AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #33 Lost Lagoon

Lost Lagoon with Frames and Flowers Fun 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, focussing on one colour each week.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a beautiful soft blue-green colour called Lost Lagoon.  Lost Lagoon is part of the Subtles Colour Family and as a soft blue-green can coordinate with many colours, including other Subtles, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, other greens, neutrals, and so much more. It is wonderful for leaves, sea scenes, at Christmastime …  and anything needing a soft muted green.

Lost Lagoon 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 Bright & Beautiful, Serene Love, Otterly Adorable, A Little Latte, Perennial Lavendar, Winter Meadow, Thoughtful Journey Designer Series Papers; Thoughtful Designs, Frames & Flowers, Tartan Foil, Season of Elegance Speciality DSPs; plus Riverside Irregular Pearls, Tinsel Gems Three Pack, Faceted Gems Trio Pack embellishments; Lost Lagoon Soft Cording; the Perpetual Beauty Callander Kit; and a number of Last Chance Products and coming new products. 

This project has incorporated Lost Lagoon as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker and the beautiful Frames & Flowers Speciality DSP.

I had created a card for a special friend for her special birthday using Lost Lagoon but then needed to give it to her before I had a chance to photograph it, so can’t share it as part of this Blog Hop. As such, I needed to create a different card to share with you in this Blog Hop. When thinking about what to do, I decided to try a fancy fold that I had originally seen created by Susan Campfield, a Demonstrator in the USA. I wanted to try it out and have seen this fold a few times since so decided to give it a go here. I have combined this fold with the gorgeous Frames and Flowers Speciality Designer Series Paper. The pack has 3 sheets of different double sided designs, 2 sheets of laser cut wreath, frames and other images and 1 sheet of card front size images. 

Pieces of Lost Lagoon card-stock were cut to size and scored to create the Balcony Fancy Fold design. The back section was covered with 3 pieces of one of the designs of the Frames & Flowers DSP. The front section of the fancy fold was decorated with pieces of Lost Lagoon card-stock that had been dry embossed with the Fern 3D Embossing Folder.

Here is a top view of the fun fold.

One of the round laser cut wreaths was added to the front top & bottom sections with Dimensionals. Die cut pine fronds were cut from Basic White card-stock using dies from the Wintery Tree Top dies. Flowers were also cut from Basic White card-stock using the tiny flowers from the Happy Hibiscus dies. The die cut pine fronds had a little Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin’ ink partially blended over with a Blending Brush. The little flowers were partially coloured with Petal Pink ink.

A little splattering was added with both Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Write Markers to give a little extra interest to the dry embossed panels. A sentiment from the Reindeer Fun stamp set was white heat embossed on Lost Lagoon card-stock. The coloured die cuts and the sentiment were all arranged around the wreath. They were positioned with either Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Glue Dots.

A bow was tied with the gorgeous Iridescent Striped ribbon that had been cut in half lengthwise. The flowers were decorated with the wonderful Iridescent Faceted Gems. The ribbon and gems  have been my most favourite embellishments this year.

Looking at the back of the card, each of the 3 panels were covered with the same DSP as used in the front background. A Basic White card-stock panel was stamped with a sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set in Lost Lagoon ink. A couple of left over pine die cuts and a flower were used to decorate this panel for writing one’s personal message. As you can see below, a Basic White C6 envelope was decorated with a corner piece from the Frames & Flowers SDSP.

Thank you so much for calling in on your way around the Lost Lagoon Colour Creations Blog Hop. Lost Lagoon is one of my favourite Stampin’ Up! colours so I have really enjoyed creating for this Blog Hop.

To continue with the blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a  special person, the lovely Sharon Davern. I am looking forward to checking out Sharon’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 Melon Mambo as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. Following next week’s blog hop we will be taking a short break before commencing again in the new year.

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 in this blog hop 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 amazing 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, the September-December Mini Catalogue or the coming January-April 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   #frames&flowers  #greetingsoftheseason  #reindeerfun

AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #17

Christmas with the Season of Green and Gold

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the final Art with Heart Team Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. We started this series early August. Where oh where have the last 4 months gone. Thank you so so much for joining us this year as we have shared Christmas creativity with you.

I love sharing Christmas creations with you and was so disappointed to miss joining the Blog Hop last week. This week I am sharing a card with you using the elegant Season of Green & Gold Suite. It is an On-line exclusive and so gorgeous.

This fancy fold first shows one central panel surrounded by a gorgeous design with gold from the Season of Green & Gold Speciality Designer Series Paper. When the card is open, 2 central panels are seen, each coming in from a side panel. When the card folds up, one of the panels tucks underneath the other. A big thank you to Emma Goddard for the showing this double front panel fancy fold and for the dimensions. When Emma created this beautiful fold during one of her Card & Cuppa sessions I wanted to create one of my cards with it. I am so grateful for her dimensions. 

