AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #19 Copper Clay

Copper Clay with Changing Leaves

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 red brown called Copper Clay.  Copper Clay is part of the 2023-2025 In Colour Family and is a wonderful brown that can coordinate with a range of  colours, including pinks, reds, greens, other neutrals, etc and it would be wonderful for autumn leaves, clay pots, flowers, trees …  and anything needing a rich brown.

Copper Clay 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; In Color Designer Series Paper as well as Nests of Winter, Up to the Sky, Traditions of St Nick DSPs; Tartan Foil Speciality DSP; Earth Tone Shimmer Gems, Faux Glass Dots, In Color Opaque Sparkle Gems; the range of Ephemera Packs and a number of kits. 

These projects have incorporated Copper Clay as Classic Stampin' ink, card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker, Earth Tone Shimmer Gems and Tartan Foil.

CARD 1:

In thinking of Copper Clay, my mind went to Autumn Leaves and the Changing Leaves bundle. This was my first time using the bundle and I love it. The bundle includes stamps, dies and an hybridembossing folder. I do love leaves in nature and enjoy creating leaf themed cards. A couple of days ago, I heard Cindy Schuster talk about this bundle and she mentioned that this leaf was the leaf from an Australian Flame tree. I did some Googling and found pictures of the tree. If you don’t know, when the tree is in flower is has red flowers all over, including little stems with buds just like the die cut I have coloured red. While leaves aren’t on the tree when it is in flower, all this information inspired these cards.

The flame tree leaves were die cut from Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, as was the detailed leaves and bud stems using the Changing Leaves dies. The flowers were cut with Country Birdhouse dies. The watercolour paper was made damp using the flat Water Painter and the leaves were coloured with Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Petal Pink and Copper Clay Re-inkers; the bud stems were coloured with real red ink; the detailed leaves with Granny Apple Green ink and the flowers with Real Red and Petal Pink inks. Water-colouring die cuts with ink is one of my favourite techniques.

The background was de-bossed with the Changing Leaves Embossing Folder. This panel was mounted on the Copper Clay Tartan Foil SDSP. A light splattering of Copper Clay was added with a Stampin’ Write Marker. Some gorgeous Earth Tone Shimmer Gems and Petal Pink Diagonal Trim added some bling and glamour.

A Basic White panel was stamped with the flame leaf and a few water-coloured flowers decorated the card inner. I will need to create an envelope for this card but haven’t made it yet as I decided to create a second card instead using the left over coloured die cuts.

CARD 2:

Here is my second card. The leaf panel was set on a Petal Pink card base. The card front was embossed with the gorgeous Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder and a little White Craft ink was lightly wiped over the embossed leaves to show the embossing a little more.

A hole was cut through the card front and embossed panel with one of the larger Spotlight on Nature dies. A smaller die was also cut from Basic White card-stock.  A strip of the Tartan Foil was flagged on one end and the other side was tucked under a panel of Basic White card-stock that was adhered inside the card.

As mentioned, leaves & flowers were remaining from Card 1. See above for the colours used to water-colour everything. The strip of tartan foil was adhered between the 2 different sized circles. The smaller circle was positioned on top with Dimensionals.

A piece of Petal Pink Diagonal Ribbon was adhered on top of the circular label. The leaves & flowers were arranged using either Mini Dimensionals, Glue Dots & Multi Purpose Liquid Glue. The white heat embossed sentiment was sitting on my crafting table and it was perfect for this card so I fussy cut it out and positioned it with Mini Dimensionals. A few Earth Tone Shimmer Gems were added to the flower centres.

To open the card, lift the double circular centre piece - to see another sentiment. This sentiment is from the Comforting Thoughts stamp set and has been stamped in Copper Clay ink.

Open the front panel to see the area for writing a personal message. A couple of flame tree leaves were stamped in Petal Pink ink and a left over strip of Tartan Foil was adhered down the right side.

Flame tree leaves were stamped on a C6 Basic White envelope in Copper Clay ink. I do love having the inside of the card and the envelope coordinating in some way.

Thank you so much for calling by to check out my Copper Clay Changing Leaves cards. I hope they provide some form of inspiration for your creative activities.

To continue with the Copper Clay 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 wonder if she will have one of her amazing fun folds. 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 Crumb Cake as we continue the weekly 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. We would love you to also check in on Monday each week until the end of November for the 2024 Heart of Christmas Blog Hops.

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 and or the September-December 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 these projects or Stampin' Up! 

