Colour INKspiration #30

Good Day Crafty Friends

Hope you are having a fantastic day. Welcome to the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop #30. You are visiting Jackie Aitken in Western Australia.  You may have arrived here from the super talented Elizabeth Goss. Be sure to hop all the way through for some amazing inspiration created using this fortnight's colour combination.

When I first saw this combination I was stumped, mainly because I don't use red or orange tones often. I put the challenge sheet away for a week and revisited it when I was feeling creative.

The following day I ended up making eight pocket cards, and decided to decorate one with the challenge colours for this fortnights challenge.

The card base, inserts and belly bands are all super easy components to create. The Envelope Punch Board allows me to whip these up in no time.

To decorate the Front, Pool Party Card has been die cut using the largest circle in the Layering Circle Framelits, and the largest rectangular

The small flower stamp in the Petal Palette stamp set has been inked Cherry Cobbler (stamped off) Pumpkin Pie (stamped off), Island Indigo and Fresh Fig (stamped off)

A strip of Black card was attached to the Belly Band and a smaller strip of Pool Party and Island Indigo. The bird image was inked Archival black and die cut.

To finish the card, I added a Pool Party tab to the card insert, made using the Circle Tab Punch.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by hopping around to see what all of the Colour INKspiration Crew have to show you. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as white, black, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake and Metallics. Not a member of the Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Next up in the Blog Hop is the super talented Denita Wright-Smee.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Beautiful Peacock - SAB

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope your day is going well. I spent a few hours in the craft studio today, working on a new business venture. I am so excited to be able to offer tutorials for my creations. I spend a lot of hours designing and creating unique fancy fold and 3D cards. I love to share my ideas and projects and now have a wonderful opportunity to provide PDF tutorials.

My first Tutorial is NOW AVAILABLE - click the image below to visit the Addinktive Designs Tutorial Shop.

Also, I do have a card to share with you all today. It is so pretty in real life, I almost don't want to part with it lol. The gorgeous stamp set I have used today is called, Beautiful Peacock. It is a Sale-a-bration stamp set - which means its only available until the end of March 2018. Contact your SU Demo to enquire how you can earn this stamp set for free. If you don't have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, contact me if you live in Australia and I will be more than willing to help.

 

You will see a sneak peak of my favourite background stamp poking out from the sides. I CANT STOP USING IT!  For this card I have inked up the Diagonal Background Stamp in Lemon Lime Twist - yummy!! So fresh and vibrant. 

 

The card front has been stamped using the pretty swirly detail stamp. Inked in Lemon Lime Twist, I then added some Tranquil Tide with a sponge dauber to get a ombré effect.

 

The Peacock feathers were inked in the same colours using the same technique.

 

On scrap Whisper White Card Stock, the tail feathers were inked using the same colour but in reverse. Again, using a sponge dauber to get an ombré effect. These were then fussy cut and adhered with mini dimensionals.

 

The Peacock body was inked in Smoky Slate, fussy cut and adhered with mini dimensionals. The Amazing die from the Amazing You Thinlits has been cut in Turquoise Iridescent Card Stock, adhered just underneath the bird with Tombow. To finish the card some bling was added to the birds body feathers.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time, stay crafty