Week 46 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Soft Suede

 

Well this is the final colour creation for this year as our new catalogue is coming out next week! We will have 5 new InColors and that is always exciting to play with new colours!

For this week I have made a thinking of you card that could be used for a get well card or even for a sympathy card. A dear friend this week lost their young daughter in her early 20's and with my children all about the same age it just hits very close to home. So hold your children and your loved ones so close my friends.

I thought the sentiment from the Bamboo Stamp set was perfect for a get well card or a sympathy card and I do have a couple of close friends that are also unwell this week with Covid so they may just get this card too. I stamped many of the flowers from Quiet Meadow thinking I would add more but now I have them ready to go so I can make a few more cards.

I have done all the stamping on this card in the colour of the week Soft Suede and the flowers I have coloured with the stamping blends. I chose Flirty flamingo both light and dark and then Soft Succulent both light and dark for the green and a little dark So Saffron for the centre of the flowers. On the background I have used Crumb Cake Card but stamped in Soft Suede using the script, dots and little flower stamp from the Quiet Meadow stamp set then I ran it through the Splatters 3D embossing folder and with the sponge dauber I added some more soft suede around the edge and roughed it up with my paper snips to give it that old fashioned grunge look.

I have layered my fussy cut flowers (I am really into fussy cutting at the moment) with some gold shimmer ribbon and a few soft suede twigs from the Meadow dies under the sentiment punched out with the label me fancy punch and then put through the Splatters 3D embossing folder with a little bit of soft suede on the embossing folder. Of course flowers needed a bow and the linen thread was perfect. All of this is layered on the Symbol of Fortune DSP on Soft Suede card.

Don't forget to decorate the inside of your card which I have done with some more of that gorgeous Symbols of Fortune DSP and another fussy cut flower.

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 person on our journey of Soft Suede and today you will be heading to the very talented  Cathy Proctor's blog so just click on the next blog button and you will go straight to her page:

If for any reason one of the links doesn't work please head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor who so diligently keeps us going each week. She will have a list of everyone participating this week and you can continue your Soft Suede journey from her blog: Cathy's Blog.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 14 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Crushed Curry

 

Welcome to this week of colour challenge and creativity. Crushed Curry is the colour up in the spotlight for Week 14 of Colour Creations Blog Hop.  

Ok I need to confess that it is not my favourite colour as I had to make 1000 crowns in this colour a few years ago and I think the time it took to make that many crowns ......I just run from this colour but it really is a lovely colour for crowns if you ever need one!

Today I have a simple stamping card for you. I have used one of my favourite stamp sets from the Annual catalogue Quiet Meadow.

For this card today I have used the blending brushes to blend a panel of Basic White card with Crushed Curry ink getting gradually darker until the bottom being the darkest. I then used the Painted Label Dies and cut out the panel. First one end and not putting the panel all the way through and then the other end also not putting it all the way through the Cut & Emboss machine so that I didn't cut the panel in half. It is a great way of extending your labels. I then used Memento black ink to stamp the flower onto the panel.

I stamped the Thinking of you sentiment on Basic White in Memento ink and used the Quiet meadow Dies to cut it our then using the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder I put it and the layer behind the crushed curry and stamped panel through the Cut & Emboss machine. I popped the sentiment up on some dimensionals and finished the card off with 3 matt black dots. A clean and simple card for you today. I am loving this new Timeworn Type Embossing folder that is in the July-December Mini don't hesitate to get one soon.

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

Now is the time to head to the next blog on our journey in Crushed Curry creativity and Christine Blain is next. I love seeing all the wonderful layers and details that she creates in her gorgeous cards so I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Last week for Crumb Cake there was so much wonderful texture I looked at her card for a long time. Just hit the next blog button to go straight there.

If for any reason on your way around the blog hop there is a broken link just head to our host Cathy and she will have a list of the participants and you can continue your hop from there. Cathy's Blog

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

Week 12 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Coastal Cabana

 

Coastal Cabana, I love this colour. 

