Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI151

 Hello and welcome, 

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI151 this photo was chosen by Cathy Pinchbeck. These colours are stunning together and I just love the inspiring photo used for the challenge.

The chosen colour combination for #CI151 is Petal Pink, Balmy Blue, Boho Blue and Pecan Pie. As well as the chosen colours you may also like to add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and metallics to your project. We also allow 'Ivory', 'Bronze' and 'Natural Tones' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie: Copper Clay instead of Pecan Pie .... you get the drift).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 25th September 2023 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Here's my slimline Christmas card I used the Christmas Classics bundle which is in the new Stampin' Up! Sep-Dec 2023 Mini Catalogue. My first time using this bundle and I love it! I went with a soft look using these beautiful colours and one technique I really love to do is the emboss resist technique using White Stampin' Emboss Powder. I really like how the sentiment stands out against Boho Blue. Here I just added Boho Blue ink with the Blending Brush.

I used one of the fancy labels from the Christmas Classics Dies, die-cut a number of them in Basic White Cardstock and cut the label in half. This creates lots of interesting elements to form the card. 

I've used this layout for my slimline cards many times now and I like to create one of the panels with coloured ink by applying Boho Blue ink with the Blending Brush. Starting at the edge and working over towards the other side of the panel and then I tear one side of the cardstock to expose the white paper. 

Another fun way to add interest to your cards is adding White Stampin' Emboss Powder to the edges of the cardstock. I just simply run the VersaMark ink pad along the edges of the cardstock then apply White Stampin' Emboss Powder, brush off any excess that I don't want and heat set with the Heat Tool.

To finish off the card I added Clear Wink of Stella by taping the brush against the lid. I also hadn't used any Petal Pink on the card expect for the Pastel Adhesive Backed Sequins, they are stunning in the pink and Balmy Blue.

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.

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Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI151 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 25th September 2023.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI151 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher