Colour Creations - Week #25 - Gray Granite

The participants in AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours. This week we are sharing Gray Granite a wonderful part of the neutrals range.

Gray Granite is a useful colour, perfect for building materials. I selected 2 different finishes on these cards, one stamped and the other texture embossed. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card. The card with a boy is simply Gray Granite card embossed with a folder - Brick & Mortar (page 176. AC) with some white craft ink smeared on it to add some more interest. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card.

The main stamp & die bundle used is Warm Welcome. It will be in the next mini catalogue, the January to June catalogue, but it has been introduced early. You are able to go to my online shop to order it yourself. Emma Goddard, a demonstrator from the UK initially inspired me by using the presents in the doorway, but I thought it would be fun to add the small characters from By My Side.

Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia are the main colours used for colouring the stamped pieces, to tone with the Hues of Happiness DSP.

This style of easel card is very easy, and I often use it to display a new stamp. A Grand Kid has some sentiments just for the grandkids, and 'it's your day' is from Warm Welcome.

This one is for Tyler, who is about to turn 11. I am a bit worried that this is a bit childish for him, except he loves cartoons and does great drawings, so hopefully this is a bit on his wavelength.

I absolutely loved the way the Tahitian Tide and Parakeet Party blends combined when colouring the gifts.

Guess where the 'Be Awesome' sentiment came from? I happened to notice 'And Be Awesome' in Nothing's Better Than, did a little masking and it suits a young chap's card.

Just so Tyler doesn't take it personally, I've signed off (as I often do) with caricatures of Pop and me! It's a retired stamp set called Senior Years which I kept in my stash for just this purpose.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Kathryn Ruddick has made in Gray Granite this week.

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.