Challenge 30 - August 2015 - Precious Metals

Hi everyone, 

Wow we have a fab challenge for you this month, and some amazing inspiration from our new Design Team, here in their entirety this month for you!  Have a browse, visit our talented team, and join in the challenge, we'd love to see your entries, and don't forget there are fab prizes of Indigoblu Stamps to be won.

Firstly the winner of last month's challenge 'Flutterby' is:

Congratulations  to Elaine at Handcrafted by Ellapu.  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 from the 'Just One Layer' challenge, as chosen by the DT are...

1: Veerle 

2: Jane

3: Mari

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 30 - Precious Metals.   

Just think megaflakes, metallic paints, anything that reminds you of precious metals, and of course Indigoblu Stamps :)  Please just take a minute to check the rules, on the tab at the top of the page.

Last month's winner Aartje has joined the team for today, and made this lovely tag for us:

You can see Aartje's full blog post HERE.

And here is a bucketful of inspiration for you from the Challenge Design Team:

Rachel

Giovanna

Lydia

Claire

Joanie

Kay 

Maxine

Cheremane

Gez Butterworth

Wenda

Julie

Nikki K

Emmy

I don't know about you, but I am blown away this month by all these lovely samples, I hope it's inspired you to create and join us.

Best Wishes,

Indigoblu Challenge Design Team

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Challenge 29 - Flutterby - Top 3 Inspiration

Good morning!

Lovely to have you joining us again on the challenge blog, today it's time for the Top 3 from Challenge 28 - Pocketful of Posies, to share the pieces they have designed especially for us, to inspire you further this month, in the 'Flutterby' challenge.  You still have a few days to enter, hurry and join us HERE.

I think you will agree these ladies have done us proud!  Hop across to their blogs via the links to see how they made these inspirational pieces.

First we have: Donna. 

Donna had this to say:
Hi there, I was so thrilled at being asked if I could do an inspirational piece for this months ‘’Flutterby’’

challenge, so I got on to it straight away. I decided to alter a plain wooden heart box with the focal point

being ‘’Big Butterfly’’ very apt for this challenge!  After painting, stamping and embellishing, I finished off

with adding the butterfly, which I stamped on to heat resistant acetate using Frantage ‘Aged Copper’’ and

coloured with alcohol inks. I do hope you like it!!’’

Next up is: Sue Ralph:

Sue had this to say:
Well 'Wow'! So excited to be chosen as one of the Top 3 in last months blog Challenge, then to be asked to create an inspirational piece for this months Blog Challenge 'Flutterby', I was over the moon.

After a bit of thought I decided to create a Canvas piece so that I could do some painting with the English Cottage Paints, which I love by the way, do some stamping on white Clearly for art modelling film as well as doing  a bit of re-cycling! (using up the rolls double sided tape comes on)!

I used the paints to create a coloured wash on the canvas as well as some drips and splats, then to add a little texture I used some stencils with sparkle texture paste.

With the butterflies, stamped cut out and finished off I attached them with the now covered glittered rolls to the shimmery canvas.

Happy Crafting! xx

Our lovely third lady was unable to partake in the top 3 this time, but we will ask her to come back and show you something at a later date.

So what are you waiting for... get creating and join us if you can, and win some fab Indigoblu stamps!

Best wishes,

Indigoblu Challenge Team,
Demonstrators, & Top 3!

Challenge 29 - Flutterby - Demonstrator Inspiration

Hi all,

Today we have for you some extra inspiration from our lovely Indigoblu demonstrator's for the latest challenge, Number 29 - Flutterby. Have you had many of these beautiful creatures in your garden this year?

 Have a look at our lovely teams fabulous work then join in the fun of the challenge!  You can win Indigoblu stamps, of your choice!  (And there are so many lovely new ones!).

The girls have worked hard this month as always, here is their inspiration:

Lisa Winnard

                                                                        Lydia Tarry

Cheremane Smith

Alison Scurrah

Wow!  Beautiful inspiration here, hope you've enjoyed seeing the team's work and don't forgot to hop over to their blogs, they'd love to hear from you.

Now it's your turn, you can enter the challenge HERE, good luck!


Best Wishes,

The IndigoBlu Demonstrator Team.

Challenge 29 - Flutterby & our New Design Team!!

Good morning everyone, 

I am so excited and honoured today to introduce to you our brand new Challenge Design Team!  We have some familiar faces who have stayed with us, some who have joined from our lovely team of demonstrators, and some brand spanking new member's.  We are so lucky to have such a great team on the challenge blog, and you can meet them all HERE.  

I hope you've had a good month since our last challenge, we had some amazing entries for 'Pocketful of Posies'.  I hope you enjoyed entering as much as we did looking at your gorgeous work!

So, the random winner is: 

Congratulations Aartje.  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 our lovely 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 from the 'Pocketful of Posies' challenge, as chosen by the DT are...

1.  No 8 - KraftyScot
2.  No 12 - Bird Cage Studios
3.  No 21 - BEADZ


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 29 - Flutterby.

Last month's winner Elaine Traverso made this gorgeous piece for us:

Elaine had this to say:  This was my first time to enter the challenge and I was flabbergasted to win. I was over the moon and I was delighted with my prizes, thank you x

And now the Design Team's inspiration - say hi to some of our new Team:

Kay Molyneux

Maxine Jones

Nikki K

Gez Butterworth

Rachel Fisher

Julie Cassidy

Cheremane Smith

Lydia Boode

Claire Newcombe

We'd love to see your work - do enter for your chance to win, and share with your friends so they can enter too, the more the merrier!

