We Love Chocolate Baroque - I love

  Welcome to a new month with We Love Chocolate Baroque where the theme is I love. A lucky winner will be able to select an A4 stamp sheet or stamps to the same value from Chocolate Baroque, a small independent art and craft company based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley Wharton. 

Well, I love gift bags, butterflies, vintage and the colour blue so I made a gift bag from white cardstock and covered it with a white paper that I crumbled and coloured with distress ink Vintage Photo. I stamped the image from Butterfly Poppy Collage once on the backing paper and once on a separate paper so that I could colour the butterfly, cut it out and layer it on top of the first image. 

🍭 Allsorts - Use Yellow 🟡

   This week at 🍭 Allsorts the theme is Use Yellow 🟡. I used a backing paper from Chocolate Baroque called Black and White paper series 2. I coloured it with distress inks in Mustard Seed and Dried Marigold and coloured the flowers with Seedless Preserves. The backing paper has lovely details so I just added a stamped sentiment. 

One lucky winner will get this stamp from our sponsor this week:

Chocolate Baroque F is For

🍭Allsorts - feminine 👗

 This week at 🍭 Allsorts the theme is anything 👗feminine 👠. I made a card using an image from Rick St Dennis, coloured with distress inks and mounted on a backing paper distressed with seedless preserves and sprayed with perfect pearls. The lace is a Martha Stewart edge punch.

and my second creation is a gift bag using Chocolate Baroque  Black and White paper series 2 and a stamp from Tall Trees rubber stamp set. I coloured the paper using distress inks in shaded lilac and peacock feathers. The butterfly and the leaves are cut from the same paper, and I coloured the stamp on the tag in peacock feathers as well. This paper is really lovely, it's very smooth and thin - like printer paper - but takes ink, water and all sorts of wet media perfectly. 

Our first prize comes from Chocolate Baroque, the fabulous stamp set below, which will be part of their March 5th release.

Chocolate Baroque will be on Hochanda TV on March 5th at 9am and 1pm (UK times)

Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley Wharton. 

Our second prize is this beautiful Pixie Dust header die by Tonic. 

Tonic Studios are synonymous with quality and precision cutting products from scissors to punches, guillotines to dies. During the last year they have extended their range of products to high quality clear stamps  and very recently released their own design papers. Their products are available from many High Street craft stores and frequently feature on Create and Craft TV.

🍭 Allsorts - Anything goes with number option

  This week at 🍭 Allsorts the theme is Anything goes with a number option. 

I made a gift bag, using a silver coloured gift bag (I have a bundle cause they are from when our town was cultural capital of Europe). To cover the original logo I made a paper distressed with Broken China, Worn Lipstick and Dusty Concord and then used the patterned mask and distress ink Faded Jeans. I cut out the name and the numbers from sparkling gift wrapping paper, using my Silhouette Cameo. 

We are sponsored this week by

We Love Chocolate Baroque - mid month reminder

 This is the mid month reminder at We Love Chocolate Baroque where the theme is Flowers, Butterflies and/or birds. . A lucky winner will be able to select an A4 stamp sheet or stamps to the same value from Chocolate Baroque, a small independent art and craft company based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley Wharton.

I made a card using an image from the Autumn Poppy Rubber stamp sheet. The image is embossed and coloured with distress inks in red and purple. I shaded the card with distress ink Old Paper and added some gold shimmer here and there to give the image life. 

 

🍭 Allsorts - Masculine

   This week at 🍭 Allsorts the theme is Masculine. I usually find it a bit tricky but I found a lovely digital image from Tiddly Inks to work with. 

The background is made using a mask and silver acrylic paint, I fussy cut the image and placed him on some die cut cog wheels. 

Prize this week:

February challenge at We Love Chocolate Baroque 🌺🦋🐦

 Welcome to a new month with We Love Chocolate Baroque where the theme is Flowers 🌺, butterflies 🦋 and birds 🐦, any or all. A lucky winner will be able to select an A4 stamp sheet or stamps to the same value from Chocolate Baroque, a small independent art and craft company based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley Wharton. 

I used the stamp Flora Musica, coloured in distress inks, and die cut the image before I placed it on a kraft paper background. The kraft paper gives such a crisp contrast to white. 

🍭 Allsorts - Love is

   This week at Allsorts the theme is Love is. 

I made a tag using a heart sticker in silver and added a silver bow and som pink flowers and pearls. Easy but quite effective.

Prize this week:

  
Bee Crafty BEAUtanicals Poppy and sentiment