Welcome to the 206th challenge at Colour INKspiration! Thanks for all the gorgeous entries for last challenge. We have another pretty combination for you this time around, chosen by Crew Member Vicki Boucher. The rabbits might have you thinking Easter but of course, you can go in whatever direction the colours take you!
This challenge runs for nearly three weeks and will finish on Monday 15 April, 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 Kisha Cook 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 Granny Apple Green for Shaded Spruce. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.
To be honest, these colours stumped me to begin with. However, this morning a box of goodies from Stampin' Up! arrived, including the Help Me Grow bundle from the last drop of Online Exclusives, which hadn't made it into my cart until recently. A timely arrival, as I gave it an immediate outing for this challenge. 😀
I used Blending Brushes to roughly ink up a couple of scraps of Basic White, one in Pumpkin Pie and one in Shaded Spruce. Then I cut some bunches of tiny flowers and a pair of stems. I added adhesive foam to the back of a couple of sets of the flowers to get some height into the mix.
I cut the pot and saucer from Gray Granite and sponged the edges with ink to help create some shadows. The saucer die cuts a slot for the pot to fit into - very clever thinking by SU! Once the pot and saucer were adhered together, I started creating the plant by overlapping the leave and adding in the bunches of flowers.
To ground the pot, I added a strip of Basic White embossed with the Stone & Vine folder. All of this was attached to a Gray Granite card base.
I was going to add a sentiment with a banner over the pot when I saw that the die set contains a die for a little plant label, like you'd use in a herb garden to name each plant. When I realised that the 'thanks' sentiment fitted into it I decided that would be my sentiment.
The stem of the label die is very thin and delicate. I could have added it to a stouter version of the plant label that's also in the set but I really wanted to keep the delicate look of the stem. So I killed two birds at once by using adhesive foam again. Not only did it give the narrow stem strength it also added the height I wanted to the sentiment.
The finishing touch was a trio of Basic Rhinestones, coloured with a dark Pumpkin Pie blend.
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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