Who loves colour challenges???
You do! We are amazed and humbled that so many lovely crafters choose to join in with our challenges each fortnight (or 3 weeks on those long months!). Join us on Facebook to share your creation. Click here to visit.
Each challenge has a top 5 voted by the design crew and then a winner as voted by the group. The winner is invited to hop as a guest designer with us for a future hop (if they want to).
This challenge – #28 – has a special prize for a first-time entrant. All you have to do is comment that it is your first time entering and you will go into the draw to win registration to our new Stamp In Confidence program. The winner will receive free registration for ‘Module One – Stamping Basics’. If you haven’t visited our new blog, you can find all the details about our new online class modules at https://stampinconfidence.blogspot.com.au/.
The colours for this challenge are stunning with an awesome inspiration photo to get the creativity flowing – do I say this every week???
Three sweet colours – Bermuda Bay, Sweet Sugarplum & Lemon Lime Twist plus a solid neutral – Soft Suede. You can add any other neutral or metallic to your project to complete your colour palette. If you don’t have the exact Stampin’ Up! match, create with the closest you have.
My creation starts with a story…..
I have this amazing crafty friend. She’ll play with any craft medium but sewing is where her passion & skill lies. She makes the most amazing quilted artworks. See some of her work on Instagram (click here).
We lives hours apart so don’t catch up as often as we’d like, but whenever she comes for a visit, she’s straight to my shelf of stamps checking out what’s new and suggesting all kind of crazy stamping combinations. She sees the world in a totally different way to me – it’s wonderful!
She fell in love with the unicorn from the Magical Day stamp set and spent quite some time brainstorming a rainbow farting unicorn!
So, here you are Miss Caity…. this is your rainbow tooting unicorn…
I used the baby wipe technique with the Star of Light swirl to create the ‘rainbow farts’.
Making your own multi-coloured ink pad is a great way to get a variety of colour tones in your stamped image.
And those unicorns – don’t they look happy with themselves!
Did you spy that they are facing different ways? The unicorn at the top is stamped exactly from the stamp set.
The unicorn at the bottom is a mirror image created using the reflection technique.
Simply stamp your image onto Window Sheet (acetate) and then press onto your cardstock. I used Basic Gray Archival Ink.
This will give you an outline, which I then followed using my Soft Suede Stampin’ Write Marker. To get the same effect on your ‘right way’ unicorn, stamp off the unicorn several times, then stamp onto your carstock and trace using the marker. Stamping at full strength will make the colour too dark to effectively trace over.
To cut out the reverse unicorn using the framelit, hold it against a window and line up on the ‘wrong side’. Hold it in place with some washi tape while you run it through the Big Shot. Or you could just fussy cut…… your call!
PS….. I think our windows need a clean!
The unicorn comes up great – you can’t even tell it’s a reflection!
Use your Stampin’ Write Markers to colour the unicorn mane/tail.
I could have gone with any of the birthday (or other) sentiments in my stash, but I thought the ‘cue the confetti’ sentiment from the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set was cute & cheeky for this card!
Thanks for joining me for today’s Colour INKspiration blog hop.
For more great cards with this colour combination, please visit my gorgeous friend Nicole Wilson. I was lucky enough to catch up with Nicole yesterday – always a face I’m happy to see!!!
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kelly kent 
Love this card and those wicked rainbow farts. I’ve been trying mirror image stampingtoo,but didnt use window sheet. Must try it out soon.your post is full of great tips, thanks Kelly.
Just Brilliant! Love the starry swirls in the multi colours! Such a clever idea, and the confetti is the icing on the cake. Totally fun!
So damn cute Kel! Loving the rainbow “farts” You are a face I’m always happy to see too xx
Great ideas and tips for mirror images, thank you for sharing!
HAHAHA! Love this card and the “Rainbow Farts!”
Cute, clever and hilarious all rolled into one. Just like you really!
Fantabulous fun card, Kelly! Love the fun colours and rainbow farts!
What a clever chick! The reverse image technique is awesome Kelly and the baby wipe galaxy is the perfect backdrop…love it!