Welcome to week 1 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
Because we have 52 stunning Stampin’ Up! colours (not including Whisper White) and 52 weeks of the year, it really made sense to decide to do a weekly blog hop to showcase each and every one of these beautiful colours.
Stampin’ Up! have had a colour refresh this year, introducing 10 new core colours, 6 returning favourites, and 5 new in colours. Here’s the entire list of Stampin’ Up! colours for 2018-2019.
Working through the colours in alphabetical order, we begin our blog hop this week with a brand new colour: Balmy Blue. Balmy Blue is part of the subtles colour family and a great replacement for the now retired Marina Mist.
To showcase this colour I’ve paired it with a classic and elegant colour combination of neutrals: Night of Navy and Whisper White, with just a touch of Old Olive for the leaves in the bouquet. Something old and something new… Night of Navy and Balmy Blue.
This card uses one of my all-time favourite stamp sets, Beautiful Bouquet, with the matching Bouquet Bunch Framelits dies.
That little gift tag is just the sweetest…can you see it peeping out from behind the Night of Navy bakers twine?
I’m hopeless at remembering to stamp the inside of my cards so I’ve set myself a personal challenge with this blog, to stamp the inside of every card!
I’m really looking forward to using Balmy Blue with lots of different colour combinations and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Art With Heart team have come up with today. Just click on the links below to see what they’ve all made.
Just 2 more sleeps to go before the new Stampin’ Up! annual catty is released…and also before some lovely products retire.
Today I’m sharing a project that uses one of these retiring products: the Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Bundle.
In two days time my beautiful niece, who is about to turn 2, flies to Amsterdam with my brother and sister-in-law so I decided to make her a little toy to help with the long flight, a memory game.
The Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Bundle, as well as the and the co-ordinating Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper are ideal for this project because the dies cut out images from the paper as well as the stamp set.
This memory game was so super easy to make. I cut 12 3×3″ squares of whisper white and stuck these squares to the co-ordinating DSP. I chose the yellow pattern as the back pattern for the memory cards because it is important for this game to choose a pattern that is the same for each card.
The pairs of images on the cards were cut from the designer series paper with the dies (so there was no stamping or colouring required) and simply glued to the whisper white cardstock. I used the corner rounder punch to round the corners of the cards.
To finish off the project I popped all of the cards into a mini pizza box, topped it with some more of the yellow patterned DSP to match the memory card inside, as well as a die cut image from the DSP.
Finally, I tied it all up with some of the retiring crinkled seam binding ribbon in peekaboo peach.
You can purchase any of these products in my online store.
Or contact me if you’d like a copy of the new Stampin’ Up! 2018-2019 catalogue.
Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring “in colour” theme. Check out the new 2018 – 2020 in colours and let’s not forget the current 2017 – 2019 in colours. If you would like a copy of the 2018-2019 annual catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.
Because the 2018-2020 in colours are just so vibrant and beautiful I knew the Graceful Glass Suite would be the perfect suite to showcase these colours.
For this project, I used the gorgeous Graceful Glass designer vellum pack to make four bookmarks and a greeting card. Along the way, I learned a couple of tricks for adhering vellum without any adhesive showing and for making your own coloured ribbon.
These four bookmarks are from just one sheet of this vellum…this sheet can also be used as a single piece or cut in half to make smaller cards or cut into four to make four bookmarks like I have made here.
I love this vellum because you can colour it with markers, pencils or blends, and even add colour by simply laying it on the top of the coloured cardstock. This vellum is super easy to colour in and looks amazing with any colour combination…just be careful not to smudge inky fingers over the top of it like I did, LOL!
I used the new 2018-2020 in colour markers to colour the vellum and I tried to highlight a different in colour on each bookmark. Left to right in the photo below we have: Blueberry Bushel, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, and Call Me clover. The lovely red colour is the fifth in colour: lovely lipstick.
Want to know the best ever way to adhere the vellum? All you need is some Tombow glue, a sponge, and a silicon mat. Squeeze a small amount of Tombow onto your silicon mat and use your sponge to lightly and evenly spread it across the reverse side of the vellum and then adhere the vellum to your cardstock. You clean up your sponge and mat by simply running under warm water. Too easy!
To further showcase these in colours I decided to colour the soft and versatile Whisper White 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Organza Ribbon (this is a retiring item, only available until May 31, or sold out). Once again, this is so easy to do. Simply lay the ribbon on some scrap paper and colour on both sides with your marker or blender pens and then leave it to dry.
I adhered the coloured vellum to whisper white cardstock, and then to some in colour cardstock, punched a hole for the ribbon using the 1/8″ hole punch, and threaded through both a length of white organza ribbon and a length of the hand coloured ribbon.
Finally, I just couldn’t resist making a matching card using another design from the Graceful Glass designer vellum pack because the in colours are the exact colours of Australia Rosellas and Parrots. This card features all of the new in colours but the main one is lovely lipstick, the red cardstock. The bird image on the vellum reminds me of an old Arnotts Biscuit tin my Nan used to have. Nan would keep an assortment of my favourite biscuits in the tin and bring it out for me to choose a biscuit (or two or three!) when I went to her place for a cuppa.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my projects today and feel inspired to create something yourself with these beautiful 2018-2020 in colours and the versatile Graceful Glass Suite…these products will be available June 1, 2018, just a week away from now!
