Gallery Blooms for Colour INKspiration 184

Welcome to the 184th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday April 7, 7pm AEST.

This bright and cheerful colour palette was chosen for us by crew member, Alisa Tilsner. I wish my plot plants looked this good!

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. We welcome Sandra Hebel as our Guest Designer for this challenge.

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

To me, these colours spoke of florals. As I'd been fortunate enough to go to On Stage in Brisbane I'd had the chance to pre-order from the forthcoming 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue. Amongst my pre-order items was a bundle called Gallery Blooms. It's part of a gorgeous vintage style suite called Beautiful Gallery. It seemed a shame not give it a try out for this challenge! 😀

I started by stamping the beautiful trio of blossoms onto Basic White in Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the leaves with a mix of Mossy Meadow Blends and Garden Green Watercolour Pencil. Then I blended over the area with Azure Afternoon ink before embossing it with the Damask Designs embossing folder, which is part of the Beautiful Gallery suite.

I stamped a second floral image and coloured the flowers with Poppy Parade and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends then fussy cut the flowers. I popped them up on dimensionals over the stamped image on the embossed card front.

From the die set, I cut out three agapanthus and three small leaves in Garden Green. I partially sponged the agapanthus with Mossy Meadow ink, cut down the small leave stem and tucked them around the three blooms.

The sentiment is from the second stamp set in the Beautiful Gallery suite, Beautiful Motifs. This set is mainly sentiments which will work well with any stamp set. It's stamped in Mossy Meadow, cut using a die from Something Fancy and with a Mossy Meadow shadow.

The embellishments are also part of the suite, Pressed Flower Motifs.

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.

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