IndigoBlu International Design Team Lead

I was very proud and super excited when Kay and Alfie asked me to be their International Design Team Lead for another year over at IndigoBlu. We have yet another amazing team lined up for this year, and I can't wait to start sharing all their gorgeous artwork with you.

Here's a sneaky peek at my first post over on the IndigoBlu Blog this morning.

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Challenge September 2017 - Take A Stamp

I've created something quick and simple for the launch of the September Challenge over at the Craft Stamper Blog using a watercolour wash background, and some of the beautiful floral stamps from IndigoBlu's Victorian Garden stamp set. Simple but effective.

We have a fabulous prize up for grabs from Uniko check out these gorgeous sets.

All you have to do is share your projects that include stamping on them with us over at the Craft Stamper Blog 

Not only do we have the fabulous prize of those gorgeous stamps up for grabs, but as always there's a chance to be featured in the magazine as well, so cool!

Please take a moment first though to check out the entry requirements, we have so many stunning entries that can't be judged as they don't have the right links etc so please do check the rules out before linking your project.

So check out the details, get creating and enter for a chance to win!

Have fun.

Elizabeth x

The Craft Stamper Challenge Reminder - July 2017

Just a little reminder that the challenge is under way over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog where we would love you to share your stamped projects with us.

As always we have an amazing prize up for grabs along with the chance to be featured in the magazine it's self.

So get creating, add stamping and enter!!!

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Magazines Take It Make It May Challenge Reminder

Good Morning, just a little reminder that the May challenge is under way over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog where we would love you to share your projects which include stamping on them. I've been doodling Mermaids "James Burke" style again and using the Ecoline Ink Brush pens to colour them in. Love these water based ink pens as they are so versatile. I've drawn, waterbrushed and  stamped using them, and not lost any of the gorgeous rich colour.

Once they are dry you can work over the top with Paint pens and Micron Fineliners to add in extra details. Just remember if the colour get wet again, they will move!

I've added one of the new sentiments from IndigoBlu's Dreams Come True stamp set, the fonts are beautiful, and I wish I could write like that!

So get stamping and join in the fun. We have a fabulous prize up for grabs as well as the chance to be in the magazine it's self, how cool would that be!

Please check out the entry details before adding your link, and have fun creating.

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Magazine - Take It Make It Challenge February Reminder

Sharing another page from my art journal today, and hopefully a little more inspiration to join us over at the Craft Stamper Blog Challenge where we love to see your stamped projects.

I've been playing with paper scraps, gesso and lots of gorgeous Luscious sprays from IndigoBlu along with some of the new Dinkie and Sentiment stamps, and of course the Big Butterfly which I love and use so often.

There's a fabulous prize for the winner of the challenge,along with the chance to be featured in the magazine it's self. So what's to loose, get creating, add stamping and please make sure you follow the entry guidelines, to be in with a chance to win!

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge August 2016 - Take a Stencil/Mask

Good morning and welcome to a little reminder for the Craft Stampers Take It Make It Challenge where we want you to share your projects using Masks/Stencils alongside your stamps.

I've had great fun creating master boards this week to use in up-coming projects. I like to keep a little pile of them ready for using, it also makes me work with different colour schemes from my normal blues!! I've used one of Trish Latimer's fabulous new whimsical stamps, alongside IndigoBlu's Itsy Bitsy Background stamps and a quote from the Boadicea stamp set. I also used the new start stencil from IndigoBlu

So there's plenty of time to enter and a fabulous prize up for grabs.
We have four fabulous new stencils designed by our very own Giovanna for the winner.  You can check out Giovanna's shop HERE

So please read the entry rules, make sure there is stamping and stencilling on your project and join in with us, we love seeing your artwork!

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge August 2016 - Techniques - Stencils

It's time for a new challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine's Blog where we would like to see you using "Stencils" alongside your stamped projects. I had great fun creating my background with IndigoBlu's paints and stunning new Luscious powders.

I used the Tiny and Teeny background stamps and of course the new Start stencil with white GeeSsoGood through, and for some contrast some black distress ink. The stars with the wording on are from 7Dots Messy Head collection, from A Sprinkle of Imagination. An this fabulous "Word Girl" stamp is designed by our very own amazing Trish Latimer

As always we have a fabulous prize up for grabs and a chance to be featured in the magazine, so please read the entry instructions carefully!!!!

We have four fabulous new stencils designed by our very own Giovanna for the winner.  You can check out Giovanna's shop HERE

So please read the entry rules, make sure there is stamping and stencilling on your project and join in with us, we love seeing your artwork!

