Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring designer series paper. This month, Stampin’ Up! have a special on designer series paper, buy 3, get 1 free! We hope our blog hop inspires you to get crafting with your designer series paper.
There are so many great Designer Series Papers in the Annual Catalogue to chose from, but there is something very special about the two designer series papers I chose for my project today: Tropical Escape DSP and Animal Expedition DSP.
Can you guess what is so special about these DSP papers by looking at my card?
Both of these papers have images that are designed to be cut out with Stampin’ Up! dies from their coordinating stamp set and die bundles! How cool is that!!!!!
This makes card making so very quick and easy, and it ensures everything coordinates perfectly. And speaking of coordinating, even though there are different greens used in each of these DSPs they all look amazing together in a jungle/bush setting, so don’t forget when you’re card making that you can mix and match different DSP’s together!
I made this animal card for a very special person…my niece, who turned two a few weeks ago. She’s been overseas with her family for a few months, but they finally return this weekend and we are having a get together at my place to celebrate all of the July birthdays in our family.
I’m wasn’t really sure what to call this card when I began to make it. Is it an Australian bush card because of the kangaroo? Or is it an African jungle card because of the giraffe, the sloth and the hippo? And is it a crocodile or an alligator? But then I had a brainwave. I’m calling it my Taronga Zoo card because this is where all of these animals are found together…and it’s also one of my niece’s favourite places to visit!
This card was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest that was designed by a Tasmanian Stampin’ Up! demonstrator called Bronwyn Eastley. I bought her awesome tutorial to get the measurements and understand the mechanics of this card but I’ve adapted her original design to suit the DSP papers I wanted to use.
For the base of the card I used Old Olive cardstock, and then I covered all of the panels with the gorgeous Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green leaf patterned paper from Tropical Chic. The greens in the DSP across the top of the card that features the frogs on the branches are Call Me Clover and Lemon Lime Twist, and the gorgeous leaf ribbon (how cute is this ribbon!!!!) is also Call Me Clover.
Once I’d constructed the base of this card and added the panels of DSP, I went crazy with my bigshot and started cutting out animals from the Animal Expedition DSP, leaves from the Tropical Escape DSP, and extra leaves from coordinating cardstock and just kept layering until my Taronga zoo card was full of leaves and animals.
I had to fussy cut the sloth on his branch and the crocodile, but all of the other animals had their own die, which made this card super easy to make.
This card folds down to fit into a standard card sized envelope, and I can’t wait to see the look on my niece’s face when she pulls the card out of the envelope and realises it opens up to create a 3-D zoo scene!
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Kate Morgan.
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Welcome to week 8 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the regals family: Cajun Craze.
I need to share a little secret with you…Cajun Craze is a colour I had never used before today, and it was a colour I really struggled to embrace. But the process of making my project for this week not only made me enjoy this colour and see its possibilities…it also made me use some products I’d had for quite a while but had been too scared to use!
That’s right, I had been too scared to use embossing paste but let me tell you it is SOOOOOO much fun to play with, super easy to use and to colour (even without re-inkers) … check out the dimension on my Cajun Craze brick wall below!
I think nature is such a wonderful source of inspiration and as soon as I realised Cajun Craze was the colour of terracotta and house bricks the design of this card fell into place.
I was wondering how to tint the embossing paste without a re-inker but it is actually so easy to do by using an ink pad and a silicon sheet. You simply open the inkpad and tap some ink onto the silicon sheet, add some embossing paste and mix it all together with a palette knife.
My little terracotta pot is stamped using the Crafting Forever stamp set and then fussy cut and attached to the brick wall with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I wrapped linen thread around the pot, used a glue dot to hold the knot in place and tied a double bow. The old olive leaves are stamped with the Painted Harvest Stamp Set and then punched out with the leaf punch, and the little flowers and skinny leaves are the gorgeous Tropical Elements embellishments, also attached with glue dots.
