Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 15 - Crumb Cake

 

Welcome to week 15 of the colour creations blog hop for 2022-23. This week we are looking at the neutral colour of Crumb Cake.

This week I have cased a card design from Ronda Wade. It is a simple layout but as I am needing a few simple cards for the next few weeks I hope you don't mind. I will get back to the fancy folds and back to regular scheduled programming after the daughter has turned 21 and I have dealt with all those shenanigans in a months time. Let the preparations begin!

So the card is a simple lay out and I finally took out my Wisteria Wishes stamp set which I absolutely love but hadn't cracked it open yet. I know what was I thinking. I need to use it more!

The card base is Crumb Cake and then I have another layer of Crumb Cake Card. What I have done is taken one of the Petal Pink 6x6 pieces of Tea Boutique DSP and cut it down to fit the front piece and the bit left over trimmed it down after turning it on it's side to fit behind the front and adhered it to the card base.

Before adhering the piece of Tea Boutique DSP to the front of the card I stamped the stems in Early Espresso, I did this on my Stamparatus so I could stamp and then hinge down 2 steps and stamped the next lot of stems. I then did the same with the more solid flower stamp and I did that in Crumb Cake ink first and over the top of the Crumb Cake I stamped Cherry Cobbler a in the speckle flower stamp.

The sentiment is stamped in Crumb Cake. I then adhered that to the crumb cake layer and wrapped around some crumb cake bakers twine and popped it on the front of the card with dimensionals. Of course I had to have bling and added some Petal Pink Elegant Faceted Gems. Quick and Easy two step stamping made easy with the Stamparatus and beautiful DSP!

If you need any help with this card 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 crafty person on our Crumb Cake Journey and today it is the very talented Ros Davidson, she always comes up with great colour combinations and fun, happy cards, I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason there is a break in the next blog buttons and you don't go to the next person properly head back here and go to our weekly host the very lovely Cathy Proctor she will have a list of the team participating this week and you can continue you Crumb Cake Journey from there: Cathy's Blog

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

Week 3 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Basic Gray"

 

Week 3 of Colour Creations Blog Hop and I am not doing a fancy fold! I know you are all disappointed. 😂 I decided to look at the Garden wishes and Dandy Wishes Dies so that I really hadn't played anywhere enough with and Basic Gray is the perfect Neutral to play host to my flowers.

So for my card today I have also used the host stamp set Natural Textures which is just great and just adds that extra element to your cards.

To start my card off I decided to use Basic Gray as the card base and to use one of the Natural Textures stamps and stamp down the right hand edge of the card in Basic gray. Then I cut 2 layering pieces of card stock in Smoky Slate and Gray Granite and then tore the edges to give that nice rustic look. So now I have my basket with the stamping and my torn paper in the basket for my flowers to sit in.

On the Gray Granite piece I have used the Dandelion stamp and using Mossy Meadow stamped off a couple of times and then onto the card and then in full strength right in the middle. Before adhering to the card base I have used the Gray Granite Baker's Twine from the Essentials Pack to tie around the layers. 

My Dandelions are cut out of So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz and Basic White. I have no idea why I took so long to get these dies out they are quite fun. Of course every garden needs a few dragonflies so I had to use the dragonflies punch in all the colours and add the elegant faceted gems for some bling. The sentiment is stamped in Basic Gray and I have used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch

As I had a couple of dragonflies just trying to fly away I had to pop them on the inside of my card.

I hope you enjoyed my not fancy fold this week and if you would like anymore information or would like to have a play with these products and make a card yourself please do not hesitate to contact me.

I look forward each week to seeing the amazing creativity of the AWHT members who have created with our challenge colour and Ros Davidson is our next person on the hop so please head over to her blog now.

Our blogs are like a circle and you may have started at any point along the way so just click on the next blog button and it will take you to the next person and you will go all the way around but if for any reason you find a link is broken just come to this list and click on the persons name to go to the next blog.

Michele Taylor 

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern  <=You are here

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Theresa Gerrard

Kristine D'Auria

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Di Furniss

Claire Daly

Christine Blain

Fiona Ryan

Caroline Manwaring

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Rosa Leyden 

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 20 - Colour Creations Showcase - " Gray Granite"

 Well today is a gorgeous sunny spring day in Melbourne, Australia. I hope you have been able to get out and enjoy some sunshine if you are in lockdown like we are and have some gorgeous sunshine. I have a bit of a migraine today so the sunshine although lovely is not great on my eyes. I only mention that as you will see when you see my card that I dropped my stamp on my finished card as I went to clean it. I didn't have the strength to remake it so just ignore the splodge! 😂😢

This week Gray Granite!

I have kept my palette very simple and clean today trying to practice for our monthly creative showcase where we will be using only 5 products. I am not know for using a few number of products. My colours were Gray Granite, Mint Macaron and Whisper White.

I chose to use Mint Macaron with the Gray Granite because I had finally after a couple of years looking at the Very Versailles stamp set, bit the bullet and bought it! I do that, do you? Look at things you love and then leave it too long and they aren't there anymore. Well I thought NO! I am not going to do that with this stamp set I am going to get it.

So as you can see with just this stamp set a couple of different coloured pieces of card stock and the matching ink you can make a very pretty card. I don't know why I waited so long to get this stamp set.

So with the Gray Granite card base I added an extra layer and popped that up on dimensionals and if you have limited supplies this is a great way to add interest and dimension to your cards. Normally I use very thing borders on my matting but as I was using only 2 or 3 colours I made the matt wider to highlight the colour.

I stamped the images in gray granite on the whisper white card stock first then the leaves in  mint macaron before wrapping the braided linen trim around the card and adhering to the card base. I stamped the sentiment in Mint Macaron and cut it out with the Stitched Shapes dies and popped it up on some dimensionals as well. I had to add some bling and for this stamp set that is quite the vintage look the elegant faceted gems were just the thing.

You can see that having this stamp set is one you should invest in for quick easy collage type cards and make sure you move your card away from your stamps when you are cleaning them so you don't drop them onto your finished project! Just a little hint from me!

If you have any questions about todays project or if you would like to purchase the products to make this quick and easy project do not hesitate to contact me.

Ok my friends the fun doesn't stop here please head on over to the lovely Cathy's blog the host of our Colour Creations Showcase to find the list of the very creative ladies taking part in this weeks colour of Gray Granite: Cathy' Blog

These are the products I used in today's project:

Product List

Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set

[149275]

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

[147008]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad

[147118]

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

[147106]

Stitched Shapes Dies

[152323]

Elegant Faceted Gems

[152464]

3/16" (1 Cm) Braided Linen Trim

[147808]

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

Bone Folder

[102300]

Paper Snips

[103579]

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