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 50 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Soft Suede"

Week 50 Soft Suede

So exciting we have reached 50 weeks of the wonderful spectrum of colours from Stampin' Up! I just love how everything in the range matches so you know that the ink and paper and the DSP all will go together so you have no problems with the colour that you choose, and it makes creating so easy.

So today I have made a card with a borrowed stamp set but it is on my wish list for my next order. I can't wait to get this suite!

I was away on the weekend, Oh soooo lovely! For a craft weekend and my lovely friends had the Bloom Where You're Planted suite. Oh how gorgeous is this suite. I already had some of the DSP from a paper share I had been in and this is with what I have made the majority of the card. Oh and yes a fancy fold as well. I just couldn't help myself!

So this is a fun fancy fold card to make and the base of the card is in our colour of the week Soft Suede and layered with crumb cake and one of the pieces of the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP which has a gray granite speckle to it and I thought was just great with Soft Suede. The little bricks that the pots of plants are on is also some of the DSP from this pack and you guessed it I fussy cut out the pots and plants as well to put on the brick wall.

Now to make the fun fold I cut the piece of A4 card stock in half at 10.5 cm x 21 cm folded it in half and then folded the front half back on itself towards the fold. Then you make the front layer which I did with the stitched rectangle dies and the layering circle dies at the top so that when you want to close it you have a place to slide the front panel up under to keep your card all nice and neatly together.

So just remember to adhere just the top part of the circle so you can slide the card under not the whole circle or else you could be in for  a bit of a sticky situation.

On the inside of the card I used the Stitched with Whimsy die to create a place for writing to your friend before sending your card.

Now the 2 sentiments I used are from the stamp set Plentiful Plants and I was very grateful to borrow the stamp set while I was away and it is going on my next order. 

Hope you have enjoyed this little look at the Bloom where you're planted set, there is so much more so I can't wait to get it and the dies as well.

Please now head to our host, Cathy's blog to see her inspiration for this week, I love to see her wonderful creations each week and there you will also find the list of the AWHT playing along this week: Cathy's blog.

If you would like to get your hands on the New Annual Catalogue or would like more details on how to make this project or purchase the products to make this project do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, 

take care,