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! 

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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #29 Highland Heather

Highland Heather with Joy of NOEL

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 clear purple called Highland Heather. Highland Heather is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a mid purple that for me is leaning into the Brights category. This colour is lovely for flowers, and is wonderful to combine with blues when creating with snowflakes. As I am still building my Christmas card stash, I have gone a bit non-traditional and created 2 Christmas cards with Highland Heather blended backgrounds.

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; Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Meandering Meadows DSP & Three Colour Glimmer Paper. 

Highland Heather card-stock, ink, Stampin’ Blends, Stampin’ Write Marker and the Three Colour Glimmer Paper have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-HIghland Heather bits and pieces.

CARD 1

The first card was designed around 4 colours stipulated by the current Colour Inkspiration Challenge no155.

Here is what I created to submit to the Challenge.  As it includes Highland Heather it is also brilliant to share here as well.

The layout is one I saw Emma Goddard demonstrate at her Friday Card & a Cuppa. As it was fresh in my mind I decided to combine it with the Colour Inkspiration Challenge and the Joy of NOEL bundle. I started by creating a blended background on Basic White card-stock using a Blending Brush and Highland Heather with Fresh Freesia, Gorgeous Grape and Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Inks. The addition of Cherry Cobbler gave the blended background a special touch. A number of the smaller stamps from the Joy of Noel stamp set were white heat embossed using Versamark ink, White Emboss Powder, the Emboss Additions Tool Kit and a Heat Tool. Some water was splattered over the blending. I so love the effect of water splattering.

The background panel was cut with the largest Deckled Rectangle die and then mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Highland Heather card-stock; and then onto a Basic White Thick card base. The curved arrangement from the stamp set was stamped in 2nd generation Highland Heather ink on a seperate piece of Basic White card-stock. It was coloured with Stampin’ Blends, ie Highland Heather, Fresh Freesia and Cherry Cobbler combos, plus the Colour Lifter. it was fussy cut and divided into 3 sections.

A piece of Iridescent White Ribbon was cut in half lengthwise and a section was frayed and laid onto the card background. A thin strip of Highland Heather Three Colour Glimmer Paper was added slightly over the edge of the ribbon. NOEL was die cut from White Textured Shimmer Paper with some Adhesive Foam Sheet underneath, using the coordinating Joy of NOEL dies. A touch of Highland Heather ink was lightly blended over the top edges of the 4 letters.

The Blends coloured leaves/berries were tucked under “N” and “L”; with a bow of the cut Iridescent White ribbon tucked under the lower leaves/berries. Wink of Stella was splattered over the card to give extra Christmas shimmer. The final touch of special shine comes from some Tinsel Gems Three Pack (the Fresh Freesia ones).

The card inner was simply stamped with small holly in 2nd generation Highland Heather ink on Basic White card-stock. It was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Highland Heather card-stock before being added to a Basic White Thick Card base. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped in the same way as the inside of the card.

CARD 2

The second card also has a blended background and was white heat embossed. While I started with just HIghland Heather ink, I decided to give greater depth with Gorgeous Grape ink and then couldn’t resist adding some Cherry Cobbler ink - I now so love this combo.

The background panel was also splattered with water, before being mounted onto Highland Heather card-stock. I started by splattering the panel with Highland Heather Stampin’ Write Marker, but the marker must be drying out so then added some Dark Highland Heather Blend. The latter gives a bigger & more uneven sized splatter.

Letters that spell “Peace” were cut out of Highland Heather Three Colour Glimmer Paper, that had been backed with Adhesive-backed Foam Sheet, using the Alphabet A La Mode dies. The leathers were laid onto a rectangle of White Textured Shimmer Paper. The decorative Holly/Berry Label and extra pine needles were also cut from the Textured Shimmer Paper. The pine needles were coloured with a touch of Lost Lagoon ink.

Wink of Stella was splattered over the background. The sentiment was added with Dimensionals and the other die cut pieces were arranged around it. A double bow of trimmed in half and frayed Iridescent White Ribbon was held together with a bow of Silver Simply Elegant Trim. A few Fresh Freesia Tinsel Gems Three Pack were added as the final touch of shimmer.

