Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 4 - 2023-2024 - Pebbled Path - Flower card and Gift Box

 

Welcome to week 4 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop, this week we are looking the 4th new In Color and it is Pebbled Path. It is a fantastic Neutral and I have used it as a base for all the other lovely colours to go from.

So for you today I have made a card full of flowers and a lovely box for it to go in as you just can't give this Birthday card in anything but a gift box.

I have fallen in love with making flowers and then Stampin' Up! came out with the Paper Florist Dies and I just had to get them.

So for my card and box I have used many of the dies from the Paper Florist Dies as you can see but it is so much fun. Then I had the Seasonal Branches Bundle so I added a couple of branches from the dies. Then of course as I was in the die mode so I used the Wanted to say dies to put the Happy Birthday on my card. Ok just because, well not just because I started with it actually the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder.

So you might be asking what are all these gorgeous colours that I have made this card in. Well the card base and the Exposed brick layer is in our Colour of the week Pebbled Path. Plus you might be able to see some beautiful Pebble Path ribbon hiding behind the large Bubble Bath flower. The flower at the top is the new Lemon Lolly and isn't that a gorgeous yellow! The bottom flower as well as the Happy Birthday is in Moody Mauve with a Wild Wheat centre. I have added some Berry Burst flowers at the end of Mossy Meadow stems and Old Olive leaves just lifts everything. Oh Don't forget the branches they are in crumb cake.

I realised that my whole project had not one bit of stamping so I took out the Seasonal Branches stamp set and used the 2 stamps to make my inside greeting! I have stamped the greeting with Pebbled Path ink.

Well a card like we have made needed a gift box and I have a made a belly band to go around it.

I have used the same flowers again for the belly band and attached them to a small strip of Pebbled Path card.

Once the box was made and I had added a layer of card that had been embossed with the Exposed brick I added the Pebbled Path ribbon and tied it with bow at the top of the box. I then added some Tear 'N' Tape on the  ribbon to add the little flower band to the ribbon.

Now this box is fantastic so how did I manage to work out how big I needed it! Well I made the card and put the flowers on to the card all decorated up. Then I measured how tall the flower was. It was just under 4 cm tall so I made a 4 cm tall box. So I got a piece of copy paper and scored 1 side at 4 cm and 1 end at 4cm. Then I placed the card flat on to the copy paper against the score edge. I then marked where the card finished and then scored both those 2 remaining ends. Those 2 remaining ends I cut from the score line 4 cm away. Now I had the size of the card stock base I needed to cut and then you can score at 4 cm all round. Snip up to the score lines on 2 corners on both ends and adhere together. Now for the top to fit perfectly you just have to add 2 mm or 1/16th to the long side and the short side of your measurements for the base and then score at 4 cm all round and you will have the top of your box fit perfectly.

I hope you have enjoyed this fun Pebbled Path creation and if you have any questions please let me know

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Pebbled path and this week we are going to the amazing Di Furniss, I can't wait to see her gorgeous projects. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime there is a break and something has gone wrong with the next blog button just head back here and you can go to our lovely hosts blog Cathy Proctor and there she will have the list of all those participating in this weeks Pebbled Path challenge: Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 3 - 2023-2024 - Moody Mauve

 

Welcome to Week 3 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the gorgeous InColor Moody Mauve! 

Now I quite like the colour but I am not so sure it is a favourite of others. So I thought I would go all out and just throw lots of it on my card to help you fall in love of it. Plus make a fancy fold just because!

So for my card I have used the Something Fancy stamp set and also the Something Fancy Dies to cut out the sentiments! I have also used the Peta Park builder punch for my flowers.

In the first photo you may notice that the flowers didn't have the iridescent pearls. I think it just needed a little bit of bling! Now you may be saying this doesn't look like a fancy fold card Sharon! Well no that is because it is an Internal Shadow Box Card!

So on the inside of the card base I have created  a pop up shadow box and behind the basic white card I have added some InColor Moody Mauve Heart DSP.

