AWHT Colour Creations #31 Mossy Meadows

Mossy Meadows with Leaves of Holly Fancy Fold

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are working though the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order, featuring one colour each week. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep muted green called Mossy Meadows. Mossy Meadows is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a strong and dark olive green colour that can coordinate with many other colours. This colour is lovely when used for leaves, trees and so many other images. 

Mossy Meadow is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends Combo; Soft Pastels Assortment; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Boughs of Holly, Rustic Harvest, Awash in Beauty, Happy Forest Friends and Hues of Happiness  DSPs; A Million Thanks Kit; and Solid Faceted Gems. That is quite a list demonstrating the colour's versatility.

My card uses Mossy Meadow card-stock, ink, Stampin' Write Marker and Boughs of Holly DSP plus a range of non-Mossy Meadow bits and pieces. While Mossy Meadow is a dark-ish colour, using it with techniques like partial blending and other colours means the project doesn’t need to be dark & somber. Here is my card:

For me, holly leaves are a part of Christmas and as I was pondering what I would create using Stampin’ Up!s Mossy Meadow, the Leaves of Holly bundle seemed a great choice as it would also add to my Christmas card stash. I thought I had created sufficient Christmas cards, but I recently more accurately calculated my needs and realised more cards were required. There may be extra Christmas cards over the next couple of weeks of blog hops. Let’s see.

I decided to use one of the packets of Designer Series Papers that include Mossy Meadow in their colour combos - the Boughs of Holly DSP seemed the obvious choice. I used 2 designs from this DSP - a coordinating neutral abstract design that was added to the top section of the card design and a mottled deep green design that was added behind the large label’s holly leaves. As I considered the design, I thought of using a simple fancy fold - one that reminds me of a barn door. I’m not sure what it is called.

After trimming the top section from the front of the card, a Basic White card-stock panel was added inside the card to the base. A strip of the neutral design of the DSP was adhered over the top section of the Basic White panel and a thin strip of Brushed Bronze foil from the Brushed Metallic foil card-stock was added over the seam. An extra piece of Basic White card-stock was stamped along the top edge with holly leaves from the Leaves of Holly stamp set using Mossy Meadow and a dabbing of Evening Evergreen Classic inks. A splattering of Mossy Meadow was also added with a Stampin’ Write Marker. 

Holly leaves were also stamped on an extra piece of Basic White card-stock and then die cut using the coordinating dies from the Holly Berry dies. Another fine strip of Bronze Foil was layered over the top edge. Detailed holly leaves were also die cut from Basic White card-stock. These detailed die cut leaves were partially coloured with a Blending Brush using Mossy Meadow ink. I really love the effect created. The larger holly leaf label die was used with the copper Brushed Metallic foil card-stock to cut the central label. The coordinating dies include a die to cut a backing for the label’s holly leaves. This was cut from the dark green DSP design that includes a significant amount of Mossy Meadow. The stamped and blended holly leaves were layered together.

The Bronze label was centred on the front layer using Dimensionals and the stamped and blended holly leaves were arranged, with one leaf sitting on the back section. A sentiment from the same stamp set was white heat embossed using Versamark ink, White Emboss Powder and a Heat Tool. It was die cut with the smaller label die. A small strip of Cherry Cobbler card-stock was layered underneath before the sentiment was added with Dimensionals. A bow of White Glittered Organdy ribbon was tucked under the edge of the sentiment label using Glue Dots. A number of Cherry Red Adhesive-Backed Seasonal Sequins were sprinkled around to give a touch of complementary colour and sparkle.

To further decorate the inner panel that will be used for the personal message, a second stamped and blended holly leaf was added as well as some extra red sequins. A Basic White C6 envelope was also decorated with the final holly leaf.

Thank you for spending time with me on my blog. I really enjoyed creating this card to share with you.

There is more Mossy Meadows creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the  "onto the next" graphic below and be taken to the blog of the lovely Fiona Bell Ryan. I am looking forward to checking out Fiona's creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects as there is always so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Night of Navy 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  Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is an amazing lady. Check out her delightful 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, the July - December 2022 Mini Catalogue or the coming January-April 2023 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 this project or Stampin' Up!. 

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