Gears & Textures for Colour INKspiration 203

 

Welcome to the 203nd challenge at Colour INKspiration! Thanks for all the gorgeous entries for our first challenge of the year. We have another pretty combination for you this time around, chosen by crew member Monica Formosa.

This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday 23 February, 5pm AEST.

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 Verity Pursglove 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've been having a bit of a love affair with the Gears & Textures bundle so thought I'd give it a run with these less expected colours. 

I started by stamping some lines, cogs, chains and ladders in Smoky Slate and different generations of Balmy Blue as a background. I tore a narrow strip from the bottom and mounted it on a piece of Smoky Slate before attaching it to the Azure Afternoon card base. Then the fun part began.

I created two lightbulbs in Afternoon Azure - I think these are my favourite things in the whole bundle. 😀

Then I cut some cogs in various sizes from Balmy Blue. I dabbed Versamark unevenly over them and silver embossed them to give a semi-distressed-but-still-reasonably-clean look. I cut the same cogs in Azure Afternoon and adhered them behind to create a shadow effect. Then I cut some small cogs and pieces in Balmy Blue and Azure Afternoon to add to the centres of the larger cogs before arranging - along with the light bulbs - on the base. I did rule in the lines to represent the light bulb cords. (Note to self: do this before adding cogs!)

To finish off, I added in some Basic Rhinestones. The sentiment is from Sweet Jar and is cut with a banner die from Stylish Shapes. 

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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