Blending fun birthday card

Inspired by  Stampin' Up! In-Color's today's inspiration is a fun bright card showing how colour can be the key ingredient to your cards. Stampin' Up! In-Color's are a set of 5 unique colours that are always bang on trend. The 5 colours are released with every annual catalogue.. but...only around for 2 years ! At this moment in time we have the 2024-2026 In-Color's and the 2025-2027 In-Color's so a total of 10 additional colours to compliment  the core colours Stampin' Up!  have. They can be stand alone but they do work so well together as today's card shows 😉

The 2024-2026 In-Color's are ...

And the 2025-2027 ones are.....

Both sets work so well alone or mixed and matched together! And today's sample uses the colours in a mix and match fashion.

The background is created by masking off sections and blending inks into each space. The colours used are Timid Tiger,  Strawberry Slush and Petunia Pop. 

Once the ink was applied a quick spritz and flick with water was applied to create the splodges.  Top tip dab the panel with clean and dry paper towel immediately so that the colour is lifted away and srips the inks running together.

The focal point of the card is the sentiment. The technique is called eclipse. Once the panel is completely dry carefully arrange the Alphabet a la mode dies to spell out the word you wish to cut out and run it through your cut and emboss machine. Making sure to keep the center of the letters. Now die cut 3 more of each letter in the same colour as your card base.

Next adhere the background panel to your card base. Adhere all 4 layers of each die cut letter together and insert them back into the background. Next carefully adhere the inside parts of the letters back into the panel. The extra layers to each letter gives the piece dimension and a subtle shadow to make them stand out.

The second part of the sentiment is created using the Mini Alphabet dies.

A few white matt dots and this fun colourful card comes together. Have you tried this style of card before? Will you give it a go now?