Rhapsody in Craft: Calypso Coral

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Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 16 - 2024 -2025 - Calypso Coral Double Door Pop Up Card!

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Welcome to Calypso Coral week of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. I think this would be my Dad's favourite colour and I think that is because it is like a salmon colour and he likes fishing! LOL!

I need to thank the wonderful Stampin' Up Demonstrator Michelle Grech from thINK out loud Papercrafting here in Victoria Australia for my fun fold today. I followed her Facebook live tutorial to create my card. The fun fold card is a Double Door Pop Up!

For my card base I have used Calypso Coral and a layer Pebbled Path before adding the gorgeous Thoughtful Journeys DSP which has some of our lovely Calypso Coral as one of its colours.

When you open the card you will see 2 doors on their opening mechanism. I have added a little Pebbled Path on the doors and then on the outer edge and on the doors I have decorated with the beautiful Thoughtful Journeys DSP.

When you open your card completely the doors will fold out and on the inside of the card I have again layered with Pebble Path and on the Basic White layer I have stamped the lovely little flower stamp in Smokey Slate and the sentiment in Pebble Path. The flowers I have coloured with Stampin' Blends - Light & Dark Mossy Meadow and Light & Dark Calypso Coral.

On the front of the card have cut 3 circles with the Deckled circle dies and I have embossed the Basic White layer with the Cross Hatch Embossing Folder from the Basic 3D embossing set of folders. The labels are cut from the Something Fancy Dies and I have stamped the sentiment in Pebbled Path. The leaves have been stamped in Smokey Slate and and coloured in Light & Dark Mossy Meadow. The Die Cut leaves have been blended first before die cut.

I have used the blending brushes to add Calypso Coral and Mossy Meadow ink on Basic White card before cutting out the large leaf die and 2 smaller leaf dies. It doesn't have to be perfectly blended as leaves are mottled.

Here is a short video of how the card opens to give you an idea of how wonderful this fun fold really is!

If you have any questions about my project today please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful person on our journey of Calypso Coral and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard, I can't wait to see her beautiful creation. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime the next blog button doesn't go where you want it to go please head back here and go to out amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating this week for our journey of Calypso Coral.

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

Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 16 - 2023-2024 - Calypso Coral

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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,

Wednesday, 28 July 2021

Week 9 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - " Calypso Coral"

Today we are looking at the gorgeous colour Calypso Coral. The name always makes me thing of Harry Belefonte as he was nicknamed the King of Calypso music! You know Day-o, Daaaay-0! I actually like this colour but I rarely use it. Today I have paired it with a couple of other colours and used the Spotlight Technique to create my card.

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For this card I have used the Daisy garden stamp which is a 1 large background stamp which I have stamped in memento black ink on Basic White card. I did this twice so I could colour the second one to create the spotlighted area.

For the Spotlight area of the card I have stamped the Daisy Garden a second time and I then used my Stampin' Write markers to colour the daisies. I used Bumblebee for the centre, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow for the leaves, Cherry Cobbler and our colour of the day Calypso Coral for the daisy petals. For the area around the daisies I have used the Light Pool Party Stampin Blend to colour the area in. The little flower at the bottom is from the Daisy Lane stamp set which I have stamped and coloured the same way and fussy cut out.

I then used the Layering Circle Dies to cut out the the spotlight and a scalloped circle of Basic Black to layer over the front of the background stamped image.

What is not easy to see is that I have added a little bit of Wink of tella to the petals and it just lifts the whole card. Under the extra daisy I have added some Gold Shimmer Ribbon which is from the new July-December Mini which you will be able to get your hands on in just a few more days as it goes live on August 3rd. It is so lovely! Now you might be wondering where the " Love you" comes from well I am glad you asked. It is from the Love you more than dies, you know the one with chocolate and coffee and all that fun stuff in it!

Behind the daisy layer before the Basic Black card base I have used the Pansy Petals Designer Series paper which has Calypso Coral as one of the colours.

Hope you have enjoyed this little walk down memory lane of this technique.

If you would like any information about this card or would like to get your hands on the new Mini coming out next week do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on the colour creations blog hop. Theresa Gerrard always has very creative cards and I love to see what she has for us each week so click on the next blog button below to continue on in this weeks blog hop journey.

If for any reason a next blog button doesn't work, (you know those computer gremlins) please head to the host of our colour creations blog hop and there you will find the list of all those participating in this weeks blog hop so you can continue: Cathy Proctor's Blog

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

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Week 8 - AWH Colour Creations Showcase - "Calypso Coral"

Another week and another beautiful colour. Stampin' Up! has such gorgeous colours.

This week Calypso Coral

This wee I have made 2 cards for you. I had a friend get some bad news this week and I thought I would make a card for her.

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I really had her in mind when I made both of these cards as well as my Grandmother as it was her Mother in law that has just been diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. My Grandmother loved Tulips so I wanted to make a tulip card as my I know this lovely woman as well and Grandmothers are so special.

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For my first card I have used the most gorgeous rose from Tasteful Touches and the sentiment from Free As A Bird.

Here is my Colour Combination for this card:

I love all the layers of Calypso Coral DSP that you can find in the subtle 6x6 DSP.

I have stamped the gorgeous roses in Smokey slate and then coloured them in with the Stampin' Blends.

I really love this sentiment and at this time in our world our friends are so important.

For my Second Card I saw this card on a blog by Maureen Rauchfuss but she had made it into a fancy fold for Mother's Day. I wanted to give the card a go and play with it a bit. Thanks for the inspiration Maureen.

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I have stamped all the tulips in Calypso Coral and punched some out with the Tulip builder punch and fussy cut the medium and smaller tulips.

Here is the colour combination for this card:

The sentiment is just perfect for my friend right now as they fine out about their Mother-in-laws cancer and as they go through all the steps to help her get treatment.

For the the pearls I have coloured them with the dark Calypso coral Stampin' Blends.

Please head on over to the lovely Cathy Proctors Blog to see how the team have used Calypso Coral tonight. I am always excited and inspired by these creative women. Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about these cards or have would like to purchase the products to make these cards do not hesitate to contact me.