Colour INKspiration #70 Birthdays

Hello Hello

Welcome to the first Colour INKspiration Challenge for 2020. To kick off the New Year and celebrate 3 years of Colour INKspiration Challenges we have a fun Birthday themed Blog Hop! And to spice things up a little more each Design Team member was able to chose three of their favourite colours to use in combination with the Birthday Theme for this Blog Hop.

My gorgeous friend and fellow Colour INKer, Leonie Stuart, chose this colour combination and seeing I loved it so much I decided to use it too - Thanks, Leonie xx

I have a couple of cards to share with you today. To achieve the majority of my chosen colour combination I have used cardstock scraps in Night of Navy and Melon Mambo.

The first card has a background made up of four strips of card stock, two each of Melon Mambo and Night of Navy. The floral bouquet image from the Bloom & Grow Stamp Set has been stamped in Night of Navy ink, fussy cut and adhered under the heat embossed sentiment.

The second card has a diagonally striped panel made from Melon Mambo and Night of Navy card stock. This panel was cut down and adhered to the Tile embossed card front. The image from Free As A Bird has been stamped in Night of Navy ink, fussy cut and then adhered over the striped panel with dimensionals.

I have used the sentiment "celebrate today" which is part of a kit called Kerchief and can be earned FREE with any AUD$90 purchase during Sale-a-bration.

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. This challenge runs for a month giving you up till the 10th of Feb to 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. 

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.

That is all from me today. Be sure to follow the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop all the way through for loads of inspiring ideas and projects using this fortnights Colour Combination. Up next in the Colour INKspiration Challenge #70 Blog Hop is the lovely Elizabeth Gross with her amazing creation.

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

Full Blog Hop Participant List

1. Bronwyn Eastley

2. Patrice Easton

3. Nicole Wilson

4. Narelle Farrugia

5. Lou Kitzelman

6. Jackie Noble

7. Julia Quinn

8. Chloe Evans

9. Denita Wright-Smee

10. Kelly Kent

11. Vicki Boucher 

12. Jan Clothier  

13. Cathy Pinchbeck  

14. Leonie Stuart  

15. Nikki Spencer  

16. Rose Packer  

17. Tanya Bell  

18. Rebecca Scurr  

19. Monique Fielder  

20. Jackie Aitken

21. Elizabeth Gross

22. Rachel Palmieri

Colour INKspiration #63

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration #63. Rococo Rose, Seaside Spray and Gold Foil are this fortnight's challenge colours. How delightful is this trio of colours. I absolutely adore the inspiration picture below but somehow my creation looks nothing like this gorgeous image.

My card today starts with a piece of Rococo Rose In Colour gingham DSP. The next layer is a piece of Shimmery White card stock that has had a water colour wash applied using Seaside Spray ink with an Aqua Painter. Once dry, this piece was then ran through the Big Shot using the Subtle Embossing Folder. 

I decided to incorporate the Rococo Rose and Seaside Spray colours into this creation by stamping images from the Free As A Bird stamp set onto some Gingham In Colour DSP. These images were then fussy cut and added to the card front using a combination of Tombow and mini dimensionals.

The sentiment from Daisy Lane has been stamped and then die cut using the Stitched Shapes Dies. Tucked behind the sentiment is a vellum die cut circle.

I almost completely forgot about the gold foil so at the last minute I added a strip under the sentiment and a few die cut "leaves" to the floral cluster.  To finish the card I added a few 2019 In Colour Faceted Dot embellishments in Seaside Spray.

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 19  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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic's. 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.

That is all from me today. Be sure to follow the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop all the way through for loads of inspiring ideas and projects using this fortnights Colour Combination. Up next in the Colour INKspiration Challenge #63 Blog Hop is Tanya Bell with her amazing creation.

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

Colour INKspiration #60

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #60. We have a gorgeous colour palette to play along with - Petal Pink, Terracotta Tile, Pretty Peacock and Blueberry Bushel. Plus, this challenge runs for three weeks so you have a bit of extra time to create and share with us. 

For today's creation I decided to team this stunning colour combination with one of my favourite stamp sets from the 2019 Annual Catalogue - BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP. 

The floral images were first stamped in Petal Pink with Terracotta Tile sponged in the centre. The foliage was stamped in Blueberry Bushel and Pretty Peacock (stamped off as my ink pad is super juicy!)

The Blueberry Bushel sentiment has been stamped onto a die cut panel created with the Stitched Labels Dies. Diagonal panels of In Colour DSP in Pretty Peacock and Terracotta Tile have been adhered to the Whisper White card base with the card front adhered in the centre of the card with Dimensionals.

That is all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to follow the hop all the way through as there is so many gorgeously amazing creations using this beautiful colour combination.

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 19  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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic's. 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.

