AWHT Colour Creations #15 Crumb Cake

Crumb Cake with Merriest Moments

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 biscuity colour called Crumb Cake. Crumb Cake is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a soft versatile colour. This is a lovely colour and can be used in so many situations; consider sand, wood, rocks, stems of flowers and so much more. As a neutral it can go with many colours. I love it with Petal Pink, Basic White and metallics, which are the colours used in this project.

Crumb Cake is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Painted Christmas, Abigail Rose, and Tea Boutique DSPs; plus the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack; Christmas Whimsy and A Million Thanks Card Kits and Abigail Rose File Folders. 

Here is my card for this blog hop:

I love using Crumb Cake for Christmas projects, whether it's with a range of reds and greens or a more alternative colour scheme, like this one. I also really love white with Crumb Cake but couldn't resist adding a little Petal Pink and Gold.

The background Crumb Cake card-stock panel was dry embossed with the pine folder from the Wintry 3D Embossing Folders pack. Some Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue was smeared over parts of the embossed panel and Gilded Flakes were sprinkled over and the excess rubbed off. I love this relaxed gold effect peeking through the top layers. This background panel was adhered directly to the Crumb Cake card base.

The Merriest Frames Hybrid Embossing Folder and Dies were used to cut and emboss a Vellum card-stock frame. A second one was also cut, so extra Vellum foliage could be added around the frame. A sentiment from the Hope & Peace stamp set was white heat embossed on Petal Pink card-stock using White Emboss Powder (found as part of the Basic Stampin' Emboss Powders), Versamark ink and a Heat Tool. Some poinsettias and foliage from the Merriest Moments stamp set were white heat embossed on Vellum. They were cut out with the coordinating dies.

Glue Dots or Dimensionals were used to arrange the floral pieces and Petal Pink Elegant Faceted Gems were added to the poinsettias' centres and some more were scattered around to give a little sparkle. Gold Holly Leaves were tucked under the flowers.

A Basic White card-stock inner was stamped with poinsettias in Petal Pink Classic Stampin' ink and the flower centres & a sentiment from the Merriest Moments stamp set were stamped in Crumb Cake Classic ink. A Basic White C6 envelope was similarly stamped.

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

There is more Crumb Cake creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovey & talented Rachel Woolard. I always look forward to checking out Rachel's creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Crushed Curry as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations blog hops.  Also, don't forget many of us are joining the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop on Monday evenings to share many delightful Christmas projects. 

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 wonderful 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 these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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AWH Heart of Christmas #1

Heart of Christmas Blog Hop: Happiness Abounds & Merriest Moments

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the first Art with Heart Team Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2022. It's hard to believe we are half way through the year.

So glad you are joining us for our first 2022 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. I know some people are thinking - its too early to focus on Christmas. For me, it's a great time to start so I don't have pressure to create cards on top of other Christmas preparations in December. I have enjoyed creating a card using both Christmas and non Christmas products. Here it is:

Apart from Christmas in July, this month is also watercolour month so I am planning to use a range of watercolour techniques throughout the month. This project used watercolour to colour the gorgeous Happiness Abounds flowers with Cherry Cobbler Classic ink.  I watched Emma Goddard, a UK SU Demonstrator, this morning stamp in Stampin' Up!s Classic ink and then use a Water Painter to pull the ink from the stamped lines to colour the flowers and leaves. Its a while since I have used this technique so thought I would give it a go for my card. My Cherry Cobbler Classic ink pad was not really juicy so the initial colouring was fairly soft. To gain greater depth of colour I added some extra Cherry Cobbler with my fine Water Painter. I love the effect of watercolour with this colour.

I took my colour scheme from the a selection of the Lights Aglow Suite. It is a beautiful, beautiful suite and the speciality papers are so gorgeous. I used the Lights Aglow Speciality DSP - it is amazing with gold added to many of the designs. For this card I chose a simpler "B" side design in Evening Evergreen. It was mounted directly to an Evening Evergreen card base.

