Week 11 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Cinnamon Cider

Well here we are again my friends I am not sure what to say really. I had to make sympathy cards in January for dear friends at the passing of their Uncle and Brother-in-law Lionel who was such a sweet man and whom I have known for the last few years and was such a friend to me and encouraged my singing. He was a fantastic singer. Well this week his lovely wife Joan passed. I am struggling I must admit to make yet another sympathy card. We never like to do them do we but like all things in life this too is something that we all go through, the passing of a dear loved one.
 

So for this week I looked for a bit of inspiration and I  came across a card from Gail Ellis which is a bit of a coincidence as Joan's sister married and Ellis so I thought it was appropriate to make a card inspired by Gail for Joan's sister Heather Ellis.

Gail did this technique with the leaves from the Very Versailles leaves called a shadow technique. She used Memento Black and then heat embossed white slightly off from the leaves. I have created the same but I used Early Espresso ink to give just a little softer look. I have stamped on Basic White card.

Once you have stamped the darker leaves and then heat embossed in white I then took the blending brushes and the Cinnamon Cider ink and blended over the top. When I had applied enough ink I buffed off the ink from the white embossed leaves so they pop! Then I got my Cinnamon Cider Stampin' Write marker and put a few splatters over the card. Now that gorgeous Gold Shimmer ribbon is in that location for a reason. 1 it looks good and 2 because I accidentally hit that spot with my marker when I was putting the splatters. LOL! Oh well, never mind cover with gorgeous ribbon!

The sentiment comes from the Prized Peony stamp set and works so well for this card. I have stamped it in Cinnamon Cider. Behind this front panel I have a layer of Gold Shimmer Vellum and then a layer of Cinnamon Cider which I have embossed with the Tasteful Textiles 3D embossing folder.

On the inside of the card I have used the residual ink on my blending brush to just add a bit of colour to the Basic White card and a little bit of splatter to match it to the front of the card.

I hope this gives you an idea for a sympathy card when you need one. 

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

Now is the time to head to the next blog and this week you will be going to the lovely Theresa Gerrard. I love seeing what Theresa has for us each week. Last week she had beautiful Japanese inspired cherry blossoms. So just hit the next blog button below and you will be able to see her gorgeous creation this week.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work and let's face it, we have all had technical difficulties at times, just head to the host of our weekly colour creations blog hop Catherine Proctor and there she will have for us the list of those participating this week: Cathy'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,

Week 42 = Colour Creations Showcase - "Rococo Rose"

This week we are looking at one of my favourite retiring InColors Rococo Rose.

I have made a quick card for you today as I am busily making cakes and food for my son's 25th Birthday.

I have used the gorgeous blending brushes and Rococo Rose, Highland Heather and Blackberry Bliss my absolute favourite colour of all time to create my card tonight and Good Morning Magnolia as I wanted a big beautiful stamp.

I used the basic white and blended the 3 colours with Rococo rose at the top before stamping in Memento Black ink.

I thought well leaves need to have a little green so I picked up my dark Old Olive Stampin' Blend and added just a touch to the leaves. I backed it in Basic Black and put it on a card base of Basic Black and Rococo Rose that has been put through the Cut & Emboss machine in the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing folder. The sentiment is from the Retiring set Here's A Card so make sure you get your hands on that set if you haven't already it is one of my favourites for sentiments. The Silver edged satin ribbon is coloured in using the dark Rococo Rose Stampin' Blend.

Please head on over to Cathy's blog for the list of tonight's participants and to see what fantastic things Cathy has come up with as well: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions or would like to get these products before they are sold out do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

 

Week 32 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Pacific Point"

 

This week we are looking at one of our bright blues: Pacific Point.

I was having one of those weeks and couldn't quite get what I was working on to work so I went a completely different way and I have used the gorgeous stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure called "A Touch of Ink." I told you a couple of weeks ago that I thought this would be one of my favourite stamp sets because of the butterfly and today is no different.

With this gorgeous butterfly which I have stamped in Pacific Point and then in Night of Navy before Fussy Cutting, I have also used a layer of Smokey Slate which has been embossed with the Tasteful Textiles 3D embossing folder.

