Cake Celebrations for Colour INKspiration 180

Happy New Year! Welcome to the 180th challenge at Colour INKspiration. It's the first challenge of 2025 and will run for FIVE weeks until Monday 10 February.

Today's colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member Brenton Golley. 

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 Crumb Cake for Basic Beige. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

As Basic Beige is a colour I've not yet made friends with, this palette was a bit of a struggle to get into. However, once I decided that Beige was basically cake, it got a lot easier!

Out came the Cake Celebrations from the Online Exclusive section and play commenced. 

I cut the two tiers of cake from Basic Beige and stamped in some texture, then added some Chocolate (aka Pecan Pie) icing. A Petunia Pop cake stand stamped and die cut, as were some flowers and a cake topper and all was nearly done. 😀

I cut hexagon die from Nested Essentials and stamped over it with 'celebrate' in Basic Beige ink as a base for the cake. 

To help ground the cake cluster, I added in a strip of Petunia Pop DSP from the 2024-2026 In Color DSP stack.

The embossing folder is Starstruck, one of the Sale-a-bration items that can be earned with a qualifying purchase during January and February. Sale-a-bration details are here.

Since it didn't quite feel right not to have a 'Happy Birthday' somewhere, I added it to the inside.

We'd love to see what you do with the challenge colours. You can join the group in the following link, if you aren't already a member. Don't forget to answer the questions when you ask to join. 

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.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

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