Week 9 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - " Calypso Coral"

Today we are looking at the gorgeous colour Calypso Coral. The name always makes me thing of  Harry Belefonte as he was nicknamed the King of Calypso music! You know Day-o, Daaaay-0! I actually like this colour but I rarely use it. Today I have paired it with a couple of other colours and used the Spotlight Technique to create my card.

For this card I have used the Daisy garden stamp which is a 1 large background stamp which I have stamped in memento black ink on Basic White card. I did this twice so I could colour the second one to create the spotlighted area.

For the Spotlight area of the card I have stamped the Daisy Garden a second time and I then used my Stampin' Write markers to colour the daisies. I used Bumblebee for the centre, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow for the leaves, Cherry Cobbler and our colour of the day Calypso Coral for the daisy petals. For the area around the daisies I have used the Light Pool Party Stampin Blend to colour the area in. The little flower at the bottom is from the Daisy Lane stamp set which I have stamped and coloured the same way and fussy cut out.

I then used the Layering Circle Dies to cut out the the spotlight and a scalloped circle of Basic Black to layer over the front of the background stamped image.

What is not easy to see is that I have added a little bit of Wink of tella to the petals and it just lifts the whole card. Under the extra daisy I have added some Gold Shimmer Ribbon which is from the new July-December Mini which you will be able to get your hands on in just a few more days as it goes live on August 3rd. It is so lovely! Now you might be wondering where the " Love you" comes from well I am glad you asked. It is from the Love you more than dies, you know the one with chocolate and coffee and all that fun stuff in it!

Behind the daisy layer before the Basic Black card base I have used the Pansy Petals Designer Series paper which has Calypso Coral as one of the colours.

Hope you have enjoyed this little walk down memory lane of  this technique. 

If you would like any information about this card or would like to get your hands on the new Mini coming out next week do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on the colour creations blog hop. Theresa Gerrard always has very creative cards and I love to see what she has for us each week so click on the next blog button below to continue on in this weeks blog hop journey. 

If for any reason a next blog button doesn't work, (you know those computer gremlins) please head to the host of our colour creations blog hop and there you will find the list of all those participating in this weeks blog hop so you can continue: Cathy Proctor's Blog

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

Week 5 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Blackberry Bliss"

 

Well today we are looking at my favourite colour! Well ok one of my favourites! No ok my favourite! Anything Blackberry Bliss and I am there Girlfriend! I remember as a little girl going blackberry picking along the riverbank, fresh blackberries and ice cream and homemade blackberry jam and all those wonderful childhood memories! Oh I digress. Plus you are going to want to make sure you get the new Mini Coming Soon! Blackberry Bliss DSP to die for!!!! You are going to love it! I can't wait!

Back to the matter at hand our colour today Blackberry Bliss and I have made 2 cards for you both using the Simply Succulents Stamp set and Potted Succulents Dies.

My first card is a 3D Stage Card fancy fold! I had never made one and I know I had to make something special because it was Blackberry Bliss week. Now I had a bit of a dilemma on how to photograph it so I have a few from all different angles so you get the whole idea.

So for the base of my card I have used Blackberry Bliss card stock and paired it with the Pansy Petals DSP as it has  Blackberry Bliss as one of the Colours in that DSP. Well you can see that I haven't used a pattern that has blackberry bliss in it but I know that the paper designs I have used go with Blackberry Bliss because Stampin' Up! have already done all the colour combination matching for me in the DSP. They tell us what colours are in the DSP on the back of the packet and in the catalogues. How cool is that!!

 Ok so once I had chosen my papers and worked on the fold of the card. You can find the directions to make this type of card on YouTube. It was time to decorate. For that front top layer of my card I cut the design with the Ornate Layer dies to make it a little bit more decorative but you could also do it a bit more traditional and use your stitched rectangle dies.

As you can see I have the front, middle and back of stage so I needed to have 3 lots of decorations. I have stamped the succulents in basic gray and then used the Stampin' Blends to colour them in. I tried a few different combinations for this one to vary the colour of the succulents. We are very fond of succulents at our house and I have taken the colour inspiration from the ones we have in our garden.

On the very back of the stage the backdrop is the large die of succulents cut out in blackberry bliss. Now for the colouring of the Succulents. For the tall one sticking up at the back it is a combinations of light So Saffron, light Smokey Slate and Light Soft Sea Foam. The green and yellow tipped one is Dark Daffodil Delight and light Just Jade.  The bright orangey pink one is Light Polished Pink and light and Dark Pale Papaya and a hint of soft sea foam. The hanging down succulent is both light and dark Soft Succulent just to make it easy. The one peeking in from the left here with the pink tips is Light Fresh Freesia and Light Mint Macaron, Now I could not go without having a Blackberry Bliss one and of course that is both light and Dark Blackberry bliss but under the dark, you might be able to see dark old olive. I really played around with the colours to try and get some depth and difference in the succulents.

Oh I almost forgot the pots. I coloured them with Bronze, Ivory, Dark Crumb Cake, and Light Soft Suede. To finish off the pots I have die cut out some extra succulent leaves and plants with the potted succulent dies in crumb cake and soft succulent card. 

The stage doors fold closed nicely so that you can put your card into an envelope to give to a friend who loves plants to let them know that you have been thinking of them. The sentiment is white heat embossed onto Blackberry Bliss card and cut out with one of the dies from the Potted Succulents Die set. It was a fun card to make and I just love sitting and colouring with my stampin' blends and it is a fun thing to do when watching your favourite Aussies Tennis Stars play at Wimbledon.

Now for my second card it is a little less involved but I love it!

I have again used the Simply Succulents stamp set and used the big succulents stamp but this time I have heat embossed it in white emboss powder onto Soft Succulent card.

I have used a Blackberry bliss card base for this card and once I had heat embossed the large succulent stamp in white onto the Soft Succulent card I took out my water painters and painted the succulents in Blackberry Bliss and Soft Succulent ink. I just loved this sentiment today so used it again on this card and heat embossed it in white and cut it out using the dies from the Potted Succulents set and popped it up on dimensionals. The Basic Rhinestone jewels have been coloured with the dark Blackberry Bliss Stampin' Blends to finish off the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my 2 cards today. They were so fun to make. Nothing like a bit of colouring to relax you.

Now if you need more information on how to put these cards together or would like to purchase products to make these cards please do not hesitate to contact me. If you would like the new Mini Catalogue available in August with all that gorgeous Blackberry bliss DSP and lots of wonderful Christmas stamps let me know, you won't be disappointed.

Please head over to the blog of the lovely Ros Davidson I am always excited to see her fantastic creations.

If for any reason there is a broken link just head to the list below and click on the name of the person you wish to go to and you will head straight to their blog.

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern <= You are Here

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Andrea Sargent

Diane Furniss

Tina Gillespie

Theresa Gerrard

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Rosa Leyden

Vicki Boucher

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,