Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #48 So Saffron

So Saffron with Floating and Fluttering

Hi. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 48th Colour Creations Showcase by members of the Art with Heart Team. Following this blog hop, we have 2 colours to complete our examination of the whole range of Stampin' Up! colours, except ... with the launch of the new 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue 5 new In Colours have also been launched - we will feature these gorgeous colours during June.

This week we are showcasing a soft colour, So Saffron. It is a pale yellow and is part of the Subtles Colour Family. While a light yellow, it still has enough body to stand on its own. So Saffron has been produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, Designer Series Paper including the Sand & Sea DSP and Seaside Shells.

As I mused over my project using So Saffron I was also aware that the current Mini Catalogue will be ending in a little while. It is so easy to be swept up in excitement for a new catalogue and forget the lovely products within continuing catalogues. When I first devoured the J-J Mini Catalogue and saw the Floating and Fluttering bundle I wanted to use it with the Floating Frame technique. So, to fulfil this desire I have combined the technique with a focus on So Saffron, and a few other colours. Here is my card:

The Floating Frame technique was all the rage a year or so ago - it is a lovely technique. The Floating & Fluttering bundle is perfect for this technique, with 3 butterflies and foliage all combined in a single stamp and can be die cut using coordinating dies. This stamp was used together with Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' ink to stamp multiple images. Stampin' Blends were used to colour these images, ie So Saffron, Mango Melody, Petal Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Soft Sea Foam and Sahara Sand Blends Combos. Once coloured, the images were die cut using dies from the Fluttering dies.

The die cut butterflies & foliage were arranged all over a card-front sized piece of card-stock and a layer of GLAD Press n Seal was laid on top to hold all the pieces in place. A centre rectangle was die cut using a mid-sized die from the Stitched Rectangle set (they are so versatile). The die cut centre section is pictured both in the first and last photos. This is to be used as the focal panel for another card which has not been finished in time for the blog hop.

Dimensionals & Mini Dimensionals were added to the back of each of the die cut pieces and then the piece of Press and Seal was carefully turned over and positioned over a piece of Sea & Sand DSP featuring a water-coloured look with So Saffron and Flirty Flamingo. This piece was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Very Vanilla card-stock, which in turn was mounted on to the So Saffron card base.

Basic Pearl Jewels were coloured with the Light So Saffron Stampin' Blend to enable them to subtly blend with the colour scheme. I so love the way Stampin' Up! coordinates its products. You can always trust its coordination. The coloured pearls were added to some of the bigger spaces within the floating frame section.

A small frame was cut from Very Vanilla card-stock using 2 smaller dies from the Stitched Rectangle dies. The frame was popped in place within the floating frame with Dimensionals. As the Floating & Fluttering stamp set doesn't include any sentiments, a sentiment was chosen from the Pretty Perennials stamp set. This is a great stamp set that isn't continuing past the J-J Mini Catalogue. If you are interested, don't leave adding it to your order before it is too late. Both "Sending lots of" and "happy" were stamped in Crumb Cake ink on scraps of Very Vanilla card-stock. The "Sending lots of" was cut with one of the smallest stitched rectangle dies and adhered directly to the card background, while "happy" was fussy cut and popped up on Dimensionals.

The card inner has a piece of Very Vanilla card-stock mounted on another section of the same DSP from the Sea & Sand DSP packet, which in turn was mounted inside the card on the So Saffron card base. A coloured butterfly and a couple of other partial pieces that had been trimmed off the front frame were added to the inner panel. The C6 Very Vanilla envelope isn't pictured here, but butterflies were stamped on the corner of the envelope using Crumb Cake Classic Stampin ink.

Thank you so much for visiting Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I loved creating this card to share with you. The second card, using the centre piece (pictured above), is underway. I had hoped to show both cards but unexpected work consumed my creative time.

Stampin' Up's 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue was launched earlier this month. If you are in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send one to you.

