AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #49 Sweet Sorbet

Sweet Sorbet with Dainty Delight & Paper Florist

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 is the penultimate week for the 2023-2024 round. The year has disappeared so quickly.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a strong red with a slight purple tinge called Sweet Sorbet. Sweet Sorbet is part of the retiring 2022-2024 In Color Family and is a pretty red. This colour is lovely for flowers, hearts, a red and white colour scheme and anything you would like red.

Sweet Sorbet 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 Masterfully Made & Bee Mine DSPs; Adhesive-backed Hearts & Flowers, In Color Pearls; In Color Bakers Twine, and In Colour Metallic Woven ribbon. All of these products are retiring at the end of the month unless sold out earlier. If you love them - don’t wait to place your order. 

Sweet Sorbet ink, card-stock, Stampin’ Write Marker, Masterfully Made and Bee Mine DSPs, In Color Pearls and Adhesive-backed Hearts and Flowers embellishments have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Sweet Sorbet bits and pieces.

I saw this fancy fold created demonstrated recently by Emma Goddard, a very talented UK Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and it was fresh in my mind so it made its way into this project. As can easily happen the card evolved and ended up including a range of products from different suites & bundles. It also ended up using 2 completely different DSPs that both included Sweet Sorbet, ie the Masterfully Made DSP that includes Sweet Sorbet flowers and the Bee Mine DSP with its Sweet Sorbet hearts.

I started with one of the designs of Masterfully Made DSP and die cut a series of pieces from Basic White card-stock to create a number of flowers using the Paper Florist dies and the Meadows dies (both sets of dies are retiring too). The flowers were coloured with a Blending Brush, ensuring the tips of the flowers were pale and the centres darker. Sweet Sorbet, Fresh Freesia, Berry Burst and Daffodil Delight were the ink colours. Some Shaded Spruce was blended over the front Basic White card-stock panel. The choice of these colours were inspired by the DSP.

The back inside panel of the card was stamped in Momento ink with the larger image from the Dainty Delight stamp set (another retiring item). I re-inked my Momento ink pad and it drank in the ink quickly - and wow, what a difference it made to the stamped image. I don’t know about you, but it can be easy to keep using our ink pads and forget to give them a little TLC. It does make a difference and improves the end result so much.

After forming the flowers and arranging them with the leaves, something else was needed, so 3 sizes of bees from the Bee Mine DSP were fussy cut and added for a whimsical touch.  (Sometimes I can have a pixie-ish sense of humour.) A sentiment from the Dainty Delight Stamp set was stamped in Momento ink and fussy cut out.

The card was finished with a triple Sweet Sorbet Bakers Twine bow, Sweet Sorbet In Color Pearls and some Sweet Sorbet little Adhesive Backed Hearts. A little Sweet Sorbet splattering was added with a Stampin’ Write Marker.

A Basic White panel for writing a personal message was adhered onto the Sweet Sorbet inner Z fold. It was splattered using the Sweet Sorbet Stampin’ Write Marker and the larger bee and heart was adhered partially over the white panel and the stamped floral image.  A Basic White C6 envelope was also stamped with the larger Dainty Delight image to coordinate with the card.

Thank you so much for dropping by on you way around the second to last Colour Creations Blog Hop for the 2023-2024 series. There will be so much Sweet Sorbet inspiration. Don’t miss any of the projects.

To continue with the Sweet Sorbet blog hop just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a special lady and our blog hop coordinator, Cathy 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 Tahitian Tide as we finish 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.  She is a wonderful 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 2024-2025 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 #4 Sweet Sorbet

Sweet Sorbet with Happiness Abounds using Watercolour Techniques

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are continuing to work though new the Stampin' Up! In Colours and then will proceed through all the other colours in alphabetical order. 

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a bright red (that has a touch of pink) called Sweet Sorbet. As mentioned, Sweet Sorbet is part of the In Colour Family for 2022-2024 and is a lovely red. This colour is gorgeous on its own or can be combined with Blushing Bride & Sahara Sand or Smoky Slate. I’m looking forward to exploring this colour further.

Sweet Sorbet is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Stampin' Blends, In Colour Designer Series Papers, Lovely in Linen DSP, Tea Boutique DSP & Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes, In Colour Glimmer paper, Metallic Woven Ribbon, In Colour Bakers Twine Pack, In Colour Matt Decorative Dots. The cards below have used Sweet Sorbet Classic Stampin' ink (both re-inker and Stamp Pad), Card-stock and a Stampin’ Write Marker plus a range of other non-PP bits and pieces.