That was a bold statement. I know it is not Blackberry Bliss which is my absolute favourite colour but I do love this colour and I am so glad that it is one of Stampin' Up! regular colours. It used to be my daughter's favourite colour. Now as she has gotten older she has decided that she likes more maroony purple colours! Now Blackberry bliss or Rich Razzleberry would go really well with Coastal Cabana I went for a very simple palette. Mind you that song kept coming to mind EVERY TIME I say this colour! You know the one! Come on sing it will me Copa, Copacabana! You are welcome! You will have that stuck in your head for the rest of the hop now!

I know you are ready for my card but you can dance and sing to Barry Manilow while you look at my card. I have used one of my favourite bundles from the Annual Catalogue and just had to have flowers. 

For my card I wanted to create a lot of texture so I took out a piece of Basic White card and stamped the broken word stamp down the page. I used the Stamparatus and started at the top then moved it down one hinge and the card down 1 little square on the small grid paper that fits in the Stamparatus. A full movement down with the hinge was just a bit too much of a gap between each stamping for me. I stamped this in Early Espresso in to correspond with my card base. Then the fun begins. I used a New embossing folder from the New Mini catalogue called Timeworn Type 3DEF. Oh I love it. As you can see it doesn't look white. I first swiped my crumb cake ink over the intended side of the embossing folder so that the raised letters and worn out parts would come out white still. Almost like I had stained the paper with a tea bag.

I did the same thing to the sentiment which I stamped first in Early Espresso, cut out with the die from the Meadow Dies and then ran it through the Timeworn Type embossing folder with crumb cake ink.

Under the flowers onto the card I have stamped the flowers over the embossing in crumb cake to give a little more texture looking and then I have started to layer my flower arrangement. The leaves are cut from Soft Sea Foam card which I thought was quite fitting as we are using Coastal Cabana! The Crumb Cake stalks are but from the Christmas DSP Tidings of Christmas as they have the lovely print of plants on that side so just adding that little bit extra element. The gold is from the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack. (Ok almost had Blackberry bliss in there hehe!) and I have some linen thread behind my flowers as well.

As on the front of my card I have on the inside coloured my flowers with the blender pen as we don't have Stampin' Blends in Coastal Cabana. The centre of the flower is however dark So Saffron Stampin' Blends. On the front you may be wondering what I have used in the centre of the flowers? Well I am glad you asked. They are the new gorgeous brushed metallic dots from the New July-Dec Mini that come in Gold, Brass and Copper. They look so good you will want a pack of these.

Well my internet keeps dropping in and out so I had better stop and let you go so that you actually have a post to read and that it actually goes live when it is supposed to. If you have any questions about my card do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next blog and this week you will be heading to the lovely Theresa Gerrard's blog. Last week Theresa's Cinnamon Cider card with the Nature's Harvest Bundle was gorgeous. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week with Coastal Cabana. Just hit the next blog button to go to her blog now....

Our weekly coordinator of the Colour Creations blog hop is the always inspiring Cathy Proctor and if for any reason one of the next blog buttons don't work just head to Cathy's blog and you will find a list of all those participating: Cathy's Blog.

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

Week 8 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Cajun Craze

 

Today we are looking at the often misunderstood colour of Cajun Craze! I don't think it is a very loved colour but when I think of Cajun I think of spices to make up the Cajun rub to go on chicken which includes paprika, garlic, cayenne pepper, thyme, oregano, red pepper flakes, onion powder, salt and black pepper. So you can see where this Burnt orangey red  colour Cajun Craze get's its name. Ok Now I am hungry for some spicy chicken!

So I have 2 cards for you today. I made them at the same time because I made the card base at the same time.

I have used one of my all time favourites from the new Annual Catalogue and then I have a sneak peak at a Sale-A-Bration stamp for you starting in August.

Well how did I make the card backgrounds that the flowers both sit on.

