Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring stamp sets that you can colour in. We hope our blog hop inspires you to pick up some Stampin’ Write markers, watercolour pencils, Stampin’ Blends or another form of colouring medium and colour in with your stamps.
Don’t forget to contact any of the ladies on the blog hop to order any products, especially these limited edition Colour Your Season products (pictured below), only available until the end of August, or until supplies last.
My project tonight uses the new watercolour pencils. Here’s a close up of these gorgeous high-quality pencils, available in 10 new colours: Balmy Blue, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo, Garden Green, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, and Night of Navy.
These pencils are so easy to use and combined with the blender pen they give the most beautiful watercolour effect.
I’ve chosen a stamp set that allows me to showcase all of these gorgeous new watercolour pencils: it’s a hostess set called Hand Delivered.
You could colour these images in with your Stampin’ Markers, ink from your ink pads using an aqua painter as your brush, and Stampin’ Blends, or, as I have done on my card below, you can use watercolour pencils and blender pens.
This colouring-in technique is so incredibly easy. You simply stamp your image in black ink and then colour in with your watercolour pencils, working from the outside in. The trick to getting dimension is to leave some white space in the middle of each balloon (where the light would reflect) and then use your blender pen to smooth out any pencil lines, being careful to keep the centre of each balloon white.
Here’s a close-up of the balloons…don’t they look so shiny and realistic?
Once I’d finished colouring in, I fussy cut my balloon lady out (using my paper snips) and mounted her onto the DSP with mini dimensionals, layered over a base of Night of Navy cardstock (to match her skirt) and a Whisper White card base.
My balloon lady reminds me of a Royal Doulton figurine my grandmother had…I think it was called the Balloon Seller? I loved looking at that figurine.
The final touch is the “Happy Birthday” stamp, which I punched out using my classic label punch.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Caroline Manwaring.
If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:
Welcome to week 2 of the Art With Heart “Heart Of Christmas” blog hop.
Claire Daly began this weekly Christmas blog hop for the first time last year, and it was so inspiring for everyone involved she’s decided to do it again this year. Thank you, Claire!
Boy oh boy, I love twinkling lights and lanterns at any time of the year, but especially at Christmas time.
So when I saw this new punch bundle in the upcoming the Holiday Catalogue it went straight to the top of my wishlist!
The Making Christmas Bright bundle has so much possibility and versatility…I just know I’ll be making a lot of cards with this set.
I’m particularly excited about the card I’ve made today because it uses a technique I’ve been wanting to try for a long time, but I have to confess i don’t actually know the name of this technique, LOL!
So, I’ll just call it the fine tip glue technique for want of a better term.
This is such an easy technique and so perfect for this bundle because it really makes the Christmas lights look shiny like glass. Here’s a close-up side angle to give you a better look.
After stamping the light bulbs in assorted colours and punching them out with the Christmas Bulb builder punch I simply covered the images with a thin layer of Stampin’ Up! fine-tipped glue and left them to dry.
The base of the light bulbs were punched out of gold foil, and the pine needles were die cut from Garden Green cardstock using the Christmas Staircase dies. There are three of these pine needle branches in the set, which makes die cutting them out so quick and easy.
Crumb Cake cardstock was the ideal neutral card base to make all of these colours pop, and I heat embossed the gold strand the lights are hanging from (there’s a stamp for this in the Making Christmas Bright stamp set but it’s hard to see on my card under the pine needles and bulbs) as well as the “Making Spirits Bright” sentiment.
The final touch was to use mini dimensionals to adhere my light bulbs and make them really pop.
To see what the rest of the AWH team have made head back to the lovely Claire Daly’s blog.
To purchase any of the products I used in this project from the annual catalogue you can shop with me here.
You can order the new products from the holiday catalogue from September 5, or if you join as a demonstrator you can order them now…contact me if you’d like to find out more or receive a free copy of the holiday catalogue.
Welcome to week 12 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the beautiful brights: Coastal Cabana.
Coastal Cabana looks gorgeous with so many different colours but one of my favourite combinations is to use it with a vibrant red or pink. For this week’s blog, I decided to pair it with a gorgeous new red: Poppy Parade with just a touch of the delicious Granny Apple Green.
And no, I haven’t accidentally used Bermuda Bay instead of Coastal Cabana…Coastal Cabana can look a lot like Bermuda Bay depending on the light and the angle from which you take your photo.
The layout and colour scheme for my “Up and Away” card was CASED from a card I saw on Facebook, made by a very talented USA Stampin’ Up! demonstrator called Sara Flemming, however, I’ve changed a lot of the elements on this card to add more layers of texture and to give me a chance to play with my embossing paste again.
