Welcome back for CI#189. The inspiration pic for this week's challenge is just gorgeous. I love Gum flowers, and my Mum has one of these amazing flowering gums in her back garden. Our guest designer this week is Petra Noeth, we welcome her beautiful project. Do be sure to check out all the inspiration projects on our Facebook Page from the design team.
Our picture credit this week is
https://www.tobiashayashi.com/blog/tag/eucalyptus+macrocarpa
I made a card and matching little gift box.
I am trying (very hard) to embrace Darling Duckling so have used that as the focal flowers for my project this week. They are simply cut from the DSP and then layered up in a bouquet. I have gone around the cut edges with the Darling Duckling Stamp n'Write marker to give some added definition and remove the white which shows from the cut edge. The leaf sprays are also fussy cut from the DSP. I have only a hint of Melon Mambo in the card base and then all the flower centres. The amazing oval from the
Impressions Abloom dies cuts both a solid oval and this very fine detailed border piece which I adhered to a Secret Sky base. The
Damask Designs and the
Forever Plaid embossing folders added the necessary lift to all the layers.
This little box is tiny but so sweet. It is from a youtube instruction for "Mini fold flat rigid box" by Created the Ottoway Mine is closed with a belly band.
The DSP is lovely and it is not too difficult to cut out the flowers.
I love that they are all slightly different and imperfect - quite natural.
The inside has a few paper strips and one more blossom to decorate.
One of the highlights is the Soft Sky foil spirals. These are an old trick I haven't used for a while and are very easy. Cut a narrow strip of foil, grasp one end with your tweezers, wrap the foil tightly around the closed tweezers and then gently pull out the spiral to the desired length. I fix the end with a glue dot underneath one of the flowers .
I tried, but I still haven't fallen in love with it. I promise I will persevere!- but i do love all the other new colours !
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.
I hope you have a creative week and remember,
"don't just post online,
post something pretty!"
cheers, Liz
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