Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 10 - 2023-2024 - Balmy Blue

 

Welcome to week 10 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-24. This week we are starting with the core colours that remained in our colour collections after the refresh. We will start with Balmy Blue and continue through the colours in alphabetical order.

This week as I am away visiting my brother in Queensland while my hubby has to attend a conference and present research etc. I had to have a simple card for you.

My card today uses all of these fun colours but is very simple.

It is all on a base of Thick Basic White.

Onto the base of Thick Basic White card I have embossed a layer of Balmy Blue Card with the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder and wrapped it with some Linen thread and tied a bow.

For the main part of the card I have stamped flowers onto the Basic White layer in Crumb cake in the lower left corner from the Petal Park stamp set. Then I have stamped them again with Balmy Blue in the solid and over the top with Misty Moonlight and punched them out with the Petal Park Builder Punch. I did this again with Fresh Freesia and Highland Heather flowers. The Old Olive leaves I used a blender pen to add a little more colour to those. All of these were layered over the crumb cake flowers with some dimensionals for the Balmy Blue ones and and flat to the card for the Fresh Freesia flowers.

The sentiment is stamped in Smoky Slate from the Timeless Arrangements stamp set and I used a die from the Somethin Fancy Dies to cut it out!

Such a simple layout and something that could be replicated with any colour and any sentiment!

If you have any questions about today's project please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next talented person on our Balmy Blue journey and this week we are going to the lovely Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason there is a break in one of the links please head back her and go to our lovely weekly host Cathy Proctor, she will have the list of all those from the Art With Heart Team participating this week: Cathy's Blog

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2023-2024 - Week 9 - Pecan Pie Pop Up Flower Card

 

Hello there and welcome to Week 9 of our 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop and this week we have a new colour to add to our core  colours in the refresh and it is Pecan Pie. 

Now I lived in the US for 10 years and this was a staple of the pies to eat whenever you went to someone's place to have a meal or out to eat at a cafe. So Delicious! So I needed to make a card that was full of deliciousness. Of course I made a fancy fold!

All will be revealed!

Here is my colour combination for this project, not as many as last week.

I saw this card made by a UK crafter Sam Calcott about 5 years or so ago so I thought well I should give it a go. I was away with friends and watched a video of how to do it with no sound, to say that made it a lot more difficult to create would be a little bit of an understatement. The first attempt didn't work but the second did. I think I should get used to having those ear bud things in my ears but I don't like them! LOL!

So on the inside of the card when you untie the gorgeous Pecan Pie Bordered Ribbon which is so super soft and just beautiful to tie you have a garden path and steps full of lattice and flowers!

This side on view shows the steps so much better!

So as on the front of the card I have continued down the centre of the steps the Glorious Gingham DSP in Pecan Pie. Along the edges of the steps and like the edges of the path I have used strips of Pecan Pie card stock.

The flowers on the outside and the inside are from the Petal Park stamp set and I have stamped them in Sweet Sorbet, Crushed Curry and Old Olive and I used the Blender pen to draw out some of the ink from the centre to add a little colour. The Sentiments are stamped in Pecan Pie from the Nature's Prints stamp set (keeping it all in the one theme here) and then die cut out with the Nested Essential dies!

Of course you need a place to write your message so I have added some Basic White card to the back of the card and another little Sweet Sorbet flower!

Here is a quick video of the card opening!

If you have any questions about my project today don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our journey of Pecan Pie and this week we are heading to the amazing Tina Gillespie, I love seeing what she comes up with each week. Please click on the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the links doesn't work just come back here and head to our weekly host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating so you can continue your hop of Pecan Pie there: Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creation Blog Hop - Week 7 - 2023-2024 - Bubble Bath

 

Welcome to Week 7 of the 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop and this week we are looking at the lovely soft pink of Bubble Bath! It is a new colour that has been added to our core colours in the colour refresh.

This week I have used the Petal Park and Timeless Arrangement stamp sets to create my card to give a delicate composition to the card.

The colours that I have used to stamp the flower and the leave are firstly Bubble Bath with the Melon Mambo over the top and then Soft Sea Foam and Old Olive again over the top in the two step stamping of the flowers and leaves.

Although the Petal Park stamp set comes with a builder punch I wanted to stamp on the card and not punch out the flowers this time.

I love the you can line up these photopolymer stamps so easily so that I could stamp the solid colour of the Bubble bath before stamping the Melon Mambo over the top to give the definition of the flowers. The same for the leaves. I then wrapped the Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon around the card and tied it in a bow.

This gorgeous ribbon comes in a pack of 3 along with Azure Afternoon and Lemon Lolly.

I am loving the sentiments on Timeless arrangements so I had to use this one and I cut it out using the Deckled Rectangles and then again in the Bubble Bath card stock using my little trick of making it a little smaller if you want a smaller border.

I popped the sentiment up on dimensionals and then the front of the card on dimensionals on a base of Bubble Bath card. If you have trouble getting your bow to stay in place you can add a little mini glue dot under it to make sure it doesn't move.

If you have any questions or would like to get hold of this gorgeous new core colour of Bubble Bath please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Bubble Bath and this week we will be going to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what she has created. She always comes up with the most wonderful projects so please hit the next blog button and you will be take right there.

If for any reason one of the next blog links are not working just head back here and you can head to our host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of those participating this week in Bubble Bath and you can continue your journey there: Cathy's Blog

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