Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 1 - 2023-2024 - Boho Blue - Celebrate With Tags Birthday!

 Welcome to the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-2024. Today we start with the New InColors for 2023-25 and the first colour is Boho Blue!

I have been away from my paper crafting table for  a little while and have been doing a bit of sewing of late but I am back as my latest sewing project will be completed by next week and I wanted to start the year of colour creations blog hop off. I have been sewing 50 Japanese Knot Bags with the help of some friends to place some pamper pack toiletry goodies in them for women who live in homeless and battered women shelters to give them in the coming weeks.

This is what they look like and they have been fun to make with one short handle and then the long handle looping through the short to create the knot and closure to the bag.

But back to our project for this week. This week I need a male birthday card so Boho Blue is perfect! Not saying you can't use this for a female but male cards are not normally pink and flowery!

So I pulled out the Celebrate with tags stamp set and then realised that the dies that coordinate had retired BUT don't fear starting now with the New Annual Catalogue there is a great Birthday bundle called Beautiful Balloons with stamps and dies to match so they would be a perfect complement to this set if you already have this one and the Bright and Beautiful suite and all the papers are just fantastic for all your Birthday card and celebration needs. I can't wait top order them now the catalogue is live.

I couldn't help myself I went for a fancy fold as well. I used along with our start colour of Boho Blue, Night of Navy as the card base and then to add a little contrast on the balloons I stamped them in Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive! I think they go very nice with the Boho Blue! 

To make this card I have cut the A4 Night of Navy in half vertically at 10.5 cm then scored from both ends 5 cm and 9.5 cm and that gives you the fold in the middle of the card. The back that you will adhere this fold onto is again 10.5 cm wide and 14 cm long. Before adhering the folded card to the base I used the InColor DSP and I thought this particular design could double as the candles! I cut those at 10 x 3.8 cm and adhered to the back card before adhering the folded card.

The way the card is folded means it stands very well and is a great peak-a-boo card to what is on the inside which I have stamped the Let's Celebrate you stamp and a balloon on Basic White and layered it on the InColor Boho Blue DSP.

I didn't want the other sections to feel unloved so I added some more DSP so they all looked like they were going to the Birthday party as well! 

Well we had to have a party on the front of the card so there is a layer of Boho Blue card then Basic White and for this I use the Dots & Spots Die to cut the top half. It needed some confetti! Plus it matched the balloons! Then the Balloons in all the colours! Not sure you can tell from this angle but some are on dimensionals and some are flat.

I have stamped the Happy Birthday in Boho Blue and cut is out with the Deckled Rectangle dies then to back this I used the next size up on the deckled rectangles but I wanted it to be a little smaller of a border so I used the same die and just cut off one end to bring it in a little and it was perfect. I then popped it up on dimensionals over the balloons.

When folded up the card fits nicely into our C6 envelopes.
Now I saw this fun fold over on Lee Greff's page so I hade to give it a go and it is so easy and fun. I do hope you give it a go but if you have any questions please let me know by clicking on my contact Sharon button.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member and you will be heading the Vicki Boucher and I just love her amazing deigns and use of colours so I can't wait to see what she has for us today so pleas just hit the next blog button to go straight there.

If at any time you find a link that isn't working please come back here and clink on this link to go to our lovely host Cathy Proctor. She will have a list of all those participating and you will be able to continue your journey from there in Boho Blue!

Don't forget the New Annual Catalogue is out now and you can get all the wonderful products from it starting now!

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 3 - 2022-23 - Starry Sky

For week 3 we are looking at the new In Color Starry Sky. It is a lovely blue.

I think it will get used quite a lot in the next 2 years with Night of Navy and Pacific point as it's companions. I say this as I have chosen to use the colour palette of the Sun Prints Designer Series Paper for my card tonight. It can be found on page 90-91 and 134 of the New 2022-23 Annual Catalogue.

I then wanted to work out what green would go with Starry Sky and again Stampin' Up! has done all the work for me with the colour chart.

Now all I had to do was stamp.

I needed to do a male birthday card and when I saw these gorgeous papers I thought this was the one out of it that would work. It was kind of paint splattered so I then thought I would take out the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder and put the DSP through the Cut & Emboss machine and it come out great.

Even though the pallet of the DSP says Gray Granite I picked up Sahara Sand to use and I like it as well with these colours so that was a happy accident. How good does the Old Olive and Starry Sky look stamped on Sahara Sand! The DSP looks fabulous embossed in the Painted Texture makes it really look like paint!

