Stamp Focus | Adding Texture to Clean And Simple Card with Anemone And Daisy

Today Ksenija is here and I am sharing a step-by-step tutorial how to easily add texture to a Clean and Simple (CAS) card made with Anemone And Daisy red rubber stamps set.

Anemone and Daisy is a part of the recent floral release by IndigoBlu. This red rubber stamps set contains four floral images that are small enough for making CAS cards.

In this post I will explain and show with pictures how to make a fancy card in four easy steps.

To make this card I chose anemones flowers image and started with stamping it down in watercolour friendly ink down onto a white card stock panel.

I stamped it repeatedly onto a smaller piece of card stock.

I really like the beautiful quote by Victor Hugo from Victorian Garden stamps set and decide to use it for my today's card.

Watercolouring is one of the fastest colouring ways. I loosely coloured the impressions with watercolour markers. The biggest flower stamped onto the small piece of cardstock I coloured more intensively than the rest of the image.

Vintage Frame mask is one of my favourite stencils from IndigoBlu. I used it previously for a Christmas card. I like the feminine touch this stencil adds to cards.

I covered the flower card panel with Vintage Frame, applied texture paste unevenly through it and set aside to air dry.

While the paste was hardening, I fussy cut out the biggest flower from the small piece of cardstock and using embossing pen, bond powder and a heat gun added Unicorn Sparkle.

When the paste air dried, I assembled the card. I adhered the panel onto a black card note with a thin foam tape and popped the glittered flower with a thick foam tape for extra dimension.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!
IndigoBlu Supplies used:
Anemone And Daisy Red Rubber Stamps Set
Victorian Garden Red Rubber Stamps Set
Vintage Frame Mask
Unicorn Sparkle

Stamp Focus | Building A Wreath with Marigold And Peony

Today Ksenija is here and I am sharing a wreath card made with Marigold and Peony red rubber stamps set.

Marigold and Peony stamps set is a part of the recent release from IndigoBlu and is perfect for making floral cards.

This set contains four individual stamps which are easy to use for building various floral designs. I would like to explain how to easily stamp a perfectly aligned floral wreath.

To stamp a symmetrical wreath of flowers you will need a square piece of a card stock, a stamp positioning tool, e.g. MISTI, and a masking paper.

How To Make This Card:

• Place a square piece of a card stock in your stamp positioning tool in the lower left corner and position a flower stamp also in the lower left corner.
• Stamp the flower down onto a paper in black watercolour friendly ink.
• Rotate the card panel by 90 degrees counterclockwise and stamp the flower again.
• Repeat this step twice and you will get four flowers stamped in each corner of the card panel aligned perfectly.
• Stamp down the flower onto a piece of a masking paper twice and fussy cut out two masks.
• Mask off two flowers onto a panel with the paper masks and place the panel into your stamp positioning tool.
• Position a flower stamp between two masked off flower impressions and stamp it down onto the panel.
• Reposition one of the masks to the third flower and rotate the panel within the stamping tool by 90 degrees counterclockwise and stamp the flower between two masked off flowers.
• Repeat this step twice to get the full wreath of flowers.

Masking is a great technique for adding details without paper layers. I replaced the masks several times and added leaves and smaller flowers impressions.

I coloured the wreath with watercolour markers and added accents with water diluted Luscious Pigment Powders in Gold and Silver.

To finish off my card I heat embossed the phrase from Floral Fantasy stamps set in fine white powder onto a piece of a black card stock and cut it into three thin stripes.

To assemble the card I adhered the stamped panel to a black card base and popped the sentiment stripes up with a foam tape.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!
IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Marigold And Peony Red Rubber Stamps Set
Floral Fantasy Red Rubber Stamps Set
Gold Luscious Pigment Powder
Silver Luscious Pigment Powders

STAMP FOCUS | Peony

Today Ksenija is here and I am sharing my tips on how to easily make a pretty card with Peony red rubber stamps set.