Two Shimmery White card-stock frames were cut using the Merriest Frames Hybrid dies/embossing folder and they were coloured with Soft Succulent ink using a Blending Brush. All the edges were cut off and layered over the centre section of the background. The flowers were arranged then adhered in place with Dimensionals. White Glittered Organdy & Simply Elegant Trim bows were tucked under the flowers and adhered with Glue Dots.

A sentiment from the Merriest Moments stamp set was white heat embossed onto Cherry Cobbler card-stock. The card design was finished with some delightful Festive Pearls (NB they are called Red and Green Adhesive-Backed Pearls on the packet).

A Basic White card inner had 2 thin left over strips of the same SDSP added to the sides. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped with one of the flowers in Cherry Cobbler ink. Just simple touches to tie the card card inner and envelope together.

Thank you so much for spending time with me on my blog. I'm so glad you joined us for our first Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2022. We will be back every Monday until the end of November, going live at 8.00pm AEST.

It is always a delight to see everyone's creations and I am sure there will be gorgeous Christmas projects on show so don't miss checking out each blog. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Caroline Manwaring. I always look forward to checking out Caroline's creations together with everyone else's. 

Don't forget the weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop by the Art with Heart Team that launches every Wednesday at 8.00pm AEST. 

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

Andrea XXX

If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up or you started part way through, please head to the blog of our Heart of Christmas Blog Hop Host, the very special Sharon Davern, and she will have the list of all Art With Heart Team members who are participating in this blog hop. Check out her beautiful creation while you are there.

If you are 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 Mini Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you. Pease don't hesitate to contact me with any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

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Bron’s Birthday Blog Hop #4

Theme #4: CASE the Catty from a page numbered in the 60s

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the fourth blog hop celebrating Bronwyn Eastly. We're a group of stamping friends that are recognising Bron's 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! 

The theme for this blog hop is to CASE a page numbered in the 60's from Stampin' Up!s  2022-2023 Annual Catalogue. The picture above shows the cards illustrated on page 66 featuring the Awash in Beauty Suite. The card I am CASEing is the card at the top centre with the So Saffron card-base. Here is my version:

I CASEd the CATTY's card layout and that there was a die cut as background to the design. I so love the background die from the Organic Beauty dies, but it hasn't made its way to my homes as yet, so I needed to find another background die. Prior to making this card I had just created my first Christmas card for 2022, so as I was starting to get into the Christmas groove my eyes fell on the Christmas Pinecone dies. That decision completely changed the mood of this CASE. I had something different in mind.

I started by die cutting the finer pine/pinecone background from some Pearlescent Speciality Paper. After being partially adhered down onto a piece of Basic White card-stock that had some splatters randomly stamped in Fresh Freesia ink; some Soft Sea Foam Classic ink was very lightly blended over the background with a brilliant Stampin' Up! Blending Brush.

Next - some stamping on Basic White card-stock using the Merriest Moments stamp set. The poinsettias were stamped in Polished Pink, holly in Soft Sea Foam, Pine fronds in Mint Macaron and the rounder leaves in Soft Succulent. They were all fussy cut and I couldn't resist adding some Shimmery White Embossing Paste. It's such a pity the camera doesn't show the shimmer. The flowers and leaves were arranged with a sense of the layout of the card I was CASEing.

The card was finished with a white heat embossed sentiment from the Christmas to Remember stamp set on Mint Macaron card-stock. The sentiment was die cut with a coordinating label die from the Seasonal Labels dies. The label was trimmed a little narrower with my Trimmer. Some Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels added that final touch to the centres of the poinsettias and were scattered on the label and background. I don't know what came over me - using so much shimmer - ah well it's for Christmas.

An extra poinsettia and leaves were adhered to a Basic White card inner. Some extra poinsettias were adhered to the back flap of a Basic White C6 Envelope. I do love, in some simple way, to link the card inner and envelope to the card front design.

