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,

Colour Creations Blog Hop - week 19 - Crumb Cake

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.

I'm sure we will see lots of wonderful projects shared by the team this week featuring Crumb Cake. It is a neutral which has been in the range for the whole time I've been a demonstrator, more than 12 years.
 

One of my favourite stamps from the annual catalogue is Gorgeously Made. It is tempting to keep on using it with the colours used in the catalogue spread because they are so pretty, but I decided to experiment and use Crumb Cake.

After cutting a lot of labels I had this scrap of card left which made an interesting mask or stencil for blending ink onto card.

Once I was satisfied with the background I used 3 of the stamps to create even more interest.

It seemed a good idea to continue on to use some of the dies from the Gorgeously Made bundle, so some leaves were added to the piece of torn notepaper.

I have been playing with Stampin' Blends after doing a colouring master class with Jay Soriano and afterwards had this image from Coffee With Friends which seemed to be a good fit for this card. A new sentiment-only stamp set from the mini catalogue - So Sincere - provided this lovely thought to finish the card off. 

I hope I have provided some inspiration for your creativity too, leave a comment if you have the time. Come back next Wednesday night for some Crushed Curry.

Next participant in the blog hop is the lovely Rachel Woollard who will surely have a wonderful card or project to share.

 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.