Up next in the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop is my beautiful and talented friend Denita Wright-Smee with her gorgeous creation - enjoy xx

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty 

Colour INKspiration Challenge #57

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #57. We have the yummiest colour combination for you to play along with this week - Lovely Lipstick, Daffodil Delight and Granny Apple Green. Such fun and happy colours - they remind me of all the summer fruits that I adore - peaches, apples, berries, melons and pineapple.

I am a huge fan of all three colour individually and knew combining them using floral stamps would be a fairly easy task, so challenged myself to create two cards, one floral and the other clean and simple.

Lets take a closer look at the floral card. Using the stamps from Floral Essence Stamp Set, the images were stamped in all three colours and spritz lightly with water prior to stamping onto Shimmery White Card Stock. The fussy cut images have been adhered to a stitched circle die cut with mini dimensionals.

The Daffodil Delight card front has been embossed with the Tufted Embossing Folder and adhered to a layer of White White before adhering to the Daffodil Delight Card Base. A strip of White Flax Ribbon has been adhered to the card front before attaching the floral cluster. The sentiment from Tropical Chic has been stamped in Smoky Slate, fussy cut and adhered with Tombow and Mini Dimensionals.

The next card pleases my CAS loving soul and was super simple to create. With a Whisper White Card front lightly splattered with Daffodil Delight ink, a few notches were cut top and bottom to secured some linen thread.

The sentiment from Genuine Gems stamp set has been white heat embossed onto Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight and Lovely Lipstick card. Each line of all three sentiments were then cut and reconstructed to form one sentiment in multiple colours.

To finish the card I added some epoxy heart embellishments and attached a linen thread bow. The card front once completed was adhered to a layer of Sahara Sand card before attaching to the Whisper White Card Base.

That is all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to follow the hop all the way through as there is so many gorgeously amazing creations using this beautiful colour combination.

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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

Up next in the Colour INKspiration Blog Hop is my super talented friend Kim Badelt all the way over in Canberra with her super stunning creation. Enjoy x

Colour INKspiration #55

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #55 Blog Hop. We have the most delightful colour combination for you to play along with this fortnight - Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Grapefruit Grove, Rich Razzleberry and Smoky Slate.  You can chose three or more colours for this challenge.

I actually made three cards for this challenge as again, I did not read instructions properly lol. I did manage to pull a card together at the very last minute that incorporates five of the six challenge colours - omitting the grapefruit grove.

Perennial Essence and Daisy Lane stamp sets were used for the creation of this card, with the floral images stamped in Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana and Flirty Flamingo. A whisper white card front has been embossed with the Brick stencil and then the fussy images were adhered in the centre of the embossing with mini dimensionals. The sentiment has been white heat embossed on Smoky Slate cardstock to tie in with the panel of cardstock behind.

The next card has incorporated three of the challenge colours - Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist and Rich Razzleberry. The blue shaded flower is where I went wrong with this card. I was busy colouring away with watercolour pencils and didn't realise until I finished that I had actually used Bermuda Bay opposed to Coastal Cabana!!! This card was created with the Perennial Essence stamp set and coordinating punch. 

The final card has had the images stamped in White Craft Ink first and then once dry, a sponge dauber is used to apply colour to the stamp and the image is restamped directly over the top of the white ink. This produces a lovely subtle version of the original colour, and looks amazing on neutral toned card stock. The images for this card are from the limited edition Everything Is Rosy stamp set, with the happy birthday die cuts created from Coastal Cabana cardstock, layered over whisper white to produce a slight shadow.

 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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

Up next in the hop is super talented and extremely lovely, Elizabeth Gross.

Colour INKspiration #53

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #53 Blog Hop. We have the most delightful colour combination for you to play along with this fortnight - Petal Pink, Mint Macaron, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay and Night of Navy. You can also add in some metallic s in the form of gold or silver. 

I have used four of the five challenge colours for my card - omitting Bermuda Bay.

Starting with some of the Petal Pink DSP from the Floral Romance Specialty DSP Pack. The lace detail in this DSP is so awesome, photo's really do it no justice whatsoever.

My card uses a combination of First Floral and Petal Palette stamp sets, along with the large die cut made with the Stitched labels Framelits.

To finish the card I added a few Artisan Pearls in Mint Macaron to tie in with the heat embossed sentiment on the Mint Macron card stock.

Sorry to keep this post so short and sweet, but as we go live with this Hop I am probably eating dinner with a few of the Colour Inkspiration Design Team in a restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand!!! How exciting is that!!! We are heading to the biannual Stampin' Up! event - Onstage Live. Keep an eye on the Design Team members social media accounts for up to date sharing from our three day event. We get to see and play with all the new goodies that are due to arrive with the release of the new Annual Catalogue. And, fingers crossed, I get to meet the founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, Shelley and her daughter Sara and maybe get a sneaky selfie!!

