AWHT Colour Creations #50 Soft Suede

Soft Suede with Greatest Journey 

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We have been working though the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order, focussing on one colour each week. This week’s Blog Hop is the last in the 2022-2023 series.

This Blog Hop is focussing on a retiring deep warm brown called Soft Suede. Soft Suede is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a rich and versatile colour. This colour is lovely when used for masculine projects, for trees, earthy themes and so much more. It works well with so many colours. 

Soft Suede 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; Neutrals Designer Series Paper as well as Happy Forest Friends, Ready to Ride, Like an Animal Speciality, Fancy Flora and Texture Chic Speciality DSPs; as well as Texture Chic Memories & More Card Pack and Cards & Envelopes; the Christmas Whimsy Card Kit and the Timeless Greetings Kit. That’s a solid list demonstrating the colour's versatility.

Soft Suede card-stock and ink have been used in this project plus a range of non-Soft Suede bits and pieces.

I created this card for a male friend’s birthday. He is a jogger and cyclist, so I couldn’t go past the Greatest Journey bundle with the Enjoy the Journey Designer Series Paper. All of these products are retiring on 1 May 2023 so if you are inspired by this project don’t wait. NB: I have just realised that the dies have already sold out but the Greatest Journey stamps and Enjoy the Journey DSP are available for a limited time. The card was created prior to knowing retiring colours and products so my apologies that the dies are no longer available.

Retiring Pale Papaya card-stock was cut and scored for this Double Z-fold card and pieces of a design from the Enjoy the Journey DSP were cut to size and adhered directly to each panel in order so the DSP design flowed across the card. The back and left side panels were stamped with trees using Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ ink prior to the DSP being adhered in place. Strips of Vellum card-stock were cut for the top layer and pieces of Soft Suede card-stock were cut using the mountain top die from the Greatest Journey dies to create the hilly rocky ground. 

The previous photo shows the card from above so you can see the way the top and bottom sections fold. The Vellum was embossed with the retiring In the Clouds Embossing Folder. It was then scored to support the folding of the Vellum. Some clouds and a crescent moon were also die cut from Vellum. The die cut panels of Soft Suede were embossed with the Splatters EF of the Stripes & Splatters 3D Embossing Folders set, before being scored. A little Soft Suede strip was also cut to enable an extra layer with some tree tops. Three figures were also die cut from Soft Suede card-stock, eg the runner, the bike rider and the hiker, plus a walking stick and some plants.

Shading was added to the Soft Suede die cuts with Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ ink and a Sponge Dauber. The Vellum top section was lightly adhered in place. Multipurpose Liquid Glue was added to the back of the Vellum with another Sponge Dauber. The Soft Suede section was adhered in place at the base and the extra strip was positioned and die cut stamped tree tops were added to build dimension within the scene. The die cut plants were tucked behind the rocks on the back panel. The 3 figures were added with Dimensionals apart from feet and base of wheels that were adhered directly with a small dot of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

A birthday sentiment from the Something Fancy stamp set was white heat embossed on Soft Suede card-stock using Versamark ink, White Emboss powder and a Heat Tool. The sentiment was fussy cut and added with Mini Dimensionals. Some Enamel Dot Essentials added the finishing touch for the card design.

A Pale Papaya card-stock panel had a strip of the DSP added to the right and a small die cut piece of mountain top/rock was adhered at the base. A sentiment from the Greatest Journey stamp set was stamped in Soft Suede ink on a scrap of Pale Papaya card-stock. The sentiment was fussy cut as I wanted to omit a few of the words at the end of the first line. The card could be folded to fit into a standard Basic White C6 envelope. A thin strip of the DSP was added to the left edge of the envelope and a sentiment from the Something Fancy stamp set was stamped in Soft Suede ink. I wasn’t well so wasn’t able to attend the recipient’s birthday celebration and the card was given later, so this sentiment was perfect.

Thank you so much for dropping in. I so appreciate it.

There is more Soft Suede creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click the "onto the next" graphic below and be taken to the blog of the lovely and talented Rachel Woollard. I look forward to checking out Rachel’s creations. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always inspiration.

