How beautiful are the stunning new Dainty Delight Dies? - available in the Mini catalogue and coordinating with the Dainty Delight Stampset and the free paper available with purchase as part of Sale a Bration. I was inspired by Jan Clothier in the Colour INKspiration of #135 and knew I had to add the dies to my collection. I have loved playing with them.. There is a beautiful leaf spray and some delightful tiny flowers as well as outline dies for some of the floral sprays in the stamp set. I love the dandelion shape, it looks great no matter what paper you cut it from?
to start the new Year we have a fabulous colour palette. This challenge will run for 4 weeks so share your creation with us using these colours.
picture credit https://www.digsdigs.com/crazy-pastel.../pictures/161647/
The DSP is just beautiful and I will have some samples to share using the paper over the coming days. It's gorgeous.
Do you begin the New Year with new resolutions?
The beginning of the year is a time for me to reflect on what needs to change to improve my life, and in my crafting world one of the hardest things is feeling guilty because I have been holding on to too many retired products.
But just because they have retired doesn't mean they aren't still beautiful, so my new approach is to use new product with retired product and enjoy the new life and new opportunities that come with enhancing what I already have. It's a good opportunity to practice gratitude and mindfulness with my craft.
I have lots of beautiful products I've been lucky enough to own, and while adding a new product brings lots of joy, upcycling and combining breathes a whole new life into my crafting, and is truly satisfying.
It's my reuse, and upcylce campaign for 2023, so I make no apologies for using a mixture of products - I'm sure that's what you do too. ( you might notice there was no mention of 'reduce' in my campaign - although I do hope to reduce the amount of consumables I have been hoarding, ie paper and ribbon and bling!) I know I can do this!
In this card the large happy die is from a retired Christmas set, and the pink glimmer paper was recently on the clearance rack, but everything else is current.
I coloured some shimmer paper with my aquapainters and ink to get some different depths of colour before cutting them out with the dies.
This card is for a special friend for a significant birthday, but we don't need to put numbers on there- the sparkle is the key!
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
Such a delightful card Liz ... pun intended :)
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