Week 18 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Garden Green

 

Welcome to week 18 of our Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at Garden Green.

Today I thought I had better bring you a fancy old as I did not bring you one last week. Well this week I search far and wide for one I had not done yet and I found one that is called Vertical Stretch Fun Fold by a Stampin' Up Demonstrator in the US, Rachel Tessman. She did this fun fold back in 2018.  I thought I would have a go at a version of it myself.

So for today's card I thought I would use the Inspired Thoughts Bundle as I wanted to make a card for my friends who lost their Mum this week. Bruce and Julie are dear friends and although I think we make many cards for women I don't think we make many for men. I wanted to do a card that was a little bit different but also with lots of greenery and trees as Bruce who lost his Mum, loves to garden and walk in the bush so I thought this might be ok.

 

To make this card you cut your card stock in half at 10.5 x 28 cm and then score at 7, 11 18.5 and 21.5 cm. As you can see in this photo the Bloom where you're planted DSP that I have used as it has lovely Garden Green in it, comes out past the end of the folds. This is so you can hide all the messages you would like to have in your card and they can reveal them as they gradually open the card. Very fun as a birthday Card I could see!

This is the very top layer but you build from the bottom up to the top to make sure everything is lined up and you close the top layers down on to the bottom layers to make sure that you are covering up all the lovely surprises in your card with the top DSP before adhering. I have cut out the Tree from the Inspiring Canopy in Cinnamon Cider and then Embossed it with the Bark 3D folder. The leaves have been cut out using the Inspiring canopy dies in Garden Green, Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent.

I have now stretched the card out to 2 layers. As the trees 4 in the die I cut the 4th one off and shortened it to go on the middle layer of the card so that you can't see it when it is shut. The sentiment on both these layers is from the Inspired thoughts stamp set and I have used my Basic Gray Stampin' Write Marker and stamped the first line. I then cut it out and mounted it on Garden Green card and placed on dimensionals on the top layer. I then cleaned my stamp and coloured the rest of the same stamp with the marker to split the sentiment in 2 for the 2 layers of the card.

Now with all 3 layers open I have stamped the sympathy sentiment and a place where you can write as well.

I was trying to find a way to show it to you so I hug it on my card tree with the Evening Evergreen In Color sheer ribbon that I used so that you know that you need to pull the card open. When the card is fully shut it fits into a  regular envelope.

This is a fun design that can be adapted for any occasion.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about today's project or any of your crafting needs!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Garden Green colour journey. Please hit on the next blog button to go to Ros Davidson I love to see her creations each week she always has fun, vibrant card!

If at any time the next button doesn't doesn't work please head to the host of our weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop my dear friend Catherine Proctor: Cathy's Blog.

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

Week 13 - Heart Of Christmas 2021

 

Welcome to week 13 of the Heart of Christmas, today I have for you today a quick design that you can use for almost anything. I have gone back to my Angels of Peace and treated them very simply.

So for this card I have made a hinge card or a flap fold card. I am not quite sure what to call it but it is a fun and quick card to make.

The first thing you need to do is cut a normal card base in Soft Succulent and then after folding in half cut a 2.5 cm or a 1 inch strip of the front edge. You will use this for the hinge mechanism.

On the inside of the card I have a Basic White piece of card that I cut at 10 x 14.5 cm and I have also cut a piece of the Tidings of Christmas DSP the same size. Cut a strip off that is 2.5 cm and flip it over and adhere to the Basic White card.

Before adhering the inside of your card down add your hinge. Fold your Soft Succulent strip in half and then cut from the fold on one side to 2.5 cm so it just sits under the DSP so you have lots of space to write.

On the front of the card you can attached to the hinge a sentiment or I have attached our lovely Angel which I have Gold Heat Embossed. I have popped it up on dimensionals after cutting a backing in soft succulent and gold foil using the Hippo & Friends Dies. I think these dies in this shape remind me of a lovely mirror!

On the inside I have place out little Angel.

I have heat embossed in gold the 2 sentiments and using another shape from the Hippo & Friends Dies and added them to the front and the inside of the card.

This design is quick and you can use many shapes or designs for the sentiment or focal point picture or just use it as sentiment. You do not need to double side it like I have today in this stepped up version.

