IndigoBlu Christmas

Hello there - Kay has been launching some new stamps on Hochanda today - these are some of my makes from the shows...

           

There were even more!

Hope you enjoyed the shows if you watched them!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Cards from IndigoBlu show

Hello my lovelies! I have had a wonderful day - with the beautiful Tracy Easson - more of that in another post. Today I want to share with you some of my makes from the IndigoBlu show on Tuesday - the stamps included two fabulous hares - one in a car and one in a plane and also a set of sayings that seemed to cause quite a lot of hilarity!

This one I used the A5 specialist paper and covered it with hunter green paint and once dry stamped the map-background-a6-red-rubber-stamp all over the paper. Next I added a square of the specialist paper and then the fussy cut hare and car stamp and the sentiment that comes with it.

For this card I first painted the background with made-em-blush-metallic pink paint then using the stencil floral-fantasy-6-x-6 and marshmallow paint I completed the background. I also added one of the sayings and also boadicea-a5-red-rubber-stamp.

 I used the papers again on this one and painted the background roughly using my fingers and white gesso plus steam whistle and coastal walk paints. Then I added the stamped hare and plane image and the words that came with it.

Finally another of the new sentiments teamed up with 'lost in benidorm.! 

More soon from the show!

Hope you've had a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Moon gazing hare

Hello all! How are you? Its been a busy half term here - we've been watching movies at the cinema, climbing a hill, escaping from the escape room and painting pots! Its been fun! Not really ready to go back to work on Monday but needs must!!!

I emjoyed the IndigoBlu show on Hochanda on Sunday - Kay asked me back on the DT recently and Sundays show was the first opportunity I had to get involved - really pleased to be back. Here's some of the samples I made for the show ....

a card using luscious powders and mini butterfly stamp ...

Inside one of the regtime paper journals i made.

Cover of a different ragtime journal....

Inside the hare ragtime journal....

Cover of the first ragtime journal...

More samples soon!

I am off to a Jo Rice Aall and create class tomorrow - will post our makes soon!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

A great festival and a lovely play with new Indigoblu stamps

Hello Lovelies! How are you? I hope you have had a great bank holiday weekend. We got back from the festival late yesterday - I will show you some pics shortly! It was great fun.

Tonight I boxed up my samples for Saturday's Chocolate baroque show and turned my attention to my new indigo blu stamps - I had a little play and made this card using the wild poppy set.

I used distress inks and one of the new TH layering stencils too. Such a pretty stamp set - love it!

A bit of an arty view - a bit blurred too!!!

So the festival - Solfest 2017. I took the girls on the understanding that there was a family camping field. Sadly when we got there this wasn't the case so we were in amongst the revellers! It wasn't ideal but I think it bothered me more than them. The childrens activities were great...here's some pics to give you a flavour!

  

  

Lots of colour and lots of fun!!!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Spring is in the air

Hello hello hello. How are you today? I hope you are doing well. I'm feeling a little low but am fighting it - looking forward to seeing my mum today!

I decided to decorate a piece of MDF that I bought when last down at Indigoblu headquarters. I used lime-marmalade paint as the base coat and decorated after that using stamps from the following sets....live-laugh-love-a5-red-rubber-stamp
wild-meadow-a5-red-rubber-stamp
plus luscious-pigment-powders-green.

Here's what I did...

I gave the whole piece a coating of the lime marmalade paint. Once dry I stamped the leaves then mixed up the green luscious with water and painted the leaves.  Next I stamped some of the flowers out on card, coloured and fussycut them. I did the same with the butterflies and dragon flies.

Then I had the fun of sticking the extra bits on - oh and diecuttting the words too.

I have this hanging in my hall - I love it! Such a blast of spring colour!!!

Hope you have a good day - whatever you're up to!

Hugs

Rachel x

Love is all you need - new Indigo blu challenge

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are doing well and having a good day! 1st February already - and time for a new challenge over at indigoblublogchallenge blog. We have changed to the first of the month for challenges - I hope you'll be able to join us - you must use an indigoblu stamp in your make and follow the theme - then you will be in with a chance to win - see the rules and details of prizes plus more inspiration from my teamies on the blog here where you can link up too.

I have made a canvas and used the big-butterfly-a6-red-rubber-stamp, a5-red-rubber-stamp-by-mike-deakin and love-is-dinkie-a7-red-rubber-stamp-by-indigoblu. I also used gold luscious-pigment-powders  plus teal luscious powder mixed with super thick slap it on and paints in grandmas teacup, marshmallow and chocolate plus some papers from steampunkesque-mixed-media-paper-pad-6x6. Finally I used a stencil with script.

Here's my make .....

I used papers in the background cut randomly into rectangles. Once dried in place I thinned the hot chocolate paint and overpainted the whole canvas before adding some thinned drips of marshmallow, a mix of hot chocolate and white and also teal paint. When dry I overpainted everything with gold luscious powders and added the script stencil using teal luscious powders mixed with superthick slap it on. 

The LOVE stamp and big butterfly were both stamped onto papers from the steampunkesque set and cut out. I added some pink luscious to the butterfly. I finally stamped the dinky heart, cut and then assembled the canvas.

I hope you can join us!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Monochrome at IndigoBlu challenge

Hello there! Well its the 21st so time for a new IndigoBlu challenge. This month our theme is monochrome. When I was down at headquarters earlier this month I bought the box tree that I have used for this months theme. I also used lots of other Indigo blu goodies that I will link to the IndigoBlu site as I mention them.

The first thing I did was gesso the wooden boxes and when dry I added english-cottage-artists-acrylic-paint-wimberry-pie. Once dry I mixed super-thick-slap-it-on with luscious-pigment-powder in lilac and then applied to the sides through  indigoblu-stencils-c51/stencil-stars-6-x-6. I also applied it through the same stencil to white paper. I added gems onto some of the stars.

I used 3 stamp sets winterland-wood-a5-red-rubber-stamp-by-kay-halliwell-sutton, sparkle-and-glisten-a6-red-rubber-stamp-by-kay-halliwell-sutton and jewel-a6-red-rubber-stamp-by-kay-halliwell-sutton

I stamped all images in flitterglu and added embossing powder, heat set and fussy cut.

I really hope you can join us ... the teams amazing inspiration and challenge details you can find here. 

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Dirty weekend at IndigoBlu!!

Evening all! How are you? I hope you are doing well! Isn't it cold? Or is it just because my house has no heating! Typical!! At least we have hot water though and a log burner - so hey things could be much worse!!!

I wanted to share my makes with you from my Dirty Weekend at IndigoBlu - dirty in terms of paint, slap it on and Luscious!!! Lol! It was a hoot - we had such a good time!

Here I am with Diane and Lou showing off our makes from day 1. They were all stunning. Beautiful work from everyone. Here's a close up of my box.

I created this using the fabulous luscious powders - they really are fabulous - we used them in a few different ways at the workshop and I look forward to putting them to more use over the next few weeks.

Here's what we did on day two:

This took me way out of my comfort zone ... but I liked it by the end!

This is very much a work in progress - I have completed the cover but haven't done the insides as yet. This started out life as a prayer book... but will now act as a small art journal!!!

I had such a fabulous time and look forward to using the techniques I learned and applying them to other ideas that are bubbling under!!!

Big hugs

Rachel x