AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #33 Misty Moonlight

Misty Moonlight with Magical Meadow & Stars at Night

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. Following this blog hop we are having a few weeks break from now into the New Year, commencing Blog Hops again on 3rd January 2024.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep blue called Misty Moonlight. Misty Moonlight is now part of the Neutrals Colour Family. It is a strong muted blue with grey undertones. This colour was introduced a few years ago as an In Colour and returned earlier this year through the colour refresh as part of the Neutrals Family.  This colour is lovely for flowers, sky, water, with other blues for starry skies or snowflakes or anything requiring a beautiful deep blue.

Misty Moonlight is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Marker; Stampin’ Blends; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Countryside Inn, Earthen Elegance and Beary Christmas DSP, Flight & Airy Sale-a-bration DSP; Beary Christmas Memories & More Cards & Envelopes; Misty Moonlight Inner Braid Ribbon & Tinsel Gems Three Pack. 

Misty Moonlight card-stock, ink, Stampin’ Write Marker, Winter Meadow DSP and Tinsel Gems have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Misty Moonlight bits and pieces.

This card was inspired by a couple of international Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators, that is the wonderful Emma Goddard from the United Kingdom and the fancy fold from Sue Campfield in the United States. I altered Sue’s dimensions to work for Aussie card-stock dimensions and changed the card front. I saw Emma create a card with a diagonal cut across the card front with some stamping on the lower panel and thought it would work using the Winter Meadow DSP.

The card front was created using 3 different designs of the Winter Meadows DSP. The berries and leaves were fussy cut from one of the designs. The Misty Moonlight & Blueberry Bushel watercolour design was stamped with a sentiment from the Magical Meadow stamp set using Misty Moonlight Classic Ink. Some White Craft Ink was splattered over using a Water Painter.

Some die cut plant twigs were cut using a few different dies from the Magical Meadow die set in Basic White card-stock. A couple of die cuts had a little Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin’ ink blended lightly over with a Blending Brush. The same sentiment from the Magical Meadow stamp set was white Heat Embossed onto a fourth colour/design of the Winter Meadow DSP. The fussy cut berries were interspersed with the die cut sprays, tucking some of the ends under the sentiment label.

A double bow of a thin edge of the White Iridescent Ribbon was tucked under the sentiment label with a Glue Dot. Some Misty Moonlight Tinsel Gems were sprinkled around. Now to the surprise card inner …

One of the designs of the Winter Meadow DSP is so gorgeous. The panel across the centre inside the card is the full 12” width of the DSP. It was cut a tad less than the height of the card and then scored, folded and burnished so that it would concertina fold in the centre. The 2 end panels were adhered directly to the card base.

Sentiments from the Hope & Peace Stamp set were stamped in Misty Moonlight ink and then die cut with Stylish Shapes dies.

Here is a photo looking down from above to show the fold with the card open.

The back of the card has been designed for writing a personal message. A couple of thin DSP strips were adhered to a panel of Basic White card-stock which was then mounted to a slightly larger panel of Misty Moonlight card-stock. A left over coloured die cut twig plus fussy-cut berries were added to give a special finish.  A C6 Basic White Envelope was decorated with another spray of fussy cut berries.

CARD 2

As mentioned above, I love Misty Moonlight and think it’s wonderful for skies, so I thought I try to create a water-colour sky - but with smooshing. Then pair it with the Stars at Night dies. The end result is a bit “different”.

Misty Moonlight ink was dabbed onto a large stamp block and water was misted over it with a Spritzer. I used a cellophane bag that wrapped a new set of dies to smoosh into the diluted ink and then touched it onto a panel of Basic White card-stock. This was repeated. It needed something else so I smooshed some Bubble Bath ink as well. After the panel dried, it needed some darker sections so some darker smooshing was added, but this time the cellophane was crumpled.

The card inner was simply Basic White card-stock with the left over starburst, a holographic star and a thin left over strip of the smooshed card background. I had intended to stamp a sentiment inside the card but forgot until the card inner was already adhered in place - and I wasn’t going to take the risk then! That being the case, a sentiment from the same stamp set was added to the Basic White C6 envelope with Misty Moonlight ink.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the Colour Creations Blog Hop. I know  there will be so much Misty Moonlight inspiration as you continue around the blog hop.

