Welcome to the 212th challenge at Colour INKspiration! Today's colours offer up a retro mid-century design graphic and a chance to play with some of the new In-Colors, along with a favourite classic.
This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday 6 July, 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.
If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Petal Pink or Pretty in Pink for Barely Blush. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.
I thought these colours worked charmingly together and I was taken by the circular elements of the graphic. So I got out my circle stencils, created by punching out different sized circles on some scraps of window sheet. Using a blending brush, I created some overlapping circles with Golden Glow, Barely Brush and Crisp Canteloupe.
What next, I wondered? Well, what happened was that the Fern & Flora bundle was on my desk, since it's a current favourite and before I knew it, that fern image had just inked itself up and stamped itself over the circles. 😁
So I die cut a large fern from Lost Lagoon and added that. The sentiment was cut using a die from Textured Notes (recently retired but too good to part with). I popped it up on dimensionals and gave it a Golden Glow shadow.
I added a pair of moths, stamped in Lost Lagoon and coloured with Lost Lagoon and Golden Glow Stampin' Blends. They were die cut, then popped up on dimensionals.
To finish off, I added a trio of Golden Glow dots.
Originally I'd intended to have a Thick Basic White card base - and I still do have - but I decided at the last minute to add a Lost Lagoon mat. Funny how cards sometimes evolve and sometimes there's an actual plan... this one was more an evolution than a plan!
You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with the colours in the Crew Inspiration Album on the Colour INKspiration Challenge Facebook page.
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