With Stampin’ Up!s new Annual catalogue launching this month the theme for this month’s #simplestamping challenge is “new”. So it could celebrate a new baby or a new home. I don’t have any of that going on right now or know anyone who does. And so I decided to do some #simplestamping with the new In Colours. The new In Colours that arrived with the new catalogue are Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreeen. If you’re not sure what the deal is with Stampin’ Up!s In Colours then you’ll want to check out my post.
The other piece to this month’s #simplestamping challenge is that we can only use stamps, ink and paper. So no Designer Series Paper for this card! With that in mind it took me a little bit to decide what I wanted to do. In the end I decided to use the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set. I thought this would work well because it’s such a large stamp that I’d be able to use all the colours on it. This was a little tricky as it’s all one big stamp, but I didn’t mind a little bit of overlap of the ink colours.
I started with the lightest colours first because I wanted to try and keep as much of the other ink colours off my ink pads as possible. Once I got my ink colours onto the stamp I huffed over the whole stamp to make sure there was still enough moisture. I’m still warming up to Evening Evergreen, but still wanted to make sure all the new In Colours were there. So I added a piece of Evening Evergreen cardstock to frame the butterflies in the rest of the In Colours.
For this card I decided to not add a phrase. I just couldn’t find something that I liked that worked with this theme. But that would be easy enough to do. I would simply stamp the phrase with some Evening Evergreen on a small piece of Basic White cardstock and add it towards the bottom of the card. Stepping this card up would also be pretty easy. Some Wink of Stella on the butterflies would look nice. Or even making the cardstock with the butterflies smaller to make room for a few jewels in the bottom corner.
I hope you like this piece of #simplestamping with the new In Colours. I’m definitely looking forward to using them over the next two years. To check out all the new In Colour options you’ll definitely want to check out my online shop!