Butterfly canvas

Hello everyone! It's Solange Marques here and today I'll share with you more a project using the fabulous IndigoBlu products. This month we must choose our favorite stamp to make a project. It's a hard task because I love all of the stamps from IndigoBlu, but I am in love with butterflies and I choose Flutterby Dinkie .

 I've created a canvas.
First of all I glued down a photo on Square Flat Canvas and I prolonged my photo using acrylic paints:

 Then I used some backgrounds stamps (I love them)!
I've used Ledger Background and Script Background:

I've added Flutterby Dinkie:

 I hope you enjoy it!

December Challenge Reminder - Snow Snow Snow

Morning everyone,

Today is challenge reminder day, and we'd love to show you our Inspirational DT's work once more, I hope it inspires you to join in!  

I love this fab piece by Rachel, it just shows that snow doesn't have to mean white!  

Rachel

A beautiful snow scene by Wanda: 

Wenda

Absolutely love this Stag by Lydia too!: 

Lydia

A perfect wintery scene from Claire: 

Claire

And a gorgeous Robin hanger by Sue: 

Sue

You can hop across to the team's blog to check out how they made their pieces, but don't forget to come back and enter yourself!  

We have fab prizes each month, Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or

2: 4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge, the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet theDesign Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

So all that's left is to say Happy New Year from the Challenge DT and thank you to all our Guest Designers through 2016, we look forward to meeting more of you in 2017. 


Best Wishes,
IndigoBlu Challenge DT.

An InLinkz Link-up

July Challenge Reminder - Summer Florals

Hi everyone,

It's the Indigoblu Challenge reminder time, our challenge this month is Summer Florals. We have some inspiration from a few of our Design team, and the Top 3 from last month's challenge, who agreed to be Guest Designer's for today! I hope you can stop by their blogs and see how they made their pieces.
As always, we have fab prizes on offer, of Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or

2: 4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge, the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

So first up it's our winners from the Top 3 sharing their inspiration:

Here we have Ivy:

Ivy had this to say:

I would like to say that I was delighted to be picked as a top 3 winner and asked to do an inspiration piece on Summer Florals.

Ivy doesn't have a blog, but I'm sure you will agree this is a beautiful piece, please leave some love for her here on the IB blog if you have time, we will make sure she gets all comments relayed to her.

Next up it's Carole:

Carole had this to say:

I was delighted to have been chosen as one of the top three in the last challenge and have enjoyed doing this piece for Summer Florals.

And third we have the lovely Jane:

Jane said:

I love the summer and wanted to create a really bright project for the summer florals theme so the cottage paints were ideal!  It was great fun creating the mixed media background and the Floral Fantasy stamp set was perfect for the main features.

You can see how Jane made this over on her blog here. 

And now our lovely DT member's inspiration:

Claire

Sue

I think you'll agree they have all done a fantastic job!  I hope this has inspired you to join in, you can enter the Challenge HERE, or check out the main post, we'd love to see your work!

Best Wishes,

The Indigoblu Challenge DT

& Top 3

Lost Family Lady Mixed Media Layout

My first project for this month is a layout made with Acrylics, Kroma Crackle, stamps and vintage a vintage photo. 

As background I used a plain white cardstock that I prepped with GeeSso Good Gesso. When dry I added the acrylics blended with water. A bit of stamping with black waterproof ink and a stamp from the Grand Tour II stamp set.

 Kroma Crackle gives an extra effect to the background. Especially when highlighted with at bit of stamp ink.

A bit of flowers, a piece of cheese cloth, a badge and a couple of vintage buttons as decorations fit perfectly with the feeling of the card. 

Sometimes you don´t have the right photo for what you want to accomplish, then don´t hesitate to take a pre made one. I have used one from the Lost Family Paper Pad. 

A process video to take you through the process:

Products from IndigoBlu:

Indigoblu Lost Family Mixed Media Paper Pad

GeeSso Good White

Indigoblu Grand Tour II A5 stamp set

Kroma Crackle

Indigoblu English Cottage Artist´s Acrylics Lemon Maringue, Mulberry Bush, Hunters Green

Altered Trunk with Solange Marques

Hi Everyone, it's Solange Marques here today to share with you an altered trunk.

I love to make suitcases and trunks from cartons. This piece was done by myself. For this project I used the IndigoBlu European Grand Tour Mixed Media Paper Pad 12x12 to cover the outside of the trunk.

I added lots of metal trims, a handle and old belts to the trunk;

I applied IndigoBlu Mega Flakes Autumn Blaze on some places of the trunk:

For the inside of the trunk I used the IndigoBlu Cartography Mixed Media Paper Pad 6x6 and I added images from the A5 IndigoBlu Grand Tour II stamp set;

Here are some pictures of the inside;

Products used;
IndigoBlu Grand Tour II A5 Red Rubber Stamp
IndigoBlu European Grand Tour Mixed Media Paper Pad 12x12
IndigoBlu Cartography Mixed Media Paper Pad 6x6
IndigoBlu Mega Flakes Autumn Blaze
IndigoBlu FlitterGlu

Solange Marques

Inspiration from Solange Marques, Ksenija Rizova and Georgie Connelly

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from the final members of our International Design Team.

