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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AWHT Colour Creations #1 Orchard Oasis

Orchid Oasis with Ranunculus Romance 

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are starting afresh to work though all the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order, although as we begin a new round, we are featuring the new In Colours for 2022 to 2024. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a deep purple with rich blue undertones called Orchid Oasis. As mentioned, Orchid Oasis is part of the In Colour Family and is a beautifully rich blue purple. This colour is gorgeous on its own or with touches of gold.  It is going to be fun over the next 2 years to explore colour combos that go well with this colour.

Orchid Oasis is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads, Spots & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, In Colours 2022-2024 Designer Series Papers, Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes and Designer Series Paper, In Colour Bakers Twine, Shimmer Ribbon, Glimmer Paper and Matte Decorative Dots. The card below has used Orchid Oasis Classic Stampin' ink, Card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker plus a range of other non-PP bits and pieces.

Here is the card showcasing the delightful Orchid Oasis:

Isn't Orchid Oasis a beautiful colour.  

CARD 1:

This card shows the beauty of Orchid Oasis through some tone on tone stamping, ink blending and stamping on white, as well as some splatters.

I loved playing with Orchid Oasis this week. It is a beautiful colour. My time to create was very short for this project given commitments over the past week so I decided to only use the featured colour and Basic White with touches of Gold. Orchid Oasis card-stock and ink was used with some partial background stamping with the scripty stamp from the Ranunculus Romance stamp set. Some Basic White card-stock was die cut with a Stitched Rectangle die. Some Orchid Oasis ink was blended over the LHS using a Blending Brush, then the panel was stamped with the Eiffel Tower and script stamps. Some splatters were added using an Orchid Oasis Stampin' Write Marker.

The beautiful Ranunculus stamp was stamped a couple of times in Orchid Oasis Classic ink. Sadly, I couldn't find my Ranunculus dies, so I fussy cut the full flower spray and the two larger flower heads from the second stamped image. Having lost time trying to find my dies I had to alter my design quickly and use dies that were easily at hand. Some Gold Foil was die cut with one of the little floral sprays from the Honey Bee Bloom dies and the larger leaf die from the Meadows dies was used on some Basic White card-stock. A little Orchid Oasis ink was blended over the white leaf die cut. The fussy cut flowers and the leaf were partially Gold heat embossed on the edges using Versamark ink, Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun.

The larger ticket die from the Sports Events dies cut a label from the Vellum Layering Designs. The leaf and flowers were arranged over the vellum label and the individual flower heads were layered over the flowers with Mini Dimensionals. A double bow was tied with the gold Simply Elegant Trim and attached with Glue Dots. A sentiment from the same stamp set was White Heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder on Orchid Oasis card-stock and then fussy cut. Some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels added a little shimmer, together with a splattering of Wink of Stella (which is so hard to capture in the photos).

My time completely disappeared and so I didn't have a chance to work on the card inner or envelope. It will happen but later.

 

I sincerely thank Emma Goddard, UK Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and past Artisan for her inspiration. I so love Emma and her amazing talent and noticed as this card came together her definite influence. 

Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value the time you spent 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 new 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!. 

There is more Orchard Oasis creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special woman and friend, the lovely and talented, Tina Gillespie. I always look forward to checking out Tina's creation (I wonder what she has in store this week - she is always amazing). I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so many ideas. 

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring another new In Colour, Parakeet Party, for the weekly 2022-2024 Colour Creations blog hops.

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

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog, our amazing Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  I so appreciate all Cathy does in coordinating this blog hop each week. She is such a special lady and so talented. Check out her wonderful creation while you are there.

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