Fern & Flora for Colour INKspiration 213

 

Welcome to the 213th challenge at Colour INKspiration! Today's colours are a strong and moody combination, chosen by Crew Member Sharon Dalton.  

This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday 20 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. We welcome Kerstin Stempelmessi 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 Night of Navy for Secret Sea. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

To begin with, these colours had me a bit stumped and there were a couple of false starts. But that is one of the joys of joining in challenges - you get pushed to try new things. 

Regular readers will know that I've been having quite a love affair with the Fern & Flora bundle. The fern die cuts are wonderful but the negatives are also pretty. So I decided to use them as a stencil. The largest fern I stencilled with Timid Tiger and the medium sized fern I stencilled with Strawberry Slush. I really like the way that there are tonal variations in the ferns from the way they were stencilled. Blending brushes make the ink blending very easy.

I trimmed the panel down and matted it onto a piece of Strawberry Slush then adhered it to a Secret Sea card base. 

I experimented a bit with the sentiment, originally having a narrow horizontal of Secret Sea and then trying some linen thread. In the end, I decided to leave it just like this: a sentiment from Rolling Waves cut with a die from Nested Essentials with a shadow of Secret Sea. 

The sentiment is popped up on dimensionals. The finishing touch is a trio of Flat Pearls in Timid Tiger. 

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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Summer Happiness for Paper Players 793

Last week, we had such wonderful entries for Joanne's sketch challenge - thank you everyone! This week, Ann is our hostess and she has a theme challenge for us.

Summer Love is asking for any kind of romantic occasion card. I'll confess that my card is very summery and less romantic because I love summer and the beach. Somehow, the beach and summer seems closely linked to a spot of romance - or at least, it did when I was young! So I broke out the new Summer Happiness bundle, new from Online Exclusives.

I started by adding a wave die from Rolling Waves to start the beach feeling. Then I had a bit of fun choosing which of the summer images from Summer Happiness to stamp and die cut. I settled on a pair of flowers and a camera, cut from Basic White and coloured with Stampin' Blends: Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo and Pool Party. The sunglasses were stamped onto Pool Party and the jandals onto Flirty Flamingo. The glasses and camera are popped up on dimensionals.

I finished off with a trio of Strawberry Slush flat pearls.

The team and I would love to see what you do with Ann's theme. You can see what the rest of the team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players.

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Christy Stanford

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Garden Gatherings for As You See It 376

Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It. It's our Fill in the Blank challenge and we're asking you to tell us about your favourite Embossing Folder.  

This is a tricky thing for me because I love embossing folders. I use them all the time. I choose to use them over patterned paper almost always. So asking me for my favourite embossing folder is a bit like asking me which is my favourite child... I love them all! Over the years, my favourites have been the Subtle folder, Exposed Brick and Softly Falling. 

Of current folders, my favourite changes pretty much daily. The new Floral Spray is awesome but the one I keep coming back to is Lazy Daisy, so that's what I've used today. 

To add a bit of interest, I embossed a piece of Basic White, then tore one edge of it before attaching it to the card front. 

I've used my latest acquisition, Garden Gatherings for the flowers. I cut two vases from scraps of Beautiful Ordinary Life  DSP. The squat one, I ran through the Lazy Daisy folder to give it some patterning.

The flower stems were stamped in Pretty Peacock. The flowers were stamped in Flirty Flamingo, daubed with touches of Melon Mambo. The front vase and flowers are popped up on dimensionals. 

The sentiment is from the same set and is cut using a banner die from Stylish Shapes. I finished off with a trio of dots from Array of Dots.

The team and I would love to see what you do with your favourite embossing folder for this challenge. 

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done, and link up your entry, on the As You See It page. The team and I are all keen to see how you see it!

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Fern & Flora for CAS Colours & Sketches 588

I thought I'd play along with the colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. 

I was aiming to stay very clean and very simple with this card. So I stamped a simple floral spray, from Fern & Flora, in Blackberry Bliss and coloured it with Garden Green and Gorgeous Grape coloured pencils. Then I added in the sentiment in Blackberry Bliss.

Then I used my paper trimmer to score a rectangle by scoring a line 1cm in all around.

The final touch was to add a trio of Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.