CASEing the Catty #558 CASE Colours of Easter Joy

 CASE Stampin’ Up!s Colours of the Easter Joy DSP meets Simply Beautiful  

Hello, welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea & #558 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 Rebecca Scurr so you can continue with the Blog Hop.

At CASEing the Catty we love to use the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues and On-Line Exclusives 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 the the colours of Easter Joy Designer Series Paper (ie Balmy Blue, Lemon Lolly, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Shy Shamrock & Crumb Cake) found on page 34 of the 2026 Stampin' Up! January-April Mini Catalogue.

The colours of the Designer Series Paper are pretty and fresh. I decided to create a card using the colours and not incorporate the DSP. Initial thoughts were to use Pretty in Pink & Peach Pie ink together on some flowers. I have a light pink rose that has different colours on the petal edges so decided to follow that idea. The stamens were coloured with Lemon Lolly. Shy Shamrock was delicately added to the leaves and Crumb Cake for the Gypsophila. A touch of Balmy Blue blending was added to the front label. I used two of the second largest label die from the Beautifully Celebrated dies to create a label that both sits on the back panel and opens to have a place to write a personal message.

Four of the larger flower dies were cut in Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper together with 2 of the smaller petal dies. Pretty in Pink was added to the 4 larger petals with a mid sized Water Painter and Peach Pie then was added to the edges. Lemon Lolly coloured the stamen pieces and Shy Shamrock was lightly added to 3 leaves. While the water-coloured pieces were left to dry, the remainder of the card was prepared.

I love the Simply Beautiful bundle - both the stamped images and die cut shapes. Most of the design was die cut apart from the little leaf spray being stamped in White Craft Ink on the plain Crumb Cake front panel. The label dies come from the coordinating Beautifully Celebrated dies. They are part of the same Lovely & Beautiful Suite.

The card base is Crumb Cake card-stock and the background DSP is from the Lovely Blossoms DSP. One of the white labels was centred on the inner DSP panel and the water-coloured pieces are adhered together and arranged on the top panel. A score line was added across the top curve and burnished. The tiny top section was adhered to the bottom label, creating a fold that allowed the top label to lift up to reveal the writing panel.

A triple Linen Twine bow was tucked under the larger flowers petals. A sentiment was white heat embossed onto Crumb Cake, fussy cut out and popped up on Dimensionals on the top label. The final touch some Pearls of Beauty were sprinkled around. Something else was needed so White Craft ink was splattered over the card.

As referenced, the card inner is revealed but lifting the top label and opening the half card front. The inner panel had a little Crumb Cake stamping. This Joy Fold card is a simple fun fold that had a great effect. A C6 Basic White envelope was similarly stamped.

I adore water-colouring and so had fun creating this Joy Fold card to share with you. I quite like combining different colouring techniques as seen here with a little Balmy Blue blending. Thank you so much for spending time here with me. I am delighted you called by.

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this creative CASEing The Catty Crew. The next blog in the hop is our coordinator, the wonderful Rebecca Scurr. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I wonder how she has used the Easter Joy colours - I am sure her project will be something special.

Join In The Challenge: We would love you to share a project that you have created for this Challenge which has been inspired by the Easter Joy DSP colours. 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 once anpproved 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 so love to see your creation.

 

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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #20 Crumb Cake

Crumb Cake with Golden Greenery + 

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 versatile neutral colour called Crumb Cake.  Crumb Cake is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a pale tan that can coordinate with many colours, including greens (eg Old Olive), blues, pinks, white and other neutrals, etc and it would be wonderful for country scenes, sea scenes, trees, ground …  and so much more.

Crumb Cake 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, Wildly Flowering, and Country Woods DSPs; Season of Elegance Speciality Designer Series Paper; Earth Tones Shimmer Gems; Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack and a number of kits. 

This project has incorporated Crumb Cake as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker, Country Woods DSP and Season of Elegance Speciality Designer Series Paper, 

I love Crumb Cake as a neutral and the way it coordinates with so many colours. It can be used in many different ways. Having said that, I must admit I struggled to create something I liked and started afresh a number of times. To help me break through I pulled out a couple of gorgeous Designer Series Papers that incorporates Crumb Cake, ie the wonderful Country Woods DSP and the Season of Elegance SDSP.

