Welcome back for another great colour challenge, and with purples it always IS a challenge for me - what about you? Picture credit - picture credit Today’s picture which has inspired our colour palette was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Rose Packer. Our guest designer this week is Rochelle Laird Smith. We love her work in the past and are excited to see what she creates for us with these lovely strong colours. I wanted to play with a set, that's been in my new product pile for a little bit, although when I created the card it was still on the Last Chance list I fear that now it is discontinued. That's such a shame because the design images in the set allow for a lot of options to create your own background. I had a few tries but in the end liked a simple layered approach with tone on tone texture lines over the distinktive background colour swatch- a faux watercolour look. The dies cut a range of ovals, stars and diamonds as well as some tiny flowers which were e...
Sadly it's time to farewell these 5 fresh colours, I have loved all of them. We welcome Yvonne Spikmans - Van Bruggen as our Guest Designer this week. She always has such fresh and fun cards to inspire us all. These are a few simple cards I made using up some of the DSP in these colours and a current Stamp set called a Round of Hello's - which coordinates beautifully with the large Circle Punch. Picture credit - https://www.stampinup.com.au/products/2024-2026-in-color-classic-stampin-pads I love a quick card and these came together easily. A touch of glimmer paper, a dash of wink of stella and various strips of coordinating paper. As an added touch of texture I embossed the panels once the DSP had been adhered to the base- a quick and easy pop of depth. The Round of Hello's is a versatile and easy stamp to use for many different occasions. It coordinates with the 2-3/8" and 2" circle punches. I did also use the stitched circel die from the Stylish Shapes set fo...