Just Add Ink Colour Challenge #208

So I have confessed that I am not a fan of pink. . . and well here is my second admission. . . I am not a fan of blue!

This week I stumbled across a challenge run by some Aussie Stampin' Up! demonstrators who had issued the challenge to use three Stampin' Up! colours - Smoky Slate (easy-peasy), Calypso Coral (not quite pink so ok) and Pacific Point (hmmm going to have to extend myself).  The folk over at Just Add Ink issued this invitation:

Given that the colours were going to challenge my creativity I thought I might as well throw another spanner in the works. . . to work with the first stamp set I lay my hands on as I walked into my crafting room and to take no more than half an hour. Thank goodness the very first stamp set that I had left on my table from a class yesterday arvo was Pleasant Poppies which is a current set and quite pretty when treated the right way.

My 15 minute creation turned out like this:

Using Pleasant Poppies I stamped directly onto the Smoky Slate background in Staz On Jet Black Ink. I also stamped the same image on a piece of Calypso Coral and fussy cut the flowers out individually.  I stuck them to the stamped image - hey presto then covered them in Dazzling Diamonds and once that had dried Crystal Effects.

The mount below the Smoky Slate is Pacific Point cardstock textured using the Fancy Fan TIEF and mounted on a base card in the gray. I then mounted an additional piece of the blue behind the base card to "frame" the whole card.

The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts stamped in Calypso Coral on Whisper White cardstock and I punched it out with the Large Oval Punch and a backing in the Scallop Oval Punch in Pacific Point. I dimensionalised the sentiment to pop it from the project.

Done and dusted including the post in 28 minutes - that's a new record!

Shanni x