The card inner was simply stamped with the larger Christmas arrangement stamp in Highland Heather ink on Basic White card-stock. Two trimmed off strips from the card front were adhered down the sides before it was added to a Basic White Thick card base. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped in the same way as the inside of the card.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the Colour Creations Blog Hop. I know we are a smallish group again this week but I am sure there will still be so much Highland Heather inspiration on show.

To continue with the Highland Heather blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special person, Rachel Palmieri. I am looking forward to checking out Rachel’s creation(s). I do love seeing everyones' 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 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We are also sharing Christmas inspiration through the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop every week, going live Monday nights until the end of November. We would love you to drop in then.

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 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!. 

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AWHT Colour Creations #26 Highland Heather

Highland Heather with Wisteria Wishes

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, featuring a colour each week. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a mauve called Highland Heather. Highland Heather is part of the Subtles Colour Family. This colour is lovely when used for flowers, butterflies, is great with blues for snowflakes and so much more. 

Highland Heather is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin’ Blends, Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Pastel Pearls, Cute Stars Adhesive-backed Sequins & is part of the Glitter Washi Four Pack.

Here is the card I created using the Highland Heather card-stock, Classic Stampin' Ink, Stampin' Write Marker and Stampin' Blends: 

I initially had a completely different card in mind for this blog hop but then ideas for the card structure/folds spun out of control. Rather that trying to pare ideas back I changed to a completely different concept... that of wisteria on a trellis. I started with a piece of Basic White card-stock and used one of the Split Card Textures dies in the corner. A little blending of Highland Heather Classic ink was added to part of the un-die cut section with some splattering from Highland Heather and Orchid Oasis Stampin’ Write Markers.

The background (seen behind the die cut area and as a small mount) is a piece of Balmy Blue card-stock with added blending of White Craft ink, Balmy Blue and Orchid Oasis Classic inks and Stampin' Up!s wonderful Blending Brushes. This panel was attached to the Highland Heather card-stock base and the die cut panel was layered directly on top.

The 2 step wisteria flowers were stamped in a combination of Highland Heather, Fresh Freesia and Orchid Oasis inks on Basic White card-stock. I recently saw a technique of lightly misting the inked stamp before stamping it onto card-stock. This gives a slight water-colour effect to the image. It was a learning process to discover how much misting is needed to get the desired effect without adding too much moisture to loose stamp definition. Its just trial and error. While you can use Fluid 100 Watercolor paper or Shimmery White card-stock it is also possible to stamp on Basic White card-stock as a light misting is best. The leaves were inked in Soft Sea Foam and Mint Macaron then also misted and stamped. The images were die cut with coordinating dies from the Wisteria dies. 

The flowers and leaves were arranged and adhered in place using Multipurpose Liquid Glue and Dimensionals. (That sounds easy doesn't it - well - I arranged all the pieces and was really pleased; thought I should take a photo so I didn't loose the arrangement when adhering pieces in place, BUT ... I accidentally knocked it and all the pieces went flying! It took MUCH fiddling to rearrange all the pieces to an acceptable arrangement - its still not as good as my first try. Sigh.)

A sentiment from the same stamp set was white heat embossed on Highland Heather card-stock using Versamark, White Emboss Powder and a Heat Tool. It was fussy cut into 2 pieces and added with Mini Dimensionals. A double bow of White Crinkled Seam Binding was tucked under some wisteria near the sentiment and the design was finished with some gorgeous Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels that had been coloured with a Dark Highland Heather Stampin' Blend.

A Basic White card inner was decorated with some remaining flowers and leaves - just a simple decoration. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped with wisteria across the top edge.  

Thank you for spending time with me on my blog. I hope you found something to spark an idea  that will be useful in your crafting.

There is more Highland Heather creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the  "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely and talented Rachel Palmieri. I always look forward to checking out Rachel's creations. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Mango Melody, one of the Brights Colours, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations Blog Hops.  Also, don't forget that many of us are joining the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop on Monday evenings to share delightful Christmas projects to give you some ideas to help with your Christmas preparations. 

