AWHT Colour Creations #9 Blackberry Bliss

Blackberry Bliss with Cottage Rose and Water-colouring

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are continuing to work though the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a muted deep purple called Blackberry Bliss. Blackberry Bliss is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a rich luscious colour. Think of the staining on your fingers when picking blackberries. This colour is gorgeous when used with other pinks and mauves and also works really well with other colours.  

Blackberry Bliss is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, Watercolour Pencils, Regals Designer Series Paper, Pretty Prints DSP, Design A Daydream DSP and the retiring New Horizons DSP. The card below has used Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' ink, Card-stock and Stampin' Write Marker plus a range of other non-BB bits and pieces.

This card only shows a tad of the full depth of Blackberry Bliss, ie via the fussy cut sentiment that was heat embossing in gold on Blackberry Bliss card-stock. However, the gorgeous gold embossed Cottage Rose was water-coloured with Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' ink. I so love water-colouring with SU inks as it can show a colours various undertones. Isn't Blackberry Bliss beautiful when water-coloured?

As indicated, the large rose and leaves from the Cottage Rose stamp set was heat embossed with Versamark, Gold Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun on Shimmery White card-stock. Blackberry Bliss Classic ink was applied with a fine Water Painter to water-colour the rose while a little Fresh Freesia Classic ink was used on the leaves. Its interesting that they look to be the same colour when diluted. Some Blackberry Bliss ink was flicked over a Very Vanilla  background panel with the fine Water Painter. A Very Vanilla background was embossed with the Stitched Greenery die. I so love the subtle stitched effect of this die. 

The leaves were fussy cut away from the rose to enable a different arrangement. The rose was positioned with Dimensionals while the leaves were adhered in place with a little Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The Gold heat embossed sentiment came from the same stamp set and was popped up with Mini Dimensionals.

I was running out of time and searching for some Gold Elegant Trim but first found some retired ... Twine. Given time restrictions I used the latter but know that the Gold Elegant Trim would have been brilliant too. The final touch was the addition of some tiny Gold Pearl Jewels.

A Very Vannila card inner was decorated with a couple of small flowers and an extra leaf together with a left over strip from a blended background created for the second card. More of that in a minute. A Very Vanilla C6 Envelope was gold heat embossed with the rose spray to tie the envelope with the card it will hold.

I had designed two cards for this Blackberry Bliss blog hop but a range of things & interruptions used up my available time. I pushed to create the second card but the more I pushed the more mistakes I made, so decided that the second card will need to be finished at a later time. Disappointing, but that is life. The cards were designed to be a "Ying & Yang", that is, the background on this card is uncoloured and the rose is water-coloured; where as the background of the second card was coloured (a blended background) and the flowers were gold embossed and uncoloured. Hopefully I will finish it soon and share it here.

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

There is more Blackberry Bliss creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely, Ros Davidson. I always look forward to checking out Ros' creation (I wonder what she has in store this week). I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring a delightful colour, Blushing Bride, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 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 @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  I so appreciate all she does in coordinating this blog hop each week. She is such an amazing lady. Check out her wonderful creation while you are there.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of Stampin' Up's 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2022 Mini 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!. 

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