AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #16 Calypso Coral

Calypso Coral with Bird’s Eye View and some Stampin’ Blends & Blending

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 softer orange called Calypso Coral. Calypso Coral is one of the Subtles Colour Family and while I would not call it a true subtle it is paler that an orange  orange. This colour would be a lovely when used for flowers, coral, fish and birds and so much more.

Calypso Coral 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; Watercolour Pencils (Assortment 1); Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Les Shoppes, Delightfully Eclectic, Let’s Go Fishing, Inked Botanicals DSP, plus Friends Forever & Colourful Kaleidoscope & Wreath of Blooms Kits; and Ombré Matte Decorative Dots & Iridescent Pastel Gems. That is quite a list.

Calypso Coral card-stock, ink, Stampin’ Write Marker and Stampin’ Blends combo have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Calypso Coral bits and pieces.

I love Calypso Coral so there was a plethora of possibilities for my project. I decided to choose something that hadn’t seen ink yet and decided on the oh so cute Bird’s Eye View stamp set. I was thinking of a simple layout but ended up using 4 different stamps/bundles and an embossing folder - ended up not so clean and simple!!!

I started by stamping 3 of the little birds on Basic White card-stock with Versamark ink, Gold Emboss Powder, the Embossing Accessory Kit and a Heat Tool. The birds were coloured with Stampin’ Blends, ie Calypso Coral, Petal Pink, Crumb Cake combos, a little Light Lemon Lolly and the Colour Lifter. I later decided to add some gold embossed flowers from the Petal Park stamp set that were also coloured with Light Calypso Coral, Petal Pink combo and Light Lemon Lolly Blends. The birds were fussy cut as they were from a stand alone stamp set. The flowers should have been punched out but I couldn’t find my punch so needed to fussy cut them - just as well I like fussy cutting.

With a Basic White Thick card-stock card base, a Basic White card-stock layer was cut in two - roughly divided into a third/2 thirds. The larger piece was embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder and a little Calypso Coral was splattered over with a Stampin’ Write Marker. The smaller piece of white card-stock had Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ ink blended over part of it using a Stampin’ Blending Brush. It doesn’t really show in the photos as it became very lighter the further up - but I know it’s there. Foliage was cut from extra Basic White card-stock using one of the Gorgeously Made dies. Some Lost Lagoon ink was blended over sections of the foliage.

All the pieces were arranged (and re-arranged) over the area where the 2 background layers converged and adhered in place with either Multi-purpose Liquid Glue, Mini Dimensionals or Glue Dots.

A sentiment from the Layering Leaves stamp set was gold heat embossed on Basic White card-stock and fussy cut. First I had tried a white embossed sentiment on Calypso Coral card-stock but it was too strong in colour and detracted from the subtle colours. When positioning the white/gold sentiment I remembered I had the Calypso Coral sentiment so I layered it slightly off-set under the gold embossed sentiment. This gave a subtle Calypso Coral shadowing. Some Basic White Herringbone ribbon was cut in half down the centre lengthwise and one piece was tied into a bow before being being partially tucked under the ‘Th’ of the sentiment with a few Glue Dots. The final touch was the addition of some of the Calypso Coral Ombré Matte Decorative Dots.

A Basic White card-stock inner had a thin strip of Calypso Coral card-stock at the bottom. A few leftover coloured pieces of leaves, flowers and a little bird decorated the inside of the card. A C6 Basic White envelope was gold embossed with some flowers.

Thank you for dropping in to check out my Calypso Coral card. I so appreciate you.

There is more Calypso Coral creativity so continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Diane Furniss. I am looking forward to checking out Diane’s creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration. It is wonderful to see different ways this colour can be used.

I do hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Cherry Cobbler 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 Tina Gillespie’s blog. Tina is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Guest 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 the new Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue and or the coming September-December 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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