If you would like any information about my project today or about any of your crafting needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our hop around week 13 of Christmas inspiration so just hit the next blog button and you will head over to  Ros Davidson blog. I love to see what she has for us each week she is so creative.

I have the privilege of hosting this week so if for any reason one of the next blog buttons does not work please come back here and  you will be able to continue your journey in our Heart of Christmas Blog Hop by clicking on the list of the participants below.

Tina Gillespie:  
Catherine Proctor:  
Kate Morgan:  
Michele Taylor: 
Caroline Manwaring:
Claire Daly:  
Christine Blain: 
Theresa Gerrard:  
Sharon Davern:  <=You are here
Ros Davidson:  
Rachel Woollard:  
Andrea Sargent:  
Rosa Leyden:   

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

Week 17 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Flirty Flamingo

Welcome to Week 17 of our 2021-11 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at Flirty Flamingo! Can't you just imagine those flamingos dancing around flirting with all the people passing by saying "Hey Look at me!" Well Flirty flamingo is kind of that colour hey look at how gorgeous I am!

I have a friend who absolutely love flamingos so when I was making my card today I was thinking of her as her mother in law has just been put into palliative care and will soon no longer be with us. So for my card today I wanted lots of gorgeous Flirty Flamingo Flowers as my friend has a gorgeous garden.

So for this card I have taken the Beautifully Penned DSP from the Saleabration Brochure and with my Stampin Blends in Light and Dark Flirty Flamingo and Dark So Saffron, and Dark Soft Sea Foam I coloured the flowers for the background layer of my card with a layer of Flirty flamingo card then on a card base of basic black.

I left some white space at the edges of the petals to give it that almost water coloured look.

For the sentiment panel I cut out one in Basic White and one in the reverse of the flowers in the Beautifully Penned DSP from the Scalloped Contour Dies. There are 2 long sentiment dies and I used my Smokey Slate Stampin' Write Marker and coloured each word and then stamped it down the label cleaning the stamp each time before colouring the next word that I wanted and stamping it.

I have stamped the flower from the Colour & Contour Stamp set in Smokey Slate and then with flirty flamingo ink stamped the water colour look petals on the flowers. The leaves I have used my  Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blend. Now I have also done a double bow of black and white bakers twine and to finish off used some In Colour Evening Evergreen Jewels.

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey into Flirty Flamingo goodness and you will be going to Rosa Leyden next so just hit on the next blog button now and you will head straight there. I always look forward to seeing her creativity

If for some reason you find one of the next blog buttons now working please head to our lovely hosts blog Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of every one participating today in our colour challenge of Flirty Flamingo: Cathy's Blog

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

Week 12 - Heart of Christmas

 

Can you believe it we are already half way through our Heart of Christmas series for this year! That can only mean 1 thing! Yes you guessed it! Christmas is not very far away, dare I say only 96 days away! Ok now erase that from your panic stricken mind and let's have some fun with this week's Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

I decided because we were panic stricken to go with the Peaceful Deer so we could all be nice and calm and peaceful!

So for my card today I have combined a few different elements to create this card and placed it all on a base of Evening Evergreen.

I first Gold heat embossed the deer and punched them out with the Deer Builder Punch. For the 2 outside deer I coloured with my Stampin' Blends. I used the Ivory, Light and Dark Crumb Cake for them. The background paper is from the Sale-A-Bration brochure is the Peaceful Prints and I have embossed that with the Bark 3D embossing folder.

Behind the deer I have cut out some more of the Peaceful Prints DSP with the Hippo & Friends Dies and stamped the trees from the Peaceful Deer stamp set in Soft Succulents and Evening Evergreen and put that through the Bark 3D embossing folder and fussy cut them out before adhering to the label and popping the deer up on dimensionals. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and I have used the die from the Harvest Die set as it has the similar shaped end as the label I have cut our for the deer to be on.

Under the deer I have splashed across the page some gorgeous Evening Evergreen Open Weave Ribbon

If you have any questions about this card or about Sale-A-Bration and how to get your hands on this beautiful Designer Series Paper for free with a $90 purchase please do not hesitate to contact me before the end of September.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey in this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop and we will be heading to the wonderful Kate Morgan, I love seeing what Kate has for us each week, she is so creative, last week she made the most beautiful craft and rose gold Christmas trees. Just hit the next blog button to head there right now!

