CB Colour Challenge #28

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. 

After I made this quick card I realized that it matches the colours for the current challenge at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #28 so I will join in the fun.   These are favorite colours and I'm sure they were stuck in my head after seeing the beautiful samples at the challenge blog.

I used the resist embossing technique for the first time in a long while.   I embossed the tree and words from the fabulous Steampunk Christmas with white powder.     Next I sprinkled Brusho powders, spritzed with water, let them blend and then sprayed a little turquoise Dylusions ink.    I also stamped with a snowflake from Reindeer Landscape in the background.

Below is the beautiful colour sample (created by Miranda) for the current Challenge which ends on November 15th.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Chocolate Baroque, Colour Challenge #10

Hello everyone, 

I have a design to show today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #10. 

This months' colours are fabulous, lots of fun to 'play' with.   I used Rusty Hinge with a little Picked Raspberry Distress Inks in the background.  I over stamped using fragments from Texture Fragments (which seems to be one of my favorite CB sets).   The whimsical image from Fantastic Florals was coloured with Rusty Hinge, Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves Distress Inks (on my craft mat using a brush and water).   I highlighted a little with a white Gelly Roll pen.   I didn't take the time to decoupage the butterfly, it would have popped up if I had, next time I will :).

And here is the gorgeous colour inspiration, designed by Miranda, for this month's challenge:

Designed by Miranda, Chocolate Baroque Design Team

You can find all the details about Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenges at the blog here. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #9 Free Download

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

I have a design today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge using this month's gorgeous & free download paper (that you can find at the challenge blog).

The main image is one of Chocolate Baroque's cling single stamps - Song Thrush which I coloured with Intense pencils.     The die cut flowers (Vintage Floret) and flourish (Bella Rose) are by Heartfelt Creations.   The background is the free download paper.

 
The challenge details and free background download paper (the background) can be found at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirleyx 

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #9

Hello everyone I hope you are doing well this week.

I have a design today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #9.  The colours this month are gorgeous.

I used one of CB's new cling single stamp - Lady in a Hat and a sentiment from the Amazing Birthday clear set.

The background is Dylusions Inks (Midnight and Teal) which I love stamped with a flower from the Sunny Sunflower set.   I coloured the lady with Inktense pencils, cut her out and attached.

And below is the beautiful colour inspiration:

Card designed by Glenda of Chocolate Baroque

We would love it if you could join us, please visit Chocolate Baroque's Challenge Blog for all the information.

At the suggestion of one of my kind followers, I will join in at the Inkspirational Challenge #78 - as the theme is "She Art or Image of a Woman".  (Thanks Greta :))

Thanks for stopping by,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 8 Free Download

Hello everyone,

I have a design today using the gorgeous (and free) download available from Chocolate Baroque's Challenge Blog.   I also used the beautiful set launched last month, Sketchy Doodle Landscape.

This was an easy card to create, it was relaxing to cut out the flowers and leaves.  I printed two pages of the free download that is available here.   I stamped the flowers and leaves onto one sheet, cut out and attached to the second sheet cut for the background.  I highlighted the flowers with a white gelly roll pen and added pearls to the centres.   'With love' is from Macintosh Sentiments.

I was honored to have one of my card designs published in the April 2015 Issue of Craftstamper magazine!  Whew hew!   (page 78 if you have a copy and want to take a peek as I cannot show it on my blog yet :))

Thanks for your visit and a have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #8

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

I have a card to show today designed for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge No 8.   I really like this month's vibrant colours.  I used stamps from the Indian Textiles set for this design.

The background was created with orange, yellow and lemon Brushos sprayed with gold Glimmermist.  I stamped the background images with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink.

I coloured the main flower image with Prisma Pencils.   I also used a stencil with writing with purple 3D stamp paint in the background.

For a detailed Step by Step description of how I created this card please visit Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog. 

Below is the colour inspiration photo:

We would love it if you could join us at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

Thanks for your visit, have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #7 Free Download

Hello everyone,

I have a design today using the free download available at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge blog.

