Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 39 -Old Olive

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting & crafting together. This week we are creating with Old Olive. This is a colour I use infrequently, I suspect because it has been around so long. I don't dislike it, so I allowed myself a session one afternoon to just play.

CARD 1:

Using two stamp & die bundles - Linked Together and Delightful Wishes I mixed and matched to create three cards. This one had a majority of pieces from Linked Together but 'Wishing you well' is from Delightful Wishes.

Serene Love DSP comes in three monotone colours, Lost Lagoon, Night of Navy & Old Olive. I'm sure you have seen them already.

CARD 2:

Card 2 used the masks from Linked Together (there are stamps, dies & masks in this bundle). All the ink blending used Old Olive but with each layer it became darker & darker.

Frequently I use three panels on my card front, whether it be DSP, embossed card or masked and blended as it is here. This is all 5 of the Linked Together masks inked one after the other.

The oval & sentiment are from Linked Together too, but the branch & flowers belong to Delightful Wishes. I really believe these two bundles work really well together.

CARD 3:

I wasn't going to share this card, it was the first one I made and now looks a bit basic. I was experimenting with the masks not worrying about the numbers on them or lining them up, just always using Old Olive. I would like to continue to experiment with that and take it further. The masks are from Linked Together, "wishing you a happy birthday" and the die for the label are all Delightful Wishes and the flowers have been cut from Serene Love DSP.

Happy crafting,

 

Sketch #21 Using January Release Products

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 #21 and as usual, you do not have to follow strictly to the same formula. Use the sketch to get your creativity started.

I wanted to cut both circles from patterned paper so this is 2 sides of the one sheet from Mixed Media Florals DSP, coming in January. Once I'd chosen the paper, it was a matter of deciding on the card base and matt and I have left my comfort zone for this one. My matt has been cut a little larger too.

Colour inspiration came from the Mixed Media Florals DSP, the flowers appear to be Calypso Coral and Petal Pink, while the background is Boho Blue.

Linked Together is a new bundle, available to customers from, January 7 2025. Find it on pages 48-49 of the mini catalogue. It consists of stamps (all sentiments), metal dies and 5 masks which can be used for a variety of techniques. My choice was ink blending with a blending brush and I haven't bothered to line them up particularly.

Mixed Florals has only florals, no sentiments, and they are mostly big bold florals too. This suite will be available January 7th too, but you will only find it in the online shop. It can be ordered through your demonstrator or online.

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