Welcome to Colour INKspriation #154 Colour INKspiration is a challenge group on Facebook that sets a colour challenge every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month using Stampin’ Up! colours. Inspiration pictures are from Pinterest. As a design team member, we make cards and projects to inspire people in the challenge.
The colours for this challenge are: Berry Burst, Poppy Parade, Pool Party and Crumb Cake. There is a standard set of colours you can add to your challenge projects if they are not already part of the challenge colour palette. You may add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, and metallics to your project. We also allow ‘Ivory’ and ‘Bronze’ in the Stampin’ Blends. If you don’t have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU (Stampin’ Up!) substitute.
I am starting on my Christmas projects and one of the things you need is gift tags. This project is a gift tag using the Let’s go Shopping and Shop the Town stamp sets. I assembled and decorated the shop with stamps from both sets. I coloured the images with Blends markers and used Stampin’ Up! watercolour pencils to add fine shading to the image. With watercolour pencils I could get finer shaping in areas smaller than the tip of a blends marker. I used the pencils as pencils rather than the activating the watercolour properties. I used some retired DSP (designer series paper) for the background of the tag.
Used in this project:
Paper: Basic White, Berry Burst, Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Peaceful Poppies DSP (retired)
Ink: Memento, Poppy Parade
Blends: Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Crumb Cake
Watercolour Pencils: assortment 1, assortment 2
Stamps: Let’s go Shopping, Shop the Town
Embossing and die cutting tools: cut and emboss machine, Let’s go Shopping dies
Bundle: Let’s go Shopping
Embellishments: sheer ribbon (retired)
Adhesive: multipurpose liquid glue, dimensionals, mini dimensionals,
All items listed above (except retired or random) are available through my online store. If you live in Australia, just click on the shopping cart in the left hand column of this page or click on the links where I have listed what I have used for this project.
INKspired to join the challenge? It’s so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. 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 Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Basic Black as well as Metallics.
Not a member of the Colour INKspiration 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.
Happy stamping
Cathy
Stampin' Cat - Cathy Pinchbeck 