Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI163

 Hello and welcome, 

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI163 this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Monica. What an awesome colour palette to work with and so very different. 

The chosen colour combination for #CI163 is Crushed Curry, Poppy Parade, Coastal Cabana, Gorgeous Grape and Starry Sky. As well as the chosen colours you may also like to add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Basic Black 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: Night of Navy instead of Starry Sky.... for example).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 22nd April 2024 details to follow at the end of my blog.

When I first saw these colours I wasn't too sure on how I was going to use them as it's not my normal go to mix of colours and then I realised they are the colours of the rainbow! Especially when you start blending them together for example Crushed Curry with Poppy Parade makes orange, Starry Sky with Gorgeous Grape makes a violet or indigo and so on. This was so much fun and I like to play with colour.

I used a sheet of Basic White Cardstock and started adding ink onto the cardstock with the Blending Brush and then I would add a colour to see how it would blend in together. Once the ink dried, I then added splatter of water droplets using my fingers and I created lots of water droplets. I used the two small maple leaves dies from the Autumn Leaves Dies and die-cut out lots of maple leaves to form a rainbow wreath.

I created a large ring by die-cutting the two largest circle dies from the Stylish Shapes Dies this would form the base for my wreath and then I would start to add the leaves one by one using Multi Tombow Mono Liquid Glue.

I wanted the wreath to pop out from the card and so I used the new Basic Beige Cardstock for the background panel for some added texture I embossed it with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder and scored 2cm lines to create wood panels. Then I added some Crumb Cake ink using the Blending Brush and applied to the embossed panel this gives it some added interest to the embossed impressions. 

I also added another coloured layer underneath the Basic Beige embossed panel and it's just enough to peak through by curling the corner using your fingers. 

To finish off the card I heat embossed the sentiment which is from the new Simply Said Stamp Set which is in the new Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue for 2024 to 2025.

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 #CI163 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 22nd April 2024.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI163 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher