AWHT Colour Creations #25 Mango Melody

Mango Melody with Sending Hugs and Tidings & Trimmings

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

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a delightful yellow with a touch of orange called Mango Melody. Mango Melody is part of the Brights Colour Family and is a lovely colour for flowers, certain fruit, the sun and autumn leaves to name a few. It is also a great orange yellow that works brilliantly with bright pinks like Magenta Madness. 

Mango Melody is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Markers; Soft Pastels Assortment; the Brights & Sweet as a Peach Designer Series Paper; Rainbow Glimmer Paper; Ombre Speciality Paper and the Artistry Blooms Adhesive-backed Sequins. The cards below have used Mango Melody Classic ink, Card-stock, Stampin' Write Marker; Soft Pastel, Artistry Blooms Sequins, Rainbow Glimmer Paper and a little bit of the Sweet as a Peach Designer Series Paper plus a range of other bits and pieces.

Here are my cards showcasing Mango Melody:

I wasn't sold that Mango Melody would be great for Christmas cards but as I am still needing to build my Christmas card stash I decided to take up the challenge. Mango Melody is lovely for flowers, so what flowers could I choose? I decided to go with a non-traditional bundle for Christmas. Also, in my musings, I thought that Mango Melody would be good to illustrate light/illumination which led me to think of stars - my second card was born.

CARD 1:

As I was browsing my floral bundles I spied the Sending Hugs stamp set and thought of sending "Christmas Hugs". Loving Mango Melody with Mossy Meadow and Gold (metallic) I chose this colour combo, but also added touches of Cherry Cobbler for the berries to bring a touch of tradition to the colour combo.

The main Sending Hugs stamp, was stamped in Versamark ink on Shimmery White card-stock and heat embossed with Gold Emboss powder and a Heat Gun. The image was water-coloured using the fine Water Painter with Mango Melody, Mossy Meadow, Cherry Cobbler and Pool Party Classic Stampin' ink for the background. Once dry, the image was fussy cut. A small section of the Shimmery White card-stock was water coloured in an ombre effect from Cherry Cobbler, Mango Melody and Mossy Meadow inks. The HUGS letters were cut from this section with some Foam Adhesive Sheet attached.

A piece of Basic White card-stock was dry embossed with a Painted Texture 3D embossing folder and then splattered with Mossy Meadows and Mango Melody ink from Stampin' Write Markers. This was mounted on a slightly larger piece of Mango Melody card-stock. Some Gold Shimmer Ribbon was tied around the card front.  A piece of Mossy Meadows card-stock (for the background) was gold heat embossed around the edges after stamping the edges with the leaves from the same stamp.

The water-coloured panel was adhered to the card front. Some Vellum card-stock was cut with the large die and adhered over the water-coloured panel. The letters spelling HUGS were added and the word "Christmas" from the Words of Cheer stamp set was White heat embossed on a small piece of Mango Melody card-stock. A bow with Gold Shimmer Ribbon was tucked under the edge of the coloured panel with a couple of Glue Dots and some Mango Melody sequins (from the Artistry Blooms sequins) added some shimmer.

Basic White card-stock was stamped in Mango Melody Classic ink with another greeting from the Words of Cheer stamp set and some leaves from the main Sending Hugs stamp were added to the RHS edge. Similarly a Basic White C6 envelope was stamped with the leafy edge of the large stamp in Mango Melody ink.

CARD 2:

A piece of Basic White card-stock was dry embossed with the Merry Melody 3D embossing folder. Some powder scraped from a Mango Melody Soft Pastel (from the Soft Pastel Assortment) was lightly applied with a Blending Brush over the centre of this embossed card-front. This was mounted at an angle to a piece of Mango Melody card-stock; which in turn was mounted to a Basic White Thick card-stock base.

The detailed star die from the Christmas Trimmings dies cut a star from Rainbow Glimmer Paper at the Mango Melody end. One edge of the star went into the Magenta Madness section. This decided my colour scheme, ie Mango Melody with Magenta Madness on white. Both Mango Melody and Magenta Madness water-colour washes were added to Shimmery White card-stock. A patterned star was stamped in Mango Melody ink on the Mango wash. Small stars were die cut over the stamped image and from the Magenta Madness wash and a larger star was also cut from the Mango Melody wash.

The stars needed something to ground them on the card-front, so a strip of coordinating Sweet as a Peach DSP (that was a combination of Mango Melody and Calypso Coral with dots of white) was added across the centre. To give the detailed star some dimension, 5 Basic White die cut stars were layered on top of each other, with the Rainbow Glimmer star on top. This thicker star was adhered to the large star cut from the Mango Melody water-colour wash. The stars were arranged and adhered in place. Some Gold Glimmer Ribbon was deconstructed and some of the threads were wrapped around and adhered to the back of the large star.

"Noel" from the Tidings & Trimmings stamp set was stamped in Mango Melody ink on Basic White card-stock that had a little Mango Melody Soft Pastel lightly colouring the centre. Some delightful Mango Melody Artistry Blooms Sequins were sprinkled around to add some more glimmer. The final touch was the addition of some sprinkled Wink of Stella. 