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AWHT Colour Creations #11 Cajun Craze

Cajun Craze with Ranunculus Romance and some Water-Colouring

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. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep rusty orange called Cajun Craze. Cajun Craze is part of the Regals Colour Family and is a deep muted colour. This colour is lovely when used with other natural earthy colours. It is delightful with Autumnal colours such as Old Olive and Daffodil Delight or also works really well with harmonious colours like Calypso Coral and Petal Pink. 

Cajun Craze is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Water-colour Pencils; Stampin' Blends; Regal Designer Series Paper, He's the Man and Metallic & Shimmer SDSP & Santa Express & Rustic Harvest DSPs as well as Santa Express Memories & More Card Packs and Santa Express Memories & More Cards & More. 

The card and tag below have used Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' ink and Card-stock plus a range of other non-BB bits and pieces.

When I think of Cajun Craze I first think of Autumn leaves and as I am trying to use a water-colouring technique in my projects this month (as its World Water-colour Month) I have water-coloured a gorgeous die cut leaf from the Ranunculus Romance bundle. A number of die cut leaves were cut from Shimmery White card-stock and then wet on wet water-coloured with Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' ink using the mid-sized Water Painter. I so love playing with this technique and adore the effect gained.

A piece of Basic White card-stock was dry embossed with the Leaf Fall 3D Embossing Folder. This is a delightful embossing folder in the new July - December Mini Catalogue and am sure I will often use it. Water-colour Cajun Craze splattering was added using the medium Water Painter. Once the splattering had dried, some Soft Sea Foam ink was very lightly blended over the embossed leaves with a Blending Brush before the panel was adhered to a Thick Basic White card base.

A small piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was wet on wet watercolored using Soft Sea Foam ink and touches of Cajun Craze ink. When dry, it was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Cajun Craze card-stock. One of the water-coloured leaves was adhered to a piece of Layering Designs Vellum with MIni Dimensionals and then the vellum was adhered to the water-coloured panel placing the adhesive underneath the leaf.

A sentiment from the Ranunculus Romance stamp set was white heat embossed on Cajun Craze card-stock with White Emboss Powder, Versamark and a Heat Gun. Some Linen Twine was wrapped around this centre panel 3 times and tied in a bow. This panel was centred on the background with Dimensionals and then some Iridescent Basic Rhinestones added a touch of shimmer.

Some Soft Sea Foam ink blending was applied to a Basic White card inner and one of the water-coloured leaves was adhered over the blending. A C6 Basic White envelope had a little blending added to a front corner with stamping in Cajun Craze ink using one of the flower stems from the same stamp set. 

GIFT TAG:

As I still had a couple of water-coloured leaves left over I decided to create a coordinating tag. One of the largest Taylor Made Tags dies was used to cut Cajun Craze and Basic White card-stocks. A sprig from the Ranunculus Romance stamp set was randomly stamped in Cajun Craze ink for a tone on tone effect. The Basic White tag was embossed with the Leaf Fall 3D embossing folder then splattered with some Cajun Craze ink. The White tag also had some Soft Sea Foam ink blended over the embossed leaves. A second white tag was adhered to the back of the Cajun Craze tag to enable a message to be written.

A sentiment from the same stamp set was white heat embossed on a piece of Cajun Craze card-stock and then fussy cut, including removing one of the words from the sentiment. Some Layering Designs Vellum was cut with the next smaller tag die and a water-coloured leaf was adhered directly with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The tag dies cut holes for twine or ribbon in each tag and the Taylor Made Tags dies can also cut hole reinforcers. It's a brilliant set of dies. The three tags were layered together and a piece of Soft Sea Foam Seam Binding Ribbon was threaded through the holes with a double Linen Twine bow tied around the ribbon at the top of the tags.

This tag would go beautifully with an Envelope Treat Box that can be found in the July-December Mini Catalogue. This little stamp able & food safe box is so simple to fold and put together.

Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value the time you spent with me.

There is more Cajun Craze creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Theresa Gerrard. I always look forward to checking out Theresa's creation (I wonder what she has in store this week). I also love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Calypso Coral as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations blog hops.

Also, many of us are joining a Heart of Christmas Blog Hop on Monday evenings and continuing until the end of November. Don't forget to check out these blog hops featuring a range of Christmas projects. Starting Christmas creativity early should lessen pressure in December. 

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 wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is such an amazing 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 January - June 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 these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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