To continue with the Misty Moonlight blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a fellow South Australian, Di Furniss. I am looking forward to checking out Di’s creation(s). I wonder if it will be a fancy fold? I do love seeing everyone’s' projects - it is always worth checking in on everyone. 

I do hope to see you the first Wednesday in January when we will be featuring Mossy Meadows  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 September-December Mini 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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AWH Heart of Christmas #8

Christmas with Forever Forrest

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

This week I am showcasing the Forever Forrest bundle for a few Christmas cards. I started with the emboss resist technique and some water-colouring. Afterwards I was looking at the Mini Catalogue and really liked one of the decorated presents using the Forever Forrest dies. The following day, I saw Sue Campfield, a US demonstrator, create a fun fold card. My mind started whirring and ended up combining the 2 concepts.

CARDS 1/2: Emboss Resist with Water-colouring

A group of trees from the Forever Forrest stamps was stamped in Versamark ink onto Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and then heat embossed using White Emboss Powder, the Embossing Accessory Kit and a Heat Tool. This was repeated a number of times to enable me to play with colours. The two cards shown are coloured to create part rainbows - one using yellow/greens/blue and the other blues and purples. Both cards were wet on wet water-coloured using the flat brushed tip from the Water Painters set of brushes. The Classic Stampin’ inks used were Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Garden Green, Blueberry Bushel & Boho Blue on one panel and Starry Sky, Blueberry Bushel, Boho Blue, Fresh Freesia & Highland Heather on the other panel.

Both water-coloured panels were cut to span a landscape card layout, with the yellow/green/blue combo fully spanning across the card base, where as the other panel showed the mount on all four sides. The card above was mounted onto to thin strips of Silver Adhesive-backed Glimmer paper (an online only special) and then onto Pretty Peacock card-stock. The card below was only mounted onto Boho Blue card-stock. Both mounted panels were popped up on Dimensionals when adhered to Thick Basic White card bases.

As the Forever Forrest bundle doesn’t include sentiments, I chose the ‘Merry Christmas’ sentiment from the Beary Christmas stamp set. The sentiment was white heat embossed onto card-stock that coordinated with the mount. 

Both cards had bows using the Silver & White Sheer Ribbon. It is a beautiful ribbon and copes very well with being sliced in half or into 3s. The blue water-coloured card was finished with the Facetted Gems Trio pack, where as the yellow/green combo was given some extra shimmer with the Silver Festive Pearls. Basic White tree die cuts were added to the sentiment panels.

Trees were stamped along the base of a Basic White card inner. A strip of coordinating card-stock was layered at the bottom of the card inner. A C6 Basic White envelopes were also stamped with the trees.

Two other Fluid 100 paper panels were also water-coloured in rainbow like colours. These panels are yet to be created into alternative colour Christmas cards. They are brighter than my usual style, but I love the rainbow effect.

CARD 3/4: Swinging Forrest Fun Fold and Gift Tag

As mentioned, I saw Sue Campfield demonstrate a fun fold yesterday. I converted her US measurements into our centimetres and A4 size card-stock. As I heard a friend’s voice in my head about the extravagance of having a card using more than half an A4 piece of card-stock, I scaled the card down a little to enable 2 cards to be made from one piece of card-stock. It easily fits within a C6 envelope.

A piece of Thick Basic White card-stock was cut, scored and burnished. The small tree design from the gorgeous Winter Meadow DSP was cut 2mm smaller than the panels of the folded card. DSP was adhered to all the forward facing panels.

The largest Tailored Made Tag dies was cut from a piece of Lost Lagoon card-stock. A little White Craft ink was added to the tag’s edges. The hole was die cut larger using the circular hole reinforcement die. Trees, clouds and rocks were cut from Basic White card-stock, together with the smallest Stylish Shapes circle.

One sentiment from the Hope and Peace stamp set was stamped on Basic White card-stock and fussy cut, while the other was stamped on the panel that will carry the personal message. The rocks were lightly coloured with a little Lost Lagoon ink. The were all arranged on the tag and adhered with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Mini Dimensionals. Wink of Stella was spattered over and little die cut silver stars were added.

A swinging mechanism was based on a Mini Dimensional, with the tag laid over and the stitched circle adhered on top. A bow was created from Silver & White Sheer ribbon (cut in half lengthwise) and Silver Elegant Trim. The bow was attached with Glue Dots. and a little cloud was adhered on top. The tag can swing from side to side - see the pictures above and below.

Here is a photo of the panel for writing one’s personal message.

A Basic White C6 envelope was stamped with the multiple tree stamp in Lost Lagoon ink.

The card easily stands upright for display.

Thank you so much for dropping by to check out this week’s Christmas projects using the Forever Forrest bundle - both stamps and dies. It is a wonderful bundle. I have many other ideas for Christmas projects so please call by again over coming weeks to see if some of my ideas come to fruition.

There is more Christmas creativity so do continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Rachel Woollard. I am looking forward to checking out Rachel’s creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I do hope to see you next week as we continue the weekly Heart of Christmas 2023 Blog Hop series. We are also blogging for the Colour Creations Blog Hop on Wednesday evening where we are featuring Early Expresso. I think I may be creating a different fancy fold.

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 Sharon Davern’s blog @ Rhapsody in Craft. Sharon is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Heart of Christmas Coordinator.  She is a special lady. Check out her delightful creation while you are there. It may be another fun fold.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the new 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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AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #17 Cherry Cobbler

Cherry Cobbler with Paper Florist Dies

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 rich deep red called Cherry Cobbler. Cherry Cobbler is one of the Regals Colour Family and is a warm red with a touch of purple. This colour would be lovely when used for flowers, cherries and is a brilliant colour for Christmas.

Cherry Cobbler 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; Regals Designer Series Paper as well as Joy of Christmas DSP and Festive Pearls. 

Cherry Cobbler card-stock, ink, Stampin’ Write Marker and Festive Pearls have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Cherry Cobbler bits and pieces.

As I am trying to spur myself on into creating for Christmas I decided to use Cherry Cobbler for a Christmas card. I also thought I would think laterally and use non-Christmas products for Christmas while using a christmas-y colour scheme.

I think one of the dies within the Paper Florist dies could be interpreted as poinsettia like (just squint your eyes and use your imagination). Three sets of this flower were cut from Basic White card-stock as well as leaves and flower buds. I also cut out the pieces for a different flower but decided not to use it when arranging the various elements. 

The background panel was ombre coloured with Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ ink and a Blending Brush. Isn’t Cherry Cobbler a delightful pink when its only applied lightly. I love exploring the different tints, tones and shades that can be created with a colour. To add a tad of extra interest one of the Brilliant Background dies was used to pierce a design in 2 opposite corners.

The flowers were coloured with Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ ink and a Mini Blending Brush. The leaves were coloured with Old Olive ink and the flower centres with touches of Wild Wheat ink. A Basic White card-stock card front was also stamped in second generation Crumb Cake ink using tiny hearts from the Country Bouquet stamp set. A little splattering with a Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker was added and the splattering embossing folder from the Stripes & Splatters 3D embossing folder set was used to emboss the front panel.

The smaller card front panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Cherry Cobbler card-stock. Some gold trim from the On-Line Only Gold & Silver Trim Combo Pack was tied around the centre and then into a bow near one edge. This centre panel was mounted to the background using Dimensionals. All of the floral pieces were arranged and adhered in place using either Mini Dimensionals or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. 

A piece of Gold Simply Elegant Trim was tied around the bow’s knot and then tied into a bow. The ends of the trim’s bow were quite curly so I just let them do their thing - I quite liked the effect. A sentiment from the Hope and Peace stamp set (currently an On-line Only product) was white heat embossed onto Cherry Cobbler card-stock, fussy cut and added to the card with Mini Dimensionals. Some Cherry Cobbler Festive Pearls were scattered around the sentiment and some gold pearls adhered to the flower centres.

A different sentiment from the same stamp set was stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink onto a Basic White card inner; and a few second generation Crumb Cake hearts were stamped around the sentiment. A couple of individual left over leaves were added near the hearts.  A C6 Basic White envelope was similarly stamped with the Crumb Cake hearts along the left edge of the envelope front.

Thank you for dropping in to check out my Cherry Cobbler Christmas card. I so appreciate it. 

There is more Cherry Cobbler creativity to come so do continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of my friend, the lovely Christine Blain. I am looking forward to checking out Christine’s creation. 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 Coastal Cabana as we continue the weekly 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We will also be sharing Christmas inspiration this coming Monday evening when we go live with the weekly Heart of Christmas Blog Hop.

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 new 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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