Painted Lavender for Colour INKspiration 172

 

Welcome to the 171st challenge at Colour INKspiration. Today's colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Monica Formosa. Isn't it wonderful? 

If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the three easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. 

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Pumpkin Pie for Peach Pie. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

This challenge is open for two weeks and closes Monday September 9, 7pm AEST.

The thing that struck me most about the challenge graphic was that tumble of flowers against the stark wall  behind. That got me thinking about those fabulous die cuts in Painted Lavender, the ones that create stalks of lavender and the one that makes a lovely leafy stem.

I made the die cuts from a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, then coloured them with some Peach Pie re-inker,  Garden Green re-inker and a Water Painter, making sure to have a variations of colour.

After embossing the Basic White card front with the Distressed Tile 3D embossing folder (my favourite!), I added in some splatters in Pebbled Path and Peach Pie ink using the small splatter stamp from Spotlight on Nature. Then I created the bouquet and attached it.

The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse. It's stamped in Pebbled Path and die cut using a stitched banner from Stylish Shapes.

To highlight the sentiment, I added in a banner cut from Peach Pie glimmer paper from the In Color Glimmer Paper pack. The twine is a single strand of the Pebbled Path 2023-25 In Color Jute, which makes a nice contrast with the glimmer paper. 

The finishing touch was the addition of a trio of Peach Pie Shimmer Gems from the In Color Shimmer Gems pack.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with these colours in the Crew Inspiration Album on the Colour INKspiration Challenge Facebook page.

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