The beautiful DSP that  I have used is from the Jan- Jun Mini and is a strip of the Well Suited which has Pacific Point as one of its colours and a scalloped circle die cut of the Fine Art Floral. I have added the gold metallic edged ribbon along with the Elegant Faceted Gems.

 For the sentiment I have stamped it in Pacific point on Very Vanilla and used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch and layered it with gold foil and popped up and dimensionals along with the butterfly.

Please head on over to Cathy's Blog, our host for our weekly Colour Creations Showcases to see who else is playing along with this weeks colour of Pacific Point: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about purchasing the products from the Jan-Jun Mini and earning the A Touch of Ink stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today.

Take Care,

Week 1 - AWH Colour Creations Weekly Showcase - "Balmy Blue"

There are so many things to be excited about today. The new 2020-21 Annual Catalogue is live today and that means you can go and check it out and make a big wish list so exciting. Talking about wish lists. The new look Online Store launched today as well and you can go there and make a wish list as well just click on the little heart and add it to a wish list for when you are ready to purchase. So good!😊 I have already put things on my wish list. Just head to my Shop Online Now Button on the side bar to check it out.

But tonight, the next exciting thing is that our Colour Creations Showcase is back! Woo Hoo! 🙌So weekly the Art With Heart team will be bringing you 1 colour from all the amazing colours that Stampin' Up! have to offer and there are 40 gorgeous classic colours and 10 contemporary In Colors plus Basic Black, Whisper White and Very Vanilla, so get ready for some weekly fun and adventure. Each week the lovely Cathy Proctor will be hosting our Showcase and I will have a link at the end of my post so you can hop on over find the list of the team playing along this week and see all of their fantastic creations.

This week is Balmy Blue

Oh I do love this gorgeous pale, subtle blue, it is just exquisite!

For this card I have used the new Tasteful Touches stamp set and the new Tasteful Textiles 3D Embossing Folder. You can find them on page 122-124 of the new Annual Catalogue as part of the In Good Taste Suite. You are going to love this suite and the gorgeous colours in the Designer series paper and the real to life photo of tile and wood textures. Go check it out! You can see one in the background of this photo!

OK, I am getting too excited back to the card at hand tonight.

I have a card base of Thick Whisper white and the Balmy Blue card stock was run through with the gorgeous new Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. I made it just larger than the sentiment card and offset it so I could tie the  braided linen thread around the card and adhere that to the base of the card.  I stamped the flower in Memento black ink and fussy cut it with my paper snips and coloured it with my blender pen using the Balmy Blue ink and highlighted the darker parts with Night of Navy Ink. The centre of the flower is crushed curry. I cut the  Sentiment layer out using the Stitched rectangle dies and then with Sahara sand ink I stamped the flower 3 times in the bottom corner in a triangle so to give some depth behind the Balmy Blue and to make it pop off the page. I then masked those flowers and used both mossy meadow and pear pizzazz ink for the leaves before popping the Balmy Blue flower on a dimensional over the top. The Sentiment is stamped in Balmy blue and I popped the layer up on dimensionals to adhere to the card base. 

I really loved how this card turned out and the layout so I may have to make a few more in different colours. Ok here is my colour combination and the product list can be found at the end of the post. 

My colour combination for this card is:

Each week as I mentioned my lovely friend and the extremely creative Cathy Proctor will be hosting our Colour Creation Showcase so please hop on over to her blog for the list  of those who are participating this week to find some more inspiration for the colour of Balmy Blue! Cathy's Blog

If you would like anymore information about this card or would like information on how to get the new Annual catalogue into your hands please do not hesitate to contact me, you are going to love this new catalogue. There are some fabulous special on at the moment for June so get in touch, you don't want to miss out.

Product List

Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152562]

$40.00

Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder

[152718]

$15.75

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

$15.25

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$14.25

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$61.00

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$13.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[147110]

$13.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

[147117]

$13.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

[147111]

$13.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[147104]

$13.00

Blender Pens

[102845]

$21.00

3/16" (1 Cm) Braided Linen Trim

[147808]

$12.25

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$44.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$17.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$12.00

Thank you for spending some time with me today.