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.
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,