Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 11- Blackberry Bliss

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

Blackberry Bliss is the star of our team blog hop this week. I have to confess that I rarely use it but I know other team members adore it, so I'm sure that you will see some beautiful cards shared this week.

My project began with the teapot and flowers from Country Flowers. The teapot has been coloured with Stampin' Blends after failing to create the look I wanted with Stampin' Markers. I had a class recently to share ways to use the markers for the three lovely ladies who joined my team last month. I quite enjoy using markers for smaller images such as the flowers.

The sketch below provided inspiration for a layout and allowed me to introduce some softer shades of pink and purple. There wasn't a need to strictly follow the sketch, I did cut 4 circles but felt that 3 were sufficent.

Recently I purchased the Metallic Effects trio and have become slightly obsessed! I used gold on this card to add dots, then left them overnight to dry properly.

Now we are off to see what the talented Kathryn Ruddick has shared this week.

 

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 - #12 - Berry Burst

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. At the weekend 56 Stampin' Up! demonstrators from 2 teams gathered in the city for an event celebrating 35 years of Stampin' Up!

This week we are show-casing a returning colour to the Stampin' Up! core colour range - Berry Burst.

A simple card design for this week's card, a circle of Masterfully Made DSP, some indistinct words stamped at random in Berry Burst, amd a couple of leaves in Pretty Peacock.

Lately, I've taken a fancy to pulling the silver twine apart and getting this light, curly piece of sparkle to slip behind a tag.

 My friend Andrea Sargent is next on the hop, and her project is going to be GORGEOUS!

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.

Colour Creations - Week #44 - Sahara Sand

   

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 alphabetically. This is week #44 and Sahara Sand is our colour.

Last month my Craft & Chat classes featured a fun-fold with the Share a Milkshake bundle from the mini catalogue. I shared that card in our Week 42 Real Red blog hop.

One of the class participants mentioned she should have made the card more masculine for her ice-cream loving son-in-law which prompted me to try out a variation. 

Sahara Sand features in the He's the Man specialty designer series paper in the annual catalogue. (P132)

The sentiments have come from Framed Florets on a Stitched Circle shape and on the inside a birthday greeting from Charming Sentiments. I use this one so often it seems to be permanently mounted on a block!

Let's head over to see a wonderful creation by 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.

Colour Creations Week 10 - Blushing Bride

The participants in Colour Creations are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours. This is week ten of this round of Colour Creations Blog Hop, and the colour is Blushing Bride.

Just like last week, I've used the Split Card Textures dies, as a die cut though, not a mask. This set of dies definitely is a favourite of mine!

Experimenting with Nature's Prints in this softer colour, totally surprised me how different it looked. Sometimes a change of colour is worth trying for a different look.

The very talented Tina Gillespie follows

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.

 

Colour Creations - Smokey Slate

The participants in Colour Creations are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. This is week 43 of Colour Creations Blog Hop, and we are up to Smokey Slate.

Hello Beautiful is probably not the name of a stamp set you'd think to use for a masculine card, but it has some wonderful solid shapes included, along with interesting 'little' images - like the scribble, dots etc. I stamped the shape with1st, 2nd & 3rd generation in Smokey Slate, overlapping in places.

The scribbles and dots were added in black Memento ink and then I pulled out Home & Garden to stamp the ladder and diecut before colouring with Smokey Slate Blends. 'Birthday Wishes' is from Home & Garden also, and after lining up the stamp on the card front, that sentiment was added using the step-stamping method, with the Stamparatus. You move the plate down one hinge mark and stamp, then move one more until you have a lovely line of greetings.

The same step-stamping was used for 'to the man who can do anything', this time stamped in Old Olive. The grass was die cut from the same shade of green and a few of the rock embellishments were placed on the 'ground'.

A little more stamping on the inside in Smokey Slate finishes this card nicely. Home & Garden has not made it into the Annual catalogue so if you need this stamp & die bundle, don't wait too long to place your order. I think it might be another popular one.

Next Art With Heart Team member to share is the talented Christine Blain. I wonder if her card is for a man, woman or child?

 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.

Colour Creations - Rich Razzleberry

The participants in Colour Creations are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. This is week 40 of Colour Creations Blog Hop, and as we use the colours alphabetically, we are up to Rich Razzleberry.

While cutting this Rainbow Glimmer Paper I noted that it had Rich Razzleberry tones and so my inspiration stemmed from that. 

The smaller flower from Blessings Of Home suited this design best, and was coloured with Stampin' Blends, Rich Razzleberry, Polished Pink, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight.

The wood grain DSP, Heart & Home, from this suite was perfect as a backdrop, as was the doily. I love the look of a heat embossed sentiment on a dark card.

Now you'll be heading to Andrea
 

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.

Colour Creations - Pumpkin Pie

I knew that Pumpkin Pie was going to be a HUGE challenge for me. In fact I had contemplated just giving it a miss, but this blog hop is all about challenges, and it would be cowardly to not try - right?

Nuts & Bolts is a great stamp set for boys (and men?) and there's even

a sample for a girl on page 13 of the Jan-June mini catalogue.

I tackled it by looking at the birthday cards needing to be made, and there are a lot in our family for February and March. I've used Nuts & Bolts with the robot as a different 'bright' to lift the grey. 

You may be wondering about the cogs and bolts. When we have a stamp or die set which is a bit special, like Geared Up Garage, I hang onto it. Might as well use Stampin' Up! retired stock than an opposition firms.

I loved it so much I made 2, one for a 4 year old, the other for a 12 year old living in different states. Mr 12 looks pretty happy with it!

Nuts & Bolts #157650 $37.00

The lovely Tina Gillespie is next on the blog hop

If any of the links are broken, Cathy Proctor has the full list of participants.