AWHT Colour Creations #23 Just Jade

Just Jade with Whimsical Trees & Expressions in Ink  

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

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a delightful green called Just Jade. Just Jade is part of the In Colours for 2020-2022 and is a lovely colour for leaves, trees and sea themes to name a few. It is also a great green for Christmas. In working with this beautiful colour I kept wondering why I haven't been using it more. 

Just Jade 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 2020-2022 In Colours & Sweet Symmetry, Bloom Where You Planted, Expressions of Ink Designer Series Papers; Love Santa Tag Kit; Festive Felt Combo; Just Jade Gingham ribbon within the Flowers for Every Season Combo pack and Just Jade & Gold Braided Ribbon. The cards below have used Just Jade Classic ink, Just Jade Stampin' Blends and the Expressions in Ink Speciality Designer Series Paper plus a range of other bits and pieces.

Here are my cards heroing Just Jade:

CARD 1:

The 1st card has water-coloured Just Jade Classic Stampin' Ink on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, which was then die cut with the squat tree die from the Christmas Tree dies.

The little squat tree from the Whimsical Trees stamp set was also stamped on Basic White card-stock with Versamark ink and then heat embossed with Gold Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun. It was die cut with the same open die.

The card front was dry embossed with the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder. As this slim-line card front was wider than the embossing folder, it needed to be passed through the Cut & Emboss machine a second time. I used a Bone Folder to soften the embossed line from the edge of the second pass of embossing. The line can still be noticed, but it isn't as obvious.

A thin strip of Expressions in Ink SDSP was adhered to the LHS of the card front and a piece of Gold Simply Elegant Trim was tied around the card-front near the SDSP. The die cut trees were adhered with Dimensionals in a row just above the centre of the card front. I placed a strip of card-stock along the card front to help straight placement of the trees and then removed it.

A sentiment from the Heartfelt Wishes stamp set was stamped in Just Jade ink on to some Basic White card-stock and fussy cut. The sentiment also was popped up on Dimensionals. Some Elegant Faceted Gems were coloured with a Light Just Jade Blend and added around the sentiment.

The Basic White card inner has a thin strip of the Expressions in Ink SDSP to one side and a row of the little squat tree was stamped along the bottom. A custom made envelope with be created from DSP - but I ran out of time so that will be a task for tomorrow. 

CARD 2:

This second card is not a traditional Christmas card, but I so, so love the Expressions in Ink SDSP with the Just Jade, Evening Evergreen, Mint Macaron, Pear Pizzazz and Shaded Spruce and Gold colour combo. It is so rich and beautiful.

The SDSP was cut to card front size and then die cut with the curved stitched die from the Basic Boarders dies. A piece of Basic White card-stock was also cut to size and adhered underneath so that this piece would hold itself flat when it was popped up on Dimensionals. A piece of Basic White card-stock was dry embossed with the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder (I needed to add something Christmassy). 

The word "happy" was die cut 4 times from Basic White card-stock and then adhered one on top of the other. Layering of the gave the same level of dimension as using Dimensionals. The word "Christmas" from the coordinating Words of Cheer stamp set, was stamped in Just Jade ink and trimmed down with the Trimmer. It was adhered to part of the die cut happy.

Rhinestone Basic Jewels were coloured with a Dark Just Jade Blend and added around the sentiment. As my brother is not into lots of Christmas trimmings I thought he may appreciate this card so I refrained from adding ribbon/trim, etc and thought I would leave it simple-ish - well simple for me. 

I used the stitched concave section left from cutting the front section of SDSP for the card inner, but only just realised that I had forgotten to add a sentiment within the concave area - oops. That will be another task for tomorrow. Just as well I have a Stamparatus. It is ensure stamping a sentiment on a completed card will go well. I would hate to mess up the card at this point. I ran out of Basic White C6 envelopes so will add them to my next Stampin' Up! order. When the envelopes arrive I will add some coordinating SDSP to the flap.

Thank you so much for dropping by.

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 these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

There is more Just Jade creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a very talented lady, Michele Taylor. As always, I am looking forward to checking out Michele'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 Magenta Madness; 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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Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #22 Just Jade

Just Jade with Whale Done 

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 22nd 2020-21 Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase. While I have only missed one Colour Creations Showcase as I  haven't been well - it feels much longer. I'm so glad to be participating tonight, even though I only have one card to share.

This week we are focussing on a gorgeous green called Just Jade. Yes, is it the colour of Jade. Just Jade is one of the 2020-2022 In Colours and it can be found in Stampin' Up!s card-stock; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads, re-inkers & Stampin' Spots); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends; a range of Designer Series Papers, packs and embellishments, incl Whale of a Time DSP and Sequins. There is so much gorgeousness.

Tomorrow I am visiting a friend and customer who is interested in seeing the Whale of a Time Suite of products. As Just Jade is one of the colours featured in the Whale of a Time DSP and Sequins,  I thought I would use this Suite for my project and then be able to take the card as an example.

This card was one of those projects where I started off with an idea in mind and then the card morphed into a different design. First, I used the wet on wet water-colouring technique with Fluid 100 water-colour paper, the mid-size Water painter and Just Jade, Mint Macaron and Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' inks. It was left to dry naturally and before fully dry, it was embossed using the Seabed 3D embossing folder.

The Whale of a Time Designer Series Paper is so delightful and some of the designs have underwater scenes that could be used with an added whale or turtle and a sentiment to create a simply gorgeous card. Other sheets are covered with whales or turtles or other sea life. I fussy cut a larger turtle, some smaller turtles and a couple of seahorses to be added to  another sheet that showed sea plants and Pool Party water. Two strips of another watery design of the DSP were cut to adhere with a little showing either side of the central water-coloured/embossed card-front piece. 

Sea plants (are they Seaweed???) from the Whale Done stamp set were stamped in Just Jade Classic ink and fussy cut out. 1st, 2nd & 3rd generation stamping was used. Further sea plants were die cut from Vellum card-stock using a die from the Smooth Sailing dies. A strip of the Shaded Spruce & Just Jade DSP design (the same as the background) was stamped with a sentiment from the Whale Done stamp set in Versamark ink and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss powder.

An oval was die cut using the second to largest oval from the Layering Ovals dies in the centre of the water-coloured/embossed card front and a piece of Window sheet was adhered with Multipurpose Liquid glue on the inside of the card front across the oval hole. Foam Adhesive strips were adhered around the cut oval and on the underneath edges of the card front. The piece of seaweed & watery DSP was adhered to the card base, ensuring that it sat underneath the oval hole. A number of the fussy-cut turtles & seahorses were adhered to this background piece of DSP, enhancing the sea scene that will be background to the shaker section.

The Whale of a Time Suite includes these gorgeous sequins. The colours are gorgeous and as you can see above, the sequins include delightful little shells. A couple of pinches of these sequins were placed in the centre of the background piece of seaweed DSP and the card front was lowered in place, creating an enclosed shaker. The stamped and fussy cut seaweed and the Vellum sea plants were arranged and the sentiment strip positioned. One of the smaller fussy-cut turtles was adhered directly to the Window sheet. A larger fussy-cut turtle was popped up on the front of the Window sheet with Mini Dimensionals.

To decorate the card inner, a left-over piece of the water-coloured embossed Fluid 100 Water-colour paper and some of the remaining sheet of DSP, that had been used as the background on the card front, were trimmed and adhered on the RHS of a piece of Whisper White card-stock. Tiny fish from the Whale Done stamp set were stamped across the card in Just Jade Classic ink, with only one inking of the stamp, ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th generation stamping. A fussy cut turtle from the Whale of a Time DSP was added. The tiny fish were also stamped across the bottom of a C6 Whisper White envelope.

I came in from photographing the card only to realise that I had forgotten to add a bow using to shimmery Pool Party Sheer ribbon, so I needed to rephotograph after adding the finishing touch - a largish bow. Looking at the card without the bow, I thought it would be more suitable for a fella. What's your preference - with or without the bow?

Thank you for spending some time with me at my blog. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries, would like me to send you a Stampin' Up! catalogue or if I can help you with any products. The Whale of a Time DSP is one of the DSPs on special for the month of October. The month is almost over - don't miss out on this great special.

Catherine Proctor is our wonderful host of the Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase. If you haven't finished visiting all of the team's colour creations, you can visit/revisit Catherine's page at What Cathy Made, where she hosts all the links to the other Showcase participants. I'm looking forward to checking out everyone's Just Jade creations. It is always inspiring to see the amazing projects created by my colleagues and their application of the colour.

I hope to see you again next week when members of the team will share projects that hero Magenta Madness. 

Do look after yourself and your loved ones. Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others in these strange times. 

Andrea 💕🐾

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