Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 35 - 2024-2025 - Misty Moonlight

 

Welcome back after our Christmas and New Year break, I do hope that you had a wonderful time with your family and friends. Christmas time is always my favourite time of year and to add to the excitement my husband and I got married on the 28th of Dec, my birthday is the 29th and his birthday is the 30th so we just party for a week, then we need to sleep for about 3 I think as we are getting too old to party that hard! LOL!

Anyway back to the matter at hand and this week we are looking at the lovely muted blue of Misty Moonlight!

For my design this week I have cased a very simple design that I saw on Pinterest with the idea that I could make many of these for a welcome back card for my craft group at church for the beginning of February with the plan to send them out the week before to the whole group! I thought this design would be easy to replicate quickly. Then of course I added things to spice it up for the blog hop today!

For this card I have used the gorgeous Spotlight on Nature Bundle which has become one of my favourite bundles to use from the Annual Catalogue.

This card has a base of Misty Moonlight and then layered with Crumb Cake and Basic White which has been dry embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. the Misty Moonlight strip is the reverse side of the Wildly Flowering DSP that you see that has been placed on top of it with the Crumb Cake background with Misty Moonlight and Moody Mauve flowers.  Around this layer I have tied the Silver and White Sheer Ribbon that I have coloured with the Dark Mistly Moonlight Stampin' Blends pen. The focal point is created by die cutting 2 circles one in Misty Moonlight and one in Basic White and then I have used Crumb Cake to stamp on the Basic White before fussy cutting the Butterfly which has been coloured using the Misty Moonlight and Moody Mauve Stampin Blends and a touch of Wink of Stella. The Pearls were also coloured with the stampin blends.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member who is participating in the Misty Moonlight colour challenge this week and you if you hit the next blog button you will go straight to the amazing Cathy Proctor

If one of the next blog buttons doesn't happen to work, please head to our fantastic weekly host Cathy Proctor and you will be able to see a list of the AWH team that are participating this week and you can continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 34 - 2024 -2025 - Melon Mambo - Spotlight on Nature Birthday

 

Welcome to week 34 and Melon Mambo Week! 

Can you believe that we are one week before Christmas? I can't but I love Christmas as it is always a fun time of year for me with not only my Wedding anniversary but both mine and my husband's birthdays all in the week after Christmas so we just party from Christmas eve to New Years Day! Ok the older we get the less partying we do but I still love this time of year! 

Speaking of parties my daughter has been invited to a party of a new friend this Saturday and it is a 21st so I thought perfect Melon Mambo here we come! Melon Mambo is such a party name don't you think?!

Ok so I have done an elegant Melon Mambo card as I don't know this young lady but I think it hits the brief from my daughter! I have used the spotlight on nature bundle and who doesn't like this bundle! Plus I have used the Happy Birthday from the Magnolia Mood stamp set.

For the card base I have used Thick Basic White and you may be able to tell that the card front I have trimmed down to just edge the focal point part of the card and to leave the center of the card exposed on the edges.

So this is what those exposed edges look like when you open up the card. I have layered a piece of Melon Mambo card then a piece of Basic White which I have stamped the leaf stamp from the Spotlight on Nature stamp set in Mossy Meadow and then the Happy Birthday from the Magnolia Mood also in Mossy Meadow.  As you can see there is approximately 2 cm each side of the front of the card that has been trimmed down.

For the focal point of the card I have a layer of Melon Mambo card then a piece of Basic White which has been dry embossed with the Eyelet 3D embossing folder. Layered on there are 3 circles which are cut out with the Spotlight on Nature Dies...one int Melon Mambo, one in the Mossy Meadow colour of the Seasons of Elegance Specialty DSP and one layer of Basic White. The flower has been stamped in Basic Gray then coloured using the Stampin' Blends... Dark and Light Melon Mambo and Dark and Light Mossy Meadow. The butterfly is coloured in with the Stampin' Blends also...Light and Dark Melon Mambo and Light and Dark Calypso Coral. I have fussy cut these out and popped them up on dimensionals.

Of course we needed a little bling to finish off and it is a 21st birthday so I used the Alphabet Al A Mode Dies to cut out the 21 in the Gold Mercury Vellum Specialty DSP. The Iridescent Basic Pearl Jewels have been coloured with the Dark Melon Mambo Stampin' Blends and a little bit of Gold Twisted Thread to finish off!

If you have any questions or would like to get this fantastic bundle to create this great design yourself, let me know.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful person joining in all the fun of Melon Mambo and this week you will be heading to the amazing Cathy Proctor, just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If one of the next blog buttons goes not where you were expecting please head to our fantastic weekly host Cathy and she will have the complete list: Cathy's Blog

We are taking a couple of weeks off for Christmas and New Year's but we will be back on January 8th with Misty Moonlight. Have a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year's.

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

 

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 27 - 2024-2025 - Gorgeous Grape

 

Welcome to Gorgeous Grape week of Colour Creations Blog Hop of 2024-25

Purples and Burgundies seem to be a favourite colour in my house. Gorgeous Grape is probably my son's favourite. Saying that however I didn't make a male card, HEHE! I finally got out the Layers of Beauty Bundle. You are probably saying FINALLY! I am saying yes I am late to the party! I have had this gorgeous bundle sitting there waiting for me to play with it so I did today!

