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,