Country Woods for Colour INKspiration 197

 

Welcome to the 197th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday October 20, 7pm AEST.

This colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Vicki Boucher. 

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 Jan McQueen 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 Secret Sea for Night of Navy. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

To me, the colours were rustic in feel, so I looked through the papers in the Country Woods collection because I was certain there was a lovely weathered looking paper using Misty Moonlight. Turned out that I was right - and there was also a woody weathered looking paper using Crumb Cake. From there, a card was born!

I wanted some large foliage so used the Thankful Garden dies to cut some in Crumb Cake and Night of Navy. (If you don't already have the fabulous Thankful Garden bundle, then go check out the Last Chance list.)

Then I decided that I wanted a compact sentiment that would fit into a circle die. So out came Simply Said and the Spotlight on Nature dies. The sentiment is stamped in Night of Navy to match the card base. There is a matte layer of Misty Moonlight. 

Since I had some die cuts left over, and some offcuts of the DSP, I used some of them to decorate the inside of the card. 

To finish off, I added some classic bling with the Rhinestone Jewels.

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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