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,

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 1 - AWH Colour Creations Weekly Showcase - "Balmy Blue"

There are so many things to be excited about today. The new 2020-21 Annual Catalogue is live today and that means you can go and check it out and make a big wish list so exciting. Talking about wish lists. The new look Online Store launched today as well and you can go there and make a wish list as well just click on the little heart and add it to a wish list for when you are ready to purchase. So good!😊 I have already put things on my wish list. Just head to my Shop Online Now Button on the side bar to check it out.

But tonight, the next exciting thing is that our Colour Creations Showcase is back! Woo Hoo! 🙌So weekly the Art With Heart team will be bringing you 1 colour from all the amazing colours that Stampin' Up! have to offer and there are 40 gorgeous classic colours and 10 contemporary In Colors plus Basic Black, Whisper White and Very Vanilla, so get ready for some weekly fun and adventure. Each week the lovely Cathy Proctor will be hosting our Showcase and I will have a link at the end of my post so you can hop on over find the list of the team playing along this week and see all of their fantastic creations.

This week is Balmy Blue

Oh I do love this gorgeous pale, subtle blue, it is just exquisite!

For this card I have used the new Tasteful Touches stamp set and the new Tasteful Textiles 3D Embossing Folder. You can find them on page 122-124 of the new Annual Catalogue as part of the In Good Taste Suite. You are going to love this suite and the gorgeous colours in the Designer series paper and the real to life photo of tile and wood textures. Go check it out! You can see one in the background of this photo!

OK, I am getting too excited back to the card at hand tonight.

I have a card base of Thick Whisper white and the Balmy Blue card stock was run through with the gorgeous new Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. I made it just larger than the sentiment card and offset it so I could tie the  braided linen thread around the card and adhere that to the base of the card.  I stamped the flower in Memento black ink and fussy cut it with my paper snips and coloured it with my blender pen using the Balmy Blue ink and highlighted the darker parts with Night of Navy Ink. The centre of the flower is crushed curry. I cut the  Sentiment layer out using the Stitched rectangle dies and then with Sahara sand ink I stamped the flower 3 times in the bottom corner in a triangle so to give some depth behind the Balmy Blue and to make it pop off the page. I then masked those flowers and used both mossy meadow and pear pizzazz ink for the leaves before popping the Balmy Blue flower on a dimensional over the top. The Sentiment is stamped in Balmy blue and I popped the layer up on dimensionals to adhere to the card base. 

I really loved how this card turned out and the layout so I may have to make a few more in different colours. Ok here is my colour combination and the product list can be found at the end of the post. 

My colour combination for this card is:

Each week as I mentioned my lovely friend and the extremely creative Cathy Proctor will be hosting our Colour Creation Showcase so please hop on over to her blog for the list  of those who are participating this week to find some more inspiration for the colour of Balmy Blue! Cathy's Blog

If you would like anymore information about this card or would like information on how to get the new Annual catalogue into your hands please do not hesitate to contact me, you are going to love this new catalogue. There are some fabulous special on at the moment for June so get in touch, you don't want to miss out.

Product List

Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152562]

$40.00

Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder

[152718]

$15.75

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

$15.25

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$14.25

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$61.00

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$13.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[147110]

$13.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

[147117]

$13.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

[147111]

$13.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[147104]

$13.00

Blender Pens

[102845]

$21.00

3/16" (1 Cm) Braided Linen Trim

[147808]

$12.25

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$44.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$17.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$12.00

Thank you for spending some time with me today.