Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 33 - 2024-2025 - Lost Lagoon - Otterly Amazing

 

Today we are looking at the gorgeous Lost Lagoon for Colour Creations Blog Hop week 33.

If you have been following along with our Heart of Christmas blog hops it was probably the only colour that I used for all of my cards! Ok maybe a couple of weeks I did something different. So this week I got out the Otterly Amazing - Otterly Adorable Suite! It is an online exclusive and as my daughter simply loves Otters and when were were in Japan in 2019 we had to go to an Otter Cafe I had to get this suite! So I had to make a card for Lost Lagoon week from this suite.

This suite comes with the Otterly Amazing stamp set and dies and they are just the sweetest little otters you have ever seen! I have made for you a double gate fold card and I cased the design from Kayla Renee and changed up a few elements.

As I have been pairing Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon all Heart of Christmas Blog hops I had to put them together again for this card. I have put the base of the card in Pretty Peacock and layered it with Lost Lagoon Card. The top part is the double gate fold and I have added a single card base layer to give stability on the back. All of the folds and that back have the beautiful Otterly Adorable DSP layered which is all about Lost Lagoon. Now can you see those die cut fish I cut them out of the Perennial Lavender DSP.

When you open the card you have a place to write your greeting and I have decorated it with blending some Lost Lagoon and a little Pretty Peacock in the corner and then die cut some sea grass in Lemon Lime Twist and Pretty Peacock and adding a little bit of blending over the top of the same colours. Some more fish a bit of speckles from my Lost Lagoon Stampin Write Marker and then I coloured the Otter with the Stampin Blends. Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Light and Dark Copper Clay and #300 Natural which is the Medium colour set.

For the focal point I have cut out a circle with the Stylish Shapes Dies in Basic White and blended ink over the top half with Lost Lagoon and the bottom half with Pretty Peacock. die cut out some rocks with Pebble Path and blended with a little pebble path ink. Added a few more sea grasses under the Otters and a baby otter and Coloured them the same way as I did the one on the inside and use the colour lifter to add a little highlight. The grasses attached to the 2 main otters where colored with Lemon Lime Twist and Pretty Peacock Stampin Blends. The Log that the otters are sitting on is die cut out in Copper Clay and then using the blending brush a little copper clay ink was added. The sentiment was heat embossed with the Wow White embossing Powder and the you can see the gorgeous Lost Lagoon Soft Cord!

Did you catch the Riverside irregular pearls they are just perfect for otters!

If you have any questions about my project today or about getting your hands on this gorgeous Adorable Otters Suite let me know.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member playing with the gorgeous Lost Lagoon colour for you and this week you will be heading to Di Furniss. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button goes not quite where you were expecting please head to our amazing weekly host, Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating and you can continue your Lost Lagoon hop from there: Cathy's Blog

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

Week 35 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Petal Pink

Welcome to another wonderful week of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week the team are looking at the dusty pink of Petal Pink!

I have made a Slim Line Card for you this week. I know I am late to the party as I have not made one before but I thought I would give it a go as I have just received the gorgeous dies from the Jan-June Mini Catalogue. I thought the die would make a beautiful backdrop for my Petal Pink flowers.

So I have chosen the gorgeous Friendly Hello Stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure for my card as who does not like flowers and who does not like this cute little bird?!

I cut out the Slim Line Die, well one of them and I really liked this one and thought it was perfect for my flowers in Soft Sea Foam card stock and adhered it to a Thick Basic White card Base. I did that with a little bit of liquid glue by adding it to the back and letting it almost go dry so that it was tacky and then when I put it on the card base the glue didn't seep out all over the card.

I then stamped all the lovely flowers, leaves, the bird and the sentiment in Smoky Slate. The sentiment I punched out with the scalloped oval from the double oval punch pack from the Annual catalogue and set it aside to work on my flowers and bird.

For the bird I have used the new Natural Tones Stampin' Blends and you can get them now. They come as a set of 10 and in Light, Medium Light, Medium, Medium Deep and Deep combo pairs. I actually used 7 of these for the Bird and branch. and the lightest two on the belly of the bird go so well with Petal Pink.

The flowers I have used light and dark Petal Pink and Dark So Saffron and the leaves I have used Light and Dark Mint Macaron then I fussy cut them all out and adhered them to the front of the card. Of course I am in love with pulling a few threads from the Gold Shimmer Ribbon and have popped that under the sentiment. All these years in sewing I have tried to not have fraying and here I am fraying this gorgeous ribbon! LOL! 😂

Well I think I will like working with the Natural tone blends and the Slim line dies and I love how the Natural tones worked so well with the Petal Pink so lots of colouring in my future I see.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey through Petal Pink. Just hit the next blog button and you will got straight there: This week we will be going to Michele Taylor and I just love how creative she gets with her designs can't wait to see what she has for us this week.

If for any reason the next blog buttons have some technical issue please head to our host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all the participants in this weeks blog hop and you can continue your Petal Pink Journey from there: Cathy's Blog

If you would like to contact me for any details please don't hesitate to hit the contact button.

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