AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #30 Highland Heather

Highland Heather with One of a Kind & 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 mid-purple colour called Highland Heather.  Highland Heather is part of the Subtles Colour Family and as a Subtle it is pale-ish but on the deeper side. It can coordinate with many colours, including other purples, blues, reds/pinks and yellows (the latter as a complementary colour) to name a few. It would be wonderful for berries, flowers, a colour contributing to evening skies or even snowflakes plus anything else needing a pale-ish purple.

Highland Heather 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 Flowering Zinnia, Perennial Lavender, Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper; Three Color Glimmer Paper and Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.

These cards have incorporated Highland Heather as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker, Stampin’ Blends and Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.

CARD 1:

While focussing on snowflakes for this card, I have combined Highland Heather with a couple of deeper blues, ie Boho Blue and a touch of Misty Moonlight. The blending started with Highland Heather Classic Stampin’ ink, working diagonally across a panel of Basic White card-stock. Boho Blue ink was blended onto the panel, coming in from the opposite angle. Some Misty Moonlight ink was added over the opposite edges using a different Blending Brush.

After wiping the card front with an embossing buddy it was stamped in Versamark ink using the snowflake flurry stamp from the Frozen Edges stamp set. It was then White heat embossed using some new Wow Emboss Powder. Some more ink was blended over the heat embossed stamping.

A background panel of Highland Heather card-stock was dry embossed using the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder. A little White Craft ink was gently blended around the panel’s edges before being adhered to the Highland Heather card base.

Snowflakes were die cut using the One of a Kind dies from the gorgeous White Glimmer Paper. The snowflakes were coloured with the Highland Heather Stampin’ Blends combo creating different depths of Highland Heather. A number of die cut snowflakes were trimmed down to a smaller size with Snips. One snowflake had 2 sizes layered together. A label was cut using one of the Peaceful Season dies and then stamped in Highland Heather ink using a sentiment from the One of a Kind stamps. This was added to the card front with Dimensionals.

The Highland Heather gems from the Purple Fine Shimmer Gems were added to the centre of the die cut snowflakes and then to the centre of larger heat embossed snowflakes to give all over glimmer. A piece of trimmed in half lengthwise White Iridescent Striped Ribbon was tied into a double bow and adhered to the hole in the Peaceful Season label.

A Basic White card inner had an off-cut of the White embossed and blended colour panel adhered to the side. A die cut snowflake coloured with a light Highland Heather Stampin Blend was also adhered in place. Some small snowflakes from the Frozen Edges stamp set were stamped in Highland Heather ink on a Basic White C6 envelope.

CARD 2:

This is a bonus card for you using similar colours (without Misty Moonlight)

I won’t go through a rundown of products and processes, enough to say the Peaceful Season stamps and dies were used with the Peaceful Evergreen dies and a water-colour background of Highland Heather and Boho Blue Classic inks on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. The background was dry embossed with the Painted Trees 3D Embossing Folder.

The trees were die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Peaceful Evergreen dies.

The same gems and ribbon added shimmer.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the AWHT Colour Creations Blog Hop. I so appreciate you spending time with me.

To continue with the blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of our wonderful blog hop coordinator, the lovely Cathrine Proctor. I am looking forward to checking out Cathy’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 Lemon Lime Twist 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 brilliant Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a special lady. Check out her wonderful 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 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 this project or Stampin' Up! 

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CASEing the Catty #496 - CASE A Punch Project

CASE A Punch Project meets Snowy Wonder

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #496 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Peta Stephen, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps arrived directly here; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Monique Fielder who is next in the Blog Hop so you can continue on.

At CASEing the Catty we love to use the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues as inspiration and each week we have a different theme to guide our CASEing. To CASE is to "Copy And Selectively Edit" or some say "Copy And Share Everything". This week we are CASE-ing projects that have used a punch in some way in either the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up!  Annual Catalogue or the 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue.

There are numerous projects showcasing the range of punches offered by Stampin’ Up! They can be a wonderful starting point when creating your project. For this week’s challenge I chose to CASE a project on page 120 of the Annual Catalogue. It is the card on the left featuring the Curved Label Punch.

I love the idea of incorporating something that can swing and twirl on the front of a card and decided to incorporate an additional form of movement - a shaker section. Here is the card:

I almost didn’t purchase the Snowy Wonder Bundle as I was thinking that we don’t have snow here in Australia at Christmas time, however, I am so glad I weakened as I have had so much fun creating this card. Ever since visiting the Little Penguins on Phillip Island I have been super partial to penguins, remembering the chatter as they walked up the beach to spend the night. Also, as a child I adored the fun of snow globes.

I decided to create a snow globe with a little scene inside a shaker section plus a little penguin dancing and twirling on the outside. The Snowing Wonder images are so cute and I stamped a number of images onto Basic White card-stock using Crumb Cake, Momento Black, Garden Green and Pool Party inks. Before cutting them out, I partially coloured the images with Stampin’ Blends, ie Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie, Calypso Coral, Lemon Lolly combos and the Colour Lifter to add some shading and give a little dimension.