I have created 2 cards to showcase Sweet Sorbet:

Isn't Sweet Sorbet a lovely colour.  Initially I wasn't sure if I liked it but having played with this colour using water-colouring techniques, I am loving it. I also need to apologise for this week's photography - I usually photograph outside but it has been raining on and off all day. The photos haven't captured a true Sweet Sorbet colour and the lighting isn't brilliant. Will re-photograph them all tomorrow.

CARD 1:

This card shows the beauty of Sweet Sorbet through a water-coloured ombre panel. I have created a similar watercolour panel with the previous In Colours. It is a great technique to help get to know a new colour.

A half panel of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was fully watered down and then ink from a Sweet Sorbet Re-inker was applied to the top of the panel with the large flat Water Painter, allowing the ink to run/drip down to the bottom. The water-coloured panel, when dry, was mounted on to a slightly larger piece of Sweet Sorbet card-stock.  A Basic White card-stock card front was embossed with the delightful Stitched Greenery die, splattered with some Sweet Sorbet ink using a Stampin' Write Marker and then adhered directly to a Thick Basic White card base. 

Flowers from the Happiness Abounds stamp set were Gold heat embossed using Versamark, Gold Emboss Powder and a Heat Gun. These flowers were water-coloured using Blushing Bride ink and a touch of Sweet Sorbet ink in the centre of the larger flower. Once dry, the flowers could be cut with the coordinating Blossoming Happiness dies. As I was running out of time, I decided to punch out some leaves using the Bough Punch and Pearlescent paper. The floral arrangement was inspired by the current Global Design Project challenge that was to CASE a selected Charlotte Mallett card.

The centre panel was added to the card base with Dimensionals. This card front was finished with a sentiment from the same stamp set that had been White heat embossed on Sweet Sorbet card-stock. Some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels added some shimmer, together with a little Wink of Stella (which is so hard to capture in the photos).

A piece of Basic White card-stock was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Sweet Sorbet card-stock and then adhered into the inner card base. A couple of strips of left-over card-stock and the water-colour panel were added to the side together with a left over water-coloured rose and punched twig. The LHS of a Basic White C6 Envelope was stamped a number of times with the tiny twig of leaves stamp in Versamark ink and was then gold heat embossed. 

CARD 2:

This second card features more water-coloured roses. In fact the second card came into being because initially I had water-coloured the roses with a Petal Pink and Sweet Sorbet inks. As they were turned out darker in colour they didn't show up well on the water-coloured panel on card 1 so I stamped and gold embossed more flowers on Shimmery White card-stock for that card. Not wanting to waste the first set of water-coloured roses I created the card below.

A Basic White card-stock front was stamped with the little flower sprays from the Happiness Abounds stamp set using either Petal Pink or Sweet Sorbet (stamped off once) inks. The panel was dry embossed with the Gingham Embossing Folder. As I was creating this card I remembered Susan Wong's challenge (one of Stampin' Up!s Artisans' from New Zealand) to create using left-over bits and pieces. As my base card fronts are usually cut a little smaller that the front of a standard card base, I have a large pile 5-6cm wide strips of Basic White card-stock. Also, as a weaver, I thought I would weave a number of strips together and add them to the background as some extra interest. (I think I had seen something that had been tucked away for a time such as this.) I also added some Sweet Sorbet splatter.

The water-coloured roses were arranged around the woven strips and some leaves were stamped, gold embossed and water-coloured with Sahara Sand ink. The roses and leaves were adhered in place with either Multi-purpose Liquid Glue or Dimensionals.

A sentiment from the Happiness Abounds stamp set was White heat embossed on Sweet Sorbet card-stock, fussy cut and added with Mini Dimensionals over a bow tied with a thin strip of White Glittered Organdy Ribbon and Gold Simply Elegant Trim. Polished Dots were sprinkled around for that added touch of very subtle bling.

A piece of Basic White card-stock was mounted to a slightly larger piece of Sweet Sorbet card-stock before being adhered to the card inner. A left-over rose and a couple of leaves were added as well.  A Smoky Slate Stampin' Up! Slim-line Envelope was stamped with leaves that were gold heat embossed.

There is more Sweet Sorbet creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely, Diane Furniss. I always look forward to checking out Diane's creation (I wonder if she has created one of her amazing fun-folds?). I do love seeing everyones' projects - always so much inspiration.

Hope to see you next week when we will be featuring another In Colour, Tahitian Tide, as we continue the weekly 2022-2023 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 @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  I so appreciate all she 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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