Have fun
Elizabeth x

Candy Box Crafts - Eye Candy!!

I absolutely love Candy Box Crafts they have the most amazing high quality MDF storage, which are perfect for us crafters, along with some fabulous kits to build and decorate. So when I was asked if I would like to decorate a few pieces for them, I jumped at the chance.

I've assembled and decorated quite a few of the products from their range, the clever way that they are designed makes them very easy to put together. The only tools you need are wet glue, a few elastic bands,  and a good imagination.

This fabulous Lantern has lots of scope, it would look fabulous with lots of vintage flowers and butterflies on the gift's table at a wedding, or bright and funky for a summer garden party or as I've done with a quirky Alice in Wonderland theme, using Graphic45 papers, IndigoBlu stamps and Paints.

Such great fun to do and of course battery operated candles or tea lights are a must, no naked flames please.

I've pop back in the morning to share a few more of the samples I've made for the Candy Box Crafts shows on Hochanda freeview 39 and also on-line at 11am and 5pm Wednesday 18th May.

Happy Crafting, Elizabeth x

Kroma Crackle Notebook

 I thought I'd share the notebook that a decorated for myself using IndigoBlu's Kroma Crackle

I used  a cheap hard backed book and gave the front cover a couple of coats of White GeeSsoGood making sure they had dried in-between. Then I painted a coat of Townhouse Teal Cottage Garden paint. After letting that dry I swiped all over the paint with FlitterGlu and painted over the top with with the yummy new Marshmallow paint mixed in with the Kroma Crackle 

 

Then I carefully used my heat tool to activate the crackles, being careful not to melt the book cover itself.
Once all the gorgeous crackles had formed I gave the cover a coat of the new Gloss Slap-It-On to seal it and also to stop any more crackles from forming.

To finish off I used a sentiment from the Floral Fantasy  stamp set and added sequins and gems from my stash along with a couple of ribbon scraps.

Happy Crafting.
Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper's April Challenge - Spring Flowers

Just a little reminder the the new challenge for April over at The Craft Stamper Magazine Blog is up and running.
We want you to share your Spring Flower Projects with us and as always we have an amazing prize up for grabs. This time we are sponsored by Traplet Publications :) who have very generously put up not one, but all six of Kate Cranes DVD's for grabs.......so get creating using your stamps, and join in. Follow the link to find out how to enter.

I've used the gorgeous After Morris papers, along with the Anemone stamped and coloured in using Ruby Slippers and Goldfinger Metallic paints, die cut and layered for a 3d effect. The sentiment is from the Floral Fantasy stamp set, stamped in black Archival, cut out and edged in Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.

Have fun, Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge - March 2016 - Take A Stamp

It's time to start the March challenge over at The Craft Stamper Blog where we would like you to use stamping on your project.

Our winner this time will get to choose 20euro's worth of products from our fabulous sponsor Basement Studio.

 I've used a section from the new Kibble Kits background stamp from IndigoBlu, which has been spritzed with a mixture of paints, and added to a background created from the Tasty Textures stamped out in Distress Ink, love those stamps!

So get creating using stamps and follow the instructions on the challenge blog to link your project and you could be in with a chance of winning a great prize or even featuring in the magazine itself.

Good Luck, Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge December - Take a Technique

Here we are with the launch of our December challenge over at the Craft Stamper Blog our theme this time around is to "Take a Technique" and make your project icy, wintry or Christmasy (I know it's not a real word)!!
We have been sponsored this time by Polkadoodles who have very kindly put up a prize of £25 to spend on their goodies.

The technique I've chosen to use is one of my favourites, Megaflakes and FlitterGlu. I love the effect of gilding it adds something magical to a project, for very little extra cost.

I've used the Design Alphabet stamps, Christmas Compendium papers and the very gorgeous Morris Dance Megaflakes, all from IndigoBlu.

And of course Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without bells on!!!

Check out the challenge terms and conditions on the blog page, and make a little something to enter, using stamping of course. Along with the great Polkadoodles prize another lucky winner will have their chance to be featured in the Craft Stamper magazine itself, how cool is that!!

Happy Crafting
Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge November - Take a Stamp

Just a little reminder that our November challenge over at the Craft Stamper Blog is underway, with a fabulous prize up for grabs from Magenta you can find out more HERE along with the terms of entry for the challenge.

I've used Emporium of Curiosities Mixed Media Cardstack from IndigoBlu, along with the fabulous Chicken stamp from the Funny Bird stamp set and one of my very much used stamps the Honeycomb Background with Chocolate Box Megaflakes

After a little distressing of the edges, adding a few flowers I had a classy card for a very classy bird!!!!!

