Welcome to the 185th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday April 21, 7pm AEST.
This sweet colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member. Vicki Boucher. It might get you thinking of Easter, or maybe it will take you in a whole new direction!
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 Gail Ellis 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 Highland Heather for Fresh Freesia. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.
As predictable as it is, green plus some colours make me think florals. Of course, the beautiful floral pre-order sets on my desk might also have swayed my thinking!
The Gallery Blooms bundle is gorgeous, especially this lovely spray. The DSP that is part of the suite has a definite vintage feel to it but once you move to different colours, it can take on a whole new feel.
I've used DSP from the Floral Impressions pack (available May 6) as a starting point for this design.
I stamped the bloom in Basic Gray, then coloured it with Stampin' Blends in Fresh Freesia, Petal Pink and Old Olive before die-cutting it out. I also cut some extra foliage and flowers from the Gallery Blooms dies to build my bouquet.
The card base is Basic Gray. The Basic White card front is embossed with the Damask Designs embossing folder, which is part of the Gallery Blooms suite, available 6 May.
The embellishments are from the Petal Pink and Pretty Peacock foiled 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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Absolutely gorgeous Jan! This is going to become a well loved set I think, and I am loving what you are doing with it! xxx
ReplyDeleteThis stamp set doesn't appeal to me, but I am loving all of the cards you are making with it! It looks great in colour too (as opposed to the vintage/neutrals in the catalogue). That EF is so pretty too.
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