Welcome to Colour Inkspiration!
What is Colour INKspiraton? – a Facebook based bi-monthly colour challenge.
Anyone with Facebook can join in. You don’t need a blog and you don’t need to be a demonstrator.
I have joined in these challenges and love them as Colour challenges for me are actually a real challenge.
Click here to join the Facebook page which now has over 3000 members and see what it’s all about.
Here’s some of the basic details about the challenge –
The Colour INKspiration Crew! consists of a team of talented Aussie and NZ Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators that create projects based on Pinterest inspired colour swatches.
Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm (AEDT), a new colour swatch will be uploaded to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group and the Colour INKspiration Crew will get the ball rolling by providing inspiration for each challenge with a post on their blogs.
Then you have a 12 day period to upload your own creations using the colours provided.
If you have a blog, feel free to link back to it, but all entries will be via Facebook. The design team will select 5 projects to be ‘design team picks’ and then the Facebook group will select an overall winner from this shortlist.
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Using 5 colours is a bit of a challenge for me.
Here is what I came up with
Sigh......
Still no luck with all of my social media pages.
It is the most frustrating thing to ever have to deal with!
I have just had a two-week break with my family up north again as it was school holidays here in Western Australia. We went to Point Samson which is a two day drive to get to but worth the lovely warm weather we had... it was a comfortable 30 degrees.
Now we are home and it will be a top of 17 degrees tomorrow and there has been loads of rain :-(
I received a BBB (Big Brown Box as us demos call it) just before I went away as I took advantage of the 1/2 price suite sale that was offered at the beginning of last month.
I finally purchased the Cheers and Sips Suite and I am now wondering why I didn't get it sooner!!
I started out with watercolour paper to do the glasses and clear embossed the outlines of the glasses. I then embossed the ice blocks and I masked them in-between to get the effect of more than two ice blocks in each glass. The water colouring I did let dry, in between laying down the colour and gave them a spritz of water to give them a more textured look. Once this dried, I took my whisper white ink and whitewashed the ice blocks to make them look opaque.
The background was also brushed with watercolour for slight colouring and then embossed with one of the Glass and Gardens folders for texture.
I felt the card looked slightly washed out when I originally placed all the pieces together to make the card, so I added a black embossed arched die piece to break it up with a strip of the dsp from Celebratory Sips and the Gold Striped Mesh ribbon. It was then finished off with the Iridescent Foil Gems and the Cheers stamp, white embossed on black and fussy cut out.
The back purple looking drink reminds me of a Fruit Tingle....Yum!
If you are interested in joining in on this great challenge.
- Stamps: Cheers and Sips
- Ink: Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel, Gorgeous Grape, Timid Tiger, Bubble Bath and Versamark
- Card: Basic White Thick and Thin, Basic Black, Celebratory Sips DSP and Watercolour paper
- Tools: Cheers and Sips & Everyday Arches Dies, Glass and Gardens Embossing Folders with a Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine, Versamark with White and Clear Embossing Powder, Watercolouring pens
- Embellishments: - Dimensionals, Iridescent Foil Gems
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