Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 23 - Gorgeous Grape

 

Hello and welcome to week 23 of the Art with Heart teams Colour Creations Blog Hop. I have been away for a few weeks from this weekly blog hop but I wanted to try and get back with a clean and simple card this week. Well that is what is in my head to plan to do let's see what comes out by the time I make my card. I am having one of those weeks. Yes, but who doesn't like to challenge themselves every now and again! Right?!

This week we are looking at Gorgeous Grape:

Gorgeous Grape is one of the colours from the Brights collection and is a deep rich purple!

So this is what I have come up with:

I have gone back to probably my most used set of the 2022-23 Annual Catalogue and that is the Cottage Rose. I will link you back to some of my Cottage Rose Posts right at the end of this post if you want to go back and have a look some time.

I took out the blending brush and gave a little shadow of gorgeous grape behind the focal rose. Instead of using the large rose from the stamp set I used the medium. I took the blender pen and carefully added some dark lines of Gorgeous grape (as I had stamped the image in Basic Grey) and when there was less ink on the blender pen I added some paler gorgeous grape ink to the outer edge of the petals. The Natural Finish Ribbon I thought was a nice background for the flower and the leaves that I coloured in old olive stampin' blends.

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 person on our journey of Gorgeous Grape and today you will be going to Cathy Proctor, I love the way she creates such elegant cards, so just hit on the next blog button and you will go straight there. I can't wait to see what she has for us today!

If at anytime you find a broken link please head to our lovely weekly host Cathy Proctor and on her blog she will have the list of the Art with Heart team members participating this week. Thanks Cathy: Cathy's Blog

If you want to look back at some other ideas for this gorgeous stamp set here are the blog posts to get some other ideas for how to use the Cottage Rose Bundle:

Card 1
Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

Card 5

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

Heart of Christmas - 2022 - Week 14

 

Welcome to week 14 of the Heart of Christmas blog hop. Each week until the end of November and shh that is only this week and 8 more we will be bringing you Christmas inspiration for your decorating and cardmaking for this year!

So this week I thought I had better ink up those gorgeous Gnomes! I know late to the party but hey better late than never, right!

I thought I would do a simple "Z" Fold card with a focal point panel, square, rectangle on the front! Now you can say, don't you know what you have made. Well at the time of writing this part of my blog I actually haven't made the card so it could even be a circle! Let's see what the card will be by the time we get to the end of the blog!

Let the card fun begin!

So this is the what I came up with as you see I used the deckled rectangle for the focal point of my card!  I hadn't used them yet so I thought it was the perfect time to get them out. I actually ran out of time to do much today so I had to find some quick ideas for you.

So what are the quick things you can do to make these cards. Cut a card base of Early Espresso and fold in half and then fold the front back on itself to make the "z" fold. Then it is a matter of choosing your DSP that you like. I have taken all the colours for my cards tonight from the Storybook Gnomes DSP. It is a layer that you would normally put on as the first layer and cut in half and split between the front and the inside. Do that for some Basic White as well and you have a place to write on.

For 2 of my cards I have taken the Gnome dies and cut out the mushroom and gnomes from the DSP and the grass from some card stock. Fantastic that was quick I have stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy and fussy cut that as I liked it a bit separated on my card front. On the piece of Basic White I have used my blending brush and put a little bit of Balmy Blue to have a shadow around the mushrooms. Pop them all on the deckled card and you have your card finished.

Now if you have a little more time you can stamp your mushroom and gnome and colour them in with your stampin' blends and cut them out with the Gnome Dies.

I used similar colours to the DSP that I cut out with the dies to colour the mushroom and gnome that I had stamped in basic grey! Pretty close to the original but you don't have to do that you can make it in any colours you like!

Quick easy fancy fold cards with all the help from Stampin' Up!

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to help.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas journey for week 14 and it is the very talented Kate Morgan. I just love what she brings to us each week. She is so creative, I can't wait to see what technique or fancy fold she has for us this week. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason your next blog button doesn't work please come back here and continue you hop from the where you left off. You can find the list of participants in this weeks Heart of Christmas blog hop below:

Kate Morgan

Catherine Proctor

Tina Gillespie

Andrea Sargent

Christine Blain

Kathryn Ruddick

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern <=You are here

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

World Card Making Day 2022

 

Thank you for joining us on World Card Making Day! Each year on the first Saturday in October we set aside the day to make cards. This year the lovely Kathryn Mangelsdorf put a call out for some of us to do a blog hop as well. What a fantastic idea Kathryn. Thanks for hosting our hop!

Here is what I have made for our hop. 

I love making fancy fold cards, they don't have to be super difficult and this one is just a couple of cuts and folds. It is called a Diagonal Joy Fold Card. I need to make around 20 thank you cards for my daughters 21st that we have just had and I thought a nice easy fancy fold would be just the ticket!

 

Now you can decorate them anyway you like but the base of the card is easy to make. Let me take you through the steps after choosing your colour scheme and I used the Abigail Rose DSP for my base colour palette.

Step 1. Card base A4 score in half down the middle

Step 2. Cut in half and then using the middle score line cut from there to the bottom of the card base diagonally. Do this for both cards and you will have 2 card bases.

Here are my 20 ready to go for all my thank you cards!

Step 3. Choose the DSP that you would like to use and cut it to the size that is the first layer that you would add to your base card. I cut mine to 10 x 14.4cm. Cut these diagonally into triangles. (As you can see the one side I can use for my basic grey bases and the other side for my Early Espresso bases)

Step 4. Cut the card that will become the other folding part and where you write to your receiver of the card. Mine are 8 x 21 cm. score and fold in half.

