Inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM.

Hello and welcome to day two of the inspiration posts from the the International Design Team.

Lydia

Cheremane

KayM

Acrylic Bee Tag

Hello it's Kay M here today and welcome to my first post of the year. 
 

I would like to share this tag with you.  The lovely Nikki Killinger gave me a crafty goody bag for Christmas and it included an acrylic tag.  So I thought I'll use it with a technique Nikki has shown on Hochanda last year, here's my version.

One side of the backing was removed from the tag and the large bee from No 9 Bumblebees Collectors Edition was stamped with black StazOn Ink and they were painted over with Snow White for the wings, Lemon Meringue and Burning Bonfire acrylic paints.  

When dry, Lime Marmalade, Cinderella and Purple Rain were watered down and splattered over the tag one colour at a time, making sure each was dry before adding another.    

When all the splatters where dry I sponged over the tag with Townhouse Teal and Wimberry Pie blending the colours to give a soft colour transition.   Again this was left to dry. 

The painted tag was then covered with Black Gee-Sso-Good and dried.   

Now the fun bit, peeling the baking for the reveal!  

I then stamped the sentiment from Pegasus and stars from Victorian Garden in Black StazOn.  And added a ribbon to finish the tag.     

I do hope you have enjoyed my take on Nikki's technique.

Take care,  Kay M x

Inspiration from Lydia, Cheremane and KayM

Today we have inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM.

Lydia

Cheremane

KayM

Seahorse Stamp

Hello Kay M here,   I would like to share this seahorse tag with you today.  It's similar to one I made for Kay's launch of the last four stamps in the Collectors Edition on Hochanda last weekend.  This one has the seahorse, crackle and compass new stamps.

I painted a grey board tag with black GeeSsoGood and when dry the crackle stamp was stamped randomly over with an embossing ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder.   The compass stamp was then stamped over the tag with the embossing ink and this time bronze Luscious powder was added to the clear powder before heat embossing.

Goldfinger and MissMoneypenny paints were painted onto Wet Media Dura-Lar(you could use acetate) and Gold and pink Luscious powders painted onto white card and left to dry. 

The seahorse was stamped with StazOn on the non painted side of the Dura-Lar  and also one onto gold shrink film.  Seashells from Under the Sea set were stamped over the painted Luscious powders and a sentiment onto white card.  These were then cut out and shaped and the gold seahorse heat shrunk.     

All the elements were adhered to the tag and string added to finish the tag.  I removed the hole from seahorse as I changed my mind about were to place him!

I hope you have enjoyed this tag and do check out the latest Collection Edition Nos 9, 10, 11 and 12, they're fabulous!

Take care,   Kay M x  

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and kayM

Today we have more inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM. To check out their projects in full detail, head over to their blogs.

Lydia

Cheremane

KayM

Festive Ornaments

Hello,   Kay M here today with an experiment with the acrylic pours  Kay launched on Hochanda at the weekend.  You can still watch all her shows on Rewind at the Hochanda web site.   I had so much fun making samples for the shows and learnt a lot  in the process.   The great thing about acrylic pouring you never know how it's going to turn out!  Kay's  Go-Flow and Cell-u-Like formula's take the guesswork out of measuring all the elements and work with all  the IndigoBlu paints.       

Having done a few projects on flat surfaces I thought I'll have a go on some shapes, a few paper mache  ornaments from my stash.   Sue, from the  TV design team did a couple of lovely egg shaped ones as samples for Kay's shows.  

They were painted with Gee-Sso-Good white and set up over a foil tray.  

The  paints, the new Red Hot Chilli, Purple Rain, and Teal for Two  as well as Cinderella, Black Gee-Sso-Good and Gold Luscious pigment too  were mixed in shot glasses with out adding any water.  A few drops of Cell-u-like were added to three of the paints.   I had already made up white following the instructions that come to the Go-Flow and Cell-u-Like.