I hope to see you next week, when we will be commencing the new series of AWHT Colour Creations Blog Hops for 2023-2024. We will be featuring the new colours first, starting with Boho Blue, one of the new 2023-2025 In Colour family.

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 a 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 the new Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send it 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 #46 Soft Suede

Soft Suede with Grassy Grove and Happy & Heartfelt

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This Blog Hop is the last in the 2021-2022 series in working though all the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order. But never fear - next week we start afresh for 2022-2023.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a mid brown called Soft Suede. Soft Suede is part of the Neutrals Colour Family and is a mid brown with some red undertones. As a Neutral, this colour can combine with many colours - think of trees ie brown and greens or ground & rocks combining with a range of plants that is many colours. Nature is amazing.

Soft Suede is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends and Neutrals Designer Series Papers. The card below has used Soft Suede Classic Stampin' ink, Card-stock and a Stampin' Write Marker, plus a range of other non-PP bits and pieces.

Here is my card showcasing Soft Suede:

Soft Suede is a great neutral colour. In thinking about what I would do for this Blog Hop, I tossed around different ideas as I wasn't sure how to showcase the colour without the project being overly dark. I decided to use the Grassy Grove bundle complimented with New Horizons DSP for a background scene. I also decided to water-colour the die cut panel to show various tones of Soft Suede. As such I started by die cutting the tree scene from Shimmery White card-stock using the Grove dies. The 2 deers were cut at the same time. The 3 pieces were water-coloured using the wet on wet technique with Soft Suede Classic ink alone. The mother deer was made darker using the ink less diluted.

The tree scene die also cut out the scene in a piece of Soft Suede card-stock and a Pale Papaya card base. One of the designs of the delightful New Horizons DSP was stamped with some grasses and trees in Soft Suede. Some Starry Night Blends and the Colour Lifter coloured over some of the white bits. This panel was adhered directly to the inside back panel of the card. The water-coloured tree scene panel was added over the Soft Suede panel with Mini Dimensionals in-between. The 2 deers were carefully adhered at their hooves. A little of remaining DSP was added to the underneath top and bottom of the panel scene before it was adhered directly to the card base over the die cut scene.

The card front was finished with a sentiment from the Happy & Heartfelt stamp set that was White heat embossed on Soft Suede card-stock and fussy cut. The gorgeous Gold Simply Elegant Trim was tied into a bow and tucked beneath the sentiment. The soon to retire Gilded Gems added sparkle, together with some Shimmery Crystal Effects on the deers.

To ensure the card doesn't slide open when standing up on show, an extra piece of Pale Papaya card-stock was cut to 5cm x the width of the card and then scored at 1cm, 2.5cm and 4cm measuring along the 5cm edges. This piece was folded and burnished into a "W" and then the 1cm sections were adhered to the inside edges of the card. This holds the card open at the base to give the scene perspective without the card sliding flat over time.

As the card stands on its own with the die cut scene showing through to the layer behind, a panel for writing a personal message was mounted to the back of the card. A piece of Basic White card-stock was stamped across the bottom with the grassy stamp using Soft Suede ink, prior to it being mounted onto a slightly larger piece of Soft Suede card-stock. A Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped with trees in Soft Suede ink.

Thank you so much for dropping by. I do value that you spent time with me. I will be using this card to say a big "Thank You" to someone who organised a team to help with my brother's garden. They did an amazing job. I am planning to create more thank you cards from the New Horizons DSP for the others who helped. I so love this DSP and it is especially good to create for fellas.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the new Stampin' Up 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 this project or Stampin' Up!. 

There is more Soft Suede creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the very talented, Tina Gillepsie. I always look forward to checking out Tina's creation (I wonder what she has in store this week). I do love seeing everyones' projects - there are always so many ideas and such great inspiration.

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. Cathy is our wonderful 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. Check out her wonderful creation while you are there.

