Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 27 - Granny Apple Green

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting, crafting and getting together in person. 

Granny Apple Green is as crisp & fresh as it's name suggests. A perfect opportunity to colour some cacti in Granny Apple Green and create a card using Taco Fiesta.

Taco Fiesta is such a fun, playful stamp set and although it has no dies, the images are quite easy to fussy cut. The fun fold card had lots of surfaces to decorate after adding the black & white papers (equally fun) from Zany Zoo DSP.

The blackboard from Crafting With You holds some more messages stamped in white craft ink for the chalkie look.

Sometimes when I'm making cards for family I may get a little carried away and try to create "one with the lot". This just might have been one of those times!!!!!

Card 2: Easel Card

I couldn't help myself and kept playing with the same materials combining different ideas I couldn't fit on the first card. I love the row of cacti 'people'.

It was a lot of fun trying out different faces. It's been a pleasure adding these bright colours to the B & W and doesn't Granny Apple Green go so beautifully with Azure Afternoon?

Now it's time to leave my fiesta, thank you for passing and partying with me! Next on the blog hop this time is the wonderful Rosa Leyden.

If at any time you find a broken link or would like to see a full list of participants, please head to the blog of our host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Catherine Proctor.

 

CTC #423 CASE Colours of Fresh As a Daisy

CASE-ing The Catty Crew are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand who take inspiration weekly from the catalogues. The catalogues are a fantastic resource, and we love to inspire you to seek inspiration there too.

Why not CASE the colours of the Fresh as a Daisy DSP by including that DSP in the cards? Don't forget that during June, selected DSP including Fresh As A Daisy is 15% off. If you don't think you need a whole pack, share with a friend for twice the fun.

Garden Green came together beautifully with Pebbled Path. The Patchwork Pieces dies look like strips of fabric to me. I included a pack of 2023-2025 In Color DSP amongst the Fresh As A Daisy DSP.

Usually blue is my favourite colour and this mix of Countryside Inn DSP, 2023-2025 In Color DSP &  DSP is very sweet, but I think possibly the Pretty Peacock/ Copper Clay combo wins this round.

Crafting With You is the stamp & die bundle and there are many different crafts included. Just look at the Cut 'n' Emboss machine and sewing machine for starters.

Cards were made in all the new In Colors - that's Moody Mauve, Pebbled Path, Copper Clay, Wild Wheat and Boho Blue - and portrait and landscape views. Do you have a favourite?

We love for you to share your projects using the challenges. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE letting us know which card or project you've CASE-d.

Let's check out what the talented Rebecca Scurr is sharing this week.

2023-2025 IN COLOR DSP

FRESH AS A DAISY DSP

CRAFTING WITH YOU BUNDLE

Patchwork Pieces Dies

 

CTC #418 CASE-ing the New Catalogue

CASE the New Catalogue - well that's a biggie! Do you have a favourite bundle? I'm looking forward to receiving Crafting With You. There are so many cute cards showing up using this set.

While I patiently wait for the Big Brown Box to be delivered, I used Cheerful Daisies to CASE (copy and selectively edit) Sweet Citrus on page 32 of the new catalogue.

For my first card I CASEd the Flirty Flamingo card on the left. I noticed there was stamping across the base, on the diagonal and used small daisies and supporting flowers on my card. I decided against taking the sentiment right across the art piece so I could use the included sentiment and label die from the Cheerful Daisies bundle.

The white panel is smaller than usual, and I actually trimmed another centimetre off after I'd finished stamping so it didn't cover as much of the base. The large daisy and its smaller version are great substitutes for lemons!

For card 2 I began by using a Basics embossing folder, the one that looks a bit like cross hatch. A blending brush was loaded with Boho Blue ink and blended across the card front in an ever-increasing circle until the ink ran out.

The die cut daisies have 3 flowers and some leaves on each piece, so it needed to be die cut twice. An extra leaf  for over on the left side of the piece was needed as well as a flower to raise on dimensionals over the label.

It's quite handy to have two new birthday cards for my stash!

Now I bet you have CASEd the catty to get your crafting mojo happening. Won't you share with us this week? You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE.

Next CTC crew member is actually the first as well, Rebecca Scurr.

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You can check these and other Stampin' Up! products in my online shop. Your orders are very much appreciated, no matter how small or big, every little bit helps me to meet my minimums, and keep on creating. Hopefully you are inspired by some of the projects I share and want to make your own. My online shop is open anytime and delivery by tracked Australia Post usually takes 5-10 days. Shipping from the warehouse is a little slower at new catalogue time so it may be 2 weeks before you see your parcel.

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