Then I had to decorate the base that was created so I took the Moody Mauve piece of DSP from Fresh As A Daisy and added that to the inside and the front cover then I got happy punching flower with the Petal Park Builder Punch. The Sentiment in the middle is stamped in Moody Mauve and cut out with the Something Fancy dies and just adhered on the right hand side so that it can move freely

All these gorgeous flowers in the middle of the card are glued together with the multipurpose glue and on the front I have layered them with dimensionals. I also used my bone fold to bend the flower a little. The colours I have used is Moody Mauve, Bubble Bath, Basic White and Mossy Meadow Leaves.

I didn't forget the back of the card. It is a panel to write your message on and I also decorated it with some of the flowers.

I almost forgot I used some of the gorgeous InColor Moody Mauve Ribbon under the Thank You on the Front of the card!

If you have any questions about my card today do not hesitate to contact me and if you would like to get your hands on the new Annual Catalogue just ask me how.

Now is the time to head to the next creative person on our Moody Mauve journey and this week we are heading to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what she has in store for us this week, I love seeing what she has for us so just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason the next blog buttons have a problem on your journey just come back here and got to our host Cathy Proctor's Blog and you will find the list of all those participating this week in Moody Mauve and you will be able to continue your journey there. Cathy's Blog.

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

Stampin' Up - In Colour - Art With Heart May 2018 Blog Hop

Tonight, the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring “In Colors” theme. Check out the new 2018 - 2020 In colors and let’s not forget the current 2017 - 2019 in colors. If you would like a copy of the 2018-2019 annual catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

Tonight, you would have come to me from the lovely Caroline Manwaring on your blog hop journey, let’s continue our fun.

I don’t know about you, but I just love it when a new annual catalogue comes out and we get to see what the new “In Colours” are! It is so exciting! I have chosen to feature the very new 2018-2020 in colours in the blog hop tonight.

I have made 2 cards to show you tonight, one which is very simple and uses all 5 of the new in colours and the other one well is a little more involved. You know me by now I like to do a fancy fold card every now and then but this card it uses 4 of the new In Colours.

My first card tonight is simple, yet elegant. You are just going to love the Graceful Glass Designer Vellum. There are so many beautiful designs, 12 in fact that are just perfect for stained glassed work and you can use any colouring technique to colour them. I have chosen to use my blender pen on this occasion. I just squeezed the lid of the ink pad onto the ink so that it would leave a little ink on the inside of the lid and then picked it up with the blender pen and on the back of the image I coloured these gorgeous birds.

They are almost like rainbow lorikeets which I have in my back yard on occasion and I just love. I really missed the gorgeous birds that we have here in Australia when I lived in the concrete jungle of New York city.

So I used all of the colours but the Pineapple Punch to colour the birds, I used that colour as my card base. I also used Early Espresso on the beaks. To hold the vellum onto the card base I have used mini glue dots under the Clear Rhinestones and some snail under the sentiment. This is so the adhesive is not visible through the vellum.

The sentiment is from the Beautiful You stamp set and I thought it just went perfect with these gorgeous birds. I have inked it up with our black memento ink and punched it out with our Tailored Tag punch and backed it with a basic black tag cut in half.

I am a sucker for ribbon and trims and Stampin’ up have some gorgeous new offerings for us in the new catalogue this year. So, I couldn’t resist adding a little bit of 1/8” Black Cord to the card as well.

For my second card I came across a tutorial for the T-Slide card on Splitcoast stampers and I thought I just had to give this a go.

Can you guess which new “in colour’ I didn’t use on this card?.......... Yes, that is correct Blueberry Bushel. I did manage to get the other 4 on this card however. The balloons from Hand Delivered stamp set again I have used my blender pen and the gorgeous, Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove and Call Me Clover and once it was dry I just had to make them all sparkly with the Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. The blouse of the lady holding the balloons is done in Pineapple Punch and the skirt is in Grapefruit Grove, I have popped her up on some dimensionals.

