AWHT Colour Creations #18 Early Expresso

Early Espresso with Abigail Rose Fancy Fold

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. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep brown called Early Espresso. Early Espresso is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a dark chocolate colour. This colour is lovely when used for trees, chocolate or coffee and so much more. It is a great colour for cards for fellas, going brilliantly with Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and the like. It also goes with pinks, blues like Tahitian Tide and other neutrals such as Crumb Cake and is great with Gold. 

Early Espresso is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Water-colour Pencils; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Storybook Gnomes, Rustic Harvest, Santa Express, Abigail Rose, He's The Man and Painted Christmas DSPs; plus Faux Suede Trim, Festive Felt; Abigail Rose File Folders, Cozy & Bright Card Kit, and Santa Express Memories & More Cards & Envelopes. 

To feature Early Espresso I decided to create a fancy fold and use the delightful Abigail Rose DSP, colouring some of the flowers with Stampin' Blends. Here is the card standing open:

I am not sure of the name of this fold as I have only seen it called a Vertical Freestanding Fun Fold (or Fancy Fold). I'm not sure if it has another name but do love the fold. It was not a difficult fold and I love the impact. I watched Emma Goddard create this fold during one of her recent (paid) classes - as always thanks for the inspiration Emma. I believe Susan Campfield, a US Demonstrator, has a uTube where she created this fold. I haven't watched the video but other of her videos are easy to follow. Here is a photo of the card looking down from the top.

Three pieces of Early Espresso card-stock were cut and scored. Two different designs of the Abigail Rose DSP were trimmed to fit appropriate panels. I used the Early Espresso/Very Vanilla/Crumb Cake tulip design for panels facing forward and the Memorandum lined design for the other panels to be covered with DSP.

My front panel of the card has an embossed Very Vanilla card-stock panel that is slightly smaller than the Early Espresso front panel. The Very Vanilla piece was embossed with one of my favourite Embossing Folders - the Timeworn Type 3D EF. As I was photographing the card, I wondered if I should have added some Petal Pink or Calypso Coral splatters - what do you think?

Two of the circular Stylish Shapes Dies were used to cut a ring from a Rose Gold sheet of the Gold & Rose Gold Metallic Speciality Paper. This was added to the card front with Mini Dimensionals. Tulips and a few leaves from the Tulip design of the DSP were coloured with Stampin' Blends, ie Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, So Saffron & Old Olive combos. Once coloured, they were fussy cut with Paper Snips.

As I was arranging the tulips I thought something else was needed (partly because I had "lost" most of the coloured leaves), so I die cut the wreath from the Natural Prints dies in Basic White card-stock. This is such a gorgeous wreath. It was coloured with Mint Macaron and Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' inks and a Blending Brush. The coloured wreath was cut into sections that could be tucked under flowers at different places. All the pieces were arranged and adhered with either Glue Dots, Dimensionals or Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

A sentiment from the Cottage Rose stamp set was white heat embossed using Versamark ink, White Emboss Powder and a Heat Tool. A piece of Gold Simply Elegant Trim was coloured with a Dark Calypso Coral Blend to tied it in with the Rose Gold metallic ring. A double bow was added with Glue Dots. Some Petal Pink Elegant Faceted Gems gave touches of shimmer.

Some Very Vanilla card-stock was stamped with a sentiment and leaves from the Cottage Rose stamp set in Early Expresso ink. This panel was adhered to the centre back panel of the card. Some extra coloured tulips were adhered over some of the stamping. A Very Vanilla C6 envelope was stamped with the smaller flower in Early Expresso ink.

Thank you very much for calling by.

There is more Early Expresso creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovey Rachel Palmieri. I always look forward to checking out Rachel's creations. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Evening Evergreen as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations blog hops.  Also, don't forget that we are joining the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop on Monday evenings to share many delightful Christmas projects. 

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others. 

Andrea 💕🐾

    

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations 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 Stampin' Up's 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2022 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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AWHT Colour Creations #13 Cherry Cobbler

Cherry Cobbler with Cottage Rose and some Loose Water-colouring

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. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep cherry red called Cherry Cobbler. Cherry Cobbler is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a deep muted colour. This colour is lovely when used for Christmas, flowers and so much more. It goes with different greens, with Crumb Cake, Pool Party, etc. It is also great with Gold. 

Cherry Cobbler is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Water-colour Pencils; Stampin' Blends; Regals Designer Series Paper as well as Painted Christmas and Boughs of Holly DSPs; plus Lights Aglow and Festive Foils Speciality DSPs; Festive Pearls; and Santa Express Memories & More Cards & Envelopes. 

We are coming to the end of July, which is Worldwide Watercolor month.  I have been attempting to include watercolour in some form in each blogged project this month and have intended to use the Loose Watercolour technique during the month - so tonight is the night. 

I find it fun to use a stamp set out of its usual context and so while thinking of a Christmas rose, I decided to use the gorgeous Cottage Rose stamp set. I gold embossed the larger image using Versamark ink, Gold Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun. This image was masked using the newly available Masking Paper and then the mid-sized flower and leaves were stamped and heat embossed. I love the effect of masking but seldom use it. Now that Stampin' Up! is supplying Masking Paper I will probably be using this technique more often. 

The images were stamped on a half sheet of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper. This enables you to get 2 projects from one sheet of paper - so much more economical. Loose water-colouring means you don't stay within the lines but allow the ink to blur over the edges and colours to mix slightly - although the latter needs to be done carefully so you don't end up with a muddy brown picture. I like to work with colours for one image and then leave it to slightly dry before using the next colour combo. If using complementary colours, I leave the image to dry much more so the colours don't bleed into each other. 

