Just Add Ink #729 | Colour Challenge

 Hello stamping friends. Happy Friday! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I'm here today with the Just Add Ink Design Team for the new Just Add Ink Challenge - Just Add Ink #729 | Colour Challenge.This week our colour challenge has been chosen by Kim.

This week we have a bright and colourful colour challenge for you. We have Petunia Pop, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, and Azure Afternoon. In all the Stampin' Up! colours I don't think we could get much brighter. Even though these aren't your usual Christmas colours I still created a Christmas card for you this week.

I've used the Decorative Trees Bundle to create this bright and fun Christmas card. I used a technique to create the watercolour background that I've not used before. It was fun to try something new (new for me). The technique was called Plastic Bag Watercolouring. It was messy but it was fun. And super easy to achieve a watercolour background.

For this technique wet down your Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper with water in a water painter, press your ink pad onto a Zip lock bag, place your hand in the bag and flip it over and 'smoosh' the colour onto your wet watercolour paper. Move the bag around and the colour until you have achieved the desired 'watercolour' look.

 

I've used Basic White as the base layer for the card as this provides a beautiful contrast to the brightness of our challenge colours. I've then layered some Granny Apple Green and Basic White for the next layer and created my own embossed background by using the paper scoring blade on my Paper Trimmer. Over that I've then splattered the Granny Apple Green Stampin' Write marker for some more colour without adding too much colour. Less is more, right?

Over the water colour trees I've layered some retired silver glimmer paper for more of a fun festive look. Silver felt like a better choice with these colours than gold and this glimmer paper was all I had in Silver. How fun are the sparkles from the glimmer paper? Love it!

I've really kept this card very CAS as I wanted the colours to be the main focus of the card. I haven't even used embellishments or ribbon & twine. Who is this person? Ha! It's very rare that I don't have embellishments and ribbon & trim on my cards.

I do hope that I've inspired you with the colours for our colour challenge. Go and check out the design teams take on this week's colour challenge at the Just Add Ink Blog and then come and join us for this week's colour fun. 

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