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Hi,

Welcome to my blog. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope that you will find some inspiration for your projects as I have from many lovely people. This is just a little space for me to share some of my cards, scrap book pages and maybe even some of my embroidery and quilting projects.

Enjoy and stop back often.

Sharon



Thursday, 18 June 2020

AWH -Creative Showcase June 2020 - New Stampin' Up Annual Catalogue Products

Welcome to the Art With Heart Team Creative Showcase. This week the team are featuring projects using their favourite products from the new Stampin’ Up! 2020-21 Catalogue. The new catalogue is full of amazing new stamp sets, some bundled with dies or punches. The range of kits, papers and accessories complete the range of products you will see featured in this Showcase.

Ok you had me at BOX!!!!

When ever there is a kit in a box I am there! I love them! Ok Blackberry bliss being the main colour didn't hurt either! 

You guessed it I am talking about the Gorgeous Posies Project Kit.

Gorgeous Posies Project kit, Gorgeous Posies, Blackberry bliss, Rhapsody in craft, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue, Friendship cards, Get well cards, Celebrate you, Wishing you wel

Look at this gorgeous box! You get all the card bases, card front designs, die cuts,  embellishments, ribbons, envelopes to make 16 cards in this lovely box. Buy it just for the box!!! Then buy the stamp set and adhesive to finish off the cards! Perfect!

Gorgeous Posies Project kit, Gorgeous Posies, Blackberry bliss, Rhapsody in craft, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue, Friendship cards, Get well cards, Celebrate you, Wishing you well

Here are the card as the directions in the kit suggest to make the cards.

Most of you would know by now that Blackberry Bliss is one of my favourite Stampin' Up! colours of all time and I have been around Stampin' Up! for a long time now, since back in the 90's when I lived in Minneapolis. So that is another reason why I was drawn to this kit

So because of my love of Blackberry bliss, another thing you can do with the card fronts in this kit is put them on your own coordinating card base.

Gorgeous Posies Project kit, Gorgeous Posies, Blackberry bliss, Rhapsody in craft, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue, Friendship cards,

I did mix it up a little and turn the card front up the other way to give it a slightly different look as well.

So now that you have made up all of your 16 cards, you have your stamp set, you can now make a card using the gorgeous colours from the cards as an inspiration.

Blackberry Bliss, Calypso Coral, Garden Green, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Gold Foil, Colour Combination, Stampin' Up!, Rhapsody in craft


Gorgeous Posies Project kit, Gorgeous Posies, Blackberry bliss, Rhapsody in craft, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue, Friendship cards

I have used the kit to inspire this card. I have cute a piece of Whisper white card and stamped the beautiful distinctive stamps to create my own flower arrangement. I also used some gold emboss powder for the centre of the blackberry bliss flower to add the bling and compliment the gold foil. I must make a confession that when I was stamping the flower arrangement and masking off the flowers to put in my leaves and little twigs it all of a sudden dawned on me that they weren't twigs at all but the veins of the leaves. 😂😂 Well guess what you can use them for both!

Gorgeous Posies Project kit, Gorgeous Posies, Blackberry bliss, Rhapsody in craft, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue, Friendship cards

 Here are the three cards that use the beautiful sentiment, "For a very kind and thoughtful friend". I would get the stamp set alone just for the sentiments.  One card is exactly as the kit suggest, one card is the kit with a slight twist, one card is using the stamp set with inspiration from the kit. 

All the products will be listed at the end of the post. Hope you have enjoyed a look into one of the kits and there is so much more gorgeousness in this new catalogue, this is only page 8! 

Please head over to the next Art With Heart team member to showcase their new catalogue project. I always love to see and be inspired by what Tina Gillespie has to share.

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Sharon Davern  <= You are here


If you would like any information about my projects tonight or would like the new Annual Catalogue in your hands (You won't regret it at all!) do not hesitate to contact me.

Check out the products I used here:
Product List


Thank you for spending some time with me today, I hope you found something to inspire you in the new Stampin' Up! Catalogue, every time I look through it I find new and exciting inspiration. 

Take Care,




Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Week 3 - AWH Colour Creations Showcase - "Bermuda Bay"


I am so loving our Colour Creations Showcase already and we are only in week 3 so many more gorgeous colours from Stampin' Up to go!

