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,

Week 2 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Balmy Blue"

Each week some of the Art with Heart Team will be participating in a Blog Hop all about colour. We will be bringing to you creations highlighting one of the Stampin' Up! colours each week and with 50 colours plus the 10 In Colors there is so much inspiration to look forward to.

Last week we looked at the 5 New In Colors for 2021-23 this week we are looking at Balmy Blue and we will continue in alphabetical order. 

Well I couldn't help myself I had to do a fancy fold! A Double Tri-Fold Pop Up Card. Well that sounds like a mouth full but it is so easy!

I hadn't seen one of these before and I came across it on Dawn Stampin' Thoughts and thought I would give it a try. It is one piece of Thick Basic White card base that you score first and then cut to get your sentiment trifold section off the card base. Hence the Double Tri-fold part of your card.

Ok so the fancy fold has nothing to do with Balmy Blue so where does this Balmy blue come from? Glad you asked. The Gorgeous DSP is the new "You're A Peach" I have used both on the base of the card and the layering on the sentiment section of the card. 

For the sentiments on the card I have used the stamp set Simply Succulents. I really love the sentiments and greetings from this set, ok the whole set but I digress. I wanted the first sentiment to fit into the square that I had created but as you can tell from this picture of the stamp set it doesn't quite come the way I have it stamped.

 

I got out my Basic Black Stampin' Write marker and used the brush end and just inked up the words that I wanted and stamped them, cleaned off the stamp inked up the next word, lined up my stamp and continued on like that until my sentiment was stamped the way I wanted. Just because a stamp is set in a particular way doesn't mean you can't make it work the way you want it to. I love how we can use all the different products that Stampin' Up have as they match an coordinate so well. If I wanted to use the Balmy Blue Stampin' Write Marker that would have fitted in with the DSP that I had used as well.

The next two sections I stamped as normal.

I happened to be playing with the Quiet Meadow stamp set just before making this card and thought the flower from this stamp set would look lovely on this card so I stamped it in Smokey Slate and coloured it in Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent Stampin' blends did a little fussy cutting and adhere to the front of the card after adhering the sentiment section. Of course with a little bit of bling to finish off.

Just so you know this card fits perfectly into our envelopes and the trick to making sure your get it to fit is to lay your card down closed on your envelope before you adhere the sentiment trifold panel. You can then move it in or out as far as you need to and just add enough adhesive under that front section as you need. Then turn it over and do the same to adhere the back section.

It was fun trying out a new fancy fold to try and I will be putting this one in my bag of fancy fold tricks that is for sure!

If you have any questions about my card tonight or would like to get you hands on some of these wonderful new products to play with yourself please do not hesitate to contact me!

I look forward each week to the amazing creativity of the  AWHT members who have created with our challenge colour and Christine Blain our next person on the hop is always a must so head on over to her blog now.

Our blog hop is a circle you can enter at any place but if you find that you have a broken link at any time just come back and click on the next person in the list here:

Michele Taylor

Rachel Palmieri

Kate Morgan

Catherine Proctor

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern <=You are here

Christine Blain

Tina Gillespie

Diane Furniss

Ros Davidson

Theresa Gerrard

Rachel Woollard

Rosa Leyden

Fiona Bell Ryan

Vicki Boucher

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

 

Week 31 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Old Olive"

 

Week 31 is all about Old Olive and when I thought about this colour I thought Simply Succulents from the new Jan-Jun Mini! I just had to have this bundle when I saw it in the new Mini Catalogue as my Daughter has created quite a garden of different succulents in our back yard. We love to look at succulents when we are out and about when we pass them and at different garden places. Today I have made 2 cards for you using 2 different colour methods.

I just couldn't resist this stamp set and bundle, there are so many dies and you get to cut and colour so many things and there are label dies as well. It is just fabulous!

For my first card I thought I would use the large die and cut out a panel of the succulents in Old Olive card stock

Under this gorgeous layer of die cut succulents is the equally beautiful Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper. Oh I think I will be using so much of this gorgeous Designer series paper all of the designs are just wonderful.

For this card I used the Stampin' Blends to colour the pot and the different succulents. I love colouring with the blends they are so lovely to work with and I have used Old Olive light and Dark, Light Highland Heather and Cinnamon Cider Light and Dark.

Here is a little closer look and as you can see when I adhered them to the card front I popped the light ones on dimensionals. The darker succulents are coloured with both the light and dark old olive blends and then tipped with the Highland Heather. 

The little pearl succulents were cut out of old olive card stock, I love this die as I love this succulent in real life. The Thanks sentiment is stamped in Old Olive and then the 3 label dies are also in the set of dies in the Potted Succulent Dies. I always like a little bling and the gold foil is perfect for this.

My Second Card today I used the larger Succulent stamp.

This is such a fun stamp and I just love it and you can just sit and colour to your hearts content. I have always loved colouring and I won a second prize in a colour competition when I was 10 and got a book about birds and it was the first time I found out about Spoon Bill birds so every time we go to Healesville Sanctuary we have to visit them. We went last week and it was so good!

My daughter had to take a photo of me with the spoon bills in the background. 

So for this card I used the blender pen to colour the Succulents and I coloured 2 pots when I was making the first card with the Stampin' Blends.

For this card I used 6 colours after I had stamped the image. 

I used Old Olive on all of the succulents except the top left green one and that is a Pear Pizzazz succulent. The bottom one is first in Old Olive then Mossy Meadow over top. The middle 2 are Old Olive with Highland Heather tips. The top Succulent is Merry Merlot, Rich Razzleberry and then Old Olive.

I have layered the arrangement of succulents on a piece of Whisper White card stock that has been Embossed with the Subtle 3D embossing folder after cutting it out with one of the dies and then I have used the Ornate Layers Dies for the frame in Gold Foil and cut out the centre to frame the arrangement. The sentiment is stamped in in Old Olive and cut out with a label die from the Potted Succulents Dies. Everything is on a card base of Old Olive.

Now my cards decided they wanted a photo shoot with some of the succulents in my garden so at the end of this post I will have some succulent and card shots. I don't know how they managed to get me outside today it was soooooo hot but they insisted. If you want to skip the photo shoot  please head over to the blog of the our host of the weekly Colour Creation Showcase Cathy Proctor to see the fun and inspiring work not only from Cathy but from the whole Art with Heart team playing along this week with Old Olive: Cathy's Blog

If you go to the photo shoot make sure you come back and go to Cathy's blog.

If you have any questions about the cards today or would like to get your hands on the Jan-Jun Mini Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me. It is a fabulous Catalogue.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,