I began this card by using the cloud mask from the Party Pattern masks and my white embossing paste to make some fluffy clouds on my base layering piece of Coastal Cabana card stock. Once the paste was dry I I thought they looked too stark so used my aqua painter to tone down the whiteness of the clouds by colouring them with Coastal Cabana ink from my ink pad.
Can you see the other tiny white clouds stamped on the Coastal Cabana? These are stamped on using Whisper White craft ink using the one of the smallest cloud stamps from the gorgeous Lift Me Up stamp set.
The medium clouds and the balloons were also stamped with the Lift Me Up stamp set and then cut out using the co-ordinating Up and Away thinlits. The largest balloon has several different dies to create a multicoloured ballon and I used these dies to cut out my 3 different card stock colours: Coastal Cabana, Poppy Parade, and Granny Apple Green.
I used the largest cloud from this thinlit set to stamp my Happy birthday sentiment on by using the masking technique. This is so simple to do by using washi tape to cover the part of the sentiment you don’t want to stamp…just don’t forget to remove the washi tape from the stamp AFTER you’ve inked up the stamp and BEFORE you stamp the sentiment!
After adhering all of the elements to the card using Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, my final touch of texture was to add a little piece of the gorgeous new Poppy Parade Textured Weave Ribbon to the top of the Balloon basket. This ribbon is coming out in the new Holiday Catalogue…contact me if you’d like me to send you a copy of this catalogue.
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Anyone who’s ever been to my home knows I love copper.
My kitchen and pantry splashback, as well as my island bench all feature panels of pressed tin in a deep copper colour. I intended to paint these splashbacks with silver paint once they were installed (the copper colour is actually a byproduct of the priming process in the factory) but 5 years on since we finished our renovation I still can’t bring myself to cover the copper in silver.
So what better place to photograph my copper Christmas card for this week’s AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop than on my kitchen bench in front of my splashback!
Because the copper elements on this card are so rich I deliberately kept the rest of the elements quite neutral, using Very Vanilla Cardstock, and a sheet of a gorgeous new Crumb Cake coloured designer series paper from the holiday catalogue called All Is Bright DSP. Here’s a sneak peek of this DSP.
The other copper elements in this card include the copper star (part of the Snowflakes and Stars Wire Elements) and the copper washi tape (part of the Suite Season Washi Tape) both from the upcoming holiday catalogue. If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the brand new holiday catalogue or the 2018-2019 annual cataloguecontact me.
Products used from the annual catalogue include copper foil, copper metallic thread, copper embossing powder, copper trim, stitched framelits, and the Mistletoe Season Photopolymer Stamp Set.
This copper trim frays beautifully…and was just the perfect size to thread through the loop of the copper star.
I can’t wait to see what the rest of the team have made. To hop along our blog hop visit the gorgeous Clare Daly’s page here as she will be hosting the AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop each week.
Thanks for hopping along with the AWH today. To purchase any of the products I used in this project from the annual catalogue you can shop with me here.
You can order the new products from the holiday catalogue from September 5, or if you join as a demonstrator you can order them now…contact me if you’d like to find out more.
Welcome to week 11 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the regals colours: Cherry Cobbler.
This gorgeous rich colour is one of my favourite colours to use for Christmas, so I just couldn’t resist making a Christmas card this year using some of the beautiful new products from upcoming holiday catalogue, which I’m able to order early as a demonstrator.
Here’s the designer series paper that inspired me to make this card. It’s called Festive Farmhouse DSP and I love this colour combination of Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Gray Granite and Whisper White… it’s so classic!
As so often happens when I make a card, the card I ended up making is totally different to the card I thought I was going to create!
As soon as I saw the DSP with the Chery Cobbler writing on it I was smitten, and I knew I was going to use that DSP as the background paper for my card. But when I was trimming it to size, I saw there was an even better way to showcase all of the lovely Christmas sentiments on it, by using all of the little strips to make a tree.
There are some other lovely products from the new holiday catalogue featured in this card, such as the piece of striped burlap trim I used to make the pot the tree sits in, and the Festive Farmhouse cotton twine that sits above the little pot.
And on top of the tree sits the cutest star, which is one of two gold embellishments (the other one is a tree) in the All is Bright paper clips.
Here’s a closer look at the all of the lovely new products from the holiday catalogue used on this card.
If you wanted to mass produce this design for Christmas (and it’s very quick and easy to make using your Stampin’ Up! paper trimmer to cut precisely between the lines of text) you’d get dozens and dozens of cards from each sheet of this DSP.
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Thanks for hopping along with us today. To purchase any of the products I used in this project you can shop with me