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I’ll be back next week when the new 2025–2026 ANNUAL CATALOGUE goes live, the May Online Exclusives are released and two new kits will be added to the kit collection.
We’ll also be starting our 2025-25 AWH Colour Creations Insta Hop with one of the brand new Incolours, Cloud Cover.
Can you believe it’s Week 51, our very last week of the 2024 -2025 AWH Colour Creations hop!
After running this hop as a blog hop for many years, we transitioned to an Insta hop at the start of this year and we will continue as an Insta Hop for the 2025-2026 Blog hop which starts next week as the new Stampin’ Up! annual catalogue goes live.
This week we are saying farewell to Wild Wheat, one of the 2023–2025 In Colors that is about to retire and I’ve used the Cheerful Daisies stamp set and dies (also in the Last Chance section of the website) to make a birthday card.
The background DSP is from the Everyday Happiness 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper — I love its timeless patterns of florals, ginghams, polka dots in the teal and beige colour palette.
The gold embellishments come from the Garden of Thanks Kit or you could use the gold embellishments from the Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins.
I’ve coloured the daisies using Wild Wheat Stampin’ Blends and deliberately kept the colour pallette monochrome to let Wild Wheat take the centre stage!
Our blog hop is now an Instagram hop but the good news is that you don’t need to have an Instagram account to view all of the other projects! Simply copy any of the Insta handles below into a new search window to follow the Instagram hop at any point.
Next in our hop is Vicki @VickiBoucher. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase the products I’ve used for my card in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.
I’ll be back next Wednesday night with the start of our new 2025 – 2026 weekly AWH Colour Creations Insta hop when we will be showcasing Cloud Cover, one of the 5 brand new InColours.
A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order. Week 49 is all about Smoky Slate and as it’s Easter this weekend I decided to make an Easter card to give to my six-year-old niece when we catch up with my husband’s family on Saturday.
I’m so happy with how my soft Smoky Slate and Petal Pink Easter card card turned out, even though I didn’t have a specific Easter stamp set or dies!
The Easter bunny stamp and die are from the Storybook Friends bundle, coloured using Smoky Slate and Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends
The Easter eggs are die cut using the oval die in the Linked Together Dies, creating Easter eggs from Smoky Slate and Petal Pink DSP in the Country Lace DSP.
The flowers and foliage are die cut using the Linked Together Dies then coloured using Smoky Slate and Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends.
The sentiment is actually created using two different sentiments from the Storybook Friends stamp set and the embossed layer is dry embossed using the Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder.
The embellishments are Smoky Slate Pearls from the Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls embellishment pack.
Our blog hop is now an Instagram hop but the good news is that you don’t need to have an Instagram account to view all of the other projects! Simply copy any of the Insta handles below into a new search window to follow the Instagram hop.
Next in our hop is Kirsty @crafty.littlemiss. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
The full list of this week’s Insta Hop are listed below:
Rosa @hum.and.stamp
Helen @apaperparadise
Andrea @andreaksargent
Cathy @whatcathymade – you are here!
Kirsty @crafty.littlemiss
Kate @craftwithkate
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase the products I’ve used for my card in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.
I’ll be back next Wednesday night with our weekly AWH Colour Creations Insta hop when we will be showcasing Soft Sea Foam.
A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order. Week 48 is all about Shaded Spruce and I’ve made a birthday card.
The Shaded Spruce background layer on the left was created using blending Brushes to apply Shaded Spruce, Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green ink to Basic White cardstock.
I then used a water painter to splatter water and white ink refill diluted with water over the coloured cardstock.
The right hand side of the card front is a layer of Basic White cardstock embossed with the Eyelet Embossing folder. The left hand side of the card is the Shaded Spruce section of the coloured cardstock, torn on the edge.
The leaves are punched from the rest of the coloured cardstock using the Leaf Punch which is in the Last Chance products section of the website (as is the Gold Twisted Thread). The flowers and gold leaves are from the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper and the “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Greetings for All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack.
Our blog hop is now an Instagram hop but the good news is that you don’t need to have an Instagram account to view all of the other projects! Simply copy any of the Insta handles below into a new search window to follow the Instagram hop.
Next in our hop is Vicki @vickiboucher. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
The full list of this week’s Insta Hop are listed below:
A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order. Week 47 is all about Real Red.
I must confess I usually only use Real Red for Christmas cards, so it was good to challenge myself to use it for a birthday card this week. This is my colour combination and I love it!Â
My card was made following an excellent template I purchased from an amazing UK Demonstrator called Liz Shannon. I bought this tutorial from her intending to make the adorable mid century bookcase but I ended up making the Secret Sliding card instead. I will make the other projects too.
Here is a picture of the projects included in her tutorial.
The alternative products I used in my card include the pot plant from the Attention Shoppers stamp set for the left hand panel.
Another pot plant from the new Online Exclusives stamp set, “She’s the Greatest” is stamped on the right hand panel.
I’ve also used the “Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Country Birdhouse stamp set for the front of the card.
And another sentiment the Country Birdhouse stamp set on the writing panel on the back of the card too.
Here’s a short video to show you how this card opens and closes.
I made a custom made envelope out of Real Red cardstock to fit this special card and made a name label for the front of the card using the To the Point Label Punch and the coordinating Bright Borders Stamp Set.
Unfortunately, the book I’d ordered as the birthday gift did not arrive in time so I printed a copy of the book’s cover and popped it into one of the cute little Book Treat Boxes.
Our blog hop is now an Instagram hop but the good news is that you don’t need to have an Instagram account to view all of the other projects! Simply copy any of the Insta handles below into a new search window to follow the Instagram hop.
Next in our hop is Vicki @vickiboucher. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
The full list of this week’s Insta Hop are listed below:
