Colour INKspiration 55 #CI55

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 close to 2000 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 blog hop.

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.

Welcome from Rebecca's gorgeous Elephant card

How cute is this inspiration picture that Monique has found?
The challenge is use 3 or more of the colours above.

I love a challenge so I pulled out all the colours and made the background card but it sat there.... I couldn't decide on what stampset to use for the main image...…

This morning along came my delivery of Everything is Rosy and by gosh it was Rosy as I pulled out a ripper of a card. It's my mums birthday next week and I think it will be perfect for her... I will have to post it to her this afternoon so she will get it in time.
Nothing like a little bit of last minute inspiration.

I really love how it worked out. Have I already said that?

I stamped the main floral image into the Grapefruit Grove inkpad and sponge daubered the Flirty Flamingo around the edge. It is a bit hard to see it in this particular picture but it is stunning. I am so, so sad that Lemon Lime Twist is retiring as it is currently my favourite colour. I am not a green person but it is such a lovely colour.
The Pearls were coloured with the dark Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blend so they match the card perfectly.

I can not wait to see what you create with these pretty colours.

• Stamps: Everything Is Rosy
• Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Grapefruit Grove, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist
• Card: Whisper White, Lemon Lime Twist, Smoky Slate, Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove & Rich Razzleberry
• Tools: Everything is Rosy Thinlits & Layering Ovals Framelits with the Bigshot & Dark Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blend
• Embellishments: Dimensionals, wink of stella & Pearls

Now off to the beginning of our hop to our guest Designer Lisa Whitehead

What Will You Stamp 218? #WWYS218

What Will you Stamp Challenge number 218.

I hope that you like what I can come up with for these awesome challenges.

I hope more of you join in with these great stampset challenges as they are fun!

I really love this stampset and it has proven very very popular.

I chose to make a floating frame card for this weeks challenge.... lucky when you make one you have enough for a second card and here they are.

This one is my favourite of the two cards that I made. It was a little bare with just the centre of the frame so I made another frame to go around using the colours that I used on the butterflies.

I was lucky enough for a friend who went to Onstage in Auckland to bring me back a roll of the sought after Press N Seal. Our supermarkets do not sell it anywhere close by!

Not bad for my first time. I did learn though that you have to place more images on the card or you won't see the effect of the actual frame which defeats the purpose of the technique.

The black background I find with colour makes the colour stand out more than on a white background.

• Stamps: Butterfly Gala
• Ink:  Memento Black, Versamark, Highland Heather, Flirty Flamingo, Mango Melody, Coastal Cabana and Poppy Parade
• Card: Whisper White & Basic Black
• Tools: Rectangle Stitched Dies with the Bigshot as well as the Butterfly Duet Punch and White Stampin Emboss Powder. I also used press n seal for placement of the Butterflies.
• Embellishments: Dimensionals

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

What Will You Stamp?

So Long Old Favourites ESAD Blog Hop

Welcome to yet another wonderful ESAD blog hop!

I am so lucky to be in this group of talented demonstrators (friends) and I hope that you enjoy all our projects using items retiring from the Annual and Occasions catalogues .

Welcome from Shannon's page

hmmm which set to choose that is retiring??? There are so so many......

Well I remembered I made this gorgeous card for a custom order at the end of last year and I haven't blogged it so here it is!

This is the gorgeous Hostess Set Hand Delivered and although the set looks a bit girly I transformed it to make a male card for a student graduating primary school from his family.

If you look closely his name is also made with a retiring letter set that I use all the time and love called Labeler Alphabet! I'm sad but excited for new goodies to play with.

The stamparatus definitely came into effect here!

I stamped and fussy cut all of the books to adhere to the main card.

• Stamps: Hand Delivered & Labeler Alphabet
• Ink:  Granny Apple Green, Blueberry Bushel and Memento Black 
• Card: Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel, Granny Apple Green and some of the Botanical Butterfly DSP (from saleabration)
• Tools: Layering Oval Framelits with the bigshot and Stampin Blends in pretty much all colours
• Embellishments: - Dimensionals 

While I am here I actually did make another that I haven't blogged yet either and these sets are also retiring. (one from the Occasions Catalogue and one from the Annual)

When my neighbour passed away last November I got to know his daughter who lives over East. She was having a big birthday when she was going home so I made this special card for her.

Jar of Love is most definitely going to be another set that I will miss (but not part with)

• Stamps: Jar of Love and Bloom by Bloom
• Ink:  Stayzon, Pineapple Punch, Lovely Lipstick, Night of Navy and Grapefruit Grove
• Card: Whisper White, Lovely Lipstick, vellum, Grapefruit Grove and Happiness Blooms DSP
• Tools: Everyday Jars Framelits, Bouquet Bunch Framelits & Layering Ovals with the Bigshot
• Embellishments: - Dimensional, Grapefruit Grove Ribbon and Clear Rhinestones

Hop on over to check out what set Delys is sad to be parting with. 

Blog hop participant list:

1. Bronwyn Eastley

2. Libby Dyson

3. Katrina Duffell

4. Lou Kitzelman

5. Shannon Kissane

6. Nicole Wilson - You are Here!

7. Delys Cram

8. Lauren Meiklejohn

9. Cathy Pinchbeck

10. Sandra Mastello

11. Richelle Fletcher

12. Rose Packer

13. Siobhan Fitzsimmons

14. Jo Weedon

15. Peta Stephen

16. Lisa Whitehead

17. Rochelle Laird-Smith

18. Rebecca Scurr

19. Mandy Depiazzi

20. Denise Buetler

21. Monique Fielder

22. Kelly Kent

23. Sharon Dalton

24. Rebekah Crisp

25. Maree McIntosh