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 39 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Purple Posy"

 

 

Week 39 of Colour Creations Showcase and in some ways it feels like just yesterday and on the other hand a life time ago we started this fabulous weekly sharing of colour inspiration. I think I am feeling a little nostalgic today as we got the keys to the house for my son yesterday and we are all systems go at cleaning and getting appliances and moving him in to his new place. EEEK! My baby is leaving home!

So with all this excitement I have made one card for you this week and when I thought of Purple Posy I couldn't help but continue with the alliteration on a card of a Purple Posy Prized Peony! Phew!

Well that was a mouthful! HEHE!

Here is the card that I made for you.

I have focused on the gorgeous large  peony stamp of the Prized Peony stamp set and added layers of texture with 3 different embossing folders.

Firstly I coloured the gorgeous peony with the Stampin' Blends after stamping the image in Smokey Slate. I used Light and Dark Purple Posy and Old Olive and Light So Saffron as my colours. I love the way Stampin' Up gives us help with our colouring and shading with their stamped images as all you have to do is add the darker Purple posy to the shaded areas of the image and then blend in the light over the top and work your way out. I left a little white as well for the a 3 toned rose.

For the layers of the card under the Prized Peony I have a Sahara Sand embossed in Dainty Diamonds, Purple Posy embossed twice with the Subtle 3D folder and the In Good Taste DSP has been embossed Tasteful Textiles 3D folder. I have popped everything on a card base of Thick Basic White.

Now I don't know if you can spot one more thing on the In Good Taste DSP? I have used the Purple Posy Stampin' Write Marker and sprinkled or splattered depending on your definition some ink all over the layer before I embossed it.

The final couple of elements you might have noticed are the gorgeous scalloped purple posy linen ribbon and the whisper white bakers twine from the Snail Mail twine combo pack page 55 of the Jan-June Mini. I have also cut the peony out using the Peony Dies and popped it up on dimensionals.

Ok 1 final element is the sentiment and as we don't have an ink pad I used the Stampin' Write marker on the "Love & Thanks to a dear friend" stamp from the Prized Peony stamp set and just inked the "To a dear friend" and then punched it out with the Classic Label Punch.

A quick fun card to make using some of your embossing folders and a little bit of colouring.

Now make sure you head on over to our host Cathy Proctor so you can see her always inspiring creations and get the list of the ladies participating today with Purple Posy. I love to see what they have created we have a talented group of ladies so you don't want to miss their creations. Cathy's Blog

If you would like any more information on my card today or you would like to have a little bit of a play with some product please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 36 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Poppy Parade"

 

 

This week we are showcasing Poppy Parade!

Last week I brought to you a  double slider card, I had so much fun making it I thought I would I would bring you a quadruple slider card. Yes that is right 4 sliders. It is a small and cute card and I have used the Daisy Lane stamp set and the Flowers and Field DSP from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure which has Poppy Parade as one of its colours.

I love how compact this little card is

On the front of this card I have stamped  the small daisy from the Daisy Lane stamp set in Sahara sand 6 times and then using a little bit of light and dark Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends and Dark Daffodil Delight. The leaves are in mossy meadow cut from the Dandy Garden dies and I have used the Well Written dies to cut out our friend and butterfly in Silver Card stock and some Glittered Organdy Ribbon.

On the 4 sliders you can add stamped messages. I have used 2 from the Daisy Lane stamp set here and left 2 blank but you can add more.

When you  you turn the card over you have more opportunity to decorate your card. I have left it plain this time just leaving a space for you to write a message.

When you pull out the sliders I have decorated them with basic black card stock and another of the Flower and Field DSP pieces.

There are so many opportunities for putting fun sayings on this card so go wild with this explosion slider type card.

Like my card last week this card uses a sliding mechanism with a plastic bag and I used a freezer bag to make it. I have not made instructions this week but you can follow this video by Srushti Patil that I also followed then made my own decorations.

I hope you have liked a look at this fun fold and maybe give it a go. I might make instructions next time but I ran out of time this week as even in lockdown we have been quite busy buying a house. No not to move but our son is moving. So doing all the things with vendors and building inspections and lawyers in a snap lockdown. I am feeling very old that my son is old enough to move out  but I am very excited for him. So I am sorry that I haven't done the instructions for you.

Please head on over to the very creative Cathy Proctor's blog she hosts our Colour Creation Showcases each week, there you will find her wonderful creations and the list of the ladies playing along with Poppy Parade this week: Cathy's Blog

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need anymore information about my card tonight or about how to get this gorgeous DSP for free with Saleabration we have just a few days left so be quick.

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

Week 31 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Old Olive"

 

Week 31 is all about Old Olive and when I thought about this colour I thought Simply Succulents from the new Jan-Jun Mini! I just had to have this bundle when I saw it in the new Mini Catalogue as my Daughter has created quite a garden of different succulents in our back yard. We love to look at succulents when we are out and about when we pass them and at different garden places. Today I have made 2 cards for you using 2 different colour methods.

