Challenge 24: A Touch of Red

Hi everyone,

A very Happy New Year from all the Indigoblu Challenge DT.  Hope the weather hasn't been too unkind to you, and you are all safe and well.  So for the first time this year, the big announcement...

And the winner of Challenge 23: Glitz and Glamour is...

#15 Shelagh's Crafty Concepts

Congratulations Shelagh!... Please contact anna@indigoblu.com to arrange your prize and don't forget to grab your Winner's Badge from the Badges tab above.

The fabulous Winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.  As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates

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 the DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post that now 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 above.

This month’s Top 3, for the Glitz and Glamour Challenge, chosen  by the DT, are ……

1:  Lyn Marlow
2:  Theresa Pace

3: Claire C

Well deserved congratulations to you all, and don't forget to grab your Top Three badge from the Badges tab above.

This months challenge is... Challenge 24: A Touch of Red

Last month's winner, Carola, has made this beautiful card for us:

Here is what she had to say:

"It was great to read that I was the winner of the November challenge. It's been seldom till now that I've won such a great prize, also great because I love IndigoBlu.

The background I created with Bistre on designpaper. I placed a little Bistre into the middel, sprayed a little bit of water on it and let it run by moving the paper left to right. I then placed the first stamp of my prize, Ella Bella. Into the corners I placed my very first stamp I had from IndigoBlu, Bubbles Background, and embossed them white. I then placed the text bottom right. The edges I sewed with the sewing machine."

Thanks so much for sharing this with us Carola.

Now for some Design Team inspiration, and it seems we're thinking along the same lines this month!

Gez

Lindy Lou

Sarah A

Nikki K

Laura 

Julie Cassidy

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Challenge 23: Glitz and Glamour Top 3 Inspiration

Today I have for you some wonderful inspiration for this months challenge Glitz and Glamour. You still have about a week until the challenge closes, you can enter the challenge HERE, or by following the instructions in the above tab and e-mailing us your entry.

First up, and in no particular order we have Janny:

Janny wrote this about her piece:

I really like to make a card as a guest designer. Card making has been a long time one of my hobbies. My other hobbies are painting with oil, watercolor and also pastel drawing, which you can find with the link to my blog (see below this message). The watercolor painting is also reflected in my cards. 

For the following card I used the next techniques. This techniques I choose because of the "Glitz and Glamour challenge".

First of all I have the bird with Stazon ink, stamped on glitter paper and the flowers on patterned glitter paper. So you get a soft print of the bird.Then I colored the bird and the flowers a little with water-soluble markers. I used white paper for the punched star and I have edited the edge of the star with ink. I used the bird and the flowers  as a collage on patterned paper with here and there some glitter glue and rhinestones. 

If you like to see another spring card with this technique you can take a look on my blog. http://www.kaarten-van-janny.blogspot.nl/.

And next up this month we have Lynn

Lynn wrote this about her piece:

How I did it :

The background was inked using distress inks - Stormy Sky, Victorian Velvet and Crushed Olive, and then splattered with a little water. Then I stamped with the script stamp in Stormy Sky. I stamped the character from the Skegness plate 3 times on Indigo Blu stamping card and cut out and coloured in using distress inks, and added Autumn Blaze mega flakes to his belt and boot tops. Glamour is not only the domain of elegant ladies! I stamped the Helter Skelter, again from Skegness, on the background in flitter glue and added Autum Blaze mega flakes. Stamped GLAM on the background, from the stamp plate Design Alphabet, in flitter glu and again added Autumn Blaze mega flakes. The 'WE' in "We can do" is made from the WINE stamp on More Than Words.

The characters were glued in place and the final step was to mat the piece on black card then onto a white card blank.

Lynn does not have a blog, but you can see her beautiful cards over on her photobucket feed HERE.

Last but certainly not least we have Ina

Who created this stunnig piece with embossing powders.

Such fun and quirky projects and so very different too! Well done ladies, you are amazing!

The Belle's

Challenge 23: Glitz and Glamour Demonstrator Inspiration

Happy New Year from the talented Demonstrator Team over at IndigoBlu.

Today we have for you an inspiration filled post full of fabulous makes from the demonstrator team for the latest challenge, number 23: Glitz and Glamour. Have a look at the fabulous work then join in the fun of the challenge!

Alison

Elizabeth

Maxine

Cheremane

Kay

Lisa

Lydia

Su

You can enter the challenge HERE. Tune in next week for the inspiration from the top 3 winners of challenge 22.

Thanks for visiting!

Challenge 23: Glitz and Glamour

Brrr its been cold outside, and warm and cold again! But not much snow!

For the final challenge for the year the Design team and all at IndigoBlu would like to thank you for all your wonderful support and hope you have enjoyed each and every one of this years challenges!

Happy Christmas!

Annndddddddd the winner of Challenge 22: Let it Snow is.........

Number 2: Carola 

Congratulations  Carola!……… I will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

The fabulous Winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.  As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates

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 you’re work will be on the blog along with the Design Team.

Also the top three each month (chosen by the DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post, that now 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 meet the Design Team in the tabs above.

