Colour INKspiration Challenge #95

Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration challenge #CI95 and this stunning photo was chosen by Jacque Williams one of the Design Crew Members. This colour combo it's so rich and I just love addition of gold.

The colours for #95 challenge are Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Blackberry Bliss and Gold. As well as the chosen colours you may also add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla and metallics to your project. 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: Seaside Spray instead of Balmy Blue .... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm on the 22nd March 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

For today's project I've used a number of different Stampin' Up! products which are from the Annual 2020 to 2021 Catalogue and the Mini Jan to June 2021 Catalogue. Plus the up and coming 2021 - 2022 Annual Catalogue which I've used the detailed butterflies Dies from the Butterfly Brilliance Collection.

I've created lots of layers for my project and the Ombre blending technique using the Blending Brushes creating a mix of the challenge colours together. 

The smaller butterfly is a mix of Balmy Blue, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape Ink onto White Cardstock. The medium size butterfly is a mix of Highland Heather and Blackberry Bliss Ink. In between the coloured butterflies I've die cut Gold Foil butterflies. 

The blend of purples and Balmy Blue makes up for the Stitched label die cut and is from the Floral Heart Dies. This gives you an added layer to the card and shows off the larger Gold Foil Butterfly.

To create the Ombre embossed panel, using Shimmery White Cardstock I started with Balmy Blue Ink around the edges but also leaving the corners almost white. Then I added Highland Heather Ink and in the center Gorgeous Grape Ink.

The Ombre panel is embossed using the elegant Parisian Flourish 3D Embossing Folder and I've added the Gold Gilded Leafing. The Gold highlights the beautiful detail of the embossing and gives it a lovely finish.

The layer underneath is Gorgeous Grape Cardstock embossed using the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder and more Gold Gilded Leafing was added to this panel. The card base is a half sheet of Gorgeous Grape.

The other elements to the card are Gold Trim tied in a bow adhere to the tiny gift tag from the Hydrangea Dies and the sentiment is also from this bundle stamped in Gorgeous Grape. Also from the bundle are the small flowers die cut in Whisper White and I added Gold Gilded Gems for the center. The delicate Gold Laser-Cut Specialty Paper is also added to finish off my project.

We hope you can participate in this latest round and as we so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specially for this challenge.

#CI95 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 22nd March 2021.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Just a reminder to upload your challenge pics straight to the discussion wall and not in an album.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

You can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

Happy Stamping!

Vicki Boucher