After a piece of Country Woods White & Crumb Cake wood design was embossed using the Birch Wood 3D Embossing Folder, it was mounted onto Basic White card-stock. A panel of  speciality DSP was cut to a size so it would be framed with a wide frame of the DSP. I later thought it would be better to have a Basic White panel in the centre so mounted the white card-stock onto the SDSP. Different leaves were die cut using the Golden Greenery dies, 3 pieces from Basic White card stock and the rounder leaves in Old Olive card stock. The rounder and heart-shaped leaves were partially blended with Old Olive Classic ink and the pine fronds with Crumb Cake ink.

Some Crumb Cake splattering was added using a Stampin’ Write Marker. The leaves all had a little gold heat embossing added to one side of each piece. Both the Silver Trim (from the Gold & Silver Trim Combo Pack) and the Cherry Cobbler & Gold Satin Ribbon were both cut in half lengthwise. One of each Ribbon was tied together into a bow. Some Linen Thread was tied into a double bow.

A sentiment from the Peaceful Season stamp set was gold heat embossed on the non-gold side of some Season of Elegance SDSP before being die cut with a label from the Greetings of the Season dies. The final touch was a scattering of Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-backed Berries. They are a beautiful embellishment.

A Basic White panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Crumb Cake card-stock. Some pine fronds were also gold heat embossed onto the inside panel. Similarly, a C6 Basic White envelope was also gold heat embossed with the pine fronds.

Thank you so much for calling in to check out my Crumb Cake Golden Greenery card. What do you think of this country style Christmas card?

To continue with the Crumb Cake blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special lady, Kate Morgan. I am looking forward to checking out Kate’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 Crushed Curry as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We would love you to also check in on us each week on Monday evenings until the end of November for the 2024 Heart of Christmas Blog Hops.

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 wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  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, then let me know and I will be delighted to send it to you.  

Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about this project or Stampin' Up! 

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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #19 Crumb Cake

Crumb Cake with Joy of Noel

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 wonderful neutral called Crumb Cake. Crumb Cake is one of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a lighter caramel colour. This colour is such a versatile neutral that can be used in so many different ways with so many colour combinations.

Crumb Cake 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 O Holy Night, Zoo Crew, Beary Christmas, One Horse Open Sleigh and Les Shoppes DSPs; plus the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack; Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots;  and Boho Beach, A Million Thanks, Timeless Greetings Kits; and the Beary Christmas Memories & More cards. Another extensive list.

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

I started with completely different ideas for my Crumb Cake project. After deciding to use the Joy of Noel bundle I began creating with a different colour combination. I was crafting for a while and the project was taking form, but I wasn’t at all happy with the result. Then “life happened” and so I decided to finish the card in the morning. I woke with a different colour combination and sentiment in my thoughts so I followed this change of thought. This is the result.

The amazing Joy of Noel die cut with a Christmas foliage arrangement of holy etc around a label was used to cut a panel of both Basic White and Vellum card-stocks. The die was also used to cut a piece of Snowflake Magic Speciality Designer Series Paper and another Basic White card-stock piece. The centre label die from the same set of dies was used to cut Crumb Cake, Basic White and Lost Lagoon card-stocks together with the same Snowflake Magic SDSP. The Lost Lagoon label had a little White Craft ink added to the centre, fading out to the edges. It’s only subtle. The Crumb Cake, Snowflake Magic and Basic White labels were cut in half diagonally. The Lost Lagoon label was then mounted onto the Crumb Cake, Snowflake Magic and Basic White, ensuring a little of the underneath layers were showing. This required the two halves of each label to be spread apart underneath.

A Basic White card front was dry embossed with the Pine 3D embossing folder. Some splatters were added using the Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker. This panel was adhered directly to a Crumb Cake card-stock base.

One of the Basic White die cut panels had some Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ ink  gently added to the edges with a Blending Brush. The Vellum panel was adhered underneath and the die cut panels were positioned with Dimensionals. The Snowflake Magic piece was trimmed into 4 die cut strips that were tucked under the 4 edges of the central die cut panel. The final Basic White die cut panel was treated the same way.  The central layered label was adhered in the centre. 

