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HAPPY 100th COLOUR INKSPIRATION

Hello and thank you so much for popping by today.

Today is all about celebrating Colour INKspiration’s 100th challenge. I have only been participating in these colour challenges for a short period of time and recently enjoyed looking back over all 100 challenges. Thank you to Bronwyn Eastley and the CI team for providing all of these colour combinations to inspire our creativity, since January 11, 2017 . You can see all 100 colour combinations just by clicking on the #100 image.

This the colour combination for #CI100.

May be an image of flower and text that says '#100 kATON COLOUR SPIRATION CHALLENGES Gorgeous Grape Magenta Madness Bermuda BermudaBay Bay'

Here is the card I created.

I used the zig zag die from the new Basic Borders Dies to cut a number of coloured strips of cardstock. Once cut, I then adhered them to a piece of Basic White cardstock. This was then embossed using the new Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder. The embossed cardstock was then trimmed down to be used as a card front layer.

Using a greeting from the Create With Friends Stamp Set, the ‘celebrate’ was stamped three times – once each each in the three challenge colours. ‘Celebrate’ was the perfect greeting to choose for this 100th challenge celebration. The greetings were cut using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies before being stacked and a small hole punched, to accommodate a brad from the Round & Square Brads. The greetings were fanned out and secured using a Mini Glue Dot on each layer. The layered greeting was then popped up onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

A strip of the embossed coloured cardstock was added to the card insert and some die offcuts were added to the card front.

The final touch was to add some 2020-2022 In Colour Square Gems to the card front. I really like that so many of the different dies are stitched, making them so easy to coordinate.

This is such a wonderfully vibrant colour combination and a perfect way to celebrate 100 Colour INKspiration challenges.

Happy stamping … and many more challenges to keep us inspired.

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 #99

Hello and thank you so much for popping by. I added a new post yesterday after a two week absence – but, I have a new knee and have been doing all my physiotherapy exercises.

Yesterday’s post was for the Global Design Project #GDP292. I made the card for the GDP challenge after I made my project for #CI99 – I thought it would be easier to use the same colours for both challenges.

May be an image of 1 person and text that says '#99 COLOUR NSPIRATION CHALLENGES Mint Macaron Just JusJade Jade Smoky Slate Soft Suede'

For this card i chose the Colour & Contour Stamp Set and Scalloped Contours Dies.

It was loads of fun using these, very unfloral, colours for the penned flower images. I stamped the images, using Jet Black StazOn, and then used the challenge colours to watercolour the flowers. The images were then die cut.

The coordinating dies have two dies for the floral images, a scalloped edge die and five scalloped rectangles. I used the second largest of these to cut out a ‘window’, in Soft Suede, for the sentiment and gems. The sentiment was stamped, using Just Jade, onto a piece of Shimmery White cardstock and positioned on the Soft Suede card front. The window layer was lifted up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I positioned the flowers and floral stem onto the card front. They were adhered using both Mulitpurpose Glue and Stampin’ Dimensionals. The final touch was to add some of the Genial Gems.

SCALLOPED CONTOURS DIES

These are some of the new products I used for this project.

The fonts used in the sentiments of this stamp set are really lovely.

It has been very nice to make two projects, two weeks after my surgery. Getting back to ‘normal’ is a treat.

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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SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Hello – thank you for popping by. I really appreciate the time you take to see what I have been creating.

Today is the end of the creativity period for the #CI96 Colour Inkspiration Challenge.

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The colours in this challenge are so, so pretty.

May be an image of flower and text

For this challenge I decided to use Dena Rekow’s 1000000 Pretty Perennials Stamp Set and coordinating Perennial Petals Dies. I have loved using this bundle so many times and now it is one of the retiring bundles.

PRETTY PERENNIALS BUNDLE (ENGLISH)

I decided to use the, soon to retire, Frost White Shimmer Paint to pearlise pieces of Petal Pink, Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green card stock.

Then I used the dies to cut lots and lots of flowers and leaves.

I am pleased that the Friends are Like Seashells Stamp Set is carrying over into the new catalogue.

Now for card #2.

For the second card I used the – soon to retire – Old World Paper 3D Embossing Folder to create texture on a strip of pearlised card stock.

Yay, the Hydrangea Haven Stamp Set is also carrying over!

It was fun making a second card that was stepped up a little. Now it’s time to start to plan another project.

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
[103579]
$17.00