Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #11 Coastal Cabana

Coastal Cabana with Seaside Notions and Prized Peony

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 11th Colour Creations Showcase by the Art with Heart Team. So glad you have dropped in. This week we are focusing on a gorgeous colour, Coastal Cabana.  This colour is a bright green aqua colour that sits within Stampin' Up!s "Brights" collection of 10 colours.

Coastal Cabana is found across Stampin' Up!s product range, including: Card-stock, Classic Stampin' Ink Pad and Ink Refill; Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2; Stampin' Write Markers; a number of the Designer Series Papers (Playing with Patterns); Playing with Patterns Combo Pack Ribbons; Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels and Playing with Patterns Resin Dots Embellishments. 

This week hasn't been my best week as health and other demands have taken their toll. I noticed the impact as I was crafting ... with dropping things, ink smudges, gluing things the wrong way round or undertaking processes out of order which led to further errors. Has this ever happened to you??? Even though I needed to undertake a number of processes multiple times, I still tried to relax into these projects and enjoy crafting. It is so good to be 'mindful', put aside other things for a while and to create.

First Project: Given the name of this week's colour, I wanted to create a card with a sea theme. Apart from hero-ing Coastal Cabana, I also wanted to use the lovely Seabed 3D Embossing Folder.

I started with a piece of Whisper White card-stock and laid a variegated layer of Coastal Cabana blending to light Pool Party at the top using a Sponge Roller. Sea weed or sea greenery (can't remember what they are called) was stamped in Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' ink. I created a mask for the sea weed so the images didn't cross over each other. 

The sentiment from the Seaside Notions stamp set was stamped in Night of Navy Classic Stampin' ink. Some water droplets as well as some Frost White Shimmer Paint were flicked over the inked card front. Once dry, this card front was trimmed to sit with a narrow mount on a piece of Night of Navy card-stock and was cut into 4 pieces. Then, it was embossed in the Seabed 3D embossing folder - such a gorgeous effect.

The embossed card front pieces were adhered to the Night of Navy card-stock with Dimensionals (do make sure you place the pieces in the right order 😞 - you can probably guess why I am saying that). A piece of Coastal Cabana Playing with Patterns ribbon was tied around the card front in a bow. The card front was adhered directly to a Coastal Cabana card-stock card base.

The seahorses from the Seaside Notions stamp set were stamped in Versamark ink on Shimmery White card-stock and heat embossed with Silver Stampin' Emboss powder. After being water coloured with Night of Navy and Pool Party Classic Stampin' inks using a Blender Pen, the sea horses were fussy cut and a layer of Shimmery Crystal Effects covered the sea horses. Once the Crystal Effects dried, they were adhered in place with Mini Dimensionals. A few Blue Adhesive Backed Gems were added as a finishing touch.

The Whisper White card-stock inner and Whisper White C6 Medium envelope were both stamped with the sea house in Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' ink.

Second Project: With the second card design, I thought I would stretch myself out of my comfort zone and work with a different colour combination that had been posted on Pinterest using Coastal Cabana, Gorgeous Grape and Sahara Sand. I usually am more comfortable with soft or muted colours and if I use bright colours it would be as a highlight or small touch. 

I started by stamping 3 peonies from the Prized Peony stamp set in Versamark ink and heat embossed them with White Stampin' Emboss powder. The flowers were coloured with Coastal Cabana and Gorgeous Grape Water-colour pencils and softened with a Blender Pen. Not wanting a wider white boarder around the flowers, they were fussy cut, trimming near to the white embossed edge.

A Whisper White card front was adhered directly to the Coastal Cabana card-stock card base. The centre panel was cut from a piece of Coastal Cabana coloured Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Playing with Patterns DSP. A piece of Vellum card-stock was cut a tiny bit smaller to allow a border of the DSP to show. Both pieces were edged on the lower edge with the scalloped die from the Peony dies. The vellum was embossed with one of the Meadows Moments embossing folders. The vellum was adhered directly to the DSP and then the panel was adhered in place with Dimensionals.

To bring in the Sahara Sand colour and tie to the Gorgeous Grape flower, leaves from the Prized Peony stamp set were stamped in Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' ink onto a piece of Purple Posy striped DSP from the Playing with Patterns DSP. They were fussy cut. The flowers and leaves were arranged with soft bows in White ribbon from the Flowers for Every Season Ribbon Combo pack and Linen Thread. A "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set was stamped in Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' ink on to a label punched with the Everyday Label punch, which was positioned with Dimensionals.  I added a few pieces of Vellum leaves that were nearby (which had been cut for a previous project from the Forever Flourishing dies). Three clear Elegant Faceted Gems provided the finishing touch.

The Whisper White card inner and the Whisper White C6 Medium envelope were both stamped with the peony in second generation Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' ink.

I hope you are enjoying this week's Colour Creations Showcase, which is focussing on Stampin' Up!s Coastal Cabana. 

Catherine Proctor is our amazing host of the Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase. If you haven't finished visiting 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 checking out everyone's Coastal Cabana creations.

I hope to see you again next week when members of the team will share projects that hero a neutral colour, Crumb Cake. Also, please join us next Monday when the Heart with Art Team will be sharing Christmas themed projects. There will be so much inspiration to encourage everyone to start creating Christmas cards early. Christmas will be here before we know it.

Do look after yourself and your loved ones. Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others. 

Andrea 😘

(The list of products used in creating the cards will be added over the next couple of days.)