I have the privilege of hosting this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop so if for any reason one of the links does not work you can come back here and continue your hop with the list of participant below.

Kate Morgan
Michele Taylor
Christine Blain
Rachel Woollard
Claire Daly
Theresa Gerrard
Catherine Proctor
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Caroline Manwaring
Rosa Leyden
Andrea Sargent
Sharon Davern  <=You Are Here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 16 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Early Espresso

 

Welcome to week 15 of the 2021-22 Colour creations blog hop! I can't believe we are in September already let alone into week 15 of this years colour creations blog hop. I must be feeling a bit old this week since my youngest turned 20 on Monday.  So this week we are all about Early Espresso and it is actually one of the Neutral colours I think I use quite a lot. It is not black and not chocolate and fits well with Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla as a base and that is how I use it mostly and I rarely stamp with it as the main colour.

So for today's card I have still used Early Espresso as my base and I have stamped with it, I have even used Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake plus I have used my favourite, Stampin' blends to add just a hint of colour to all these neutrals that I have joined together.

In my latest order from Stampin' Up I received Natures Harvest Bundle in the July-December Mini as I just had to have it as I thought it was so gorgeous and it fits so lovely with the Quiet Meadow Bundle from the Annual catalogue. Ok I got the suite as I loved all the elements and I was going to put the brushed metallic dots on this card but as you can see I didn't in the end, I forgot so it must not have needed it when I  got to that last stage of adding bling.

I have a few elements to this card and I started with the Bark 3D embossing folder in the Early Espresso card then I cut out the sprigs and twigs in Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake from the Harvest Dies. Thought we needed a little bit of glitter so I got the Gold Shimmer Vellum and cut out the elements in those as well and added them to the card. Before I did that I added a little bit of colour to the top of the wheat stalks, well I think they are wheat stalks with my blending brush in So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie.

I wanted to do a double bow again this week. I don't know why it just called to me so I have the Diamond Weave Ribbon and then then a little Linen Ribbon on top. The Sentiment is stamped on Basic White in Early Espresso and the I fussy cut around it but didn't separate it as I wanted it to still be together but be able to see through it at the same time.

The main flowers of this arrangement is stamped in Early Espresso then I took out my Stampin' Blends and went to work. The stalks are in Light and Dark Old Olive and the flowers are in Dark and Light Cinnamon Cider, Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie and Light and Dark So Saffron which is why I added a little bit of those colours to the tops of the wheat stalks. I popped the flowers and the sentiment up on dimensionals.

The card is layered onto Gold Shimmer Vellum to tie it all in to the sprigs of vellum on the front of the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my Early Espresso card today.

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on the Early Espresso journey and today you will be heading to the very lovely Catherine Proctor I love how so amazingly creative she is and how she can find so many ways to use the products, so click on the next blog button to go there now.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work please head to the host of our weekly Colour Creations Blog hops the lovely Cathy Proctor and there you will find the complete list of those who are participating and you can continue your hop! Cathy's Blog

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

Week 11 - Heart of Christmas

 

Welcome to week 11 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

This week you may have come to me from Michele Taylor or you may have started here either way welcome and hope you enjoy today's hop.

I went for something a little different today. I needed to do a quick card as it is my daughter's 20th Birthday today. EEK! No more teenager's in the house! She has requested a very specific cake, I will put it at the end of the post. So quick card it was. I decided 15 quick cards were the go.

 At the beginning of each new catalogue, either the annual catalogue or the mini catalogue I participate in a Designer Series paper and other specialty papers share. Where you can get a 1/4 sample of each of the new papers and some other people get a share in those papers and you all share the cost. So I thought I had better use a bit off my shares up and put these gorgeous papers to some good use.

I started with the Heart Warming Hugs DSP, I kind of used them as my colour block on my card and then had different DSP behind them depending on what I had left from the different paper shares and even a couple from a Sale-a-bration DSP. Once I had cut my Heart Warming Hugs DSP into the 2 sizes for the backdrop of the stamped greeting and I put together a few more DSP backdrops and adhered the colour blocks onto them. Once I had done that I put the whole lot through with the Merry Melody 3D Embossing folder.

I have made 15 card for you today. I made them as a stamp a stack. So in the Heart Warming Hugs DSP the colours are Real Red, Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz so I stamped 2 of the Christmas Greetings from For Unto Us stamp set in the 3 colours.

Once I had stamped them in the 3 colours I got out the Hippo & Friends Dies which has some great frames and I used those to cut out the Christmas Greetings to put on the front of the cards. I am loving these label/frames dies from Hippo & Friends.

Each card either has a ribbon in Shimmer Gold or Evening Evergreen Sheer as it goes really well with the Pear Pizzazz in the DSP or a couple I just use the Matt black Dots.

So you may be wondering which Designer Series papers I used to back my colour blocking of the Heartwarming Hugs. I have used: Harvest Meadow, Peaceful Place Specialty, along with Peaceful Prints. Then I layered behind them as part of my shares that I had Brushed Metallic Cardstock in Bronze, Copper and Gold, along with Red Foil and Black Glitter paper.

I thought this would be a great way to show you how to do multiple cards, how to stamp a stack of greetings and use up some of your Designer series paper! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head over to the next person on our blog hop journey and the lovely Caroline Manwaring is next. I love seeing what Caroline has for us each week. She has stunning, clean cards and she is the Queen of using the subtle embossing folder!

If at any time any of the next blog buttons do not work please head to the host of this week's Tina Gillespie who will have the list of those participating and you can continue you blog hop there. Tina's Blog.

Ok here is the cake! I was asked to make a post apocalyptic ruin with moss and leaves growing.

This is the photos I found to try and replicate.

Here is my attempt! In orange poppy seed as well!

Fun fact I used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing folder for the texture on the walls and I used the Stitched leaves dies for the texture on the leaves. Stampin' Up comes in handy for cake making as well!

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care

Week 15 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Daffodil Delight

 

Welcome to week 15 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop! I have a fast card for you today. I have a bit going on this week. You may ask what you are in lock down you can't be busy! Well I need to go get toilet paper!  Yes that is true, we have only 1 roll in each toilet. So yep need to go get toilet paper and as it is such a scarce resource in lockdown times I need to go and get it. No only joking the shops have restocked now that we have been in lockdown for so long. I also have to organise a monthly get together for my church group but we will be doing that on zoom and I need to do a recording as I am singing a solo and the recordings take quite some time. So for you I have a quick card for Daffodil Delight.

Now I don't know why but the Prized Peony stamp was saying come and colour me. 

I think I have only seen pinks and purples of different shades but I did a bit of research and you can actually get yellow ones as well so I went for it. Mostly pale yellow up to some darker but mostly pale but I went for it anyway. Call it artistic licence!

So for this card I have stamped the peony bloom in smoky slate on Basic White to create a background for the front larger flower. I have popped that on to a piece of Daffodil Delight card that has been embossed with the Bark 3D embossing folder and placed on a base of Thick Basic White card.

I stamped the large Peony in Memento ink and then used my Blender Pen to colour the flower in with Daffodil Delight ink and Mossy Meadow for the leaves.

I cut out the Peony with the Peony Dies and cut out an extra shape in Vellum and attached that to the back of the coloured flower just offsetting it slightly. I then popped them onto the front of the card with dimensionals and got out the Wink of Stella and put lots of gorgeous glitter all over the luscious yellow flowers.

I thought the beautiful Gold shimmer ribbon and the white crinkle ribbon combined was just what this card needed and I tied them together and I liked the look and I managed to tie a pretty good bow so I went with it and attached it with some mini glue dots.

Now the sentiment was so fun to do. I took 3 of the 4 sentiments and with my Smokey Slate Stampin' Write marker I put the ink on just the words that I wanted from each sentiment and stamped them onto Basic White and fussy cut them out with my paper snips. Popped them up on some mini dimensionals and my card was complete with it's own personalised sentiment. 

If you have any questions or would like to purchase the products to make this card please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Now is the time to head to the next blog on our journey and this week you will be heading to Michele Taylor. She is so very creative and I get excited each week to see what she has created. Last week she made a wreath card that was extremely creative so just hit the next blog button to head on over there now.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons do not work head to our weekly host, the very talented and creative  Cathy Proctor's blog as she will have the list of those participating: Cathy's Blog

Now I had better go and do that recording.

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