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.

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Lady in Autumn, two stretched canvas

Hello Giovanna here, and today I show you one of the most elegant stamp by IndigoBlu in a Autumnal dress: "Valerie".

I made two stretched canvas, stamping the main image on gessoed book page

Here the background is covered entirely on mega flakes, the effect is stunning:

I hope I have inspired you :-)

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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

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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