AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #36 Old Olive

Old Olive with Thoughtful Expressions & Enduring Beauty

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 muted green called Old Olive. Old Olive is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a wonderful yellow green that can coordinate with so many colours. This colour is lovely for leaves, trees and anything requiring a muted green.

Old Olive 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, Regals Designer Series Paper, as well as Just Kiddin’ and Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Papers; Forever Friends and Rustic Christmas Countdown Kits; Loose Daisy Embellishments and Ombre Matt Decorative Dots. 

Old Olive ink, card-stock, Stampin’ Write Marker, Stampin’ Blends Combo and Ombre Matt Decorative Dots have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Old Olive bits and pieces.

CARD 1:

The first card features one of the delightful new bundles from the January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue that launched earlier this month. There is so much to love in this catalogue. Do check it out. (I would love to help you if you don’t have a demonstrator already). 

Floral images from the gorgeous Thoughtful Expressions stamp set were stamped in Gray Granite Classic Stampin’ ink on Basic White card-stock. These images were coloured with Stampin’ Blends combos, including Old Olive for the leaves, plus Petal Pink, Calypso Coral and Lemon Lolly combos. As I knew I would be fussy cutting some images to add a second layer, I fussy cut all the images for consistency.

The Thoughtful Expressions dies not only contains dies to cut out all the images, but also fine leaves and a loopy flower. These were cut from Basic White card-stock. The dies also includes layering scalloped circle labels - so gorgeous. A mid-size label was also cut from Basic White card-stock.

A Basic White card front was dry embossed with the wonderful Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder. (I think the last photo at the bottom of this blog shows the embossing best.) The label was splattered with Old Olive ink from a Stampin’ Write Marker and then popped up with Dimensionals on the embossed background. The coloured and die cut pieces were arranged using both Multipurpose Liquid Glue and some Dimensionals. The two larger flowers had extra flowers layered on top to give extra dimension to these flowers.

A sentiment from the stamp set was white heat embossed on Old Olive card-stock and partially cut with the trimmer and partially fussy cut. The final touches included a double White Bakers Twine bow and a few Old Olive Ombre Matte Decorative Dots (from the Ombre Matte Decorative Dots from the Annual Catalogue).

The card inner for writing a personal message is simply Basic White card-stock decorated with some Blends coloured and fussy cut images and a Gray Granite stamped sentiment. (A stamp from the Notes of Nature stamp set was sitting on my crafting space and seemed to be just right for the card.)  A Basic White C6 envelope was stamped with the Thoughtful Expressions floral image also in Gray Granite ink.

CARD 2:

I recently saw Jacque Williams create a “one layer card” using 2 layers. As you may know, I love creating multi layer cards with dimension, and really struggle to create simple cards; however, Jacque inspired me to challenge myself. This card is in the style of  a “single layer card” but with 2 layers, however, I couldn’t resist some twine and embellishments.

Last week I used the new Enduring Beauty stamps. This week I have used the coordinating stencils without the stamped outline image. Like Jacque, I have added a seperate card front. I believe this gives the card extra body and easily enables certain techniques to add texture.

The coordinating Enduring Beauty stencils were used with some of Stampin’ Up!s wonderful Blending Brushes. The flowers were coloured with Bubble Bath and Berry Burst Classic inks and the leaves with Old Olive ink.

Some light splattering was added with an Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker. The sentiment comes from a Saleabration stamp set - Softly Sophisticated stamps. This set is paired with an embossing folder and can be chosen with an order of at least $180.00. The sentiment was stamped in Gray Granite ink.

To give some added texture / interest, the scoring blade on a Stampin’ Trimmer was used to score a double border a little in from the 4 edges (ie 5mm & 8mm in from each edge). Also each edge of the card front was carefully run along an Old Olive ink pad to give a fine border, instead of mounting the card front onto an Old Olive card-stock layer.

As mentioned, I couldn’t resist tying a double length of white Bakers Twine around the folded centre of the card, tying it in a bow at the front, a little down from the top. The addition of a few Old Olive Ombre Matte Decorative Dots don’t technically fit in with one layer, but they do add a little ‘something’.

