Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 46 - Smokey Slate

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, which we did recently for Onstage - our annual Stampin' Up! conference. This is week 46 of our blog hop and the featured colour is Smoky Slate. 

Smoky Slate is a soft grey which is featured in the Country Woods DSP coming in the new catalogue and released May 1st. I used it in my last blog post for another challenge and it was tempting to do so again. Fortunately, I found both time & inspiration and made two cards this week.

CARD 1:

 Spotlight on Nature was my choice to use for card one. When my demo friend Kathryn was staying with me, I took the opportunity to stamp some images and die cut some circles with this set, her pick for our 'After Hours Stamping' session.

Colouring with blends is one of my favourite things, and on Friday I received the new blend colours so I tried out Shy Shamrock mixed with a little Wild Wheat for the leaves and Petunia Pop with some Berry Burst for the flowers.

The stamp set has made its way back to Adelaide with its owner so I fussy cut a bloom from the stamped images and glued it inside the card.

CARD 2:

The Country Woods striped paper reminded me of beach shacks/boat houses so the images were stamped from Beach Day.

Two surf boards were stamped on the striped colour pieces and die cut. The 'happy birthday' has been borrowed from a new stamp set Attention Shoppers.

Let's go check out Di Furniss' fabulous work of art.

 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 - Week 40 - Pool Party

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. This is week 40 of our blog hop and the featured colour is Pool Party.

 

We are experiencing true summer in Melbourne at the moment - and although it is almost too hot & dry to breathe, my thoughts turned to Pool Party and summer-type stamps.

I pulled Beach Days, a new bundle of stamps and dies in the current mini Catalogue (page 58) and an Annual Catalogue stamp, Beside Me, which is also being offered as a free pick if you order $90 before 29 February. That actually means you could order Beach Days bundle at $85.50, pop a pack of Dimensionals on your order because we always need those, and you have 2 sets covering birthdays, Fathers Day and more.

We played with masking at my Craft & Chat classes in February when I suggested the die cut masked circle could be used to leave a space for the sentiment, so I ran with that idea.

The blending is mainly Pool Party, with a little Coastal Cabana toward the bottom and then I used blends to colour the image.

On the inside, all the stamps are from Beach Days - love the cheeky seagull!

Let's head over to Theresa Gerrard to see her lovely Pool Party project.

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,