AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #30 Highland Heather

Highland Heather with One of a Kind & Frozen Edges

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 beautiful mid-purple colour called Highland Heather.  Highland Heather is part of the Subtles Colour Family and as a Subtle it is pale-ish but on the deeper side. It can coordinate with many colours, including other purples, blues, reds/pinks and yellows (the latter as a complementary colour) to name a few. It would be wonderful for berries, flowers, a colour contributing to evening skies or even snowflakes plus anything else needing a pale-ish purple.

Highland Heather 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; Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Flowering Zinnia, Perennial Lavender, Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper; Three Color Glimmer Paper and Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.

These cards have incorporated Highland Heather as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker, Stampin’ Blends and Purple Fine Shimmer Gems.

CARD 1:

While focussing on snowflakes for this card, I have combined Highland Heather with a couple of deeper blues, ie Boho Blue and a touch of Misty Moonlight. The blending started with Highland Heather Classic Stampin’ ink, working diagonally across a panel of Basic White card-stock. Boho Blue ink was blended onto the panel, coming in from the opposite angle. Some Misty Moonlight ink was added over the opposite edges using a different Blending Brush.

After wiping the card front with an embossing buddy it was stamped in Versamark ink using the snowflake flurry stamp from the Frozen Edges stamp set. It was then White heat embossed using some new Wow Emboss Powder. Some more ink was blended over the heat embossed stamping.

A background panel of Highland Heather card-stock was dry embossed using the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder. A little White Craft ink was gently blended around the panel’s edges before being adhered to the Highland Heather card base.

Snowflakes were die cut using the One of a Kind dies from the gorgeous White Glimmer Paper. The snowflakes were coloured with the Highland Heather Stampin’ Blends combo creating different depths of Highland Heather. A number of die cut snowflakes were trimmed down to a smaller size with Snips. One snowflake had 2 sizes layered together. A label was cut using one of the Peaceful Season dies and then stamped in Highland Heather ink using a sentiment from the One of a Kind stamps. This was added to the card front with Dimensionals.

The Highland Heather gems from the Purple Fine Shimmer Gems were added to the centre of the die cut snowflakes and then to the centre of larger heat embossed snowflakes to give all over glimmer. A piece of trimmed in half lengthwise White Iridescent Striped Ribbon was tied into a double bow and adhered to the hole in the Peaceful Season label.

A Basic White card inner had an off-cut of the White embossed and blended colour panel adhered to the side. A die cut snowflake coloured with a light Highland Heather Stampin Blend was also adhered in place. Some small snowflakes from the Frozen Edges stamp set were stamped in Highland Heather ink on a Basic White C6 envelope.

CARD 2:

This is a bonus card for you using similar colours (without Misty Moonlight)

I won’t go through a rundown of products and processes, enough to say the Peaceful Season stamps and dies were used with the Peaceful Evergreen dies and a water-colour background of Highland Heather and Boho Blue Classic inks on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. The background was dry embossed with the Painted Trees 3D Embossing Folder.

The trees were die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Peaceful Evergreen dies.

The same gems and ribbon added shimmer.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the AWHT Colour Creations Blog Hop. I so appreciate you spending time with me.

To continue with the blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of our wonderful blog hop coordinator, the lovely 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 Lemon Lime Twist as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. 

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 brilliant Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a special lady. Check out her wonderful 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 or the 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  #stampinupdemonstrator  #papercrafting   #oneofakind  #peacefulseason  #frozenedges 

AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #25 Fresh Freesia

Fresh Freesia with Frozen Edges

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 beautiful pale purple called Fresh Freesia.  Fresh Freesia is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a soft mauve that can coordinate with a range of colours, including other subtles, such as Bubble Bath, Balmy Blue & Pool Party, other purples including Highland Heather and it works beautifully for flowers, snowflakes and so much more.

Fresh Freesia 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), Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as a number of other products. 

These projects have incorporated Fresh Freesia as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock and a Stampin' Write Marker.

CARD 1:

I recognise that many folk in the South Pacific won’t go for snowflakes as Christmas comes during our summer, however, I love snowflakes and have many friends in the Northern Hemisphere who may appreciate a snowflake Christmas Card.

Fresh Freesia is great for snowflake cards, especially when mixed with Balmy Blue and Pool Party / Coastal Cabana. I was going to use this colour combo for a project but ran out of time for a third card. In fact, I ran out of time to add a card inner and to decorate a coordinating envelope to share with you. I’ll have to do that later.

A Basic White card-stock background panel was silver heat embossed with a sentiment from the One Of A Kind stamp set. Then some ink blending was added with Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin’ ink and a Blending Brush. Some white splattering was added using White Craft ink.

The edge die from the Frozen Edges dies cut 2 edges from Basic White card-stock. I love the way it partially cuts some snowflakes to give the snowflake definition while holding the edge panel together. Single snowflakes were also cut from Basic White card-stock and from Silver Foil. Snowflake edges were added to the top and bottom edges of the blended panel and the other snowflakes were scattered around.

The decorated panel was layered onto a slightly larger piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock before being adhered to a Thick Basic White card base. The final touch - Silver Drusy Adhesive-backed Embellishments were added to a number of snowflakes.

CARD 2:

The 2nd card started with an ombre blended background using Fresh Freesia ink and a touch of Highland Heather ink near the top. A splattering of water droplets was added and left to dry before both white splatters and some Fresh Freesia splatters using a Stampin’ Write Marker were added. The panel was embossed with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder.

The snowflake edge die cut a Basic White card-stock edge which was later added with Mini Dimensionals. Single snowflakes were die cut from White Glimmer Paper from the Berry Burst, Old Olive and White Glimmer Speciality Paper pack. I had also white heat embossed a snowflake onto some Petunia Pop In Colour Glimmer paper. It’s a wonderful technique that Sara Douglass demonstrated on her Facebook page yesterday. In this instance, the embossed snowflake dominated the card, but I will be using the snowflake in the future.

A sentiment from the One Of A Kind stamp set was white heat embossed onto Fresh Freesia card-stock and then fussy cut apart. Both the sentiment and single snowflakes were popped up on Mini Dimensionals.

The final touch, a scattering of White Loose Snowflakes that were adhered in place with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. There certainly is a flurry of snowflakes.

Thank you for dropping in on your way around the blog hop.

To continue with the Fresh Freesia blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Ros Davidson. I am looking forward to checking out Ros’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 Garden Green as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. 

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 special Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a wonderful lady. 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 and or the 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 these projects or Stampin' Up! 

#colourcreationsbloghop  #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards  #stampinupdemonstrator  #papercrafting #frozenedges  #oneofakind