December Challenge - Snow Snow Snow

Good morning,

Well here it is, the last challenge of 2016.  First we have the important task of announcing the winner of last month's challenge, Sparkle & Glisten.

Our random winner is:

Congratulations Craft Away, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

And our Top 3 as chosen by the DT are:

1. No. 11 - Shelagh's Crafty Concepts
2. No. 9 - Lyn Marlow
3. No. 4 - Carolyn's Creations

Congratulations all, we will contact you shortly to discuss a Guest spot!

This month's theme is 'Snow, Snow, Snow' and here is our lovely winner from last month, Chris, with her inspiration piece for you.

Chris said:

I was incredibly lucky to have won the 'Monochrome' challenge and not only have I won some awesome stamps, I also get the chance to be a Guest Designer - thank you so much IndigoBlu!.  As the theme is 'Snow, Snow, Snow, I went for Christmas and used the truly fabulous Bare Forest 1 stamp which I received as part of my prize! I am honoured to be sharing my card on the IndigoBlu blog, though it's scary being showcased amongst such talented  designers!  Thank you for letting me join you! xxx

You can see Chris's full make over on here blog HERE.  Please hop across and check it out.

And our DT have made these beautiful pieces, I hope it inspires you to join in!

Rachel

Wenda

Lydia

Claire

Sue

You can check out all the DT's work and how they made them, by clicking the link on their names.

Don't forget we have fab prizes up for grabs too, Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or

2: 4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge, the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet theDesign Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

All that's left is to wish you a peaceful and Happy Christmas, and Best Wishes for 2017.  Hope you can join in the challenge this month.

Warm Regards,

The IndigoBlu Challenge DT
& Winner.

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September Challenge - Autumn Wildlife

Good morning all,

Today we have a new challenge for you, it's our September challenge and it's 'Autumn Wildlife'.  Any IndigoBlu animal, bird, butterfly stamp etc will do, we'd just like to see your take on this theme.  If you don't have any of those stamps, you can always stamp your Indigoblu pattern's or backgrounds and die-cut them into animal or butterfly shapes!  Think outside the box..

So first we need to congratulate our Random Winner from August's challenge - All things Bright and Beautiful.

Congratulations Amanda, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

Our Top 3 this month, as chosen by the DT, and who get a Guest Designer spot in our Challenge reminder post are:

1. Carolyn's Creations
2. Leanne C Harris
3. Pat Moore

Congratulations to you all, we will be in touch shortly.

Now for the inspiration from our very own DT, and our fab winner from August, Sheila, who has created this beautiful piece for us:

Sheila had this to say:

It was amazing to win the IndigoBlu blog challange and been able to add to my IndigoBlu stash.  I used the country house for my design card as it was one of my prize choices it's a stamp that's for all seasons.

Sheila doesn't have a blog, but does log in to the IB blog every day, and is a loyal IndigoBlu fan, so please leave her lots of love in your comments below, I know she will see them and appreciate them all.

And here are our brilliant DT's pieces, just love these!  And there is a very sneaky peek of a new stamp here - can you tell which one it is?

Julie

Lydia

Sue

Claire

Rachel

Maxine

Wenda

We have prizes up for grabs each month,  Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:
1: 2 Large stamp plates (A5)
or
2: 4 Small stamp plates (A6)
or
3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge, the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet theDesign Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

So all that's left for you to do is... well... get playing and enter!

Best Wishes,

The IndigoBlu Challenge DT Team

& Challenge Winner Sheila.

July Challenge Reminder - Summer Florals

Hi everyone,

It's the Indigoblu Challenge reminder time, our challenge this month is Summer Florals. We have some inspiration from a few of our Design team, and the Top 3 from last month's challenge, who agreed to be Guest Designer's for today! I hope you can stop by their blogs and see how they made their pieces.
As always, we have fab prizes on offer, of Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or

2: 4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge, the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

So first up it's our winners from the Top 3 sharing their inspiration:

Here we have Ivy:

Ivy had this to say:

I would like to say that I was delighted to be picked as a top 3 winner and asked to do an inspiration piece on Summer Florals.

Ivy doesn't have a blog, but I'm sure you will agree this is a beautiful piece, please leave some love for her here on the IB blog if you have time, we will make sure she gets all comments relayed to her.

Next up it's Carole:

Carole had this to say:

I was delighted to have been chosen as one of the top three in the last challenge and have enjoyed doing this piece for Summer Florals.

And third we have the lovely Jane:

Jane said:

I love the summer and wanted to create a really bright project for the summer florals theme so the cottage paints were ideal!  It was great fun creating the mixed media background and the Floral Fantasy stamp set was perfect for the main features.

You can see how Jane made this over on her blog here. 

