Week 2 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "Balmy Blue"

Each week some of the Art with Heart Team will be participating in a Blog Hop all about colour. We will be bringing to you creations highlighting one of the Stampin' Up! colours each week and with 50 colours plus the 10 In Colors there is so much inspiration to look forward to.

Last week we looked at the 5 New In Colors for 2021-23 this week we are looking at Balmy Blue and we will continue in alphabetical order. 

Well I couldn't help myself I had to do a fancy fold! A Double Tri-Fold Pop Up Card. Well that sounds like a mouth full but it is so easy!

I hadn't seen one of these before and I came across it on Dawn Stampin' Thoughts and thought I would give it a try. It is one piece of Thick Basic White card base that you score first and then cut to get your sentiment trifold section off the card base. Hence the Double Tri-fold part of your card.

Ok so the fancy fold has nothing to do with Balmy Blue so where does this Balmy blue come from? Glad you asked. The Gorgeous DSP is the new "You're A Peach" I have used both on the base of the card and the layering on the sentiment section of the card. 

For the sentiments on the card I have used the stamp set Simply Succulents. I really love the sentiments and greetings from this set, ok the whole set but I digress. I wanted the first sentiment to fit into the square that I had created but as you can tell from this picture of the stamp set it doesn't quite come the way I have it stamped.

 

I got out my Basic Black Stampin' Write marker and used the brush end and just inked up the words that I wanted and stamped them, cleaned off the stamp inked up the next word, lined up my stamp and continued on like that until my sentiment was stamped the way I wanted. Just because a stamp is set in a particular way doesn't mean you can't make it work the way you want it to. I love how we can use all the different products that Stampin' Up have as they match an coordinate so well. If I wanted to use the Balmy Blue Stampin' Write Marker that would have fitted in with the DSP that I had used as well.

The next two sections I stamped as normal.

I happened to be playing with the Quiet Meadow stamp set just before making this card and thought the flower from this stamp set would look lovely on this card so I stamped it in Smokey Slate and coloured it in Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent Stampin' blends did a little fussy cutting and adhere to the front of the card after adhering the sentiment section. Of course with a little bit of bling to finish off.

Just so you know this card fits perfectly into our envelopes and the trick to making sure your get it to fit is to lay your card down closed on your envelope before you adhere the sentiment trifold panel. You can then move it in or out as far as you need to and just add enough adhesive under that front section as you need. Then turn it over and do the same to adhere the back section.

It was fun trying out a new fancy fold to try and I will be putting this one in my bag of fancy fold tricks that is for sure!

If you have any questions about my card tonight or would like to get you hands on some of these wonderful new products to play with yourself please do not hesitate to contact me!

I look forward each week to the amazing creativity of the  AWHT members who have created with our challenge colour and Christine Blain our next person on the hop is always a must so head on over to her blog now.

Our blog hop is a circle you can enter at any place but if you find that you have a broken link at any time just come back and click on the next person in the list here:

Michele Taylor

Rachel Palmieri

Kate Morgan

Catherine Proctor

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern <=You are here

Christine Blain

Tina Gillespie

Diane Furniss

Ros Davidson

Theresa Gerrard

Rachel Woollard

Rosa Leyden

Fiona Bell Ryan

Vicki Boucher

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

 

Week 1 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "The 5 -2021-2023 In Colors"

Welcome to the New Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2021-22. How exciting that we are continuing with the sharing of the gorgeous colours of Stampin' Up! each week with you.

We are going to be doing it as a blog hop where you click on the next button at the end of each post and it will take you to the next person on the list who is participating in the Colour Creation challenge that day but if the link is broken just come back and click on their name in the list provided and you will be able to get to their blog that way as well.

I am so excited to be continuing so let's get into Week 1!

For week 1 we are going to look at all 5 of the new In Colors!

Polished Pink, Pale Papaya, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Fresh Freesia! All gorgeous colours and I am going to have fun playing with these over the next 2 years.

So it is my it is my Dad's 80th Birthday today and I wanted to make him a card. At the moment he is not able to move around very well as he is on crutches for a leg injury so I thought the stamp set A Cut Above would be perfect for him. Take a load off, put your feet up and have a bit of a relax Dad! The challenge was how to incorporate all 5 In Colors into 1 card. 

Well bring on the Stampin' blends and some of the gorgeous Loose Flower Flourishes that are in 3 of the In Colors and there you have it. All 5 In Colors in 1 card!

So for this card I have used the Soft Succulent card base and cut an extra layer of Soft Succulent which I have stamped the cloud from the "A Cut Above" stamp set in Soft Succulent. I have also stamped the Happy Birthday onto Soft Succulent in Evening Evergreen and cut it out with the Stitched Rectangle dies.

Now for the main event our fun loving relaxed Dad/Grandad in my case!

