Week 5 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Blackberry Bliss"

 

Well today we are looking at my favourite colour! Well ok one of my favourites! No ok my favourite! Anything Blackberry Bliss and I am there Girlfriend! I remember as a little girl going blackberry picking along the riverbank, fresh blackberries and ice cream and homemade blackberry jam and all those wonderful childhood memories! Oh I digress. Plus you are going to want to make sure you get the new Mini Coming Soon! Blackberry Bliss DSP to die for!!!! You are going to love it! I can't wait!

Back to the matter at hand our colour today Blackberry Bliss and I have made 2 cards for you both using the Simply Succulents Stamp set and Potted Succulents Dies.

My first card is a 3D Stage Card fancy fold! I had never made one and I know I had to make something special because it was Blackberry Bliss week. Now I had a bit of a dilemma on how to photograph it so I have a few from all different angles so you get the whole idea.

So for the base of my card I have used Blackberry Bliss card stock and paired it with the Pansy Petals DSP as it has  Blackberry Bliss as one of the Colours in that DSP. Well you can see that I haven't used a pattern that has blackberry bliss in it but I know that the paper designs I have used go with Blackberry Bliss because Stampin' Up! have already done all the colour combination matching for me in the DSP. They tell us what colours are in the DSP on the back of the packet and in the catalogues. How cool is that!!

 Ok so once I had chosen my papers and worked on the fold of the card. You can find the directions to make this type of card on YouTube. It was time to decorate. For that front top layer of my card I cut the design with the Ornate Layer dies to make it a little bit more decorative but you could also do it a bit more traditional and use your stitched rectangle dies.

As you can see I have the front, middle and back of stage so I needed to have 3 lots of decorations. I have stamped the succulents in basic gray and then used the Stampin' Blends to colour them in. I tried a few different combinations for this one to vary the colour of the succulents. We are very fond of succulents at our house and I have taken the colour inspiration from the ones we have in our garden.

On the very back of the stage the backdrop is the large die of succulents cut out in blackberry bliss. Now for the colouring of the Succulents. For the tall one sticking up at the back it is a combinations of light So Saffron, light Smokey Slate and Light Soft Sea Foam. The green and yellow tipped one is Dark Daffodil Delight and light Just Jade.  The bright orangey pink one is Light Polished Pink and light and Dark Pale Papaya and a hint of soft sea foam. The hanging down succulent is both light and dark Soft Succulent just to make it easy. The one peeking in from the left here with the pink tips is Light Fresh Freesia and Light Mint Macaron, Now I could not go without having a Blackberry Bliss one and of course that is both light and Dark Blackberry bliss but under the dark, you might be able to see dark old olive. I really played around with the colours to try and get some depth and difference in the succulents.

Oh I almost forgot the pots. I coloured them with Bronze, Ivory, Dark Crumb Cake, and Light Soft Suede. To finish off the pots I have die cut out some extra succulent leaves and plants with the potted succulent dies in crumb cake and soft succulent card. 

The stage doors fold closed nicely so that you can put your card into an envelope to give to a friend who loves plants to let them know that you have been thinking of them. The sentiment is white heat embossed onto Blackberry Bliss card and cut out with one of the dies from the Potted Succulents Die set. It was a fun card to make and I just love sitting and colouring with my stampin' blends and it is a fun thing to do when watching your favourite Aussies Tennis Stars play at Wimbledon.

Now for my second card it is a little less involved but I love it!

I have again used the Simply Succulents stamp set and used the big succulents stamp but this time I have heat embossed it in white emboss powder onto Soft Succulent card.

I have used a Blackberry bliss card base for this card and once I had heat embossed the large succulent stamp in white onto the Soft Succulent card I took out my water painters and painted the succulents in Blackberry Bliss and Soft Succulent ink. I just loved this sentiment today so used it again on this card and heat embossed it in white and cut it out using the dies from the Potted Succulents set and popped it up on dimensionals. The Basic Rhinestone jewels have been coloured with the dark Blackberry Bliss Stampin' Blends to finish off the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my 2 cards today. They were so fun to make. Nothing like a bit of colouring to relax you.

Now if you need more information on how to put these cards together or would like to purchase products to make these cards please do not hesitate to contact me. If you would like the new Mini Catalogue available in August with all that gorgeous Blackberry bliss DSP and lots of wonderful Christmas stamps let me know, you won't be disappointed.

Please head over to the blog of the lovely Ros Davidson I am always excited to see her fantastic creations.

