AWHT Colour Creations #32 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Sweet Candy Canes and Pretty Medallion

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 navy blue called Night of Navy. Night of Navy is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a beautiful colour that works with so many colours. This colour is lovely when used for dark skies or waters and so so much more. I love Night of Navy and at times have used it instead of black. 

Night of Navy 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; Watercolor Pencils; Soft Pastels Assortment; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Fitting Florets, Abstract Beauty, Beauty of the Earth, Storybook Gnomes, Lovely Linen, Sweet Symmetry, Brushstroke, Sun Prints, Hues of Happiness, Hey Sports Fan and Waves of the Ocean DSPs; Robot Buddies Kids and Light The Candles Card Kits; Love Santa Tag Kit; Ombre Specialty Paper, Abstract Beauty Ephemera Pack; plus Resin Stars, Fan Bakers Twine, Rhinestone Waves Basic Jewels and Solid Faceted Gems. Wow, that is quite a list demonstrating the colour's amazing versatility.

Night of Navy card-stock, ink, Stampin' Write Marker and Stampin' Blends Combo have been used in this project plus a range of non-Night of Navy bits and pieces. Here is my first card:

CARD 1:  

Night of Navy is a dark colour, however, I used a wet on wet water-colour technique and purposely endeavoured to create a light water-colour wash that would show the colour's base colour(s). Given the collation of elements centred over the background wash it is hard to see the beautiful effect of the water-colour purple and blue patches. The water-colour wash was created on a panel of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper using only Night of Navy Classic Stampin' ink and the large flat Water Painter. This panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Night of Navy card-stock. A panel of Basic White card-stock was embossed with the snowflake embossing folder with Night of Navy splatters added using a Stampin Write Marker before it was added to the Night of Navy card base.

A couple of candy canes from the Sweet Candy Cane stamp set were stamped onto a piece of Basic White card-stock. Both were coloured with the Light Fresh Freesia Blend and one of them also had some Night of Navy Blend added to make the focal candy cane a darker navy on one edge. Must admit my NoN ink pad could do with a re-inking.

Dies from the Christmas Banners dies were used to cut some foliage out of either Silver foil or Basic White card-stock. Small snowflakes were cut using the Frosted Flurry dies from White Glimmer paper (Real Red & White Glimmer Paper) and the lighter end of the Tahitian Tide Glimmer Paper (2022-2024 In Colour Glimmer Paper). It may seem a strange combination but earlier in the week I wasn't well and needed a doze during the day. As I woke, I seemed to be dreaming of creating a project using the Sweet Candy Cane bundle with some foliage and  snowflakes for this week's project. My card started there. A Basic White label was cut using the Label Me Lovely Punch. 

All the pieces were arranged together with a Wonderful Snowflake and adhered with Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Glue Dots. A bow was tied with White Crinkled Seam Binding ribbon and the Silver Simply Elegant Trim. A sentiment from the stamp set was white heat embossed on Night of Navy card-stock using Versamark, White Emboss Powder (Basics Stampin' Emboss Powders) and a Heat Tool. 2021-2023 in Colour Opal Rounds (Fresh Freesia) added that finishing touch.

The second stamped and coloured candy cane was added to a Basic White card-stock card centre with a remaining Tahitian Tide Glimmer snowflake. Another sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy ink. A C6 Basic White envelope was stamped with a couple of candy canes in Night of Navy ink so it coordinated with the card it will carry.

CARD 2:

I have had electricians and other trades people around all week, with work taking longer than  estimated and power outages at relevant times. All this absorbed time and which almost ran out, leaving minimal time to finish my second card. 

One of my ideas for a Christmas card was to use the Pretty Medallion stamp as a larger bauble. Having water-coloured with Night of Navy in the previous card I decided to continue the colour combo and combine blending of purples with blues, especially Night of Navy. I started with Balmy Blue card-stock and blended Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia around a square piece of card-stock. I knew the impact would be minor but wanted to start softly. I then blended Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape and Rich Razzelberry for a purple tinge before finishing with Night of Navy blending. The Pretty Medallion stamp was Silver heat embossed. As the medallion turned to silver under the Heat Tool I wondered why it had taken be so long to ink this gorgeous stamp. A splattering of water and White Craft ink was added over the panel.

The heat embossed and splattered panel was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Balmy Blue card-stock before being mounted to a Night of Navy card base. A bauble topper and some tiny lights were die cut using dies from the Spruced Up Outline dies in Silver foil. The final touch was the addition of numerous small Rhinestone Basic Jewels to key points of the medallion. There was no time for finishing the card inner and custom made envelope. That will happen in the next few days.

Thank you for spending time with me on my blog. I so appreciate you.

There is more Night of Navy creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below and be taken to the blog of my lovely, talented fellow South Aussie, Tina Gillespie. I always look forward to checking out Tina's creations - she is amazing. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Old Olive, a versatile green, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations Blog Hops. After that we will have a break over Christmas/New Years before re-commencing in January 2023.

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 special 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 and or the 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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