I told my daughter I was doing a male birthday card and she said she liked it so it could be an anyone birthday card. Now those leaves I stamped them from the Sending Smiles stamp set and used the Sending Dies to cut them out. I Stamped the Happy Birthday from the Peaceful Moments in Starry Sky ink and cut it out with the layering circle dies and a layer of Starry Sky scalloped circle behind it. To add a little bling because guys can have bling too I added the Matt In Color decorative dots and the In Color Metallic Woven Ribbon both in Starry Sky. All of this is layered on a base of Starry Sky Card Base.

If you would like to contact me to get your hands on these fantastic new products, to have a play, or the new Annual Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head over to the next person on our journey around the Starry Sky, I can't wait to see what the lovely Christine Blain has for us, she is the queen of using designer series paper and she has fantastic male cards as well so always look forward to her creations each week. Just click on the next blog button and you will be taken straight there.

If for any reason on your journey around the Starry Sky blog hop a link is broken please head to our lovely weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating and you will be about to continue your journey around the Starry Sky: Cathy's Blog.

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

 

Week 18 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Garden Green

 

Welcome to week 18 of our Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at Garden Green.

Today I thought I had better bring you a fancy old as I did not bring you one last week. Well this week I search far and wide for one I had not done yet and I found one that is called Vertical Stretch Fun Fold by a Stampin' Up Demonstrator in the US, Rachel Tessman. She did this fun fold back in 2018.  I thought I would have a go at a version of it myself.

So for today's card I thought I would use the Inspired Thoughts Bundle as I wanted to make a card for my friends who lost their Mum this week. Bruce and Julie are dear friends and although I think we make many cards for women I don't think we make many for men. I wanted to do a card that was a little bit different but also with lots of greenery and trees as Bruce who lost his Mum, loves to garden and walk in the bush so I thought this might be ok.

 

To make this card you cut your card stock in half at 10.5 x 28 cm and then score at 7, 11 18.5 and 21.5 cm. As you can see in this photo the Bloom where you're planted DSP that I have used as it has lovely Garden Green in it, comes out past the end of the folds. This is so you can hide all the messages you would like to have in your card and they can reveal them as they gradually open the card. Very fun as a birthday Card I could see!

This is the very top layer but you build from the bottom up to the top to make sure everything is lined up and you close the top layers down on to the bottom layers to make sure that you are covering up all the lovely surprises in your card with the top DSP before adhering. I have cut out the Tree from the Inspiring Canopy in Cinnamon Cider and then Embossed it with the Bark 3D folder. The leaves have been cut out using the Inspiring canopy dies in Garden Green, Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent.

I have now stretched the card out to 2 layers. As the trees 4 in the die I cut the 4th one off and shortened it to go on the middle layer of the card so that you can't see it when it is shut. The sentiment on both these layers is from the Inspired thoughts stamp set and I have used my Basic Gray Stampin' Write Marker and stamped the first line. I then cut it out and mounted it on Garden Green card and placed on dimensionals on the top layer. I then cleaned my stamp and coloured the rest of the same stamp with the marker to split the sentiment in 2 for the 2 layers of the card.

Now with all 3 layers open I have stamped the sympathy sentiment and a place where you can write as well.

I was trying to find a way to show it to you so I hug it on my card tree with the Evening Evergreen In Color sheer ribbon that I used so that you know that you need to pull the card open. When the card is fully shut it fits into a  regular envelope.

This is a fun design that can be adapted for any occasion.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about today's project or any of your crafting needs!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Garden Green colour journey. Please hit on the next blog button to go to Ros Davidson I love to see her creations each week she always has fun, vibrant card!

If at any time the next button doesn't doesn't work please head to the host of our weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop my dear friend Catherine Proctor: Cathy's Blog.

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

Week 46 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Shaded Spruce"

 

This week we are looking at one of our green colours for week 46 of Colour Creations Showcase. The first thing that came to mind was to make a birthday card for a lovely young man that missed out on his 21st birthday last year and who is studying to be a primary school teacher. We need great young men in to go into teaching and I thought a shirt and bow tie would be perfect for his card!

I have used the Handsomely Suited Stamp set and the Suite & Tie Dies from the Well Suited Suite and they come in a bundle for 10% off so always good to bundle things together. I made an easel card  to show this shirt off and to pretend that the braces are holding up the card HEHE! Lol! 😂 

The lovely striped shirt material can be found in the DSP of the Forever Greenery pack. That gorgeous paper has an array of our greens including the Shaded Spruce so I thought it would be perfect for my shirt for my young friend.