A Basic White card inner (not shown) was decorated with a thin stencilled strip, cut from the card front and another sentiment, this time from the Enduring Beauty stamp set. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped with the floral outline image in Old Olive ink.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the Colour Creations Blog Hop. While again we are a smaller group, I am sure there will be so much Old Olive inspiration. Don’t miss checking out each blog.

To continue with the Old Olive 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 love seeing everyone’s' projects - there will be so much inspiration.

I do hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Orchid Oasis as we continue 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 new January-April 2024 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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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #35 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Enduring Beauty & Hot Air Balloon

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 deep navy blue called Night of Navy. Night of Navy is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a wonderful navy blue that can coordinate with so many colours. This colour is lovely for dark skies, deep water, a blue and white colour scheme and anything with a deep blue.

Night of Navy 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 many other products. 

Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ ink, card-stock, Stampin’ Write Marker, Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon and Ombré Matte Decorative Dots have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Night of Navy bits and pieces.

Both cards are more simple single fold cards without many, many layers apart from mounts for the card fronts. Having said that, I couldn’t resist Dimensionals. The stamps and dies can be found in the new January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue that launched last week. There are so many wonderful products in this catalogue. Have you had a change to check it out? (I would be delighted to help you if you don’t have a demonstrator already). 

This first card features the gorgeous Enduring Beauty stamp set. These stamps coordinating with a wonderful set of stencils as well as dies; however, this card only features the main floral image that was silver heat embossed on to Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.

The card front panel was ombré blended with Night of Navy Classic ink. Water was painted over the image and dabbed with paper towel to lift the ink from the leaves & flowers. It doesn’t show well in the photos but lifting the strong ink from the image left shades of blue and purple. Night of Navy ink was then partially painted into the image to give some depth of shading.

Given the purple shades the coloured panel was mounted onto Fresh Freesia card-stock, then Night of Navy card-stock. A Basic White card-stock panel was mounted directly to the Night of Navy card base and the card front panel was added with Dimensionals. Have you seen the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Embossing Folder? The ‘Thinking of you’ sentiment was embossed and die cut out in one pass through the Cut & Emboss Machine. It is simply gorgeous. There are many ways to work with this Hybrid Folder - this is just simply embossed and die cut out. Some light Fresh Freesia blending was added to the top and bottom edges. The sentiment was added with Mini Dimensionals.

The decorative touches included some Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon across the card with some Silver Elegant Trim. Bows were tied with the same ribbon/trim and added with Glue Dots.   Some Night of Navy Ombre Matt Decorative Dots were sprinkled near the sentiment.

A panel for writing a personal message was partially stamped with the Enduring Beauty Floral image and silver heat embossed. A little light Night of Navy blending was added over the image. A Basic White C6 envelope was decorated in the same way.

I had fun with the Faux Bleaching with water and there was no smell of bleach. 

CARD 2

Some Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was wet with water and some Night of Navy ink was added to create a water-coloured background. After the panel was dry I could see mountains in the ink so created the card in Landscape orientation.

I love navy and white as a colour combo and was planning on just using the 2 colours for this card. Again, I was taken with purple emerging from the Night of Navy water-colour so used a Fresh Freesia mount which gave a lift to the image. A Basic White mount also lightened the overall effect.

Balloon pieces were die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Hot Air Balloon dies. I love the various decorative design pieces. Some Dimensionals gave a “lift” to a couple of hot air balloons. A sentiment from the coordinating stamp set was white heat embossed onto Night of Navy card-stock, and then fussy cut.

One of the borders was cut away from the Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon. It was tied into a bow and tucked under the sentiment. Some Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels were scattered around the sentiment.

A Basic White card inner was stamped with the larger balloon and centre panel. The centre panel wasn’t quite straight so I took a Stampin’ Write Marker - the fine tip, and coloured in the uneven sections. I so love Stampin’ Up!s coordination of products where colours seamlessly match. The Basic White C6 Envelope was similarly stamped however, it wasn’t a clean stamp so both coloured with the fine tip of the marker and also added a little light blending.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the second Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2024. We are still a smaller group but I am sure there will still be so much Night of Navy inspiration. Don’t miss hopping around.

To continue with the Night of Navy blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special lady, 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 another versatile colour, Old Olive as we continue 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. 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 new January-April 2024 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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