I started with some Very Vanilla card in the size that I wanted and with the word stamp from the "Quiet Meadow" stamp set I used Gray Granite ink and first stamped on the  image that I have masked then on the other one. So it was a stamped off and a little lighter. I just used copy paper and tory it into that shape for my masking over the very vanilla card stock. Now I had 2 backgrounds to make my 2 very different cards and I only had to ink my stamp once, stamp twice and then move it down the page.  2 Birds 1 Stone! (Ok now I am back to thinking about mind craft and building things so if you are playing along at home, I was allowed to build things not just dig I built an under ground bunker house and a swing above ground, I am progressing but  still haven't been for my walk) LoL!

So for my first card I really wanted to use this gorgeous Dahlia from the Delicate Dahlias stamp set that is in the upcoming Sale-a-bration brochure. You are not going to want to miss out on this one. I stamped it full strength in Cajun Craze over my stamped off gray granite words then with the mossy meadow I stamped full strength then stamped again the leaves.

Along the edge and just under the popped up layer of the Delicate Dahlia, I have cut out with the Meadow Dies in Cajun Craze and in a sneak peak from the New July-Dec Mini going live on August 3rd the Matt Silver Foil just to give a little more dimension to the card.

The sentiment is from the Delicate Dahlia's stamp set, "You Inspire me" how perfect is that. I love that so much and I know a few people who I could send this card to already! I have stamped it in Gray Granite and cut it out with the Meadow dies and popped it on another Cajun Craze layer cut out with the Meadow Dies.

Now for the second card that we have started with the base from earlier I went a different direction I went for the Daisy Wishes Dies.

I had the sentiment already as I had made 2 but this time I thought I wanted a wispy looking flower and the daisy was perfect in the dies. So out they came I cut a couple in Cajun Craze and one in Bumblebee and of course the stem and leaves are in Mossy Meadow. All you needed to do was lay them all down on the base that we had already made.

 I am quite partial to these matte black dots and they just finish the card with that extra little bit of bling.

So there you have it my 2 Cajun Craze inspired cards. If you would like any information about how to get your hands on the product to make these cards please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next blog and you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard, I love what Theresa has for us each week so just hit the next blog button below and head over to see her lovely Cajun Craze Creation:

Now if at anytime you find a next blog button doesn't quite work and it doesn't take you to the next person please head to out weekly host's blog and there you will find the list of all the participants so you can continue with the hop. Cathy Proctor's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

Take care,

Week 6 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Blushing Bride"

 

Today we are looking at the lovely pink Blushing Bride for week 6 of Colour Creations Blog Hop.     I know you will be disappointed in me but I am not doing a fancy fold today. I just had a few things on and needed a quick card to put together.

So for you today I have used the Quiet Meadow Bundle in combinations with some gorgeous DSP from In Good Taste.

I just love the Tasteful Textiles 3D embossing folder and the In Good Taste DSP and I have used both to create the background layer for my Blushing Bride flower bouquet!

I have used a strip of Sahara Sand, Blushing Bride and Gold foil along with the stacked stone and adhered it to a piece of Whisper white card before running it through the Cut and Emboss machine in the Tasteful Textiles embossing folder. I then adhered this to a base of Thick Whisper white card.

For the flowers I have stamped them from the Quite Meadow Stamp set in Smokey slate and using the Blushing Bride Stampin' Write Markers I have coloured them in adding a little more on parts where there is extra lines to give depth of shading and fussy cut them. I have also added a little daffodil delight and then the Elegant Faceted gems. Under these I have cut out with the Meadow Dies in Old Olive, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso some sprigs for the flower arrangement. The ribbon is the Gray Granite Shimmer Ribbon to finish off the flower spray. The sentiment is cut out from the Meadow dies in soft sea foam and I have stamped the words from the Quiet Meadow stamps over it in Soft Sea Foam before stamping the Thinking of you in Blushing Bride and fussy cutting and popping up on dimensionals.

A fun card to make and if you would like any of the products or any information about this card do not hesitate to contact me.

Please now head over to Rachel Woolard's blog, I love seeing Rachel's inspiration each week she is so creative. Just hit the button.

If for any reason there is a broken link along the way please head to the host of our blog hop and on her blog she will have all the links so you will be able to continue your hop from there. Cathy Proctor is the host of our Colour Creations Blog Hop and you can find her blog here: Cathy's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,