Colourful Bezels

I must admit - jewellery making has never been something I intended to start with. I knit, I scrap, I read, I go to the gym - well time is limited. THEN I got the Diamond Resin in my Design Team parcel and I had to change my mind about the whole jewellery making business. This is SO fun! And the possibilities are so many - you can use patterned papers, stamped images, metal pieces, glitter, well maybe even dead insects?

I have used stamped images that I painted with IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paints for all of the bezels I show you today. The ones above was and the one below was cut out from one of stamped images from the Boadieca A5 Stamp set (the bottom stamp). I used pink, lime green and yellow acrylics. As you can see I have applied some sparkle on one of the items - Finnabair Glass Glitter "Crimson Red" - also available in the IndigoBlu shop.

I added small word stickers on top of my stamped images on two of my bezels before I covered them with Diamond Resin.

On this one I have combined yellow & green on the butterfly from the Floral Fantasy A5 stamp set.

I hope I could inspire you to make some jewellery. The Diamond Resin is really easy to use so I really recommend you try it our!

Products from IndigoBlu:

IndigoBlu Floral Fantasy A5 Stamp Set

IndigoBlu Boadieca A5 Stamp Set

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylic Paint "Banana Custard"

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylic Paint "Cinderella" (metallic)

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylic Paint Lime Marmalade

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylic Paint Mulberry Bush 

IndigoBlu Diamond Resin Kit

Various Bezels

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Marie Johansson

Welcome to the year of 2016

Hi! It's Marie here. Are you prepared for a new year filled with possibility? Have you made any new years resolutions? I haven´t - I stopped years ago - never keep them.... One thing I try to do each new year is to find a word to live by. Sort of a guideline to strive agains. This year my word will be evolve! 

So today I want to share a couple of projects that I made that represent a skill I have evolved this past year. One thing I am proud of and think I have accomplished is my cardmaking skills. From making flat and pretty boring cards I now make 3 dimensional ones with a lot of details.

For this card I have used a patterned paper from the coming soon "After Morris" Mixed Media Paper collection. On it I have stamped and embossed the "Colour This Peony" (also coming soon). 

To create extra dimension I have applied a mix of modeling paste and IndigoBlu Fine Glitter on the edges. Some black stamping with the script stamp from the "Tasty Textures" stamp set add even more interest. Flowers, chipboard and other embellishments ties it all together.

I have used the same paper for the tag below. The card and tag works perfect together as a set.

I cut out a piece of the flower from the patterned paper and applied to the plane tag. As you can see I have painted and embossed on the side where the patterned paper does not cover. For this I used IndigoBlu Acrylics and one of the new background stamps from the Lights and Sound stamp set that will be released in January.

The "ART" word is stamped and embossed with a stamp from the Sarah's Choice A5 stamp set.

Thank you for stepping by today! I hope I inspired you to create!

Products from IndigoBlu:

IndigoBlu "After Morris" 12x12 Mixed Media Card Stack

IndigoBlu Red Rubber Stamp "Color This Peony"

IndigoBlu "Tasty Textures" Stamp Set

IndigoBlu "Lights and Sound" Stamp Set

IndigoBlu "Sarah's Choice" A5 Stamp Set

IndigoBlu Superfine Flitter Glu Glitter "Faded Green"

IndigoBlu English Cottage Paint "Peppermint Tea"

IndigoBlu English Cottage Paint "Pink Iced Gem"

IndigoBlu English Cottage Paint Metallic "Goldfinger"

Lost in Thought - Layout

Hi Folks, Georgie here today and I have a layout to share. Firstly, check out the picture... isn't she beautiful? IndigoBlu are releasing some vintage/olde-worlde style mixed media pictures called Lost Family. Perfect for scrapbookers!! The thing with old style photos/pictures is that they are so versatile and allows the user to take on any colour combination or style of layout that they wish. They work with everything!!!

So many new releases for stamps plus other bits coming up from IndigoBlu - seriously you won't want to miss them... Here is what I used in this layout and what you can look out for:

• 'Colour This Peony' stamp
• 'Teeny Backgrounds' stamp set
• 'Textures' Stencil (available now!)
• 'Lost Family' focal pictures

Here's a close up of the gorgeous picture;

Hmmm... where do I start here :) ... Stencils, that's a good place!! The squares were made using the new 'Textures' stencil and IndigoBlu Texture Paste. Such a great little stencil with so much to choose from on it. The paint is Cinderella, a shimmery, metallic fuchsia pink, but watered down and spritzed to create a watercolour bleed effect - pretty darn good for an acrylic posing as a watercolour. 

Just a little close up of some of the items used it the layout. You can, seriously, use anything near enough, to do a mixed media layout. I'm not talking bricks, but brick dust, perhaps? Okay should have gone with another example, but you can, buttons, twine, thread, nuts and bolts, cutlery, old packaging boxes. The trick with these kind of layouts is using your stamps to act as an extension of your layout, to soften the focus between the 'bits' and the paper behind. So... fancy giving something like this a go??? Any questions do ask and I will always be happy to help.

Hugs
Georgie
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