Here’s a close up of these gorgeous little embellishments!
The final touch is the Happy Birthday sentiment stamped from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp set…this is my favourite Happy Birthday stamp and I’ve lost track of the number of times I have used it!
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Welcome to week 7 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the subtles family: Blushing Bride.
Originally I had decided to make a card inspired by the stunning colour combination in the Tropical Escapade Designer Series Paper – Blushing Bride, Granny Apple Green and Shaded Spruce – but when I sat down the make this card last weekend, inspiration ended up coming from a far more personal place.
On Sunday morning at 6.30am, a group of us gathered at Freshwater Beach to remember my friend Justine, who was shot dead one year ago by a police officer in the United States. It’s had to believe it’s a year since we last gathered together on this beach in total shock and disbelief, throwing pink flowers into the ocean…and even harder to believe we still don’t understand why she was killed.
This year we once again celebrated Justine’s beautiful, caring and kind nature with pink flowers (her favourite colour), but this time we laid the flowers around a heart made of candles.
Have you ever seen such a beautiful heart?
When I came home to make my card for this week I was so inspired by that heart of pink flowers, which is why I decided to make my card using the stunning Petal Promenade DSP.
I began by layering a piece of the DSP onto a whisper white card and then I laid a piece of vellum over the DSP to allow the elements on the top of the card to stand out against (rather than compete with) such a strong background visual. I love the way vellum softens the DSP but still allows it to shine.
Did you notice that stunning rose on the front of my card? It’s from the “Notes of Kindness” Card Kit, which is incredibly appropriate for this card because Justine really was one of the kindest people you’d ever meet.
In addition to the rose from the “Notes of Kindness” Card Kit, this card uses a lot of my favourite Stampin’ Up! things, including burlap ribbon, linen thread, and that darling little “for you” tag from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set and its matching Bouquet Bunch Framelits dies.
I die cut the other elements on the front of this card with the Petals and More Thinlits and the Tropical Thinlits. I’m really loving this colour combination of Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake and Mossy Meadow!
To complete the inside of this card I decided to add a stamped and punched out Happy Birthday and some more Petals and More Thinlits in Blushing Bride and Whisper White.
The “Notes of Kindness” Card Kit also comes with the most beautiful envelopes lined with Blushing Bride DSP…LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these envelopes! I specifically made my card to fit in this gorgeous envelope.
The recipient of this card will be another incredibly kind person…my Aunty Rob, who has just turned 82.
Aunty Rob’s late husband, my Uncle Bob, was an amazing gardener who grew the most beautiful roses in their garden, so I’m hoping the roses on this card will bring back fond memories for Aunty Rob when I catch up with her for a belated birthday lunch this week.
Aunty Rob, Uncle Bob and Justine…these beautiful pink roses remind me of just how lucky I’ve been to have such kind and generous people in my life.
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Welcome to week 6 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the 2018 – 2020 In Colours: Blueberry Bushel.
For my project this week I decided to showcase Blueberry Bushel by using products from the Best Route suite, including the Best Route Designer Series Paper, the En Route stamp set, and the new Best Route Memories & More Card Pack.
I love how this Best Route DSP combines Blueberry Bushel with Basic Black, Gray Granite, Mango Melody and Pineapple Punch. Doesn’t this colour combination really pop?
And how amazing are these new Memories & More Card Packs, designed to be used for both cardmaking and scrap booking?
The card I made this week was a very, very special card for a very, very special person in my life: my hubby!
You see, he finally sold his business of 20 years this week, and selling it was a huge leap of faith into the unknown, both personally and career-wise. This was a business he built from scratch in an industry that wasn’t really his passion…but he has persevered and worked very hard in it for the past 20 years to support our family.
I designed this card as I was making it around the card sizes in the Best Route Memories & More Card Pack, and I also used stamps from the inspirational stamp set, Seize the Day (and the wonderful “just breathe” stamp set from Colourful Seasons). These sets are both great for male cards and they were simply perfect for all of the things I wanted to say to my hubby.
