AWHT Colour Creations #33 Pacific Point

Pacific Point with In The Moment

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are continuing to work though a focus on each of the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order. Having started mid 2021 we are now up to "P". 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a delightful bright mid blue called Pacific Point. Pacific Point is part of the Brights Colour Family and is a happy blue. It is not a colour I use often but when I do I wonder why I don't use it more often. A friend said to me that she thought of it as a great colour for children, which is true; however, I believe it is a colour that could be used in many ways, including sea themes. This colour is gorgeous with Coastal Cabana and or Bermuda Bay; and great with a bright yellow or a bright pink. 

Pacific Point is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Watercolor Pencils (No 1) and the Brights  Designer Series Papers as well as You Are My Anchor Kit. The cards below have used Pacific Point Classic Stampin' ink, cardstock and Pacific Point Stampin' Watercolor Pencil plus a range of other non-PP bits and pieces.

I have created a set of 2 cards showcasing Pacific Point. They are similar yet different:

CARD 1:

Half a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was heat embossed with an image from the In The Moment stamp set with Silver Emboss Powder, Versamark and a Heat Gun. Using Stampin' Up!'s lovely Watercolour Pencils (pencils from both sets) the image was coloured and water applied with the small Water Painter to spread the colour and develop depth and highlights. The Pacific Point pencil coloured the woman's dress as well as the sky. As you would image, only a little colour was applied to the sky to attain a very light blue. It is worth noting that Stampin' Up! colours can be full strength as in the card-stock but the inks, in their various forms, can be used to attain many lighter shades.  The water-colour panel was left to dry.

The water-coloured panel was die cut with the largest plain circle die in the Layered Circles set of dies. Given the style of the card I decided to not use the largest scalloped die but the same round largest circle die to cut a circle of Pacific Point card-stock. It was cut in half and mounted behind the watercolour panel, stretching the blue pieces so some becomes visible.  

A piece of Basic White card-stock was embossed with the new Gingham Embossing Folder. A strip of Abstract Beauty Designer Series Paper was adhered to the embossed background. In turn the background was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Pacific Point card-stock and then to the Thick Basic White card-stock base. The mounted water-coloured panel was added with dimensionals.

A sentiment from the same stamp set was stamped in Pacific Point Classic Stampin' ink onto Basic White card-stock and then fussy cut into 2 pieces. The beginning of the sentiment was added to the card front while the second part of the sentiment was used on the card inner. A bow was tied using the White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and added with Glue Dots. Some delightful Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added around the sentiment.

Another image from the same In The Moment stamp set was stamped in Pacific Point ink on the Basic White card inner and a strip of the same DSP was added as well as the second part of the sentiment.  The C6 Basic White Envelope also was stamped with the same stamp in Pacific Point ink. 

CARD 2:

The same process and many of the same products were used to create the other card.  Some differences were:

• a different design of DSP from the same packet of DSP, ie Abstract Beauty DSP; 

• different twine was wrapped around the card background at the edge of the DSP. This was the Silver Simply Elegant Trim. It was also used to tie a bow that was added to the side of the water-coloured panel.

• The water-coloured panel was cut into a rectangle before being mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Pacific Point card-stock.

• A different sentiment from the same stamp set was trimmed down and also cut into sections, with the latter section added to the card inner.

The card inner was prepared in the same way, with the same stamp but the strip of DSP matched the card front. The envelope is also stamped the same.

Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value that you spent time with me.

If you live 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 January - June 2022 Mini Catalogue & Saleabration Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

There is more Pacific Point creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely, Diane Furniss. As always, I am looking forward to checking out Diane's creation and everyone else's. I do love seeing everyones' projects - so many ideas and such great inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring another versatile colour Pear Pizzaz, as we continue the weekly 2021-2022 Colour Creations blog hops.

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

Andrea 💕🐾

  

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 Catherine Proctor’s blog, our amazing Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  I so appreciate all Cathy has done and she continues to do an amazing job in coordinating this blog hop each week. She is such a special lady. Check out her wonderful creation while you are there.

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