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

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our  Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is an 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 Stampin' Up's 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2022 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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AWHT Colour Creations #22 Highland Heather

Highland Heather with Merry Snowflakes

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 22nd Art with Heart 2021-2022 Colour Creations Blog Hop.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a purple called Highland Heather. Highland Heather is on the lighter side although I wouldn't call it a pale colour. It is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is great when you need a lighter purple for flowers, sunsets with that tinge of purple or where-ever you choose to use it. It is a lovely colour, and I think it is great with Pool Party and Balmy Blue for snowflake themes. 

Highland Heather is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends; the Subtles & Hand-penned, Cute Halloween Designer Series Papers; Hand-Penned Memories & More Card pack; Hydrangea Hill Mercury Glass Designer Acetate, Pastel Pearls, Cute Stars Adhesive-backed sequins and Grosgrain Ribbon. The card below has used Highland Heather card-stock and Classic ink, plus a range of other bits and pieces.

I recently received my Merry Snowflakes bundle and knowing my love of Highland Heather in colour combos for snowflakes it was my first choice for this week's project. I was inspired by the Merry Snowflakes card on page 65 of the July-December Mini Catalogue. As with much CASEing, many aspects of the original card have been changed but there are certain similarities.

I began by water-colouring 2 panels using Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, the medium Water Painter and Highland Heather, Balmy Blue and Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' inks. Yes, I used Coastal Cabana rather than Pool Party to have a slightly greater difference with Balmy Blue - although, in reality, the two colours still blended in with each other. The second panel was much more subtle than the first and this was the panel I chose for the card's background.

The brighter panel was then stamped in Versamark ink with the 3 different snowflake stamps x 2. The snowflakes were heat embossed with a Heat Gun and Silver Emboss Powder from the Metallic Emboss Powder pack. The snowflakes are stunning. They were die cut with coordinating dies from the Stitched Snowflake dies. Then I die cut snowflakes from Silver Foil (from the Silver Foil Speciality Pack) - oh my goodness - they are so so beautiful. While die cutting, I cut a Silver Foil frame using the Stitched Rectangle dies. Initially it was this frame that stood out to me in the original card design.

Before assembling all the pieces together, the water-coloured panel for the background was embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. I often like to emboss the panel where a large amount of water was used for the wet on wet water-colour technique as embossing softens the paper fibres and makes it easier to adhere it flat. In this instance, I didn't want the embossing to compete with the design features, so this subtle embossing was perfect. The silver frame was adhered directly to the background, which in turn was adhered to the Highland Heather card base.

The silver embossed and silver foil snowflakes were arranged, with some adhered flat and others popped up on Dimensionals. I love this layered effect. A sentiment from the Heartfelt Wishes stamp set was heat embossed in White Emboss Powder onto Highland Heather card-stock and then fussy cut. The sentiment was added with Dimensionals over a piece of White Glittered Organdy ribbon that had been tied at the loop end with some Simply Elegant Trim. The finishing touch was the addition of some Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Their glimmer was perfect with the Silver Foil.

Creating a flurry of snowflakes for the card inner, the smallest snowflake from the Merry Snowflakes stamp set was stamped in Highland Heather Classic ink on Basic White card-stock. A Basic White C6 Envelope was similarly stamped.

I so enjoyed creating this Highland Heather card, using a tried and true colour combo and CASEing a card from a Stampin' Up! catalogue. CASEing cards you love and changing various aspects is a great idea - and is especially useful when (work) commitments devour crafting time, leaving you with limited time and energy. Thank you for calling in.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of Stampin' Up's 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and or the July - December 2021 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!. 

There is more Highland Heather creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a very talented and a delightful friend, Rachel Palmieri. As always, I am looking forward to checking out Rachel's creation and everyone else's. I do love seeing everyones' projects - so many ideas and such great creations

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring an In Colour Just Jade; and don't forget that the AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop is launched every Monday evening at 8pm AEST until the end of November.

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

Andrea 💕🐾

  

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog, our amazing AWHT Colour Creations Coordinator.  Check out her amazing creation while you are there.

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