Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2024-2025 Week 24 - Flirty Flamingo

 

Welcome to Colour Creations Blog Hop for Flirty Flamingo week of 2024-25!

This week I wanted to go simple as I have a migraine so my brain was not up to thinking too much so I went to the Annual Catalogue and CASED the catty! (Page 46) This is the wonderful thing about the Stampin' Up! catalogue and the mini catty they have wonderful ideas and templates that you can use to give you ides and use to spark your own creativity or copy and put your own twist on it yourself! Same with your Stampin' Up Demonstrator and the Art With Heart team we are here to give you all the inspiration for when you are crafting at home.

For my card today I am using the wonderful Thoughtful Wishes bundle. I love this stamp set and dies combo. I have started with a Flirty Flamingo card base and added a piece of Thoughtful Journey DSP before adding a piece of Basic White card that has been dry embossed with the Birch Wood Embossing Folder.

For the decoration on the front of the card I have used a piece of the Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and using the Water Painters I have done a simple water wash with the Flirty Flamingo, let it dry die cut it with the Nested Essential Dies and stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso. I cut out 2 of the leaf dies to put behind the center focal point and along with the main leaf on one of them I added a little colour. To add this colour I used the water colour pencils in Old Olive and Flirty Flamingo and used the Blender pen to blend the colour. On the front leaf I made it darker and a lot more subtle on the leaf in the background. To finish off I had to add some bling and I used the Smokey Slate Pearls!

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on this wonderful stamp set please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member on our journey through Flirty Flamingo and this week you will be heading to our wonderful host Catherine Proctor. I love her elegant style and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and go straight there:

If at any time one of the next blog buttons goes not to the place you were expecting please come back here and head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating in this weeks challenge of Flirty Flamingo: Cathy Proctor

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 16 - 2024 -2025 - Calypso Coral Double Door Pop Up Card!

 

Welcome to Calypso Coral week of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. I think this would be my Dad's favourite colour and I think that is because it is like a salmon colour and he likes fishing! LOL! 

I need to thank the wonderful Stampin' Up Demonstrator Michelle Grech from thINK out loud Papercrafting here in Victoria Australia for my fun fold today. I followed her Facebook live tutorial to create my card. The fun fold card is a Double Door Pop Up!

For my card base I have used Calypso Coral and a layer Pebbled Path before adding the gorgeous Thoughtful Journeys DSP which has some of our lovely Calypso Coral as one of its colours.

When you open the card you will see 2 doors on their opening mechanism. I have added a little Pebbled Path on the doors and then on the outer edge and on the doors I have decorated with the beautiful Thoughtful Journeys DSP.

When you open your card completely the doors will fold out and on the inside of the card I have again layered with Pebble Path and on the Basic White layer I have stamped the lovely little flower stamp in Smokey Slate and the sentiment in Pebble Path. The flowers I have coloured with Stampin' Blends - Light & Dark Mossy Meadow and Light & Dark Calypso Coral.

On the front of the card have cut 3 circles with the Deckled circle dies and I have embossed the Basic White layer with the Cross Hatch Embossing Folder from the Basic 3D embossing set of folders. The labels are cut from the Something Fancy Dies and I have stamped the sentiment in Pebbled Path. The leaves have been stamped in Smokey Slate and and coloured in Light & Dark Mossy Meadow. The Die Cut leaves have been blended first before die cut.

I have used the blending brushes to add Calypso Coral and Mossy Meadow ink on Basic White card before cutting out the large leaf die and 2 smaller leaf dies. It doesn't have to be perfectly blended as leaves are mottled.

Here is a short video of how the card opens to give you an idea of how wonderful this fun fold really is!

If you have any questions about my project today please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful person on our journey of Calypso Coral and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard, I can't wait to see her beautiful creation. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime the next blog button doesn't go where you want it to go please head back here and go to out amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating this week for our journey of Calypso Coral.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 11 - 2024-2025 - Blackberry Bliss - 3D Pillar Card

Today for week 11 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop we are looking at my favourite colour. I know that it is not to some people's liking but this rich purple is one of my favourites!

So for my favourite colour I was fortunate to be asked to make a very special birthday card by my friend for her sister, she is also my friend so no pressure there on making a fancy fold card. At least the request was to use the DSP Perennial Lavender and that has Blackberry Bliss in it. I had free rein to make a fancy fold card!

I have made a 3D Pillar card and a box for it as well. I got the directions for the card from Barry at Mitosu Crafts but the box is a matter of measuring once the card is made.

Here is how I made the card.

The base of the card is our colour of the week Blackberry Bliss and I have 5 pillars or boxes. When adhering each individual box together lay them flat so that when you get to adhere them all together you are able to lay them flat in the box.

I have layered each box with Lost Lagoon card.