Thank you so much for dropping in and helping to celebrate Bron's coming birthday. While it would have been so disappointing for Bron to give up the dream of celebrating with an overseas holiday, it is so much fun to celebrate with monthly blog hops and there are still more to come over the next 2 months. We will be here again on the 3rd of August, launching the blog hop at 7.00pm EST.

Hop on over to the next blog by the lovely Elizabeth Gross and check out her delightful creation. Just click on Elizabeth's name or the Next graphic below to be taken to her Blog, Lillybet's Papers.

If you come across a broken link or want to head back to Bron's blog just click on this link 

Apart from this Blog Hop there is also an Instagram Hop starting with Bron at @addinktivedesigns. Check it out too - there is more creativity to find.

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AWH Heart of Christmas #18

Christmas with Merry Moments

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 18th Art with Heart Team 2021 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. 

So glad you are joining us for this Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. After creating the first card I decided to create the second - more standard design - using the same colours and products. It wouldn't take as long as most of the decisions had been made. It was fun playing. I hope you like them:

These cards feature the Merriest Moments bundle which includes stamp set and coordinating dies as well as the Merriest Frame Hybrid Embossing Folder. This EF embosses a gorgeous design and also fits one of the dies so that card-stock can be embossed and die cut at the same time - its very clever and only the second of its kind produced by Stampin' Up!

CARD 1:

This card uses the die cut and embossed piece in a different way to the standard use of the bundle. Three Basic White card-stock pieces were cut with the more detailed die and each was embossed with the coordinating EF. A Stampin' Up! Blending Brush was used to apply Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' ink to the edges of the die cuts. The die cut leaf edges were cut away from the rest of the panel.

A piece of Mint Macaron card-stock also had some Mint Macaron ink blended over the edges. The frame edge pieces were arranged and adhered around the edges with the leaves facing inwards. A second partial layer of leaves also was added to cover some edge gaps and provide greater balance of design.

A mid sized flower from the Merriest Moments stamp set was stamped in Blushing Bride ink. While I fussy cut it out there is a coordinating die as well. The 3 smaller flowers were also die cut a couple of times with coordinating dies from Basic White card-stock and a few from Silver Foil from the Silver Foil Speciality pack. The white die cut flowers were coloured using a Sponge Dauber and either Polished Pink or Misty Moonlight inks.

The flowers were arranged and adhered in place with only the stamped flower popped up on a Dimensional. A sentiment from the stamp set was stamped in the centre of the card front in Evening Evergreen ink using a Stamparatus. (I didn't want the sentiment to go array after the work in the leaf boarder.) A piece of silver Simply Elegant Trim was tied in a bow and tucked under the larger flower with a Glue Dot. Rhinestone Basic Jewels were scattered around including as flower centres.

A Basic White card inner was decorated with 3 little die cut flowers and a Basic White C6 envelope was stamped in Blushing Bride ink with the larger of the stamped flowers.

CARD 2:

This second card used the same colours and products. As you can see the cards are similar but different.

The Merriest Frames Embossing Folder was used to emboss the background and a Basic White card-stock die cut and blended frame was placed directly on top with glue only on the centre section. A stitched rectangular label was cut with a stitched die from the same set.

A sentiment from the stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink on to the label and then it was heat embossed with Silver Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun. The label was popped up on Dimensionals.

The small stamped flower was stamped in Polished Pink ink, and to try something different, a piece of Basic White card-stock was heat embossed with Silver Emboss Powder and then die cut with the tiny floral dies. While I have used this technique previously, it is interesting to compare it in the same crafting session with the foil die cut flowers. The flowers and other products were added in a similar manner to Card 1. The card inner and envelope were also given a touch of coordinating bits and pieces.

Thank you so much for spending time with me on my blog. I'm so glad you called in.

