Colour INKspiration Challenge #98

 Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration challenge #CI98 and this stunning photo was chosen by Jan Clothier one of the Design Crew Members. This colour combo is so pretty, I just love the different shades of pinks and greens together.

The colour combination for #CI98 are Magenta Madness, Flirty Flamingo, Pear Pizza, Soft Sea Foam and Gray Granite. As well as the chosen colours you may also add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand 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: Smoky Slate instead of Gray Granite .... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm on the 10th May 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

For today's project I've created a slimline card using a variety of Dies including the Perennial Petals Dies and coordinating Pretty Perennials Stamp Set for the challenge colours. I'll also show you a few tips and tricks on how I made this card.

Starting with the card base in Gray Granite Cardstock cut at 21cm x 21cm and scored at 10.5cm. The card fits nicely inside a business size envelope. The next layer is the panel of Basic White Cardstock cut at 9.5cm x 20cm.

I've applied Soft Sea Foam Ink with the Blending Brush onto the white cardstock. Inking up the spray of circles stamp in the same colour and randomly stamped the image a number of times. 

The next step I always like to place the different pieces onto my card and play around to see how they will look. Once I'm happy, I'll take a photo and mark with a pencil where I'll be adhering the images to the card.

I've used the Playful Alphabet Dies for the Birthday greeting, to create the Ombre effect using a strip of Basic White Cardstock and apply Magenta Madness Ink with the Blending Brush. The letters are attached to the Foam Adhesive Sheets to give the letters more height.

To make sure the letters are straight I use the Grid Paper with a piece of scrap Cardstock, measured at 2cm from the bottom and apply Washi Tape helps to keep the paper intact. Using Take Your Pick Tool to place the letters onto the Cardstock, I find this a lot easier rather than using your fingers.

The two Ombre butterflies are in Magenta Madness and Flirty Flamingo. I applied ink onto Basic White Cardstock with the Blender Brush and die cut out using the Brilliant Wings Dies.

The flower images are in Magenta Madness, Flirty Flamingo and the Happy greeting is in Pear Pizzazz, then fussy cut out. Adding die cut images for the leaves are inked up Pear Pizzazz Ink onto Basic White Cardstock.

To finish off the card I've placed Magenta Madness Enamel Dots onto the card.

I 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.

#CI98 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 10th May 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.

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Happy Stamping!

Vicki Boucher