AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #41 Poppy Parade

Poppy Parade with Around the Bend

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 bright orange red called Poppy Parade. Poppy Parade is part of the Brights Colour Family and is a bright red that can coordinate strikingly with black & white’ or more softly with Petal Pink or Calypso Coral. This colour is lovely for flowers - consider its name sake - poppies.

Poppy Parade 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; Soft Pastels; Brights Designer Series Paper as well as the Trusty Toolbox, Just Kiddin’ & Sunny Days DSPs; the Saying Thanks Kit, Panda Friends Kit & Confetti Birthday Kit; plus Iridescent Adhesive-backed Discs. 

Poppy Parade ink, card stock, Stampin’ Write Marker and 2 designs from the Sunny Days DSP plus some Iridescent Adhesive Backed Discs have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Poppy Parade bits and pieces.

I created a fancy fold card that folds in from each side and has an added folded central DSP panel to combine with the Around the Bend bundle from the Annual Catalogue. The sentiments came from an Online Exclusive stamp set called Comforting Thoughts. This set will be wonderful for folk who are not well or needing comfort and support. As you can see in the following photos, 3 sentiments have been used and will be seen as the card is opened.

I played with the new breyer to unevenly colour the left side front panel using Basic White card-stock with Petal Pink and Poppy Parade inks and then misted the coloured area to soften the uneven-ness. Other pieces of Basic White card-stock were coloured with individual colours, ie Poppy Parade, Petal Pink or Old Olive inks. Once they had dried from the misting flowers were die cut from both Petal Pink and Poppy Parade. A series of leaves were cut from the Old Olive coloured panel. The flowers and leaves were all adhered with touches of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Both Poppy Parade and white Iridescent Adhesive Backed Discs were added to the centre of the little flowers. Their beautiful shimmer hasn’t been picked up by the camera.

You may notice that I have less photos and process description this week. Both scheduled and out of the blue commitments and urgent family requirements seemed to explode to take up so much time and energy leaving very little creativity and preparation time.

As you can see the central panel was created in such a way to show both sides of the delightful Saleabration DSP. The Petal Pink grid sits well beneath the curved die cut leaves and then when the central panel is lifted to reveal the beautiful Poppy Parade floral design.

A panel for writing a personal message was adhered inside the lower section of the central panel. It is simply a Basic White panel stamped with another Comforting Thoughts sentiment in Poppy Parade ink.  A Basic White C6 envelope was stamped in Poppy Parade ink a couple of times with the corner leafy design from the Around the Bend stamps.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the 41st Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-2024.  I am sure there will still be so much Poppy Parade inspiration. Don’t miss it.

To continue with the Poppy Parade blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Di Furniss. I am looking forward to checking out Di’s creation(s). I wonder if she also will have a fun fold card??? 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 Pretty Peacock as we move through 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 January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue & Saleabration Brochure, 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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Colour Inkspiration Challenge #159

I am so excited to have joined the Colour Inkspiration Crew. Colour Inkspiration Challenge #159 is a gorgeous colour combination and here is my project featuring this combo:

To showcase these colours I stamped the Stippled Roses images in 2nd generation Smoky Slate ink and then coloured them with Berry Burst and Pretty Peacock Alcohol Blends Combos, with the Colour Lifter to reinforce the highlights on the petals and leaves.

The Stippled Roses die cut the coloured images and 2 different dies were used to cut leaves from Basic White card-stock. A gorgeous label was cut from Thick Basic White card-stock using the Thoughtful Moments dies.

The Thick Basic White card-base was cut to create a fun fold card where the top front panel fold down from above and the white embossed lower panel folds in from the right side with the pieces meeting diagonally from top right down to bottom left.  The Smoky Slate panel was coloured with Smoky Slate Classic Stampin ink and the new Stampin’ Brayer onto Basic White cardstock. The brayer added the ink at different angles and strengths. Some water was misted over to enable the shading to blend and soften. The Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder was used on a Basic White panel that was adhered to the bottom diagonal section.

Some Pretty Peacock splatters were added with a Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Write Marker. The central floral arrangement was adhered to the gorgeous label that had been partially adhered to the top Smoky Slate Panel. The white die cut leaves were tucked under the coloured flowers and leaves. A little bit of blending added some Smoky Slate to a couple of leaves. Some leaves needed a little pruning to remove a few tiny leaves.

A sentiment from the Stippled Roses stamps was stamped in Smoky Slate and fussy cut. A double White Bakers Twine bow was tucked under the sentiment and a few Iridescent Pearls were sprinkled around the sentiment. Finally a little Wink of Stella was splattered over the card.

The card inner was created with a Basic White panel stamped with part of the Stippled Roses in Smoky Slate. It was mounted on a slightly larger Smoky Slate panel. A Basic White C6 Envelope was also stamped with part of the Stippled Roses stamp in Smoky Slate ink. (not pictured)

Thank you so much for dropping in.