A card inner of Basic White card-stock layered at an angle over Mango Melody card-stock was stamped in Mango Melody ink with a star from the Tidings & Trimmings stamp set. The same star and ink was added to a Basic White C6 envelope. As Shelli said again recently - there should never be a naked envelope.

The colour combinations are not traditional Christmas colours. Must admit, many of my cards have not used traditional colour schemes this year. Are you strictly traditional in your colour schemes?

Thank you so much for dropping by.

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 these projects or Stampin' Up!. 

There is more Mango Melody creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of a talented lady, Kate Morgan. As always, I am looking forward to checking out Kate'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 Melon Mambo; and don't forget that the AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop is launched every Monday evening at 8pm AEST until the end of November. There is only 2 more HOC blog hops for this year.

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.

#colourcreationsbloghop  #colourcreationsbloghop2021  #stampinup  #artwithheartteam #sendinghugs  #tidings&trimmings

AWH Heart of Christmas 2021 #1

Christmas with Tidings & Trimmings

Hi. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the first Art with Heart Team's 2021 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. We will be continuing a weekly blog hop every Monday night through to mid December.

How quickly the year is passing. It is July already - and in Australia many celebrate Christmas in July - usually so we can enjoy a traditional Christmas meal without sweltering in the heat. However, are you thinking "its too early to start preparing for Christmas"? I do understand your thoughts, but last year I had made new friends on the other side of the world and so wanted to send Christmas cards. The trouble was ... by the time I thought about it and got my act into gear and posted the cards - the Christmas cards arrived well into the New Year. I need to be more on the ball this year, check with the Post Office re postage times so my cards arrive in the United Kingdom, Europe, USA & Canada all before Christmas. This means I need to start creating now ...

When first perusing the new Stampin' Up 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue I spied the Tidings and Trimmings bundle including the die cut stars - it went on my list. This is the bundle used for this first Heart Of Christmas blog hop. 

Last month I was asked at one of my classes to show how to create a soft blended background. This was the starting point for my project and will be made in the class next month. The background was created using Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' ink and Stampin' Up!'s delightful Blending Brushes on Basic White card-stock. A little water was spritzed on the coloured area and a Misty Moonlight Stampin' Write Marker was used to flick some blue spots around. Once dry, this front panel was adhered directly to a Balmy Blue card-stock base.

The next step was die cutting using the Christmas Trimmings dies. Four stars of the larger star were die cut from Thick Basic White card-stock and 4 of the mid-size star were also cut from Thick Basic White card-stock. Why did I cut so many stars you may ask? I wanted some dimension for the stars and so decided to stack and adhere 4 die cuts - one on top of the other - for the larger star. There were only two die cuts stacked on top of each other for the mid-sized stars. Five tiny stars were die cut from the Night of Navy Ombre Glimmer Paper. They were individually positioned.

After arranging the stars, I decided on the positioning of the sentiment. Using my trusty Stamparatus, "Noel" was stamped directly on the card front using Night Of Navy ink. The stars were all adhered in place.

To add some starry sparkle Rhinestone Basic Jewels were sprinkled around. It still needed something else. Wink of Stella was flicked over to add some delightful shimmer over the starry sky. Its a pity the camera doesn't pick up the shimmer effect. It's gorgeous in real life.

Some stars and a sentiment from the Tidings and Trimmings stamp set were stamped in Night of Navy ink on to a piece of Basic White card stock to form the card inner. I realised when taking the photographs of this project that I hadn't as yet stamped the envelope to coordinate. Some stars will be stamped in Night of Navy ink on a Basic White C6 Envelope before it is posted.

Thank you for visiting Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I had fun playing with a blended background and creating this Christmas project to share. My Monday class ladies will be making this card next month. They saw it this morning as a foretaste of what is to come.

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 then let me know and I will be delighted to send one to you. Please don't hesitate to make contact if you have any other queries about this project or Stampin' Up!

There is more Christmas creativity. To continue with the blog hop, click on the "next" graphic to be taken to the lovely Kate Morgan's blog. I am looking forward to checking out Kate's creation and everyone else's.

Hope to see you next week for the second AWH Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2021. There is so much Christmas inspiration to share and Christmas in July is the right time to start card-making. Then, in August the new Mini Catalogue will be launched which will have so many gorgeous Christmas products and I'm sure it will lead to an explosion of further Christmas inspiration.

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

Andrea 💕🐾

  

I am so appreciative of Sharon Davern, together with Tina Gillespie and Rachel Woolard, who are our dedicated hosts for the Art with Heart Team Heart of Christmas Blog Hop for 2021. They are special ladies and I thank them for taking up this role. I really enjoy this Blog Hop each year.

I always love seeing everyone's creations and the way they use the amazing Stampin' Up! products. I am sure there will be gorgeous Christmas projects on show, so do make sure you check out each blog. 

If at any time you find a broken link and the next blog doesn’t come up please head to the blog of this week’s host for the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Sharon Davern, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

#heartofchristmas