As you can see I didn't create a fancy fold for you but I did follow a similar layout to a card that I had created a couple of years ago for Christmas. Well actually back in 2019 I think I lost a couple of years there as we all have. If you want to check out that card you can find it here: 

So how did I create this card? Well I am glad you asked! Let's look at the card base to start with.

For the first part of the card I took Thick Basic White for the base and then embossed a piece of Basic White with the Birch Wood Embossing folder.

Layering on the base of the card there is a strip of Perennial Lavender DSP and Country Woods DSP.

Layered on top of this I have a piece of Gorgeous Grape and a piece of Perennial Lavender DSP which is full of Gorgeous Grape!

Over the top of the background that I had created I used the Spotlight on Nature dies to cut out some circles 2 in the Perennial Lavender DSP and one in Basic White.

Now comes the Layers of Beauty and the colours from the Perennial Lavender DSP was my guide. 

For the flower I took the Layers of Beauty Decorative Masks and a Blending Brush and started with the Gorgeous Grape

I then went through the 5 layers continuing on with Highland Heather, Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock.

Once I had finished all the layers I then took out the Layers of Beauty stamp and with Memento Black ink stamped over the the top.

From here I used the Layer of Beauty Dies to cut out the who image and then the smaller die to cut out the one rose before doing a little bit of fussy cutting to cut the rest of the image up to put it on the card.

To finish off the card I have stamped the sentiment in Gorgeous Grape and fussy cut it up and popped it up on dimensionals and of course you have to have bling so I have coloured some Rhinestone Basic Jewels with the Dark Highland Heather Stampin' Blend as there we don't have a Gorgeous Grape Blend.

If you have any questions about my card today please do not hesitate to contact me.  

Now is the time to head to the next amazing Art with Heart team member participating this week in our Gorgeous Grape colour challenge and this week you will be heading to the wonderful Kate Morgan, click the next blog button and you will go directly there.

If by any chance one of the next blog buttons does not go to the Blog that you expected please head to our wonderful host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating in this week's journey through Gorgeous Grape: Cathy's Blog

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 22 - 2024 - 2025 - Daffodil Delight

 

Welcome to our weekly Wednesday Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the bright yellow colour of Daffodil Delight.

I have a quick card for you again today using the Spotlight on Nature Stamp set and dies.

For my card I have gone with a very simple colour palette.

To start my card I took a piece of Basic Black for the card base and layered it with another piece of Basic Black which I had embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder.

On some Basic White card I then stamped the 3 images of the flower, leaves and the butterfly which I coloured with the Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, the Light Lemon Lolly and the Light and Dark Lost Lagoon Stampin Blends.

I then used the Spotlight on Nature dies to cut the 3 circles before adhering them with dimensionals to the card base. The sentiment is heat embossed with the WOW White Embossing Powder and you can find this sentiment in the Wildflower Designs Stamp set. Can't forget the bling which are pearls that I have colours with the Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends.

I don't know about you but I don't always write a lot on the inside of the card so I decided to add another flower to the inside of the card.

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on some awesome product please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Daffodil Delight. This week you will be heading to the amazing Ros Davidson, I love the way she uses colour and I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

Cathy hosts our weekly Colour Creations Blog hop and if you find that one of the links isn't going where you think it should come back here and head to Cathy's Blog and she will have a list of all the team participating in this weeks Daffodil Delight challenge: Cathy's Blog

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 18 - 2024-2025 - Coastal Cabana - Golden Greenery Wreath

Welcome to Coastal Cabana Week.

This week for Coastal Cabana week for 2024 I have used the Online Exclusive Christmas bundle Golden Greenery to create my card! I have used the beautiful foliage stamps to create my own wreath but with Coastal Cabana. Plus it is a monochromatic card so many different ideas all in the one card!

I have used the Coastal Cabana card stock for the base of my card and I just love this colour. I have paired it with Lost Lagoon and Basic White for the other colours in my card. The wonderful texture that the wreath is layer onto is a piece of Basic White that has been embossed with the Cross Hatch 3D embossing folder from the Basic 3D embossing Folder set.

For the leaves there are 12 believe it or not tucked in under the circle sentiment. There are 2 different leaf stems of this shaped leaf and I have used them both. I first stamped in Coastal Cabana and then the stem of the leaves in Lost Lagoon. This is a 2 step stamping leaf. I really loved how they came out. I then stamped the sentiment from Grateful Blessing stamp set in Coastal Cabana and cut it out using the dies from Spotlight on Nature and cut a piece of Coastal Cabana Card with the deckled Circle dies to place under it and popped them up on dimensionals and I added a little bit of white bakers twine as well.
 
 Hope you have a try at this card and you can easily change up the colours of the leaves and make a Christmas wreath with them.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Coastal Cabana and this week you will be heading to the extremely talented Vicki Boucher. I love her gorgeous creations and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If one of the next blog buttons doesn't work please head to our amazing host of our weekly Colour Creations Blog Hops, Cathy Proctor and she will have the complete list of those participating in this weeks journey through Coastal Cabana.

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