Hello there, Kay here!

Hello to you, now it’s not often I get the time to write a blog post but I just wanted to come on here and share a couple of exciting new things that are happening with IndigoBlu.

You may have seen my Face Book live last weekend from the Happy Stampers Festival at Port Sunlight when I shared an announcement with you that my best friend, Lou Withers, who is a fantastic artist in her own right and has worked behind the scenes with us for many years has now come on board to help me with the Hochanda shows and so between us we will be showcasing lots of great new techniques, hints and tips and of course brand new products from IndigoBlu.

Lou’s first shows were on today, Friday 18th May at 12noon and 4pm. I do hope you got the opportunity to tune in and show her your support. If not you can catch the shows again on Re-Wind for the next two weeks.

 I also want to take this opportunity to introduce you to our IndigoBlu TV team. 

These are the wonderful people who try out new our products and showcase them with their samples ready for the shows. 

I feel so excited that we have a fabulous, varied and very talented team and wanted  you to meet them. 

You may well already know some of them and over the last few weeks we have had a few more join the team.

Kay Molyneux
Check out Kay's Blog  "Create it Yourself"

Here are two of the stunning samples Kay made for Lou's Shows with the New Paint Colours

 Sue Ralph

Check out Sue's Blog Birdcage Craft Studio

Wonderful Fussy Cutting and Painting Techniques for Lou's Shows

Carolyn Larkin
Check out Carolyn's Blog  Carolyn's Creations

Beautiful Painting and Stamping Techniques samples for Lou's shows

Linda Simpson
Check out Linda's Blog Linda's Crafty Piece of Heaven

Fantastic Layered Cards and Painting Techniques for Lou's Shows

Julie Atkinson

Check out Julie's Blog Art & Soul 

 Stunning Mixed Media Pieces for Lou's Shows

'Aitch'
Check out her Blog eclectich.blogspot.co.uk

 Marvellous Paint and Medium Samples created for Lou's shows 

Emma Blake

Check out her Blog emmablake5 (BLOGLOVIN' ) 

Beautiful, Bold and Bright samples created for Lou's shows.

Aren't they all just fabulous!

Before I go I just wanted to let you know that we are ‘On Tour’ with our Dirty Weekend Coventry on the 16th and 17th June 18.  I’m looking forward to meeting and crafting with you and of course Alfie will be there with our shop for anyone who wants to pop in for a bit of shopping. 

We also have more "On Tour" weekends available. To find out more click on the links below.

Edinburgh on the 14th and  15th July 

Maidstone on the 15th and 16th September 

Exeter on the 17th and18th November

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you at one of my workshops soon.
Lots of Love,
Kay
 

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 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.