And now our lovely DT member's inspiration:

Claire

Sue

I think you'll agree they have all done a fantastic job!  I hope this has inspired you to join in, you can enter the Challenge HERE, or check out the main post, we'd love to see your work!

Best Wishes,

The Indigoblu Challenge DT

& Top 3

June Challenge Reminder - Brown & Teal

Hi everyone,

It's the Indigoblu Challenge reminder time, we've got a fab challenge this month with the theme of Brown & Teal, and they are two gorgeous colours together!  We have some inspiration from a few of our Design team, and some of the Top 3 from last month's challenge, who agreed to be Guest Designer's for today!  I hope you can stop by their blogs and see how they made their pieces.

As always, we have fab prizes on offer, of Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3:   1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,  the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

So first up it's our winners from the Top 3 sharing their inspiration:

The lovely Autumn shared this piece with us:

And lovely Shelagh shared this:

Wow!  Stunning pieces, and beautiful colours.  Join Shelagh and Autumn on their blogs for more details.

Next up we have some of our lovely DT:

Cheremane

Rachel

Sue

Claire

I think you'll agree they have all done a fantastic job!  I hope this has inspired you to join in, you can enter the Challenge HERE, we'd love to see your work!

Best Wishes,

The Indigoblu Challenge DT

& Top 3

June Challenge - Brown & Teal

Morning everyone,

It's new challenge day here, and it's a fab one.  I think this is a favourite colour combination of most of us, definitely one of mine, it's 'Brown & Teal'.  Kay chose this month's theme, and the team have stepped up!

Our winner from the last challenge, SunshinePen, agreed to be our Guest DT member for today, and has created a beautiful piece to share with you:

Penny said: 

I was thrilled to be asked by Nikki from Indigoblu to be a Guest designer for the latest challenge "Brown and Teal"  I used one of my new winning stamps -Elsie -I think she is so beautiful and just right for this challenge. I hope I have inspired you and  I look forward to viewing your work.  For more details about my card please pop over to my blog.

We have some fantastic news this month too, the lovely and very talented Sue Ralph has agreed to join us at Indigoblu on the Challenge Design team, so I hope you'll enjoy her artwork as much as we do, and welcome her to the team.  Her first piece of inspiration is below, I think you'll agree it's stunning!

Our awesome team have some fantastic inspiration to get your creative mojo working, but first, here are our winner's from May's challenge - May all your dreams come true.

Our random winner of the stamps prize this month is:

Congratulations Glennis, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.  Our Top 3, who get a Guest Designer spot, as picked by the DT are:

1. Lesley
2. SewPaperPaint
3. Shelagh's Crafty Concepts

Congratulations all, we will be in touch shortly.

You too could win - Our prizes are Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3:   1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,  the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

Here is the long awaited inspiration from the team, please hop across to their blogs to check out how they made these beautiful pieces for us.

Sue

Lydia

Rachel

Giovanna

Cheremane

Claire

Kay 

Wenda

Julie

Wow!  Hope you can come and join in the challenge, all we ask is you use just IndigoBlu stamps in your creation, the rest is down to your imagination!  

We look forward to seeing your entries,

Best Wishes,

The IndigoBlu Challenge DT

& Winner & Top 3.

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May Challenge - May.. All your dreams come true

Hi everyone,

The Indigoblu challenge is here again, this month our theme is 'May....All your dreams come true'.  You can interpret this how you wish, colours, stamps, paints etc, as long as you use Indigoblu stamps in your work.

We also have on offer a fabulous prize of Indigoblu stamps of your choice as follows:

As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates (A5)

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates (A6)

or

3:   1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the reminder post that goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,  the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs on the sidebar.

Our random winner of the April challenge, 'Spring is in the air', is:  

Congratulations SunshinePen, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.  Our Top 3, who get a Guest Designer spot, as picked by the DT are:

1. No 7 - Isle of Crafty Creations
2. No 10 - Craft Room Delights
3. No 2 - Ellie Knol

Congratulations all, we will be in touch shortly.

Our winner from last month, Jannet, has joined us as Guest Designer this month and created this beautiful piece for us:

Jannet said: I used the lovely Clumber Park set for this scene, which I chose for my winning prize!

Thank you Jannet, this is absolutely fabulous and you've done a great job with your prize, thank you for joining us as Guest Designer this month.  I wonder what the dog is dreaming - about catching those birds I expect! 

And of course we have our amazing DT's inspiration for you:

Giovanna

Rachel

Cheremane

Lydia

Maxine

Wenda

Kay

Claire

Emmy

Julie

A huge thank you to our amazing team, and the lovely Jannet for her Guest DT piece, I'm sure you will agree they are all fantastic!  The ladies would love it if you stopped by their blogs too.

You can join in our challenge below, we'd love to see what you create. The entries we see every month are truly inspirational.

Best Wishes,

The Indigoblu Challenge DT

& Guest Designer Jannet.

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