Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 43 - Pumpkin Pie

 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.

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"

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 16 - 2023-2024 - Calypso Coral

 

Welcome to Calypso Coral week for our Colour Creations Blog Hop. It is a lovely colour and one I think my Dad would say is almost his favourite but I am not making a male card today I am pulling out the Textured Floral bundle and trying a new technique for me that I found from Patty Bennett.

You may have come to my blog if you are hopping along with the Art with Heart team from Theresa and I know she likes me to do fancy folds but today I am not doing that just a normal fold as I wanted to try this technique and I wasn't sure how long it was going to take me. It is not a hard technique at all I just played around with it a bit.

Here is my colour combination for my card today. So let me tell you how I put it all together using the Texture Floral stamp set and die bundle!

My base and first layer is this gorgeous rich Calypso Coral and I have embossed the layer with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. Don't you just love this embossing folder? Well I do! Now came the fun part.

To get the unique colouring on the distINKtive stamps I mounted the flower stamps on blocks then got out the inks that I wanted to use. I used Lemon Lolly and Petal Pink on the flowers and then on my blending brush I had Calypso Coral. You may ask how did I do that. Well to start with I watched a video that Patty Bennet has on her page to do with any distINKtive stamps and she first uses an old bone folder and moves some of the excess ink away from the centre of your ink pad. You DO NOT want a juicy ink pad for this. Then in my case I inked either in Petal Pink or Lemon Lolly on the ink pad the flower that I wanted. Then with your blending brush you tap around the edge of your flower as much or as little the amount of ink that you want in the colour that you have chosen and of course we are using Calypso Coral today! How cool do these flowers look?!

For the leaves I have put a little bit of blending brush splodges of Mossy Meadow over Soft Sea Foam before cutting them out with the Textured Floral dies to give them a muted look and slightly different tone. I have added a little bit of linen thread and in the centre of the flowers I have cut out the stamen in basic white. Under all of this floral gorgeousness I have added 3 strips of the colours that I have used in the card as although the flowers were gorgeous it needed something to ground the floral bouquet! I embossed the strips with the Stripes Embossing folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D Embossing folder set! Now around the edge of Calypso Coral layer and the 3 strips of card I have used the residual ink on my blending brush with Calypso Coral. Of course you always need a little bling which I have coloured the basic rhinestones with dark calypso coral blends.

If you have any questions about this card today or the technique please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Calypso Coral and today you will be heading to Ros Davidson. I love her bold colours so I can't wait to see what she has put together for us today. Just click on the next blog button and you will be taken straight there.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't quite work please come back here and head to our host for this week Tina Gillespie and she will have the list of the Art With Heart team participating today so you can continue your hop from there: Tina's Blog.

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

Week 8 - 2022 -23 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Bermuda Bay

Welcome to week 8 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2022-23 and this week we are looking at the bluey green or is it greenie blue colour in the Brights Collection, Bermuda Bay!

I have continued my small collection of Cottage Rose cards this week and made you a different take on last weeks layout.

Well this was another fun and quick card to make using the Cottage Rose stamp set.

I stamped the large Rose image on Basic White and then took out the Scalloped Contour Dies and cut out the image for the focal point of the card.

On another layer of Basic white I used the blending brushes and some Bermuda Bay ink and blended some ink just in the area around where the Cottage rose layer would be to highlight it.

Then I got out the trusty Stampin' Blends and coloured the rose, first with dark So Saffron

Then with light and Dark Bermuda Bay.

A little Light and Dark Soft Sea Foam for the leaves.

And for something a little different I used the colour lifter to add a little light bouncing off the petals

This white crinkle seam binding is the best for colouring with your Stampin' Blend so I did just that with the Dark Bermuda Bay.

Tied it around the middle of my blended brush layer and adhered it to the card base of Bermuda bay.      

I popped the front layer up on some dimensionals but before that I stamped the sentiment from the Cottage Rose stamp set. Bit hard to do once you put on the dimensionals. No I did not try after putting on the dimensionals! 😂

The card is now complete or you can add some bling. I added some polished dots which are retiring next week so get in quick if you want them.

If you have any questions about today's project or would like to get you hands on some of these beautiful projects do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Bermuda Bay and today we will be going to Amie McIlroy, I love seeing what she makes each week. Just hit on the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work just come back here and head to our blog host Cathy Proctor. Each week Cathy has the list of everyone participating and you can continue your journey of Bermuda Bay there: Cathy's Blog

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2022-23 - Week 5 - Tahitian Tide

 

Welcome to the Art with Heart teams Colour Creation Blog Hop for Tahitian Tide. We are now at the last of our very new In Colors for the new 2022-23 Annual Catalogue and what a lovely blue it is!

My daughter inspired my card this week. I have had the Bamboo Beauty for a while now and haven't made a card with it and I was determined to make a card. My daughter just loves Japan and the culture and the food and we were fortunate to do a 13 day tour which is way too short of Japan in 2019. There is so much to see and we will need to go back another time. One of the places we went was the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto it is a huge bamboo forest. I just had to get this stamp set when I saw it.

Enough reminiscing on to the card!

I have made a very simple layout for my card tonight taking a little inspiration from the Japanese flag if you will.

To start I used my blending brush with the Tahitian Tide ink and with a piece of Perfectly Penciled DSP (the one that looked the most bambooish LOL) I coloured it to a lovely shade of blue! 

I cut the circle out with the new Stylish Shapes Dies. Love these dies and I recommend that you put these on your wish list if you haven't already done so!

From there I stamped the 2 bamboo leaf stamps in Smoky Slate on a piece of Basic White card and adhered that to the card base of Tahitian Tide and got out the large Bamboo stamp and stamped in Shaded Spruce and Pear Pizzazz. I fussy cut those out and popped 2 up on dimensionals Under the sentiment which is stamped in Tahitian Tide and cut out using the Stylish Shapes Dies (now you know you want them) I have added some Tahitian tide bakers twine.

Don't forget to stamp the inside of your card and as I am giving this to my daughter this sentiment was just perfect!

One more photo of the card in front of the bonsai just for my girl!

Now don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions would like to get the products to make this project or get your hands on the new Annual Catalogue!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Tahitian Tide, all you need to do is hit the next blog button below and you will head to the lovely Christine Blain I love seeing what she has for us each week, she is the queen of masculine card and using the designer series paper in fantastic ways so I can't wait to see what she has for us today! 

If for any reason we have a technical glitch and the next blog button doesn't work on your way around please come back here and click over to our weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating today and you will be able to continue your journey from there: Cathy's Blog

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