The base lighter layer was laid down first using a fair bit of water and the mid-sized Water Painter (they come in a set of 3, ie fine, medium and wide brush). You can relax with this layer and paint over the edges of the images - just have fun. The Classic Stampin' Inks used to paint the image are: Cherry Cobbler for the large flower, Petal Pink with touches of Cherry Cobbler for the smaller flowers, Crumb Cake around the fine gold flowers and Soft Succulent with touches of Evening Evergreen for the leaves. I couldn't resist using the fine Water Painter to add extra detail, colour and depth.

Once the panel had dried, I added a splattering of Cherry Cobbler ink using a Stampin' Write Marker. It wasn't fully dry (I was running out of time) so some of the splatters blurred. The water-coloured panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Cherry Cobbler card-stock. A piece of Basic White card-stock was embossed with the Stitched Greenery die as the leaves were a similar shape to the leaves in the stamp set. I do love the effect of this stitched die.

A sentiment from the Hope and Peace stamp set was gold heat embossed onto a scrap of Thick Basic White card-stock. I like extra thickness for sentiment strips to ensure the label sits straighter, especially over trim or ribbon. Some gold Simply Elegant Trim was wrapped around the painted panel and the sentiment label was positioned over using Dimensionals. A seperate double bow was adhered with Glue Dots. Some Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels added the finishing touch of shimmer.

A Basic White piece of card-stock was gold heat embossed using the larger cottage rose stamp for the card inner. A C6 Basic White envelope was similarly embossed.

I so loved creating this card and do love the effect of loose water-colouring.  I had hoped to create a second card with and alternative Cherry Cobbler colour scheme but time ran out - perhaps on the weekend. Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value the time you spent with me.

There is more Cherry Cobbler creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Christine Blain. I always look forward to checking out Christine's creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Coastal Cabana as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations blog hops. Also, don't forget many of us are joining the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop on Monday evenings which will continue until the end of November. 

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others. 

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is such an amazing lady and we appreciate all she does. Check out her wonderful 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 Stampin' Up's 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2022 Mini Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Sale-a-bration continues through August but don't delay if you want free product as it is only while supplies last. Please don't hesitate to make contact regarding any queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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AWHT Colour Creations #9 Blackberry Bliss

Blackberry Bliss with Cottage Rose and Water-colouring

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are continuing to work though the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a muted deep purple called Blackberry Bliss. Blackberry Bliss is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a rich luscious colour. Think of the staining on your fingers when picking blackberries. This colour is gorgeous when used with other pinks and mauves and also works really well with other colours.  

Blackberry Bliss is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, Watercolour Pencils, Regals Designer Series Paper, Pretty Prints DSP, Design A Daydream DSP and the retiring New Horizons DSP. The card below has used Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' ink, Card-stock and Stampin' Write Marker plus a range of other non-BB bits and pieces.

This card only shows a tad of the full depth of Blackberry Bliss, ie via the fussy cut sentiment that was heat embossing in gold on Blackberry Bliss card-stock. However, the gorgeous gold embossed Cottage Rose was water-coloured with Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' ink. I so love water-colouring with SU inks as it can show a colours various undertones. Isn't Blackberry Bliss beautiful when water-coloured?

As indicated, the large rose and leaves from the Cottage Rose stamp set was heat embossed with Versamark, Gold Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun on Shimmery White card-stock. Blackberry Bliss Classic ink was applied with a fine Water Painter to water-colour the rose while a little Fresh Freesia Classic ink was used on the leaves. Its interesting that they look to be the same colour when diluted. Some Blackberry Bliss ink was flicked over a Very Vanilla  background panel with the fine Water Painter. A Very Vanilla background was embossed with the Stitched Greenery die. I so love the subtle stitched effect of this die. 

The leaves were fussy cut away from the rose to enable a different arrangement. The rose was positioned with Dimensionals while the leaves were adhered in place with a little Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The Gold heat embossed sentiment came from the same stamp set and was popped up with Mini Dimensionals.

I was running out of time and searching for some Gold Elegant Trim but first found some retired ... Twine. Given time restrictions I used the latter but know that the Gold Elegant Trim would have been brilliant too. The final touch was the addition of some tiny Gold Pearl Jewels.

A Very Vannila card inner was decorated with a couple of small flowers and an extra leaf together with a left over strip from a blended background created for the second card. More of that in a minute. A Very Vanilla C6 Envelope was gold heat embossed with the rose spray to tie the envelope with the card it will hold.

I had designed two cards for this Blackberry Bliss blog hop but a range of things & interruptions used up my available time. I pushed to create the second card but the more I pushed the more mistakes I made, so decided that the second card will need to be finished at a later time. Disappointing, but that is life. The cards were designed to be a "Ying & Yang", that is, the background on this card is uncoloured and the rose is water-coloured; where as the background of the second card was coloured (a blended background) and the flowers were gold embossed and uncoloured. Hopefully I will finish it soon and share it here.

Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value the time you spent with me.

There is more Blackberry Bliss creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely, Ros Davidson. I always look forward to checking out Ros' creation (I wonder what she has in store this week). I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring a delightful colour, Blushing Bride, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations blog hops.

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others. 

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  I so appreciate all she does in coordinating this blog hop each week. She is such an amazing lady. Check out her wonderful 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 Stampin' Up's 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2022 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!. 

#colourcreationsbloghop  #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards #makeacardsendacard #stampinupdemonstrator #papercrafting #artwithheartteam  #papercrafter  #stamper #cottagerose #valleyinspirations