This time last week we were packing up and tidying our holiday cottage ready for our departure on Friday morning. Little did I know at the time that between us we were sowing the seeds of an adventur...
There’s blog candy going on over on the Design Team blog – you could win a set of our brand new Sunny Sunflower stamps! I made this card just before we went away and it is so quick and ea...
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day and we headed off to Poolewe market which is on every Tuesday. We had seen a ceramics stall last week and had a good chat with Emma from Loch Broom Pottery who mak...
You saw this page on the table at the end of the last post. It’s pretty raw stuff because what I’m dealing with on this page is pain. I will be going straight back to the docs when I get ...
Now I’d love to seamlessly flow from that photo of the weird alien plant in the last post (thanks to Heather for identifying it as Aeonium arboreum) to the one below and say some arty farty baf...
You would be forgiven for thinking we’d gone to the Amazon rain forest on holiday, but this photo was actually taken at a latitude closer to the Arctic Circle than St Petersburg, believe it or ...
It’s still very unpredictable weather here in the Highlands – you can see the weather moving across the distant hills – columns of cloud sweep over the skyline obliterating sections...
This was the sight that welcomed us to our beautiful holiday home – a giant print of a Tunnocks teacake (by artist Fiona Watson). Even better – there was a pack of 10 real ones on the kit...
I managed to get a very quick bit of playtime with the new Spring Distress inkpads. I used all three colours and I do like the palette. I started by inking the top with squeezed lemonade and the bott...
I created this canvas back in February and after I first created it, I knew that I wanted to turn it into a landscape with trees. I found some Japanese origami paper in my stash and thought it would ...
I actually made a card – yay! This is made with Lesley’s Chic Script Set 4 and the Lace Fragments stamp set and something new for me …. PAN PASTELS!! Yep, I saw the gorgeous creatio...
You may be wondering where I’ve got to over the last couple of weeks. Well apart from general busyness, truth is I’m currently rather unwell. I won’t bore you with the details, but ...
Every Wednesday night, I host a ‘live chat’ over on our community forum and one of the topics that cropped up this week was to do with inky messy techniques versus ‘licky stickyR...
Come on Miss Sleepyhead, wake up. NO! Go ‘WAY! I need more SLEEP! Tschja, kids eh!
I suddenly realised earlier this week that on Sunday 1st April, it is the first anniversary of the launch of Chocolate Baroque. Our baby is a year old! It has crept up on me a bit – I should b...
One of our customers, Beth who runs a shop in Yeovil called Stamp ‘n’ Craft, is raising funds for Cancer Research by running an event called The Woolly Car Project. Click here to read mor...
I said I had some more cards to show you and here they are – these have all been made with the Prima Meadow Lark paper stack. This little 5 inch square card uses a stamped sentiment from Birthd...
I have one of my online classes starting today Rubber Stamping: Terrific Techniques and there’s still time to sign up (enrollment will close in about a week’s time), so I thought I’...
I mentioned recently that I’d treated myself to some new paper from Prima. Well I have been having great fun playing around with it and have a few cards to share – these are all from the...
Well it’s been a frustrating day waiting for the wheels of bureaucracy to turn. We have upgraded our website security certificate and various checks that we thought were all done and finished ...
I do apologise for the inconvenience, but the Chocolate Baroque website is temporarily closed for technical maintenance. It may be down most of today, but it will be back just as soon as possible. G...
A simple card, but one which sums up the glorious day we are having here today. There’s daffodils bursting out everywhere, bunnies bouncing around the garden and buds on the trees. It wonR...
This is a super easy card. It’s the same napkin you saw on my canvas a couple of posts ago, glued onto watercolour paper with Glue ‘n’ Seal. I used watercolour paper because of i...
I came downstairs this morning to find Trillian had gone into mental hypercat mode. I didn’t sweep the kitchen floor after cooking last night and she had found a little bit of red onion skin w...
I am getting better at scheduling playtime into my life. As always, I have lots more started bits than finished, but here is a finished painting which I did on a small wooden block (actually a stamp ...
Note to self: when applying Versamark to a painted chalkboard heart prior to triple embossing, the word you have just stamped may not be quite dry yet…
When I first told you about the Artistic Expressions stamp set, I had no finished artwork to show you. Well I did actually use it to make my wedding anniversary card to Adrian last week. It’s...
I’ve made a couple of really simple birthday cards recently. I’m trying to build up a little stash of birthday cards to dip into when I need one. This first one uses a sentiment from Bi...
I bought the original red Keep Calm poster from Barter Books in Alnwick back in about 2002, long before it became a global phenomenon. I had it on my office wall for many years and still have the po...
I don’t have much in the way of finished projects to share at the moment. This is the state of my studio this morning: Yesterday we had a delivery which included a whole load of new Crafter...
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