Challenge 1: Week five a review

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another week on the challenge blog. Firstly, we would like to welcome our new followers, and thank all of our entrants to the challenge this week. You have been creating some fabulous entries.

If you are new to the blog, and this is your first visit, then please take a look round and familiarise yourself with the pages by clicking on the tabs at the top of the home page. Our current challenge can be found here and you can enter the challenge by clicking on the Inlinkz link.

This week we are going to spotlight some of the very creative entries that we have seen for this current challenge. Our very first entrant to the challenge was Jane 

with a great multi-layered background, white highlights, beautiful flowers, and a fabulous elephant.

In complete contrast, Lesley provided us with this lovely tag:

The soft colouring on the background is so pretty, offset by the vibrant hand tinted lace and those two beautiful butterflies.

Lucy entered an altered bottle as her project for the challenge, showing just how versatile the stamps can be: :

There were some more CAS style cards entered into the challenge as well, one from Kath incorporating strips of book pages and various pieces of ephemera.

Here's another by Robyn incorporating some simple poppy heads, a soft background, and a sentiment:

We have had so much variety in the entries, which you can see in just the few designs that we have chosen to spotlight this week. You can take a look at all of the entries here.

There is just one week left to enter the current challenge, our next challenge starts on Wednesday 20th August, so why not grab your crafty materials, and create something using our current colour swatch and inspirational picture? The winner of our first challenge will be announced 27th August and we will also be awarding our top three.

We look forward to seeing you all next week for a brand new colour challenge with inspiration from our Design Team. Don't forget, if you have any questions and you can't find the answers on here please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post, you will see it after the comments section.

Week 4 Challenge 1

Hello everyone, welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog. I would like to say hello to our new followers this week, and thank you to those of you who have entered the challenge so far, we are really enjoying your artwork.

Why not grab your crafty materials, and create something using the inspirational picture and colour swatch from our current challenge. You can enter using the Inlinkz link by clicking here .

This week we have something slightly different for you, a free download designed by our very own queen of the digital downloads Lesley . She has designed this 8" x 8" download especially for the challenge blog, and we hope that you will use it to create something crafty. It is not linked to the challenge at all, simply a freebie for you to use for your enjoyment. Please do not pass it on to others, but send them back here to collect the freebie for themselves.

To obtain your free download please click on the image below. Once you have the enlarged image on your screen, right click on the image, choose the option 'Save As', and save the image to your computer. You can now print the image onto a variety of surfaces for your crafting projects.

Here is a card that Judith has made with the download onto canvas for your inspiration:

We will be back next week with another post, and hope to see lots more entries for the current challenge. In the meantime, don't forget if you have any questions, and you can't find the answers on here, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Judith.

Hello and Welcome!

Hello everyone and welcome to the new

Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog!

We are a new monthly challenge blog, with challenges launching on the third Wednesday of every month.

Our challenges are based around an inspirational photograph with a colour swatch for you to use for your projects. You can use any medium to create your projects; paints, inks, pencils, pens, as long as you keep to the colours from the colour swatch in your project. You can make whatever you like; a card, tag, box, scrapbook page, altered item, mixed media project, there are no limits.

We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on the Chocolate Baroque website to a lucky winner. The winner will be selected by Random.org from all the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps in their projects. We welcome entries incorporating other stamps, but they will not be eligible to win the monthly prize. All entrants will have a 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 blog.

Take a look around the blog and familiarise yourself with the layout. Have a read through the tabs at the top, they are pretty self-explanatory, you can even find out why challenges are good for you; and read how you can take part. The most important thing is to have fun, create something colourful and to share it with everyone. Good Luck.

Here is the first photograph for you to use for this month's challenge:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on 19th August GMT, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday 27th August 2014.

Our Team have created some inspirational projects for you:

Glenda

Florence

Debbie

Maria

Doreen

  

We look forward to seeing what you have created and hope that you enjoy the challenge!

Judith 

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