Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI109

 Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI109 and this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Lou Kitzelman. It's a stunning photo and I love the colours for this latest challenge. 

The colour combination for #CI109 is Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Cinnamon Cider and Early Espresso. As well as the chosen colours you may also add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, 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: Daffodil Delight instead of Crushed Curry .... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 25th October 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

For my card I've created a thank you slimline card using the Celebrate Sunflowers, Quiet Meadow and Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set. I came across a beautiful Delicate Dahlias card on Pinterest by Ruth Trice - Artful Stampin. I love her creations and how she uses images of the stamps together to make a one sheet wonder and then cut into cards. I thought this colour palette was perfect for something like this.

Starting with Basic White Cardstock for the slimline panel, I started with the largest Sunflower stamp from the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set and stamped the image using Crushed Curry ink. Next I used Cinnamon Cider ink for the smaller Sunflowers and Early Espresso for the leaves.

I love the stamp images from the Quiet Meadow Stamp Set, I've used the larger single flower in Pool Party Ink and stamped over part of the Sunflower using the masking technique with a sticky posted note. This gives the impression of the Pool Party flower is behind the Sunflower.

Also in the Quiet Meadow Stamp Set there are two smaller flower images, I've stamped them in Pool Party, Crushed Curry and Cinnamon Cider Ink. I've used a flower image from the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set and stamped in Pool Party Ink.

As you can see there are lots of fine splatter dots on the card. To create this effect I've used the brush tip from the Stampin' Write Markers in Pool Party, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry and flick ink against the lid. I also used Cinnamon Cider in the Stampin' Blends and used the same technique.

Using the Sunflower Dies for the die-cuts, I've either used Pattern Party Designer Series Paper or coloured cardstock and added ink with the Blending Brush. The black and white gingham DSP is from the Pattern Party DSP layered under the greeting which is from the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set. The card base is in Crushed Curry.

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 #CI109 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 25th October 2021.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI109 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Just a reminder to upload your challenge photo 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