Video Tutorial: A Romantic Mini Embroidery Hoop

Hello to everyone, Giovanna here and today I am here to show you how to transform an humble wooden embroidery hoop in a piece of art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2v2Rd7cb4&t=330s

You can use this technique on any size of embroidery hoop with any old doilies.

Materials I used:

Angels Watching Over You

Hello Cheremane here with you today. Over at IndigoBlu we are all about things with wings this month so I have created a Canvas with the gorgeous Mindfulness Stamp Set teamed with the Bubbles Stencil and yummy paints.

First I made some Spritz bottles with the three paints Lime Marmalde, Coastal Walk & Marshmellow. Mix 4 parts water to 1 part paint. I then spritzed some water colour card along with the canvas board.

Once dry I stamped out three of the Butterflies from the Mindfulness Stamp Set with black soot distress ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder and then cut them out.

 Once the canvas was dry using some phat foam and coastal walk I stenciled the Bubbles stencil diagonally arcoss the board.

Once the paint was dry I used a white paint pen and added some details to the bubbles and then placed the stencil back over the bubbles and used some Super Thick Slap It On over the stencil to make the bubbles look wet. It looks cloudy untill it dries. To finish off I added the butterflies with some 3d glue gel, I stamped the sentiment with Black Versafine ink and heat embossed with clear powder and then trimmed it into sections and ruffed up the edges with my scissors before placing on the canvas.

Thanks for joining me today, don't forgot to pop back again soon to be inspired by the team.
Tune into Hochanda at 8pm this Saturday 13th May for the IndigoBlu ODS live with Kay Halliwell-Sutton and some stunning new products and amazing demo's.
Cheremane xx

DIY Designer Paper with Acrylic Paint

Autumn with you today to take you on a fun little journey with the new range of paints, Skin Tones Acrylic Matte.  I absolutely love this range from apricot to rouge to porcelain - they are gorgeous!

I thought I would test them out on my new Gelli Plate.  I definitely need more practice with the plate, but it was fun nonetheless.  You could replicate these techniques with a brayer DTP if you don't have a plate.  I printed the pink you see on the left, then loaded my plate with a lighter color of paint.  I stamped this soon to be released numeral stamp into the plate and stamped onto my pink panel repeatedly.  After, I did another press with the paint left on the plate, which reverses the image as you see in the finished product below (left).

I cut the best sections that would make great bases and then used the scraps with dies.  For my first project today I am showing you what I did with this center layered panel.  You can see the number printed paper worked great to cut my doily.  The numbers don't show, just the color variation on such an intricate die.

I made one more sheet of colored paper by dropping a little paint onto my craft mat and spraying with water then smooshing my paper into it.  I used it as the base to stamp these butterflies from the Victorian Garden set repeatedly in pink and brown ink.

I gave everything a splat of Metallic Goldfinger Acrylic to finish it off.  The photos don't show the color variation and depth, but trust me it's there!

The next day I picked up one of the other panels and decided to test out Distress Oxide inks over the paint.  Just as I had hoped, the paint did resist the ink in a way.  The ink soaked into the unpainted sections of my paper.  I decided to overstamp and make a pattern, similar to designer paper.  So I embossed the butterfly repeatedly.

See there the number stamping coming through the butterfly?  This butterfly stamp is just soft enough to make a beautiful pattern without being overwhelming.  LOVE!

Here you can see the resist I was referring to.

I layered up some dies and our fabulous Flutterby stamp, which I stamped in brown over some leftover smooshed paper.  Finally, I added one of the sentiments from the set, stamped in the same DOX and attached with the Tiny Attacher.  Thanks for reading to the end!  ;0  I hope you are inspired to make some paper today with your IndigoBlu stamps.  Until next time...

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Spring Mixed Media layout

Hello everyone!! It's Solange Marques here again!
Today I'll share with you a new project using the wonderful IndigoBlu products!
The month theme is Spring, then I prepared a Spring layout with a lot of flowers and butterflies!

I used the collections: Floral Fantasy and Damage Damask Mixed Media Paper pads12x12.
I've stamped some daisies using Blooming Great  A5 stamp, and I've used IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic paints : Banana Custard, Lemon Meringue, Frosty Sky and Hot Cocoa.

On the background I've used Honeycomb Background A6 stamp :

I've applied Lancashire Rose MegaFlakes on the chipboard using Flitterglu:

I hope you enjoy it!

Love canvas

Hi! Solange Marques here again! I'll share with you the project for this month!
February is Valentine's month, then The month theme is LOVE!!!!!

I've created a canvas:

I've used a Square Flat Canvas and I applied modelling paste on the Believe stencil. Then I applied
English Cottage Artist's Acrylic paint Hot Cocoa and GeeSso Good!Gesso-white on the background and I've painted a heart with Postbox Red and Mulberry Bush:

I've used Word Blocks stamp:

I hope you enjoy it!

One card - so many techniques with Emmy

Hello everyone!

Emmy here today with my very first post as International Design Team Member. This month is all about Jewel the Magical Unicorn and of course he is at the center of my creation too. 

As the title of this blog post suggested, I used many different techniques creating this card.

For the first layer I used silver glittery cardstock. The second layer is made with a mixture of Super This Slap It On medium with Silver Luscious Pigment Powder and I used the IndigoBlu Stencil - Vintage Frame (6"x 6") to create the pattern.

Once the medium has dried, I smudged Pink Luscious Pigment Powder on top of it using my fingers. The colour of this pigment is so intense that you need just a little bit to give a colour to a white cardstock.

Then I stamped the unicorn with FlitterGlu on a white cradstock and used Megaflake Royal Peacock

To give extra sparkle to my unicorn I applied some of the Super This Slap It On medium on the image and covered it with Unicorn Sparkles - Magical glitter

Products used:

I hope you enjoyed today's post! Come back soon to see more inspirational projects from our design team!

Emmy