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Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase - #50 Soft Suede

Soft Suede with Very Versailles

Hi. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the 50th 2020-21 Colour Creations Showcase by members of the Art with Heart Team. We have worked through all the Stampin' Up! colours, except the newly introduced In Colours for 2021-2023 and the basics, Basic White, Basic Black and Very Vanilla. the basics would have been used by us all over the past year potentially as the bases for our creations.

Firstly, my apologies to anyone who checked in last week only to find a post with nothing creative in it. I have been quite sick and was in zombie mode last week, forgetting to delete the draft blog. I am starting to feel like I will "survive" but am still wrung out. I didn't want to miss this week's blog.

This week we are showcasing a neutral colour, Soft Suede. It is a deep brown and is part of the Neutrals' Colour Family. It's not a colour I have used very much, but having worked with it this week, I have decided it's a lovely brown. Soft Suede has been produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, & the Neutral's Designer Series Paper.

Soft Suede has not been a go to colour. In fact, it has been used very little. However, as I thought about what I would create, numerous ideas came to mind. Initially, the projects would have been suitable for fellas, but in thinking about colour combinations I really liked Calypso Coral with Soft Suede so was thinking of using this combo, together with Very Vanilla and potentially either Crumb Cake or Petal Pink (as a lighter variant of Calypso Coral). I commenced work on a fancy fold, but this morning changed tack completely as friends of mine are grieving the loss of their 17 year old poodle and I wanted to create a sympathy card for them. Here is my Soft Suede sympathy card:

The card base is Soft Suede card-stock with a layer of Very Vanilla card-stock that had been embossed with a new die, Stitched Greenery die. This die punches tiny holes in an all over leaf design. It is a pity you can't see more of this delightful design.

Two Very Vanilla card-stock card fronts were stamped with the scripty stamp from the Very Versailles stamp set. This set is a continuing stamp set, and is so gorgeous. I love it. The script was stamped in Soft Suede Classic Stampin' ink on one card front and with Calypso Coral ink on the second piece. A Blending Brush applied a centre circle of Petal Pink Classic Stampin' ink with Calypso Coral ink around the outer area. This was die cut with the second largest circle from the continuing Layering Circles dies.

The blended die cut circle was layered directly over the Soft Suede script so that script flowed through. The card front was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Calypso Coral card-stock. The leaf spray stamp was stamped twice on Very Vanilla card-stock; once with Soft Suede ink and the other with Versamark ink. The latter was heat embossed with Gold Emboss powder. Both sets of leaves were fussy cut. The Soft Suede leaves were adhered directly to the card front, while the gold embossed leaves were adhered with Mini Dimensionals.

A double bow was tied with the Very Vanilla twine from the Bakers Twine Essentials Pack and the gold trim from the Simply Elegant Trim. A little heart trinket from the Pet Trinkets was tied into the bow - reminiscent of a beloved dog's tag. Glue Dots were brilliant to attach the bows & trinket. A sentiment from the Very Versailles stamp set was stamped in Soft Suede on Very Vanilla and fussy cut out.The sentiment was added with Mini Dimensionals. To complete the design some Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels were sprinkled around.

The leaf spray was stamped in Soft Suede Classic Stampin' ink on Very Vanilla card-stock to create the card inner. A sentiment from the Pampered Pets stamp set was also stamped in Soft Suede. A coordinating Very Vanilla C6 envelope was stamped with the leaves in Soft Suede ink and the script in Calypso Coral.

Thank you so much for visiting Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I loved creating this card to share with you, even though with a heavy heart for my friends. A second project, is underway. Given other commitments I won't guarantee to add photos & details of the fancy fold. It will be a surprise!

Stampin' Up's 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue was launched earlier this month. If you are in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the Catalogue then let me know and I will be delighted to send one to you.

Catherine Proctor is our dedicated 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 the links to the participating blogs so you can find everyone's Soft Suede creations. Checking out everyone's creations and their interpretation of the amazing Stampin' Up! colours is always a treat and I am sure there will be inspiring Soft Suede projects on show.

I hope to see you again next week when members of the team share projects that hero the new 2021-2023 In Colours from Stampin' Up! The new In Colours are gorgeous so am looking forward to creating with them during the week.

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

Andrea 💕🐾