Happy Bike Ride CI#50

Colour INKspiration is a fortnightly blog initiated by Bronwyn Eastley in Tasmania. The design team is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. Our inspiration colours for Challenge #50 are Blueberry Bushel, Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand, Mango Melody & Coastal Cabana.

I supposed I've mentioned before that I have 5 family birthdays over 28 days - 14th February to 14th March. Crazy, isn't it? 

I definitely like to make special cards for all my grandchildren, especially since I know at least some of them put them in their treasure boxes.

The main issue with this is finding something a little bit special for each one. For Mr. 11, I took inspiration from my friend Tina Gillespie who used the Birthday Cheer stamp and Detailed Birthday Edgelit Dies to make an Easel card recently. The colour palette was totally inspired by our Colour INKspiration challenge colours. Some are in large quantities and others are quite minimal, but notice how Mango Melody really 'lifts' the card?

Bike Ride was my first choice for the card, but Geared Up Garage was the second stamp set I used, along with a dinky little spanner from the Classic Garage Metal Elements. There are spanners and keys to choose from and I've used the key on a number of 18th birthday cards, and also, 'congrats on your new car/getting your liscence' types of cards. 

I had tried to include the 11 on the front of the card but it was just so crowded. I'm sure the recipient knows exactly how old he is anyway, but Gran loves to use her Large Number Framelits.

Please hop on over to see what  Erin has created for you this fortnight. I've had a sneak-peek and I love her card.

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Product List

Bike Ride Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Build A Bike Framelits Dies

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Birthday Cheer Cling Stamp Set

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Detailed Birthday Edgelits Dies

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Birthday Cheer Cling Bundle

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Geared Up Garage Cling Stamp Set

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Geared Up Garage Cling Bundle

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Classic Garage Metal Elements

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Best Route Designer Series Paper

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Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

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Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

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Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

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Mango Melody A4 Cardstock

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Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

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Whisper White A4 Card Stock

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Silver Foil Sheets

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Bone Folder

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Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

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Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

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Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad

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Stampin' Trimmer

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1" Circle Punch

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1-1/4" Circle Punch

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Liquid Multipurpose Glue

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Stampin' Dimensionals

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Sunflowers In The Round

The Stamparatus has opened up a whole lot of possibilities, and I had fun with Bike Ride, a stamp set which has been on my shelf for a couple of years. Once I'd mastered stamping in the round, I went to town with this, using a few different stamp sets. Here is one I made earlier with Bike Ride.and different flowers from that set. For this card, the sunflowers are very cheerful.

Blue and yellow seems a restful colour scheme, and the Tufted textured impressions embossing folder seems to echo that, like a soft, blue blanket.

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Spring Bike Ride

A few days off work gave me time to put together a card for this challenge at The Paper Players, Clean & Simple: sports.

Bike Ride has always been a favourite of mine, but now that I use the Stamparatus, I find it even more fun to put these bicycles together.  There are layered labels behind the bike, a Stitched Shape Oval in white, and the large, lacy one from Stitched Labels, as is the one with the sentiment.

That sentiment, 'Happy birthday, gorgeous' is from Beautiful You.

If you are looking for inspiration, head over to the Paper Players and check out all the cards there.

Stampin' In The Round

The Stamparatus has been the greatest tool introduced to the crafting market since the Big Shot and I say that, depite being the owner of one of the stamp placement tools by "that other company". The size of the Stamparatus is more compact and it stacks very nicely on a handy shelf in my craft room, so I often pull it out to stamp even fairly straight forward projects. Perhaps one of its strongest selling points are the two hinged plates, so multiple stamps can be mounted and in use at the same time. 

I had been hanging to try the Stamparatus "stamping in the round" technique, or you may have also 

heard it referred to as "wreath stamping". It requires you to make a template and then by placing the same-size square of card in it and rotating, you create a wreath. To make it a bit more fun, I've used some flowers from a favourite stamp set of mine, Bike Ride. This involves two-step stamping, which is so much easier with the Stamparatus anyway, but for consistent repeat stamping like this, an absolute essential. The black outline is one stamp, the flowers are another and the leaves are a third stamp.(I have noticed that the leaves aren't perfectly aligned, I'll keep on trying!)

For some additional fun, I've stamped the background with stamps from Stitched All Round and the 'lovely friend' is also part of that stamp set. I'm dying to keep on experimenting and I'll share with you how it goes.

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Stitched With Love CI#40

Colour INKspiration is a fortnightly blog initiated by Bronwyn Eastley in Tasmania. The design team is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project.

I've been experimenting with the Stamparatus and circular templates this week. Oh my goodness, there's a way to get inky, but I have lots of sweet pieces to make into cards now. I've mainly used flowers from different sets, and the one I've decided to share tonight is from Apron Of Love.

This stamp set hasn't seen nearly enough ink, and when I went to my shelf (arranged alphabetically of course, Apron Of Love was right there. Bike Ride has been my other trial stamp set, but those flowers didn't work with the Old Olive and Gorgeous Grape colours for this challenge. I've included the third shade, Early Espresso, in a frame around the art piece.

I'm liking the very small stitched circle from Stitched Labels Framelits, and the delicate stitched heart too.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Nikki Spencer has shared

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