Another piece of Lost Lagoon card-stock was white heat embossed with the “NOEL” stamp from the Joy of Noel stamp set using White Emboss Powder, the Embossing Additions Tool kit and a Heat Tool. A piece of Foam Adhesive Sheet was attached underneath the heat embossed card-stock and then the letters were die cut with the coordinating dies. I do love Stampin’ Up!s coordination. The 4 letters were positioned on the central panel. The final touch was the addition of some Loose Holly Gems & Sequins, firstly in opposite corners of the central panel, with extra holly leaves scattered amongst the die cut foliage. Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels were lightly coloured with a Dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend and they were scattered near holly leaves to represent the Holly berries.

The card inner is a piece of Basic White card-stock stamped in Crumb Cake ink with a Christmas arrangement from the Joy of NOEL stamps. A different sentiment from the same stamp set was also added in Crumb Cake ink. A C6 Basic White envelope was also stamped in Crumb Cake ink with the Christmas arrangement.

Thank you for calling in to check out my Crumb Cake card. I do appreciate you spending time with me.

There is more Crumb Cake creativity so do continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the wonderful Tina Gillespie, my fellow South Australian and dear friend. I am looking forward to checking out Tina’s creation - she is amazing. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I do hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Crushed Curry as we continue the weekly 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We also have another blog hop happening, ie the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop that goes live every Monday evening until the end of November. We feature a range of Christmas projects to inspire pre-Christmas creativity.

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 newly released 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!. 

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

AWHT Colour Creations #15 Crumb Cake

Crumb Cake with Merriest Moments

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 biscuity colour called Crumb Cake. Crumb Cake is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a soft versatile colour. This is a lovely colour and can be used in so many situations; consider sand, wood, rocks, stems of flowers and so much more. As a neutral it can go with many colours. I love it with Petal Pink, Basic White and metallics, which are the colours used in this project.

Crumb Cake is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Painted Christmas, Abigail Rose, and Tea Boutique DSPs; plus the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack; Christmas Whimsy and A Million Thanks Card Kits and Abigail Rose File Folders. 

Here is my card for this blog hop:

I love using Crumb Cake for Christmas projects, whether it's with a range of reds and greens or a more alternative colour scheme, like this one. I also really love white with Crumb Cake but couldn't resist adding a little Petal Pink and Gold.

The background Crumb Cake card-stock panel was dry embossed with the pine folder from the Wintry 3D Embossing Folders pack. Some Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue was smeared over parts of the embossed panel and Gilded Flakes were sprinkled over and the excess rubbed off. I love this relaxed gold effect peeking through the top layers. This background panel was adhered directly to the Crumb Cake card base.

The Merriest Frames Hybrid Embossing Folder and Dies were used to cut and emboss a Vellum card-stock frame. A second one was also cut, so extra Vellum foliage could be added around the frame. A sentiment from the Hope & Peace stamp set was white heat embossed on Petal Pink card-stock using White Emboss Powder (found as part of the Basic Stampin' Emboss Powders), Versamark ink and a Heat Tool. Some poinsettias and foliage from the Merriest Moments stamp set were white heat embossed on Vellum. They were cut out with the coordinating dies.

Glue Dots or Dimensionals were used to arrange the floral pieces and Petal Pink Elegant Faceted Gems were added to the poinsettias' centres and some more were scattered around to give a little sparkle. Gold Holly Leaves were tucked under the flowers.

A Basic White card-stock inner was stamped with poinsettias in Petal Pink Classic Stampin' ink and the flower centres & a sentiment from the Merriest Moments stamp set were stamped in Crumb Cake Classic ink. A Basic White C6 envelope was similarly stamped.

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

There is more Crumb Cake creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovey & talented Rachel Woolard. I always look forward to checking out Rachel's creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Crushed Curry 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 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 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  #valleyinspirations   #merriestmoments 

AWHT Colour Creations #13 Crumb Cake

Crumb Cake with Angels of Peace & For Unto Us

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart 2021-2022 Colour Creations Blog Hop.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a neutral light brown called Crumb Cake.  It is similar but still a different brown from Kraft card-stock - slightly lighter and Kraft has a little more of an orange tinge. Crumb Cake is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and coordinates so well with many colours (as neutrals tend to do). One of my favourite colour combinations is Petal Pink with Crumb Cake, so in the end I decided to go with this combo. My initial thought was to use White on Crumb Cake which is always delightful, but my designing process took me in another direction. 