So how did I put this cut shirt together. I started with using the dies to cut out the collar and the sleeves in the DSP. Now the sleeves are the pocket dies from the set of dies. Cute I know right! I have to give credit to Frenchie Stamps for the pocket sleeves idea! And I also cut one of the suspender of braces in the DSP for the shirt to go under the buttons. The main bod of the shirt is a rectangle the size of the front of your card. I put a little bit of Basic White under the top of the collar before adhering it to the op of the card and just flipping up the ends.

The braces I have cut out with the dies in Shaded Spruce and then put though the Cut & Emboss machine with the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder and while I was cutting out the braces I cut out the buttons and I also stamped the bow tie in Shaded Spruce and cut that out with the bow tie die!

I have used the Champagne Foil as the adjustment and clasps of the braces so that gives just a little bit of class to this card. The Happy Birthday sentiment is stamped in Shaded Spruce and I have punched it out using the Story Label punch and then layered that on a Shaded Spruce punch of Label Me Lovely. and I popped them up on dimensionals so that the shirt had a place to lean against for the easel card design.

This was a fun card to make and I am always in the mood for fancy fold card. Now don't forget to head over to Cathy's Blog for more inspiration of Shaded Spruce as she is the host of our weekly Colour Creations Showcase and you will find her wonderful creations and the list of the AWHT who are playing along this week.

If you have any questions about my card this week and want to get your hands on the stamp set and die bundle that is in the Jan-June Mini before it is no longer a bundle and you can only purchase them separately please contact me. We all love a discount!

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

AWHT - Creative Showcase - December 2020 - Theme: "All Things Summer"

What does summer mean to you? That is our theme this month for the Art with Heart Creative Showcase. Well my husband and I have been doing a bit of laughing at a Facebook group called "We Grew Up in Australia in the '70's & '80's" and all the things that have been popping up on that group, such as Get Smart's Cone of Silence and then we would turn to each other and say "You know what was better than the Cone of Silence?" "The Portable Cone of Silence". Of course as we both said it at the same time we were cracking up. Silly things like that and what we got to order if our school had special lunch orders. So for my card today I have decided to reminisce about fishing as a family!

My Dad worked night's delivering milk and then on the weekends when the tide was just right we would go down the River Tamar to Beauty Point and all 6 of us would get on the little boat we had and try to catch just enough flat head and maybe some cocky salmon if we were lucky for a really good feed!

I have made a birthday card for you as today is my Eldest Brother's birthday and he still goes fishing and camping as much as he can when he isn't working and I thought he would love this card.

I have made this card by using the new blending brushes that will be available in the up coming Jan-June Mini starting on January 5th. They are so lovely to work with.

For this card I have used Daffodil Delight, Bumblebee and Crumb Cake for the side of the river and sandy embankment and for the water and sky I have used Balmy Blue and Seaside Spray. 

I first cut a 10cm x 14.4 cm piece of Whisper White card stock and put down a layer of Daffodil delight with a slight bend for the embankment. I then added a little bit of deeper colour just on the bottom of the card with the Bumblebee, you could also used Crushed Curry as that works well in this combination also. Then to make it look a little bit more sandy I blended a layer of crumb cake over all of the yellow. Besides we are going summer today and yellow is sun and summer! For the blue I cut out a die from the Budding Blooms dies and used it as a masking for shading some clouds in the sky and put down Seaside Spray believe it or not. Quite randomly, then I added the Balmy Blue to the middle for the water and when you blend over the sandy embankment of course you can get just that hint of green for the grasses in your stamp.

I thought the By The Dock stamp set would be perfect for this card and the sentiment I was going for with my Brother's card. Plus I had had it sitting on my shelf for a long time now and hadn't used it!!!!!😱

I have stamped the images in Basic Gray and they look very effective over the blended background. I just love the little fish at the back of the boat popping up and teasing! The white that you can see is the Stampin' Chalk Marker and I have just highlighted the water and a little bit of the dock and the birds to make them pop off the page. The card base is Early Espresso.

To finish off the card of course I had to have the sentiment and I have used the Happy Birthday stamp from the By The Dock stamp set and stamped it on Whisper white card and punch it out with the Label me Fancy punch and punched the slits for the ribbon with the same punch. I have also just trimmed it down so that it is not as big. The ribbon is the faux suede trim and the braided linen thread. I used the residual colour on the blending brush to colour the whisper white sentiment Daffodil delight.

I hope you have enjoyed my trip down memory lane for our Summer Theme today.

Please head over to the host of our monthly Creative Showcase, my friend, the very talented Rachel Woollard to see the list of the other team members playing along this month with the theme "All things Summer". Rachel's Blog

If you have any questions and would like to have the new Jan-June Mini in your had so you can get these fabulous blending brushes in your had as soon as possible please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,