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Colour INKspiration Challenge #155 – TIMELESS ARRANGEMENTS

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge.

This inspiration picture which has inspired our colour palette was chosen by Crew Member, Monica Formosa. 

Picture credit – https://musefraisedesbois.tumblr.com/post/90783247152

As well as the chosen colour combination for #CI155, Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape and Cherry Cobbler, you may also add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and metallics to your project. We also allow Ivory, Bronze and Natural Tones in Stampin’ Blends. If you don’t have the colours in our palette, feel free to use the closest Stampin’ Up! substitute.

To get your creative ideas flowing make sure you check out the Crew’s Projects in the CI#155 album. 

While I love this photograph – it’s colours and textural features, it was a tough one to decide what to create.

After spending time scanning my stamp sets, dies and embossing folders, I decided on the Timeles Arrangements Bundle and Basics 3D Emossing Folder – Flowers.

I started with a Fresh Freesia card base and then took a Basic White panel to emboss with the Flowers 3D Basics Embossing Folder.Using the Dark Fresh Freesia Stampin’ Blend pen, I coloured a length of White Herringbone Ribbon. This ribbon was wrapped around the embossed panel and secured with Tear and Tape.

I used the dies you can see above to cut several floral panels and individual flowers, in each of the challenge colours.

They were layered and glued together.

The greeting was stamped in Gorgeous Grape before cutting it using one of the rectangular dies from the Timeless Arrangements Dies.

The layered flowers were then adhered behind the greeting panel. Stampin’ Dimensionals were placed behind the greeting so that it would sit up above the ribbon.

I stamped the trio of small flowers on the card insert and envelope.

Finally, I added several Fresh Freesia embellishments, from the Tinsel Gems 3 Pack, to the card front.

I’m so happy with this card! What do you think?

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.

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Colour INKspiration Challenge #154 – IT’S A SCIENCE

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge.

This inspiration picture which has inspired our colour palette was chosen by Crew Member, Rose Packer. 

Picture credit – https://www.instagram.com/p/CQxyZ-QB5CQ/

As well as the chosen colour combination for #CI154, Berry Burst, Poppy Parade, Pool Party and Crumb Cake, you may also add Basic White, Very Vanilla and metallics to your project. We also allow Ivory, Bronze and Natural Tones in Stampin’ Blends. If you don’t have the colours in our palette, feel free to use the closest Stampin’ Up! substitute.

To get your creative ideas flowing make sure you check out the Crew’s Projects in the CI#154 album. 

It took me a while to find a stamp set that I thought would work with this colour palette. Eventually I decided that I could use these colours with the It’s a Science Stamp Set.

I started by stamping the atomic structure image and chemical structure image across the Pool Party card front.

Then I wrapped a length of Black & White Gingham Ribbon around a panel of Pool Party card.

I used StazOn Jet Black ink to stamp the microscope image on to a piece of Holographic Trio Specialty Paper. Then I fussy cut the microscope and placed it on the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I stamped the quartet of beakers and test tubes twice before fussy cutting each of them separately. The bubbles were stamped inside the round bottom flask.

Berry Burst, Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade and Pool Party Stampin’ Blends were used to ‘fill’ each of the vessels with colourful ‘liquids’. The black Stampin’ Write Marker was used for one of the test tubes. Wink of Stella was used to give the ‘liquids’ a little shimmer.

I stamped the clipboard twice, fussy cut them and coloured them.

The greeting was stamped with Poppy Parade. Then I pierced a hole in the top of both clipboards and used a black Square Brad to hold them together. I popped a Mini Glue Dot between them to keep them staggered.

Can you see the effect the holographic paper has? A piece of this specialty paper is in the bottom right hand corner of this photo – it was originally a silvery colour but appears blue and green in the corner. Yet, the microscope appears purple. How amazing is that!

One of the beakers was stamped on the card insert and envelope. Finally, I added several black Classic Matte Dots to the card.

I’m not sure what I’ll be sharing tomorrow. But until then, 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.

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Colour INKspiration #153 – FRAMED FLORET BUNDLE

Welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge.

This inspiration picture which has inspired our colour palette was chosen by Crew Member, Vivki Boucher.

Picture credit – https://gabytaangeles.tumblr.com/post/613893814624649216/vintage-books

I decided to break out the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks and my Small Blending Brushes for this project.

I used some strips of Masking Paper to secure the mask to the Basic White layer and left only the three centre spaces open. The colours were blended in the same order as the colours of the books in the inspiration image.

The next step was to attach a length of Moody Mauve Textured Ribbon to the white layer.

Next, I stamped and die cut several of the flowers, buds and leaves, before colouring them with Stampin’ Blends.

When I had finished colouring the floral elements, I attached them to the card front using Mini Glue Dots and Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped and then I used one of the label dies from the Autumn Leaves Dies set. It was cut twice to make it narrower.

The finishing touches included stamping the larger flower image on the card insert and envelope. Some Moody Mauve 2023-2025 In Colour Dots added that little bit of bling.

Now it’s time to start thinking of my card for Colour INKspiration #154.

Until then, 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.

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Paper Snips
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