Colour INKspiration challenge featuring Brilliant Butterflies

Hello and Welcome to Colour INKspiration challenges!  

This is a fun colour challenge featuring gorgeous images and Stampin' Up! colours.

I totally love this image!!  The bird is gorgeous and so are the colours!  I actually looked it up to see what it was and where it came from, and here's what I found.

The green-headed tanager is a brightly colored bird found in the Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina. 

As other members of the genus Tangara, it is a small colorful bird

When I was deciding on my project, I thought about using my sweet songbird punch and stamp set, but really, I didn't think it would evoke the gorgeousness of these colours.......soooo out comes an old favourite the Brilliant Butterflies and a really cool fun technique to add colour.  

I used Stampin' Write Markers to colour the Brilliant Butterflies stamp set, spritzed the stamp to give it a little moisture, and then stamped my image onto the cardstock.  THEN, I used the corresponding Brilliant Wings Dies of all the butterflies and cut out a mask/stencil which I used to give extra colour over the top of the butterflies giving them more depth.  Doesn't it look lovely!!  I will be doing a video showing this technique and this card, so keep an eye out for it!!  It will be on my Facebook Page at Handmade by Julia Quinn, and also on my YouTube channel at Handmade by Julia Quinn. 

I have also featured the lovely Quiet Meadow stamp set for the text and splodges adding some more interest to my project.  The lovely lovely greetings come from the fabulous Charming Sentiments Bundle which is full of great dies that outline the greetings perfectly!!  

In case you didn't notice, my card is also a fun z fold which looks so great in these colours!!  

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, Sahara Sand 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.

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