Tips On Making This Card:

• Start with stamping a flower from Peony red rubber stamps set in embossing ink down onto a black card stock base and heat embossing the impression with very fine white embossing powder
• Trim a white card stock card panel down to 8.5 by 12 cm
• Stamp down the flower onto the white card panel in black archival ink
• Continue with colouring just a few petals and the center of the flower with colour pencils

• Stamp down the sentiment from Blomin' Great red rubber stamps set
• To assemble the card mount the white panel to the black card base using a foam tape

This is a double-layered card and aligning of the layers is crucial for the design. I recommend using MISTI Stamp Positioning tool to stamp the flower in the same position

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!

IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Peony Red Rubber Stamps Set
Bloomin' Great Red Rubber Stamps Set

STAMP FOCUS | Bumblebee

Today Ksenija is here and I am sharing my tips how to easily make a spectacular card with Collector's Edition No. 9 - Bumblebee red rubber stamps set.

Have you tried already new stamps from Collector's Edition?

Seahorse by Ksenija

Hello Everyone and Welcome!

Today Ksenija is here, and I am happy to share with you a new project as a part of January inspiration from International DT.

Today I am featuring Seahorse red rubber stamp from Collector's Edition. How adorable is this Seahorse!

Tips on Making This Card:

• Trim the panel from white card stock down to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" (10 by 14 cm)
• Stamp the seahorse in black archival ink off the center
• Stamp the seahorse down to mask paper and fussy cut out the mask

• Colour the impression with watercolour markers

• Mask off the seahorse coloured impression and the edges of the card panel
• Blend Distress inks onto the panel

• Keep the seahorse masked and remove the masks from the edges of the panel
• Stamp repeatedly oxygen bubbles from Under The Sea red rubber stamps set in FlitterGlu and apply Autumn Blaze Megaflakes

• Rub off the excess of the foil to reveal beautiful gilded impressions
• Remove the mask from the seahorse and stamp down DREAM from Sarah's Choice red rubber stamps set in black ink 
• Adhere the card panel to a black card base

Now over to you - Have you tried this seahorse stamp already? What type of projects did you make or would like to make with it? Cards? Tags? Altered objects?

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!
IndigoBlu Supplies Used:

Collector's Edition Seahorse Red Rubber Stamp

Under The Sea Red Rubber Stamps Set

Sarah's Choice Red Rubber Stamps Set

FlitterGlu

Autumn Blaze Megaflake

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Carolyn and Ksenija

Good Morning and welcome to day three of inspiration from the International Design Team.

Carolyn

Ksenija

Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone and Welcome!

Today Ksenija is here, and I am happy to share with you a new project as a part of December inspiration from International DT.

Today I am featuring the Christmas Wreath red rubber stamps set. I am really in love with this set.

Tips on Making This Card:

• Trim the panel from white card stock down to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" (10 by 14 cm)
• Stamp the wreath in black archival ink off the edge
• Colour the impression with watercolour markers
• Stamp the wreath in black archival ink down to a piece of white card stock and colour the bow and one of the anise stars. 

• Fussy cut out the bow and the anise star.
• Stamp down the sentiment from the same set.

• Adhere the card panel to the black card base and pop up the bow and the star with foamed tape.
• Add glitter to some of the elements of the wreath

I am sending you my most sincere wishes of health and happiness this Christmas! Thank you so much for stopping by!

IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Christmas Wreath Rubber Stamps Set

Sparkle And Glisten

Hello Everyone and Welcome!

Today Ksenija is here, and I am happy to share with you a new project as a part of November inspiration from International DT.

Today I am featuring the Vintage Flourish red rubber stamp for a flap card. One beautiful flourish helps to build a background and serves as a focal element as well.

