Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 23 - Early Espresso

 Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. Every Wednesday night at 8p.m AEST we feature a fabulous Stampin' Up! colour, in alphabetical order. This week the star of the show is Early Espresso.

CARD 1

Card one may not be fully entitled to be included in Early Espresso with only a minimal amount of the colour used on the banner and stamped sentiment, but it's pretty, so I wanted to share it somewhere.

This sketch was the one used for my Friday night sketch where I made 2 simpler masculine cards, and this card is the avid version of the sketch.

Enduring Beauty is another bundle which includes a stamp, dies and masks for easy colouring. I chose to colour with a variety of Stampin' Blends.

For the next two cards I used Frosted Forest bundle, which also consists of a stamp set, dies and masks to colour the images. This set is ideal to create some (masculine) birthday cards. You can find Frosted Forest in Online Exclusives.

CARD 2

The masks can be used with stamped images or 'naked' like I have done here. Either way, they are a good way to colour images if you're not so confident on using Stampin' blends or pencils.

The backgrounds were made the same way with a forest of trees in the background. This one has been sliced at 2.5cm intervals and placed evenly on a background of woodgrain from Country Woods DSP. The sentiment has been heat embossed in gold.

I have done a Facebook Live on making this card.

CARD 3

The background on card 2 was left intact with the focal tree die cut, as in card 1. A woodgrain stamp has been used in the background of the sentiment label.

This time I used a skewed layer to back the art piece, which ties in with the frame on the label.

Next talented AWH team member sharing a creation is Kate Morgan.

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.

Happy crafting,

Moody Mauve

Moody Mauve is an unusual shade of pink, a bit vintage I guess. In an effort to show it some love I used it to colour this image from Enduring Beauty. This is a stamp set, dies and masks, which you can see on page 76 of the current Stampin' Up! catalogue.

Enduring Beauty is one of two stamp/die/mask bundles now available so if this one doesn't tickle your fancy, there's a good chance the other will. Layers of Beauty is the other and features roses. (page 57 annual catalogue)

Blending brushes are used to apply the ink through various masks so with a small amount of blending you get a really pretty effect. Moody Mauve was the only colour used on the flowers but built up over 3 applications.

Lost Lagoon was perfect for the leaves, as it is also a muted tone of blue-green.

Enjoy your crafting,

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