 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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

Up next in the Blog Hop is the super talented Tanya Bell. 

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

Colour INKspiration #52

Good Day Crafty Friends

Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #52 Blog Hop. If you are following the Hop, you may have arrived here having just visited Rose Packer with her super gorgeous creation. 

The Colour INKspiration Team have the most delightful colour combination for you to play along with this fortnight - Early Espresso, Whisper White, Granny Apple Green & Soft Sea Foam.

Writing this post as I look at this plate of delightful goodies has made me realise how hungry I am. I could demolish quite a sizable portion of that plate!! 

Now before I share, I must confess this is the second version of this card - the first got ruined when I dropped the opened Early Espresso ink pad onto the corner of the original project. It got thrown in the bin and thanks to the ever patient, Rose Packer, I was able to whip up a replacement in time to join the hop.

My card starts with a tent fold Whisper White card base. To this I have added a piece of Soft Sea Foam that has been embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder and then cut down slightly before mounting to the base with fun foam.

The card front has had white embossing paste applied through the brick wall stencil and left to dry before adhering a rectangle, stitched frame - created by using two stitched framelits, one inside the other. I ripped the corners because that is what I tried to do to rectify the "ruined project" and quite liked the look of it, so replicated it here.

A piece of Early Espresso card has been die cut with the branch thinlit from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits. To this Granny Apple leaves were fussy cut and adhered with Tombow. A few Soft Sea Foam flowers created using the Lovely Flowers Edgelit Dies have been added with Pearl embellishments placed in the centre.

Here is my card featured with one of my Hand Made Cold Process Soaps. The recipient loves Sandalwood so she gets this delicious smelling creation to accompany her handmade card.

I am lucky last in this fortnights Colour INKspiration Blog Hop. 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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

If you have missed any of the creative and inspirational idea's shared in today's hop, be sure to head back to the beginning and start with Lou Kitzelman by clicking on the next button below.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. The Design Team members appreciate the time you have invested to visit our blogs to view our creations. Feel free to share some love and leave us a comment.

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

Colour INKspiration #50

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Colour INKspiration Challenge #50 Blog Hop. I am so excited as this is the first Colour INKspiration challenge for me in a few months and there are loads of new and awesome changes since I last hopped. New Design Team members - yipeeee! The more talented faces the merrier I say! And thanks to our very amazing DT crew member Rose, we have a new look with a gorgeous colourful banner and new watermarks. Thanks, Rose!!

This fortnight we have an absolutely gorgeous inspiration picture and colour combination for you to play along with - Blueberry Bushel, Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Sahara Sand and Mango Melody. 

When I first glanced at these colours I was a little stumped as to what stamp set I should use as so many in my collection are floral and none were speaking to me when I browsed the shelves for some inspiration. I decided to revert to card stock which I often do when playing along with colour challenges. Panels of Blueberry Bushel, Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand and Mango Melody card stock have been adhered to a whisper white card front which was then adhered to a tent fold Thick Whisper White card base.

Once I had the card front sorted, I decided I would ink up a florally type stamp set after all! Today's card features the stunning Needle & Thread Stamp Set and coordinating framelit dies. I just adore the realistic embroidery images this stamp set produces and couldn't wait to get it inky again for this challenge.

The Needlepoint Elements Framelit Dies has a gorgeous embossing die, which I have used over the four coloured panels for an added bit of interest before adhering the clustered stamped elements.

The images from the Needle & Thread Stamp Set have been stamped in Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel, and Mango Melody inks and adhered to the card front with mini dimensionals and foam strips. I personally think a slight variation in height of the stamped images provides added interest to this fairly clean and simple design. 

To finish the card a few Coastal Cabana Glitter Enamel Dots have been added plus a little Silver/Whisper White Bakers Twine bow just below the white heat embossed "Thank You".  Nothing too bold or distracting, just something to draw the eye to the embossed detail on the card front and the sentiment.

That is all from me today and I am the lucky last hopper in today's Blog Hop. 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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallic s. 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.

If you have missed any of the creative and inspirational idea's shared in today's hop, be sure to head back to the beginning and start with Rebecca Scurr by clicking on the next button below.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

You can find all the products used to create the card shared in today's post in the product list below. If you live in Australia, you can click on the images to be taken directly to my online store. Happy Shopping x

Product List

Needle & Thread Photopolymer Stamp Set [148724] $37.00	Needlepoint Elements Framelits Dies [148541] $52.00
Big Shot [143263] $159.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $8.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $15.75
Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] $13.50
Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay [131286] $14.75	Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock [121695] $14.75
Mango Melody A4 Cardstock [147013] $14.75	Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock [146991] $14.75
Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097] $13.00	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $13.00
Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad [147138] $13.00	Glitter Enamel Dots [146934] $12.25
Silver Baker’S Twine [145569] $7.00