Step 5. Sorry no photo cut DSP that you wish to go under your focal point flower 7.5 cm x10 cm

Step 6. Cut another piece of DSP or you could cut a piece of Mossy Meadow card the size of 10 x 14.4 cm and your the split card textured dies. I thought it would look like the flowers had a lattice background.

Step 7: Stamp your flowers and leaves and your sentiment. I have done both on Very Vanilla and Basic White to go with the colours of my cards. I have used the Cottage Rose Stamp for the flower and the Celebrating you for the Thank you stamp

Step 8: Die cut and colour your roses and leaves. I used the cottage Rose Dies to cut these out and then the wonderful Stampin' Blends to colour them in. Don't they look wonderful all together.

Now we can assemble our card.

Step 9: First adhere the split die texture piece or your piece of DSP to the inside of your card.

Step 10: Adhere the triangle to the front of the card. Start with the tip it makes it easier.

Step 11: Place adhesive on the back of your folded writing section and slide it under your triangle fold and adhere to the lattice base card.

It is easier to make sure you have it centred if you slide it in carefully before pushing down and adhering.

Step 12: Decorate the front of your card anyway you like. See the thank you I have cut that out using the Celebrations Tag Dies. It was the perfect fit!

Here are the 2 colour schemes with the yellow rose together.

You can even fold the triangle the other way if you wanted a different look.

Here is half of them but all 20 are complete ready to be written in and sent out this week. Oh and I couldn't help but put on some bling with the gorgeous Iridescent Pearls.

I do hope those steps were helpful and will encourage you to try making the base and you can decorate it with your stamps and in your style but if you have any questions about my project today don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our World Card Making Day Hop and that will be the very talented artist Kathryn Ruddick, I love how she adds colour to her projects so just hit the next blog button below and you will head straight there. I can't wait to see what she has for us!

If at any time there is a broken link our lovely host Kathryn Mangelsdorf will have a list of those participating and you can continue your hop from there. Click here to go to Kathryn's Blog

Thank you for spending some World Card Making Day crafty time with me today, take care,

Heart of Christmas - 2022 - Week 13

 

Welcome to week 13 of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. Each week on a Monday until the end of November the Art with Heart team will bring you some fantastic Christmas inspiration for you so that you can create the most wonderful Christmas.

I am back this week after a week off for my daughter's 21st. Thank you Tina for hosting last week, you are so appreciated! I will post a couple of photos at the end.

Today I have a variation on a theme for you. A variation on a theme is a musical term and I am using that because I am casing a card from the lovely Tina Gillespie from the week 8 Heart of Christmas blog hop. I loved her sheet load of cards layout that week and her card was elegant and gorgeous. I have made a variation on that theme. Now Tina and I are both musician so I thought I would use that term tonight. Normally we would say CASE copy and share everything with your own twist! Click Here to see Tina's card!

So for my card I am using the Sweet Candy Canes Bundle. For some reason I just had it in my head when I saw Tina's card that the Candy Cane would work perfectly for the layout. I didn't have the bundle yet so I had to wait until I put in an order so I could make these cards.

I chose the 4 colours that come in the Sweetest Christmas DSP, Garden Green, Real Red, Pool Party and Sweet Sorbet. Each card is on a Thick Basic White base. For this Garden Green card I have used the Garden Green dotty DSP in the Sweetest Christmas pack and then using the Candy Cane Dies I have a layer over the top of Garden Green card. I have cut out the Candy Cane from the DSP to match my card. The Mistletoe is stamped in Garden Green and Crumb Cake then cut out using the dies. One of the sentiments that I love at this time of year is this one. I think is it just the most wonderful time of the year and I have cut this out using the stitched rectangle dies using my extending technique that you have seen me use over the past few weeks.

On the back of the Garden Green dot DSP is a Candy Cane Stripe with some Pool Party and if you move your die cut just right you have added some extra stripes to this one as it was the most wide of all the DSP stripes! I have cut out a Candy cane from the DSP that had the Pool Party to match!

Here is the Red Dotty DSP card and this time I have chosen a 3rd sentiment. There is so much fun to be had with this stamp set and have you noticed I have used different coloured Adhesive-backed seasonal sequins on all the cards.

The 4th colour in the DSP was Sweet Sorbet so I just had to use the Merry & Bright sentiment for this card. I also switched up the way the Candy Cane Stripes were going on the DSP to add some interest. This card also has a double linen thread bow.

Here they are all together. Thanks for your inspiration Tina and Sheet Load of Cards sketches, I still have other ideas of how to use this sketch. So I will see if it works out.

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on some of these gorgeous products and get started or continue making your Christmas cards do get in contact with me.

Now is the time to head to the next very talented person on our Christmas blog hop and this week we are heading to Kate Morgan. Kate always has very creative ways to use the products and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week so just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time you have a broken link please head back here and continue your Christmas Blog Hop from the list of very talented ladies below.

Kate Morgan:

Tina Gillespie:

Theresa Gerrard:

Andrea Sargent:

Christine Blain:

Caroline Manwaring:

Michele Taylor:

Catherine Proctor:

Rosa Leyden:

Sharon Davern: <=You are Here

Here are a couple of photos from our Murder Mystery 21st Birthday Dinner Party!

Thank you for spending some Christmas Crafty Time with me today, take care,