This month's free digital paper is a rustic wood grain design that is great for masculine designs.  The card below was very quick to create.

The background is the free download that can be found here.  We would love it if you could join us in the current challenge.  You could win a gift card to shop at Chocolate Baroque !

I stamped a peacock from Peacock Parade with stamp glue and rubbed Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes - Egyptian Gold over the image.  It's extremely difficult to take a photo with all the glimmer you'll have to take my word for it, the image is very shimmery!  The flakes picked up the colours in the background.  

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #7

Hello everyone I hope you are having a great day,

I have a 'quick make' below for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #7.  

I used Brushos for a quick background using three of the challenge colours and then stamped the tree from Fantasy Trees with brown ink.   I also used a Tom bow marker to paint the grass and leaves.

Below is the inspiration design (by Glenda) using this months colours.   We would love it if you can join us for a chance to win a CB gift card.  All the details can be found at the Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge # 6 and a Free Dowload

Hello everyone

I have a design today using the free gorgeous digital download paper in rich jewel tones that is available at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog.

The background is the printed digital paper.   I stamped a beautiful flower from Pretty Poppies, coloured with Prisma Pencils and attached as shown.   

We would love it if you could join us at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #6 for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #6

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  

I have a design today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #6.   I used stamps from their beautiful Peacock Parade set.

 

The background was created using Mowed Lawn and Mustard Seed Distress Inks, water and an acrylic block.   I also blended both inks over the TCW Peacock Feathers stencil.   Next, I stamped  peacock feather designs with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.   

The main image was stamped with Cobalt Archival ink, coloured with Inktense pencils, highlighted with Gelly Roll pens, cut out and attached.   I also added Stickles.

And below is the challenge inspiration photo.  We would love it if you could join us at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #6 for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

Thanks for your visit and have a great day!

Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Challenge #5 Digital Download

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

I have a Valentine's design today using beautiful background papers that are this month's free digital download available here at Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog.

I stamped the beautiful Poppy Heart on the blue background paper and coloured with Prisma Pencils.  The sentiment is from Mackintosh Sentiments.  It's hard to see but the black piece across the card was embossed before adding pearls and attaching.

We would love it if you could join us for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirley x

Chocolate Baroque - Challenge #5

Hello my dear blog friends, I hope you are doing well.

I have a Christmas design today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge - #5.

The background is a piece of Basic Grey designer paper from my stash.  I like using the solid colours to stamp over and then colour with my Prisma pencils.    This one took some time, but it's very relaxing, I enjoy it very much.    The background is one of the fabulous Big Bold Backgrounds - Snowflake Outline.  The angel image is from the  Gothic Angels set, I coloured her with Inktense pencils and added lots of stickles to her wings.

And below is the challenge inspiration photo.  We would love it if you could join us for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

This is a card design by me using the same techniques, you may have seen my post in January 2014

Thanks for your visit and have a great day!
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Challenge #4 in Nouveau Style

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well this week.

I have a design to show today using the Free Digital Background available from Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog, which features the colours for the current challenge:

 
The background is the free download that you can find here.   I stamped the beautiful lovebirds from Nouveau Lovebirds with black ink, coloured with Inktense pencils and highlighted with a white Gelly roll pen and glitter.  The background behind the birds was created using Distress Ink & water on my craft mat.  I stamped the deco pieces from the set on the background paper (not straight at the top, it was hard for me to just leave it that way!).  Love is from Artistic Expressions. 

And below is the challenge inspiration photo.  We would love it if you could join us for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

Design by Lesley Wharton

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #4

Hello dear blog friends, I hope your week is going well.  I still have family visiting and don't have much time for visiting blogs this week.  I will get caught up eventually!

I have a card today that I designed for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #4.   I love the colours for this challenge and enjoyed working with them using CB's Indian stamps.

The background was created using the Acrylic Block Technique with Picked Raspberry, Persimmon, Rusty Hinge and Mahogany Distress Inks.  I also stamped the designs from Indian Textiles with Distress inks.  The elephant from Indian Elephant set was embossed with gold and coloured with Distress Inks (on my craft mat with water & brush).    The die cut flowers are by Crealies - CL CF 18.

