AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #35 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Enduring Beauty & Hot Air Balloon

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 deep navy blue called Night of Navy. Night of Navy is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a wonderful navy blue that can coordinate with so many colours. This colour is lovely for dark skies, deep water, a blue and white colour scheme and anything with a deep blue.

Night of Navy 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; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as many other products. 

Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ ink, card-stock, Stampin’ Write Marker, Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon and Ombré Matte Decorative Dots have been used in the creation of these projects plus a range of non-Night of Navy bits and pieces.

Both cards are more simple single fold cards without many, many layers apart from mounts for the card fronts. Having said that, I couldn’t resist Dimensionals. The stamps and dies can be found in the new January-April 2024 Mini Catalogue that launched last week. There are so many wonderful products in this catalogue. Have you had a change to check it out? (I would be delighted to help you if you don’t have a demonstrator already). 

This first card features the gorgeous Enduring Beauty stamp set. These stamps coordinating with a wonderful set of stencils as well as dies; however, this card only features the main floral image that was silver heat embossed on to Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.

The card front panel was ombré blended with Night of Navy Classic ink. Water was painted over the image and dabbed with paper towel to lift the ink from the leaves & flowers. It doesn’t show well in the photos but lifting the strong ink from the image left shades of blue and purple. Night of Navy ink was then partially painted into the image to give some depth of shading.

Given the purple shades the coloured panel was mounted onto Fresh Freesia card-stock, then Night of Navy card-stock. A Basic White card-stock panel was mounted directly to the Night of Navy card base and the card front panel was added with Dimensionals. Have you seen the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Embossing Folder? The ‘Thinking of you’ sentiment was embossed and die cut out in one pass through the Cut & Emboss Machine. It is simply gorgeous. There are many ways to work with this Hybrid Folder - this is just simply embossed and die cut out. Some light Fresh Freesia blending was added to the top and bottom edges. The sentiment was added with Mini Dimensionals.

The decorative touches included some Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon across the card with some Silver Elegant Trim. Bows were tied with the same ribbon/trim and added with Glue Dots.   Some Night of Navy Ombre Matt Decorative Dots were sprinkled near the sentiment.

A panel for writing a personal message was partially stamped with the Enduring Beauty Floral image and silver heat embossed. A little light Night of Navy blending was added over the image. A Basic White C6 envelope was decorated in the same way.

I had fun with the Faux Bleaching with water and there was no smell of bleach. 

CARD 2

Some Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was wet with water and some Night of Navy ink was added to create a water-coloured background. After the panel was dry I could see mountains in the ink so created the card in Landscape orientation.

I love navy and white as a colour combo and was planning on just using the 2 colours for this card. Again, I was taken with purple emerging from the Night of Navy water-colour so used a Fresh Freesia mount which gave a lift to the image. A Basic White mount also lightened the overall effect.

Balloon pieces were die cut from Basic White card-stock using the Hot Air Balloon dies. I love the various decorative design pieces. Some Dimensionals gave a “lift” to a couple of hot air balloons. A sentiment from the coordinating stamp set was white heat embossed onto Night of Navy card-stock, and then fussy cut.

One of the borders was cut away from the Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon. It was tied into a bow and tucked under the sentiment. Some Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels were scattered around the sentiment.

A Basic White card inner was stamped with the larger balloon and centre panel. The centre panel wasn’t quite straight so I took a Stampin’ Write Marker - the fine tip, and coloured in the uneven sections. I so love Stampin’ Up!s coordination of products where colours seamlessly match. The Basic White C6 Envelope was similarly stamped however, it wasn’t a clean stamp so both coloured with the fine tip of the marker and also added a little light blending.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the second Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2024. We are still a smaller group but I am sure there will still be so much Night of Navy inspiration. Don’t miss hopping around.

To continue with the Night of Navy blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special lady, 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 another versatile colour, Old Olive 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. 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 January-April 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 this project or Stampin' Up!. 

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AWHT Colour Creations #32 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Sweet Candy Canes and Pretty Medallion

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 one colour each week.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep navy blue called Night of Navy. Night of Navy is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a beautiful colour that works with so many colours. This colour is lovely when used for dark skies or waters and so so much more. I love Night of Navy and at times have used it instead of black. 

Night of Navy is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends Combo; Watercolor Pencils; Soft Pastels Assortment; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Fitting Florets, Abstract Beauty, Beauty of the Earth, Storybook Gnomes, Lovely Linen, Sweet Symmetry, Brushstroke, Sun Prints, Hues of Happiness, Hey Sports Fan and Waves of the Ocean DSPs; Robot Buddies Kids and Light The Candles Card Kits; Love Santa Tag Kit; Ombre Specialty Paper, Abstract Beauty Ephemera Pack; plus Resin Stars, Fan Bakers Twine, Rhinestone Waves Basic Jewels and Solid Faceted Gems. Wow, that is quite a list demonstrating the colour's amazing versatility.

