Mixed Media Canvas with Paint, Stamps and Stencils

Mixed Media Canvas by

Welcome to my little creative corner. I got my mixed media on for this project and got inky and painty hands to prove it and one messy desk! Mixed media allows us to do whatever we are feeling and it is ok. Use any product, any technique..just make art. It is very liberating and IndigoBlu makes it easy with so many great paints, stencils, papers and more. Plus, I got to use up a bunch of my scrap IndigoBlu Mixed Media Papers, too!

Supplies Used:Indigoblu:  English Cottage Acrylic Paint, "Park Lane"  Grand Tour  III Stamp Set, Texture 6" x 6" Stencil, Roman Numeral 6" x 6" Stencil, Mixed Media Papers, various, Slap It On.
Other:  Tattered Angels: Baseboard in Ivory, Glimmer Mist in Viva Pink and 8" x 10" canvas, Ranger Archival Black Ink, Tombow ABT N15 black brush pen, Faber Castell PITT Pen in Magenta, White Gesso.

Start with your paper scraps, apply the Slap On and adhere to the canvas randomly. We will be covering it with gesso so do not worry about placement.

Cover the paper with white gesso without covering all the images. Keep a hint of the images.

Using a stencil, add heavy texture paste and allow to dry.

Add some of the Park Lane paint to the front over the edges and front texture portions.  Water it down a bit so that it is not too overpowering on the paper.

Sprtized the Glimmer Mist and Baseboard and spread with a paint brush. Using your pens outline some of the squares from the stenciled portion. Add a stamped image to give it its final piece.

Enjoy!  Thank you for coming by.

Candy Rosenberg

www.AVintageGirl.com

Fabric Fantasy

Hi everyone and welcome! Jenny here to share a new project with you today. Before getting started, a big thank you to everyone who tuned in to see my first Hochanda shows and to everyone who took the time to catch up with Kay, Elizabeth, Cheremane and myself at the Port Sunlight show last weekend. It's always special to share our passion for all things IndigoBlu. If you missed out remember that the IndigoBlu 5th Birthday Open Day will take place at Retford on Monday 30th May!!! (details in the sidebar)

Now for that new project - I'm building on the stamping on fabric ideas I shared on tv, translating them to card making. Here's the finished card...

And here's how it came together; start with a piece of fabric, stuck to a card base with Fabric Slap It On and stitched to create a border. Then stamp the half doily shape from the Floral Fantasy stamp set using Wimberry Pie Acrylic Paint.

Stamp the large butterfly three times from the same stamp set onto more fabric using Wimberry Pie again, sticking them onto packaging using the Fabric Slap It On. When dry cut out, mould with your heat gun and edge with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Stamp one of the sentiments from the Floral Fantasy set onto a kraft card tag and layer onto a second tag using dimensional tape.

Spray a couple of pre-made flowers with dilute Wimberry Pie Acrylic Paint and allow to air dry; the paint will draw some of the green ink out of the lower layer of leaves.

Returning to the background, add strips of coordinating lace to the centre of the doily design and layer over the stamped tags.

To finish add the painted flowers, butterflies and some more coordinating flowers to finish the design before mounting onto a card blank.

Here are some close ups of the finished card;

That's it for today. Hopefully you'll see from this that all those stamping and stencilling tips and techniques work equally well on fabric for a card as they do for cushion covers.

For now take care of yourselves,
Jenny xxx

A5 Floral Fantasy Stamp Set
Wimberry Pie English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint
Slap It On (Fabric)

Mixed media canvas

Hello Everyone! Monika here with a new juicy inspiration for you. I used this time Floral Fantasy, Word Blocks and Light and Sound Borders to create colourful, mixed media canvas. In the center of my canvas I placed lilac stamp from Floral Fantasy set.
I also stamped doily stamp from the same set using StazOn Gothic Purple ink and I coloured them with Distress Inks.

I used some IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paints: Wimberry Pie,

Cinderella, Townhouse Teal and the newest colours Marshmallow and my favourite Mulberry Bush.