If you are 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 Mini Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send them to you. Please don't hesitate to make contact regarding any other queries about these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

To continue with the blog hop, click on the "onto the next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Rachel Woolard. I always look forward to checking out Rachel's creations together with everyone else's. 

Hope to see you next week for another AWHT Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. Also, don't forget the weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop by the Art with Heart Team that launches every Wednesday at 8.00pm AEST.

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

Andrea XXX

  

If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up or you started part way through, please head to the blog of this week’s host for the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Tina Gillespie, and she will have the list of all Art With Heart Team members who are participating in this blog hop. Check out her beautiful creation while you are there.

#heartofchristmas #heartofchristmas2021 #awhtheartofchristmas #stampinup #stampinupdemo #merrymoments

 

AWHT Colour Creations #21 Gray Granite

Gray Granite with Festive Foliage & Merriest Moments

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 21st Art with Heart 2021-2022 Colour Creations Blog Hop.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a grey with a tinge of tan called Gray Granite. Gray Granite is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a great colour that can be used in many ways.  

As a neutral it can combine with so many colours. Gray Granite 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 Neutrals & Bloom Where You Are Planted, In Good Taste, Simply Elegant, Peaceful Place Designer Series Papers; the Christmas Whimsy card kit; and Shimmer Ribbon. The cards below have used Gray Granite card-stock and Classic ink, plus a range of other bits and pieces.

This week's projects were initially inspired by an international blog hop, "Around the World on Wednesday", with a specific theme of creating 10 in 30, ie creating 10 cards or other projects in 30 minutes. The 30 minutes didn't include certain preparations, such as cutting card bases & matts and die cutting. I was intrigued and wondered about creating a simple card that could be created more quickly once it was designed and various bits and pieces were prepared. The initial idea I had in mind wasn't quite right so I kept fiddling & chose a different stamp set to go with the Festive Foliage background stamp. With the fiddling around I developed a card that would be extremely difficult to create 10 in 30, however, I decided to create the same card but use different colour combinations. As I was called into work I ended up only creating two versions. I will need to finish the other colour combinations later.

The cards are similar with the only differences being the colour of inks and card-stock and coordinating ribbons. They both started by stamping the Festive Foliage stamp in Gray Granite Classic Stampin' ink onto Basic White card-stock. The sentiment from the Merriest Moments stamp set was stamped in Evening Evergreen Classic ink and die cut with one of the smaller Scalloped Contours dies. The stamped backgrounds were mounted on either Polished Pink or Cherry Cobbler card-stock and then on to Gray Granite card bases.

The poinsettias from the Merriest Moments stamp set were stamped in either Cherry Cobbler or Blushing Bride with some Sponge Dauber-ing in Polished Pink Classic inks. The various leaves were stamped, using the same stamp set, in Soft Succulent with dauber-ing in Evening Evergreen (to go with the Cherry Cobbler poinsettias) or Mint Macaron also with dauber-ing in Evening Evergreen to go with the pink poinsettias.

Ribbon, either Cherry Cobbler & Gold or White Glittered Organdy that was coloured with a Light Polished Pink Stampin' Blend, was tied in a bow. All the pieces were arranged and adhered in place with either Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Glue Dots. Brushed Metallic Adhesive-backed Dots were added to the centre of each of the poinsettias. To add that extra bit of shimmer Wink of Stella was splattered across both cards (its such a pity that the camera doesn't capture it).

The card centres were stamped with poinsettias in the coordinating colour as were the C6 Basic White envelopes.

I'm looking forward to playing with other colour schemes that will blend beautifully with Gray Granite. I do so love this neutral. 

Thank you so much for calling in. I hope you found something to spark your interest.

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 Gray Granite creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a very special and talented 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 Highland Heather; and don't forget that the AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop is launched every Monday evening at 8pm AEST until mid-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, our amazing AWHT Colour Creations Coordinator.  Check out her amazing creation while you are there.

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