December Challenge Reminder - Snow Snow Snow

Morning everyone,

Today is challenge reminder day, and we'd love to show you our Inspirational DT's work once more, I hope it inspires you to join in!  

I love this fab piece by Rachel, it just shows that snow doesn't have to mean white!  

Rachel

A beautiful snow scene by Wanda: 

Wenda

Absolutely love this Stag by Lydia too!: 

Lydia

A perfect wintery scene from Claire: 

Claire

And a gorgeous Robin hanger by Sue: 

Sue

You can hop across to the team's blog to check out how they made their pieces, but don't forget to come back and enter yourself!  

We have fab prizes 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 is to say Happy New Year from the Challenge DT and thank you to all our Guest Designers through 2016, we look forward to meeting more of you in 2017. 


Best Wishes,
IndigoBlu Challenge DT.

An InLinkz Link-up

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.

An InLinkz Link-up

September Challenge Reminder - Autumn Wildlife

Morning all,

Today is reminder day for the IndigoBlu challenge, we have a lovely make by Carolyn Lakin to show you, she made this beautiful autumnal butterfly piece for us.

You can see Carolyn's full make on her blog, please hop across and leave her some love, we think this is stunning! You can check out how she made it too!

We also have the lovely Leanne, who has made this gorgeous card for us:

Isn't this just fab!  Remember to hop over to Leanne's blog and see how she made this, and leave her some love if you can.

And of course a reminder from our fabulous DT makes:

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

Enter HERE:  

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.

August Challenge Reminder - All things Bright & Beautiful

Good morning,

It's reminder time for the IndigoBlu Challenge, and today we have inspiration from our Top 3 from last month, and some of our fab DT.

First up it's Debbie:

Debbie had this to say: I was over the moon to be picked for the Top 3.Thank you. I've been crafting since 2008. I love anything to do with stamping and getting inky. You can check out Debbie's make on her blog here.

Next up it's Kelly:

Kelly said: I was delighted to be picked in the Top 3 for the IndigoBlu Blog challenge ‘Summer Florals’. I love everything IndigoBlu and have done since I started crafting last year. I have loved sunflowers since growing them as a child and thought they were the perfect flower for this challenge. Details of the canvas are on my blog. Hope you all like this as much as I loved creating it. Check out Kelly's make here.

And next we have Kim:

Kim said: It was wonderful to come back from holiday to see my card had been chosen in the top 3 of the Summer Florals challenge and especially to be asked to make a piece for the Bright & Beautiful challenge. You can see Kim's make in full here.

And our lovely DT members Rachel & Sue joined in and created these for us too:

Rachel

Sue

The girls have done us proud; it's been brilliant having the Top 3 as our Guest Reminder posts this month. Hope you like their makes as much as we did.

You can enter the challenge HERE, and check out the Challenge Blog post HERE.
Why not join in, there are some fab stamps up for grabs and you could Guest DT with us too!

Best Regards,

IndigoBlu Challenge DT
& Top 3 Winners.
xx

August Challenge - All things Bright & Beautiful

Good morning everyone,

Well the July challenge was just fab! We had some gorgeous entries. I'm hoping you can stun us this month with your makes too. First let's congratulate our Random winner!

Sheila it's you! Congratulations, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

And our top 3 for July as chosen by the DT are:

1. No. 6 - Furry Log & Badger
2. No. 1 - Kimbo's Cards & Cats
3. No. 14 - DebsCraftytime

Congratulations all, we will be in touch to see if you would like to do a Guest Design piece for us. It's always amazing seeing the art that we get from you guys, and I know it inspires so many others.

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.

Our winner from the last challenge, Mariette is our Guest Designer this month, and has made this beautiful card for us on this month's challenge theme ' All things Bright & Beautiful'.

Mariette had this to say:

I have used distress inks for the bright part and for the beautiful part of this challenge I used all of the IndigoBlu stamps I chose for my winning prize. You can see more over on my blog.

Next it's our brilliant DT's inspiration for the new challenge, you can't fail to be inspired by this bunch :) They also happen to be some of the nicest people too, and we are very proud to have them as a team. Hop across to their blogs and leave them some love if you have time.

Rachel

Wenda

Sue

Julie

Maxine

Lydia

Giovanna

Wow! I think you will agree these are all stunning, and what inspiration! Don't forget you can hop over to our team's blog's to see how they made these too, just click on their names above the pictures.

So all that's left is for you to join us - and show us your Summer Florals! If you have any questions about entering, or don't have a blog, please leave us a comment and we will come back to you, we can help you enter, all you need is Indigoblu stamps in your project.

Happy creating!

Best Wishes,
Indigoblu Challenge Design Team

Enter the Challenge Here:

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