New challenge piece for Indigoblu February 2017

Hi folks 
 I can't believe it is already February. As I get older time seems to pass  by much more quickly.

Here is my piece for the Indigoblu challenge, Love is all you need.
You can find the page here, have a look you will find all the information you need to enter the challenge and wonderful inspiration from the design team too.

a close up hopefully you can see the luscious , yummy

I created a background on my Gelli plate  using gorgeous Indigoblu paints and luscious powders. 

The love is from indigoblu word stamp  set 1.

The fripperies are from my stash at home

thanks for swinging by, all comments are appreciated 

bye for now 

love julie xxxx

Indigoblu challenge for April 2016 "Spring is in the air"

hello folks
hope you are well today, when I made my  piece for this challenge this weather was glorious, sunny, warm with a gentle breeze, huh!!  it is now raining, there are hail stones falling from the sky and the clouds go from a stunning blue to a cloudy grey all the four seasons in one day.

And this is my piece  ta da,

The main focal point is the stamped image Collecting Flowers, I added colour using polychromo pencils. I then cut this out and started on my background

The background has been made using the stamp Sarah's Choice and stampin up inks.

The flowers are die cut from papers that I had randomly covered with ink and scrunched up, there is also a doily that has been inked and distressed to add a further layer.

well that's all for today, next time I blog I'm hoping for sunshine not showers, weel we can all dream can't we xxx

Bye for now

love 

Julie

xxx

Indigoblu challenge August 2015. Precious metals.

Hello folks
The theme for the August challenge at Indigoblu is Precious metals, well I just could not resist the flitter glue and gilding flakes I used  Mega chocolate box flakes. They are lush and the flakes are HUGE !!!!!!          
 I used the Blazing Poppies stamp, as my main image this is a beautiful stamp. I stamped it twice and layered it to give dimension.
The background has been stamped with the Sarah's choice, these stamps is sooo versatile and are one of my regular go to stamps.
For texture calico  and die cuts were added under the stamped image.

well that's all folks hope you like my interpretation of the challenge you can follow the link here xxxx
take care
 crafty hugs Julie
xxxxx

June Challenge for Indigoblu - Flutterby

Hello everyone,
Thanks for dropping by , here is my piece for the June 2015 Indigoblu challenge. the title is Flutterby.
I decided to alter a MDF heart that I have had lurking in my craft room for a while, you know how it is, you buy stuff! and then forget about it only to stumble upon it at a later date.

Well first of all I painted gesso onto to the surface, then I stamped images using archival ink, the colour is coffee.
The stamps I used are listed here-  wild meadow , Sarah's choice and Ink splat butterfly .

After the stamped images had dried I used 3D matt gel through a stencil

 When it was dry I lightly brushed the raised areas with gold mica powder.

The butterflies were stamped onto thin white card using Perfect medium by ranger,
Mica powders were added to give colour and shine, I then cut them out, love fussy cutting.

I made wire bodies and antenna for the butterflies wrapping thin copper wire around a brush and a pencil, this was glued onto the butterflies using heavy gel medium.

The words art,inspire and vintage were stamped and cut out and glued to the heart ,I scrunched them up a little first though.(I made extra paper to match the butterflies)

The bottle top is from a prima embellishment pack, I stamped on paper and cut a circle out which I stuck to the  bottom of the bottle top then added clear gel medium and micro beads.

I added Hessian for texture, the butterflies and bottle top were glued on using heavy gel medium.

I stamped waxed paper with the script  from Sarah's choice then punched out butterflies using stampin up punches, these were attached to wire and dangled below the heart.

The edges were rubbed with treasure gold.  Ribbon and twine  put through the loop to hang the heat.

Hope you like my interpretation of the challenge follow the link ...... http://indigoblublogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  for the details of the challenge.


I just love to read your comments, thank you for reading my blog
lots of love
Julie xxx