AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #47 Soft Sea Foam

Soft Sea Foam with Wild Ferns

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 featuring a pale green called Soft Sea Foam. Soft Sea Foam is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a delightful soft green that can coordinate with many colours. This colour would be lovely for leaves with other Subtles to colour flowers. It works beautifully with Lost Lagoon as a deeper green.

Soft Sea Foam 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 Hello, Irresistible DSP. 

Soft Sea Foam ink, cardstock and the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Soft Sea Foam bits and pieces.

I created a card to share with you featuring the dies of the gorgeous Wild Ferns bundle, which can be found in the current January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue. The great news is that this bundle is carrying over to the new 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue. There are so many wonderful products in the new catalogue. (I would be delighted to help you and send the new catalogue if you don’t have an Australian demonstrator already). 

The delightful Wild Ferns dies were used with Basic White card-stock to cut a few layers of ferns to lay diagonally across the card. The die cut pieces  were coloured with Soft Sea Foam, Lost Lagoon and some Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ ink and Blending Brushes. A Basic White card-stock panel had a little Lemon Lolly ink blended in the top section so it would add a glow behind the ferns. Some Multipurpose Liquid Glue was lightly smeared onto the background and some Gilded Flakes laid over the glue and then loose bits were rubbed away leaving some fun gold accents. A piece of Soft Sea Foam coloured DSP from the Hello Irresistible DSP was cut diagonally near the top and added with Dimensionals over the background panel. (NB I had cut this panel when my thinking was a bit fuzzy and it was cut too short. As I was running low on this specific DSP, I added a piece of the same DSP with a thin strip of Gold Foil to use the mistake as an opportunity to add an accent for the sentiment.)

The fern die cuts were arranged behind the diagonal edge. It still needed something so little hearts were die cut from a Petal Pink/Flirty Flamingo mottled design from the same packet of DSP using the multi heart die from the Hooray for Surprises dies. A sentiment from the soon to retire Perennial Postage stamp set was stamped twice in Versamark ink onto Soft Sea Foam card-stock. one sentiment was white heat embossed and the other was gold heat embossed - the latter being fussy cut and added to the white sentiment with Mini Dimensionals. A thin strip of Gold Foil was adhered behind the sentiment.

Before the sentiment was adhered to the card front some of the soon to retire Gold Elegant Trim was deconstructed and two threads were twirled behind the word ‘loved’.  Some gold splattering was added by diluting the Gold Metallic Enamel Effects. It didn’t quite splatter as I had hoped - i think it needed to be a bit thinner - but then I didn’t want to dilute it to much. The final touch was a the addition some of the soon to retire Iridescent Rhinestones. I will miss these gorgeous embellishments. If you want some act quickly so you don’t miss out - they will be gone once the current stock is sold out.

A panel of Basic White card-stock was adhered within the card with a couple of pieces of fern and a heart together with a strip of Gold Foil. Simple additions that link the card inner to the front design.  A C6 Basic White Envelope was stamped in Soft Sea Foam ink with one of the fern stamps within the Wild Ferns set.

Thank you so much for dropping by on your way around the Soft Sea Foam Colour Creations Blog Hop. Do check out everyone’s creations. I love the way we each showcase the colour in different ways.

To continue with the Soft Sea Foam 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 hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Starry Sky as we near the conclusion of the weekly 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We have 3 blogs remaining to finish this series - with the 3 colours all being retiring 2022-2024 In Colours.

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 wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations 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 soon to be released Stampin' Up 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue, or the retiring Annual or 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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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #39 Petal Pink

Petal Pink with Hello, Irresistible

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 peachy pink called Petal Pink. Petal Pink is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a gorgeous soft pink that can be used in so many ways. This colour is lovely for flowers, babies and complimenting soft, bright and more regal colour schemes. I believe it is a versatile colour, but having said that, I know there are numerous folk who aren’t keen on it given its orange overtones.

Petal Pink 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 Lighter Thank Air, Sunny Days, Meandering Meadows, Bee Mine, Les Shoppes, Zoo Crew DSPs; Forever Love, Dry Brushed Metallic Speciality DSP, Three Colour Glimmer Paper; Petal Pink and Pretty Peacock Foiled Gems, Blooming Pearls, Pastel Adhesive-backed Sequins, Rainbow Adhesive-backed Dots, Adhesive-backed Hearts & Flowers;  The Best Destination Kits, Painted Wishes Kits, Love Treat Kits, Colorful Kalidoscope Kits,  Blossom Wishes Kits; Abigail Rose Folders and Stampin’ Up! Poster plus number of extra products and Clearance products. Wow, that is quite a list that indicates its popularity and ability to coordinate.

Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ ink, card-stock, Stampin’ Write Marker, Petal Pink Foiled Gems and the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper has been used in the creation of this project plus some non-Petal Pink bits and pieces.

I created a Mini Slimline card that could be cut from a standard half A4 sheet of card-stock and also fit in a standard C6 envelope. To calculate the dimensions, I started with 14.9cm then moved a ruler around to decide on the appropriate width. I ended with a width of 8.2cm.  Having decided on the card dimensions, one of the designs from the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper that included Petal Pink was selected. This lovely DSP is gorgeous to show both sides of the paper so this aspect was incorporated in the design.

To show both sides of the DSP a 1cm edge was folded back and a strip of Petal Pink card-stock was tucked underneath the front fold. The other edge of the DSP was scored 1.5cm in to form a seam to adhere on the card back. I added a second, but slightly smaller panel of Basic White card-stock was adhered to the back to hide the DSP seam. You could get away without this if you didn’t worry about the seam being seen. The photo below shows the inside of the card and the beautiful DSP.

The Basic White inner panel was stamped with some leaves from the Notes of Nature stamp set in Petal Pink ink. A thin strip of DSP (that had been trimmed off from the front panel) was adhered to the LHS partially over the stamped leaves. As I was writing this blog and looking at this photo, I decided to add a remaining Basic White long string of leaves to give the inner DSP a little extra interest.

Leaves were cut with Notes of Nature dies from Basic White card-stock. I had initially thought I would use the long leafy twig along the folded back section as the leaf shape was similar to white images on the DSP, but as I was playing with options, I decided to use the smaller leaf twigs around the Petal Pink stamped sentiment using a Notes of Nature stamp on Basic White card-stock.

Some of the new Petal Pink Foiled Gems (from the Petal Pink & Pretty Peacock Foiled Gems in the newish Mini Catalogue) were scattered around. I tried to add a bow but decided against it. The die cut small white leaves were sufficient in themselves. The final touch was a light Petal Pink splattering using the Petal Pink Stampin’ Write Marker and some Wink of Stella. I love the understated shimmer this achieves.

A Basic White C6 envelope was stamped with some Petal Pink leaves similar to those stamped on the card inner.  It is only simple stamping, but you “can’t have a naked envelope”.

Thank you so much for dropping by on your way around the Colour Creations Blog Hop. Do check out the other blogs - I am sure there will be so much Petal Pink inspiration. Don’t miss it.

To continue with the Petal Pink 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 another of my favourite colours - Pool Party, 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 January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue and Sale-a-bration Brochure, 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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