More shoes from Glenda

I thought it was about time I added some pictures of my shoes here as well.  Like Lesley, this is not normally a project I would tackle, but I enjoyed being able to play with trims and embellishments and surprised myself with what I did make.  I found heels too fiddly so just made mules!

This green shoe has a sole made from the Butterfly Bliss CD and the top is made from a zingy lime  card called Lustre card (a bit like mirri silk).  I wouldn't recommend it actually, it was difficult to bend into shape and had to be severely reinforced underneath with extra strong tape.  I stamped it with Abstract Flowers using purple StazOn and added a lavender sequin trim to it.  The bow is a piece of organza threaded through a copper buckle.

This one uses a paper from the neutrals collection on the Essence of Nature CD and the top has been stamped with a flower from Doodle Butterfly.  The white trim was something I've had for ages and never used (sound familiar?)

This one was actually the first I made and I even got the needle and thread out to sew the ruffled ribbon!  I used a flocked paper that I'd saved from a birthday present and stamped plain card with an ornate leaf design from the Breath of Spring stamp set.  I used a chalk ink that was very similar to the colour of the card, so you can hardly see the stamping.  I added a glitzy ribbon trim all the way round the sole and finished with layered Prima flowers.

I would love to see what artful shoes you can come up with - we have a free shoe template available on the website, so why not give it a go?

Leave a link to your creation here in the comments and if you use Chocolate Baroque products, we may even feature it here on the blog!

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

Paper shoe from Miranda.......

Hello dear crafters,

Today I like you to show my version of the paper shoe. My other teamies created also very beautiful shoes....... take a look at their blogs.
You can download a template of the shoe for free at the CB website.

I made this shoe from craftpaper and use of the beautiful sheet from CB paisley Elephant. I stamped with brown ink and added some gold embossing and a white pencil for some accents. It has a eastern look...... hope to have inspired you. Enjoy the paper shoe journey!

Greetz, Miranda

My Shoe...tique! (posted by Lesley)

Happy Bank Holiday to everyone,

When Glenda issued the Design Team with this challenge I have to confess to a sinking heart, lol!  This sort of thing is not normally my cup of tea at all but I decided to give it my best shot and guess what? ...............  I had so much fun!  I had no preconceived ideas of what I wanted to achieve, I just started with a particular paper or a set of stamps and let it flow and this is what I came up with.

For two of my shoes I changed the shape of the toe to a 'chisel'.

For this 'sandal' I printed Glenda's lovely paper design onto Sticky Backed Canvas which I then stuck to co-ordinating card before cutting out the pieces of the shoe.  I then stamped different flowers from the Big Flowers set onto Grungepaper, cut them out, inked them with Distress Inks before shaping, layering and positioning on my shoe and finally adding some Stickles to the centres and petal edges and a few punched leafy branches.

For my second shoe I went back to the pointy toe (that takes me back to my teens I can tell you and it was a loooooooonnnnnnnggggg time ago, lol) and went for Parisienne Chic.  I also gave my shoe a little heel.

After cutting out the pieces of the shoe from plain card, I blended Distress Inks all over and then overstamped with images from the Paris Postcard A6 plate.  Over the toe piece I stamped and gold embossed the lovely script stamp from the Antiquities plate and then assembled the shoe.

 
I stamped just a small section of the Notre Dame Cathedral image from the Paris Secrets plate onto a 1" Stampbord tile and used this as an embellishment together with some trim I found in a charity shop from which I made the flower.

This final shoe was my favourite bit of frivolous nonesense.  I used two paper designs from the Peacock Summer Party cd printed onto a heavyweight paper.  I stamped a lovely lacy border onto tissue paper, trimmed it and arranged it in a frill on the shoe.

I stamped a dragonfly  onto Angelina Fibres and repeat stamped the flower from Butterfly Daisy Collage to make the roses.  I also used some wire stemmed flowers from my stash together with ribbons to create the little arrangements in and on the shoe.

I think I'm going to make one of these with a little tag inside instead of a birthday card for my Mum.  It's just the sort of thing she will appreciate.

I hope you've enjoyed your trip around my little Shoetique and thanks for looking.

Hugs
Lesley  Xx

Stepping out in Style!

A little while ago, Glenda issued us with a bit of a challenge on the Design Team. She asked us to make some dimensional shoes. I had seen some lovely examples of these around on the Internet, but wanted to give a very distinct feel to my samples, that reflected the style of Glenda's stamps and papers. I wanted my shoes to look as though they were made of rich fabric, but all with a very different colour and texture from each other.
I used the same template throughout for my shoes, using Bazzil card for the base that matched the inks that I chose to colour the rest of the shoe. My first shoe was a very bold pink and black affair, with a handmade button, and lovely satin ribbon. I stamped the black design, using a stamp from the Filigree Fusion stamp plate. I embossed it with clear embossing powder, and then coloured the card with my Memento Lilac Posies Inkpad. The button was made from chipboard, and covered with Glossy Accents.

I made a matching tag with a Birthday greeting to go with this shoe, adding some black pom poms along the bottom.