Night of Navy card-stock, ink, Stampin' Write Marker and Stampin' Blends Combo have been used in this project plus a range of non-Night of Navy bits and pieces. Here is my first card:

CARD 1:  

Night of Navy is a dark colour, however, I used a wet on wet water-colour technique and purposely endeavoured to create a light water-colour wash that would show the colour's base colour(s). Given the collation of elements centred over the background wash it is hard to see the beautiful effect of the water-colour purple and blue patches. The water-colour wash was created on a panel of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper using only Night of Navy Classic Stampin' ink and the large flat Water Painter. This panel was mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Night of Navy card-stock. A panel of Basic White card-stock was embossed with the snowflake embossing folder with Night of Navy splatters added using a Stampin Write Marker before it was added to the Night of Navy card base.

A couple of candy canes from the Sweet Candy Cane stamp set were stamped onto a piece of Basic White card-stock. Both were coloured with the Light Fresh Freesia Blend and one of them also had some Night of Navy Blend added to make the focal candy cane a darker navy on one edge. Must admit my NoN ink pad could do with a re-inking.

Dies from the Christmas Banners dies were used to cut some foliage out of either Silver foil or Basic White card-stock. Small snowflakes were cut using the Frosted Flurry dies from White Glimmer paper (Real Red & White Glimmer Paper) and the lighter end of the Tahitian Tide Glimmer Paper (2022-2024 In Colour Glimmer Paper). It may seem a strange combination but earlier in the week I wasn't well and needed a doze during the day. As I woke, I seemed to be dreaming of creating a project using the Sweet Candy Cane bundle with some foliage and  snowflakes for this week's project. My card started there. A Basic White label was cut using the Label Me Lovely Punch. 

All the pieces were arranged together with a Wonderful Snowflake and adhered with Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue or Glue Dots. A bow was tied with White Crinkled Seam Binding ribbon and the Silver Simply Elegant Trim. A sentiment from the stamp set was white heat embossed on Night of Navy card-stock using Versamark, White Emboss Powder (Basics Stampin' Emboss Powders) and a Heat Tool. 2021-2023 in Colour Opal Rounds (Fresh Freesia) added that finishing touch.

The second stamped and coloured candy cane was added to a Basic White card-stock card centre with a remaining Tahitian Tide Glimmer snowflake. Another sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy ink. A C6 Basic White envelope was stamped with a couple of candy canes in Night of Navy ink so it coordinated with the card it will carry.

CARD 2:

I have had electricians and other trades people around all week, with work taking longer than  estimated and power outages at relevant times. All this absorbed time and which almost ran out, leaving minimal time to finish my second card. 

One of my ideas for a Christmas card was to use the Pretty Medallion stamp as a larger bauble. Having water-coloured with Night of Navy in the previous card I decided to continue the colour combo and combine blending of purples with blues, especially Night of Navy. I started with Balmy Blue card-stock and blended Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia around a square piece of card-stock. I knew the impact would be minor but wanted to start softly. I then blended Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape and Rich Razzelberry for a purple tinge before finishing with Night of Navy blending. The Pretty Medallion stamp was Silver heat embossed. As the medallion turned to silver under the Heat Tool I wondered why it had taken be so long to ink this gorgeous stamp. A splattering of water and White Craft ink was added over the panel.

The heat embossed and splattered panel was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Balmy Blue card-stock before being mounted to a Night of Navy card base. A bauble topper and some tiny lights were die cut using dies from the Spruced Up Outline dies in Silver foil. The final touch was the addition of numerous small Rhinestone Basic Jewels to key points of the medallion. There was no time for finishing the card inner and custom made envelope. That will happen in the next few days.

Thank you for spending time with me on my blog. I so appreciate you.

There is more Night of Navy creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below and be taken to the blog of my lovely, talented fellow South Aussie, Tina Gillespie. I always look forward to checking out Tina's creations - she is amazing. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Old Olive, a versatile green, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 Colour Creations Blog Hops. After that we will have a break over Christmas/New Years before re-commencing in January 2023.

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 special 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, the July - December 2022 Mini Catalogue and or the January - April 2023 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 #31 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Awesome Otters 

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

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a beautiful deep navy blue called Night of Navy. Night of Navy is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a delightful versatile blue. I so love this blue which works beautifully with various colours including Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight. 

