AWHT Colour Creations #10 Cherry Cobbler

Cherry Cobbler with Peaceful Place & Majestic Mountain

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Team 2021 Colour Creations Blog Hop.

I love Wednesdays when members of the Art with Heart Team join in a blog hop featuring one of Stampin' Up!'s colours. This week we are featuring Cherry Cobbler, a deep red that would have a touch of blue in its make up. It is a great colour and one that is brilliant for Christmas - as is well demonstrated in many of this years Stampin' Up! Christmas products.

There are many ways Cherry Cobbler could be hero-ed and I had a number of ideas, but at the last moment I changed tack. The Colour Inkspiration team are holding a Challenge for paper crafters to create with Basic Black, Basic White and Cherry Cobbler. In seeing the team's projects I was impressed with the drama created by a pop of Cherry Cobbler standing out on black and white. On a different tack I really love the Peaceful Place Speciality Designer Series Paper. This SDSP showcases Basic White and Basic Black with a couple of greys, ie Smoky Slate and Basic Gray together with silver. It is just delightful. So, my cards for this week showcase's one of the designs from the SDSP and just a "pop" of Cherry Cobbler.

As you can see, the cards are a similar, but different. They are a medium sized slimline card, ie 3.5" x 6.5". (Sorry its not in cms but when I first saw this slimline card it was in inches, and given my vintage, I am still comfortable with inches.)  With this size card I was able to cut a 3" strip of the SDSP and then cut it in half. As such, I could make 8 cards from one sheet of this gorgeous paper. At first I was just using the bottom piece of SDSP for a card, but as the first card developed, I was inspired with how I could use the top section of the SDSP.

Both cards started with the same sheet of SDSP, and the 2 pieces were mounted on slightly larger pieces of Silver Foil Speciality pack. The first card front was mounted onto a Smoky Slate card-stock base, while the second card front was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Smoky Slate card-stock that was in turn mounted on to a Thick Basic White card-stock base.

Both cards used die cut trees from the Majestic Mountain dies. The first card used 2 die cut trees, that had been cut from Shimmery White card-stock. These die cut trees were water-coloured with Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' ink and a medium Water Painter - both were lightly coloured but one was lighter than the other. The second card shows 1 water-coloured die cut tree that was more strongly coloured with the Cherry Cobbler ink.

As the SDSP background of the second card initially was sky to the other piece of SDSP, I created a mountain & tree scene with mountains that were die cut in Smoky Slate card-stock. Trees from the Mountain Air stamp set were stamped in Basic Gray ink on Smoky Slate card-stock. The trees were also die cut using the coordinating Majestic Mountains dies. The mountains were adhered directly to the background and the Basic Gray trees were added with Dimensionals.

The die cut trees on both cards were backed with some Vellum card-stock to help disguise the thin strip of Dimensional adhered to the centre trunk of the trees. The focal trees on both cards were decorated with Cherry Cobbler Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Sentiments from the Heartfelt Wishes stamp set were heat embossed on Vellum using Versamark ink, Silver Stampin' Emboss powder and a Heat Gun. The sentiments were fussy cut and adhered with a mix of Dimensionals and Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The cards still needed a little something so a bow of Gray Granite twine (hmm, I thought is was Smoky Slate) from the Bakers Twine Essentials pack was added with a couple of Glue Dots. To give the twine some sparkle, a little Wink Of Stella was painted over the twine.

The card inners were cut from Basic White card-stock and stamped with trees from the coordinating Mountain Air stamp set in Cherry Cobbler ink. One set of trees was stamped in full strength and the other stamped off first. I ran out of time to make the custom envelopes - that will be tomorrows job.

Thank you for visiting Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I really enjoyed creating these cards with Cherry Cobbler and the neutral background of the Peaceful Place Speciality DSP. As always, I also love playing with a little water-colour. 

If you are in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of Stampin' Up's 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and or the new July - December Mini Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you. Also, please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about this project or Stampin' Up!. 

There is more Cherry Cobbler creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "onto the next" graphic to be taken to a delightful lady, Christine Blain's blog. I am looking forward to checking out Christine's creation as well as everyone else's. 

Hope to see you next week for another AWHT Colour Creations Blog Hop when we will be showcasing Cinnamon Cider. There is always much inspiration to share.

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others.

Andrea XXX

  

It is always a delight to see everyone's creations and the way they use the amazing Stampin' Up! products. I am sure there will be gorgeous Cherry Cobbler projects on show. Don't miss checking out each blog. 

If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up or you started part way through, please head to the blog of the host for the Colour Creations Blog Hop, Catherine Proctor, and she will have the list of all Art With Heart Team members who are participating.

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