to find some enjoyment in your crafting, in whatever form that has taken. A lot of you have been saying that your mojo has taken a walk, but hopefully the inspiration here on the blog, on the Facebook Group, and Lesley's daily Facebook live posts are continuing to provide you with lots of ideas.

I have created a card for you using the lovely Katya, and stamps from the Timeless stamp set. I used a piece of card from my stash that had been washed with a tea bag dipped in warm water. This gives the card a lovely aged feel, perfect for the look I wanted. It's a very quick way of colouring a background.

I stamped Katya using dark brown Archival ink, and covered the image with masking tissue, before adding the large image from the Timeless stamp set a couple of times. I then added lots of the smaller images using second generation stamping to fill the rest of the space, and overstamping the other image as well. I used sepia tones, keeping in with the general colour palette.

I removed the mask, and coloured Katya with Koh-I-Noor Polycolour pencils, these blend really well, and add a pop of colour to the main image. I felt that the main decorative piece on Katya's headdress reminded me of a cog, and so she fitted so well with the 'Timeless' theme, a lady from a bygone era.

To create my second card, I added Distress Inks to a piece of Drawing Cartridge with some water, and then stamped the little butterflies from Baroque Meadow across the background using toning colours of Versafine Clair inks. I used a whiteboard postcard, and stamped a sentiment from Words of Gratitude across the background using grey Archival Ink. I added some shading around the edge of the postcard using Distress Ink and stamped the Tangled Birch over the top, which I coloured with pencils as before.

My final card, which I shared at the time of the TV shows was a really quick card, a simple Brusho background with the same wording added. I then stamped the images from Baroque Meadow in black ink, and added a piece of black ribbon, before mounting the project onto black card.

These lovely stamps are so versatile, always a pleasure to create with. I will be back later in the month with more ideas to share with you. Take care for now, and stay safe,

Judith xx

Two Bookmarks (by Zoe)

Good morning Lovelies and welcome to my first post this month.
I hope you managed to catch the amazing shows last month on Hochanda featuring these amazing stamps.

I used Chocolate Baroque's Strip Stencils to create both backgrounds.
The first using the fabulous Tangled Birch stamp.
My second bookmark I used the words from the show as my background and diecuts to create the focal point, I do love verses and words to create backgrounds. https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/words-of-unmounted-rubber-stamp-multi-buy-a6.html

Thank you so much for visiting, I do hope I have given you some inspiration.
I'll be back later in the month with a couple more samples from the show.
Until then, stay safe and keep well.
Big hugs xx Zoe

Rather a lot of purple by Brenda

Good morning everyone, today I have some cards to share using the stamps from the June shows on Hochanda where the lovely Katya featured. She really is a lovely image and a delight to work with and it seems that without realising it I was having a bit of a purple day when I created these two.

The above card has an Oxide ink background onto an arch shaped base card created with dies. Katya was then stamped with Versafine black as were the Butterflies from Just Butterflies and sentiment from Words of Love and a few pearls added to embellish.

For the background to this one I used a piece of acetate which I dabbed with Oxide ink and a spritz of water and dabbed onto the card as I only wanted hints pf colour rather than covering the whole piece. I then randomly stamped with images from Rustic Fragments, Baroque Ephemera and Edgy Edges and a sentiment from what remains my favourite Chocolate Baroque sentiment set Words of Inspiration. Finally I stamped and cut out two clock faces from Timeless along with two wire circles (sourced from one of hubby's greenhouses!)

Have a lovely day.

Blog Comment Winner for June

Hello and welcome to the Chocolate Baroque Design Team Blog.

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 June was assigned a number and we used Random Org to draw a winner.

Congratulations to Anja v Kaarten 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 July'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

 

Baroque Meadow

Hello

I hope you are well.

Today I am sharing some of my cards from the Hochanda show in June.

The  stamps I used were Baroque Meadow, a lovely silhouette stamp and Words of Inspiration which has some lovely sentiments. There are 4 sets in the "Words of..." range and you can see them here.

My first card is simply stamped in Archival and a stencil has been used in the background. Distress inks are used around the edge to frame the image.

 

My second card uses the same meadow stamp with a different sentiment from the Words of Inspiration set. This time my background is done with alcohol inks on some satin card. I chose some pastel colours to give a summer feel to the card.

For my final card today I coloured the stamp with water based marker pens, I then spritzed the stamp with water before stamping.  This gives a lovely water colour effect.

Hope you enjoyed looking at these and I have a couple more to share with you soon.
Sandra x