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IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER COLOUR INKSPIRATION CHALLENGE

This project will make my third challenge/blog hop this week. I’m on a roll.

I look forward to each Colour INKspiration challenge because they are so often colour combinations that I wouldn’t select myself.

May be an image of text that says '#109 COLOUR Crushed Curry SPIRATION CHALLENGES Pool Party Cinnamon Cider Early Espresso'

For this project I decided to use the Batik Boutique Bundle, which I haven’t used in a while. I also decided to try the baby wipe colouring technique for the first time.

I started by adding drops of ink refill to some folded baby wipes, then stamped the textile image from the Natural Textures Stamp Set several times (this is a host set from the current Annual Catalogue).

These were then cut using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies. I cut two for each of the floral elements that I made.

To make the floral elements I added some Adhesive Sheets to the back of strips of the four INKspiration colours. I cut one Early Espresso and two Cinnamon Cider full floral shapes. Then I cut two of the detailed infill shapes in both Crushed Curry and Pool Party.

The stamped panels were adhered to the back of the full floral shapes. Then I used the outline shapes from the detailed cut pieces and positioned each of them over the base full shape. As you can see, there are two with the Pool Party outline and one with the Crushed Curry outline.

The next step was to alternate the colours and fill in the outline. As you can see, two of them have Crushed Curry inserts and one has the Pool Party.

A panel of Cinnamon Cider was embossed using the Bark 3D Embossing Folder before it was attached to the front of the Crushed Curry card base.

The next step was to carefully postion the three feature panels down the centre of the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set. It was trimmed down and attached with dimensionals.

The floral image from the Batik Boutique Stamp Set was stamped, in Early Espresso ink, on the card insert and envelope.

Adding some Cinnamon Cider Square Gems, from the 2020 – 2021 In Colour Square Gems, was the last step for this card.

It’s always good to go back and use some of the products that have been left alone for far too long.

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Batik Dies
[155962]
$50.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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OKTOBERFEST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

My youngest daughter asked me to make a card for her partner. He will be celebrating his 30th birthday on October 30. The celebration will be an Oktoberfest costume themed event.

For this request I knew that I wanted to make a lederhosen inspired card. The Suit & Ties Dies would be perfect.

Althought the Well Suited Designer Series Paper is retired, I chose one design to use for the ‘shirt’.

The ‘shirt’ was so easy to create. I cut a piece of the DSP and trimmed away a triangle at the centre top to accommodate the collar.The collar had Stampin’ Dimensionals placed on the underside so that it would sit up from the ‘shirt front’. I also popped a small piece of Basic White card behind the triangle.

I small strip of the same DSP was cut using one of the Suit & Ties Dies and glued down the centre to appear to be the placket for buttonholes and buttons. The buttons were die cut from Basic Black card that has Adhesive Sheet attached.

For the lederhosen suspenders and front panel, I thought Cinnamon Cider card would be the perfect colour. The suspenders were cut using the same die I used for the placket.

The suspender buckles were also cut using the Suit & Ties Dies.

I created the centre panel of the lederhosen suspenders using the Seasonal Layers Dies. This piece was then recut to make the shape smaller and more authentic looking.

An image from the Batik Boutique Stamp Set was used to add the floral flourish to the centre panel. It was stamped in Tuxedo BLack Memento ink.

Inside the card, I stamped a birthday greeting on the insert and also created a calendar panel to mark the date of his birthday – turning 30 on the 30th.

I sent photos of the card to my daughter and she is very happy with what I have made for her. And I am very pleased with the end result.

Although, I must confess, I’m reallt sure that I want to go in costume.

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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IN SYMMETRY

Hello to each of you! Thank you for taking the time to pop by and check out today’s offering.

Last week I shared a card using the In Symmetry Stamp Set. Today, I am using the same bundle but am focussing on the dies.

I wanted to create three of these amazing Batik floral shapes using three colours – Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy and Poppy Parade. The first step was to cut small pieces of the card stock and attach some Adhesive Sheets to one side. Then I ran each of the card stock pieces, with this die, through my Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine (a.k.a. Mini Boss).

I carefully lifted the die cut card stock out of the die and separated the pieces. The next step was to position the Granny Apple Green outer shape in the centre of the Basic White strip of card stock – both horizontally and vertically. Then I placed the Poppy Parade and Night of Navy outer shapes, as you can see. I worked slowly then to remove the backing from the Adhesive Sheet to position the infill elements, rotating through the colours. Early in the project, I decided not to worry about retaining all the tiny circles of colour – let’s face it, that just seemed to me to be far too fiddly. I left these small spaces open to showing the Basic White.

Before I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach the strip of Basic White card stock up onto the left hand side of the Night of Navy card base, I stamped this leaf image, in Night of Navy, onto the right hand side of the card base. Then I stamped the sentiment and trimmed it ready to attach using Stampin’ Dimensionals (if you know me, you will know that I love my Dimensionals and am not afraid to use LOTS of them).

For some bling, I used the Night of Navy Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels (I need to order some more soon!). And, last but not least, the same leaf image was tamped on the card insert and envelope.

I love the way this die cut inlaid card turned out. The colours are bold and bright, which is refreshing. There are many people that I can think of who I can send a thank you card to. Who would send this card to?

#challenge If you live in Australia and leave a comment on this post, I will ‘throw’ you into the hat and if your name is drawn I will send this card to you to send to someone else.

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Batik Dies
[155962]
$50.00