My shining star

My shining star

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Christmas in July at Indigo blu

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are well and happy! We are all good - Shaun is getting organised for a trip to Argentina - and me and the girls are getting ready for Lucy's birthday party which is on Saturday - she's going to be 8 - but not until the following wednesday. Its all go though - its only a small party this year - just 8 of them going to the climbing wall at lancaster University. Sounds like fun.

Today I have my entry for the Indigo Blu challenge to share with you. The theme is Christmas in July - I've used three of their MDF baubles to make some simple decorations.


Here's the three together - they were all made by coating the MDF in silks paint and allowing to dry before stamping the Indigo blu snowflake image on in versa mark and adding embossing powders before heat setting. Here they all are individually.




Simple but I think effective!

I'd like to enter these into the indigoblublogchallenge-christmas-in-july.

Just wanted to show you Lucy's painting and her inspiration too - this is for the simonsaysstampblog -wednesdaychallenge -simon-says-childrens-summer-vacation-challenge





She bought this bird in Germany at the Medieval festival we went to! I had to buy a chicken - not a real one - I have quite a few chickens in my kitchen now lol!!!

Thats all for now!

Hope to see you again soon and thanks for dropping by today!

Hugs

Rachel x


30 comments:

  1. Good morning Rachel,
    Love the Baubles they are brilliant.
    Lucy's painting is really great it would look nice framed
    Hugs

    Patricia xx

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  2. Gorgeous Baubles Rachel! I love the painting too! Very colourful, well done Lucy!
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  3. Fabulous Rachel, love the effect of the embossing on the silks! Lucy's painting is so cute too, an artist in the making!

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  4. Wonderful baubles Rachel, good luck with the challenge. I think we have a budding artist in the family, well done Lucy

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  5. Those baubles are gorgeous, love the silkiness. Love Lucy's paining, good luck to her

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  6. Such gorgeous baubles and Lucy's painting is wonderful, I love the colours.
    hugs Sue xx

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  7. Gorgeous baubles ..... love the silky look to them. My favourite has to be the green and black ..... striking!! Well done to Lucy too ..... fab painting.
    Thanks for joining in with the IndigoBlu challenge ..... good luck! Linda xx

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  8. As you say Rachel your lovely baubles are simple but very effective, a tree full of these would look stunning. I think young Lucy is following in Mummy's artistic footsteps with that sweet painting she has done. Mo x

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  9. Ahh, I love Lucy's painting, she has captured that bird beautifully - a budding talent!

    Your baubles are beautiful Rachel, they look anything but simple and are certainly very effective! Hugs, Anne xx

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  10. Fabulous Christmas ornaments Rachel, I love the embossed finish.
    Good luck to Lucy with her fabulous painting.
    Pauline
    x

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  11. Hi Rachel, pleased to hear you are all good, and hey Lucy what a fab bird, youve captured it's colours so well and it's a great drawing, good luck with the challenge.
    Love your baubles Rachel, beautiful work, have a great day, hugs Kate x

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  12. Great looking baubles, Rachel! I'm also taken by Lucy's drawing... she clearly inherited her talent for art from you :)
    Ingrid xx

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  13. Beautiful baubles Rachel they look lovely with the snowflake embossed on them. Lucy's picture is fab a budding artist for sure! Susan x

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  14. Your ornaments are stunning! Love the colors and the embossing looks fantastic! Looks like you have a budding artist on your hands too.

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  15. Gorgeous baubles and loving the little chicken.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  16. Gorgeous painting Lucy :-) I love that you used your souvenier for inspiration and the colours are beautiful :-)

    thanks for joining in with the Simon Says Summer Vacation Kid’s Challenge on the Wednesday Challenge Blog and good luck with the prize draw :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  17. Fab decorations Rachel and Lucy's painting is FANTASTIC !! A winner for sure !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  18. Beautiful card, thanks for taking part in the Indigoblu challenge this month :-) Sarah x

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  19. Your baubles are absolutely beautiful Rachel. Thank you so much for joining us at IndigoBlu with them. And Lucy has done a superb job of painting that colourful bird. Not an easy project to take on and she's done it so well. Jenny x

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  20. Fabulous baubles Rachel, and love Lucy's painting :o) Hugs, Lisa x

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  21. Beautiful tree adornments, fabulous design! Lucy did a terrific job and you can definitely see how she was inspired, so cute!

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  22. Lovely baubles Rachel - love the colours you have used and the gold embossing is gorgeous!
    Way to go Lucy - a fabulous bird drawing which you have beautifully coloured too. I would have ended up bringing back a suitcase of any of those beautiful German ornaments - I'm naughty like that! Karen x

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  23. Beautiful baubles-love the colours and gold embossing-Fabulous painting Lucy very colourful
    Carol x

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  24. Quite the bussing artist you have there! Great bird painting!
    PS Your project looks great too...lol

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  25. Super card Rachel. Love the baubles and they look amazing embossed.
    Great painting from Lucy too.
    Mags
    x

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  26. Brilliant bird painting Lucy, you got all the colours just right.
    Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Childrens Challenge.
    Luv
    Debby

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  27. Hi Rachel, love the colours of the baubles and large snowflake is one of my favourite stamps, simple and elegant. Lucy's bird picture is fab, great colours! Thank you for joining us at Indigoblu this month, good luck.
    NIkki K. xx

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  28. A fabulous painting of the beautiful bird Lucy, so realistic and such pretty colours!!

    Thanks so much for joining us with the Simon Says Stamp Childrens Summer Vacation Challenge
    love
    Heather xx

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  29. Gorgeous Baubles!

    Thanks for entering the IndigoBlu Challenge
    Clare

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