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.

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

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.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual or Mini Catalogue send an email to me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Artisan Design Team - All About Autumn Suite

 Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you three projects I created for Stampin' Up! for the month of October 2023. The Artisan assignment we got to use the All About Autumn Suite which was shared on Stampin' Up! socials. The design team did such an amazing job on their projects so make sure you check out their creations. I'll have the link at the bottom of my blog.

All About Autumn Suite (162193)

The All About Autumn Suite (162193) is in the Stampin' Up! Sept - Dec 2023 Mini Catalogue and is located on page 42-44 of the catalogue. The suite includes the following: Autmn Leaves Bundle (162186), Adhesive-Backed Speckled Dots (162191), Copper & Natural Ribbon Combo Pack (162192), Distressed Tile #D Embossing Folder (162189), Oxidized Copper 12"x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper (162190) and All About Autumn 6"x 6" Specialty Designer Series Paper (162178).

Here are my three projects using this gorgeous suite I've used rich colours and I also went outside the box by using non-traditional colours by using shades of blues for my mini gift box. I just love the images from the Autumn Leaves Dies and the stunning oxidized specialty paper. 

Grateful Heart Envelope Treat Box & Gift Tag

I wanted to create a blue tone & metallic mini gift box by using the Envelope Treat Box (159788) plus a belly band and gift tag. The colours I've used are Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight and Boho Blue. I used a mix of metallics such as Gold Gilded Leafing for the belly band, Copper Stampin' Powder for the heat embossed gift tag and Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP for the leaf veins.

The gift tag is a combination of Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP adding Night of Navy ink to colour in specialty paper with a Blending Brush and Night of Navy Cardstock for the smaller gift tag. I added metallic copper strands to tie the two gift tags together.

For the blue die-cut leaves, I added Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight & Boho Blue ink to the Boho Blue Cardstock by using a Blending Brush.

The belly band is embossed using the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder in Boho Blue Cardstock and then adding the above-mentioned inks to the cardstock.

I'm Thankful Pretty Peacock Distressed Card

For my second project I wanted to focus on the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder and use it for the main panel background. 

My favourite colour would have to be Pretty Peacock and it goes beautifully with the Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP.

I stamped the various leaf images in Pretty Peacock onto the Pretty Peacock Cardstock and embossed it with the embossing folder. 

I do like to tear cardstock at the moment and it gives you another layer to play with, so I added a layer in Copper from the Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP.

Adding different elements to the card by layering different textures such as a strip of the Natural Ribbon, embossed strip of cardstock and using detailed dies to add interest.

Grateful Heart Paper Leaf Wreath Card

When I saw the Maple leaf die from the Autumn Leaf Dies, I just knew I had to create a paper leaf wreath and the background wood panel DSP would work well against the wreath. Yes, there was lots of die-cutting involved but it was so worth it!

Using Basic White Cardstock for the leaves I added a range of different colours to make the leaves and I also used the Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP for some contrast. 

The colours are the following Cajun Craze, Wild Wheat, Crushed Curry, Copper Clay, Pretty Peacock and Pecan Pie. I used a Blending Brush to blend in the colours together and then die-cut out the images to form the wreath. 

The Metallic Copper Ribbon balanced the wreath out and the sentiment layered over the wreath to finish the card off.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Make sure you pop over onto Stampin' Up! Facebook page or Stampin' Up! Instagram page for lots of inspiration using the All About Autumn Suite.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2023-2024 Stampin' Up! Annual or Mini Catalogue send an email to me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher