AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #27 Gorgeous Grape

Gorgeous Grape with Hang An Ornament

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 strong deep purple called Gorgeous Grape.  Gorgeous Grape is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a rich purple that can harmoniously coordinate with blues and pinks, neutrals etc.  It would be wonderful for berries, grapes, flowers …  and anything needing a strong- purple.

Blueberry Bushel is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Marker; Stampin’ Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2;  Soft Pastels; Regals Designer Series Paper as well as a number of other products. 

This project has incorporated Gorgeous Grape as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock and a Stampin' Write Marker.

I was inspired by a Stampin’ Up! post this month. Stampin’ Up! is focussing this month on colour combinations selected by using the SU Colour Wheel. Demonstrators who attended On Stage earlier this year received a Colour Wheel that incorporates all the current SU colours. It is a wonderful tool when thinking about a colour combo for a project. Starting next month, this colour wheel will be available for general purchase. The post seen recently featured Gorgeous Grape with Azure Afternoon and Highland Heather. I started with these 3 colours, but then decided I wanted a lighter blue background - Balmy Blue and an extra colour for a bauble, ie Pretty in Pink.

The two different baubles in the Hang An Ornament stamp set were stamped in Versamark ink and gold heat embossed onto Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. The baubles were coloured individually with Gorgeous Grape, Azure Afternoon, Pretty in Pink, Highland Heather and the fifth  bauble was water-coloured with a mix of Azure Afternoon and some Gorgeous Grape Classic inks. The fifth bauble is the bottom one - I love the depth achieved by adding Gorgeous Grape. I water-coloured some other baubles, playing further with Gorgeous Grape by adding more water to get lighter tones. I was fascinated that one of the baubles looked the same colour as the one coloured with Highland Heather.  A little ink blending was added using the same colour as the water colouring around the deeper edges.

The background was blended with Balmy Blue, with some Azure Afternoon making a deeper colour near the top, plus a little Gorgeous Grape near the top edge. Water splattering was added and when the background was dry, further splattering was added with White Craft ink. A little Gorgeous Grape splatter was added with a Stampin’ Write Marker - but it was light and not picked up by the camera. Gold Foil was die cut to create tag toppers and some holly leaves.

Two sentiments from the stamp set were white heat embossed on coordinating card-stock and then die cut with either a scalloped die or the finer rectangular die. Gold Twisted Thread will be generally available early November - it is amazing. As you can see it was tied to each bauble and the Gold Foil topper was adhered at the top. The die cut sentiments were added with Mini Dimensionals. The baubles were arranged and adhered in place at slight angles to give a sense of movement to the dangling baubles. Some Gold Foil holly was added to a couple of baubles with some Pearl Adhesive-backed Berries and a tiny Gold Twisted Thread bow.

The last couple of days have been a bit haywire so I ran out of time to finish the card inner and make a Slimline envelope from Designer Series Paper. A task for another day.

Thank you so much for dropping in on your way around the Gorgeous Grape Colour Creations Blog Hop. I so appreciate it.

To continue with the blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Di Furniss. I am looking forward to checking out Di’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 Granny Apple 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 brilliant 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, 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 these projects or Stampin' Up! 

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CASEing the Catty #489 CASE a Bundle

CASE A Bundle pgs 39-50 meets Hang an Ornament

Hello, Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and #489 Challenge with CASEing the Catty.

I am so glad you have dropped by. You may have come from Peta Stephen and Marvi, as you take this week’s Blog Hop or perhaps another way; either way I am delighted you are here. At the end of my blog, I have linked to Judy May so you are easily able to continue 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 a project that is inspired by a bundle and project  found in between pages 39-50 of the 2024 September-December Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue.

There are so many delightful bundles between pages 39 and 50 of Stampin’ Up!s September - December Mini Catalogue. For this week’s challenge I chose to CASE the white background card on the left on page 44. Specifically I have CASEd the colours of the card using the same bundle and also took inspiration from the visible section of the spruce Christmas Tree shown at the top of the page with ornaments hanging.

Here is my card:

As you can see, I still have a majorly white background but have changed a bauble colour for Cherry Cobbler and used Old Olive Classic ink to blend over the spruce frame from the Winterly Tree Tops dies using a Blending Brush. The spruce frame was cut twice and one was turn turned 180deg and layered on top of the other one. This give a more luscious feel to the frame. Sitting behind the spruce frame is a Basic White panel dry embossed with the Birch Wood 3D embossing folder. Rather than a Basic White card base, Pretty Peacock card-stock base was used. 

The Hang an Ornament bauble stamps were inked in Versamark ink and white heat embossed  on each Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock and Cherry Cobbler card-stocks. The coordinating die from the Hang An Ornament dies cut out the baubles. The bauble top and hook were die cut from Gold Foil. These pieces add a special touch and are easily adhered in place.

"Merry" was stamped / white heat embossed twice on Pretty Peacock card-stock and fussy cut  to add to the Pretty Peacock bauble. "All is merry" was white heat embossed on Lost Lagoon card-stock and die cut with the thin rectangle die from the coordinating dies. The sentiments were popped up on Dimensionals to the baubles.

Two pieces of die cut holly was also coloured with Old Olive ink. They were positioned with Glue Dots and the oh so gorgeous Cherry Cobbler (& Pearl) Adhesive-backed Berries were added to the holly and scattered over the baubles. The Cherry Cobbler & Gold Satin Ribbon was cut in half lengthwise and tied into a double bow, then adhered to the top bauble with a Glue Dot. A little Pretty Peacock splattering was added using a Stampin' Write Marker.

A couple of remaining white heat embossed baubles were adhered to a Basic White card inner and some Gold Foil bauble tops and hooks were adhered in place. A Basic White C6 envelope was stamped in Lost Lagoon ink with a couple of baubles and sentiments.

Thank you so much for spending time with me. I so appreciate it. I hope you found something of interest. x

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.

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