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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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COLOUR INKSPIRATION #141

I have had my card made and sitting on my desk for over a week and I still managed to post it a day late. Here I was thinking 2023 would be my year to get back on track – seems like it’s still a work in progress.

The colours for this challenge are so rich and elegant but you get to choose the 4th colour.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew’s Project in the CI#141 Album – https://www.facebook.com/media/set/…

May be art of furniture and text that says '#141 Very Vanilla Gold Basic Black 1 retiring 2021-23 In Color COLOUR COLOUR SPIRATION CHALLENGES'

The retiring 2021 – 2023 In Colour I chose was Evening Evergreen.

I kept the colours rich and elegant and selected the Seaside Bay Bundle to fit in with that.

The On Line Exclusive Basic 3D Embossing Folders has three different designs. I used the top left hand design to emboss a panel of Evening Evergreen card.

BASICS 3D EMBOSSING FOLDERS

The Distressed Gold Specialty Paper was perfect for this card. I used StazOn to stamp the greeting.

The gold pearl shell stamped using Versamark and then I heat set the Gold Metallic Embossing Power. For the Basic Black and Evening Evergreen shells, I stamped the image onto Very Vanilla card and then stamped the image again in Versamark. Clear Embossing Powder was then heat set on each to achieve the same glossy appearance.

Sadly, the Stamparatus is retiring soon. I will be keeping mine because it is so handy!

I used it as well for the central shell becuase I wanted to stamp the image on my Silicon Mat to reverse the image.

The three pearls were cut from a piece of Pearlescent Specialty Paper.

After all the paper and image elements were layered on the card front, I popped a green and black stitched rectangle behind the greeting layer that had three looks of gold twine secured behind it.

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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PLAYING IN THE RAIN IS ALWAYS FUN!

I wanted to share another one of new bundles available in the new January to April 2023 Mini Catalogue.

PLAYING IN THE RAIN BUNDLE (ENGLISH)

The PLAYING IN THE RAIN BUNDLE is $96.25AUD and is a qualifying purchase to choose a FREE Sale-a-bration product – remember you only have until the end of February for Sale-a-bration.

I used the this bundle for my #137 Colour INKspiration Challenge project. This is such a stunning scene!

May be an image of outdoors, tree and text

So what do a seaside scene and playing in the rain have in common? Water and a Colour INKspiration challenge.

The three super cute images were coloured using the Stampin’ Blends that coordinate with this challenge.

The Deckled Rectangles Dies were perfect to matte the three coloured characters.

The envelope and inside the card were also stamped.

The finishing touch was to add a few Evening Evergreen Opal Rounds.

Don’t forget to place your orders this month so that you can still earn your FREE Sale-a-bration products.

I have another card to share with you tomorrow. Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order your stampin’ Up! supplies through me.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$19.25