An Announcement - And Getting Back To Nature

I am really excited  to tell you we are the new Chocolate Baroque Challenge, a UK company whose stamps are high quality, with elegance and style.

 Here listed  as this is our first challenge are the basics:

• We are a stamping challenge and the focal element of you entry must be hand stamped and reflect the months theme.
• Digital images are not eligible.
• Any make of stamp can be used on your entries.
• But entries using a Chocolate Baroque stamp will go into the prize draw twice and be eligible for selection in a Featured Designer spotlight.

For the theme see below the Stamping Sensations challenge

So a new month for Stamping Sensations and We Love Chocolate Baroque challenges:-

At Stamping Sensations this month the theme is 'The Great Outdoors'  I have made a file, which I am going to use to keep my notes about Inks, Paints etc in.  I started with some grey board which was cut into three pieces, I then cut white card stock to cover them, the ring binder mechanism I bought on ebay, and using Distress Inks and Lavinia stamps I created my outdoor scenes.

Our prize this month will be two A4 stamp sheets from the Rare Earth collection (actual sets may vary).

           

And of course, the Design Team have created some stunners to inspire you. Please do pay them a visit to their individual blogs - it means a lot to know you appreciate their efforts.

And now onto my second challenge creation for We Love Chocolate Baroque, where the theme is 'Butterflies, Birds & Bees Or Anything With Wings', 

I stamped the main image, Chocolate Baroques Butterfly mind, then masked it off before creating a background using Brusho's, and a script stamp.  I then stamped out the individual butterflies and painted them with Distress Inks.  I peeled off the mask which left me with a white untouched image.  I added the painted butterflies raising them of the card. Then added my sentiment.

The Prize:-
The prize for our lucky winner selected by Random Generator will receive an A4 Chocolate Baroque stamp set of their choice or smaller stamp/sets to the same value.




Each week in September there will be a prize giveaway here........or you can click on the photo and it will take you to the challenge blog. Please share the above photo on your own blog and keep an eye out to see what you can win each Tuesday in September.

Are you wanting some inspiration, pop on over to the challenge blog and then you can see all the wonderful creations from the rest of the talented team.

Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x