AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #25 Fresh Freesia

Fresh Freesia with Frozen Edges

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 beautiful pale purple called Fresh Freesia.  Fresh Freesia is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a soft mauve that can coordinate with a range of colours, including other subtles, such as Bubble Bath, Balmy Blue & Pool Party, other purples including Highland Heather and it works beautifully for flowers, snowflakes and so much more.

Fresh Freesia 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; Watercolor Pencils (Assortment 1), Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as a number of other products. 

These projects have incorporated Fresh Freesia as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock and a Stampin' Write Marker.

CARD 1:

I recognise that many folk in the South Pacific won’t go for snowflakes as Christmas comes during our summer, however, I love snowflakes and have many friends in the Northern Hemisphere who may appreciate a snowflake Christmas Card.

Fresh Freesia is great for snowflake cards, especially when mixed with Balmy Blue and Pool Party / Coastal Cabana. I was going to use this colour combo for a project but ran out of time for a third card. In fact, I ran out of time to add a card inner and to decorate a coordinating envelope to share with you. I’ll have to do that later.

A Basic White card-stock background panel was silver heat embossed with a sentiment from the One Of A Kind stamp set. Then some ink blending was added with Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin’ ink and a Blending Brush. Some white splattering was added using White Craft ink.

The edge die from the Frozen Edges dies cut 2 edges from Basic White card-stock. I love the way it partially cuts some snowflakes to give the snowflake definition while holding the edge panel together. Single snowflakes were also cut from Basic White card-stock and from Silver Foil. Snowflake edges were added to the top and bottom edges of the blended panel and the other snowflakes were scattered around.

The decorated panel was layered onto a slightly larger piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock before being adhered to a Thick Basic White card base. The final touch - Silver Drusy Adhesive-backed Embellishments were added to a number of snowflakes.

CARD 2:

The 2nd card started with an ombre blended background using Fresh Freesia ink and a touch of Highland Heather ink near the top. A splattering of water droplets was added and left to dry before both white splatters and some Fresh Freesia splatters using a Stampin’ Write Marker were added. The panel was embossed with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder.

The snowflake edge die cut a Basic White card-stock edge which was later added with Mini Dimensionals. Single snowflakes were die cut from White Glimmer Paper from the Berry Burst, Old Olive and White Glimmer Speciality Paper pack. I had also white heat embossed a snowflake onto some Petunia Pop In Colour Glimmer paper. It’s a wonderful technique that Sara Douglass demonstrated on her Facebook page yesterday. In this instance, the embossed snowflake dominated the card, but I will be using the snowflake in the future.

A sentiment from the One Of A Kind stamp set was white heat embossed onto Fresh Freesia card-stock and then fussy cut apart. Both the sentiment and single snowflakes were popped up on Mini Dimensionals.

The final touch, a scattering of White Loose Snowflakes that were adhered in place with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. There certainly is a flurry of snowflakes.

Thank you for dropping in on your way around the blog hop.

To continue with the Fresh Freesia blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Ros Davidson. I am looking forward to checking out Ros’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 Garden Green as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. 

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself.

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 special Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a wonderful lady. Check out her delightful creation while you are there.

Living in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the Stampin' Up 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue and or the September-December 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 these projects or Stampin' Up! 

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