Before we get started though, a quick reminder that there's something exciting to share with you - with inspiration coming from all the International Design Team members over three days this week we are celebrating by giving you the chance to win some Blog Candy by way of a Blog Hop!!!

Up for grabs is the complete set of 'Colour Me' florals stamps!!! To win all you need to do is leave a comment on each of the posts the Design Team members are sharing on their blogs this week. You can find the other links on the IndigoBlu blog posts HERE and HERE. The closing date to get those comments done is 31st March 2016.

Now for the final set of projects - follow the links to the DT blogs to find out more about how their fabulous creations;

Solange Marques

Ksenija Rizova

Georgie Connelly

Thank you ladies for all your beautiful creations. We can't wait to see more!

Don't forget, to be in with a chance to win the complete set of 'Colour Me' florals stamps you need to leave a comment on each of the posts the Design Team members are sharing on their blogs this week. You can find the other links on the IndigoBlu blog posts HERE and HERE. The closing date to get those comments done is 31st March 2016. Good luck everyone!!!

Inspiration from Jenny Marples, Candy Rosenberg, Beck Beattie and Kay Molyneux

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from another four of our International Design Team.

Before we get started though, a quick reminder that there's something exciting to share with you - with inspiration coming from all the International Design Team members over three days this week we are celebrating by giving you the chance to win some Blog Candy by way of a Blog Hop!!!

Up for grabs is the complete set of 'Colour Me' florals stamps!!! To win all you need to do is leave a comment on each of the posts the Design Team members are sharing on their blogs this week. You can find the other links on yesterday's IndigoBlu blog post HERE. The closing date to get those comments done is 31st March 2016.

Now for the next set of those projects - follow the links to the DT blogs to find out more about how their fabulous creations;

Jenny Marples

Candy Rosenberg

Beck Beattie

Kay Molyneux

Thank you ladies for all your beautiful creations. We can't wait to see more! Join us again tomorrow for more inspiration from the final members of the Design Team.

Inspiration from Marie Johansson, Zoey Scarpelli, Elizabeth Robinson and Monika Januszewska

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from four of our International Design Team.

Before we get started though, there's something exciting to share with you - with inspiration coming from all the International Design Team members over the next three days we are celebrating by giving you the chance to win some Blog Candy by way of a Blog Hop!!!

Up for grabs is the complete set of 'Colour Me' florals stamps!!! To win all you need to do is leave a comment on each of the posts the Design Team members are sharing on their blogs this week. You can find the links here on the IndigoBlu blog for the next three days. The closing date to get those comments done is 31st March 2016.

Now for the first of those projects - follow the links to the DT blogs to find out more about how their fabulous creations;

Marie Johansson

Zoey Scarpelli

Elizabeth Robinson

Monika Januszewska

Thank you ladies for all your beautiful creations. We can't wait to see more! Join us again tomorrow for more inspiration from the Design Team.

Bright fun textures with Beck BT

Hi Everyone, it's Beck Beattie here today to share with you a scrapbook page I created full of colour and fun using so many of the fun IndigoBlu textures!

The process:

• I created the page by first selecting the different textures I wanted to use.

• I then chose a different colour ink pad for each texture.  

• I layered each of the colours trying to achieve a little balance from one side to the other

• After all my stamping was complete I matted my photo with black card stock

• I then set about to finish off the page with a contrasting title and embellishments and colour splatter in colours to match the various stamped coloured textures.  

The products:

These are the yummy texture stamps I chose to use for my page;

So you can get up close and personal with all that yummy texture here are some more pictures!

I hope you enjoyed my share today and I've inspired you to do some home decorating of your own.

Happy Creating!

xxxBeck BT

 

Canvas Lost Letter

Hello in New Year, Monika here.

Today I want to show you my vintage, distressed canvas. I used the inside of the canvas so I could paint and stamp on frame. First I painted twice the whole area with IndigoBlu GeeSso Good! White, then I played with stamps, paints and sprays.

Look at this photograph of a soldier from new Mixed Media Papers - Lost Family. He is so nostalgic. I think these papers are perfect for retro and vintage projects. I distressed a little bit more his picture by stamping some Ink Splats on it and doing some real splashes.

I also played with a new stamps set called Tasty Textures, these are so gorgeous!

I used:
English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint : Hot Cocoa
IndigoBlu GeeSso Good! White
IndigoBlu GeeSso Good! Black

Stencil - Texture

Ink Splats stamp set

Tasty Textures stamp set
Lost Family Mixed Media Paper
Cartography Collection Mixed Media Paper

Have a wonderful weekend,
Monika xx