Lots of Fun IndigoBlu Style

Last Saturday I had a great IndigoBlu workshop with 22 lovely Ladies who all created beautiful tissue boxes, and lots of painty backgrounds.

They all had a set of new stamps, but shock horror, no ink pads.................yes we did lots of paint techniques no ink allowed!!

Working on a 5 1/2" square of kraftcard we dry brushed White GeeSsoGood, followed by a colour.

 Then using a strip of scrap card dipped in to the White GeeSsoGood we created lines.

Then using the colour we had chosen, we used whatever was net to us on our workspace. I used a paint pot lid for a large circle, the base of my glue for a smaller circle outline and the lid for a full circle.

To finished off I added splatters of white to mine. The putting into practise what they had learnt everyone got painty and created some fabulous backgrounds, all ready for their stamped images to sit on.

So there you have it lots of painty backgrounds, lots of fun and no ink allowed!!
Happy Crafting.
Elizabeth x

White GeeSsoGood
Cottage Garden Paints

Art Journal Re-Vamp

 I decided to give my Art Journal a re-vamp, when I did the cover originally it was black with metallic blue and silver, and very dark.
So after a coat of GeeSoGood Gesso and adding lots of elements that were left over from a Finnabair workshop I did at IndigoBlu earlier this year, along with a few flowers and buttons from my stash. I decided this time around I wanted a pastel colours for my journal.

  I used several layers of IndigoBlu's Cottage Garden paints in the gorgeous Grandma's Teacup and Townhouse Teal shades, diluted with water and spritzed onto the cover. Then after drying spritzed again with the gorgeous Snow White metallic paint, for a pearl sheen along the right hand side.

To finish off I applied a little Vodka Martini metallic paint using a dry brush to the edges of some of the embellishments, so when the light catches them they have a beautiful metallic lustre.

So there's my re-vamped cover and I promise to fill the rest of the pages and share them :)

Happy Crafting
Elizabeth x

IndigoBlu Challenge April - Over the Edge!

The challenge over at IndigoBlu this month is "Over the Edge" so stamping on or over the edge of your project.
This is one of the newer stamps called "Dramatic Eye" designed by Limor Webber for IndigoBlu and is available in two different sizes.
The background is a mixture of IndigoBlu's metallic paints and Lyra Polycolour pencils over the top, to create shading, and the illusion of a face, very spooky!
Hop over via the link and check out what the rest of the demonstrator team have created, and why not have a go yourself, there is a fab prize up for grabs!!!!

Elizabeth x