If you have time we would love if you could join in the fun and for a chance to win £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.  All the details for the Challenge Blog can be found here.   Below is the gorgeous colour inspiration (designed by Lesley) for the current challenge:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge #3 and a Free Download!

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  I'm sorry I'm behind visiting blogs. 

I have a design today for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge #3 using this month's free digital download for the background.  

If you would like the two beautiful FREE downloads just head over to CB's Colour Challenge Blog to 'pick them up'.  We would love it if you joined us in the challenge as well. 

I used both Autumn Base and Autumn Overcoat for this design.  It was quick to make this card, the flowers took the most time which I coloured with Distress Inks (Walnut and Rusty Hinge).  I also added a little Rusty Hinge DI to the bottom background.   The Fairy was stamped with Coffee Archival Ink and is from the  October Fairy set.

 
The die cuts are Crealie CL CF25 and CL CS 02.

And here is the gorgeous Colour Challenge Inspiration design (by Lesley):

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirleyx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge 2

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week.   This is a scheduled post while I'm in the process of moving.   The move went smoothly but it's a lot of work as anyone who has moved knows.  It doesn't get easier as we get older.

We are very pleased with the fantastic response to Chocolate Baroque's new Colour Challenge.  I created this tag for Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge No 2 using the inspiration design colours (shown at the bottom of this post).    

I embossed the cogs from Steampunk Christmas with white.  I blended the following Distress Inks over the embossing to create the background:  Dried Marigold, Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo.  I stamped two flowers from Punky Flowers with Dried Marigold and Rusty Hinge at random.   I blended Dried Marigold and Chipped Sapphire on the butterfly from Steampunk Butterfly that was stamped with Cobalt Archival Ink, decoupaged and popped up over the background.  I also stamped the butterfly on the background so that the antennae didn't need to be cut out.  Art is from Artistic Expressions.  I used a white Gellyroll pen for highlighting and added Glossy Accents to the body which is hard to see in the photo).

Below is the gorgeous Colour Inspiration created by DT member Doreen:

 
If you have time we would love if you could join in the fun and for a chance to win £15 gift voucher at Chocolate Baroque.

All the details for the Challenge Blog can be found here.

I will continue to be on a blog break until the Fall while we get settled into our new home and create new gardens.   My craft room is still sitting full of boxes and needs work.  Thanks for your visit and have a great day.

Shirleyx

Colour Challenge at Chocolate Baroque

Hello everyone I hope you are doing well and having a great summer.

I'm showing a card today that I designed for Chocolate Baroque's wonderful new Colour Challenge Blog.  Each month there will be a new colour theme and a chance to win a Chocolate Baroque gift card.      The challenges will start on the 3rd Wednesday of each month,  please visit Chocolate Baroque's Colour Challenge Blog for all the details.

Since I've been in Christmas card 'mode' I decided to create a Christmas card in non-traditional colours for this month's challenge:

Chocolate Baroque stamps used:  Snowflake Flourish and Steampunk Christmas.

There is a step by step explanation of how I created this card over at Chocolate Baroque's Challenge Blog.   We would love it if you could join in the fun !

Here is the colour inspiration photo from Chocolate Baroque:

Thanks for your visit,
Shirley

A New Colour Challenge over at Chocolate Baroque

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well this week.   We continue to be very busy here, I'll explain in a post sometime soon.  

I'm pleased to advise that Chocolate Baroque will be hosting a new Colour Challenge each month, starting today.  You will find the new blog and all the details here along with inspiration from DT Members.

Here is the first colour challenge:

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Below is sample that I created in a simple style.    I have a design for the challenge that will be shown next week.  

CB Stamps used:   Harlequin Fragments, Artistic Affirmations along with TCW Coffee Splotch stencil, circle masks created with circle dies and Distress Inks.

I hope you can join in the fun !
Have a great day,
Shirley