Have a great weekend.

Elizabeth x

British Craft Network for IndigoBlu :)

I've got my first programme for IndigoBlu on the British Craft Network Saturday 5th September at 4pm.

I'll be showcasing the fabuous Christmas Compendium Mixed Media Paper Stack, along with some other of my favourite products, hints and tips.

Hope you can join me for the first of my shows, bloopers and all!!

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge July - Stamping

Our new challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog goes live this morning, where we would like to see "stamping" on your projects.

We have yet another fabulous sponsor, so get creating, follow the guidelines (very important) and leave us a direct link to your artwork so we can hop over for a closer look.

 

 I've been playing with a few die cuts and one of the new Clear Christmas stamps from IndigoBlu along with the very yummy Cinderella metallic paints and Sheffield Steel MegaFlakes.

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge - Take A Technique - Texture

Our challenge is well underway over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog and we've had some fabulous entries already, who are all in with a chance of winning £20 worth of Rubber Dance Stamps or having their artwork in print in the magazine.

Our theme is "Texture" so using scraps of both paper and fabric ribbons I created my background, along with Whimberry Pie and Snow White paints from IndigoBlu love those two colours together, they are so soft.

The Poppies were also stamped out in Whimberry Pie and water coloured with it as well, before spritzing the whole lots with Snow White, and layering up onto a white card base.

So get your thinking caps on add some texture to your project along with some stamping of course, leave a direct link back to your submitted entry then we can pay your blog a visit for a closer look.

Good luck, Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge April - 'Take A Technique' Colour!

Our challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine this month is to use colour, so the world is your Rainbow, just no monochrome or dark projects please, bright colours only!!!
I've shaded a piece of IndigoBlu's Perfect Stamping card with Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks, they blend together beautifully on that card. Then using Peacock Feathers stamped the wide lace from IndigoBlu's Nottingham Lace set across the bottom.
The butterflies were stamped onto a piece of turquoise card, cut out and yellow Pan Pastels added to the inner wings.
Both the sentiment and the butterflies are from Kaisercraft.

As always we have a fabulous sponsor, this time around it's IndigoBlu with some of their gorgeous new stamps up for grabs!!!

So we would like to see bright projects this month, you don't have to use the whole rainbow, just please remember to use stamps on your project, leave us a direct link to your artwork, and link back to us at the Craft Stamper Blog for a chance of winning.

Good Luck
Elizabeth x

Dragons Dream TIO #185 - Pink and Hearts

This time around, Catherine has chosen the theme of "Pink and Hearts" over at the Dragons Dream TIO.
This is one of the new release stamps from IndigoBlu and is called Tattoo Heart, perfect for this theme :)
My tag background was created by inking around the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and painting over with a thinned down coat of Gesso, makes me think of Strawberry Milkshake!
The Tattoo Heart was stamped over the top in Memento and coloured in lightly using Lyra Polycolour pencils, with just a few gems scattered around the outline to finish it off.
We'd love you to join in with us at the Dragons Dream TIO Challenge just please remember to follow the recipe and include at least one real stamp on your tag.

Elizabeth x

Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge - 'Take A Technique' : Theme: Stencilling

 Our new challenge at the Craft Stampers Magazine's blog is "Take a Technique" with the theme this time being stencilling, all the info can be found HERE

I used Dreamweaver Paste through a TH Chevron stencil then painted over with lots of gesso. I brushed Peacock Feathers Distress ink around the edges blending into the centre, and then spritzed with a mix of Cinderella and Goldfinger metallic paints from IndigoBlu love how these paints keep their colour even when diluted with water.
I stamped around the edge of the canvas with one of the new ink splat stamps that Limor designed for IndigoBlu. Stamped out the butterfly, added some Peacock Feather ink around the edge, and a little pink pencil in the centre of the wings, then fussy cut it out and added to the canvas.

As always we have a fabulous prize up for grabs, so get your stencils out, get stamping and come and join in our challenge!!! You could have your artwork in print in the magazine.

Elizabeth xxx

IndigoBlu Samples

 Another sample made for IndigoBlu using the fabulous Ledger stamp and some words from the equally fab Sarah's Choice stamp plate. I spritzed Goldfinger, Cinderella and Snow White onto card stock, then cut out the tags, love doing this technique.

Then to finish off added a few of the multi coloured gems from Papermania.. It's a horrible day in North Wales, lots of hailstone, sleet and it's freezing cold, so perfect day to catch up with some crafting ;)
Elizabeth xxx