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

The Mad Inventor

Hi it's Jannet here, let me tell you a tale of Mr Herbert Bumblewaite is known locally as "the mad inventor" as he is always collecting whatnots to make some sort of contraption with. On a crisp Autumn morning he decided to test out his latest invention which was his flying contraption.......

To make the circular house I cut 3 inches from one of the Damaged Dots 6x6 cards I also cut out a row of little triangle tabs on the bottom.

I cut out some wonky Windows (I didn't have to try too hard to do that!) and also cut a doorway.I made frames for the Windows from one of the red sheets, and attached them with a screw-head brad. I cut a door and popped in a square brad for the handle.

I used the inside of a duck tape roll to draw a circle for the roof. I distressed the edges and folded it in four and cut along one of the folds and then placed the edge slightly over the top of the other edge to create a raised roof. To add some quirkiness I glued a hammer brad into the centre of the roof. I rolled up the house into a cylinder shape and adhered the edges together.

Before gluing on the roof, I cut some little bunting from the papers and threaded it under the roof.

For the base I used a Dairylea box, which I covered in Damaged Damask card.

I stamped Herbert twice. I added colour to only one. I painted both of his flying fans with Goldfinger metallic paint. I cut out each fan section and used a foam pad to adhere the fan pieces on top of the fan on the coloured in Herbert.
I adhered Herbert to some thick brown wire and poked a hole in the top of the dairylea box and pushed the wire in and bent it up underneath and glued it in place.I added some glue to the tabs on the bottom of the house and also adhered it to the box

I gave Herbert some privacy by die cutting a fence to go around his house. I made him an all important Mad Inventers sign. I die cut some Autumn leaves from card which I had previously added washes of Luscious Pigments in Coral and Teal.

Happy flying Herbert!
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