Night of Navy is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, Watercolor Pencils, Soft Pastels Assortment and the 2020-2022 Neutrals Designer Series Papers as well as Beauty of the Earth, Sweet Symmetry, Abstract Beauty, In Good Taste Designer Series Papers & the Ombre Speciality Paper, Abstract Beauty Ephemera Pack, Abstract Beauty Cards & Envelopes & the Love, Santa Tag Kit. There is also Night of Navy twine as part of the Fan Bakers Twine, Resin Stars Embellishments, the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels & Blue Adhesive Backed Gems. The range of products available underscores the versatility of this colour. The cards below have used Night of Navy Classic Stampin' ink, Cardstock, Stampin' Blends Combo and a Stampin' Write Marker plus a range of other non-NoN bits and pieces.

Here are my cards showcasing Night of Navy:

As you can see the cards are same, same, but different. I had a number of ideas of how I would showcase Night of Navy. It is such a versatile colour. I wonder how everyone else are using this fantastic colour.

CARD 1:

Night of Navy, as a deep blue made me think of water. From there I thought of the new Sale-a-bration stamp set "Awesome Otters".

This card is a simple fancy fold, with flaps folding in from either side. I took advantage of this fold by die cutting a circular hole in the front panel to showcase part of the design on the second flap as it peeps through the hole to combine with the little otter and sentiment on the front panel. A piece of Basic White card-stock was dry embossed with the 3D Bark Embossing Folder before layering on the front. The largest circle from the Layering Circles die set was used to cut a central hole.

The second panel has a piece of Vellum card-stock that was coloured with Stampin' Blends and Isopropyl Alcohol. The Blends were Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay combo packs, ie Light and Dark in both colours. The Blends were scribbled over the centre of the Vellum. The Isopropyl Alcohol was spritzed over with a Stampin' Spritzer.  Then the colour design was formed through blowing. While you could blow through a straw, in our COVID safe world I used a manual bulbous blow tool (not sure what they are called). Once dry, a little more alcohol was spritzed to create a look of bubbles.

The otters were stamped in Momento ink on to Basic White card-stock and coloured with Stampin' Blends, ie Soft Suede, Crumb Cake combos, a touch of Light Night of Navy for the eyes and part of the fish and Daffodil Delight & Night of Navy for the fish and the party hats. Of course I also used the Colour Lifter to add more shading & highlights. The otters & hats were all fussy cut. A little Wink of Stella was added to the fish.

Some extra white squiggles were added by White heat embossing. The front sentiment was White heat embossed on Night of Navy card-stock, where as the inner sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy Classic ink. Adhesive Backed Sequins add a little shimmer. It is amazing how they adapt to the colours around them. The final touch was some splattering - the card front with Light Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay Blends, where as the 2nd flap's splatters were added with some White Craft ink mixed with a little Wink of Stella and flicked using the medium Water Painter over the inner design and the Night of Navy inside flap.

The card inner was splattered with both Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay Dark Stampin' Blends. The navy came out strongly an ended up more dominant than planned. You know how it is - you flick and flick again and can hardly see anything for your efforts and then with a third flick it goes everywhere in solid splotches. Sigh!. A little otter was also stamped in Momento ink. A C6 Basic White envelope was stamped with one of the otters in Momento ink.

CARD 2:

The second card also has aVellum panel with the same type of Stampin' Blends colouring with Isopropyl Alcohol. This was attached to a piece of Basic White card-stock with Adhesive Sheet. This was much easier that attaching the Vellum with Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue as I did with the previous card.

The Thick Basic White card front had a Bark 3D Embossed panel of Basic White card-stock adhered. Some White Bakers Twine from the Essentials Bakers Twine pack was wrapped around twice and tied in a bow. Dimensionals were added to the centre panel to pop it up.

One of the otters was stamped, coloured and fussy cut in the same way as the first card. It was added with Dimensionals. The sentiment from the same stamp set was heat embossed in White on to Night of Navy card-stock and then cut into strips that also were popped up on Mini Dimensionals.

A little splattering was added with Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay Stampin' Write Markers. After my earlier experience I thought I would play it safe with the Markers. A few of the oh so gorgeous Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added for a delicate touch of sparkle.

The Basic White card inner was decorated with an off-cut of coloured Vellum and an extra coloured otter. A Basic White C6 envelope was also stamped with another otter in Momento.

I did enjoy creating these cards to share. Hmm, well, I enjoyed most of the creative process. It was one of those sessions where I regularly muffed up, including adhering the Vellum upside down and as I tried to take it back up and re-adhere - glue went everywhere; mis-stamping on occasion, splattering issues, dropping things, loosing things ... the list could go on. Have you ever had one of those days - or is it just me???

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

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 new January - June 2022 Mini Catalogue & Saleabration 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 Night of Navy creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Kate Morgan. As always, I am looking forward to checking out Kate's creations and everyone else's.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring another versatile colour, Old Olive, as we continue the weekly 2021-2022 Colour Creations blog hops.

