Colour INKspiration Challenge #71

Hello and welcome,



Tonight is the latest Colour INKspiration challenge #71 and this gorgeous photo is our inspiration. The colours are Highland Heather, Pool Party, Gray Grantie and Pear Pizzazz. Isn’t it just stunning? I just want to step into the photo and be there. You can also add Basic Black, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and metallics. We also allow 'Ivory' and 'Bronze' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie Smoky Slate instead of Gray Grantie).

This challenge runs for almost 2 weeks and will end at 7pm (AEST) on Monday 24^th February 2020. I hope you’ll enter into the Colour INKspiration Challenge, we would love to see your creation.

I’ve used the Parisian Blossoms Suite which is in the Mini 2020 Stampin’ Up! Catalogue, I love this suite because of the two gorgeous bundles – Forever Blossoms Bundle and Parisian Beauty Bundle which means more items to play with.

To create this card, I started with Pool Party Cardstock for the card base, I cut a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and ran the panel through with Parisian Flourish 3D Embossing Folder. After embossing, I roughed up the edges of the cardstock with my Paper Snips and curled the corners with the Bone Folder. I also did this with the piece of Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP which is in Pool Party and I sponged ink around the edges to give it a distressed look. 

I’ve stamped the large flower branch image in Stazon Jet Black, onto Shimmery White Cardstock, using my Aqua Painter, I’ve water coloured the flowers in Highland Heather and leaves in Pear Pizzazz. I’ve also added a few more of the flower and leaf images to my card. 

The dies from the Parisian Beauty Bundle have so much detail to the Eiffel tower and swirl, they have been die cut out in Gray Grantie Cardstock and layered over the pieces of papers. The greeting is stamped in Gray Grantie and layered with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Make sure you visit our Facebook group to enter the competition, we would love to see how you would use this latest colour challenge.


Click here at Colour INKSpiration Facebook group to take part and you upload the photo of your creation and you don’t need a blog to enter either. Share with your crafty friends so they can join in with the challenges too.



Hope to see you there!

Thank you for stopping by today.



Happy Crafting


Vicki Boucher



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Product List

Ink: Highland Heather, Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party and Jet Black Stazon

Cardstock/Paper: Pool Party, Whisper White, Gray Grantie, Shimmery White and Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP

Stamps: Forever Blossoms stamp set

Dies: Cherry Blossoms and Parisian dies

Embossing Folder: Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder

Other Stampin’ Up! Products: Sponge Dauber, Paper Snips, Bone Folder and Aqua Painter