Behind our balloon holding gift giver I have stamped the lovely little flower that comes in the Hand Delivered stamp set and they are coloured in with the gorgeous In Colours again using the blender pen. Cut out with the largest square of the Stitched Shaped framelits!

You may have noticed the little tab on the right-hand side of the card, if I pull that it will side out and open the front of the card front to reveal the sentiment….  ”Love celebrating you!”  I have punched out the tab with the Circle Tab punch and attached it to the T-Slide mechanism.

Now the simply gorgeous DSP is the very special Share What You Love Specialty DSP and this particular piece is perfectly matched to the In Colour of Grapefruit Grove but it also has a translucent, pearlized finish on it. Oh, it is absolutely gorgeous!

On the inside of the card I have stamped the little flowers from the Hand Delivered stamp set

Here are the products that I used in these cards.

PRODUCTS
Stamps	Beautiful You, Hand Delivered
Card Stock and Papers	Graceful Glass Designer Vellum, Share What You Love Specialty DSP, Pineapple Punch, Grapefruit Grove, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink	Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, Call Me Clover, Blueberry Bushel, Early Espresso, Memento Black
Acecessories / Embellishments	1/8”(3.2mm) Black Cord, Clear Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Wink of Stella Glitter Brush
Tools	Stitched Shapes Framelit die, Circle Tab Punch, Tailored Tag Punch, Big Shot, Trimmer, paper snips, Tear & Tape adhesive, mini glue dots, snail, bone folder, dimensionals

Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented and lovely, Claire Daly

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:
Ros Davidson
Caroline Manwaring
Sharon Davern ,<=You are here
Claire Daly
Tina Gillespie
Rebecca Jacovou
Kate Morgan
Alisha Watson
Rachel Palmieri
Catherine Proctor
Monika O’Neill

Please contact me if you have any questions about these cards or any of your Stampin' Up needs.

Hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for spending some time with me.
Take Care

Stampin' Up OnStage in Sydney

Hello Everyone,

Recently I was fortunate to be able to go to Sydney for the Stampin' Up OnStage Local event. It was a wonderful time and we has such fantastic weather. The event was held a Luna Park and we could see it from our hotel window. How lucky were we?

Here is a view from our hotel room. Isn't it gorgeous?

Here is the view by night out out window, just stunning!

Here I am with some of the lovely ladies from the Art with Heart team having fun at OnStage in Sydney!

The lovely Caroline Manwaring from country NSW. She and I became little friends! We laughed about how nice it was to have someone close in height to ourselves!

Here we are with Jan Collins from Queensland.

These gorgeous ladies from the Art with Heart team sat with me for the  day. Catherine Proctor, from Sydney, Caroline Manwaring, Jan Collins and my room mate and flying buddy for the weekend Kate Morgan. Catherine Proctor was amazing and came and picked us up from the airport and drove us around the whole weekend. Thanks so much Catherine!

At the OnStage events in April Stampin' Up launch their new annual catalogue that will be available to customers from June 1, 2017. If you want to get your hands on a copy don't hesitate to contact me.

While we were at OnStage in Sydney we had many fantastic presentations but I can't possibly show them all to you but here is a taste of the new in colours for this year. Oh My Goodness! Can't wait to get my hands on these ones!  Left to right from the top Lemon Lime Twist, Fresh Fig, Powder Pink, Tranquil Tide and Berry Burst. Gorgeous! The Lemon Lime Twist reminds me of being a teenager in the '80s. It is sure going to bring a pop of colour to our projects!

I have a most Gorgeous Cousin going through her second bout of breast cancer at the moment with such grace and dignity and I was so happy and overwhelmed when this new stamp set Ribbon of Courage was demonstrated for us. I can't wait to get my hands on this most beautiful stamp set to be able to make her a card like this. Of course you can make it is all different colours for many different struggles that your friends and loved ones are facing.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Thanks for sharing some time with me today.

Take Care.