Ok so as we were on the In Color challenge I went for it and the trees are also an In Color. The trunk is Cinnamon Cider in both light and dark blends. The leaves I have used both Soft Succulent and Evening evergreen as well as I have used them for the grass. Now you can see the Loose Flower Flourishes in Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia and Polished Pink. I was away on the weekend (before our lock down) when I made this card and I permanently borrowed the flowers from a friend who had them as I had not purchased them yet but I am going to as they are just so gorgeous!

Now the shirt is Pale Papaya as well and his pillow is Soft Succulent and to round off all things In Color the sun is Bumblebee. He was fun to colour.

I don't know about you but I could do with a bit of sun and relaxing right now but I am sure my Dad will love his card and he does love a peachy looking shirt so I think he will like Pale Papaya.

Now as I had already met the challenge of putting all 5 new In Colors on one card I played around with them a bit more and made 3 other cards but Soft Succulent missed out this time.

I really loved this new Quiet Meadow Bundle when I saw it and I thought it was perfect for this simple card to show off these gorgeous new In Colours.

So for these set of cards I have them on a card base of Thick Basic White and then a mat layer of Regular Basic White which I have stamped the speckle stamp from the Quiet Meadow stamp set in Evening Evergreen in the background.

For each of the cards I have used the Meadow dies from the Quiet Meadows Bundle to cut out some of the flower and greenery sprigs in gold foil and vellum card stock.

To bring in the pop of colour each flower has been coloured with the Stampin' Blends in the new In Colors in Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Fresh Freesia and the centre of the flower in Soft Suede light and dark. Under each flower which I fussy cut and popped up on dimensionals, the new In Color open weave ribbon has been adhered. The sentiment is also from the Quiet Meadow stamp set and I have stamped that in Evening Evergreen and used the Meadow dies to cut it out.
 

These were so much fun to make and I can see that I will be making lots of cards using the Quiet Meadow Bundle.

If you have any questions about my projects today, or would like to purchase the products to make them please do not hesitate to contact me. Also if you would like to have a copy of the new Annual Catalogue in your had just let me know.

I always look forward, each week, to seeing the amazing creativity of the Art With Heart Team and now is the time to head to the next person in the hop, the very talented Vicki Boucher.
  

If at any time you have a broken link just come back to this list and click on the next person in the list to continue the blog hop.

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern   <=You Are Here

Vicki Boucher

Caroline Manwaring

Tina Gillespie

Christine Blain

Rachel Woollard

Theresa Gerrard

Rachel Palmeri

Michele Taylor

Diane Furniss

Andrea Sargent

Ros Davidson

Cathy Proctor

 

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 50 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Soft Suede"

Week 50 Soft Suede

So exciting we have reached 50 weeks of the wonderful spectrum of colours from Stampin' Up! I just love how everything in the range matches so you know that the ink and paper and the DSP all will go together so you have no problems with the colour that you choose, and it makes creating so easy.

So today I have made a card with a borrowed stamp set but it is on my wish list for my next order. I can't wait to get this suite!

I was away on the weekend, Oh soooo lovely! For a craft weekend and my lovely friends had the Bloom Where You're Planted suite. Oh how gorgeous is this suite. I already had some of the DSP from a paper share I had been in and this is with what I have made the majority of the card. Oh and yes a fancy fold as well. I just couldn't help myself!

So this is a fun fancy fold card to make and the base of the card is in our colour of the week Soft Suede and layered with crumb cake and one of the pieces of the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP which has a gray granite speckle to it and I thought was just great with Soft Suede. The little bricks that the pots of plants are on is also some of the DSP from this pack and you guessed it I fussy cut out the pots and plants as well to put on the brick wall.

Now to make the fun fold I cut the piece of A4 card stock in half at 10.5 cm x 21 cm folded it in half and then folded the front half back on itself towards the fold. Then you make the front layer which I did with the stitched rectangle dies and the layering circle dies at the top so that when you want to close it you have a place to slide the front panel up under to keep your card all nice and neatly together.

So just remember to adhere just the top part of the circle so you can slide the card under not the whole circle or else you could be in for  a bit of a sticky situation.

On the inside of the card I used the Stitched with Whimsy die to create a place for writing to your friend before sending your card.

Now the 2 sentiments I used are from the stamp set Plentiful Plants and I was very grateful to borrow the stamp set while I was away and it is going on my next order. 

Hope you have enjoyed this little look at the Bloom where you're planted set, there is so much more so I can't wait to get it and the dies as well.

Please now head to our host, Cathy's blog to see her inspiration for this week, I love to see her wonderful creations each week and there you will also find the list of the AWHT playing along this week: Cathy's blog.

If you would like to get your hands on the New Annual Catalogue or would like more details on how to make this project or purchase the products to make this project do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, 

take care,