I just couldn't resist this stamp set and bundle, there are so many dies and you get to cut and colour so many things and there are label dies as well. It is just fabulous!

For my first card I thought I would use the large die and cut out a panel of the succulents in Old Olive card stock

Under this gorgeous layer of die cut succulents is the equally beautiful Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper. Oh I think I will be using so much of this gorgeous Designer series paper all of the designs are just wonderful.

For this card I used the Stampin' Blends to colour the pot and the different succulents. I love colouring with the blends they are so lovely to work with and I have used Old Olive light and Dark, Light Highland Heather and Cinnamon Cider Light and Dark.

Here is a little closer look and as you can see when I adhered them to the card front I popped the light ones on dimensionals. The darker succulents are coloured with both the light and dark old olive blends and then tipped with the Highland Heather. 

The little pearl succulents were cut out of old olive card stock, I love this die as I love this succulent in real life. The Thanks sentiment is stamped in Old Olive and then the 3 label dies are also in the set of dies in the Potted Succulent Dies. I always like a little bling and the gold foil is perfect for this.

My Second Card today I used the larger Succulent stamp.

This is such a fun stamp and I just love it and you can just sit and colour to your hearts content. I have always loved colouring and I won a second prize in a colour competition when I was 10 and got a book about birds and it was the first time I found out about Spoon Bill birds so every time we go to Healesville Sanctuary we have to visit them. We went last week and it was so good!

My daughter had to take a photo of me with the spoon bills in the background. 

So for this card I used the blender pen to colour the Succulents and I coloured 2 pots when I was making the first card with the Stampin' Blends.

For this card I used 6 colours after I had stamped the image. 

I used Old Olive on all of the succulents except the top left green one and that is a Pear Pizzazz succulent. The bottom one is first in Old Olive then Mossy Meadow over top. The middle 2 are Old Olive with Highland Heather tips. The top Succulent is Merry Merlot, Rich Razzleberry and then Old Olive.

I have layered the arrangement of succulents on a piece of Whisper White card stock that has been Embossed with the Subtle 3D embossing folder after cutting it out with one of the dies and then I have used the Ornate Layers Dies for the frame in Gold Foil and cut out the centre to frame the arrangement. The sentiment is stamped in in Old Olive and cut out with a label die from the Potted Succulents Dies. Everything is on a card base of Old Olive.

Now my cards decided they wanted a photo shoot with some of the succulents in my garden so at the end of this post I will have some succulent and card shots. I don't know how they managed to get me outside today it was soooooo hot but they insisted. If you want to skip the photo shoot  please head over to the blog of the our host of the weekly Colour Creation Showcase Cathy Proctor to see the fun and inspiring work not only from Cathy but from the whole Art with Heart team playing along this week with Old Olive: Cathy's Blog

If you go to the photo shoot make sure you come back and go to Cathy's blog.

If you have any questions about the cards today or would like to get your hands on the Jan-Jun Mini Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me. It is a fabulous Catalogue.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 28 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Misty Moonlight"

Tonight I am bringing to you a card inspired by a Windmill! A Windmill?! Yes, a windmill. When we lived in Minneapolis, many moons ago, my Husband had to travel to The Netherlands for work and he bought back a Delft Pottery Musical Windmill as he knows I love music boxes as I am a music teacher. So today I have made a card inspired by his visit to the Netherlands in December 1995.
 

This week Misty Moonlight

I have gone for a simple stamping card today and the wonderful Stampin' Blends with the added bling of the Silver Metallic-edge ribbon.

What I have done for you today is used this gorgeous Bloom and Grow stamps set and stamped multiple time on a piece of whisper white card stock the one large image and then snuck in the edge of another to fill in one little spot that I wanted to fill in with just the rose. I stamped these in Basic Gray ink. 

To Colour the roses I have used the Misty Moonlight Dark and Light Stampin' Blends in contrast with Light Pool Party. The leaves and branches are coloured in light Smoky Slate. I wanted to keep them neutral to go along with my Delft Pottery theme.

I have stamped sentiment in Misty Moonlight and fussy cut this and popped it up on mini dimensionals  after adding the Silver Metallic-Edged ribbon and backing it with Misty Moonlight card stock and adhering it to a Thick Whisper White Card Base.

Colouring is such a relaxing thing to do and this is an easy card to make with limited supplies so you could take a few card fronts cut and ready to go with you  to colour when you go away on your summer holidays for those of us here in Australia or for your winter break in the the Northern hemisphere!

Please now head over to the blog of my friend and our host for Colour Creations Showcase, the always inspiring Cathy Proctor: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about today's card or would like information about ordering product do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,