Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 1 - 2024-25 - Peach Pie

 

Welcome to week 1 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop! How exciting it is to be in a brand nee year of Stampin' Up! with a new catalogue and 5 brand new InColors and a new neutral colour. These 6 new colours will be the first 6 weeks of our Colour Creations Blog Hop for this year. I can't wait for you to join me and the some of the amazingly creative  Art With Heart Team as we share with you the year of Colour Creations Inspirations!

This week we start with Peach Pie!

So today I have made a simple fancy fold card for you as why wouldn't I. I have made a Double Box Fold Card. I only have 1 project today as I am in the middle of making 100 boxes for Mother's Day and I have just finished a project of 45 boxes, 11 baskets and 12 embroidered table cloths for an event. I will have photos at the end of this post to show you. I hope you forgive me for a quick card today!

I have used the beautiful Country Flowers Bundle from the Country Woods Suite which you can find on page 50 of the new Annual Catalogue!

I created the base of the card in Crumb Cake and decorated it with the New InColor DSP leaf design with Peach Pie before continuing on with the focal point design.

Behind the pot of flowers I have cut a piece of the Country Woods DSP using the Nested Essential Dies. After cutting it in the largest of die in the rounded rectangle I decided that it was not quite tall enough for all of my lovely flowers, pot and stool, so I extended it by cutting half and then turning and placing the die in the grooves to line up the die correct and extending it a little more and only cutting half again.

It the Country Flowers stamp set there are 2 lots of flowers and I thought that I could stamp both sets and add lots of flowers to a bucket. Plus who doesn't like to get a lot a flowers! I have popped all of these up on dimensionals and added a couple of Peach Pie die cut flowers as well with the Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls. I love that all of these stamped images can be die cut! Did you notice a little bit of Peach Pie ribbon peaking out?

I have loved to colour since the year dot and here are all the Stampin' Blends I used to colour these images.

The stool: Dark and Light Crumb Cake
The Pot: Light and Dark Smoky Slate
The Flowers: Light and Dark Peach Pie, Light and Dark  Petunia Pop, Dark Bubble Bath, Light Flirty Flamingo, Light, Lemon Lolly, Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, Ivory, Light Lost Lagoon.

Do you see the flower market stamp? I stamped that in Basic Gray after I had finished colouring the pot, you could also leave it off but I kind of like it.

On the back of the card I stamped the sentiment from the Country Flowers stamp set and cut them out with the Nested Essential dies and the card folds up neatly to go in an envelope.

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the new 2024-25 Annual Catalogue

please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazingly talented person on our Peach Pie journey and you will be heading to the very talented Kate Morgan. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you expect at any time please come back here and head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of those participating today and you will be able to continue your blog hop from there: Cathy's Blog

I hope you will come back next week and join us for the next new InColor which is Petunia Pop!

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

P.S. here are the items I worked on for the guest speaker for all those who attended, now I am working on 100 more for Mother's Day!

Bring on Mother's Day!

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 50 - Tahitian Tide - Notes of Nature Birthday

 

Welcome to week 50 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop this week we are looking at the colour Tahitian Tide.  Next week we will be starting our New InColor range for 2024-26 I do hope you will come back and check out the exciting 5 new InColors!

But first Tahitian Tide.

I thought I should end the 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop with a little fancy fold card. It is called a Cascading Display card and I haven't done one since my Christmas blog hop a couple of years ago so it is about time to do one again!

Today I have chosen to use the Notes of Nature and the Lovely & Sweet stamp sets to create my card. 

To begin with I created the base of the card in Tahitian Tide card stock.

Once you have the structure of the card which you score a "z" at each of  the ends of you base card then add another little piece of card in the shape of a "z" to those, then adhere the layers. It all helps the card fold down to go into our envelopes.

So how did I decorate the card base.

I took a piece of the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP and with the Stampin' Blends I coloured in the images. I used Light and Dark Tahitian Tide, Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Lost Lagoon and Light Pretty Peacock! I used the Lovely & Sweet Dies to cut out a couple of Tahitian card flowers. The sentiment is cut up and place a little on the left and the rest on the right!

On the middle section I have used a different piece of the Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP. 

For the inside layer of the card where you can write your greeting I have added a circle of Nature's Sweetness Specialty DSP cut out with the Everyday Details Dies which is what I used to cut out the Birthday Sentiment which is from the Notes of Nature Stamp set. I have also stamped and coloured the leaves and flowers from the Notes of Nature stamp set and cut them out with the Dies from the bundle.

I do hope you have enjoyed our last look at Tahitian Tide. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me before the end of April if you would like to get hold of the product shown in my project tonight as they are retiring. Next week we will have the new Annual Catalogue going live!

Now is the time to head to the next amazing person participating in our Tahitian Tide colour challenge and this week you will be heading to the amazing Cathy Proctor. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime while you are on your journey around our blog hop and one of the next blog buttons does not quote go where it needs to go please come back here and head to out host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list for you of all those participating so you will be able to continue hop from there. Cathy's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today and I hope you will return next week when we start our new hop for 2024-25 with the New InColours, take Care,

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 44 - Real Red - Tiger Lilly

 

Welcome to week 44 of the 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog hop. This week we are championing the colour Real Red!

This week I have chosen to work with the Easter Lilies Dies. I was talking with a good friend about the Easter Lilies this week and discussing about making an Easter card and I thought well they do come in different colours other than the white ones that we have at Easter. So I looked them up and sure enough I found the Red Tiger Lily so I had to try and make one!

The colour combination I used for the project this week is lots of lush greenery around the beautiful red lilies!

How did I put my card together!

On a card base of Mossy Meadow I stamped in Mossy Meadow with a stamp from the Notes of Nature stamp set!

Then I took a piece of Crumb Cake and embossed it with the Stripes embossing folder from the Stripes and Splatters 3D set. I then cut the card into 1 cm pieces to create a lattice. The vertical struts are popped up on dimensionals and the horizontal are woven through.

For the Tiger Lilies I have used the Easter Lilies dies. I have cute one in Real Red card and on in Petal Pink Card and the stamen in Basic White! Each section of the flower was then coloured with a sponge dauber with extra Real Red ink! As Tiger Lilies have lots of spots which I think they should be called Cheetah lilies because of the spots but it sounds better to be called Tiger I suppose. Anyway they have lots of dots so I splattered them with Early Espresso ink. I did this by flicking ink from a from an Early Espresso Pen. The stamen on the dark flower is coloured in Dark Mossy Meadow blends and the light one in Soft Sea Foam Blend.

I cut many leaves in Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam to surround the Real Red Tiger Lilies which I have attached to the lilies before attaching them to the card front with dimensionals as I had given the flowers dimension by curling the petals.

The sentiment is from the Perennial Postage stamp set and I have stamped it in Early Espresso on Basic White. I have fussy cut it out 3 times to express the meaning of the words!

This card could be used for Mother's Day or for a Daughter or a Special Friend!

If you would like any more information about my project or would like to get your hands on these gorgeous Easter Lilies Dies before the end of the Jan-April Mini please do not hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Real Red and this week you will be heading to the amazing and talented lovely Cathy Proctor. I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Just click on the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the next blog buttons doesn't go where you think it should go just come back here and head to our Blog Host the wonderful Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of everyone playing along today so you will be able to continue you hop from that list: Cathy's Blog.

 

Next week we will be looking at the colour Shaded Spruce, I hope to see you then.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 43 - Pumpkin Pie

 Welcome to week 43 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-24. This week we will be looking at the colour Pumpkin Pie!

For you this week I have created a special background for my card using Pumpkin Pie, Gorgeous Grape and Blackberry Bliss.

For my project today I have used a couple of dies, some blending brushes and the sentiment from the Perennial Postage stamp set! So how did I create my card!

 

I started with a piece of Basic White and then using the blending brushes coloured in differing depths Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Bliss, and Gorgeous Grape.

 I cut my bended background into 1 cm strips and turned each 2nd strip around and adhered them to a slightly smaller piece of Basic White than the size of a card front.

As you can see the lines are  bit pronounced in between each strip so.....

I took out the Pumpkin Pie blending brush and went over the whole card again trying to make sure the lines were less "white"

To finish the card I used the leaf die from the Artistic Die set in Basic White. Guess what? I actually remembered to use the adhesive sheets this tie before die cutting! Wow! How easy it was to adhere the leaf to the front of my card. I then white heat embossed on Basic Black the sentiment from the Perennial Postage stamp set and used the little label die from Gorgeously Made to cut it out! I popped that on with dimensionals. Everything was then adhered with dimensionals onto a Thick Basic White card Base.

I had so much fun creating this back ground and it looks like a gorgeous sun set! I hope you give it a try with some of your favourite colours!

If you have any questions about today's project or would like to get your hands on the Jan-April Mini do not hesitate to contact me!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Pumpkin Pie and this week you will be heading to our host, the extremely talented Cathy Proctor. Just hit the next log button and you will go straight there. I can't wait to see her fabulous creation this week.

If for any reason the next blog buttons go somewhere they shouldn't while you are travelling around on your hop, please come back here and head to our host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have  list of all those participating this week and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Cathy's Blog.

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