Good luck,

The IndigoBlu Challenge Design Team.

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Challenge 28 - A pocketful of posies - Top 3 Inspiration

Good morning!

Lovely to have you joining us again on the challenge blog, today it's time for the Top 3 from Challenge 27 - Just one Layer, to share the pieces they have designed especially for us, to inspire you further this month, in the 'Pocketful of Posies' challenge.

I think you will agree these ladies have done us proud!  Hop across to their blogs via the links to see how they made these inspirational pieces.

First we have Bev Lowe:

Bev had this to say:  I had been wanting to try a double pocket card for some time & thought this would be the ideal time to try.  I used some double sided patterned to make the double pocket.

I cut the cards for inside the pockets from white card. Stamped the Elizabeth Bennet image using Flitter Glue, then used gilding flakes to bring out the image. I use Pan Pastels to colour the white card, then painted the flowers using watercolour paints.

For the other card I stamped the sentiment & flower images using black Archival ink, then coloured with the watercolours. Stamped the Poppy Heart onto white card, coloured with the watercolours. Die cut the heart shape. Stamped the image again & cut out the largest poppies & added to the heart using foam pads.
I went around all the edges using Inka Gold.

Next up its: Jane France:

Jane had this to say:

Hi, I am thrilled at being asked to make an inspirational card for the Pocketful of Posies Challenge. I do hope you like it.

I started by randomly stamping the Ledger Background stamp with vintage sepia Versafine ink onto some watercolour paper, I then sprinkled Brusho crystals onto my cardstock and flicked water onto it.... oooohhh I just adore those Brushos!!! 

As the watercolour paper is quite textured, I couldn't get a clear stamped image, so I stamped the poppies and the sentiment onto tissue paper with black Stazon ink, then adhered them to my background,  I then stamped the poppy heads a few times onto thin yellow card, added a bit of shading with promarkers, cut them out and decoupaged them to give a bit of dimension, stuck them to my card, then finished off with a bit of sewing round the edge and some matting and layering...et voila!!! ...Doncha just love love love that poppy stamp....it's gorrrrrrrrgeous!!!

Last but not least its: Lynda Hall

Lynda had this to say:

I am delighted to have been asked to contribute an inspiration piece for this challenge. After a bit of thought I decided to alter a pocket notebook so my project could be practical as well as pretty! I used the stamp set that was a free gift a while ago with a craft magazine, and painted the flowers and background with Spectrum Noir Aquatints and the dragonflies with Twinkling H20's to add a little shimmer. 

I think you will agree our top 3 are amazing, some great inspiration here.  We'd love you to join us, there is just over a week to go, and you can enter HERE.

See you soon!

The Indigoblu Challenge Design Team & Demonstrators.

Challenge 28 - A pocketful of Posies - Demonstrator Inspiration

Hi all, today we have for you some extra inspiration from our lovely Indigoblu demonstrator's for the latest challenge, Number 28 - A pocketful of Posies. It starts to make you think of summer when you see all these lovely flowers!

 Have a look at our lovely teams fabulous work then join in the fun of the challenge!  You can win Indigoblu stamps, of your choice!  (And there are so many lovely new ones!).

I think you will agree, there is some awesome work here! Can you spot the brand new stamps being used too?

Cheremane

Elizabeth

Kay

Maxine

Lydia

Wow! some really fab inspiration from our Demonstrator team here at Indigoblu.  I'm sure they would love a visit from you, and you can see how they made their design's by clicking on the names below the images.

You can enter the challenge HERE. Tune in next week for the inspiration from the top 3 winners of challenge 27.

Thanks for visiting!

Indigoblu Challenge Team &

Indigoblu Demonstrators.

Challenge 28 - A pocketful of Posies

Hi everyone, I'm excited about this month's challenge, I think it's one you will all love, especially as we are coming to summer and the flower's will be out... we'd like to see your 'Pocketful of Posie's' entries!

Firstly the winner of last month's challenge Just One Layer is:

Congratulations Elaine Traverso!  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 from the 'Just One Layer' challenge, as chosen by the DT are...

1: No. 15 - Bev
2: No. 31 - Lynda
3: No. 32 - Jane

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 28 - A Pocketful of Posies.

Last month's winner Helen, made this fab lamp for us:

Helen had this to say:

I had a naked bodice to hand so decided to make an apron using the Anemone Corner stamp. I used 'Mowed Lawn' Distress Ink pad on green fabric, added a pocket, a flower button and lace. I covered the bodice with a floral decoupage paper and added a bead 'necklace'.

I then had an idea to turn the bodice into a lamp base so dug out a naked flower pot to use as a shade. I turned the pot upside down  to create a shade and covered it using 5 pieces card (one plain piece for the top of the pot) that I coloured with a 'Stormy Weather' Distress Ink pad and I stamped the border stamp from Nature 1 across the bottom of each piece of card in black VersaFine. Once I had glued the card in place I used a clear tube (piece of junk) to glue the shade and bodice together.

I think you will agree this is a fantastic idea from Helen, I'm sure she would love it if you hopped across to her blog to check out the full details.  Thank you Helen for your inspiration this month for IndigoBlu.

And now to our Challenge Design Team, who have some makes to share with you too:

Jenny Marples

Nikki Killinger

Julie Cassidy

We'd love to see your work - do enter for your chance to win, and share with your friends so they can enter too, the more the merrier!

Good luck,
The IndigoBlu Challenge Design Team.

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