Artful blogging from Glenda Waterworth

This stamp is from the Fragrant Honeysuckle stamp set and it’s a lovely image to colour in.  I used Derwent watercolour pencils and just went for bright bold colours.  I didn’t quite intend the background to be such a vibrant gold, but I like the way it turned out.  I picked out the bright pink [...]

What, two posts in one weekend, good grief!  Yes, and I’ve done … shhhh … housework.  And I’m cooking lunch for 8 people today!  Don’t worry, the blog hasn’t been hijacked, I haven’t been abducted by aliens and replaced with a clone – it’s still me.  Ok, the card is a cheat, I had this [...]

Every week I think I’ll blog more this week, but it just isn’t happening and I think I’ve figured out one reason why – lighting.  I had brilliant lighting in my last craft room – Lynn put her kitchen design skills to good use designing it for me just before she left MFI and there [...]

We have just launched some new stamps!  You can see them all over on the Design Team blog and of course they are showing up in the What’s New department on the Chocolate Baroque website too.   There is so much you can do with these images, from complex colouring to very simple stamping.  This [...]

I am longing for Spring.  I’m literally counting how many minutes earlier sunset is each day and savouring the extra little bit of light.  We haven’t had the really wintry weather we had last year, but what is it this year with gales?  I don’t remember it being very windy last year, but we seem [...]

I don’t know what it is about the start of a new year, but I do tend to find I have a burst of energy for clearing, tidying and re-organising at this time of year. We have been in our new warehouse for a year and it has always been a little cramped in there.  [...]