Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 28 - Granny Apple Green

Other team members from Art with Heart are hopping sharing Granny Apple Green tonight, but I will be away from my computer for a while so I will share my card, but not link in with the hop, in case it doesn't automatically publish.

Layers of Beauty is one of my favourite stamp sets. I especially like colouring using masks, ink and blending brushes, but this time I used the alcohol marker Stampin' Blends.

The very simple typed birthday sentiment from Country Birdhouse gets used a lot in my craft room, and this time it has been heat embossed with white embossing powder onto a strip of black card.

Maybe I have the most extensive collection of glimmer paper at the moment!!! Granny Apple Green is part of a three-colour pack. You can find it on page 53 of the Holiday mini - Festive Glimmer Paper #164106. The other colours are Garden Green & Cherry Cobbler.

A partial floral image stamped on the inside and some splattering to soften it and we're done.

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Sketch #15

To help inspire my crafting I'm following along with the Great American Stampin' Show as they use the sketches from the catalogue as inspiration. This week it is sketch #15 and as usual, you do not have to follow strictly to the same formula. Use the sketch to inspire, and don't forget to send the cards you create.

When I sat down to create for this sketch, I wasn't really sure which direction I would take it. There was a temptation to go Christmas again but I do also need more teen birthday cards, so Round We Go won.

The circle dies and stamps partly influenced that decision, plus there was a single line sentiment which fitted the thin banner from the sketch.

This is not quite a Triadic colour scheme if you look at the colour wheel, but it is close, and the colours do appeal to me. Peach Pie and Summer Splash are current 2024-2026 In Colors, and Azure Afternoon revently joined our Brights range.

Below is a card that I shared in February, and I share it again to show you that it uses the sketch too, only upside down!

Trusty Toolbox is the patterned paper and it is currently available in the Clearance Rack only $8.70 for a large pack. Even if you don't have the Trusty Tools stamps & dies, this paper is very usable for masculine cards by fussy cutting the tools. Just click on the highlighted words to check it out.

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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 takes 5-10 days.

Sketch #14

To help inspire my crafting I'm following along with the Great American Stampin' Show as they use the sketches from the catalogue as inspiration. This week it is sketch #14 and as usual, you do not have to follow strictly to the same formula. Use the sketch to inspire, and don't forget to send the cards you create.

With it being only two calendar months until Christmas day, it seems a perfect opportunity to interpret this sketch using Merriest Trees, a Christmas bundle released in 2023 and still going strong.

Just to give it a fresh twist, I included some paper from Season of Green & Gold SDSP and kept it fairly true to the sketch. If you stamped and die cut a number of these trees, this card would be a good design to mass produce.

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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 takes 5-10 days.

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Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 26 - Garden Green

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting & crafting together.

 

Here we are at the 26-week mark, and although Garden Green may not be my favourite colour, it suited this card for my youngest son's birthday.

I began by inking the large background stamp Leaf Collection with Lemon-Lime Twist, then turned the white card 180 degrees and re-stamped with Garden Green. My son's favourite thing to do on the weekend is hiking, so the boots seemed an appropriate image.

As well as hiking boots, Let's Wander has soccer boots which will soon be used for a card for my grandson turning 15. There are no dies for the different footwear, but these images are not too hard to fussy cut, and the more practise you have, the better you get.

Next on the hop is the wonderful 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,

Sketch #13

To help inspire my crafting I'm following along with the Great American Stampin' Show as they use the sketches from the catalogue as inspiration. This week it is sketch #13 and as usual, you do not have to follow strictly to the same formula. Use the sketch to inspire, and don't forget to send the cards you create.

The sketch suggested torn paper to me, but I find it difficult to actually tear paper, so I pulled a retired die, Gorgeously Made, which includes a jagged edge die. 

I've now realised that there was actually one more line I should have torn/cut. That's a shame, but the cards are made now and there's no going back. I used a banner too, mine is a lot larger than the sketch one. A stray leaf from my desk was tucked behind.

For both cards I've relied on the beautiful, patterned paper to be the hero. Its a really pretty DSP, Thoughtful Journey. These are the 'b' side images, the watercolour effect is lovely.

Sending Love is a cling stamp, without any dies, so quite a reasonably priced purchase. It wasn't at all difficult to fussy cut the mailbox and letters.

Instead of a banner, the sentiment has been heat embossed in that position on the card.

Brightly coloured envelopes are scattered all around.

I hope you are inspired by my interpretation of this sketch. Remember to check all the card sketches on page 22 of the annual catalogue.

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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 takes 5-10 days.

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 25 - Fresh Freesia

  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 Fresh Freesia, a soft pinky/purple shade.

This week I decided to use Sketched Butterflies as my stamp for the Fresh Freesia card. It has the most delightful birthday sentiment, let alone those gorgeous butterflies.

The Petunia Pop ribbon, or any from that range really, make the loveliest tassel when tied and frayed. It's so soft & silky.

A fairly simple, clean, layered card to show off Fresh Freesia this week.

Next we'll pop on over to see the lovely 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,