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

Hot Air Balloon

Hello everyone! It's Solange Marques here!
This month at IndigoBlu its all about stories.
My story is about a hot air balloon. I like to think of balloons as the imagination, It can fly high, over seas, fields or mountains and see the world from above. Then they come back and land on the ground back to a reality.
I like to imagine myself  flying in one of these balloons and feel the wind take me through the blue sky through endless landscapes.

I've used IndigoBlu Damaged Dots Mixed Media Paper Pad.
I've applied embossing powder on Grand Tour III stamp:

On the top of the balloon I've used IndigoBlu Floral Fantasy stamp.

I've also used IndigoBlu Vintage Flourish A6:

And finally, IndigoBlu Steampunkesque:

Thank you for visiting today and I hope you enjoy it!

Hearts that Flourish Mixed Media Valentine Card

Autumn with you today to share a lovey dovey Valentine made with some of your favorite not so Valentine stamps.

I started by making a mask for the Vintage Frame stencil and stamping around the mask with the Script background stamp in black.

I used modeling paste through the stencil, then used Distress Ink to watercolor my background.

I stamped the leaves from the Blooming Great set in Picked Raspberry and fussy cut.  I embossed the flower from the same set in white, then dipped into watery Spun Sugar.  I stamped Vintage Flourish in Picked Raspberry onto a heart die cut and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I layered with a few other dies and cheesecloth.

I was going for high contrast and added some metallic silver card to the mix.  The heart is just so beautiful with this pattern, don't you think?  I hope you are inspired to think outside of the box with your IndigoBlu stamps today.

You still have time to enter our Love is All You Need challenge for a chance to win IndigoBlu stamps!  We hope you'll join us.