Catherine Proctor is our dedicated host of the Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase. If you haven't finished visiting all of the team's colour creations, you can visit/revisit Catherine's page at What Cathy Made, where she hosts the links to the participating blogs so you can find everyone's So Saffron creations. Checking out everyone's creations and their interpretation of the amazing Stampin' Up! colours is always a treat and I am sure there will be inspiring So Saffron projects on show.

I hope to see you again next week when members of the team share projects that hero Soft Sea Foam from the SU Subtles Colour family. I so love this colour so am looking forward to creating with it during the week.

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

Andrea 💕🐾

Social Stamping - #21 Brights

Brights with Floating & Fluttering 

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the first Social Stamping Blog Host for 2021.

For the next 5 months the Social Stamping Blog Hosts are focussing on each of Stampin' Up!'s colour families. This month the nominated set of colours are the Brights. While my go to colours are often a more subtle colour palette, the Brights are a range of gorgeous, vibrant colours, like a rainbow, that is: Poppy Parade, Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point, Gorgeous Grape, Melon Mambo and Flirty Flamingo. Ten lively colours.

In pondering how I would showcase Stampin' Up!'s Brights, I was reminded of a sketch presented by the Global Design Project a few weeks ago and decided to commence with this layout for my card.

Given the striped panel across the centre of the card, I thought I would use all 10 Brights, so cut 5mm strips from each of the Bright's cardstocks. Each strip was adhered to some Basic White card-stock, leaving a small mount of Basic White at the top and bottom.

A piece of Basic White card-stock, that had been cut to card front size, was embossed with the leafy Meadows Moments Embossing Folder. Then it was adhered directly on a Thick Basic White card base. The Brights striped panel spanned across the centre of the card, being adhered in place with Dimensionals.

As I was walking my dog, the idea of using Vellum card-stock to add some further interest while allowing the bright stripes to shine. As I have seen many butterflies walking with Gemma, I decided on white embossed butterflies flying across the card. The set of butterflies from the Floating and Fluttering stamp set was stamped a couple of times with Versamark ink on Vellum and heat embossed using White Stampin' Emboss powder. Coordinating dies from the Fluttering dies were used to cut them out together with a tad of sniping to seperate each butterfly.

A stitched circle from the Stitched Shapes dies was cut from Vellum and it was adhered in a couple of spots to the striped panel where it would be covered by butterflies. A Gold Hoop embellishment was layered on top using rolled Glue Dots. The vellum butterflies were scattered across the card front. That sounds simple, doesn't it, but ... getting the right arrangement was not easy for me. I finally found an arrangement that I was happy with before heading off to bed last night, but the butterflies had been knocked and moved by the time I came to finish the card this morning. And yes, I wasn't able to achieve an arrangement that I was really happy with. 

The butterflies were either adhered directly to the card front or popped up on a Mini Dimensional. A sentiment from the Many Messages bundle was added with a Mini Dimensional either side of the Gold Hoop. Previously I had played with the Many Messages bundle and created a set of sentiments with Momento ink on Basic White card-stock and another set heat embossed with Versamark and White Emboss powder on Basic Black card-stock. It is very handy having a bowl of sentiments ready and waiting on my desk.

A few gorgeous Opal Rounds were added as a finishing touch. The card inner was created with thin strips of Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point and Gorgeous Grape card-stock layered at the bottom with an embossed vellum butterfly. Some butterflies from the Floating and Fluttering stamp set were stamped in Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' ink on a C6 Basic White envelope so that the envelope would give a hint of what could be fount inside.

That's it from me this month. I hope you are enjoying this Social Stamping Blog Hop which has focussed on the Bright colours. If you started at the beginning with our amazing Social Stamping Host, Kelly Kent, then the next talented crafter is Elizabeth Gross at Lillybet's Papers. Either click on Elizabeth's name or click on the "next" graphic to be taken to her blog.

  

To see the full list of participants, click on this link and be taken to Kelly Kent's Host Blog Post at My Papercraft Journey where you will find all the individual links that can take you to each person's blog

I hope to see you again next month, when we will be focussing on the In Colours' families. 

Do look after yourself and your loved ones. Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others in these strange times. Hopefully improvement is around the corner.

Andrea 😘