Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 16 - 2023-2024 - Calypso Coral

 

Welcome to Calypso Coral week for our Colour Creations Blog Hop. It is a lovely colour and one I think my Dad would say is almost his favourite but I am not making a male card today I am pulling out the Textured Floral bundle and trying a new technique for me that I found from Patty Bennett.

You may have come to my blog if you are hopping along with the Art with Heart team from Theresa and I know she likes me to do fancy folds but today I am not doing that just a normal fold as I wanted to try this technique and I wasn't sure how long it was going to take me. It is not a hard technique at all I just played around with it a bit.

Here is my colour combination for my card today. So let me tell you how I put it all together using the Texture Floral stamp set and die bundle!

My base and first layer is this gorgeous rich Calypso Coral and I have embossed the layer with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. Don't you just love this embossing folder? Well I do! Now came the fun part.

To get the unique colouring on the distINKtive stamps I mounted the flower stamps on blocks then got out the inks that I wanted to use. I used Lemon Lolly and Petal Pink on the flowers and then on my blending brush I had Calypso Coral. You may ask how did I do that. Well to start with I watched a video that Patty Bennet has on her page to do with any distINKtive stamps and she first uses an old bone folder and moves some of the excess ink away from the centre of your ink pad. You DO NOT want a juicy ink pad for this. Then in my case I inked either in Petal Pink or Lemon Lolly on the ink pad the flower that I wanted. Then with your blending brush you tap around the edge of your flower as much or as little the amount of ink that you want in the colour that you have chosen and of course we are using Calypso Coral today! How cool do these flowers look?!

For the leaves I have put a little bit of blending brush splodges of Mossy Meadow over Soft Sea Foam before cutting them out with the Textured Floral dies to give them a muted look and slightly different tone. I have added a little bit of linen thread and in the centre of the flowers I have cut out the stamen in basic white. Under all of this floral gorgeousness I have added 3 strips of the colours that I have used in the card as although the flowers were gorgeous it needed something to ground the floral bouquet! I embossed the strips with the Stripes Embossing folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D Embossing folder set! Now around the edge of Calypso Coral layer and the 3 strips of card I have used the residual ink on my blending brush with Calypso Coral. Of course you always need a little bling which I have coloured the basic rhinestones with dark calypso coral blends.

If you have any questions about this card today or the technique please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Calypso Coral and today you will be heading to Ros Davidson. I love her bold colours so I can't wait to see what she has put together for us today. Just click on the next blog button and you will be taken straight there.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't quite work please come back here and head to our host for this week Tina Gillespie and she will have the list of the Art With Heart team participating today so you can continue your hop from there: Tina's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 5 - 2023-2024 - Wild Wheat

 

Welcome to week 5 of the 2023 -24 Colour Creations Blog Hop and Week 5 of the new 2023-25 InColors. This week we are looking at Wild Wheat. 

This week I have created with the Textured Floral Bundle, I have placed all the gorgeous flowers on a base of our spotlight colour with a layer of Fresh as a Daisy DSP embossed in the Timeworn Type #d Embossing Folder.

I just love the rustic look the Timeworn Type Embossing Folder gives to the Back of one of the Fresh of A Daisy DSP pieces.

Then I went all out stamping the 3 flowers from the Textured floral stamp set in Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve for the top layer and then Moody Mauve for the middle layer and finally my favourite colour Blackberry Bliss and layered the three together.

I also stamped a Lemon Lolly flower along with some Mossy Meadow leaves before using the Textured Floral Dies to cut them out along with some Wild Wheat leaves and Mossy Meadow Leaves and finishing with a double bow of linen thread.

But as you can imagine my card does not finish quite there. Let's open it and see what happens!

I know you guessed it! I have created a fancy fold on the inside of my card. It is a Triple Panel Pop Up Card! 

The mechanism for the pop up is a box right at the fold of the card. You can also see that I have used some of the InColor DSP to line the inside of my card.

On this angle you can see how the 3 layers work together on the inside of the box inside the card. 2 on the Left and the middle card on the right. I also stamped the sentiment by masking, then inking, taking off the mask before stamping the words so I could place them just where I wanted as the sentiment stamp was too long for the space I had allowed. You can also see that I have embossed 2 of the panels with the Timeworn Type embossing folder and added Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve and Mossy Meadow stamped leaves and flowers to the inside of the card.

Never fear we needed a place to write on the card so the back needed a little decoration and a place to for you to write is all set.

Here is how the card works, I have done a little video: 

If you have any questions on how to create this card yourself please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our amazing journey of Wild Wheat and our last new InColor for 2023, this week you will be heading to the amazing Tina Gillespie, I love her work she is so creative and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just click the next blog button and you will head straight there.

If at any time the next blog buttons have a technical issue just head back here and you can go over to our amazing host Cathy Proctor's blog, there she will have the list of all those participating this week in Wild Wheat and you will be able to continue your journey there. Cathy's Blog.

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