Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 9 - 2024 -2025 - Basic Gray

Today we are highlighting one of our Neutral colours for week 9 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog hop and that colour is Basic Gray!

Today I have totally CASEd a project with a couple of twists of my own from a demonstrator in the US her name is Jilli Bling. I just loved her project that she made using Pebble Path and so I recreated it with a few adjustments in Basic Gray.

My colour palette for you for today is Basic Gray, Gold and White, which is just stunning with these product! I have made a portfolio and 3 cards for you to go in the portfolio!

I have used the Lovely & Sweet Bundle and the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP to create my projects for you today!

Let's get into some of the details.

For the portfolio I have taken the Basic Gray and cut it down to 10 inches by the 8 1/4 inches of our card stock here in Australia.  Then comes a little bit of scoring. Here is a template to give you an idea.

Score down the 2 center marks at 4 3/4 and 5 1/4 inches from one side to give you a spine, then up 2 and 2 1/4 inches. Next time I make it I think I would reduce this for Australia card A4 Card so our envelopes would fit in the portfolio as well. That extra 1/4 of an inch would be perfect so just reduce the  fold up by that. Cut out the center where marked then glue the sides together with the 2 extra pieces you have cut and scored for stability and strength.

The belly band I have stamped in versa mark with a couple of the stamps from the Lovely and Sweet stamp set and then to give it a fancy end I have used a die from the Country Birdhouse Dies.

On the ends of the belly band I have added a couple of dimensionals to add then sentiment. You can see that the front of the Portfolio is layered in Basic White and the gorgeous Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP.

I have stamped the sentiment in Versa Mark and used the new Metallic WOW Gold Embossing Powder! and cut it out with the Lovely and Sweet Dies! Layered all of this on Gold foil, Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP cut out using the Something Fancy Dies and a little bit of Linen Thread. To finish off the Belly Band I have cut out one of the Lovely and Sweet dies in Basic White.

Card 1.

The first card that I have for you in the portfolio uses the Lovely and Sweet Bundle and a sentiment from the Country Birdhouse

For the focal point on Card 1. I have embossed the largest leaf and flower stamp onto Basic Gray with the Gold Metallic Wow Embossing Powder and with a water painter and the Whisper White and Basic Gray ink I have coloured the flowers and nuts in white and then the leaves in Basic Gray.

As you can see the painting of the image just makes it pop! To complete this card I kind of cheated as the colour on the DSP is actually Pebble Path but with Basic Gray it looks pretty good I say and then I braided a little bit of linen thread to add to the card under the layer of Gold Foil and Basic Gray Card. Don't forget to add some Basic Gray pearls they are perfect!

Card 2 & 3.

For these 2 cards I again used the  Lovely and Sweet Bundle and the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP and the sentiments are from Spotlight on Nature that I have embossed in the Basic White Wow embossing Powder.

To create the colour for the DSP on my 2 cards I have blended Basic Gray onto the gorgeous DSP. One a little darker than the other. Which one do you like?

Card 2.

This card I have added a layer of Basic Gray on top of the base as well as the blended DSP I have added some sprigs from the Lovely and Sweet Dies in white under the sentiment which is cut out from the Lovely and Sweet dies and layered on a Gold Foil cut out with the Something Fancy dies. Don't forget the bling of the Basic Gray Pearls.

Card 3.

This card I have blended the Basic Gray quite a bit darker as you can see and I have added a braided piece comprising of 2 pieces of Linen thread and 1 piece of white Bakers Twine. I have attached this with mini glue dots but you could attach it with liquid glue.

On the inside of each card I have gold embossed a portion of the larger leaf image as you need to have some decoration with this lovely gift of cards.

I do hope you have enjoyed my attempt at CASing this project and my few little changes, if you have any questions about it or would like to give it a go please contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented team member and you will be heading to the amazing Vicki Boucher this week. I can't wait to see her awesome project for us so just hit the next blog button and you will be taken straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons go where you were not expecting, come back here and you can head to our blog hop host the lovely Cathy Proctor where she will have the list of those participating this week in Basic Gray.

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

 

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 50 - Tahitian Tide - Notes of Nature Birthday

 

Welcome to week 50 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop this week we are looking at the colour Tahitian Tide.  Next week we will be starting our New InColor range for 2024-26 I do hope you will come back and check out the exciting 5 new InColors!

But first Tahitian Tide.

I thought I should end the 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop with a little fancy fold card. It is called a Cascading Display card and I haven't done one since my Christmas blog hop a couple of years ago so it is about time to do one again!

Today I have chosen to use the Notes of Nature and the Lovely & Sweet stamp sets to create my card. 

To begin with I created the base of the card in Tahitian Tide card stock.

Once you have the structure of the card which you score a "z" at each of  the ends of you base card then add another little piece of card in the shape of a "z" to those, then adhere the layers. It all helps the card fold down to go into our envelopes.

So how did I decorate the card base.

I took a piece of the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP and with the Stampin' Blends I coloured in the images. I used Light and Dark Tahitian Tide, Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Lost Lagoon and Light Pretty Peacock! I used the Lovely & Sweet Dies to cut out a couple of Tahitian card flowers. The sentiment is cut up and place a little on the left and the rest on the right!

On the middle section I have used a different piece of the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP. 

For the inside layer of the card where you can write your greeting I have added a circle of Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP cut out with the Everyday Details Dies which is what I used to cut out the Birthday Sentiment which is from the Notes of Nature Stamp set. I have also stamped and coloured the leaves and flowers from the Notes of Nature stamp set and cut them out with the Dies from the bundle.

I do hope you have enjoyed our last look at Tahitian Tide. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me before the end of April if you would like to get hold of the product shown in my project tonight as they are retiring. Next week we will have the new Annual Catalogue going live!

Now is the time to head to the next amazing person participating in our Tahitian Tide colour challenge and this week you will be heading to the amazing Cathy Proctor. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime while you are on your journey around our blog hop and one of the next blog buttons does not quote go where it needs to go please come back here and head to out host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list for you of all those participating so you will be able to continue hop from there. Cathy's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today and I hope you will return next week when we start our new hop for 2024-25 with the New InColours, take Care,