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CI#118 Season's Blessings sparkle


I love green so you would think I would have jumped to create this challenge, but like all things lately it is taking me longer to get started! So I'm late again but no matter, I did find some INKspiration and created a basket of flowers using the beautiful Season's Blessings stampset and dies. 

I am so sad that this bundle will be retiring at the end of April-  it's so lovely to use and just a little bit different to so many floral sets. 

This is the inspiration pic for this challenge


 So here's my card recipe
  • Watercolour wash with Soft Succulent ink on shimmery white cardstock
  • stamp the leaves in Garden Green and paint over sections with Soft Succulent
  • stamp the flower centres (how cute are they) in garden green
  • stamp the flowers with versamark and clear emboss the let the vanilla flowers show through, then paint them with Wink of Stella
  • cut the basket from silver foil ( retired from the Christmas mini- it's a really dark silver)
  • for the rock garden aspect of the Inspo pic I used some of the cool new embellishments.
  • and of course you have to stamp the inside and the envelope for the complete package

For the month of March you can save 20% on the Mini Stampin' cut & Emboss Machine and selected Stamp and Die Bundles - you can see them all in my online store

The mini Emboss machine is $83 instead of $104 for a very limited time


Season's Blessings stamp set is discounted 20% to $29.60


Seasonal Baskets dies is discounted 50% to only $28.00

So it is cheaper to buy them separately instead of the bundle which is not discounted.

I have another 7 blogposts using this beautiful set and you can see more ideas starting here.

 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, Sahara Sand 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.
I hope you have a creative week and remember, 
"don't just post online,
 post something pretty!"
cheers, Liz

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