Welcome to the colour INKspiration challenge #109 using Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Cinnamon Cider and Early Espresso...... a challenge indeed.
I have created a masculine card for my Dad for his birthday. It's a fancy fold gift card holder inspired by my friend Sharon Dalton and I'm quite happy with the way it came together.
Although this stampset is no longer available due to production issues with some of the images, I felt this bird was the right size, shape, and degree of detail that watercolouring him might work- directly inspired by the Inspo Pic. Also, my Dad is a nature lover, and he will happily sit in the bush by a waterhole marvelling at the birdlife, so this seemed appropriate.
I took a lot of inspiration directly from the Inspo pic for this one
I used the shimmery white cardstock as it holds water quite well, and I stamped the image in Early Espresso. While the ink was still damp I quickly sprinkled some clear embossing powder over the image and heat set it. Surprisingly, quite a bit of the powder adhered and converted with the heat tool. This meant that painting over it I didn't lose the lines, but the embossing is not so heavy as to take over from the watercolours.
Being a masculine card I thought the cork paper was the perfect backdrop, although I did have some of the woodgrain embossed paper as a back up choice. I tucked the Pool Party fern frond behind the painted image for some layered depth.
It's a pop up card with a cute feature where you insert the gift card,
Here's the mechanism as you open it up.
Thanks to Sharon who shared this video by Buckeye Inklings for the assembly.
I adjusted the measurements so that the
Base card is 14.5 cm x 21 cm scored at 10.5
cork paper layer is 14 x 10cm, inside base layer also 14 x 10
for the box assembly I used the same imperial measurements as on the video:
7.5" x 4.25" Score on the long edge at 1.75" and 3.5"
rotate and score .5", 2.25", 4", 5.75
Strip of card .75" x 5.75"
For our metric cards you might find that you have to trim a narrow strip off the ends of the box flaps so that they stay concealed when the card is closed.
Post birthday : My Dad loved it, and he used the gift card to purchase a new cover for his Kindle which had definitely had its best days. Now he can sit and read by that billabong for many more days.
I hope you give this a go, it does have a wow factor.
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
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Thanks for visiting my blog today,
Liz
I hope you have a creative week and remember,
"don't just post online,
post something pretty!"
cheers, Liz
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