Craft Stampers Take It Make It Challenge - Take A Stamp

Just a reminder that our new challenge over at the Craft Stamper Blog has started and the theme this month is "Take A Stamp".
We have two fabulous prizes up for grabs from this months sponsors WOW

So get stamping, leave us a direct link back to your project and don't forget to link back to the Craft Stamper Blog, to be in with a chance of winning!!!

I've used one of the papers from IndigoBlu's Belle Epoque selection along with  stamps from two of the Grand Tours stamp plates.


The papers take paint and colouring mediums fantastically, and with a thinned down layer of gesso you can change the colour easily, or even just add colour with pencils.

Have a great weekend, Elizabeth x

Craft Stampers Take It Make It Challenge 'Take A Technique' : Theme: Stencilling

 A little reminder of our challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog where we want to see your stencilling projects. This time I decided to use Distress Inks along with one of my favourite Prima stencils.

 I used a mixture of Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold and Mustard Seed inks applied with Inkylicious brushes. Then added flowers and birds from IndigoBlu's Nature 1 stamp set in Archival ink, love the contrast of colours against black ink.

So pop over to the blog and check out my fabulous team mates artwork, make a little something following the guidelines, and join in by leaving us a direct link back to your blog. You could win a fabulous prize and also have your work published in the Craft Stamper magazine, how cool is that!!!

Good Luck,
Elizabeth x

IndigoBlu Butterfly Canvas

 Yesterday my friend Cheremane and I spent the whole day in my kitchen working on a new canvas each. We had a great day filled with paints, inks, stamps, dies and embellishments (and my new hot glue gun :) along with lots of other goodies!

Firstly I primed my canvas with white gesso, and while that was drying I created  a patterned paper using one of the new Limor Webber/IndigoBlu stamps in Hawaii Blu Stazon Ink.
I ripped this and added sections to the now dry canvas, rolled the edges back and added Peacock Feathers distress Ink around the edge of the papers, and also the canvas itself. When that has dried I added a Doily and frame, then covered the whole thing in a coat of gesso. The Distress Ink ran a little into the white of the canvas, which gave it a shaded look, which I love.

I stamped out three Dinkie Butterflies onto white card, cut them out and inked around the edge of the wings with Peacock Feather Distress ink. Then added them onto the canvas along with a few flowers, inked again with Peacock Feathers, and also some pearls.
I'm pleased with the finished result :) so am going to enter it into the Use Something New Challenge at Country View Crafts

Elizabeth

Merry Christmas!

 I'm loving these new Christmas stamps from IndigoBlu, the font is just lovely and designed to work perfectly with the megaflakes, Chariot of Fire in this case.

The background card had been made from spritzing Ruby Slippers, Cinderella and Goldfinger metallic paints, then using a paper distresser around the edges.
Seem to be in a pink mood at the moment, not like me at all lol.
Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge

Only a few more hours to enter into the Take It make It Challenge this month. There are some gorgeous JOFY Paper Artsy paints up for grabs for the lucky winner, check out the gorgeous colours here.
I've had great fun playing with this technique, and still have several sheets of gorgeous patterned paper and card ready for use in the future.

This is a piece of kraftcard that I cleaned my acrylic black on after my first make. The bubble impression is from a Stampcamp stamp that I love and use often, am very sad they won't be at Port Sunlight this weekend, as they always have very different and quirky stamp plates. The butterfly kisses is an old rub-on that came in a ribbon box from Anna Griffin, I re-discovered all the gorgeous little charms in there as well, ups so much stash so little time lol.
See you at Port Sunny!!
Elizabeth xxx

Craft Stamper's Take It Make It Challenge

The is still plenty of time to join in the Take It Make It challenge over at the Craft Stamper Blog 
where you will finds lots of inspiration from the DT and there are some yummy PaperArtsy paints up for grabs!!
I decided to use the same stamp again, just to show how different it looks with a funky coloured background on canvas.

Very bright colours for me, but I wanted to do something outside of my "comfort" colours. I stencilled versamark ink through the Harliquin stencil and embossed with the same black powder as my butterfly for a total contrast against the background.
Love this tecnique as it creates a great texture and you can lift several prints off your block whilst cleaning it!
Elizabeth x

Take It Make It Challenge March 2014 Mono Printing

Very excited this morning to be sharing my first piece as one of the very lucky DT members for the Craft Stamper's Take It Make It challenge.
The month's theme is "Mono Printing" using acrylic paints on an acrylic block to create a pattern.

I made a yummy mixture of Martha Stewart and PaperArtsy paints in Mermaid, Snowflake and the aptly named Easter Egg (pink Martha Stewart), smooshed them around with my fingers and made prints on to several sheets of card, including Kraftcard as I wanted to see how they looked against something other than white. I then had a play with stamping in to the paint for a different texture and ended up with some gorgeous pieces of card for use later on.
The IndigoBlu butterflies were stamped out using Archival ink, cut out and added to my chosen section of card, which is matted on to some corrugated cardstock, kraftcard and a black basecard, with some garden twine to tie the colours together.
I am so very proud to have been chosen as a DT member for the best craft magazine on the market, and to be in the company of some amazingly talented teamies, check out their blogs, and join in the challenge via the link on my sidebar.
Elizabeth xxx

Dragons Dream TIO #146 Stencil/Mask, Paint and Ribbon

Phew this is a very late posting from me as it should have been here on Wednesday, but I made it in the end! Our challenge this fortnight over at Dragons Dream TIO has been chosen by Helen, who would like to see stencils/masks, paint and ribbon used on our tags, along with at least one real stamp as always.
I painted a chipboard tag with mermaid fresco paint and when dried stencilled black soot distress ink through a crafters workshop stencil.  I stamped over the top with the indigoblu anenome stamp in archival ink, then stamped the flowers again on to some blue scrap paper, and decoupaged them over the top adding some green gems for the centres.
The butterflies were a free download I found on pinterest and the small love stamp is by PSX.
To join in with our challenge just click on the link on my sidebar.

Elizabeth xxx
Also going to enter this in to Ali Crafts Butterflies Challenge