This week Bermuda Bay

Bermuda Bay is a beautiful bright aqua blue colour. You have a variety of things to choose from in the catalogue that is Bermuda bay
  • Card stock (A4, brights A4 assortment, brights 12x12 assortment)
  • ink pad and refill,
  • Stampin' Write marker in brights collection and Many Marvellous markers
  • Watercolour pencils
  • stampin blends
  • Brights 6x6 DSP
  • Artistry Blooms DSP

For my card tonight I have taken the Artistry Bloom DSP and used the colour blend in the paper as my colour combination tonight. Stampin' Up! has done all the work for us so all you have to do is look at what colour combination they have used and go with that.

Bermuda Bay Colour Combination, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Basic Gray, Granny Apple Green, Stampin' Up!

You know if you have been following me for a while that I love a fancy fold so I thought I would so one for tonight and it is just so easy you have to try it. I chose to do a Double Open Joy Fold Card.
Rhapsody in craft, Fancy Fold,Double Open Joy Fold Card, Sailing Home, Bermuda Bay, Artistry Bloom DSP, Old World Paper 3D EF, Stampin' Up! 2020-21 Catalogue


Such a fun fold this Double Open Joy Fold and I thought this was just the perfect fold for this colour challenge this week. No, actually I wanted to do this fold so I made it work! 😂 I saw it on Jacque Williams blog and thought I would love to give it a go. What I did think was perfect was the Artistry Bloom DSP and the Sailing Home stamp set together. When I saw this particular piece of DSP in the pack I thought all the gorgeous shimmery colours of the water. Then, I thought about the rippling waves and the Old World Paper 3D Embossing folder was perfect. Gave just the effect I was looking for.

As you can see the Old Worlds Paper 3D Embossing folder up close on the  Artistry Bloom DSP is really good as a water effect!

Ok so how did I make this card? Well I am glad you asked! It is actually 2 cards in 1. A larger z-fold card - Cut an A4 piece of card stock vertically and then fold in half and then fold back the front flap in half. Easy there is your z-fold. Now make a smaller card just folded in half to adhere to the inside and back panel of the card and it closes over the front of the z-fold and you now have your card made.

Rhapsody in craft, Double Open Joy Fold Card, Fancy Fold, Sailing Home, Bermuda Bay, Old Worlds Paper 3D EF, Artistry Bloom DSP

Rhapsody in craft, Sailing Home, Double Open Joy Fold, Bermuda Bay, Old World Paper 3D EF, Stampin' Up

When you open the card you have a couple of places you can write on and I have decorated the left inside panel with basic gray ink rope and then using the Smooth sailing dies I have cut out the anchor once I had stamped it in Bermuda bay ink.

See that bakers twine wrapped around the front flap of the card? It is the new Misty moonlight/silver Bakers Twine from the Flowers for Every Season ribbon combo pack. It is not quite night of navy or Bermuda Bay but it works well on this card.

Rhapsody in craft, Sailing Home, Bermuda Bay, Artistry Bloom DSP, Double Open Joy Fold Card, Fancy Fold, Old World Paper 3D EF, Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue

This angle gives you a good look at the opening of the card. For the front sentiment panel of the card I used basic gray and stamped the birds and the 2 smaller yachts before using the Smooth sailing dies to cut out the larder stamped yacht and then colouring it with my Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends. Light on the sails with a few darker accents and a dark hull of the yacht. I popped her up on some dimensionals. 


Rhapsody in Craft, Sailing Home, Smooth sailing dies, Old World Paper 3D EF, Fancy Fold, Double Open Joy Fold Card, Artistry Bloom DSP,Stampin' Up 2020-21 Annual Catalogue

The sentiment is perfect for what we are all going through right now and I am ever so grateful for the friendships that I have made through being part of Stampin' Up and how they are so supportive and caring of me. I think this is just the perfect sentiment and I thank every single one of these gorgeous friends for being my anchor.

 I have stamped it in Bermuda Bay ink and used the Smooth Sailing dies to cut it out. I also cut the same die out in Bermuda Bay Card Stock then using my paper snips cut down the sentiment to fit just inside the stitching and popped them up on a dimensional and added some bling with Night of Navy rhinestones from the holiday rhinestones basic jewels back.  This card folds down nicely into our C6 envelopes.

Our Colour Creations Showcases are hosted each week by my lovely friend and the extremely creative Cathy Proctor. So Hop on over to her blog for the list of those participating this week and find some more inspiration for the colour Bermuda Bay: Cathy's Blog


Product List

If you have any questions on how to make this card or would like a paper copy of the new Annual catalogue in your hand please do not hesitate to contact me.


Thank you for spending some time with me tonight.
Take care,

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