Wednesday 16 July 2014

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:


Maria

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

Judith 

23 comments:

  1. Whoohoo, I had an inkling this was what you've all been hinting at. Great idea and I'll be putting the link in my Challenge sites list in my sidebar. I don't get much time recently for crafting :-( but will certainly put entering CB challenge at the top of my 'things I want to do'! The colour challenge will certainly be a toughie for me and take me out of my comfort zone. Good luck everyone!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  2. Woo hoo about time :) xxx

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  3. Gorgeous makes everyone, love these colours and I can't wait to see all the entries
    Claire xx

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  4. I am so excited!! I know from previous challenges Glenda has put out, especially the CB birthday challenge we all had so much fun. Look forward to seeing all of your projects. Good luck everyone.
    Flo xx

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  5. Good luck with the challenges and I am sure it will be a fabulous success.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. Looking forward to some lovely makes. Good luck, everyone!
    xxx Asha

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  7. I must say a huge thank you to Judith and Lesley for getting this challenge up and running. I can't wait to see what you all come up with!
    Glenda xx

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  8. Thanks Judith and Lesley for starting this inspiring blog and great work done by all of the team members! I love color ,making color combinations and it's up to my street! When I have some free crafting time between the decluttering I will certainly join.Good luck everyone and I look out to all your creations, Mirandaxx

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  9. Fabulous makes from the Design Team, good luck with the new challenge blog

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  10. Congratulations Lesley & Judith - the tab headers at the top are excellent & I just smiled when I read 'Why enter our Challenge?" for what you say is so true. This is going to be a real challenge for me as I struggled with the CB Birthday challenges - colour challenges are definitely outside my comfort zone. Thank you for all the hard work that has gone in to creating a Challenge Blog for Chocolate Baroque - it's something that I've longed for.
    Paula (PEP)

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  11. Thanks for all your comments so far, I hope you will join in the fun so we can make this THE best challenge blog around. One thing I do want you all to know is that the design of this blog is down to Glenda, she is the one that has come with all the logos, badges etc. And given how she did this just prior to moving house I am sure you'll all agree it is fabulous. Thanks a million Glenda. Lesley

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  12. woohoo - so glad you have decided to go down the challenge route - it will give me even more excuse to ink up my wonderful CB stamps - fabulous xx

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  13. I'm looking forward to see all the fabulous designs that will be entered into the challenge :) xx

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  14. Looking forward to taking part, loved the birthday colour challenges!

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  15. OMGee!!! I am so excited that you have set up a fabulous challenge blog - yippee! I recently won the voucher over at the shop blog and I have quite a few CB stamps from when they were EI stamps - yippee! Will come back once I have created something suitable and good enough for your new challenge - can you tell I am excited lol?! Karen xx

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  16. I really look forwards to see all your beautiful creations on this challenge blog!!! !! Make it fun for all of us and injoy!! What a great hobby do we have, isn't it!!??

    Greetings
    Maria

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  17. That's great news as I love challenges, they are always so inspirful and fun. Looking forward to taking part, not this time because I'm going on holiday soon, but the next challenge I hope! :)
    Gorgeous samples for this very first time! Coco xx

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  18. What a brilliant idea I'm so pleased you have started a challenge blog and it will certainly give mt the extra push to use my fabbie CB stamps. The colour challenges will certainly put me outside my comfort zone but that's good isn't it?
    I love the great DT makes and I will join in when I can maybe not this month saps although we have just arrived home from a few days in Devon hubbie is still on holiday for 2 more weeks so not much time to craft I suspect until he's back at work
    I shall look forward to seeing some lovely makes
    Jackie x

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  19. So looking forward to participating in the new Challenge Blog! Lovely samples posted to get us going.....and great colours for the 1st Challenge. x

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  20. Pfew, saw my mistake in time - I chose a picture of the wrong card from my blogpost. Fixed now though :)

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  21. For Gwen Marsden - Gorgeous card Gwen. Beautifully made and colored. Love the embossed and stamped background. Thank you for playing along with the Chocolate Baroque Color Challenge. Hope you seen this.
    Hugs, Flo x

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  22. I just put in my first entry ladies and hope to back with at least one more soon! Thanks for this fab challenge Karen x

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  23. Hi there, so many lovely creations to see here and I am happy that I could make a contribution during my holidays! Don't count me in for the 'prize'because I am so lucky to be a part of the DT team and would give the chance to someone else!! Good luck everyone, Miranda

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