The second shoe that I made was a much more subtle creation. I embossed a design from the Tall Trees stamp plate, using a pearly white embossing powder. I then applied Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, and stamped a tiny blue flower over the top. I added some pretty white lace to the shoe.

My last shoe was my personal favourite, it reminded me of Marie Antoinette at the French Court. I added a little heel to this one. I started by covering plain card with French poetry, and stamping a small rose from the Harlequin Rose stamp plate randomly all over. I coloured the roses with Inktense pencils, adding shading. I made a flower with a Nestability die, adding a large pearl brad. I used some pretty peach velvet ribbon to trim the shoe.

I thorougly enjoyed making these shoes, which was a very different venture for me. I hope you have enjoyed the tour of my brief foray into paper cobbling! Thanks for looking, Judith xx

Rainbow tree!

I have always been a great fan of the Chocolate Baroque Wild Meadow stamps, so I was excited to be sent the Teeny Weeny Meadow set ahead of release to have a play! The set contains some of the old favourites in miniature and some new images and it is one of these I have used on this card. This is the branches of a tree taken from a photograph. I have given it the Andy Warhol treatment!

I repeat stamped the tree image in black archival ink and cut out the tiles. I used at least 4 colours of ink on each tile in 6 colour families to build a depth of colour with Cut n Dry foam. I always try and leave a pale patch in the centre to get a glowing effect. I added a sentiment from the Artistic Affirmations plate embossed in teal metallic EP onto white card and the shaded with inks.The panels are matted onto hammered black card.

Needless to say I can highly recommend this versatile A6 set, as well as a number of cracking new stamp sets over on the Chocolate Baroque on line shop.

Have a happy and creative long weekend!

Elaine x

We have our winners

Well I've just been round all the DT blogs and collected in all the comments you have left, plus those you left here too.  I pasted them all into a spreadsheet and called the random number generator into play.

Thank you all so much for your comments and for all the lovely good wishes you have sent our way.  We are two weeks into our new venture and it's just fantastic to be back.  There will be new stamps released every month, so stay tuned for May's new releases coming at the end of this month.

So our lucky winners are:

Firstly it's Suzee!

Suzee Murphy said...

Opulence personified Judith ! .....

Second winner is Paula

Paula said...

Your use of the various blues in this made me think of a peacock & I love the way you've used the different inks to create depth.
Paula (PEP)

And thirdly it's Aquarius

Aquarius said...

Another great card with that stamp set. Thanks for the explanation - I think I've followed it but time will tell when I have a go!!

Well done to all of you - can you send me an email with your address to sales[at]chocolatebaroque[dot]com and I'll get your prize in the post to you on Monday.

Thanks for taking part everyone, and you never know, it might be you next time!

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!

More butterflies from the Doodle Stamps by ikki

Hi, this is another of my cards using the new Doodle Bird Stamps.

 Materials used:

 6" x 6" White Card, White and Lilac Pearl card

Decorative Paper: Simple Elegance

Flower die: Crealies - Swirls: Marianne Creatables

Nestabilities - Classic and Grand square dies

Chocolate Baroque: UA5SP0346

Grundgeboard squares coloured with alcohol inks edged with embossing powder

Ribbon and pearl gem.

ikki

another creation with the new doodle stamps

Hello dear crafters,

Today I will show you a card made with the new doodle birds stamps. Those stamps are so delightfull aren't they? I stamped the feather on the Echo's of Italy backgroundpaper and give some accents with glitter and a white gelpen. The birdcage is a Marianne die. I stamped the birds with white ink on purple/lilac paper and coloured them with Derwent soft colour pencils. Lots of white pencil..... I added some gemstones and a tiny feather is peeping out of the cage. Completed with a 2 coloured ribbon and voila!

Warm greetz, Miranda

Just Doodling

In the latest batch of new stamps from Chocolate Baroque, there are two A5 plates called Doodle Bird and Doodle Butterfly. The Design Team got to play with these before their release date. They are lovely stamps, and some of the samples are fabulous. I thought that I would show you one of mine today.

I used three 2" Stampbord tiles, and coloured them with inks, then stamped a peacock feather stamp onto each. I triple embossed each tile with clear embossing powder. I coloured some cream seam binding ribbon with Distress reinkers and water. I used a lovely paper from the Peacock Summer Party CD, and a real peacock feather to add impact to my card.

A simple sentiment from the Damask squares stamp plate finishes the card off.
I'll be bringing you some more samples made from these lovely sets very soon, and no doubt, the other Design Team members will show you some of their beautiful creations too. Thanks for looking, Judith xx

A Thank You card from ikki

Now that Chocolate Baroque has gone live and new stamps are on sale the DT will be displaying their  artwork using the Doodle Bird, flower and butterfly stamps.  This is one of mine....

 

I love the abstract nature of these stamps and used an unusal cardstock mix of lilac with a mat of orange.

First I coloured white cardstock with Distress inks, then stamped the images with Perfect Medium and dusted with various Cosmic Shimmers.

 A delicate but glowing effect.

Nice to do something different!

                                                                      ikki