Colour INKspiration Challenge #102

 Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #102 and this beautiful photo was chosen by Lou Kitzelman one of the Design Crew Members. This colour combo is a beautiful palette and there's one of the new In Colors in this latest colour challenge!

The colour combination for #102 is Polished Pink, Smokey Slate and Basic Gray. 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: Melon Mambo instead of Polished Pink .... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 3 weeks until 7pm on the 12th July 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Today's card I've used the Hydrangea Haven Stamp set and coordinating Hydrangea Dies which are available from the Stampin' Up! 2021 - 2022 Annual Catalogue. I decided to do a little bit of sewing on my card and gave it a vintage look with the torn DSP, ruffing up the edges of the Cardstock and many layers to the card.

The watercolour Hydrangea's are in shades of Polished Pink Ink, Smoky Slate and Clear Wink of Stella with lots of sparkle. I've also added Polished Pink Shimmer Vellum using the Hydrangea petals Dies and Expressions in Ink Sequins.

The layers of ripped DSP are Polished Pink In Color 2021 - 2023 6" x 6" DSP and In Good Taste 12" x 12" DSP. I added Basic Gray Ink with the Blending Brush to give it a darker shade of gray. 

Now for the fun part of the card! Using a panel of Basic Gray Cardstock, I've embossed it with the Tasteful Textile 3D Emboss Folder and adding Basic Gray Ink with the Blending Brush for a darker look. Then I decided to get out my old sewing machine which I've had since I was 21 years old and sew a light grey cotton thread around the panel. It was so much fun! I should do more sewing in the future. 

The sentiment is from the stamp set which is part of the Sentimental Rose Card Kit all of the stamp images are very handy for card making. The 'best wishes' image fits perfectly inside the stitched Hydrangea Die. I've heat embossed the sentiment with Versamark Ink, White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. 

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.

Colour INKspiration Challenge CI#102 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 12th July 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.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher