AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #45 Shaded Spruce

Shaded Spruce with Country Flowers

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 series is drawing to a close, with just over a month to go. Where has the year gone!

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep green called Shaded Spruce. Shaded Spruce is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a wonderful green leaning a little towards the blue side. A friend has said this was one of her favourite colours. This colour is lovely for leaves, trees and is wonderful for Christmas, plus so much more. 

Shaded Spruce is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads, ink spots & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Marker; Stampin’ Blends Combo; Regals Designer Series Paper as well as a number of other products. 

Shaded Spruce ink, card-stock and Stampin’ Write Marker have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Shaded Spruce bits and pieces.

You may be saying, do I recognise that stamp set? Well, unless you are a demonstrator and attended Stampin’ Up!s conference, On Stage recently you wouldn’t know that the Country Flowers stamps and dies are part of the coming 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. As a demonstrator who was attending On Stage I had the opportunity to purchase this bundle in readiness for a crafting session last Thursday evening. It is a fun country-style bundle.

A panel of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was water-coloured with Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ ink and the wide Water Painter from the Water Painter set. When dry the coloured panel was cut with the larger Deckled Rectangle die and mounted on a slightly larger panel of Basic White card-stock. This in turn was mounted to a Shaded Spruce card-stock base. Another panel of Basic White card-stock was cut with the larger Deckled Rectangle die and sliced in 2, with the top section popped up on Dimensionals.

The leaves stamp from the Country Flowers stamp set was silver heat embossed onto Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper together with the handled pot stamp. The leaves were then water-coloured with Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green inks and the pot with Melon Mambo ink and a fine tipped Water Painter. The coordinating dies cut out the coloured images - the pot die even cut out the little section between the handle and the pot - that would be hard to do fussy cutting! The set of Country Flowers dies also included little flowers and leaves. A number were die cut from Fluid 100 paper and lightly water-coloured. All the pieces were arranged onto a Basic White Deckled Circle die cut.

“Sending love” sentiment was stamped in Shaded Spruce ink 3 times. “Love” was fussy cut out and tucked around the focal point. The final touch included a splattering of Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Write Marker and a single bow created using a little silver Elegant Trim that has been tucked under some leaves.   The flowers were decorated with the oh so gorgeous Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels.  I am so glad these beautiful Gems will be continuing into the coming Annual Catalogue.

The inner Basic White panel for writing a personal message was decorated with Silver heat embossed images using Versamark ink, Silver Emboss Powder, the Embossing Kit, and a Heat Tool. The sentiment was stamped in Shaded Spruce ink. To add a little colour, Shaded Spruce, Melon Mambo and Granny Apple  inks were added to the image using a Blender Pen. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped in Shaded Spruce ink.

Thank you so much for dropping by on your way around the Colour Creations Blog Hop.  

To continue with the Shaded Spruce blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Diane Furniss. I am looking forward to checking out Di’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyone’s' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I do hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Smoky Slate 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 brilliant 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 Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue and or the new January-April 2024 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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