Of Course it would be GREEN CI#200

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Welcome to a very special challenge We are celebrating our 200th challenge at Colour INKspiration! I told you it was special. We still have many original Crew who started with our first challenge on January 11th, 2017. This amazing group was organised by the super creative Bronwyn Eastley. Past and present Crew members are amongst some of the nicest and most talented people I have ever met. And we even have some of our past Crew joining in with us to celebrate so watch out for their projects in the Album and in posts. We hope that you enjoy following and joining in with us as much as we love designing for you. Here's to another 200 challenges!

We welcome Catherine Proctor as our Guest Designer.

This challenge is a little different. We are asking you to showcase your favourite Stampin' Up! colour. It can be current or retired. It will be tricky to choose just one but we know you can do it!

As well your chosen colour for #CI200, you may also add Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Basic Black and metallics to your project. We also allow ‘Ivory’, ‘Bronze’ and ‘Natural Tones’ in the Stampin’ Blends.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew’s Project in the CI#200 Album in our Facebook group 

Challenge guidelines:

· Create a NEW project made specifically for this challenge.

· Use only your 1 favourite Stampin' Up! colour along with allowable neutrals.

· Upload only ONE picture per entry straight to the discussion wall and NOT in an album.

CI#200 will run for almost TWO weeks and will end at 7 pm (AEDT) on Monday December 8th.

We hope you can participate this round and look forward to seeing a variety of projects showcasing your favourite colours. Happy stamping!

 

Soooo, my one colour HAD to be a green, but that turned out to be REALLY difficult because I love using all the greens.  I also love a lot of white space.  Eventually I chose to use Shaded Spruce because it's on high rotation on my craft table at the moment because it's a fabulous Christmas green.

I've used Ornamental Christmas stamp set, and just the star from the coordinating bundle.  This is my FIRST Christmas TREE card this year!  

My feature tree was stamped onto White Velvet, fussy cut and then coloured using Shimmery White embossing paste to give it sparkle!!  I embellished the tree with the silver foil star and some of the stunning Faceted Snowflakes.

My card base is one of the lovely Embossed Textures Mix & Match crds and envelopes folded into a fun z fold because this is quite a simple card of repeat stamping to create the foresty feel!

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 Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige 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.

Shaded Spruce Christmas trees

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.