Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI126

  Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, it's the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI126 and this photo was chosen by Denita Wright-Smee. This is a painting titled 'Womens's Ceremony' by Kaureen Bird. The colours are gorgeous together. 

The colour combination for #CI126 is Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, Cajun Craze and Soft Suede. 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: Calypso Coral instead of Pumpkin Pie .... you get the drift).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 8th August 2022 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Today's card is using the True Beauty Stamp Set and Organic Beauty Dies which is on page 67 of the  2022-2023 Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogue. The True Beauty stamp set is a Distinktive stamp set which has special texture that gives added depth and dimension, creating photo-realistic images. I love the watercolour look of the stamp images without any fussy! Just ink and stamp the beautiful floral images.

True Beauty Bundle (158984) 

I must admit these colours aren't my normal go to colours from Stampin' Up! but I was willing to give it a try and come up with something, in fact I ended up creating two cards. The second card was just a test on where I was going to place the different stamped images. I liked it so much, I decided not to waste the panel.

Hello Slimline Card

To create my first card, start with Basic White for the panel and stamp the images in the above mentioned challenge colours. I started with Cajun Craze then onto Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede. 

To create a soft look I stamped off a couple of times before inking up the white panel. I also used a Blending Brush, inked up the brush and applied to the stamp before stamping the image onto the white cardstock.

I also have all of the colours in the Stampin' Write Markers, so I like to flick the brush tip against the lid and splatter onto the panel.

I've used the coordinating Organic Beauty Dies, die-cut out using the detailed dies in Basic Black and Crumb Cake. Using the Blending Brush with Soft Suede and Cajun Craze ink, I applied to the die-cut pieces. I also added Soft Suede Ink to the Natural Finish Ribbon.

I create a fancy bow using strands from the Natural Finish Ribbon and combined it with the Black & White Gingham Ribbon. I actually cut the Gingham Ribbon in half to make it thinner and easier to make into a bow.

To finish off the card I used the sentiment from Biggest Whish Stamp Set, used Versamark, White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. I added a few of the Brushed Metallic Dots to the card. I added a new embellishment from the July-Dec Mini Catalogue, it's the Textural Elements and I lightly coloured it with Soft Suede ink.

You are a True Friend Slimline Card

To create my second card I used the same above technique with stamping the images in the same colours. The die-cut pieces are the same as well. I've used the sentiment from the True Beauty Stamp Set and heat embossed it.

The other different items are Linen Thread, Black Classic Matte Dots and Crumb Cake Cardstock for the card base.

I hope I've inspired you with the latest challenge and I do hope you'll join in. We so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specifically for this challenge.

Use all of the challenge colours (or close substitutions) unless stated.

Upload only one picture per entry straight to the discussion wall and not in an album

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI126 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 8th August 2022.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI125 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

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