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.  I so appreciate all Cathy has done and continues to do to coordinate this blog hop each week. She is such a special lady. Check out her delightful creation while you are there.

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Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #30 Night of Navy

Night of Navy with Art Gallery and Best Plaid Builder

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 30th 2020/2021 Colour Creations Showcase by members of the Art with Heart Team - our first one for the new year.

This week we are focussing on an amazing blue called Night of Navy. As its name suggests it is a deep navy blue that can be found in the Stampin' Up! Neutral's collection. Depending on the project, I sometimes use Night of Navy instead of black and, like black, it can be used with most colours. Night of Navy can be found in Stampin' Up!s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads, re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends; Water-colour pencils Assortment 2, many, many Designer Series Papers, including the Boho Indigo Product Medley, Twine and Embellishments. It is such a versatile colour!

I combined a number of ideas that had been buzzing around in my head in the creation of the card for this blog hop. I love navy and yellow so that is the focal colour combination for this first card. I also want to participate in this week's Casing the Catty Challenge so I created a blended background that enabled me to made two backgrounds at the same time.

To create this background I started with a Whisper White card front and also die cut two pieces of Whisper White card-stock using both dies from the Best Plaid Builder die set. The two die cut pieces were layered on top of the card front. This was my first use of the amazing Stampin' Up! Blending Brushes.  I used one brush to apply Seaside Spray Classic Stampin' ink and another to apply Misty Moonlight, Pacific Point and Night of Navy inks.The brushes are so soft and smooth and applied colour brilliantly, sliding over the die cut layers easily without catching on the edges. The aim was to have patches of different colours and light and dark variations.

Once coloured, the two die cut pieces were trimmed down and adhered to a piece of Night of Navy card-stock that had some Night of Navy ink blended on the edge and some Whisper White Craft ink blended in the centre to add light and shade to this layer. This piece was mounted on a piece of Daffodil Delight card-stock leaving a fine boarder. 

Flowers from the Art Gallery Stamp set were stamped in Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' ink on Whisper White card-stock. Using the Stamparatus, touches of Mango Melody were added to the stamp with a Stampin' Write Marker pen to add depth of colour. The spray of flowers was also stamped in Granny Apple Green Classic Stampin' ink. The floral sprays were cut out with the coordinating set of dies, the Floral Gallery dies and the Daffodil Delight flowers were fussy cut. The individual flowers were slightly shaped and adhered over the green spray with Dimensionals. The small floral arrangement was also stamped in Daffodil Delight ink and die cut with the coordinating die. I so love Stampin' Up!'s coordination of products. 

The flowers were arranged from corner to corner. As I write this blog I keep looking at the arrangement and I am realising that it could do with a few more leaves. I am no flower arranger and it can take time for me to work out what to do to improve an arrangement. No time to fix it up, re-photograph and upload today, but I hope to make the changes in the next day or two. Keep an eye out.

A sentiment from the same Art Gallery stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink on to Night of Navy card-stock and heat embossed using White Stampin' Emboss powder. The sentiment was die cut using the larger label from the coordinating Floral Gallery dies. Some of the new Night of Navy twine from the Well Suited Twine Combo pack was wrapped around the card front twice and tied in a bow slipping on a little silver heart trinket from the Heart Charms pack.

The card front was adhered directly to the Night of Navy card base. To complete the card front some Bumblebee 2020-2022 In Colour Enamel Dots were added to both sets of flower buds. A little Wink of Stella was added to parts of the flowers and lightly splattered over the card front. The camera hasn't been able to capture this sparkle. 

To create the card inner, the smaller floral arrangement stamp was stamped in Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' ink along one side of a piece of Whisper White card-stock. This was layered on a piece of Daffodil Delight card-stock leaving a very fine boarder of yellow, and then added inside the Night of Navy card base. The same stamp and ink were used on a C6 Whisper White envelope, so it matched the card.

Once my second card has been finished and entered into this week's Casing the Catty Challenge I will add it here to show the second blended background that was created at the same time as the background used on this card. This week's Casing the Catty Challenge is to "Step Up a project from the current Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue". I'm planning to use different flowers and a different colour.

Here is the card using the blended background after the removal of the two layers of plaid.

Catherine Proctor continues as the 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. Thank you so much Cathy for taking up coordination of the Colour Creations Showcase again this year - you are a Champion. I'm looking forward to checking out everyone's Night of Navy creations. It is always a blessing to be a part of this amazing blog hop of wonderful projects.

I hope to see you again next week when members of the team will share projects that hero Old Olive. This is another versatile colour.

I hope the New Year has started well for you and your loved ones. Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others in these strange times. 

Andrea 💕🐾

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