Colour INKspiration Challenge #71

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Tonight is the latest Colour INKspiration challenge #71 and this gorgeous photo is our inspiration. The colours are Highland Heather, Pool Party, Gray Grantie and Pear Pizzazz. Isn’t it just stunning? I just want to step into the photo and be there. You can also add Basic Black, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and metallics. 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 Smoky Slate instead of Gray Grantie).

This challenge runs for almost 2 weeks and will end at 7pm (AEST) on Monday 24^th February 2020. I hope you’ll enter into the Colour INKspiration Challenge, we would love to see your creation.

I’ve used the Parisian Blossoms Suite which is in the Mini 2020 Stampin’ Up! Catalogue, I love this suite because of the two gorgeous bundles – Forever Blossoms Bundle and Parisian Beauty Bundle which means more items to play with.

To create this card, I started with Pool Party Cardstock for the card base, I cut a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and ran the panel through with Parisian Flourish 3D Embossing Folder. After embossing, I roughed up the edges of the cardstock with my Paper Snips and curled the corners with the Bone Folder. I also did this with the piece of Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP which is in Pool Party and I sponged ink around the edges to give it a distressed look. 

I’ve stamped the large flower branch image in Stazon Jet Black, onto Shimmery White Cardstock, using my Aqua Painter, I’ve water coloured the flowers in Highland Heather and leaves in Pear Pizzazz. I’ve also added a few more of the flower and leaf images to my card. 

The dies from the Parisian Beauty Bundle have so much detail to the Eiffel tower and swirl, they have been die cut out in Gray Grantie Cardstock and layered over the pieces of papers. The greeting is stamped in Gray Grantie and layered with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Make sure you visit our Facebook group to enter the competition, we would love to see how you would use this latest colour challenge.


Click here at Colour INKSpiration Facebook group to take part and you upload the photo of your creation and you don’t need a blog to enter either. Share with your crafty friends so they can join in with the challenges too.



Hope to see you there!

Thank you for stopping by today.



Happy Crafting


Vicki Boucher



To purchase any of these products that I’ve used today, you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.


Product List

Ink: Highland Heather, Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party and Jet Black Stazon

Cardstock/Paper: Pool Party, Whisper White, Gray Grantie, Shimmery White and Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP

Stamps: Forever Blossoms stamp set

Dies: Cherry Blossoms and Parisian dies

Embossing Folder: Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder

Other Stampin’ Up! Products: Sponge Dauber, Paper Snips, Bone Folder and Aqua Painter

  

Kylie's International Blog Highlight February 2020

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Today I will be sharing a card that I’ve created for Kylie Bertucci’s International Blog Highlights with the theme “Thank you”. I have so much to be thankful for as it’s my birthday in a couple of days and I have been receiving some amazing cards in the mail from other crafters. It’s the best feeling going to your letter box and to find a handmade card in the mail. I have been busy creating thank you cards and I wanted to share this card with you. 

Myself and other crafters around the world have entered for the month of February and you can vote for my card. The top ten winners will get to be part of an international blog hop later this month, so please vote for my card. You can do this by clicking on the link here  http://bit.ly/KyliesInternationalHighlightsFeb2020VoteForMeHere or at the end of my blog.

The card I have created is an elegant Parisian style card with the Eiffel Tower and coordinating products from the Mini Stampin’ Up! Catalogue. Petal Pink, Champagne and Cherry Cobbler are the colours for the card. The Parisian Blossoms Specialty Designer Series Paper has soft, beautiful patterns with Champagne foil accents on some of the designs.

I’ve added the glossy Petal Pink ¼” Champagne metallic-edge ribbon over the DSP.

There are 6 dies from the Parisian Dies set, I have used the Merci (which means Thank You in French), the Eiffel Tower (how gorgeous is the detail) and a delicate swirl die. They are all in Cherry Cobbler Cardstock with heat embossed in Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder to give the dies some added shine.


Thank you for visiting my blog today.

You can vote for my card by clicking here.


Happy Crafting



Vicki Boucher

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Live in Australia? I would be happy to send you a current Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue and the new 2020 Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue out to you. Just send me a message with your details here.

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Product List

Dies: Parisian Dies

Cardstock/Paper: Petal Pink, Cherry Cobbler and Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP

Ribbon: Petal Pink ¼” Metallic-Edge Ribbon

Tools: Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Versamark Ink