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.
Colour INKspiration 191
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Ohhhh I totally LOVE these colours together!
I have missed a few challenges because a few weeks ago, I had my facebook and my instagram pages suspended! I am shocked..... Apparently, I have violated their terms and conditions somehow... I really am hoping that I can recover my pages or that means I have years of photos and posts totally gone! Devastating.... I will still create and get my images through to Lou who will post them on the Colour INKspiration page for me....... I really can not understand what has happened as I know I have not voilated any terms and conditions. AI is no help to us at all!
Anyway, I had this idea in my head, and I had to get it out onto paper...
I am super, super happy with how it worked out!
I really love any of the stencils that Stampin' Up! make and I have made this particular card with the Thankful Garden Stencils.
I thought about making the background of the card using them with a random pattern over the back. I also coloured up another "extra" set of flowers to be die cut afterwards.
The background was a bit too dark for my idea so I rummaged around in my papers and found a piece of vellum. The Gallery Blooms dies have a "frame" style die that I cut in the silver foil and I thought it would be perfect to use with the vellum placed behind to tone down the background. It worked!
The sentiment came from the new online exclusive called Charming Day and it was heat embossed in white embossing powder on black cardstock, then fussy cut out before adhering with dimensionals.
Tip- Did you know you can colour the top of the white embossed sentiment with Stampin' Blends to get any coloured sentiment to match your card?
I cut two extra leaves from the Thankful Garden Dies and used my blending brushes to add some darker Granny Apple Green to the ends of the leaves and finished off using the Holographic Resin Dots... (I think a new favourite now of mine)
If you are interested in joining in on this great challenge.
- Stamps: Charming Day and Thankful Garden
- Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Memento Black and Versamark
- Card: Basic White Thick and Thin, Basic Black, Lemon Lime Twist, Silver Foil and Vellum
- Tools: Thankful Garden, Gallery Blooms Dies with a Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine, Versamark with White Embossing Powder, Blending Brushes
- Embellishments: - Dimensionals, Holographic Resin Dots
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