Colour Creations - Poppy Parade Week 40

Welcome to Week 40 of the Colour Creations blog hop. Team members of the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! demonstrators showcase a new colour every Wednesday. Tonight’s colour is Poppy Parade, a lighter and brighter red than the other two reds that Stampin’ Up! have -  Real Red and Cherry Cobbler.

I have made two cards this week using the Perched in a Tree stamp set and ended up stamping several birds to colour with Stampin’ Blends in Dark Crumb Cake, Bronze and L&D Poppy Parade. The birds were die cut using the matching die.

The first card has a Poppy Parade base and an embossed panel using the Cane 3D embossing folder. The ornate frames in Crumb Cake card stock were die cut with dies from the Framed Florets die set.

The sentiment is stamped using Poppy Parade ink and it’s from the Something Fancy stamp set. I fussy cut the words and adhered with dimensionals.

A closer look at the Cane 3D embossed panel. A double bow of Twine was adhered with a glue dot.

The second card has a DSP panel where the sides were roughed up with the edge of scissors. The Dainty Flowers DSP is a Sale-a-bration item that is you can get for FREE with a minimum spend ($90 AUD). And it’s very pretty with floral images and dainty patterns on the reverse. 

I adhered a bow using Old Olive Sand Twill ribbon. The sentiment is from the Celebrating You stamp set.

Hope you enjoy the remaining blog hop where you can find more Poppy Parade inspiration from our very talented blog hop hostess Cathy Proctor, 

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Cathy’s blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and joining in the fun and hope you will take some inspiration away with you.

Colour Creations - Pool Party Week 39

Hi fellow stampers! Welcome to this weeks Colour Creations blog hop where members of the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! demonstrators showcase a new colour every Wednesday. Tonight’s colour is Pool Party, A light blue that sits in the Subtles colour family.

Tonight’s cards include something’old’ from the AC and something ‘new’ from the mini catalogue. The gorgeous DSP I have used this week is Texture Chic and it contains colours such as Pool Party, Evening Evergreen, Mango Melody, Petal Pink, Soft Succulent and Soft Suede. The other coordinating specialty paper is Distressed Gold.

I have used Pool Party card base for both cards. In my first card the next layer is the Distressed Gold paper and before adhering to the card base I die cut some sprigs and hexagons to use on both cards. The paper is just too gorgeous to waste whole layers! These and other leaf die cuts were die cut using Framed Florets and Something Fancy die sets (both Mini).

A DSP layer was adhered to the Distressed Gold and the sprigs, leaves and hexagons arranged with dimensionals or glue dots. The sentiment from Something Fancy is stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with Gold embossing powder.

To finish I adhered a bow using Simply Elegant Trim and some Brushed Metallic adhesive backed dots.

I adhered another distressed-look DSP layer inside the card and the sentiment was stamped using Pool Party ink from the Celebrating You stamp set, a very versatile set with sentiments for many occasions.

The second card uses the same DSP but with Petal Pink which complements Pool Party nicely as both are in the Subtles colour family.  Pool Party can be seen in the DSP hexagon together with the shape stamped with the sentiment.

A closer look at the gold bits which I love combined with Pool Party.

Hope you enjoy the remaining blog hop where you can find more Pool Party inspiration from the very talented Rachel Palmieri.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Cathy Proctor’s blog.

Colour Creations - Polished Pink Week 38

Hello and welcome everyone to the Colour Creations blog hop where members of the Art With Heart Stampin’ Up! demonstrators showcase a new colour every Wednesday. Tonight’s colour is another pink following on from last week - Polished Pink, 

I really like this pink, a bright colour that reminds me of candy and sweets. Which is why I decided to use the Share a Milkshake bundle for this weeks card. The stamp set allows you to ‘build’ a milkshake but I’ve used it to create ice cream cones.

The card is a very basic ‘Barn door’ fancy fold of Polished Pink card stock. After scoring and folding a 14.8cm x 10.5cm card I cut horizontally (at approx. 7.4cm) to the score line and then along the score line to remove the top half.

On the front panel I adhered an embossed Basic White layer using the Gingham 3D EF. A Basic White scalloped circle and an Early Espresso circle die cut from the Neutrals 6”x6” DSP pack have been adhered together to the middle card front.

Now for the fun bit and build the ice cream and waffle cone! I stamped the ice cream scoops in two different sizes with Polished Pink ink. These were die cut with matching dies together with a plain white scoop of ice cream. The white scoop was also dry embossed with the Painted Texture EF to replicate the creamy texture. The Cherry was stamped with Sweet Sorbet ink.

The wafer cone die cuts and also embosses the pattern. I have inked the edges with Early Espresso using a sponge dauber. And then there is the lattice-type die to replicate a decorative chocolate lattice. Yummy!!

The sentiment on the card front is from the Share a Milkshake stamp set and was die cut with a die from Scalloped Contours die set. Some 2021-23 In Colour Opal rounds in Polished Pink have been adhered to the card front.

Inside the card the sentiment from Biggest Wish stamp set is stamped with Polished Pink ink. The ice cream bowl with a scoop of ice cream and cherry has been stamped/die cut.

Hope you enjoy the remaining blog hop where you can find more Polished Pink inspiration from the very talented Theresa Gerrard.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Cathy Proctor’s blog.