Each ornament was thickly painted with the white mixture then the colours were added to the top of each ornament one on top of another and letting them drop though each other and mingle. 

  They were left to dry.    They were then given two coats of Glossy Slap-It-On mixed with a pinch of Unicorn Sparkles. 

And when dry beads and tassel's were added.  It was interesting to see how each one was different when the same paint colours were used.

There was still a fair amount of paint left so I did a dirty pour on to an A5 canvas painted with black Gee-Sso-Good using all the remaining paints, added a little water to each of them to get a good pour, and the white base.

Check in to the shared blog on the 19th November to see how it turned out!  

Until then, take care Kay M x

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM

Today we have more inspiration from our International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM. Head over to their own blogs where you will find more inspiration.

Lydia

Cheremane

KayM

Flower Tag

Hello and welcome, it's Kay M here with today's post.    I've made a simple tag with the fabulous new floral stamps the Kay recently introduced and have highlighted a few blooms with autumnal colours with Luscious powders.

I painted a grey board tag with black Gee-Sso-Good to get a lovely flat matt background.  This was to compliment the texture of Floral Power stamped in Versafine and heat embossed in clear embossing powder as shown.

Flowers from Wild Poppy, Marigold and Peony and Anemone and Daisy sets were stamped onto white card in Versafine black and embossed in clear embossing powder.   They were then painted with Red, Orange, Rose Bronze and Gold Luscious powders, fussy cut and the raw edges coloured with black pen.  An extra area of card was painted with the same colours, to create a masterboard, and when dry the sentiment from Pegasus was stamped in black and heat embossed in clear embossing powder and cut out.  Repeating the heat embossing process gives unity to the whole project.     

To finish, red and orange Luscious were used to colour some shear ribbon lengths and when dry these were tied to the tag.  The sentiment and flowers were then attached as shown.

The same technique could also be used to make a card for an autumn celebration.   I hope you have been inspired!

Take care,  Kay M

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM

Lots more inspiration today from International Design Team Members Lydia, Cheremane and KayM. For a closer look at the fabulous projects pop over to their own blogs (via the links on the sidebar).

Lydia

Cheremane

KayM

Welcome Pegusas!

Hello,      Kay M here and would like to share a simple card with the fabulous new Pegasus stamp Kay Halliwell-Sutton launched last week on Hochanda.  It also comes with a wonderful sentiment that can be used whole or cut up as I have here.

I stamped Pegasus onto a 14.5cm² white card and the sentiment on extra card with embossing ink then heat set bronze embossing powder.    

The sentiment was trimmed into two halves and edged with embossing ink then heat set bronze embossing powder.   

Pegasus  was coloured with pale alcohol pens to enhance his shape.

Bronze and Gold Luscious powders were mixed with a little water and painted directly onto the No. 6 Bubble stamp from the Limited Edition.   

Pegasus was masked with a cut out that was stamped onto copy paper, and had repositionable glue on the reverse.  The painted stamp was misted with water and repeatedly stamped across the image.   The sentiments were then attached.

The sentiments were also covered and gold Luscious mixed with water splattered over.    When dry the masks removed and the panel was adhered to the front of a 15cm² white card blank.

I've had so much fun stamping with Pegasus and you get to love him too!

Thank you for visiting,   Kay M

Welcome to IndigoBlu's Internation Design Team 2017/18

I am so very excited and proud to introduce you to the International Design Team for 2017/18. There are some familiar faces in the the line up, along with some new ones. All of whom are fabulously talented and I can't wait for them to start sharing their artwork with you.

I am very proud to be the International Design Team Lead again this year, and would like to thank both Kay and Alfie for putting their trust in me to carry out this job.

So here and in no particular order is our fabulous team.

Elizabeth Robinson

Jannet Blay

Cheremane Smith

Mike Deakin

Lydia Boode

Carolyn Lakin

Kay Molyneaux

Ksenija Rizova