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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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TIME TO BE INKSPIRED

The #CI126 is an amazing combination of colours, inspired by this piece of First Nation’s art found by Denita Wright-Smee.

Picture credit – ‘Women’s Ceremony’ by Kaureen Bird https://thisisaboriginalart.com.au/…/womens-ceremony…/

May be an image of text that says '#126 f/ns T COLOUR SPIRATION Pumpkin Pie Melon Mambo Bermuda Bay Cajun Craze Soft Suede'

I cannot wait to see what projects are created using this rich and bold colours.

For me, I decided to use the Bottled Happiness and Vintage Christmas Stamp Sets, along with the Vintage Bottle Punch. Woohoo!

Here we go – a Sofy Suede cardbase and a slightly smaller Soft Suede panel that has been embossed using the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder. The embossed panel was adhered directly onto the cardbase.

The next steps involved stamping two of same-sized bottles, using each of the five featured colours. I stamped 3 bottles using the Vintage Christmas Stamp Set and two bottles from the Bottled Happiness Stamp Set.

All five bottles were punched out using the Vintage Bottle Punch. Each bottle was then popped up on the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The floral image, from the Vintage Christmas Stamp Set, was stamped in three of the five INKspiration colours before being fussy cut. Each of these small floral bouquets were added to the bottle necks using Dimensionals.

The first and last bottles, on the card front, had a length of Linen Thread tied around the neck and into a bow.

This card was so much fun to make using this ColourINKspiration Challenge. This is the first card I have created using the Bottled Happiness Bundle and the Vintage Christmas Stamp Set.

The final step was to add some Elegant Faceted Gems to the card front.

I am not sure what I have planned for tomorrow but I am confident that you will like it.

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
[103579]
$19.25