IndigoBlu 'Fathers Day Special' Blog Hop

Hello there and thank you for stopping by today. I have a couple of exciting things to share with you.

As part of the TV Design Team, we have all come up with some inspiration for Fathers Day in a way of a Blog Hop. Each of us has created a blog post with so many Hint, Tips and Inspiration for you to use when creating your own Fathers Day card or indeed helping a younger member of the family to craft with you. But of course you can use these tutorials for other male themed cards throughout the year.

 Kay and Alfie have also given us a huge 20% discount to share with you on a selection of the Stamp Sets we used in our blog posts so that you can purchase your favourite stamp set at a discounted price. (you have until the 17th June to grab this discount)!

Here are the main Stamp Sets the DT used in their Fathers Day Cards and the sets you can claim a 20% Discount on.

 'The Draughtsman' - 'Drive Hard' - 'Fly High'

   'Travelling Home' - 'Grand Tour II' - ''Grand Tour III'

'Steampunkesque' - Circus Alphabet'

And now for a bit of Blog Hopping. 

Click onto each of the titles of the Blog posts to take you straight there to see how each card has been created.  

But before you do that, read on to the bottom of the post to find that all important Discount Code to use when making an order on the IndigoBlu website.

Kay Molyneux - One for the boys!

Sue Ralph - Inspiration for Fathers Day 

Carolyn Larkin - Steampunk Fathers Day Card

 Julie Atkinson - Fathers Day With IndigoBlu

Linda Simpson - Fathers Day Inspiration

 'Aitch'- Fathers Day Blog Hop

Emma Blake - Fathers Day Card and Special offer

We all really hope you have been inspired by this post and would love to hear what you think so please leave us a comment below or indeed on our blog posts.

We hope this discount will help you on the way to create your own cards or mixed media pieces. Enjoy and Happy Crafting.

Until next time,

Sue xx

Altered Art with Beck BT

Hi Everyone, it's Beck Beattie here today to share with you an altered art project.  I love how with a bit of paint and some fun items you can really transform a plain and not so inspiring item into something really special.

I started out with the larger of these trio of wooden houses

I had fun adding the divine Indigoblu Cottage paints and gesso to really transform it.  To transform it into something really special though I altered a chipboard die cut dragonfly.  I wanted to share with you how this was given new life in my video below:

The process:

• Add gesso randomly to the wood piece
• Add Hot cocoa Cottage Acrylic paint with a pallet knife to the wood piece a little random as well
• Next place some Townhouse teal on your craft mat and stamp the wood piece into it
• Add a little Miss Moneypenny and Emerald City with a pallet knife very sparingly
• Us the Sewing pattern stamp and stamp with brown permanent ink onto the dried wood piece
• Next take a piece of the cartography papers, add a little gesso and dab with a little hot cocoa paint to tone down the white.  Stamp the words from the 'NaturaI' set and cut and add a little Goldfinger to the edges of the pieces of paper before adhering with the Slap it on (Matt) applied to both sides of the paper as you adhere it to the wood piece.  
• Add some shadowing with the black neocolor crayon

The products:

Indigoblu products:

English Cottage paints - Townhouse Teal, Miss 

Moneypenny, Hot Cocoa, Emerald City & Goldfinger

'Slap it On 'Matt' & 'Gloss'

Gee-Sso Good!  Gesso

'Sewing Pettern' Red Rubber Stamp

'Nature I' Red Rubber Stamp

Indigoblu Cartography - Mixed Media 

Paper Pad - A6 size 

Other products:

Neocolor II Aquarelle - Black, Veronese Green, 

Turqouise Green & Metallic Dark Gold

Fun Stampers Journey Wood house

Sizzix 'Tim Holtz Alterations' Layered Dragonfly

 die and embossing folder

Chipboard sheet

 Fun Stampers Journey - house to home trio

I hope you enjoyed my share today and I've inspired you to do some home decorating of your own.

Happy Creating!

xxxBeck BT