On top of the Lost Lagoon I have added the Gorgeous Perennial Lavender DSP. I have cut it so that it follows along in the pattern before I cut the length for the smaller 2 pillars.

Join each of the pillars to the next pillar one at a time laying them flat while you it adheres and to make sure they are straight. This will also make sure that you will be able to lay it flat in the box for packaging.

Once all joined together we can work on the focal point.

A layer of Blackberry Bliss and Lost Lagoon before adding the rest of the focal point.

Using the gorgeous large leaf die from the Thoughtful wishes dies I cut a piece of Basic White just a bit larger.

Using the blending brushes on the piece of Basic White I have blending Blackberry Bliss on the top and Lost Lagoon on the bottom. As I will be cutting it out with the leaf die it doesn't matter that it is not perfectly smooth and blended. 

For the rest of the focal point I have embossed a layer of Basic White with the Eyelet 3D and adhered that before adding some of the decorations. The leaf we have just created plus a stamped leaf which is coloured in light and dark Lost Lagoon Stampin' Blends. I have cut out a label in Basic White using the Something Fancy Dies and then stamped the happy birthday from the Country Birdhouse stamp set and cut that out using the Stylish shapes dies. The 2 extra leaves I cut out using the extra blended paper.

 Oh don't forget to add some white bakers twine!

Now you could leave it here as a birthday card but my friend wanted a 60 so I added a 60 for her sister!

Yes there is somewhere to write I made sure there was plenty of space on the back of the pillars.

To make the box packaging I laid the card flat and measured the length and width, then measured the height. After getting the measurements I added the height to the measurements of length and width to make sure I had enough card to go up the sides and ends. To create the lid you add on 1/8 of an inch to give just a little bit of space for the lid to go over the bottom of the box.

I have used the other half of the piece of Perennial Lavender DSP to cover the top of the box and I have created a second focal point to go on the lid. To tie the lid shut I have used the white ribbon from the Petal Pink and White Diagonal Trim Pack. I left it quite long so that my friend could tie the bow how she liked.

This was a fun project and the Perennial Lavender DSP does most of the work!

If you have any questions about my project today, or would like to get your hands on some of the beautiful product to make one of these fun Pillar cards yourself, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member and this week you will be heading to the wonderful Christine Blain, I can't wait to see what she has for us, just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button does not go where you are not expecting please head back here and you can head to our wonderful weekly host Cathy Proctor who will have a list of the Art with Heart team members who are playing along with the weeks challenge of Blackberry Bliss

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 8 - 2024-2025 - Balmy Blue

 

This week we are looking at Balmy Blue one lovely blue colours.

I have made a Joy Fold card for you! It is a simple and quick fancy or fun fold card that is quite impressive for the receiver but so easy to make!

I have actually used 3 stamp sets to create this card as I realised that I really didn't have exactly what I needed to make a male birthday card for my daughter's boyfriend so I mixed a matched from ones that I had to create this  card for him.

I started with a piece of Country Lace DSP which is in Smoky Slate and I used my blending brush to add some Balmy Blue. As you can see by each photo you really do add quite a bit of colour even if you don't think you are!

The card recipient likes waterfalls and nature so I thought great I would try and make a birthday card out of the Quiet Reflections.  The card base is in Balmy Blue and are 2 pieces folded in half. The larger piece you cut a small portion off to create the fold. I have then layered with Blueberry Bushel card stock before layering the Country Lace DSP .

On the front piece I have stamped on Basic White the larger refection scene in Basic Gray and then with a sponge dauber, and some Garden Green ink added some green to the trees, after I had added some Balmy Blue to the whole card that was left on my blending brush.

On the inside I have stamped the other image and given the same treatment to the image and card. From this point you could make the card a Sympathy card or anything you would like.

To finish the card to make it a birthday card I have stamped the leaf  image from the Thoughtful wishes stamp and colour it with the Light and Dark Old Olive Stampin Blends and cut it out with the Thoughtful Wishes Dies. While I had the dies out I cut out a branch in Basic Beige and the 2 flowers in Calypso Coral and Fresh Freesia and adhered them to the side of the front before doing a double bow in white bakers twine. The sentiment is from Thoughtful Wishes and I have cut it out with the Stylish Shapes dies.

On the inside of the card I stamped Happy Birthday from the Country Birdhouse stamp set. I had already adhered the card down  as to show you that you could make the card for any situation before I stamped the Happy Birthday in Balmy Blue!

Did you pick up on one more detail on the card? I put the Balmy Blue Blended Country Lace DSP through the Cut & Emboss Machine with the Eyelet 3D embossing folder!

I do hope you have enjoyed my Balmy Blue Joy Fold Birthday Card.

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

Now is the time to head to the next creative team member and this week you will be heading to the amazing Cathy Proctor. I can't wait to see her beautiful projects. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there:

If for some reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't go where you are expecting, come back here and head to our weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating in this weeks challenge of Balmy Blue!

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