Welcome to week forty of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Pool Party, a pale/green colour that is wonderful for skies and water. This is such a pretty and versatile colour!
I have a very special project to share with you this week. I’ve made another envelope counting book, using the SALE-a-bration Sunny Days 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.
If you didn’t see the counting book I made for SALE-a-bration last year and you’d like to know how to make an envelope album, I have included the instructions in this video.
Envelope albums are super easy to make as you only need envelopes and tear’n’tape. As you can see in the photo below, the envelopes form a spine as you adhere them together, making the counting book easy to open for little hands.
Throughout this counting book all of the letters and numbers are die cut using the Mini Alphabet dies and the Alphabet A La Mode dies.
The DSP for the box and the book is all from the Sunny Days DSP pack.
Here is a short 1 minute video that takes you through the pages of the Sunny Days DSP envelope counting book.
One Barn
The barn is made using Poppy Parade cardstock that has been embossed with the Timber embossing folder. The cow is stamped and punched out using the Cutest Cows bundle and the trees are die cut using the Forever Forest Dies.
Two Cows
The Rays of Light stamp has been stamped in Crushed Curry. The black arch on the left and the grass and hills on the right are die cut using the Garden Meadows dies.
The Crushed Curry sun is stamped and die cut using the Bright Skies Bundle. The flowers are also die cut using the Bright Skies dies.
Three Sunflowers
The three sunflowers are from the cutest Cows stamp set and the cardstock layers are die cut using the Radiating Stitches Dies and the Scalloped Contours Dies.
Four Gumboots
Both the gumboots and the flowers are stamped die cut using the Garden Meadow Bundle.
Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blends are an easy way to add colour, shine and dimension to the gumboots!
Five Playful Poultry
Two roosters, two chickens and a tiny chick are all stamped using the Cutest Cows Stamp Set.
Six Milk Churns
There are a lot of different products used to create this scene, which might be my favourite page in the book!
The Trucking Along Bundle (Crushed Curry truck and black milk churn trailer), Garden Meadows Dies (holding the milk churns onto the trailer), Garden Meadow dies for Shaded Spruce grass, Crushed Curry sun and the yellow flower.
The clouds were fussy cut from the Sunny Days DSP.
Seven Strawberries
The wheelbarrow has been stamped and die cut using the Garden Meadow bundle.
Fussy cut strawberries fill the wheelbarrow and the “shading” stamp from Garden Meadow stamp set grounds the scene.
Eight Clouds
These clouds were die cut from the Sunny Days DSP using the Bright Skies dies. The lightening and raindrops are also die cut using the Bright Skies dies.
Nine Cow Bells
As these little cow bells from the Cutest Cows stamp set are so small I needed to find a a way to make them stand out on the page.
Stamping the cow bells onto Crushed Curry cardstock and popping each cowbell onto a contrasting monochromatic green and white background makes them stand out for ease of counting by children.
And the hopefully the cows being green makes the reader laugh too!
Ten Trees and Ten Flowers
Lika many of the scenes in this counting book, the proportions are totally out of whack, but that’s pasrt of the charm of children’s books. You get to play with colour and proportion in fun and exciting ways that really create visual interest for the child, sparking their imagination.
A strip of this gorgeous Pool Party DSP from the Sunny Skies DSP is adhered to the back flap of my envelope album.
I made a simple box using the Sunny Skies DSP for the lid and Poppy Parade cardstock for the base.
I hope you enjoyed my envelope album! I just love making projects for children.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Palmieri – I can’t wait to see what has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Catherine Proctor – you are here!
We’ll be back showcasing Poppy Parade next Wednesday, 21st February. I hope you can join us then.
If Mem Fox can have green sheep, you can certainly have green cows! Wow – your counting book is spectacular!!!! I can’t even choose a favourite scene, as they are all so wonderful.
Oh Cathy, your counting book is so sooo amazing. I am in awe. Your book would be something to treasure for a little one learning to count. It’s so much fun; so gorgeous; and your creativity is wonderful. I love it and want to look at it again and again. xxx
Holy cow, this is even better than the last one!!! I don’t have this DSP and I think I want some now. You have used so many different products to bring this book to life. The two different alphabet dies work perfectly together as well, totally amazing project xxx
Oh wow Cathy this is just so super cute and a fabulous gift for a young one to treasure. Aside from the great way to use the papers and those fab alphabet dies.
Oh my goodness, Cath – this is just divine! Such fun, with gorgeous use of colour and images, and beautiful papers. I love how you incorporated the alphabet dies, too. Love it to bits.
Gorgeous book Cathy, a great follow up to last year’s. You have used this DSPperfectly.