Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #6 Bumblebee

Bumblebee with Celebrate Sunflower and Jar of Flowers

(NB Amended Blog with second card added)

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 6th Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase.

This week we are hero-ing one of the new In Colours for 2020-2022, Bumblebee. The In Colours are around for 2 years and their aim is to add colours that are 'on trend' to ensure the colour range is always up to date. Bumblebee is a deep yellow towards mustard.  As I have said previously, I do love the way Stampin' Up! coordinate colours and take a colour through a range of their products. In my project I have used Bumblebee in card-stock, Classic Stampin' ink pad, Stampin' Write Marker, 2020-2022 In Colour ribbon and 2020-2022 In Colour Enamel Dots. There are also Bumblebee products in: 

• Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
• In Colour 6x6 Des

  igner Series Paper (DSP)
• 1/4" (6.4MM) Gingham Ribbon
• Flowers For Every Season DSP 
• Flowers For Every Season Memories and More pack
• Ornate Garden Speciality DSP

I use yellow to complement other colours, but I would not normally reach for a yellow as the key colour. However, I have really enjoyed creating with Bumblebee - it is a great colour that communicates "happy" and "sunshine". My first thought when planning my project was to use Sunflowers and that is what I have done. I have used the gorgeous Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and have water-coloured the focal sunflower and accompanying leaves.

I started with a Whisper White card front and stamped sunflowers and leaves all in Bumblebee ink on the left hand side and base. I masked the sunflowers to ensure there wasn't overlap and to give subtle dimension. The focal sunflower was stamped onto Shimmery White card-stock in Bumblebee ink. This flower was water-coloured using a Blender pen and Bumblebee, Mango Melody and Cinnamon Cider inks and finished with a Bumblebee Stampin' Write Marker. The leaves were coloured with Pear Pizzaz and Granny Apple Green. Before adhering the focal sunflower, I used a Light So Saffron Blend and the Colour Lifter Blend around the stamped images on the card front to add a soft background effect that fades out to the white. The sentiment came from the same stamp set and was stamped in Mango Melody ink to blend in with the Mango Melody used on the flower. I used my brilliant Stamparatus to ensure the sentiment went on straight.

The In Colour Ribbons are soft 1/4" twill - beautiful to create with and they form a bow easily. A piece of  Bumblebee ribbon was tied around the card front with a bow. To finish off the card a few Bumblebee Enamel Dots were added.

A sunflower also was stamped on the Whisper White card inner and as you may have noticed in the first photo, the sunflower also was stamped in the envelope.

I had hoped to create two cards for this blog, but couldn't have the blog ready in time and the second card finished so the blog initially went live with one card. Not to be beaten I finished the card the next day and uploaded it late afternoon. I hope you like it. 

My second card is still featuring sunflowers, but from a different stamp set, the Jar of Flowers set. The card base for this card is Thick Whisper White card-stock. The card front uses one of the papers from the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper (DSP), ie the one that looks like off-white rough plaster. It was dry embossed with the Pinewood Planks 3D embossing folder. The photos don't show the colour play from the DSP. It looks great. This was mounted on Bumblebee card-stock showing a very fine mount.

The sunflower arrangement from the Jar of Flowers stamp set was stamped three times in a line on Shimmery White card-stock in Sahara Sand ink and then coloured with the same colours as used for the first card, with the addition of Highland Heather ink for the different flowers in the floral arrangement. The edge of the flowers was fussy cut. A couple of extra arrangements were also stamped and coloured on a seperate piece of card-stock with select flowers fussy cut out. A strip of Bumblebee card-stock was stamped repeatedly with the twigs stamp in Bumblebee ink. The fussy cut piece of sunflowers was added to the card with dimensionals and the stamped strip of Bumblebee card-stock was adhered on the left hand side. A piece of Bumblebee Gingham ribbon was wrapped around the card front and tied in a bow. The fussy cut individual flowers were added either directly or with Mini Dimensionals. The card front was then adhered to the card base. A sentiment from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink on Bumblebee card-stock and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss powder. The sentiment was then fussy cut and added to the card with Mini Dimensionals. Three In Colour Enamel Dots were added as finishing touches.

The card inner was stamped with the same sunflower arrangement in Sahara Sand ink and a thin strip of Bumblebee card-stock was adhered on the edge. As you may have notice in an earlier photograph, the envelope was stamped in Bumblebee ink using the same stamp.

I so enjoyed creating these cards. I love adding colour to stamps using a range of techniques and had fun water-colouring using a Blender pen. Bumblebee is such a happy colour and it made me happy as I created with this gorgeous colour.

Thank you for visiting the Valley Inspirations blog. I do appreciate you spending time with me. Please contact me if you would like any further information about the projects; or if you live in Australia and would like either a new Annual Catalogue and or the coming August - December Mini Catalogue posted to you; or if I can help with any purchases.

I hope you are enjoying this week's Colour Creations Showcase that has focused on the colour - Bumblebee. 

The amazing Catherine Proctor is hosting the Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase each week. If you haven't finished checking out all of the team's colour creations, you can visit/revisit Catherine's page at What Cathy Made, where she hosts all the links to the other Showcase participants. I'm certainly looking forward to being inspired by everyone's creations.

Look after yourself and your loved ones. For those of you that live in Victoria, my prayers of protection are with you and for speedy control of COVID-19.

Hope to see you again next week when members of the Art With Heart Team will share projects that hero "Cajun Craze".

Have a great week.

Andrea 😘 

List of Products used to create these cards:

Stamps, Dies & Punches

• Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set - #152517
• Sunflowers dies - #152704
• Jar of Flowers - #152515

Inks & Applicators

• Bumblebee Classic Stampin' ink pad - #153116
• Mango Melody Classic Stampin' ink pad - #147093
• Cinnamon Cider Classic Stampin' ink pad - #153114
• Pear Pizzaz Classic Stampin' ink pad - #147104
• Granny Apple Green Stampin' ink pad - #147095
• Highland Heather Stampin' ink pad - #147103
• Blender Pen - #102845
• Bumblebee Stampin' Write Marker as part of the In Colour 2020-2022 Stampin' Write Markers -  #153125
• So Saffron Stampin' Blends - #154905
• Colour Lifter Stampin' Blends - #144608
• Versamark ink pad - #102283
• White Stampin' Emboss Powder - #109132

Paper

• Whisper White card-stock - #106549
• Thick Whisper White card-stock - #140490
• Bumblebee card-stock - #153082
• Mango Melody card-stock - #147093
• Shimmery White card-stock - #121717
• In Good Taste Taste Designer Series Paper - #152494
• C6 Whisper White envelopes - #106589

Embellishments

• Bumblebee In Colour 2020-2022 Ribbon - #153622
• Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon - #153658
• In Colour 2020-2022 Enamel Dots - #152480

Adhesives

• Multipurpose Liquid Glue - #110755
• Mini Glue Dots - #103683
• Tear & Tape Adhesive - #138995
• Mini Stampin' Dimensionals - #144108
• Stampin' Dimensionals - #104430

Tools

• Take Your Pick Tool - #144107
• Bone Folder - #102300
• Paper Snips - #103579
• Paper Trimmer - #152392
• Stamparatus - #148187
• Block D - #118485
• Block E - #118484
• Block H - #118490
• Grid Paper - #130148
• Silicone Craft Mat - #127857
• Stamping Sponge - #141337
• Simple Shammy - #147042
• Heat Tool - #129056
• Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine - #149653
• Magnetic Cutting Plate - #149656