A piece of Petal Pink snow flake Snowy Scenes  Designer Series Paper was added as background to a Petal Pink card base. A piece of Basic White card-stock was stamped with the Falling Snow stamp using a light amount of Pool Party Classic ink. The stamp was inked with a Pool Party ink pad and then a Blending Brush was used to soften the amount of ink. The photos don’t seem to pick up the stamping which is delicate in real life. The larger snow globe die from the Snowy Wonder die set cut a hole in the panel and another piece of Basic White card-stock was adhered to the background. A little Pool Party blending was added with a Blending Brush to the section that was to be visible later. 

A scene was created with the stamped and coloured images. Some cute little White Loose Snowflakes were positioned in the centre of the scene. Some Window Sheet was adhered over the die cut hole using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The globe stand was die cut from Petal Pink card-stock. A curved hole was punched out using the Curved Label Punch and the little penguin was positioned as described on page 120 of Stampin’ Up!s Annual Catalogue. The card front was adhered in place using some Foam Adhesive Strips positioned around the globe hole and the edge of the panel. 

A sentiment from the same stamp set was white heat embossed using some Wow Emboss Powder on to Petal Pink card-stock and then fussy cut out. Snowflakes were cut from Basic White card-stock using a detailed die from the Snowy Wonder dies. These snowflakes together with tiny snowflakes from the White Loose Snowflake embellishments were scattered around the card front.

A Basic White card inner was simply decorated with some light Pool Party blending and a little die cut penguin and tree. A Basic White C6 Envelope (not pictured) was stamped with a few Garden Green trees. As you may know, I do like to simply decorate the card inner and envelope to coordinate in some way with the card design.

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around this week’s Blog Hop for the launch of the CASEing the Catty Challenge #496. I appreciate you dropping by.

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this wonderful Crew. The next blog in the hop is by the lovely Monique Fielder. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I wonder which project she has CASEd - I am sure her project will be special.

Join In The Challenge: We would love you to share a project you have created for this Challenge that has been inspired by the either the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or the September-December Mini Catalogue. To share, all you need to do is go to the CASEing The Catty Challenge Group on Facebook. If you aren't a member, it’s easy to request to join and then all you need to do is upload a photo of your project to the main section. You can click on the graphic below to be taken to the group on Facebook. We would love to see your creation.

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AWH Colour creations Blog Hop #29 Gray Granite

Gray Granite with Yuletide Village

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 mid-grey colour called Gray Granite.  Gray Granite is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a warm grey that can coordinate with many colours, including yellows, reds, other neutrals, etc and it would be wonderful for wood, woodgrain, buildings …  and anything needing a mid-warm grey.

Gray Granite 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; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Nests of Winter, Lily Pond Lane, Country Woods & Otterly Adorable DSPs, Season of Elegance Speciality DSP, Autumn to Remember Scrapbooking Kit, Layered Landscapes Kit, Bakers Twine Essentials Pack, Adhesive Backed Dappled Dots, Riverside Irregular Pearls and a number of other products. 

This project has incorporated Gray Granite as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker, Stampin’ Blends and Season of Elegance Speciality Designer Series Paper.

I do love this colour. The slight fawn-ish tinge gives Gray Granite a lovely warm tinge. As I am still in card-making mode I was thinking how i could showcase this colour in a Christmas card and saw the Yuletide Village stamps on my work table. I also had a gold embossed little church remaining from a previous project so I started by colouring the church with Stampin’ Blends, using the Gray Granite combo. To incorporate traditional christmas colours, the church door was coloured with the Real Red combo; a little Light Lemon lolly was added to the windows to give a sense of the lights on inside and the wreath on the church tower was coloured with the Old Olive combo. Some highlights and blending were added with the Color Lifter.

The Yuletide Village stamp set is a stand alone set, so the church image was fussy cut and an extra layer of ground snow was added with a torn die cut circle. In reference to the die cut part-circle, to create the focal section a piece of Thick Basic White card-stock was folded and a larger circle die from the Spotlight in Nature dies was used to cut a part circle. Some of the “B” side of the Season of Elegance Speciality DSP was also cut with the same die and this piece was adhered to the outside of the folded panel. Some White Craft ink was blended over to lighten some of the panel. A card base was created with a piece of Gray Granite card-stock. A background panel was cut from Basic White card-stock and it was embossed with the Birchwood 3D Embossing Folder.

The bare trees were die cut from some of the Graceful Greenery Vellum. Holly was Gold heat embossed on Basic White card-stock using a stamp from the Sentimental Wishes stamp set. The twiggy berries were cut from Gold Foil using a die from the Changing Leaves dies.

The sentiment came from the Peaceful Season stamp set and it was white heat embossed using the WOW Embossing Powders onto Real Red card-stock. A double bow tied with Gold Twisted Thread was tucked under the sentiment and adhered with a Glue Dot. The final touch was the addition of a number of Adhesive-backed Metallic Gems.

