Rhapsody in Craft: Mother's Day

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Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 44 - Real Red - Tiger Lilly

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Welcome to week 44 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog hop. This week we are championing the colour Real Red!

This week I have chosen to work with the Easter Lilies Dies. I was talking with a good friend about the Easter Lilies this week and discussing about making an Easter card and I thought well they do come in different colours other than the white ones that we have at Easter. So I looked them up and sure enough I found the Red Tiger Lily so I had to try and make one!

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The colour combination I used for the project this week is lots of lush greenery around the beautiful red lilies!

How did I put my card together!

On a card base of Mossy Meadow I stamped in Mossy Meadow with a stamp from the Notes of Nature stamp set!

Then I took a piece of Crumb Cake and embossed it with the Stripes embossing folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D set. I then cut the card into 1 cm pieces to create a lattice. The vertical struts are popped up on dimensionals and the horizontal are woven through.

For the Tiger Lilies I have used the Easter Lilies dies. I have cute one in Real Red card and on in Petal Pink Card and the stamen in Basic White! Each section of the flower was then coloured with a sponge dauber with extra Real Red ink! As Tiger Lilies have lots of spots which I think they should be called Cheetah lilies because of the spots but it sounds better to be called Tiger I suppose. Anyway they have lots of dots so I splattered them with Early Espresso ink. I did this by flicking ink from a from an Early Espresso Pen. The stamen on the dark flower is coloured in Dark Mossy Meadow blends and the light one in Soft Sea Foam Blend.

I cut many leaves in Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam to surround the Real Red Tiger Lilies which I have attached to the lilies before attaching them to the card front with dimensionals as I had given the flowers dimension by curling the petals.

The sentiment is from the Perennial Postage stamp set and I have stamped it in Early Espresso on Basic White. I have fussy cut it out 3 times to express the meaning of the words!

This card could be used for Mother's Day or for a Daughter or a Special Friend!

If you would like any more information about my project or would like to get your hands on these gorgeous Easter Lilies Dies before the end of the Jan-April Mini please do not hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Real Red and this week you will be heading to the amazing and talented lovely Cathy Proctor. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just click on the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't go where you think it should go just come back here and head to our Blog Host the wonderful Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of everyone playing along today so you will be able to continue you hop from that list: Cathy's Blog.

Next week we will be looking at the colour Shaded Spruce, I hope to see you then.

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

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Week 47 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Smoky Slate"

Today is a very exciting day! Why? Well I am glad you asked! Today is not only Colour Creations Showcase day but it we have a NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE! So that means we have so much new fun products that are available to share and to purchase and play with. You are going to love them all.

Well today we are looking at one of our Neutral Colours Smoky Slate and you can pair this with just about anything you want so let's get to it!

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I have used the Tasteful Touches stamp set and the gorgeous In Good Taste DSP which we are so lucky it is carry over into this new Annual Catalogue. I just love this paper and stamp set so I was very happy that they did not retire. The In Good Taste DSP has Smoky Slate as one of its colours so I went straight for it for our colour challenge today.

Now you may wonder what the little pop of colour I have added to go with our Smoky Slate. Well, I am glad you asked! (Those of you who are old enough will know that is a reference to the Curiosity Show😂) It is 2 of the new 2021-23 In Colors. Fresh Freesia and Soft Succulent.

I have added Fresh Freesia card to the base on top of the Smoky Slate and under the Tile DSP from In Good Taste and with the beautiful In Color Open Weave ribbons I have a little splash of that as well as the In Color Basic Jewels. The Rose from the Tasteful Touches stamp set I have firstly stamped in Smoky Slate and then added just a hint of the Fresh Freesia with both the Light and Dark Stampin' Blends

Now you can see under the rose that I have popped up on dimensionals I have stamped directly onto the In Good Taste DSP, I have stamped off onto scrap paper first the rose in Smoky Slate and then onto the DSP and I have also done the same with the leave from the stamp set in Soft Succulent. Then using the Forever Flourishing Dies I have cut out in Vellum and in the New In Color Shimmer Vellum in the Soft Succulent colour some leaves to go under the rose and sentiment.

The sentiment is stamped on Smoky Slate card in Smoky slate ink and I have used the Tasteful Labels Dies with my Cut & Emboss machine to cut out the label.

I think it is quite an elegant card and I only just had time to photograph it before my friend took it off my hands to give it to her Mum for Mother's day. So it can be used for a friendship card, A Mother's Day Card or a card to give to your daughter. I hope you will give this design a try as the DSP is just lovely and you can add any number of your favourite colours and that new shimmer vellum is so stunning! You will want it high on you wish list of new products!

Please head over to the lovely Cathy Proctor's Blog to see the always amazing inspiration from her and the list of the team participating this week so that you can go an visit them as well to their wonderful creations for this weeks colour of Smoky Slate

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE, can you see I am excited, 😂 please do not hesitate to contact me.

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

Thursday, 16 April 2020

AWHT Creative Showcase April 2020 - Mother's Day Theme

Welcome to the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! Team Monthly Creative Showcase. The theme for this month’s showcase is Mother’s Day. Under the current conditions Mother’s Day this year is going to be completely different to any other Mother’s Day celebrations.

Mother's Day will definitely be strange this year for many but as for many years we don't live near my Mum so we will be ringing in and maybe even skyping. We do do that sometimes as well. I am sure as my parents are in lock down they are really wanting out.

The Art With Heart Team are hoping to share a little Mother’s Day love and inspiration with you tonight.

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Tonight I have a fancy fold for you using the Good Morning Magnolia set and Magnolia Memory Dies. I have also used the Strong and Beautiful stamp set for the sentiment as I love the font of the Happy Mother's Day.

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To make this card I used my favourite colour Blackberry Bliss and folded it like a normal card base in half and then folded the front back in half. There you have a very simple Z-Fold Card. Using the gorgeous Magnolia Lane DSP on the folded back front in a 4.9 x 14.5 cm strip.

To add a beautiful layer of softness vellum under the front 9x13 cm layer and adhere that to the front just on the side. Now as you are going to cover it with the next layer you can use your snail as you won't need to worry about your adhesive showing through the vellum as you are covering it with your stamped image layer.

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I have stamped Happy Mother's day in Blackberry Bliss on Whisper White and that piece is 7.7 x 11.5 cm, and I have backed this with Mossy Meadow 8 x cm. before adhering this to the front side over the vellum I have wrapped around some polka dot tulle ribbon. The beautiful blackberry Magnolia is stamped in black memento ink cut out with the magnolia memory dies and coloured with the stampin' blends. Both the light and dark black berry bliss were used for the flower and dark old olive for the leaves. I popped them it up on some dimensionals.

I really love the dark purple magnolias they are my favourite every year when they are in bloom.