Colour Creations - Week #35 - Misty Moonlight

 

Happy New Year! Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. After a short Christmas break we are back creating with Misty Moonlight. It's a not-quite-navy, almost denim shade which is a pleasure to use since just like denim, it goes with anything.

With our mini catalogue ready to order from now, it's a great time to share some creations made with a new stamp set, One More Year and Timeless Plaid 6" X 6" DSP. Misty Moonlight seems to go well with the plaid pattern despite the colours not matching.

Definitely inspired by the catalogue sample, but with a few tweaks, it was a lot of fun making this card. I heat embossed the sentiment in black for a nice, clear image.

As soon as I saw this stamp, on the inside, I knew it would be perfect for my son's approaching 49th birthday.

Our next talented Art With Heart member is 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,

Exciting New Products

In the stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue going live on 7th January, there is paper collection, Floral Delight DSP which is so bright and cheerful in yellow & green. 

For my card I fussy cut some flowers from Floral Delight DSP to add a little extra to this card using Season of Green & Gold DSP, but how easy would it be to replicate the same look using all the new papers?

Sketch #22 provided the layout again, but I’m looking forward to having some free time to play further with these new products I received early.

I often use the sentiments from Country Birdhouse. I like the way there is a simple Happy birthday for the front of the card and a more elaborate sentiment for the inside.

Have you made a wish list from the new catalogue yet?

Happy holiday crafting,

Sketch #19

I'm following along with the Great American Stampin' Show as they create using the sketches from the catalogue as inspiration. This week it is sketch #19 and as usual, you do not have to follow strictly to the same formula. Use the sketch to get your creativity started.

Looking at this sketch, I was at an absolute loss for what I could create. Given time to contemplate though, and an idea began to form. First thought was putting small die cut flowers in the place of circles, but flowers alone might not work.

Instead of fiddling with tiny leaves, ¾" circles were punched from shades of green.

The Color Coach, now available to order in my online store, helped me decide on this complementary colour scheme. It is going to help me get more adventurous with my colour choices.

 SHOP:

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 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.

 SHOP:

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 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 #12 with the Great American Stamping Show

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 #12 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.

These cards were used for my October class, totally inspired by this sketch and some of the beautiful DSP Stampin' Up! has available for us to order.

I had circle punches in 1¾" and 1½" so I substituted that size, and a 2½" die from Spotlight on Nature.

To give options, I made another version using Rustic Crate.

This one had a Pretty Peacock base and Crumb Cake panel. 

The other paper I chose was Perennial Lavender DSP and a lovely stamp set Rustic Crate. Putting the first crate together was challenging but after that they are so easy!

The front of the crate even gets the woodgrain embossed as it is being cut out.

These sketches are so handy, have you used any of them to spark your creativity?

SHOP:

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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