Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 5 - 2023-2024 - Wild Wheat

 

Welcome to week 5 of the 2023 -24 Colour Creations Blog Hop and Week 5 of the new 2023-25 InColors. This week we are looking at Wild Wheat. 

This week I have created with the Textured Floral Bundle, I have placed all the gorgeous flowers on a base of our spotlight colour with a layer of Fresh as a Daisy DSP embossed in the Timeworn Type #d Embossing Folder.

I just love the rustic look the Timeworn Type Embossing Folder gives to the Back of one of the Fresh of A Daisy DSP pieces.

Then I went all out stamping the 3 flowers from the Textured floral stamp set in Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve for the top layer and then Moody Mauve for the middle layer and finally my favourite colour Blackberry Bliss and layered the three together.

I also stamped a Lemon Lolly flower along with some Mossy Meadow leaves before using the Textured Floral Dies to cut them out along with some Wild Wheat leaves and Mossy Meadow Leaves and finishing with a double bow of linen thread.

But as you can imagine my card does not finish quite there. Let's open it and see what happens!

I know you guessed it! I have created a fancy fold on the inside of my card. It is a Triple Panel Pop Up Card! 

The mechanism for the pop up is a box right at the fold of the card. You can also see that I have used some of the InColor DSP to line the inside of my card.

On this angle you can see how the 3 layers work together on the inside of the box inside the card. 2 on the Left and the middle card on the right. I also stamped the sentiment by masking, then inking, taking off the mask before stamping the words so I could place them just where I wanted as the sentiment stamp was too long for the space I had allowed. You can also see that I have embossed 2 of the panels with the Timeworn Type embossing folder and added Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve and Mossy Meadow stamped leaves and flowers to the inside of the card.

Never fear we needed a place to write on the card so the back needed a little decoration and a place to for you to write is all set.

Here is how the card works, I have done a little video: 

If you have any questions on how to create this card yourself please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our amazing journey of Wild Wheat and our last new InColor for 2023, this week you will be heading to the amazing Tina Gillespie, I love her work she is so creative and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just click the next blog button and you will head straight there.

If at any time the next blog buttons have a technical issue just head back here and you can go over to our amazing host Cathy Proctor's blog, there she will have the list of all those participating this week in Wild Wheat and you will be able to continue your journey there. Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 4 - 2023-2024 - Pebbled Path - Flower card and Gift Box

 

Welcome to week 4 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop, this week we are looking the 4th new In Color and it is Pebbled Path. It is a fantastic Neutral and I have used it as a base for all the other lovely colours to go from.

So for you today I have made a card full of flowers and a lovely box for it to go in as you just can't give this Birthday card in anything but a gift box.

I have fallen in love with making flowers and then Stampin' Up! came out with the Paper Florist Dies and I just had to get them.

So for my card and box I have used many of the dies from the Paper Florist Dies as you can see but it is so much fun. Then I had the Seasonal Branches Bundle so I added a couple of branches from the dies. Then of course as I was in the die mode so I used the Wanted to say dies to put the Happy Birthday on my card. Ok just because, well not just because I started with it actually the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder.

So you might be asking what are all these gorgeous colours that I have made this card in. Well the card base and the Exposed brick layer is in our Colour of the week Pebbled Path. Plus you might be able to see some beautiful Pebble Path ribbon hiding behind the large Bubble Bath flower. The flower at the top is the new Lemon Lolly and isn't that a gorgeous yellow! The bottom flower as well as the Happy Birthday is in Moody Mauve with a Wild Wheat centre. I have added some Berry Burst flowers at the end of Mossy Meadow stems and Old Olive leaves just lifts everything. Oh Don't forget the branches they are in crumb cake.

I realised that my whole project had not one bit of stamping so I took out the Seasonal Branches stamp set and used the 2 stamps to make my inside greeting! I have stamped the greeting with Pebbled Path ink.

Well a card like we have made needed a gift box and I have a made a belly band to go around it.

I have used the same flowers again for the belly band and attached them to a small strip of Pebbled Path card.

Once the box was made and I had added a layer of card that had been embossed with the Exposed brick I added the Pebbled Path ribbon and tied it with bow at the top of the box. I then added some Tear 'N' Tape on the  ribbon to add the little flower band to the ribbon.

Now this box is fantastic so how did I manage to work out how big I needed it! Well I made the card and put the flowers on to the card all decorated up. Then I measured how tall the flower was. It was just under 4 cm tall so I made a 4 cm tall box. So I got a piece of copy paper and scored 1 side at 4 cm and 1 end at 4cm. Then I placed the card flat on to the copy paper against the score edge. I then marked where the card finished and then scored both those 2 remaining ends. Those 2 remaining ends I cut from the score line 4 cm away. Now I had the size of the card stock base I needed to cut and then you can score at 4 cm all round. Snip up to the score lines on 2 corners on both ends and adhere together. Now for the top to fit perfectly you just have to add 2 mm or 1/16th to the long side and the short side of your measurements for the base and then score at 4 cm all round and you will have the top of your box fit perfectly.

I hope you have enjoyed this fun Pebbled Path creation and if you have any questions please let me know

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Pebbled path and this week we are going to the amazing Di Furniss, I can't wait to see her gorgeous projects. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime there is a break and something has gone wrong with the next blog button just head back here and you can go to our lovely hosts blog Cathy Proctor and there she will have the list of all those participating in this weeks Pebbled Path challenge: Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 3 - 2023-2024 - Moody Mauve

 

Welcome to Week 3 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the gorgeous InColor Moody Mauve! 

Now I quite like the colour but I am not so sure it is a favourite of others. So I thought I would go all out and just throw lots of it on my card to help you fall in love of it. Plus make a fancy fold just because!

So for my card I have used the Something Fancy stamp set and also the Something Fancy Dies to cut out the sentiments! I have also used the Peta Park builder punch for my flowers.

In the first photo you may notice that the flowers didn't have the iridescent pearls. I think it just needed a little bit of bling! Now you may be saying this doesn't look like a fancy fold card Sharon! Well no that is because it is an Internal Shadow Box Card!

So on the inside of the card base I have created  a pop up shadow box and behind the basic white card I have added some InColor Moody Mauve Heart DSP.

Then I had to decorate the base that was created so I took the Moody Mauve piece of DSP from Fresh As A Daisy and added that to the inside and the front cover then I got happy punching flower with the Petal Park Builder Punch. The Sentiment in the middle is stamped in Moody Mauve and cut out with the Something Fancy dies and just adhered on the right hand side so that it can move freely

All these gorgeous flowers in the middle of the card are glued together with the multipurpose glue and on the front I have layered them with dimensionals. I also used my bone fold to bend the flower a little. The colours I have used is Moody Mauve, Bubble Bath, Basic White and Mossy Meadow Leaves.

I didn't forget the back of the card. It is a panel to write your message on and I also decorated it with some of the flowers.

I almost forgot I used some of the gorgeous InColor Moody Mauve Ribbon under the Thank You on the Front of the card!

If you have any questions about my card today do not hesitate to contact me and if you would like to get your hands on the new Annual Catalogue just ask me how.

Now is the time to head to the next creative person on our Moody Mauve journey and this week we are heading to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what she has in store for us this week, I love seeing what she has for us so just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog buttons have a problem on your journey just come back here and got to our host Cathy Proctor's Blog and you will find the list of all those participating this week in Moody Mauve and you will be able to continue your journey there. Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2023-2024 - Week 2 - Copper Clay - Wedding Card

Welcome to week 2 of the 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the new 2023-25 InColor Copper Clay.

 I need a wedding card this week as we have a wedding to go to on Friday and I thought that Copper Clay paired with Gold Foil and Mossy Meadow would be the perfect match in colouring! The Bride and Groom especially the groom was not into a lot of flowery so I thought the Artistic Dies in Gold foil would be just the ticket for this card! Especially for an autumn wedding!

Now the colours and themes of the Wedding was Mossy Meadow and the leaves so I thought I hit the mark with those 2 elements for the card and the Copper Clay when you water wash it on the Basic White comes out a little pink tones!

So  I have used Copper Clay with the wide Water Painter and very watery and then added some mossy meadow as over it.

Then I thought  I would have some fun and get out the Gold gilded leafing.

I know this looks a little odd but under all this Gilded Leafing I have a little bit of liquid glue.

It turns out like this when it is dry and you rub off all the extra gold. Not a bad background!

I have layered the made background on some gold foil and then put it on the Copper Clay card base before layering over with gold the gold leaves. I cut one with the die face down so the leaves faced in from the right and then cut one face up on the underneath side of the gold foil so the leaves would face in from the left.

I have stamped the sentiment in versamark and heat embossed in gold from the Something Fancy stamp set and cut it out with the Radiating Stitches Dies which is an online exclusive die set! I popped that on with some dimensionals before cutting out the hearts using the same dies and adding the bows from the Simply Elegant Trim set of gold and silver.

I couldn't let such a special card have an inside not dressed so I added some gold under the area to write my message to the happy couple and another gorgeous radiating stitched heart!

Bring on the wedding on Friday. 

If you have any questions about todays card or would like the new annual catalogue please get in contact with me.

Now is the time to head to the next extremely creative person, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. I love seeing her creations every week. Cathy has the most divine projects each week plus she is our host every week! Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

So if you have any issues with a broken link at anytime on your Copper Clay journey just come back here and click over to Cathy's clog and you will find a list of participants so you will be able to continue the hop from there!

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 1 - 2023-2024 - Boho Blue - Celebrate With Tags Birthday!

 Welcome to the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-2024. Today we start with the New InColors for 2023-25 and the first colour is Boho Blue!

I have been away from my paper crafting table for  a little while and have been doing a bit of sewing of late but I am back as my latest sewing project will be completed by next week and I wanted to start the year of colour creations blog hop off. I have been sewing 50 Japanese Knot Bags with the help of some friends to place some pamper pack toiletry goodies in them for women who live in homeless and battered women shelters to give them in the coming weeks.

This is what they look like and they have been fun to make with one short handle and then the long handle looping through the short to create the knot and closure to the bag.

But back to our project for this week. This week I need a male birthday card so Boho Blue is perfect! Not saying you can't use this for a female but male cards are not normally pink and flowery!

So I pulled out the Celebrate with tags stamp set and then realised that the dies that coordinate had retired BUT don't fear starting now with the New Annual Catalogue there is a great Birthday bundle called Beautiful Balloons with stamps and dies to match so they would be a perfect complement to this set if you already have this one and the Bright and Beautiful suite and all the papers are just fantastic for all your Birthday card and celebration needs. I can't wait top order them now the catalogue is live.

I couldn't help myself I went for a fancy fold as well. I used along with our start colour of Boho Blue, Night of Navy as the card base and then to add a little contrast on the balloons I stamped them in Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive! I think they go very nice with the Boho Blue! 

To make this card I have cut the A4 Night of Navy in half vertically at 10.5 cm then scored from both ends 5 cm and 9.5 cm and that gives you the fold in the middle of the card. The back that you will adhere this fold onto is again 10.5 cm wide and 14 cm long. Before adhering the folded card to the base I used the InColor DSP and I thought this particular design could double as the candles! I cut those at 10 x 3.8 cm and adhered to the back card before adhering the folded card.

The way the card is folded means it stands very well and is a great peak-a-boo card to what is on the inside which I have stamped the Let's Celebrate you stamp and a balloon on Basic White and layered it on the InColor Boho Blue DSP.

I didn't want the other sections to feel unloved so I added some more DSP so they all looked like they were going to the Birthday party as well! 

Well we had to have a party on the front of the card so there is a layer of Boho Blue card then Basic White and for this I use the Dots & Spots Die to cut the top half. It needed some confetti! Plus it matched the balloons! Then the Balloons in all the colours! Not sure you can tell from this angle but some are on dimensionals and some are flat.

I have stamped the Happy Birthday in Boho Blue and cut is out with the Deckled Rectangle dies then to back this I used the next size up on the deckled rectangles but I wanted it to be a little smaller of a border so I used the same die and just cut off one end to bring it in a little and it was perfect. I then popped it up on dimensionals over the balloons.

When folded up the card fits nicely into our C6 envelopes.
Now I saw this fun fold over on Lee Greff's page so I hade to give it a go and it is so easy and fun. I do hope you give it a go but if you have any questions please let me know by clicking on my contact Sharon button.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member and you will be heading the Vicki Boucher and I just love her amazing deigns and use of colours so I can't wait to see what she has for us today so pleas just hit the next blog button to go straight there.

If at any time you find a link that isn't working please come back here and clink on this link to go to our lovely host Cathy Proctor. She will have a list of all those participating and you will be able to continue your journey from there in Boho Blue!

Don't forget the New Annual Catalogue is out now and you can get all the wonderful products from it starting now!

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