AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #7 Bubble Bath

Bubble Bath with Queen Bee & Dainty Delight 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, focussing on one colour each week, however, we are starting with the newly introduced colours, and currently focussing on the new Core Colours.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a very pretty pink called Bubble Bath. Bubble Bath is part of the Subtle Colour Family and is a clean light pink. This colour would be a lovely for baby cards, flowers and anything pink. I love it. As with the other new colours, I am exploring coordinating colours but it work’s well with Moody Mauve & Crumb Cake (as used in the card below).

Bubble Bath is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Marker; Stampin' Blends Combo; Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Fresh As A Daisy, Bright & Beautiful, Delightfully Eclectic DSPs; plus Soft Shimmer Speciality Paper; Bright & Beautiful Memories & More Card Pack and Cards & Envelopes; Sheer Ribbon Combo; and Opaque Ovals.

Bubble Bath card-stock, ink, Bright & Beautiful DSP, Blends Combo and Sheer Ribbon have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Bubble Bath bits and pieces.

Isn’t Bubble Bath such a pretty pale pink? I loved working with it. I also wanted to use some Designer Series Paper for my project as this month Stampin’ Up! have a DSP sale running throughout June. Do you have DSP on your wish list? Then don’t miss saving 15% this month. I have used one of the designs of the Bright & Beautiful DSP on my project. It is such a versatile pack and features all of the new and returning core colours.

Bubble Bath cardstock was used for this fancy fold’s card base and pieces of the ombre Bubble Bath DSP were cut to fit all of the visible card panels apart from the front focal panel which is Basic White card-stock. This front white panel was stamped diagonally with the larger word/splatter stamp from the Queen Bee stamps in stamped off Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ ink. You may be thinking “but this stamp set isn’t in the new 2023-2024 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue”. You are right - it isn’t in the Annual Catalogue, however, the stamp set has carried over and is available on-line. I do love this set. I have paired it with the Dainty Delight dies to create the added leaves & flowers.

The front white panel was embossed with the new Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. It is another amazing embossing folder. The Queen Bee stamps includes a little splatter stamp that I used also with Bubble Bath ink lightly on the front panel. The front panels of DSP were stamped with the tall floral stamp in stamped off Crumb Cake ink. As I was working on the card, I still found the Crumb Cake stamping a bit dark & dominant so I added a little blending of White Craft ink and one of Stampin’ Up!s delightful Blending Brushes. It did soften the stamping.

The beautiful queen bee was gold embossed on both Basic White and Vellum cardstocks. As the  coordinating dies didn’t carry over the bees were fussy cut and the Vellum bee wings and head  were all that was used from the Vellum bee. The card-stock bee was coloured with Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve & Crumb Cake Blends combos. Flowers and leaves were die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Dainty Delight dies. Colour was lightly added to the die cut pieces with Blending Brushes, ie Crumb Cake to the leaves and Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve in different amounts to flowers. The pieces were arranged and added with either Multi-purpose Liquid Glue, Dimensionals and Glue Dots. An extra flower, leaves and small gold embossed bee were added to the top facade of the central panel. 

“Happy” & “Birthday” from the Queen Bee stamp set were stamped in Bubble Bath ink; fussy cut out and added with Dimensionals. The Bubble Bath Sheer ribbon was cut lengthwise only removing the shiny stitched edge. This was tied into a single bow and tucked under an edge of the sentiment. Both sizes of Iridescent Pearls were coloured with the Dark Bubble Bath Blend and added to flower centres and around the sentiment. The Iridescent Pearls are so delightful, adding a little extra shimmer to your project.

The back panel of the fancy fold was prepared for writing one’s personal message by adhering a piece of Basic White card-stock that had a 1cm strip of coordinating DSP adhered to the left side with a touch of remaining die cut & coloured flowers & leaves and a few coloured Iridescent Pearls. A C6 Basic White Envelope was stamped with the tall floral stem in stamped off Crumb Cake ink. By “stamped off” I am referring to a technique where after inking the stamp, it is stamped onto a piece of scrap paper before being stamped onto your project. This lightens the ink colour.

Thank you so much for spending time with me on my blog. It is appreciated.

There is much more Bubble Bath creativity so do continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of my fellow South Aussie and friend, the special Tina Gillespie. I am looking forward to checking out Tina’s wonderful creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects as there is always so much inspiration.

I do hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Lemon Lolly, another of the newly introduced Core Colours, as we continue the weekly 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. 

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

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or would like to view the full list of participants go to Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our amazing Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a 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 the new Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send it to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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