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Hi,

Welcome to my blog. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope that you will find some inspiration for your projects as I have from many lovely people. This is just a little space for me to share some of my cards, scrap book pages and maybe even some of my embroidery and quilting projects.

Enjoy and stop back often.

Sharon



Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 44 - Real Red - Tiger Lilly

 

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Welcome to week 44 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog hop. This week we are championing the colour Real Red!
This week I have chosen to work with the Easter Lilies Dies. I was talking with a good friend about the Easter Lilies this week and discussing about making an Easter card and I thought well they do come in different colours other than the white ones that we have at Easter. So I looked them up and sure enough I found the Red Tiger Lily so I had to try and make one!
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The colour combination I used for the project this week is lots of lush greenery around the beautiful red lilies!
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How did I put my card together!
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On a card base of Mossy Meadow I stamped in Mossy Meadow with a stamp from the Notes of Nature stamp set!
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Then I took a piece of Crumb Cake and embossed it with the Stripes embossing folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D set. I then cut the card into 1 cm pieces to create a lattice. The vertical struts are popped up on dimensionals and the horizontal are woven through.
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For the Tiger Lilies I have used the Easter Lilies dies. I have cute one in Real Red card and on in Petal Pink Card and the stamen in Basic White! Each section of the flower was then coloured with a sponge dauber with extra Real Red ink! As Tiger Lilies have lots of spots which I think they should be called Cheetah lilies because of the spots but it sounds better to be called Tiger I suppose. Anyway they have lots of dots so I splattered them with Early Espresso ink. I did this by flicking ink from a from an Early Espresso Pen. The stamen on the dark flower is coloured in Dark Mossy Meadow blends and the light one in Soft Sea Foam Blend.
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I cut many leaves in Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam to surround the Real Red Tiger Lilies which I have attached to the lilies before attaching them to the card front with dimensionals as I had given the flowers dimension by curling the petals.
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The sentiment is from the Perennial Postage stamp set and I have stamped it in Early Espresso on Basic White. I have fussy cut it out 3 times to express the meaning of the words!

This card could be used for Mother's Day or for a Daughter or a Special Friend!

If you would like any more information about my project or would like to get your hands on these gorgeous Easter Lilies Dies before the end of the Jan-April Mini please do not hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Real Red and this week you will be heading to the amazing and talented lovely Cathy Proctor. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just click on the next blog button and you will go straight there.
If for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't go where you think it should go just come back here and head to our Blog Host the wonderful Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of everyone playing along today so you will be able to continue you hop from that list: Cathy's Blog.
 
Next week we will be looking at the colour Shaded Spruce, I hope to see you then.

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


Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 43 - Pumpkin Pie

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 Welcome to week 43 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-24. This week we will be looking at the colour Pumpkin Pie!
For you this week I have created a special background for my card using Pumpkin Pie, Gorgeous Grape and Blackberry Bliss.

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For my project today I have used a couple of dies, some blending brushes and the sentiment from the Perennial Postage stamp set! So how did I create my card!
 

I started with a piece of Basic White and then using the blending brushes coloured in differing depths Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Bliss, and Gorgeous Grape.

 I cut my bended background into 1 cm strips and turned each 2nd strip around and adhered them to a slightly smaller piece of Basic White than the size of a card front.
As you can see the lines are  bit pronounced in between each strip so.....
I took out the Pumpkin Pie blending brush and went over the whole card again trying to make sure the lines were less "white"
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To finish the card I used the leaf die from the Artistic Die set in Basic White. Guess what? I actually remembered to use the adhesive sheets this tie before die cutting! Wow! How easy it was to adhere the leaf to the front of my card. I then white heat embossed on Basic Black the sentiment from the Perennial Postage stamp set and used the little label die from Gorgeously Made to cut it out! I popped that on with dimensionals. Everything was then adhered with dimensionals onto a Thick Basic White card Base.

I had so much fun creating this back ground and it looks like a gorgeous sun set! I hope you give it a try with some of your favourite colours!

If you have any questions about today's project or would like to get your hands on the Jan-April Mini do not hesitate to contact me!


Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Pumpkin Pie and this week you will be heading to our host, the extremely talented Cathy Proctor. Just hit the next log button and you will go straight there. I can't wait to see her fabulous creation this week.

If for any reason the next blog buttons go somewhere they shouldn't while you are travelling around on your hop, please come back here and head to our host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have  list of all those participating this week and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog.

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


Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 34 - 2024 -2025 - Melon Mambo - Spotlight on Nature Birthday

  Welcome to week 34 and Melon Mambo Week!  Can you believe that we are one week before Christmas? I can't but I love Christmas as it is...