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Monika O’Neill. I can’t wait to see what Monika has made!
If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below: Ros Davidson
Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring products from the last chance products list.
There are lots of products to choose from with retiring stamp sets, ink pads and ink refills guaranteed to be available until 7 May (and all other products while supplies last).
Contact anyone on the blog hop to place your last chance order today.
Watercolour Wings (and its matching die sets, Bold Butterfly Framelits Dies and Butterflies Thinlits Dies) is one of the stamp sets I’m really going to miss when it retires on May 31 this year. This beautiful set can be used with any combination of colours and the watercolour-look photopolymer 3 step stamps are incredibly forgiving of any mistakes.
To showcase this retiring bundle I decided to make a butterfly display box. I’ve been thinking about making this home decor piece for a while now, but it was a recent trip to America that really triggered this project.
Earlier this year I was incredibly lucky to finally visit a city that I’ve always wanted to visit: New York, New York. We only had a week there but managed to cram so much in, including a visit to the Museum of Natural History, where we walked through an incredible exhibit of live butterflies in a rainforest.
We were surrounded by thousands of these gorgeous creatures as they landed on our heads and our hands, but they were quite tricky to photograph.
Much easier to photograph were the amazing butterfly display boxes in the main section of the museum, and this one below was my absolute favourite.
To make my own butterfly display box I simply stamped a variety of different coloured butterflies using the larger butterfly stamps and then stamped the body of the butterflies in black.
Generally, I found that a lighter colour works best as the background colour, allowing the darker and bolder colours to really pop out the details of the butterflies. Some of my favourite retiring colours – Tempting Turquoise, Perfect Plum, and Soft Sky – worked especially well for this project.
I die cut the butterflies out using the Bold Butterfly Framelit that matches the larger of the 2 butterfly stamps and then arranged them on the backboard of a shadow box. The butterflies were attached using Foam Adhesive Strips to really make them pop.
As I attached the butterflies to the board I bent their wings forward…you can see in the image below (where just the left column has been attached) how the butterflies really come to life once their wings are bent and they are mounted on a foam strip.
It’s really hard to photograph the butterflies inside the shadow box because of the reflection off the glass, so here is the finished product before I put it into the shadow box. Don’t they look like they might all just take flight at any moment?
And here’s the best photo I could get of the shadow box. It’s still a bit glary from the reflected light but it shows you just how pretty they all look lined up inside the shadow box.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Sharon Davern. I can’t wait to see what Sharon has made!
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Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing their Easter creations.
Don’t forget, Sale-a-bration has just over a week left to earn free product with purchase…and it is also a fabulous time to join Stampin’ Up!
Ask any of the girls on the hop for more details.
Easter Egg Silver Mini Gable Boxes
Don’t you just love these silver mini gable boxes?
They are so easy to decorate, look very professional, and their silver foil colour is a great neutral that works with any colour.
You can also open them up and turn them inside out if you’d like a plain white surface to work with and add colour to, but I decided to stick with the silver theme for my Easter Egg boxes.
Box 1: Springtime Foils Easter Egg Box
For my first box I used products from the Occasions catalogue and the Sale-a-bration catalogue.
I simply cut some pieces of the gorgeous Springtime Foils specialty DSP and adhered them to four sides of the gable box using double sided tape and attached two matching silver Petal Passion embellishments using Silver Bakers Twine and Whisper White organza ribbon.
So quick and easy…but incredibly effective with that stunning foil DSP.
Box 2: Sweet Soiree Easter Egg Box
For my second box I inserted a window panel into the front of the box so you can see the eggs inside. This was super easy to do.
I carefully opened the side seam of the box then ran one side through my big shot and cut an oval window using one of the oval stitched shape framelit dies.
The clear window pane was created by using the next largest oval stitched shape framelit die to cut out a piece of window sheet, which attached with glue and double sided tape.
After resealing the box (using double sided tape) and filling the box with my speckled eggs I used some of the pieces from the Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit to decorate my box and tied a bow to the top with Berry Burst metallic-edge ribbon.
Box 3: Moon Baby Bunny Easter Egg Box
The third box is my favourite because it is just so much fun. I used the grass die from the Picnic Basket Builder framelits dies to cut Lemon Lime Twist card stock and attached this to the bottom of the box… it is the perfect length for the longer side of the box. For the two shorter ends I simply cut down one piece to size.
The darling little bunny is stamped using one of the Moon Baby stamps and then fussy cut…but can you guess what I used to make the various sized eggs?
The largest egg is punched using the ballon builder punch (use scissors to trim off the base of the balloon and you have an egg shape).
The medium egg is punched using the leaf punch (you trim the 3 ‘eggs’ from the leaf), and the smallest egg is cut from the top of the wooden spoon shape in the Apron Builder framelits.
I love the glittery effect the Myths and Magic Glimmer paper gives to my little eggs hiding in the grass!
Apron Builder Easter Egg Card
And finally, I just couldn’t resist making this super easy card using another die from the Apron Builder Framelits…it’s a little cracked egg.
Although my stamping isn’t perfect on this one, this fun and easy card uses the Labeller Alphabet Stamp set to stamp the sentiment, with the colourful striped Birthday Memories DSP as the background piece.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Kathryn Mangelsdorf.
If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:
