IndigoBlu "Summer Floral" Blog Challenge reminder.

Hello and Welcome.

Have you seen the current IndigoBlu challenge yet? If not you still have plenty of time to enter. 
 I have created a card to share with you hoping that it will give you a bit of inspiration to enter a piece of your own work into the challenge.

I have brought out the Sunflower stamp again as this image always make me think of summer. This time I have made a Concertina Fold Card.

The card is fairly simple as its mostly stamping and spraying the images with paint. 
I have taken lots of photos to help with the Tutorial as being a visual learner myself I always find that it helps me!

Front of the card

Open up the inside of the card to find a concertina of Sunflowers

These are the items you will need if you fancy having a go at making one for yourself, but of course you can always change the colours.

Mix the English Cottage Paints with water in a 1.4 ratio in the spray bottles

Randomly spray the images (for this card you will need "6" sunflowers) a few colours at a time then heat dry. Add more colours to get the effect you want. (Don't over-wet the card stock)

Take the time to dry layers between spraying!

 I did a bit of fussy cutting around the sunflowers but you could just cut them out as a circle and the concertina effect would still work.

                             

 Now find the center point of "5 " of the sunflower and score down the middle

                           

 Run a line of glue close to the petals to attach each of the sunflowers together.

See photo below

 Once all of the petals are glued together, use a couple of clips to hold them until stuck.

                    

The "6th" sunflower is for the the front of the card. 

I stamped and cut out an extra leaf and middle part of the sunflower, added glitter and micro beads to this to give it a bit more dimension. 

                                   

The center of the flower and leaf were attached to the main sunflower with Pinflair glue gel.

I then highlighted the sunflower with some of the NEW Luscious powders that I mixed with water.

I cut out an 11" x 5" piece of white card stock and scored it down the middle, making my card blank.

 I also cut out 3 pieces of yellow card slightly smaller so that you would see a boarder of white card, and put them through an embossing folder.

Two of the yellow pieces were glued to the inside of the card.

I then lined up the folded sunflowers on the inside of the card close to the edge. 

See photo above

Putting a thin strip of really tacky double sided tape close to the edge of the petals, close the card in half so that it sticks to the card. Flip the card over and repeat on the other side.

 Attach the single Sunflower to the front of the card along with your chosen sentiment.

And "hay Presto", one finished card!

I hoped that you have enjoyed reading this blog post and I would love to hear what you think, and would like to invite you to subscribe to my blog!

Happy Crafting, will be back soon with another project, Sue xx

IndigoBlu Inspiration Piece - Summer Florals

Hello to you and many thanks for popping by today.

IndigoBlu have a new challenge up and running so I am here today to Inspire you to have a go at entering one of your own creations. 

For each monthly challenge, we a super prize for the winner as well as asking them to create an Inspirational  piece for the next challenge. 
The DT also get to choose three other entries and those people are asked to create an inspiration piece ready for the next challenge. 

The Theme this month is SUMMER FLORAL's and as soon as I read the title I though about Flip Flops (summer sandals).

So an idea formed in my head about decorating a pair for my sisters granddaughter so off I went to do some shopping, ................but of course ended up buying a pair to decorate for myself as well.

                      

 

So, come join me in making some summer floral embellishments to jazz up sandals.

Here is a list of the IndigoBlu products I used to make the embellishments for the sandals.

 The first thing is to wash and iron the piece of cotton material then to paint it all over with the White Gee-Soo-Good which primes the material ready for the artwork. 
Either leave this to dry overnight or dry it with a heat tool.

 Once the cotton material is dry, stamp on the images, (and use a stencil if you have one). 
I used the Black Gee-Soo-Good for the Sunflowers & English Cottage Artist Acrylic Paints Wimberry Pie for the Roses, Hunter Green for the leaves.

I then brought in Cinderella & Townhouse Teal for the Laurel leaf stencil.

I then painted all the flowers and leaves, mixing up a few of the colours to create different shades. 

Did you know these paints are also Fabric paints? 

(Once the paint is dry, sandwich the material between some copy paper and iron to set the paint)!

 By this time Cookie came into my craft studio looking to see why his tea wasn't being served!

One the painted images were completely dry I cut them all out and gave them a coat of Slap-It-on Glossy to seal the cut edges. 

When the 1st coat of  Slap-it-on was dry, I painted on another coat and molded the sunflower over small pots and left them to dry.
The pink roses had the same treatment with the Slap-it-on but I pinched the rose in the middle to crease them and put a peg on the back to hold the creases in.

I felt the sunflowers needed a bit more depth so I die cut some felt to stick between the sunflowers. 

  Small seed beads were added in circles to the center of the top sunflowers. The first circle was with a mixture of gold yellow & black beads. The middle circle was filled tiny gold beads and the centre circle was filled with the three coloured beads.
I haven't taken a photo, but the small roses were sprinkled with lilac glitter.

What do you think of my Sunflower & Peg shoes then? Do you think they will catch on, become best sellers Lol!

I used E6000 glue to attach the flowers to the shoes and used pegs to hold everything in place until the glue dried.

I'm hoping Ava likes her shoes. I will let you know if there is any interest!

I'm really happy with my shoes. Just waiting for the British sunshine to show itself again.

Once flower embellishments were stuck in place I gave them one last coat of glossy Slap-it-on.

I hope that this blog post has given you some inspiration to try something new.
Take care and Happy Stamping xx