Tips on Making This Card:

• Trim the panel from the cream card stock down to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" (10 by 14 cm)
• Stamp down the flourish in linen ink several times
• Trim the card base from white card stock down to 6 1/2 by 4 1/2" (16.6 by 11.5 cm) and score it horizontaly
• Stamp down the flourish in light green ink. Then apply a darker shade of ink to the stamp and dub off partially ink with a paper towel and stamp down to the first impression. 
• Cover the Flourish stamp partially with FlitterGlu and stamp over the colour impression
• Apply Morris Dance Megaflakes and rub off the excess of foil. 
• Stamp the sentiment from Sparkle and Glisten set in black ink
• Adhere the card down to the base using a double-sided tape

Please share with me in comments your ideas what other IndigoBlu stamps could be used for this technique - building a background and being a focal element.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a nice weekend!

IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Vintage Flourish Red Rubber Stamp
Sparkle and Glisten Red Rubber Stamps Set
Morris Dance Megaflakes
FlitterGlu

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Carolyn and Ksenija

Even more inspiration for you today from International Design Team Members Carolyn and Ksenija. To see the whole project head over to their own blogs, via the link.

Carolyn

Ksenija

Flamboyant Fall

Hello Everyone and Welcome!

Today Ksenija is here, and I am happy to share with you a new project as a part of October inspiration from International DT.

I am demonstrating use of a silhouette stamp for a Clean and Simple card. A beautiful stamp does not call for anything more than a spectacular background. For my card I chose a tree stamp from Nature I stamp set.

I started with watercolouring the background on a piece of watercolour paper using pigment powders. I wanted to create a monochromatic background with a lighter center and intense shades closer to the edges. I added powder going from the center to edges and let the background air dry.
As soon as it has dried, I die cut a square panel with side 3" (app. 7,5 cm). Then stamped down the tree silhouette in black archival ink.

To assemble the card I foam padded it and adhered to a black square with side 3 1/8" (8 cm). The bold stamped panel looks better with a simple elegant sentiment. Plume stamp set contains simple one word sentiments that match well clean style cards. For my card I selected Breathe from this set and stamped it down to a white card base in black ink, then glued the tree panel to it.

Please share with me in comments what are your favourite IndigoBlu stamps this Autumn.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a nice week!

IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Nature I Red Rubber Stamp Set
Plume Red Rubber Stamp Set

Inspiration From International Design Team Members Ksenija and Carolyn

Today we have more inspiration from International Design Team Members Ksenija and Carolyn. Head over to their own blogs to find out more (via the link on the sidebar).

Ksenija

Carolyn

Hello Autumn

Hello Everyone and Welcome!

Today Ksenija is here, and I am happy to share with you a new project as a part of September inspiration from International DT.

I would like to demonstrate the way to use big stamps for Clean and Simple cards. For my card I am combining Lollipop Tree and Dreams Come True stamp sets with Megaflakes. Clean and Simple (CAS) cards should have a lot free (white) space and preferably one focal image. To comply with CAS style rules I suggest stamping the big image over the crease line.

I started with cutting the card base to 5 1/2" by 6 1/4" and folding it vertically at 2". Then stamped the tree in soft grey archival ink down to a soft grey card base. I did not center it, but moved the stamp to the right to get the stem of the tree on the front panel.

Then partially applied FlitterGlu to the tree stamp and made the second impression, which I covered with Winter Dawn Megaflakes. Winter Dawn - is a mix of silver foils with blue greens and shiny golds.

I cut a white card panel to size 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" and stamped down Hello script from Dreams Come True set. To bind visually the grey card base and this panel I heat embossed one heart in silver powder.

To assemble the card I folded it at 2" and adhered the white panel under the narrow side of the card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope, you enjoy this card and you will play with IndigoBlu stamps and Megaflakes this week. Have a great start of the week!

IndigoBlu Supplies Used:
Lollipop Tree Stamp
Dreams Come True Stamp Set
FlitterGlu
Winter Dawn Megaflakes

Inspiration from International Design Team Members Ksenija and Carolyn

Lots more fabulous inspiration today from International Design Team Members Ksenija and Carolyn. For a closer look at ther fabulous projects follow the link to their own blogs (via the link on the sidebar).

Ksenija

Carolyn

Flower Power

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