Colour Creations Insta Hop - Week # 44 - Poppy Parade

 

Contributors to this insta-hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting & crafting together. This week is week #44 and we are creating with Poppy Parade. 

Thankful Garden is a new Online Exclusive, released March 4th along with lots more Online products. I liked this one so much I ordered the suite, which includes stamps, dies, masks, patterned paper and ribbon.

The other flower is a lovely Hydrangea, but this flower seemed more likely to be a bright Poppy Parade. Country Woods DSP was out on my desk for another card I was making, and I decided the textured wood made a great background for the flower.

This bundle is perfect for those of us who don't always want to colour with Blends or pencils. There are 5 masks in the Thankful Garden bundle, 3 are for the two flowers and 2 are for the leaves.

Placing the masks over the stamped image allows you to layer on colour with a blending brush and even with the one ink colour you get a pleasing variation. I used only Poppy Parade and Old Olive.

I hope you are inspired to create,

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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 6 - Basic Beige

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

We are already up to week 6 as we work our way through the colours. This week we are sharing creations using Basic Beige, a lovely new neutral in a lighter tone than Crumb Cake and just as 'user friendly'.

I have already opened my second pack of Basic Beige, which just does not usually happen so early on, but I really have made a lot of cards with it, including 32 swaps which are heading away with me on Friday when I fly to Canada. More about that later.

Card 1: Country Flowers, Wildflowers designs dies, Latte Love dies

For card #1 this week I used the lovely Country Flowers bundle and included two small cups from Latte Love, an Online Exclusive. The gorgeous lacy label is from a new bundle too, Wildflower Designs. I stamped floral images in Basic Beige on the DSP too.

Card 2: Online Exclusive Magnolia Mood

When I stamped Magnolia Mood a few weeks back for my Petunia Pop card I stamped an extra image which I decided to use this week. I love the contrast of beige and white, and I'm sure this card would also suit an occasion such as a wedding.

The silver-edged ribbon is the finishing touch.

As I mentioned, on Friday I head to Canada with my friend and fellow Stampin' Up! demo Kathryn. We are staying in Vancouver first before catching a ferry to Vancouver Island for a few days, and then another ferry to Seattle to board Quantum of the Seas for a 7-day Alaskan cruise. It is the Great American Crafting Cruise and 32 crafters are sailing together to craft on sea days. I haven't ever sailed on a ship this big, so I'm glad I'm with friends, even if they are mostly new friends!

Next along the blog hop is the very clever Rachel Woollard.

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.

I'll be back in a few weeks so until then...

Happy crafting,

 

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 2 - Petunia Pop

 

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 week we are focusing on Petunia Pop, a gorgeous new In Color. It sits very comfortably with other purples and seems to me a darker shade of Fresh Freesia.

The Stampin' Up! brayer has been having a good workout in my craft room of late, creating interesting backgrounds for swap cards and other creations. Petunia Pop, Fresh Freesia & Highland Heather teamed up for this background.

Magnolia Mood is a stamp & die bundle you will find in my shop under Online Exclusives. It has a very detailed die which I die cut in white card, and after cutting apart and rearranging, placed behind the stamped image.

The flower was stamped in the new ink colour, Basic Beige. It has been coloured using a variety of colours in Stampin' Blends, our alcohol markers. Soft Sea foam for a hint of green on the leaves, Petunia Pop and Flirty Flamingo on the petals.

More stamping inside using Basic Beige and a few other flowers from Magnolia Mood stamp set. Now we are off to see what the talented Christine Blain 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,