I’m not sure what you call this type of fancy fold card as I made it up as I went along! Maybe it could simply be called multi-fold card? Hopefully, these pictures will explain more clearly how I made it.
I began with the centre section of the card and added flaps to the top, bottom, left and right of the centre section. The centre section is made with one A4 piece of Gray Granite with 2 of the Memories & More smaller sized cards aligned to the right of this piece of cardstock, with fold line scored to the left of these cards. The bottom card I deliberately left blank to write a message on.
To make the right hand flap, I used another piece of A4 Gray Granite cardstock, cutting and folding as per measurements below. There’s about an inch of extra cardstock to the left of the fold line…you just need to leave enough to be able to adhere this piece to the centre piece of the card.
I adhered 2 strips of tear and tape and then attached the right-hand flap to the centre section of the card.
The top flap was made with the leftover piece of cardstock I chopped off from the right-hand flap (see earlier image), and then I cut an identically sized piece for the bottom flap. Both top and bottom flaps were attached using tear and tape, just like the right flap.
And here’s how the entire card looks as you gradually open each flap to unfold the card.
All closed up, with the bottom flap on the front of the card ⇓.
With the top and bottom flap opened ⇓.
With the left and right flap opened ⇓.
And here is the reverse of the card…I cut a piece of Gray Granite cardstock to cover all of the joins where I’ve attached the flaps to the card.
Thanks so much for hopping along with the Art With Heart Team on our weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop.
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Welcome to week 5 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing a returning in colour: Blackberry Bliss.
Blackberry Bliss is such a scrummy rich colour and to showcase this colour I decided to pair it with Rich Razzleberry and Crumb Cake to make a very special card for a very special person…Donna Williams from our Stampin’ Up! home office here in Australia.
So why was I making a card for Donna (aside from the fact she is such a sweetie)…and why have I taken a selfie of both of us?
Well, SOMEBODY went away on their annual crafting weekend with their downline and customer and misread a text message about who was bringing the Bigshot for the weekend.
And then SOMEBODY realised when they arrived at their destination and all the wonderful new Stampin’ Up! products were unpacked that there was not a single Bigshot in the house!
So SOMEBODY put out a call on social media to see if there were any Stampin’ Up! demos who lived nearby who could lend us a Bigshot for the weekend…
…and the lovely Donna Williams came to the rescue!
So when SOMEBODY went to Donna’s place to collect the said Bigshot, they needed to quickly make a card to go with the thank you bunch of flowers…a card that used a punch instead of a Bigshot to cut out the stamped images!
Luckily, SOMEBODY had bought the fantastic new Varied Vases stamp and punch bundle away with them on their crafting weekend!
This beautiful bundle was created to celebrate an American Stampin’ Up! demo called Mary Fish reaching $1 million in Stampin’ up! sales…how cool it that?
Varied Vases is such a great bundle for stampers of all levels…especially stampers who don’t own a Bigshot, or those stampers who do own a Bigshot, but forget to take it away on a craft weekend!!!!!
And just how perfect is that sentiment on the front of the card? Donna really is “simply is the best” for coming to our rescue!
Because Blackberry Bliss is a very dark colour I decided to pair it with lots of clean white space, a touch of Crumb Cake, and the lovely Rich Razzleberry. The middle vase was stamped with Blackberry Bliss that was stamped off once, which makes it look a lot like Rich Razzleberry.
Kate Morgan shared a top tip for using this set…by stamping the vase outlines first in a light colour at the same time as the flowers (before you later mount the stamped and punched vases over the top) you can perfectly align the images. You can see my lightly stamped vase outlines in the photo below, as well as the little bow of linen thread that adds a final touch of texture to the card.
I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Art With Heart team have come up with for their Blackberry Bliss projects for this week’s blog hops!
Just click on the links below to see what they’ve all made.
