Challenge 32, Week Four

Hello everyone, welcome to the final week of Challenge Thirty-Two on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We hope that you did not miss us too much last week. We are cutting back on our weekly blog posts just a little bit, but will still continue to bring you lots of Design Team inspiration at the beginning and end of each month. Thank you so much for your visits and comments throughout the month, we really appreciate your support. We hope that you are enjoying the current challenge, there is still plenty of time to enter, and be in with a chance of winning a £15 voucher to spend at Chocolate Baroque. You can add your entries to the link in this post.

This week, we are taking a look at some of the fabulous entries that we have received so far.

Rocky's striking steampunk tag makes full use of the metallic element included in this month's colour swatch.

Joan has created a fantasy watery theme for her clean and simple style card. The bold stripes representing the water are a very clever idea:

Regina would not normally use these colours together, but has created a fabulous floral card as a result:

Annie has created a bold covered journal, with lots of texture:

We have an email entry from Cath up next, a very elegant card, with a scene behind the intricate gates:

Penny's dragons full of character are sure to make you smile, and her dramatic skyline forms a great backdrop for the scorched mountainside:

Next up is a fishy scene from Kate; she has added a stencilled background and a bubbles stamp which matches the theme so well.

Pat's Spring themed card features an embossed background and prettily coloured flowers.

Finally Celia's project includes some handmade flowers and a beautiful textured background, lots of detail:

We have more inspiration from the Design Team for you this week. Anne has made a pretty card and tag set using the shaving foam technique to create the swirly background. She stamped the card blank with Distress Ink to create the outer background frame. The main images were stamped using Versamark and heat embossed with copper powder.

Zoe has made a hanging incorporating one of our new Kingfisher stamps, and created a collage style background with text and other images.

Julie's tag uses stamps from the Key to my Dreams set, and she has used one of the large keys as a focal point:

We will be back next week with a brand new challenge, but we hope to see lots more entries from you in the meantime. If you have any questions, but cannot find the answers on the blog pages, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Challenge 32, Week Two- Winner's Week

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. This week, we are announcing our winners of Challenge Thirty-One. The winner of the £15 prize to spend at Chocolate Baroque is Jan, whose project was drawn by Random.org as the overall winner. Congratulations, Jan, we hope that you enjoy your prize.

Please email Lesley on lesley@chocolatebaroque.com so that she can organise your voucher. You can also display our winner's badge on your blog. Details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page.

The Top Three this month have been chosen by the Design Team, who have, as always, had a really tough time, choosing from such a wonderful selection of artwork. The Top Three in no particular order are:

Kate:

Shelagh:

Carole:

Congratulations ladies, you can display the Top Three badge on your blogs. Details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Well done to everyone who entered, and we hope that you will join in with the current challenge. You can find the details here.

We have some more inspiration from the Design Team to share with you this week:

Marga has created a beautiful card incorporating foliage, stamping in both shades of green and adding copper highlights. the subtle splodges of turquoise and white on her background add great depth.

Anne's butterfly shrine is so pretty with the stamped foliage, and the co-ordinating die cut branches. The focal butterfly forms a beautiful centrepiece to her design.

Vronnie's stunning tag allows the Kingfisher to shine on the textured background with coppery accents:

Magda's scenic card would make a brilliant masculine Birthday card. The Brushos have created a fabulous riot of colour in the background:

We hope that these projects will inspire you to create something for the challenge yourselves using the current colour swatch.

We will be back in two weeks' time with another post, and more inspiration from the Design Team, but until then, we look forward to seeing lots more entries from you. If you have any questions, and cannot find the answers on the blog pages, please send a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Challenge Thirty-Two

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new challenge on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. Thank you for yor visits to the blog over the past month, and for your lovely comments. We really appreciate your support, and love reading what you have to say. We will be announcing the winner of Challenge Thirty-One next week, so if you entered last month's challenge, be sure to check out the blog post, to see if you are the winner of our prize.

As a reminder to those of you who have visited our blog before, and for anyone who is new to the blog, our challenges are monthly, based on an inspirational photo and a colour swatch. A new challenge is launched on the third Wednesday of every month. You can use any medium to create your projects; inks, paints, pens, pencils, etc., as long as you stick to the colours from the colour swatch in your project. We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps to one lucky winner, who will be selected by Random.org from all of the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps currently available from the website. We welcome entries incorporating other stamps and images, but they will not be eligible for the prize. All entries will have the chance to be selected as one of our Top Three, and can then display our 'I made the Top Three at Chocolate Baroque' badge on their blogs.

We have a beautiful colour swatch incorporating a metallic option for you this month, including a stunning piece of artwork from Miranda. We will be sharing some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team over the coming weeks. Here is the colour swatch for the new challenge:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 14th March 2017, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday 22nd March 2017. Here are some projects from the Design Team:

Anne has created a beautiful wreath, using both stamped butterflies, and a pretty embossed butterfly as her focal decoration.

Vronnie has created two lovely cards with Brusho backgrounds. She has used the new Silhouette Grasses stamps to decorate the cards, and they could be useful for so many occasions:

Claire's pretty tag is full of vibrant colour, and her acetate Steampunk Butterfly has been glazed from behind with inks:

Thank you girls for your inspiration using the new challenge colours. We hope that they will inspire you to create something yourselves for the challenge. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the challenge blog team. You can get in touch by sending a private message, details are at the end of this post; below the comments section.

We hope that you enjoy the new challenge and look forward to seeing your projects.

Judith xx

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