Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 7 - 2024-2025 - Azure Afternoon

 

Welcome to Week 7 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are delving into the colours that are in the Annual Catalogue that were not added new this year! Azure Afternoon is a blue from our bright colour range! 

Today I have made a card for you called the Stacked Triple Diamond Card! I followed the directions from Iced Images so it is a bit bigger than will fit into our envelopes. Next I will need to work on making it a little smaller to fit into our envelopes. Alternatively I will make a box or an envelope to fit it!

I have used 2 stamp sets for this card the Spotlight on Nature and the Country Birdhouse.

Now this is all one piece of Azure Afternoon card for the base. It may look a little complicated but it is all about 2 cuts and some scoring vertically and diagonally and you fold and guess what you get a stacked triple diamond fold!

For the decoration on the side panels I have layered first with a gorgeous panel of Wildly Flowering DSP, which is gorgeous but I wanted to have the muted colour and little pops of the design behind rather than the starkness and boldness of straight card stock can sometimes be as a layer! Try DSP as a layer sometimes it softens the look! So then I stamped the flower and the butterfly from Spotlight on Nature and coloured those with the Stampin' Blends. I used Light and Dark Soft Sea Foam and Light Mossy Meadow and the leaves. For the flowers I have used Dark Bubble Bath and Light Moody Mauve. The Butterfly I have used Light and Dark Azure AFternoon, Light Balmy Blue and Dark Crumb Cake. I stamped over top of the whole card with the cross hash stamp in Basic Beige. I stamped off once first then kept stamping until no ink then inked again stamped off once then went again until the whole panel was stamped.

For the decoration on the diamonds I have used the Country Birdhouse stamp set and dies. I stamped the greeting in Smokey Slate and fussy cut out then layered on Azure Afternoon card and fussy cut again before popping up on mini dimensionals. The middle diamond, I have stamped the bird in Smokey slate and coloured again in Stampin' Blends, Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Light Wild Wheat, Light Balmy Blue and Light Azure Afternoon. And if you go in real close I have given the bird a red eye. Those photographs always getting red eyes! The 3rd Diamond I have coloured the little flowers with the same coloured Stampin' Blends I have used before and like under the bird I have have layered with the die cut Soft Sea Foam and Mossy Meadow leaves.

On the back of the card I have layered the gorgeous Wildly Flowering DSP and some Basic White card so you can write to your friend. You can also see the fun folding of the diamonds from the back!

Well dear friends it was a fun card to make so please reach out if you have any  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 around Azure Afternoon and you will be heading to Cathy Proctor, I can't wait to see what she has created for us. Hit the next blog button and you will go directly there.

If for any reason the next blog button goes where you were not expecting please come back here and head to our amazing weekly host the lovely  Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of those participating in this week's challenge and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Azure Afternoon

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 6 - 2023-2024 - Azure Afternoon

 

Welcome to week 6 and this week we are delving into the new and returning colours that will make up the staples of the colours the Stampin' Up! will be offering. This week we will be looking at one of the new colours that has been introduced in the colour refresh called Azure Afternoon.

Azure afternoon is Blue in as many languages as I can find and it also made me think of Jazz music so I went in search to see if there was a song and there are a couple of songs and even an album called Blue Afternoon. So I think we are on a winner with this new colour!

This week I have done a simple card as I needed a quick card so I thought I would case the Annual Catalogue for a design. The Catalogue is always a good place to find a card design if you need something quick. Also a perfect time for this card as the sale of Designer Series Paper is on right now so don't forget to grab yourself a bargain! So I cased the card on page 21 of the Annual Catalogue.

For my card this week I have used the Seasonal Branches stamp set and dies Bundle I thought a blue bird was the perfect idea and the annual catalogue agreed with me! HEHE!

I stamped the little blue bird from the Seasonal Branches first in Memento Black ink before colouring in with Light and Dark Azure afternoon Stampin' Blends and a little bit of Light Balmy Blue.

I cut the bird out using the Seasonal Branches Dies and while I was there I used the dies to cut out some flowers in Daffodil delight card stock. You can see here that I popped them up on mini dimensionals.

Now the card is put together on a layer of Thick Basic White card and the DSP that is a full card front size is part of the Les Shoppes  pack and I think it is a gorgeous  design that will be perfect for lots of backgrounds. I have then layered a piece of the Azure Afternoon card stock before cutting out the largest Tailored Tag die and stamping the branch in Pecan Pie from the Seasonal Branches. The little "Thanks" is stamped in Azure Afternoon ink and cut out with a die from Something Fancy Die set and shortened to fit the length of the word.

If you have any questions about my project today or if you would like to get your hands on some of these wonderful new products, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head over to the next very creative team member and today we are heading to Ros Davidson, I love her creations and what she does with the colour coach charts. So to see her creation just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime there is a break in one of the next blog button links, just head back here and you can go over to our hosts blog Cathy Proctor and there you will find the list of all those from the Art With Heart Team participating in Azure Afternoon this week: Cathy's Blog

Don't forget the Designer Series Paper sale is on now if you would like any of the gorgeous select players just hit my shop now button and you will go straight to my online shop.

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