The colour scheme from the Season of Green & Gold SDSP was maintained throughout, with a Very Vanilla card-stock base with Mossy Meadows and Old Olive card-stocks for the central panels. Very Vanilla card-stock was used as the front panel on the focal panels. The 2 panels of Very Vanilla card-stock were dry embossed using the delightful Birch Wood 3D Embossing Folder. The panels were splattered lightly with a Mossy Meadows Stampin’ Write Marker.

As mentioned, the 2 front panels were decorated with one of the designs of Season of Green & Gold SDSP. The next panels in on each side were decorated with a different golden design from the same SDSP - one that is just Very Vanilla and gold. The tops of the panels were blended with Soft Sea Foam, Old Olive and Mossy Meadows Classic Stampin’ inks and Blending Brushes, creating an ombré blended coloured panel with the darkest shading at the top of both panels.

The central section was covered with the “B” side design from the SDSP. A Very Vanilla panel was added for writing a personal message. A sentiment from the coordinating sentiment stamp set - the Greetings of the Season stamps, was stamped in Mossy Meadows ink. While I had left it to dry before closing the card, the word “year” must have been extra juicy - so it has smudged a little - how annoying! A couple of fussy cut leaves from another design of the SDSP were added to the left bottom corner.

As referenced above, a couple of the SDSP designs consisted of different christmas-y leaves. Some can be cut out using the coordinating dies but others needed to be fussy cut. The coordinating dies also had some detailed dies to cut leafy shapes. The more heart shaped leafy sprig was cut from Gold Foil. The rounder shaped leafy die was used to cut the mottled white vellum from the Graceful Greenery Speciality Vellum.

The front central panel was decorated with the gold foil heart shaped leafy sprig with a pine sprig and a round Garden Green leaf sprig partially layered over each other. A piece of Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon was cut in half lengthwise and used to wrap around the panel, which had been mounted onto a slightly larger panel of Mossy Meadows card-stock. The ribbon was tied into a bow. A number of the Cherry Cobbler Adhesive-backed Berries were scattered around.

The right panel used the mottled White Vellum from the Graceful Greenery Speciality Vellum pack to die cut the rounder shaped leafy sprig spray. Two other sprays cut from the SDSP were layered over. A fussy cut set of golden bells were added on top. Some of the Twisted Gold Thread was used to tie a tiny triple bow that was added over the olive-y bow on top of the bells. A different sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamps was gold heat embossed onto Very Vanilla card-stock and then fussy cut. More of the Cherry Cobbler Adhesive-Backed Berries were scattered around.

Here is the card stretched open. The photo below shows a decorated Basic White C6 Envelope that was stamped with the 2-step pine stamps using Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam inks.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the final Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. I so appreciate you spending time with me.

There is more Christmas creativity, so do continue with this blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Kate Morgan. I always look forward to checking out Kate’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

Also, many of us participate in the Colour Creations Blog Hop that goes live every Wednesday night where we showcase one of Stampin’ Up!s colours each week. We would love you to also check in on us for more creative inspiration.

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 Sharon Davern’s blog @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our amazing Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special 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 September-December 2024 Mini Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact regarding any queries about this project or Stampin' Up!. 

#heartofchristmas  #heartofchristmas2024 #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards #stampinupdemonstrator #papercrafting #artwithheartteam  #papercrafter  #valleyinspirations   #goldengreenery  #seasonofgreenandgold  #greetingsoftheseason   #gracefulgreenery

CASEing the Catty #492 - CASE A Bundle

CASE A Bundle from pages 57-73 of the Annual Catalogue meets Reindeer Fun

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #492 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Michelle Strazds, 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 Judy May so you can continue easily with the Blog Hop.

At CASEing the Catty we love to use the samples from the Stampin' Up! Catalogues 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 projects found in the Bundles section on pages 57-73 of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

There are so many different projects displayed on the nominated pages and I kept thinking “O, I could CASE that”. The Catalogue can be a wonderful starting point when creating your project. For this week’s challenge I chose to CASE this card:

I am still in Christmas creating mode so decided I would use a small Christmas themed image to the side of the sentiment strip. This layout is a great way to feature those smaller images.  For something a little different, I thought I would use the circular pine die from the Reindeer Fun dies with another circular die to cut out a frame.

A background Soft Sea Foam piece of cardstock was first stamped with a small sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set with Soft Sea Foam Classic ink. This stamping was planned to sit beneath the frame and to extend a little beyond it. A little blending with Garden Green ink was added around the card-stock edges.  The panel was embossed with the gorgeous Forever Plaid 3D embossing folder and then mounted to a slightly larger piece of Garden Green card-stock, before being added to a Soft Sea Foam card base. Some Garden Green splatters were added with a Stampin’ Write Marker and white splatters using White Craft ink and a Water Painter.

Initially the circular pine die was used on some Soft Sea Foam card-stock. The large circle die from the Christmas Friends dies was used to partially die cut around the initial die cut. The sections where the leaves extended passed the circle were fussy cut. Some Shimmery Embossing Paste was added to the die cut, however, as the card developed the die cut frame tended to blend in, so the die cutting process was repeated with Basic White card-stock and it was adhered over the first frame.