Sentiments, also from the Peaceful Season Stamp set, were gold heat embossed within the folded part-circle. Some “off cuts” left over from the Blends coloured holly were adhered both near the sentiments and in the inner section of the card. Never throw away off cuts till you have finished the project. 

A C6 Basic White envelope was gold heat embossed with the holly from the Sentimental Wishes stamp set.

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around this week’s Colour Creations Blog Hop. I appreciate you dropping by.

To continue with the blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Di 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 Highland Heather 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 brilliant 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 or the 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! 

#colourcreationsbloghop  #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards  #stampinupdemonstrator  #papercrafting   #yuletidevillage  #peacefulseason

AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #15

Christmas with Yuletide Village

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the fifteenth Art with Heart Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. This year we have been blog hopping since August and only have another 2 Blog Hops before we finish for this year. I hope you can check us out each week as there will be a many of ideas and different projects on display.

I love creating and sharing Christmas creativity with you. This week sees the culmination of 2 ideas I wanted to try out. I have wanted to use the Yuletide Village stamps for a more “Aussie feel” Christmas card, ie no snow but rather blue skies and colour. I also wanted to  follow-up on a different version of a fun fold shown by Sue Campfield, a USA Demonstrator. A few weeks ago I created a fancy fold that Sue had shown for her Crafternoon. At that time she also showed a number of variations of that fold, including a fold with 3 decorated diamond panels. She didn’t provide any dimensions so I needed to work out dimensions based on our A4 sizing. Here is my Aussie Christmas card:

A side view of the card gives a better view of the overall township created by the 3 diamond panels, but firstly, here are photos of each of the individual panels. The photo below is of the back panel.

Here is the middle panel:

And here is the front panel:

Two pieces of Soft Sea Foam card-stock was cut and scored with the 2 pieces being adhered together. Three hills and 2 valleys were created for the base. Three square panels also were cut from Soft Sea Foam card-stock, with the 2nd panel a little smaller that the back diamond and the front square diamond a little smaller again. Three Basic White card-stock panels were cut 2mm smaller than the Soft Sea Foam squares. Here is a side view to show the 3 “hills”.

Some Thoughtful Journey Designer Series Paper was used to decorate the 3 downward sections of the card base.

All of the buildings from the Yuletide Village stamp set were Gold heat embossed onto Basic White card-stock. The images were coloured with Stampin’ Blends Combos. Colours were selected to coordinate with the DSP, including Wild Wheat for the roofs. Each building was coloured differently, including Fresh Freesia, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Balmy Blue and Bubble Bath combos. Light Lemon Lolly was used to colour some windows and Light Pool Party to other windows to give a sense of a light shining inside or just indicating a glass window. Soft Sea Foam coloured the grass near the buildings. Each tree was coloured to coordinate with the building(s) and the specific DSP, eg Mossy Meadows and Old Olive; Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon; and Shaded Spruce and Soft Sea Foam. The Colour Lifter was used to add highlights throughout. As you can see there were many Blends colours used. As this is a stand alone stamp set, the coloured images were fussy cut with my Stampin’ Snips.

Each panel had some Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ ink blended at the top for blue sky. There was some splattering added with a Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Write Marker and white splatters with White Craft ink. The small stand of trees from the Peaceful Evergreens stamps was used to stamp some trees in the background of each diamond panel. Again, each panel had the trees stamped in a different colour as the DSP and building colours were different. The trees were either stamped in Mossy Meadows, Pretty Peacock or Shaded Spruce inks.

A sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set was gold heat embossed onto Soft Sea Foam card-stock, before being trimmed and cut into two. A double bow was tied in Gold Twisted Thread and it was ticked under the sentiment. Some gorgeous Iridescent Foil Gems added some shimmer on each panel.

Inside the back fold of the card, a Basic White panel was added that had been Gold heat embossed using a sentiment from the Merriest Trees stamp set. A extra house was fussy cut and adhered on the panel at the bottom.  

This fancy fold card was designed to fit into a standard C6 Basic White envelope. The envelope was gold heat embossed with one of the buildings from the Yuletide Village stamps.

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around this week’s Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. I appreciate you dropping by.

There is more Christmas creativity, so do continue with the blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a gorgeous person and my up-line, Kathryn Mangelsdorf. I love it when Kathryn is able to join us and look forward to checking out her creation(s). I do love seeing everyone’s' projects - there is so much inspiration.

Also, many of us participate in the Colour Creations Blog Hop that goes live every Wednesday night where we showcase one of Stampin’ Up!s colours each week. We would love you to also check in on us for more creative inspiration.

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 Sharon Davern’s blog @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special 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 September-December 2024 Mini Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact re any queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

#heartofchristmas  #heartofchristmas2024 #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards #stampinupdemonstrator #papercrafting #artwithheartteam  #papercrafter  #valleyinspirations   #yuletidevillage  #peacefulevergreens  #peacefulseason  #merriesttrees