Crumb Cake is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, the Neutrals Designer Series Paper and some Bakers Twine (as part of the Essentials Pack of twine). The Slim-line Christmas cards below have used Crumb Cake card-stock, Classic ink, Stampin' Blends Combo, and Bakers Twine, plus other bits and pieces.

I was planning to make a fancy fold that I had recently seen and started with water-colouring some panels to use as background pieces. However, when layering them as they would look in the fancy fold I wasn't convinced that it worked well so ended up in a completely different direction, creating 2 more simple cards. 

I was delighted with the water-colour effect achieved with the panel used on this first card. In my water-colour experimentation I have been trying to gain more variation of colour but usually my watercolour backgrounds tend to end up as a subtle blending of colours. This panel also uses the emboss resist technique, with a sentiment from the For Unto Us stamp set stamped in Versamark ink onto Fluid 100 Watercolor paper and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss powder and a Heat Gun. I used Crumb Cake and Petal Pink Classic Re-inkers with the mid-sized Water Painter and some extra water.

When dry, the water-coloured panel was mounted on a larger piece of Petal Pink card-stock. Some Basic White Bakers Twine from the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack was wrapped around twice and tied in a bow; and then the panel was mounted onto the Crumb Cake card-stock base. The base had been cut to create a small slimline card. The card was then finished with a few delightful Elegant Faceted Gems. I am sooo glad these carried over into the current Annual Catalogue for 2021-2022. This is a fairly simple card for me as I usually have layer upon layer and lots of texture, but I am still pleased with it, especially the water-colour effect. 

The card inner is simple too, with the angel from the Angels of Peace stamps partially stamped on a piece of Basic White card-stock in Petal Pink ink and the words that continue from the front sentiment, (ie a Christmas carol "Hark the Herald Angels sing, Glory to the new born King") were stamped in Crumb Cake ink. I made a custom sized envelope to suit the small slimline card using some retired Designer Series Paper. Creating your own envelopes with retired DSP is a great way to use your stash of DSP and the envelopes always look great.

Card 2:  The second card used another water-coloured panel, that was created with the same products as previously mentioned. It too was mounted onto a panel of Petal Pink card-stock and White Crinkled Seam Binding was wrapped around and tied into a bow. Some Crumb Cake Bakers Twine from the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack was tied around the ribbon bow's knot and then tied into a bow. The whole panel was mounted onto the small slimline card Crumb Cake base.

The larger angel from the Angels of Peace stamp set was stamped on a seperate piece of Basic White card-stock in stamped off Crumb Cake ink. The angel was coloured with Stampin' Blends, ie Crumb Cake & Petal Pink combos and Ivory & the Colour Lifter. She was fussy cut. A label was die cut from Basic White card-stock using one of the Stitched So Sweetly dies.

The white label was positioned with Dimensionals and the Angel was added with another layer of Dimensionals. I do so love the effect of the added depth provided by Dimensionals and given my restraint in not added them to the background layers, I felt I could go a little wild with the focal elements. A sentiment from the same stamp set was white heat embossed on Crumb Cake card-stock and trimmed to only use the first line of the sentiment. The sentiment was layered on the label with Dimensionals as well. Some beautiful Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added as the finishing touch. They added that little shimmer and the colour seemed to match perfectly.

The card inner and envelope was similar to the first card apart from the sentiment. The same sentiment as was used on the front was stamped in Crumb Cake and the piece of the sentiment that wasn't used on the front of the card was layered over the stamped words.

I had fun playing with water-colour and creating these cards to share. I will need to make the fancy fold with something different so I can try it out. If it works, it may even turn up in a week or two featuring another of Stampin' Up!'s beautiful colours.

If you are in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of Stampin' Up's 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and or the new July - December 2021 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!. 

There is more Crumb Cake creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a very special person and friend, Sharon Davern. I am looking forward to checking out Sharon's creation and everyone else's. I. do love seeing everyones projects - so many ideas and great creations

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Crushed Curry; and don't forget the AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop is launched every Monday evening at 8pm AEST until mid-December.

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.  Check out her amazing creation while you are there.

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