Branching Out for Colour INKspiration 195

 

Welcome to the 195th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday September 22, 7pm AEST.

This colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Monica Formosa. 

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 Petra Noeth 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 Gray Granite for Smoky Slate. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

I used these colours to play with a new bundle from the September-December Mini Catalogue, which is now available. Branching Out is an interesting bundle. There's all kinds of branches and cones and berries to let you build your own tree as well as a good mix of sentiments, yet it can also easily be a Christmas set too.

After creating the trees and berries scene, and sponging the corner with some Crushed Curry ink, I cut the label using the stitched edge dies that are part of the set. I cut a larger one in Smoky Slate to layer with. 

I added the birthday sentiment - also from the set - and added three gold Flower Accents as embellishment. The Basic Black card front was embossed with the Joined Together embossing folder. 

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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