Product used:

IndigoBlu A5 Floral Fantasy

IndigoBlu A5 Word Blocks

Indigoblu Light and Sound Borders

IndigoBlu GeeSso Good! Gesso

Kroma Crackle

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Wimberry Pie

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Mulberry Bush

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Marshmallow

IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Cinderella (Metallic)

Indigoblu English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint Townhouse Teal

Have a nice day,

Monika xx

Butterflies and Blooms Cushion Covers

Hi it's Elizabeth here sharing some of the cushion covers I made for Jenny Marples show on Hochanda last Monday. If you missed the shows they are still available on catch up on the Hochanda page, but be quick!

I kept the designs quite simple to show that you don't have to cover the entire piece, just a corner or centre if that's what you would prefer.

As you can see I love using the Dinkie Butterfly, it's such a beautiful stamp and the image stays true when stamping with the IndigoBlu paints.

The Lilac blossoms were stamped up using Mulberry Bush and Marshmallow, which are perfect colours for these flowers. The Lime Marmalade and Hunter Green blended together to stamp out the Laurel Leaves stamps beautifully.

These Dinkie DragonFly's were stamped out onto scrap fabric with the Kingfisher Blue, cut out and attached using the Fabric Slap It On, which is a fabulous product. I love the Lime Marmalade paint alongside the Kingfisher Blue and Hunter Green it really comes alive.

And last but not least my favourite cover made using the Dinkie Butterfly and the beautiful half Doily from the Floral Fantasy stamp set, along with Lime Marmalade, Kingfisher Blue and Pheasant Bronze paints, and a little splattering.

So Tomorrow (Saturday 7th May) the cushions will be at Port Sunlight for the Happy Stampers Show if you would like to have a closer look, or have any questions about the products used, the team will be happy to help. I'll pop a list of products used at the end of this post.

Happy Crafting and hope to see you at Port Sunlight,
Elizabeth x

Marshmallow Cottage Garden Paint
Mulberry Cottage Garden Paint
Pheasant Bronze Metallic Paint
Kingfisher Metallic Paint
Lime Marmalade Cottage Garden Paint
Raven Black Metallic Paint
Hunter Green Cottage Garden Paint
Dinkie Butterfly
Dinkie Dragonfly
Laurel Leaves Stamps
Floral Fantasy Stamps

April Challenge Reminder - Spring is in the Air

Hi all,

It's reminder time for our April Challenge, and we have our fab Top 3 from March's challenge to bring you some inspiration today.  You can see full details and instructions on their personal blogs by clicking on the names on their photo's.

First up it's Sue:

Sue had this to say:

Hello there, I have been really excited to be picked by the Design team again to share with you an inspiration piece for the New Blog Challenge "Spring is in the air".

I have had so much fun making this piece especially using some of the new paints. 

Please pop over to my blog to take a look at how I created this. I hope it inspires you!

Happy Crafting Sue xx

And next we have Mac Mable:

Mac Mable told us: 

I am thrilled and excited to be asked to do an Inspiration piece for the reminder post for the ‘Spring is in The Air’ Challenge.

My project started as a card and ended up being a wall hanging!

The initial inspiration came from using the ‘Tulips Stencil Border’.

Thank you so much for inviting me to do the inspiration piece, I had fun creating the wall hanging and learnt lots along the way.

And third it's Jane:

Jane told us:
I was really thrilled to be in the top 3 and able to create this project for you today.  I love Spring and this piece was inspired by the beautiful butterfly and flower stamps that IndigoBlu do so well, as well as the fantastic new bright paints that have recently been released!  I chose to use a clock as it is a symbol of the passing of time with the changing seasons, hopefully a sign of warmer weather to come! :) Jane X

And then we have our lovely Cheremane from the Challenge Design team who made a beautiful reminder piece for us too:

 Cheremane

You can win Indigoblu stamps of your choice, and a Guest DT spot as either our Random winner or Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team.  For all the details see the challenge post HERE.

I think you'll agree these are beautiful, well done to our Top 3 and Cheremane. 

Don't forget to join us in the Challenge, we'd love to see your makes! You can enter HERE or on the main post. 

Best Wishes,

Indigoblu Challenge Design Team 

& Top 3 Winners.

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

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