Week 46 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Shaded Spruce"

 

This week we are looking at one of our green colours for week 46 of Colour Creations Showcase. The first thing that came to mind was to make a birthday card for a lovely young man that missed out on his 21st birthday last year and who is studying to be a primary school teacher. We need great young men in to go into teaching and I thought a shirt and bow tie would be perfect for his card!

I have used the Handsomely Suited Stamp set and the Suite & Tie Dies from the Well Suited Suite and they come in a bundle for 10% off so always good to bundle things together. I made an easel card  to show this shirt off and to pretend that the braces are holding up the card HEHE! Lol! 😂 

The lovely striped shirt material can be found in the DSP of the Forever Greenery pack. That gorgeous paper has an array of our greens including the Shaded Spruce so I thought it would be perfect for my shirt for my young friend.

So how did I put this cut shirt together. I started with using the dies to cut out the collar and the sleeves in the DSP. Now the sleeves are the pocket dies from the set of dies. Cute I know right! I have to give credit to Frenchie Stamps for the pocket sleeves idea! And I also cut one of the suspender of braces in the DSP for the shirt to go under the buttons. The main bod of the shirt is a rectangle the size of the front of your card. I put a little bit of Basic White under the top of the collar before adhering it to the op of the card and just flipping up the ends.

The braces I have cut out with the dies in Shaded Spruce and then put though the Cut & Emboss machine with the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder and while I was cutting out the braces I cut out the buttons and I also stamped the bow tie in Shaded Spruce and cut that out with the bow tie die!

I have used the Champagne Foil as the adjustment and clasps of the braces so that gives just a little bit of class to this card. The Happy Birthday sentiment is stamped in Shaded Spruce and I have punched it out using the Story Label punch and then layered that on a Shaded Spruce punch of Label Me Lovely. and I popped them up on dimensionals so that the shirt had a place to lean against for the easel card design.

This was a fun card to make and I am always in the mood for fancy fold card. Now don't forget to head over to Cathy's Blog for more inspiration of Shaded Spruce as she is the host of our weekly Colour Creations Showcase and you will find her wonderful creations and the list of the AWHT who are playing along this week.

If you have any questions about my card this week and want to get your hands on the stamp set and die bundle that is in the Jan-June Mini before it is no longer a bundle and you can only purchase them separately please contact me. We all love a discount!

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 45 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Seaside Spray"

 

This week for our Colour Creations showcase we are looking at the gorgeous colour Seaside Spray. It is a gorgeous blue. I have paired it with one of the new InColors Soft Succulent and you will be able to get your hands on this new colour starting in May.

I had made a card using these colours and a different stamp set in a collage way but I can't show you that yet so I thought I would give it a go with a few different stamp sets and see what it looked like. I don't do a lot of this kind of stamping but it is a fun technique.

So I have used 3 stamp sets for you just for fun. I have used the leaves and flowers of Lovely You. The sentiments and the bird from Free As A Bird and 1 little butterfly from Butterfly Brilliance which is new and an early release from the upcoming annual catalogue.

The background of the card front is created on basic white card using a water painter and I have done that with Seaside spray and Soft Succulent ink. When that dried I used the leaves and the flowers out of the Lovely You stamp set and stamped in  Soft succulent, Garden Green ( I stamped off once in this colour) and with my Stampin' Write Markers I coloured directly onto the flowers in Pumpkin Pie and Pale Papaya with a stem of Soft succulent. 

You may notice a couple of branches at the bottom of the leaves and flowers. I have used my crumb cake Stampin' Write marker to colour just the branch that the birds are sitting on in Free as a Bird and stamped that on. You can't even tell that some line are the birds feet. I then stamped the sentiment in Basic Grey once off before stamping in the Seaside Spray parts on the card. The bird was a little trickier to stamp on as he/she was facing the wrong direction so I got out my stamparatus and my silicon mat and stamped the bird in Basic Grey onto the silicon mat then placed the card down onto the mat to pick up the ink and the image and now I have my bird facing the way I want. I then gave him a bit of colour with some Pumpkin pie and crumb cake.

Now to get the butterfly on to have just one more piece of colour I inked just that top right had butterfly of the set of butterflies in cajun craze and stamped off once before stamping so that it would appear behind the words.

To finish off the card I stamped the sentiment onto some more Basic White card and then punched it out with the Label me Fancy Punch and with my blending bush I coloured the label with Seaside Spray and popped it on the card with dimensionals. You can also see some bling they are the new InColor  Jewels you are going to want to get those in the new catalogue that is for sure. I have also used my Stampin Write Marker in Seaside Spray to colour in the  Gold Metallic Edge ribbon to finish off the card before putting all this on a base of Seaside Spray. It was a fun card to make with some fun techniques.

If you have any questions about today's project or would like to get your hands on the new upcoming Annual Catalogue I will be happy to help so please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please head over to Catherine Proctor's Blog the host of our weekly Colour Creations Showcase to see her always amazing inspiration and the list of the AWHT so you can see their creations for this weeks colour of : Seaside Spray

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 44 - Colour Creations Showcase - " Sahara Sand"

Well I don't know about you but I can't believe we are almost all the way through the colours but the exciting thing is we will be getting 5 new InColors very soon and we will be able to keep going for 5 more weeks.  But for this week we have the neutral colour of:

SAHARA SAND

I was going to say it is quite a sandy colour, well of course it it that is the name of it. I think I am a bit tired and anything can come out of my brain at the moment. So let's just get on with my project.

I have played a lot with blending and colouring in my card this week and used these beautiful blending brushes which I just can't get enough of.

I started my card off with a piece of Basic White and chose the 3 colours with Sahara sand having to be one of them and Garden green and Seaside Spray as the third. I started with the Sahara sand in the middle and blended an area large enough for the bird from Free as a bird to sit in then I added the green and the blue blending then into the Sahara Sand.

I stamped the birds and flowers in Sahara sand and then coloured them in using a variety of the Stampin' Blends and then fussy cut them out and  popped them up on dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Sahara sand and I have used a bit of the residual ink on the blending brush to just take some of the white from the Basic White so that it is not so white against the garden green. I have punched that out with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. Now the twine that I have wrapped around the bottom of the card is a sneak peak from the New Annual Catalogue and it comes from the Baker's Twine Essentials Pack. That is going to be a very sort out essentials pack.

On the inside of the card I stamped the large bird and the friendship greeting and coloured the bird like I did with the birds on the front of the card. To make the Basic White not so white I blended just the edges with the Sahara Sand and the blending brushes.

I added just a little layer of Rococo Rose behind the blended layer just to add a little bit of extra lift and tie it into the flowers.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today and that you will try it. The blending brushes are so much fun and the rest is simple stamping and a bit of fussy cutting.

The very talented Cathy Proctor is our host for Colour Creations Showcase and if you head over to her blog you will find her wonderful creations and the list of the ladies playing along this week from the AWHT and see their wonderful creations for Sahara Sand: Cathy's Blog

If you need anymore information about today's project on how to get your hands on these gorgeous products including the blending brushes and the New Annual Catalogue coming soon. You don't want to miss that! Just contact me and I will be happy to help you out.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care,
 

Week 43 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Terracotta Tile"

 

This week we are taking a slight deviation from our alphabetical order to showcase Terracotta Tile as it is retiring soon so we wanted to make sure you got to see it before it retires one more time.

Week 43 Terracotta Tile

So this week I have made and remade this card. I couldn't quite get it to the way I liked it and I kept editing it until I worked out until it I felt happy with it. I put things on, I took things off, completely changed what I was doing. Have you ever done that with a card? So in the end I made a completely different card than what I had in my head in the first place but that is ok. It is fun to explore different things. In the end I took my daughter for a driving lesson as she has just passed her learners licence and then came back and finished my card.  Maybe the stress of someone only having driven for a couple of hours so far helped clear my head. HEHE!

For some reason I have been drawn to Basic Black as my card base of late so again this week I have again used it to make all the other gorgeous colours pop on the card. I thought I would use the Many Messages stamp set along with the Messages die. Confessions first time I had used this bundle but excited that it is not retiring. I love sentiment stamps. So I thought I would ink up the whole stamp and cut out all the sentiments and have them all ready to go for another card.

I actually started the card with the Basic White card that you see here and used the Ornate Border Die on it and put it up against the Terracotta Tile Card stock and then build my card around that front panel. I wanted to have that gorgeous terracotta come through the striking white. When I managed to get a great bow in the Terracotta Tile scalloped linen ribbon around the layers of the panel it wasn't moving from that spot that was for sure. I popped that panel up on dimensionals on top of the Ornate Garden DSP which has Terracotta Tile as one of its colours.

I have also decorated the inside of the card and I have started making more of my cards opening and standing this way when they are not a fancy fold. I think some people like to call them a hamburger fold. I don't know anyway, isn't it funny how you just all of a sudden just start making things in a certain way!

 So on the inside I used one of the other sentiments that I cut out and had stamped from the Many Messages and Messages Dies and backed it with Terracotta tile card and then the Ornate Garden DSP and have it running down the side of the inside of the card.

Please head over to the lovely Cathy's Blog to see her fantastic creations and the list of the AWHT who inspire me week after week with their creations. Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to try this and need the products please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,