AWHT Colour Creations #39 Pool Party

Pool Party with Rain or Shine

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, focussing on one colour each week.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a soft blue with a touch of green called Pool Party. Pool Party is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a delightful versatile colour. This colour is lovely when used for water, sky, sea backgrounds, glass and so much more. It coordinates with so many colours. 

Pool Party 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; Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Fancy Flora, By the Bay, Texture Chic, Design a Daydream and Hues of Happiness DSPs; plus Kindness Kits, Texture Chic Memories & More cards; Grosgrain Ribbon & Sheer Ribbon; Solid Faceted Gems & Glossy Dots Assortment. That’s a great list demonstrating the colour's versatility.

Pool Party card-stock, ink, Stampin' Write Marker, Sheer Ribbon, Grosgrain Ribbon and Glossy Dots Assortment have been used in these projects plus a range of non-Pool Party bits and pieces. Here are my cards:

Numerous Pool Party ideas have been tumbling through my mind and I have started creating - also turning a couple of ideas into reality, however, time and energy have gone and some projects are not finished, so there are only 2 cards this week.

As health has continued to be problematic and I haven’t been able to do much, I nudged myself to do some fussy cutting, including cutting out these oh so cute critters from the Rain or Shine Speciality Designer Series Paper.

CARD 1:

Pool Party is such a versatile colour and one of its brilliant uses is as a blended background. A blended Pool Party background works so well with the “rain or shine” concept - and has been used in varying strengths on both cards.

Some Pool Party Classic Stampin' ink was blended over part of the right side of a Basic White card-stock panel that had been embossed with the Raindrops Embossing Folder. The blending is delicate and not well picked up by the camera - it blends out a little larger that the Vellum circle cut by the largest circular Stylish Shapes dies. The blended panel was adhered to a slightly larger Pool Party card-stock panel.

A fussy cut little fox was added with Dimensionals to the Vellum circle, which in turn was adhered to the blended panel using Multipurpose Liquid glue underneath the fox. A little fussy cut puddle and some flowers were also added. A sentiment from the Something Fancy stamp set was stamped in Momento ink and then fussy cut out, cutting away 3 of the words and reforming a sentiment which was added with Dimensionals. A thin strip of Pool Party Grosgrain ribbon was cut and tied into a bow before being tucked under the fox’s tail. Some Pool Party Glossy Dots were added to give a little shimmer.

The card inner was simply created with a Basic White card-stock panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Pool Party card-stock with a little fussy cut edge image adhered to an edge. I don’t like to unnecessarily waste anything including partial images from DSP edges - they are great to use on the edges of card inners and on envelopes. The photo below shows the C6 Basic White Envelope that has also been decorated with partial images.

CARD 2:

The second card uses a darker blended background, in my mind, indicating a heavier rain than the card above.

The focal panel stretches the width of the landscape card. It is a piece of Basic White card-stock mounted onto a larger piece from the Rain or Shine SDSP. They were adhered together near the edge of the panels so the second smallest Stylish Shape circular die that cuts out the 3 aperture’s leaving 3 white circles & 3 seperate SDSP circles. A seperate Basic White panel was cut to the same size of the card. This piece was also embossed with the Raindrops EF before having Pool Party blended in areas that would lie beneath the 3 die cut holes. The card front was mounted over the embossed blended panel using Dimensionals. Some splattering was added using a Pool Party Stampin’ Write Marker.

Two fussy cut critters and a little patch of flowers were added with Dimensionals. A sentiment from the Happy Labels stamp set was stamped in Momento ink on Basic White card-stock and fussy cut out before being added with Dimensionals. A Pool Party Sheer ribbon, cut in half lengthwise, was tied in a bow and slipped under the sentiment. Pool Party Glossy Dots add a little shimmer.

A Basic White card inner was decorated with a couple of strips of coordinating SDSP and a partial fussy cut critter. As with the first card, the C6 Basic White was decorated with a couple of partial fussy cut images from the edges of the SDSP.

Thank you so much for calling in. I so appreciate you and the time you have spent here.

There is more Pool Party creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the  "onto the next" graphic below and be taken to the blog of the lovely Theresa Gerrard. It’s great to check out Theresa’s creations. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Poppy Parade, one of the Brights Colour family, 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 wonderful 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 and or the new January - April 2023 Mini Catalogue and Saleabration Brochure 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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