The Draughtsman

Morning All,

Carolyn here with you today sharing a simple but effective card using The Draughtsman stamp set recently launched by Kay on Hochanda.

For this card I used Black and White card, Onyx Black Versafine and Stazon Cloudy Sky.

The main image of the Draughtsman was stamped onto white card using Versafine Black Onyx. I cut this to 75mm square and mounted it onto Black card. This was then trimmed to leave a 1mm black border.

The background was repeat stamped to cover a 110mm by 110mm square card using Stazon Cloudy Sky. This was also matt and layered onto Black card and trimmed to leave a 1mm border.

The card was made up by matt and layering the main image onto the background and then onto a 125mm square white card blank.

Thank you for joining me today and do pop back to see the fabulous inspiration from the team.

Carolyn

x

Live Creatively

Hello Cheremane here with you today. This month is all about flowers at IndigoBlu.

I've used the stunning Peony Posey stamp along with lots more IndigoBlu goodies.

First I stamped the Peony Posey using Versfine black ink and heat embossed it with Clear Superfine Embossing powder,  I did this twice so I can decoupage parts of the image later. The embossing makes the image easier to colour and also give it some texture.

Using one of the new paint colours Rouge and some phat foam I created a border on some stamping card to create a cordinting mat. Doing this means you always have a piece of matching card for layering.

With a waterbrush and the Rouge paint I coloured area's of the Peony Posey and cut a few elements out from my second image that i'd stamped. I also stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the gorgeous Mindfullness #1 stamp set. I did some mat and layering and also added some black card to make it pop, before decoupaging the flowers over the top with glue gel.

Thank you so much for joining me today be sure to pop back again soon to be inspired by the team.

Why not share your IndigoBlu floral creations with us on our Facebook page.

Crafty Hugs

Cheremane x

Starburst

Cheremane here with you today. Seeing its November we are sharing Firework inspiration with you here at IndigoBlu this month. I've used a mix of Stencils,Stamps,Super Thick Slap It On,Luscious Powders and MegaFlakes to create my project for you today.

Take some Super Thick Slap It On and mix with three different colours of Luscious Powders I've used Blue,Silver and Purple.

 If you mix to much Super Thick Slap It On and Luscious Powders you can store the left over coloured
Super Thick Slap it on in an air tight container to use on another project.
Look at the yummy mica in the Luscious Powders.

 Using a Palette Knife spread the Super Thick Slap It On over the Starburst Stencil, random is better so don't worry about putting one colour on top of another as it adds to the effect.

Once the Super Thick Slap It On is dry you really will see the true Luscious Powder colour and the sparkle of the mica.

Mix some Rose Bronze Luscious Powder with some Clear Superfine Embossing Powder to make your very own embossing powder to match all your Luscious projects. I've made a little pot up of every colour ready to use when ever I need that extra special embossing powder for a project.

Using some Phat Foam and Flitterglu stamp the Sparkle & Glisten word from the stamp set and sprinkle over the Luscious embossing powder that you have made and heat with a heat tool, look at the extra glisten of the mica blinging through.

Finally using the Phat foam with Flitterglu on rub round the edge of the card and then add Sheffield Steel MegaFlakes this really finishes off a project and adds that little extra bling, now mat onto some Coal Black Stamping Card, water down a little bit of Black GeeSso Good and add some small splats with a fine brush, then add some 3d foam to the sentiment to make it stand proud in the middle of the Starburst.

Thanks so much for stopping by I hope you like it and your feeling inspired. 

Cheremane xxx

Card for a Science Geek

Hello everyone! It's Monika here.

Today I want to show you simple card for a man in monochromatic colours. I think this card would be ideal for a Science geek. I love this stamp quote from Albert Einstein: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." It's perfect to use on cards, layouts, art journals and many more.

This time played with a brand new stamps Chemistry Lab and Calculus from the Weird Science Series. To create a background I used GeeSso Good! Gesso - Black, GeeSso Good! Gesso - White and a little bit of Metallic Silver Paint. 

The Vitruvian Man stamp is from the Beautiful Mind set. I stamped this and all stamps using black permanent ink.

Products used:

Indigoblu Beautiful Mind A5

Indigoblu Calculus A6

Indigoblu Chemistry Lab A5

Indigoblu GeeSso Good! Gesso - Black

Indigoblu GeeSso Good! Gesso - White

Indigoblu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Metallic Silver

Have a great day!

Monika xx

Weird Science...Beautiful Mind

Hello, Kay Molyneux here. I'm so pleased to share this canvas board using the Weird Science Series of stamps. It started out as a part completed project that's been in my craft room for ages. It was going to be a portrait meadow scene, the grasses had been applied using texture paste and paper shapes but I had a brain wave - turn it to landscape and paint it all over with white Gee-Sso-Good gesso mixed with a little black.

To add some colour, English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Burning Bonfire was mixed with the new Slap-It-On Gloss giving a lovely orange glaze and the same was done with Cinderella both were painted as shown and also used to give some paint splatters.

The Periodic Table of Elements and images from A5 Light and Sound Borders and A5 Chemistry Lab sets were stamped with StazOn on to tissue paper, torn out and applied using Slap-It-On Matt.

The butterflies were made by stamping the Calculus with white Gee-Sso-Good gesso onto IndigoBlu Black Stamping Card then over stamping with the butterfly images using FlitterGlu and applying Copper Kettle Mega Flakes.

The test tubes from Chemistry Lab were stamped onto acetate and coloured from behind and mini glass bottles were filled with beads, paint and Mega Flakes and labelled from the Periodic Table of Elements stamp applied with Slap-It-On Matt.

Sentiments from the Chemistry Lab and A5 Beautiful Mind sets were stamped onto kraft card and cut out and some beakers from Chemistry Lab were stamped onto shrink plastic, these were added to the canvas. These were used to frame the little girl studying from the A6 Lost Family Mixed Media Paper Pack.

I do hope this has inspired you to play with the fabulous Weird Science Series stamps!

Until next time,
Kay M

Products used;

English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paints
Gee-Sso Good! Gesso - white and black
A6 Periodic Table of Elements
A6 Calculus
A5 Chemistry Lab
A5 Beautiful Mind
A5 Light and Sound Borders
A6 Lost Family Mixed Media Paper Pack
A6 Big Butterfly
Dinkie Butterfly
A5 Floral Fantasy
IndigoBlu Black Stamping Card
Clear Heat Resistant Acetate
FlitterGlu
Copper Kettle Mega Flakes