A Beach Theme for Colour INKspiration 207

 

Welcome to the 207th 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 Cheryll Miller. Soft and pretty. 

This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday 22 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 Rochelle Blok 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 Petal Pink for Bubble Bath. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

Winter is starting to make himself felt today, so I fancied a little bit of tropical in protest! I wanted to be transported to somewhere warm and beachy. I started by randomly blending some Daffodil Delight, Bubble Bath and Pool Party over a piece of Basic White. I then sponged some Coastal Cabana around the outside edge to kind of fence the colours in.

So the next question was - what next?! Well, a collaboration between two sets is what happened next. Shell Collecting meets Rolling Waves. I stamped some shells from Shell Collecting in Pool Party ink over the card front.

What's the beach without some water? So I splashed a little Wink of Stella over the surface like water splashing on skin.

The sentiment is from Rolling Waves and cut using a die from Textured Notes. Then I die cut some palm fronds and sea shells and arranged them under and over the popped up sentiment. 

So there's my little piece of tropicana done and dusted. What will you do with these colours?

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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Shell Collecting for CAS Colours and Sketches 581

 Joanne had a sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches that really intrigued me, so I played along with it this afternoon. 

It turned out to be a little trickier than I'd thought, mainly because the inset image needs to be small enough to not crowd the space but not so small as to be lost. I decided on using Shell Collecting, since I'm trying to hang on to the last vestiges of summer even as the cool mornings and turning leaves are telling a different story! Plus, who doesn't love shells? 

That then brought me to what the larger piece would be. My natural self was shouting for an embossed panel because I'm always going to choose texture over pattern but.... it just wasn't working out for me. So I have broken out the DSP which is something I seldom do in cards. To me the obvious partner for sea shells is the wonderful Country Woods. But which pattern? And should I buy another whole packet of it in case it retires?

Anyway, this is where I came to....

Product details for this one include: Image and sentiment stamped in Early Espresso, Colouring with Petal Pink Stampin' Blends, Sentiment from Sweet Jar, Sentiment label from Textured Notes, Embellishments Rhinestones coloured with Misty Moonlight Stampin' Blend, Wink of Stella on the shell, Stylish Shapes to cut the circular notch, dimensionals for the sentiment and shell, Misty Moonlight card base.

I enjoyed the making of this card so much - and had changed my mind on it so many times - that I made another two to create a small gift set. 

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Shell Collecting for The Paper Players 770

This week Jaydee is our hostess and she's given us this gorgeous sketch to inspire us. I do love a sketch, don't you? Thank you to everyone who played along with our Signs of Winter CAS challenge last week. A great gallery for us to choose from, as usual!

Sometimes when I get a new set, I just see possibilities for it in everything. Shell Collecting has been like that for me this week. I love the scallop shell in the set and thought that would be just right for the four shapes in the sketch. Everything else just followed naturally. 

So I started by stamping the scallop shell four times in Crumb Cake. I coloured it with a mix of Petal Pink and Pretty in Pink Stampin' Blends. After fussy cutting them out, I sponged a little Crumb Cake around the fan edge. 

I chose three of the smaller shells and stamped them in Pool Party on a piece of Basic White as a background. Then I added a vellum overlay and attached it to a Crumb Cake base. Then I arranged hte scallop shells with dimensionals. 

The sentiment is stamped in Crumb Cake and is from Sweet Jar. It's cut with one of the banners from Stylish Shapes. The shadow is in Pool Party and I also added a Linen Thread bow. 

The embellishments are the pink toned Pearlised Faceted Circles. 

How do you see Jaydee's sketch? You can see what the design team have done and link up your own entry at The Paper Players page.

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

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford

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Shell Collecting for FMS 720

I'm really enjoying playing around with the new Shell Collecting stamp set. I saw how it could work with the latest sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

I was aiming for a simple card that would work also as a masculine card. So I went for Balmy Blue, Pool Party and Basic Gray as my colours.  I stamped two shells in Basic Gray and coloured one in Balmy Blue and one in Pool Party before fussy cutting them. 

Because I love beach themed products, I have developed quite a library of items and I also love it when I can mix and match old with new. In this case, I got out one of my all-time favourite embossing folders, Sea Bed.

I added in some splash in Balmy Blue using a stamp from Gears & Textures. The sentiment is from Sweet Jar and is cut with one of the banners from Stylish Shapes (which I've used so much it's now a bit bent and I fear it will actually break from overuse!).

I probably should have consulted the sketch and not worked from memory. If I had, the cluster might be closer to the centre than the top but I like it where it is. 😄😄😄

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Shell Collecting for ASYI 364

 Happy New Year and welcome to the start of a new crafting year at As You See It. I hope you all had a happy holiday season. 

Our first challenge this year is a fill in the blank and with a period of gift giving, and a Stampin' Up! pre-order, there were plenty of things to fill in the blank with! Christmas was so busy, in a good way, that I didn't even get to open some of my preorder items until the New Year, so I'm filling in the blank with the most recent thing I opened from the box.... The Shell Collecting set.

Because the beach is my happy place, I'm a sucker for beach themed sets. And since one of the things I most like about the beach is taking a walk along the shore and seeing what serendipity brings me - most often a new shell -  this set was a must have for me.

This set is a reversible one but I wanted my shells to look clean against the white, so used them without the reversible option. I chose lovely summer colours: Azure Afternoon, Coastal Cabana, Balmy Blue and Pool Party.

I started by stamping the shell to create my own DSP. 

After trimming it down, I layered it onto Coastal Cabana then added some Linen Thread before attaching it to the Azure Afternoon card base. 

Shell Collecting is an image only set, so I used Simply Said for the sentiment, white embossed onto Coastal Cabana and cut using a die from Nested Essentials.  By itself, the sentiment got a bit lost amongst the shells, so I added in a second label shape in Azure Afternoon to create a visually calmer spot for the sentiment to rest against. 

To finish off, I added the Linen Thread bow and a trio of Basic Rhinestone jewels, subtly coloured with a Pool Party Stampin' Blend. So subtle, it barely shows in the photo! Should have used Azure Afternoon instead. 😀

So what's your most recent craft room addition? Why not get it out, make something and share it with us at As You See It?

Visit the As You See It page to link up your entry and to see the rest of the team's inspirations.

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