Week 38 - Colour Creations Blog Hop = Pumpkin Pie

 

Today we are looking at the Bright colour of Pumpkin Pie! I don't think it is really a colour I put my hand on very often if I am honest but this week I have combined it with So Saffron and the gorgeous Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set as like all of the world the people of Ukraine have been on my mind.

I came across a simple stamping technique called Split Card Technique and thought how cool  this was and with a little bit of masking technique thrown in you can take this card from beginner to stepped up in no time!

So how did I make these 2 cards? Well I am glad you asked!

It first involved a little bit of maths to make sure I had measured my piece of Basic white the correct size. You know what the normal layer size would be multiply by 2 but keep it all as 1 piece.

So the idea is to have 1 piece of card stock stamp your design and then cut it in half. (Now you know why I was working out the maths, not normally an issue but for some reason today my head was not working) So I first stamped the large Sunflower in the middle and then I stamped it on a scrap piece of copy paper and cut it out with my paper snips and placed it over the already stamped image and then stamped another sunflower. I did this all up the centre. I then took the small sunflower and continued using my mask to add more sunflowers and leaves.

When I was happy with the amount of sunflowers and leaves I went to colouring them with the Stampin' Blends. I combined the Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie and the Light and Dark So Saffron and a little Light Crumb cake for the flowers and the leaves are Dark Soft Succulent and Light Evening Evergreen. I have stamped the flowers in Early Espresso as I wanted to make sure the petals were very distinctive especially since the flowers were going to overlap each other.

Now the scary but fun part, cut the card in half to get your 2 card fronts.

Both of the cards I have layered on Pumpkin Pie card and then onto a base of Thick Basic White.

This first card I have kept very simple and have stamped the greeting straight onto the white space in Early Espresso and then adhered to the card base layers. The greeting is from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Special Moments.

For this second card I have stamped the happy birthday from the Special Moments stamp set and then used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch to create the label and the layer behind in Early Espresso. To also step this card up just a little I have added some Elegant faceted Gems and a little bit of frayed gold shimmer ribbon behind the greeting which is popped up on dimensionals.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Pumpkin pie Journey and this week we will be heading to the lovely Rosa Leyden. I love the name of her blog, hum and stamp what a great way to spend the day. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week, last week she made a great fancy fold card that made me think of all our years spent living in the US.

If for any reason there is a faulty link then please head to our weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and on her blog she will have the list of everyone participating this week with Pumpkin Pie: Cathy's Blog!

If you would like to contact me at all to get your hands on the new Jan-Jun Mini or those last minute Sale-A-Bration items or any of your crafting needs please do not hesitate to contact me.

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

Week 37 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Poppy Parade

Welcome to colour creations blog hop for the last week of February 2022. I can not believe it is the end of February already.

Well this week the team is look at the bright colour of Poppy Parade!

 I have decided to try a new technique this week as I needed to try it for a swap that I am in and I thought well why not try it for our colour creations blog hop and see if I like it then I can do it for my swap. Well I liked it so it will be happening for my swaps!

So I have used the gorgeous Blessings of Home Bundle for my card and used the Bleach out image technique. So how did I make my focal point image.

I stamped the large image in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake card stock and then sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heat set that! Then I took an old water painter and a little bit bleach and started to paint the image with the bleach. As you can see as it starts to dry the paper becomes more yellow and you can see if you missed any spots.

Once the bleach is completely dry then you can start to colour with your Stampin' Blends

Once I had coloured with my Stampin' Blends of light and dark Poppy Parade, Dark Soft Succulent and light Evening Evergreen, Dark Crumb Cake and Dark Soft Suede, I then cut the image out with the dies form the Flowers of Home Dies. I did start to fussy cut it out then remembered I have the dies for this stamp set and stopped just in time! Phew! as you can see in the top corner I have coloured a little of poppy parade so you can see what it looks like when the card was not bleached. I think the bleaching makes the Poppy Parade really Pop!

To back the focal flower I have used the Splatters 3D embossing folder and I have used the leaf and branches dies from the Flowers and Home Dies and have cut them out in  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Soft Succulent and Vellum Card stock. 

As you can see I have again used the gold shimmer ribbon and frayed a little under the flower and layered a little under the  birthday sentiment which I have stamped in Early Espresso and then clear embossed it before cutting it out with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch.

I hope you liked this look at Poppy Parade and this fun technique. It really pops off the page in real life and is fun to do. I hope you give it a try.

Now is the time where you head to the next person on the journey of Poppy Parade and this week it is the lovely Cathy Proctor. I can't wait to see what she has for us as she is always so creative and thinks so out of the box that I just love to see what she has thought of this week and it is always so elegant! So just hit on the next blog button and go straight there now!

Also head to Cathy's blog if at anytime you have a broken link and she will have the list of who is participating in tonight's blog hop and you will be able to continue from there: Cathy's Blog

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

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

Week 35 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Petal Pink

Welcome to another wonderful week of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week the team are looking at the dusty pink of Petal Pink!

I have made a Slim Line Card for you this week. I know I am late to the party as I have not made one before but I thought I would give it a go as I have just received the gorgeous dies from the Jan-June Mini Catalogue. I thought the die would make a beautiful backdrop for my Petal Pink flowers.

So I have chosen the gorgeous Friendly Hello Stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration brochure for my card as who does not like flowers and who does not like this cute little bird?!

I cut out the Slim Line Die, well one of them and I really liked this one and thought it was perfect for my flowers in Soft Sea Foam card stock and adhered it to a Thick Basic White card Base. I did that with a little bit of liquid glue by adding it to the back and letting it almost go dry so that it was tacky and then when I put it on the card base the glue didn't seep out all over the card.

I then stamped all the lovely flowers, leaves, the bird and the sentiment in Smoky Slate. The sentiment I punched out with the scalloped oval from the double oval punch pack from the Annual catalogue and set it aside to work on my flowers and bird.

For the bird I have used the new Natural Tones Stampin' Blends and you can get them now. They come as a set of 10 and in Light, Medium Light, Medium, Medium Deep and Deep combo pairs. I actually used 7 of these for the Bird and branch. and the lightest two on the belly of the bird go so well with Petal Pink.

The flowers I have used light and dark Petal Pink and Dark So Saffron and the leaves I have used Light and Dark Mint Macaron then I fussy cut them all out and adhered them to the front of the card. Of course I am in love with pulling a few threads from the Gold Shimmer Ribbon and have popped that under the sentiment. All these years in sewing I have tried to not have fraying and here I am fraying this gorgeous ribbon! LOL! 😂

Well I think I will like working with the Natural tone blends and the Slim line dies and I love how the Natural tones worked so well with the Petal Pink so lots of colouring in my future I see.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey through Petal Pink. Just hit the next blog button and you will got straight there: This week we will be going to Michele Taylor and I just love how creative she gets with her designs can't wait to see what she has for us this week.

If for any reason the next blog buttons have some technical issue please head to our host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all the participants in this weeks blog hop and you can continue your Petal Pink Journey from there: Cathy's Blog

If you would like to contact me for any details please don't hesitate to hit the contact button.

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

 
 

Week 33 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - Pacific Point

 

Welcome to another week of creations with the Art With Heart Team and our Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the bright blue colour of Pacific Point!

Today I have for you a note card. OK a stack of note cards! I needed 38 of them. I have taken on a new leadership role at my church where I will be taking the craft group. It is a group of mostly retired seniors that meet weekly and they do many and varied crafts from knitting/crochet, sewing/patchwork/quilting to painting and card making. So I am excited to start and support the women in this weekly group and I wanted to send them a little card to say hello!

I have used the Handmade for you stamp set which has all  the lovely made for you, made with love and the Stampin' Up! copy write stamp that you stamp on the back of your cards when you sell your cards. I thought it was perfect for my little hello card. Plus the I found the perfect sized Hello stamp in the Beauty of Friendship stamp set.

There are quite a few elements to the card and once I had cut out all the tags in Soft Sea Foam I too the sewing form and as I just wanted to stamp the stand I covered it with the post it notes that I used last week for my masking. I used my Stamparatus as I wanted to do all 38.

Now make sure you don't get distracted by the tennis or by a family member and you take the post it note or tape or what ever you use off the stamp after you ink it up so that you don't end up having this little disaster on your hands.

Well this looks a lot better and I stamped this in Smokey Slate. By the way you can get 24 of this size tag out of 1 sheet of A4 card stock.

To create the little hello tag I used the same shape but just the small one. I first cut the back end and then to shorten the tag I lined the tag back up in the stitched holes and put it back through the Cut 'N' Emboss machine.

I was ready to put all my cards together in one go now that I had all my elements: Pacific Point base layer to add to the note card, Smokey slate layer embossed in the Timeworn Type 3D folder, stamped Soft Sea Foam Tags, Pacific Point Hello tags, fussy cut Stamped in Pacific Point sewing Forms, Crafters Gonna Craft stamped on Heart & Home DSP, strips of the Layering Designs vellum. I like to do the Gold Shimmering Ribbon and the white bakers twine as I put them together.

If you have lots of cards of one design to do at the same time get all your elements ready and then put them together once you have stamped and cut everything, it is so much easier that way. I am not sure you will have 38 of the one design but maybe 10.

These were fun little note cards to put together and to finish them off I added some classic matte dots.

Now is the time to head to Tina Gillespie just click on the next blog button and you will go straight there. I love seeing what Tina creates and last week she made a lovely stitched rectangle symmetry card which was just gorgeous I can't wait to see how she will use Pacific Point this week.

If for some reason there is a break in the next blog links at any time please head to our weekly blog host Cathy Proctor as she will have a list of participants and you will be able to continue you hop from there: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about my card today or would like to get your hands on the New Mini and Sale-a-bration brochure that are out now please do not hesitate to contact me.

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

Week 32 - Colour Creation Blog Hop - Old Olive

 

 Hello and welcome to our Colour creation blog hop highlighting Old Olive! I have used the gorgeous new Flowing Flowers from the new Mini Catalogue for my card. 

I have paired old olive today with crushed curry. To create the background I cut a piece of Basic White card stock and with a couple of post it notes to create a strip down the middle of the card.

I am so loving using the blending brushes so I took them out and blended some Crushed curry and Old Olive.

Once I had enough colour I added it to the Old Olive card base and then  stamped the flowers from the Flowing Flowers stamp set. I Used the Stamparatus and stamped the large flower once with the Crushed curry ink pad. I then inked up the smaller flower with leaves with the Stampin' Write markers Old Olive and Crushed Curry, I stamped and inked multiple times to get a darker colour so that you you have different shades of Crushed curry on the card from the blended background to the front flower!

I fussy cut the flowers out and for the little splash of gold I used the shimmery gold Ribbon that I have pulled apart to give that wispy look behind the flowers which I have popped up on dimensionals. I just love this sentiment that comes with this stamp set so I thought I would stamp it in Smokey Slate. In the new mini there are these gorgeous brushed brass butterflies and I love butterflies so I had to add them to my card.

I hope you enjoyed the card and the little masking technique. Now is the time to head to the next person which is my lovely friend Tina Gillespie, I always get excited to see what she has for us each week. Last week she made a gorgeous lacy Ombre Night of Navy card I can't wait to see what she has for us today! Just click on the next button to go straight there.

If you find a link broken at any time during the blog hop just head over to our weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of those from the team participating this week and you can continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about today's card or would like to get your hands on the New Mini Catalogue don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,