A strip of Garden Green card-stock was white heat embossed with another sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set. This strip was tucked under the frame on the left side and went over the frame on the right side. Some Dimensionals were added under the sentiment strip on the right side to add a little dimension. 

Bells were die cut from Gold Foil using a die from the Reindeer Fun dies. I had previously coloured a Textural Element embellishment with Mossy Meadows Blends and added some red Pearlized Enamel Effects to show as berries. It was added to the left side of the frame with a group of 3 foil bells.

A piece of Cherry Cobbler & Gold Satin ribbon was cut in two lengthwise and tied into a double bow. It was added on top of the bells with Glue Dots. A few Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries were adhered around the sentiment.

Inside the card, a Basic White panel was gold heat embossed with bells from the Reindeer Fun stamps and a sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamps. Some light blending was added with the Blending Brush and Garden Green ink. Garden Green splatters were also added. A Basic White C6 Envelope was gold heat embossed with the bells and a little blending was added.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the CASEing the Catty Blog Hop for Challenge #492.

Don’t miss any of the inspiration from this wonderful Crew. The next blog in the hop is the lovely Judy May. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to her blog. I am sure her project will be a special.

Join In The Challenge: We would love you to share a project you have created that has been inspired by the new 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. To share, all you need to do for to the CASEing The Catty Challenge Group. If you aren't a member, its easy to request to join and then 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 love to see your creation.

#ctc492 #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards #makeacardsendacard #stampinupdemonstrator #papercrafting #papercrafter  #valleyinspirations   #reideerfun  #greetingsoftheseason #caseingthecatty

AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop #11

Christmas with Golden Greenery

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 11th Art with Heart Team Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2024. This series commenced early August and we will be hopping every week until the end of November. I hope you can check us out each week as there will be an array of projects to help your Christmas preparations.

I love creating projects for Christmas and hope that sharing my passion will help to inspire you in some way.  This week I have used the beautiful Golden Greenery and Greetings of the Season bundles. (They an Online Exclusives, which means they are not in a catalogue but can be found in the Stampin’ Up! Online store. You can still order them through your demonstrator.)

The colour combo is a bit non-traditional for Christmas. Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock and gold Vellum are fine but Bubble Bath and Berry Burst are a bit left field. I’m wondering if I might create a second similar card using Cherry Cobbler instead of Bubble Bath/Berry Burst. What do you think?

A Basic White card-stock background panel was embossed with the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder. A Greetings of the Season die was used to cut a label from a piece of Pretty Peacock Regal Distressed Pattern Speciality Paper. This was cut off-centre in 2 and positioned with points facing to give a sense of a Belly Band.

The rounder stem of leaves from the Golden Greenery Stamp set was stamped in Pretty Peacock ink (full strength and 2nd generation) and the spruce in Lost Lagoon ink (full strength and 2nd generation) while the berries were stamped in Berry Burst and Bubble Bath inks.

Flowers were die cut from Bubble Bath ink using dies from the Country Birdhouse die set and some Berry Burst ink was blended partially over. Using the Golden Greenery dies, the heart shaped leaves were die cut from Gold Mercury Vellum and spruce was die cut from Basic White card-stock together with a sprig of roundish leaves. The latter had a little Pretty Peacock ink blended over it.

The leaves, flowers and berries were arranged, then adhered in place with either Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Glue Dots. A bow was tied using the gorgeous Iridescent Striped Trim. A sentiment from the Reindeer Fun stamps was white heat embossed on Pretty Peacock card-stock. Some beautiful Regal Foil Adhesive-backed Dots were added to the flower centres and near the sentiment. A little splattering was added with a Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Write Marker and some Wink of Stella.

A Basic White card inner was stamped in Pretty Peacock ink with a sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set. An extra Lost Lagoon sprig was added together with some berries. A Basic White C6 Envelope had some extra spruce and leaves adhered in a corner.

Thank you so much for dropping ink to check out this week’s Christmas card. We may be a smaller group this week, but don’t miss out on the amazing projects everyone in the Blog Hop are sharing.

There is more Christmas creativity, so do continue with the blog hop. Just click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a lovely lady, Kate Morgan. I always look forward to checking out Kate’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

Also, many of us participate in the Colour Creations Blog Hop that goes live every Wednesday night where we showcase one of Stampin’ Up!s colours each week. We would love you to also check in on us for more creative inspiration.

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 Sharon Davern’s blog @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our amazing Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special 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 September-December 2024 Mini Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact re any queries about this project or Stampin' Up!. 

#heartofchristmas  #heartofchristmas2024 #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards #stampinupdemonstrator #papercrafting #artwithheartteam  #papercrafter  #valleyinspirations   #goldengreenery  #greetingsoftheseason  #reindeerfun

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! 

#colourcreationsbloghop  #stampinup #stampinupaustralia #stampinupsouthpacific #stampinupdemo  #handmadecards  #stampinupdemonstrator  #papercrafting #artwithheartteam  #papercrafter  #valleyinspirations   #goldengreenery  #greetingoftheseason  #peacefulseason