If for any reason there is a broken link just head to the list below and click on the name of the person you wish to go to and you will head straight to their blog.

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern <= You are Here

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Andrea Sargent

Diane Furniss

Tina Gillespie

Theresa Gerrard

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Rosa Leyden

Vicki Boucher

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 4 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Bermuda Bay"

Another wonderful week of colour and this week we are bringing to you one of Stampin' Ups Brights: Bermuda Bay! It is a beautiful bluey green colour and I quite like it but don't seem to use it much and I need to rectify that.

Today I have decided to pull out the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle to make my card with a little help from the Inspired Thoughts stamp set for the sentiment.

I know you were thinking I was going to do a fancy fold. Well I thought the gorgeous Bermuda Bay Butterflies and the new Bark 3D embossing folder were just the ticket for this card.

I stamped the gorgeous big butterfly stamp with just the butterfly that I wanted and used the dies from the bundle to cut out the same butterfly twice and then used the Stampin' Blends to colour the butterflies. I love the Stampin' Blends.

On this butterfly I have used both light and dark Rich Razzleberry, Light and Dark Bermuda Bay and Dark Daffodil Delight before adding what have to be my favourite at the moment the Matte Black Dots.

 With the gorgeous dies from the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle the Brilliant Wings dies, I die cut this magnificent butterfly in Bermuda Bay and did you spot the new In Color Fresh Freesia Shimmer Vellum circle behind it? So sparkly and fun.

I have stamped the sentiment in Smokey Slate from the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set and used the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch to

make the end of the sentiment look just perfect and popped them up on dimensionals along with some white bakers twine and basic rhinestone jewels to finish off the card. You know you can never have enough bling!

If you would like any information about this card or the gorgeous products do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time where we hop on to the next creative team member who is participating in this weeks Colour Creation Blog Hop and I am always excited to see what Ros Davidson has to share, her creations are bold and fun and make me want to come back each week just to see what she has created this week so please head on over to her blog now:

If for any reason there is a break in the blog circle just come back to the list of names and click on the next name in the list and it will take you right to their blog so you can continue on with your hopping around the team.

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern <=You are here

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Kristine D'Auria

Rachel Palmieri

Christine Blain

Rachel Woollard

Diane Furniss

Theresa Gerrard

Caroline Manwaring

Rosa Leyden

Tina Gillespie

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, 

take care,

 

Week 3 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Basic Gray"

 

Week 3 of Colour Creations Blog Hop and I am not doing a fancy fold! I know you are all disappointed. 😂 I decided to look at the Garden wishes and Dandy Wishes Dies so that I really hadn't played anywhere enough with and Basic Gray is the perfect Neutral to play host to my flowers.

So for my card today I have also used the host stamp set Natural Textures which is just great and just adds that extra element to your cards.

To start my card off I decided to use Basic Gray as the card base and to use one of the Natural Textures stamps and stamp down the right hand edge of the card in Basic gray. Then I cut 2 layering pieces of card stock in Smoky Slate and Gray Granite and then tore the edges to give that nice rustic look. So now I have my basket with the stamping and my torn paper in the basket for my flowers to sit in.

On the Gray Granite piece I have used the Dandelion stamp and using Mossy Meadow stamped off a couple of times and then onto the card and then in full strength right in the middle. Before adhering to the card base I have used the Gray Granite Baker's Twine from the Essentials Pack to tie around the layers. 

My Dandelions are cut out of So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz and Basic White. I have no idea why I took so long to get these dies out they are quite fun. Of course every garden needs a few dragonflies so I had to use the dragonflies punch in all the colours and add the elegant faceted gems for some bling. The sentiment is stamped in Basic Gray and I have used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch

As I had a couple of dragonflies just trying to fly away I had to pop them on the inside of my card.

I hope you enjoyed my not fancy fold this week and if you would like anymore information or would like to have a play with these products and make a card yourself please do not hesitate to contact me.

I look forward each week to seeing the amazing creativity of the AWHT members who have created with our challenge colour and Ros Davidson is our next person on the hop so please head over to her blog now.

Our blogs are like a circle and you may have started at any point along the way so just click on the next blog button and it will take you to the next person and you will go all the way around but if for any reason you find a link is broken just come to this list and click on the persons name to go to the next blog.

Michele Taylor 

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern  <=You are here

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Theresa Gerrard

Kristine D'Auria

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Di Furniss

Claire Daly

Christine Blain

Fiona Ryan

Caroline Manwaring

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Rosa Leyden 

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,