Inspiration from Marie Johansson, Georgie Connelly and Monika Januszewska

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from four of our International Design Team. Follow the links to their blogs to find out more about how their projects came together;

Marie Johansson

Georgie Connelly

Monika Januszewska

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

Watercolour Card and Embossing

Hi wonderful crafty people!!

Georgie here with you today and I thought I'd share another watercolour style card.

I'm quite heavily into mixed media so it is nice to shake up the routine a little.

 For this card, I heat embossed with black. This helps to contain the colour, really useful if you are new to this technique and worry about running over the lines with colour.

The stamps used for this is from Floral Fantasy, including the sentiment. I took it from part of one of the sayings. 

You need about four colours,  in varying amount of strengths, but apply roughly, only considering slightly the areas of shadow as a whole. But don't get bogged down with detail.

Don't be afraid to go 'sketchy' with the paint brush to create shade variation, like the leaves here.

And I just love enamel dots on projects like these, they add a sense of fun!

Have a lovely day,

Georgie

xx

Inspiration from Solange Marques, Ksenija Rizova and Georgie Connelly

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from four of our International Design Team. Follow the links to their blogs to find out more about how their projects came together;

Solange Marques

Ksenija Rizova

Georgie Connelly

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

Mini Canvas Art

Hi there. Georgie here today sharing an arty canvas. Have you seen the new colours from IndigoBlu? They are just awesome and couldn't wait to get my hands messy in a project with the brights!! I will list everything separately at the end of the post.

I used the Laurel Leaves Stencil and dolloped some left over Diamond Resin before going over with the colours.

The Diamond Resin was made initially to create the focal. I used some gorgeous quirky sequins with and set them in the resin.

Also added some extra above and below the focal to draw the eye outwards. I used some of the Gee-Sso Good in black, watered down to blur the edge around the focal too.

The sides were also painted in the same style but with less texture, here are a couple of pics, aren't those colours so delicious?!

Of course, a piece of work using IndigoBlu products isn't complete without a little stamping. I headed for what I can see will be a regular for me, the text stamp from the Tasty Textures selection.

Hope you have found some inspiration here today and hope you get a chance to dabble in these new colours.

Creative hugs

Georgie
Xx

IndigoBlu Products Used:
Laurel Leaves Stencil
Diamond Resin
Gee-Sso Good! Black
English Cottage Artist Acrylic Paints: Marshmallow, Lime Marmalade, Lemon Meringue, Pantry White, Coastal Walk
Fine Modelling Paste
Tasty Textures Stamps

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!!!

Card Set For Any Occasion

Hi Folks!! Georgie here with you, and today I'm sharing a series of CAS cards, using a new stamp set from IndigoBlu called Word Blocks!

Aren't there gorgeous?!! I do love a good word set, and not only are these great for CAS, but can you imagine the possibilities for background stamping too!!

See the complete series  of six below:

I used coloured co-ordinated hotfix gems to match the paper colour background I chose and randomly dotted them about for a bit of bling beauty. :)

I know CAS is very unusual for me but sometimes it's lovely to take a break from the norm and reset my mixed media thinking from time to time. What about you, are you a CAS fan? If so, these are just the perfect set!!

Take care and many hugs,

Georgie

xx

Inspiration from Solange Marques, Ksenija Rizova and Georgie Connelly

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from four of our International Design Team. Follow the links to their blogs to find out more about how their projects came together;

Solange Marques

Ksenija Rizova

Georgie Connelly

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

Angel - Canvas

Hi Folks

Georgie here with you today, and if you have hopped across from my blog you would have been given the below sneak peek... Thank you for hopping across if you have come from there :)

Well, today I sharing with you a canvas, made using some of the delicious new releases from IndigoBlu. I do love mixed media and originally this page was starting out as a journal page but it was getting heavier and heavier with embellishments, so out came some canvas board instead.

I used a stamp from the new Tasty Textures stamp collection - this one is available now! I used it for random stamping with black ink to create contrast.

Used paints by IndigoBlu English Cottage Acrylics in Cinderella and Townhouse Teal.

Laid down the stencil pattern Laurel Leaves with some paste to complement the chippies. This stencil is just a perfect backing for any foliage or flower based project.

This shot shows everything all together in a colour hot area, the stamping, the stencil, the paints flowing gorgeously...

Hope you have enjoyed today's post!

Hugs

Georgie

xx

Inspiration from Solange Marques, Ksenija Rizova, Mirella Baniecka and Georgie Connelly

Today we are excited to share some fabulous inspiration from four of our International Design Team. Follow the links to their blogs to find out more about how their projects came together;

Solange Marques

Ksenija Rizova

Mirella Baniecka

Georgie Connelly

----Libro Fidelitatis----

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

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
xx