This month’s Top 3, for the Magical Masking Challenge, chosen  by the DT, are ……

1:  11: Janny

2:  3: Art with heart

3:  12: Lyn M

This months challenge is............ Challenge 23: Glitz & Glamour.....

Last months winner Anna has made this gorgeous card for us....

Here is what she had to say.......

Hello, I was so happy when I found out I was the lucky winner of Magical Masking. And I took the opportunity to be this month’s Guest Designer over at Indigo Blu Challenge with great enthusiasm. I really love IndigoBlu stamps and this was a great opportunity to get some more and use it. The theme for this month's challenge isn't really in my style but it was great opportunity to try something I wouldn't normally.

Thank you very much for giving me this exciting opportunity.

As I love Mega Flakes and I want to use them. You can see them on turquoise background as distressed edge with stamp from Looks like a Deer Rain and on two circles (vellum and acetate) on the top right corners. Main picture Indigoblu Merry Christmas Tree was stamped with Flitterglu and then sprinkled with superfine glitter in turquoise color for tree and holographic glitter for snowflakes. The star is raised with Glossy Accent and sprinkled with glitter.

Sentiment is stamped on vellum with Versa Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue (as the glitter didn’t want to stay there permanently).

All the compliments to the DT – you are doing a great job and your designs give me inspiration each time.

Hugs, Ana

Clare

Nikki K

Sarah Allan

Julie

LindyLou

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Challenge 22: Let it snow Top 3 Inspiration

Today I have for you some wonderful inspiration from the previous challenge top 3 winners. Enjoy and leave them a message to let them know what you think!

In no particular order we have:

Craftyfield:

Here is what she had to say:

When I saw that I had been chosen to join the Top 3 for the Magical Masking challenge I was thrilled. Recognition means that I am improving, occasionally hitting the target, and the sense of achievement spurs me on!

<insert photo here>

I made a frame with snowflakes die-cuts covered with an adhesive sheet, then glittered and gilded them (Winter Dawn).

The Mistletoe image is from the Retro Christmas plate. I coloured it with alcohol markers, adding white gel pen and white glitter as "frost".

As a backdrop for my image I used a circle cut out and splattered some blue, green and silver watercolours with a brush. You can visit my blog at http://craftyfield.blogspot.com where I have a bonus picture showing the incredible shine of the Flakes!

 Next up we have Ellie

Here is what she had to say:

The card was inspired by the saying : Snowflakes are the flowers of winter.
I started with a beautiful shimmery scrapbook paper with lots of white snowflakes on it. I sponged it with Distress inks to make the snowflakes pop. From a leftover piece I cut a few snowflakes to adhere it to the card later on. I chose to keep the flowers not that intense with color, so it became part of the background. They were adhered to the card with 3D glue. I also added some 'Crystal Ice' ICE Stickles to the centres of the flowers and snowflakes. Pity you can't see all the glamour going on on this card. 

Being chosen as 1 of the top3, is of course, an inspiration to go on, and enjoy crafting. I have been joining in the Indigoblu challenge lots of times, and always hoped to be chosen, and then suddenly it happens with a card I'm not really happy with,  LOL

You can find Ellie's blog HERE



You still have almost a week to enter the Challenge, so get creating!

Challenge 22: Demonstrators Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I have for you some fabulous inspiration for the Challenge 22: Let it Snow. You still have plenty of time to enter the challenge so get those thinking caps on!

 Cheremane

 Alison

 Elizabeth

 Kay

 Su

 Maxine

Lydia

Thanks for joining us, We hope to see your entry into the challenge soon!

Challenge 22: Let It Snow

With the weather starting to cool and the white stuff starting to fall around the world we welcome in this months challenge for IndigoBlu. but first onto the good stuff!

The winner of the Magical Masking challenge is........

Number: 15 Ana

Congratulations  Playing with paper!……… I will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

The fabulous Winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.  As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates

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 you’re work will be on the blog along with the Design Team.

Also the top three each month (chosen by the DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post, that now 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 meet the Design Team in the tabs above.

This month’s Top 3, for the Magical Masking Challenge, chosen  by the DT, are ……

1: 9 Ellie

2: 11 Mandy

3:10 CraftyField

This months challenge is............ Challenge 22: Let it snow.....

Last months winner Sue has created this stunning piece for the new challenge,

I was dead chuffed last month to find that random org had chosen me as the winner of the sketch challenge at IndigoBlu Challenge Blog.  As well as winning my choice of 2 large stamp plates I was asked if I would like to submit a card for their next challenge, which is Let It Snow.

Bit of a challenge as I don't own many IndigoBlu stamps (yet) and I didn't have any to really get into a scene building theme so I had a play around with Frosted Baubles and Seasons Greetings.
I've used the sentiment set loads of times as it fits in with contemporary and vintage themes but had yet to ink up Frosted Baubles.

Sue

You can find Sue's full write up of how she created the card over on her blog: http://sueplayingwithpaper.blogspot.co.uk/

Sarah Allan

Julie Cassidy

Laura Williams

Clare

Nikki K

Thanks for visiting!

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