Colour INKspiration #19 Blog Hop

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Colour INKspiration #19 Blog Hop. You are visiting Jackie.  If you are following the blog hop, you would have arrived here from the very talented, Denita Wright-Smee. Be sure to follow the hop all the way through, so you don't miss out on all the amazing creations the Design Team have shared.

The colours for this challenge are : Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Basic Grey, Garden Green and Daffodil Delight.

On first glance of the inspiration picture I was inclined to go masculine and geometrical. But as I tend to often do, I decided to not listen to my initial creative thoughts and tried to think how I could use these colours for something tropical. Well, that didn't exactly eventuate either, I wouldn't call it tropical at all, but that was where I was heading with this being the final result.

I decided to make a wall hanging with a matching card as it will be given as a gift. To be honest there is little stamping in my projects - just loads of die cutting. The following items have been used to die cut the flowers and varied leaves : Eclectic Layers Thinlits, Everyday Jar Framelits, May Flowers Thinlit, Botanical Builders Framelits, Christmas Lamppost Thinlits.

 

The Card has a thick Whisper White Card Base. The Christmas Lamppost Thinlits were used to create the wrought iron looking frame. Two of each die were cut in Basic Grey to match the layer with the white heat embossed sentiment. The sentiment is from Colourful Seasons.

 

A layer of Smoky Slate was cut using the Stitched Shapes Framelits - by extending the largest square die to create a rectangle. This was embossed using the Hexagons EF. The flowers have been created using Daffodil Delight and White Card. The leaves with Garden Green and Gold Glitter card. 

 

The Wall Hanging has been created using an A4 piece of Glossy White Card that has been backed with the card that the large DSP packs come packaged in. 

 The sentiment from Colourful Seasons has been heat embossed in gold.  Using card stock in the challenge colours with the variety of  Dies listed above, I made six little clusters. All pieces were adhered (patiently over two days lol) with tombow.

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. 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.

Hope you join us and play along.  Up next in the blog hop is fabulously talented Nikki Spencer and her stunning creation. Enjoy!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit today, until next time, stay crafty

More Swaps Birthday Blooms

Hello Hello

 

Welcome to my blog crafty friends.

 

I made and took a few different designs to swap at the SU April 2017 Perth Convention. I adore the Birthday Blooms stamp set and couldn't resist making a few different cards using the same stamp. To not complicate things too much for my first Onstage swapping experience I also decided to make quite a few of the cards using the Mediterranean Moments stamp set and neutral coloured cardstock.

 

 

Plus I also made 10 of these Poppin Box Cards.

 

Here is a close up of three of the cards I haven't shown on my blog previously and were only designed a few weeks prior to Onstage (the Med Moments cards I designed a few months ago and details for those cards can be found in an earlier post)

 

 

This card has a Whisper White Card base and then a layer of black and a layer of pink pirouette card stock. I have used the Happy Hearts TIEF and the Hello sentiment from Pop of Paradise. I have stamped the Birthday Blooms image using Archival Black Ink onto Shimmery White card and then water coloured using an Aqua Painter with Pink Pirouette, Old Olive and Cucumber Crush inks. I added a leaf die cut in Pink Pirouette using the Botanical Builders Framelits.

 

 

I did a few in Island Indigo and Wisteria Wonder because well not everyone loves pink like I do. The Layering Squares Framelits were used to cut the frame in Wisteria Wonder and the hole in the Whisper White card front. I adhered this with foam strips to a layer of Island Indigo that was attached to a Whisper White card base. The Birthday Blooms flower image was stamped in Archival Black ink and water coloured using an Aqua Painter with Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder and Old Olive inks. The sentiment Best Wishes is from the Bloom & Wishes stamp set and the background splashes in Island Indigo ink are made using the Timeless Textures stamps.

And then I just couldn't stop using this stamp set so made these So Saffron ones with some added stitching from the trusty sewing machine

 

I have used So Saffron, Whisper White and Sahara Sand card stock. The Sahara Sand layer was sewed using white cotton and then embossed using the Hexagons TIEF. I then sewed the doily before adding the Birthday Blooms image which was water coloured and fussy cut. I coloured using So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and Crumb Cake inks. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set and was heat embossed in white powder on black card stock and tucked under the flower image.

 

And these are the swaps I brought home!

 

Omg!!!!! Cards, Card Fronts, Bookmarks, Gift Tags, Magnets, Keychains, Bags of Lollies, Chocolates, Tea Bags, Coffee, Mints, Badge, Affirmation Bottle, Scissor Charms, Tea Light Candles, Easter Eggs & Chapstick!!!! The diversity was astonishing and the talent displayed in all the creations I revived was absolutely amazing! 

Sponging, Stamping & Heat Embossing Backgrounds

As my crafting budget is not a lavish one,  I tend to make a lot of my own backgrounds instead of using DSP. They are unique and can be adapted to any ink colours that blend well. 

I start by sponging 2-3 colours on Shimmery White Cardstock. Then using the same ink colours I stamp randomly with sentiments, objects eg cakes, butterflies, shapes etc. Let dry and then heat emboss another set of stamps.

 

This card I have only used two ink colours for the sponging and stamping. Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight. I have stamped off and also stamped the opposite colours onto the sponged areas - just change it up and make it random. The Gorgeous Grunge, Work of Art and Timeless Texture are great sets for this random pattern look. Then, all I've done, is heat embossed in gold one of the flowers from Flower Shop. Sentiment is heat embossed in gold again on vellum and adhered using tombow and a sponge to ensure the glue doesn't show through the vellum.

 

 

The Just for you sentiment is from Watercolour Words and is heat embossed in gold on vellum and cut out using the Layering Ovals Framelits. This card used Flirty Flamingo, Sweet SugarPlum, Wisteria Wonder inks and stamps from Blooms & Wishes, Paisley and Posies, Gorgeous Grunge and the dies were from Botanical Builder Framelits.

 

  

 

My favourite colour combinations for this technique are Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight with gold embossing. I can show these cards as they have already been posted and received by the birthday girls. There was quite a few of us in January, including myself. It was such a joy to receive cards for days around my birthday, plus we all have such different styles and use different Stampin' Up! products, its great to see the items used that you don't own.  

 

Many colour combo's are possible, just blend on scrap first to ensure your two chosen colours don't make an unwanted brown. Below is another favie combo of mine  for this technique - Tempting Turquoise and Daffodil Delight.

The next one I did something a little different. Instead of stamping in the coordinating inks I sponged the background with, this time I used black archival and white craft inks.

 

Crumb Cake and Tempting Turquoise looks lovely when backed with Crumb cake cardstock and gold heat embossed stamps from Paisley and Posies. 

 

This one I used a stencil to create the background, sponging with Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight to achieve a kind of ombre look. Then the smaller panel was cut down and backed with whisper white before adhering to diagonal striped background.
 

The possibilities are limitless. I have made over 40 of these backgrounds, all different and unique as I am using them for a special group of ladies birthday cards. My upline the amazing Sarah Klass, has a fairly sizeable group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators, and we send each other birthday cards. I wanted mine to be different and to use stamps and inks opposed to just dies and embossing folders.

Hope my cards inspire you to have a go at this cool technique. If you would like to purchase any of the items used to create my cards then CLICK HERE to visit my shop 24/7

Happy Crafting xx