Welcome to week sixteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Calypso Coral from the Subtles Family and I’ve decided to CASE the designs from the gorgeous Happy Houseplants Kit. This was so much fun to do!
These are the four framed plants included in the Happy Houseplants Kit.
Card One
I’ve CASED the “Mother-in-law’s tongue” houseplant (AKA snake plant) using the Planted Paradise Stamp Set, Pecan Pie cardstock and Calypso Coral DSP from the Subtles Designer Series Paper.
I stamped the plant in Garden Green ink onto Lemon Lime Twist cardstock before fussy cutting the images out. The “Happy birthday” sentiment is from the Sentimental Park Stamp Set.
Card Two
The Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera) is one of my favourite indoor plants!
I’ve used the Tropical Leaf Bundle, Pecan Pie cardstock and Calypso Coral DSP from the Subtles Designer Series Paper to create my Swiss Cheese Plant.
Card Three
This plant (can you help me with the name?) in a hanging basket was fun to recreate using the Planted Paradise Stamp Set, Calypso coral ink and the Country Flowers Dies.
To create the variegated light green of the leaves I used the smooshing technique. I swiped Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist ink onto an acrylic block, sprayed the ink with water and “smooshed” the Basic White cardstock onto the ink. Once the ink was dry I die cut the leaves out.
The basket and hanging chain are stamped from the Planted Paradise Stamp Set.
Card Four
The plant in the basket card uses the To Market 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper, Pecan Pie marker and ink, the Tropical Leaf stamp set and the the Planted Paradise Stamp Set.
I fussy cut a basket from the DSP and used the Pecan Pie marker to highlight the contours of the basket. The Pecan Pie stems are stamped using the long stem stamp from the Tropical Leaf stamp set.
I stamped the leaves in Garden Green ink and used a Granny Apple Green marker to colour in the veins.
All four cards are 5 inches square with a 4 1/2 inch top layer of Basic White cardstock.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Kate Morgan – I can’t wait to see what Kate has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday, 21st August, showcasing Cherry Cobbler or you can join us on Monday night for some Christmas inspiration.
Are you ready for some more Christmas card inspiration?
My something old and something new Christmas card for week 2 of our Heart of Christmas blog hop uses a carry over DSP from last year’s Christmas catty as well as a brand new bundle from this year’s forthcoming September-December catalogue, the Hang an Ornament Bundle.
I was inspired by the layout and DSP used in this card Stampin’ Up! created for one of the new online exclusives, the Sophisticated Sled bundle.
I’ve used the same Winter Meadow 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper that is currently on sale as part of the annual paper sale. I’m definitely ordering another pack of this DSP during the sale as it is perfect for Christmas cards.
My colour combination is inspired by colours in the gorgeous Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper: Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon and Basic White. I’ve also added silver for a touch of Christmas sparkle.
The Hang an Ornament Bundle will be available September 3 and it’s incredible value at just $52.
The round die that cuts out the Christmas bauble is designed to either cut out the stamped bauble (as I have done in this card) or to make pop-out interactive cards where you can remove the die-cut element.
The sprigs/fronds under the bauble are die cut from the Winterly Tree Tops Dies, another new product coming in the forthcoming September-December catalogue, however you could use any foliage die for a similar effect.
The white looked a little stark so I coloured the centre of the fronds with the Light Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Blend, leaving the tips white for a snow-tipped effect.
A length of the Silver & White Sheer Ribbon was cut in half lengthwise, tied into two bows and adhered under the silver foil hook of the bauble.
A few rhinestone basic jewels add the final touch of sparkle.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Theresa Gerrard – I can’t wait to see what Theresa has made this week!
If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern’s blog.
The AWH team will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Calypso Coral, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
Welcome to week fifteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Cajun Craze, a dark burnt orange colour from the Regals Family.
As the annual paper sale began yesterday I’ve created a card that uses one of the beautiful Designer Series Papers for sale: the stunning Mediterranean Blooms 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.
One of my favourite features of Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Papers is that many of these DSPs have patterns that can be die cut out using coordinating dies. I’ve used the Citrus Blooms bundle of stamp set and dies to create this card and cut out the Mediterranean Blooms DSP.
I must admit there is not a lot of Cajun Craze in this DSP so I’ve added a white heat embossed “Hello” sentiment stamped onto Cajun Craze cardstock. I also die cut a few branches from Old Olive cardstock to tuck in behind the DSP image.
One of my other favourite things about the Citrus Blooms bundle is this large frame die I used to die cut the Basic White card stock layer.
Adhesive-Backed Shiny Sequins add a final touch of bling!
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Kate Morgan – I can’t wait to see what Kate has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday, 14th August, showcasing Calypso Coral or you can join us on Monday night for some Christmas inspiration.
The Art With Heart, Heart of Christmas team are back for 2024 and ready to inspire you for the next seventeen weeks with our Heart of Christmas blog hop!
It’s been so cold here recently I decided to embrace the winter vibes and create a snowy Christmas card to kick off our Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2024.
As demonstrators we get to preorder from the Christmas Catty (September – December Catalogue) tomorrow morning, but in the meantime we have some amazing new online exclusives, Annual Catalogue products and carryover items to play with until the new products arrive.
I’m using the online exclusive, Greetings of the Season Bundle.
The Annual Catalogue bundle, Country Birdhouse.
The carry over Forever Forest dies.
And these carry over items, Grove dies and the Grassy Grove stamp set.
My colour combination is Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Basic White and Basic Black. The embossed background is created with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder. This will be getting a lot of use for my Christmas cards.
The door on the house is created using one of the dies from the new Greetings of the Season bundle with the “For You” sentiment white heat embossed. I popped an adhesive snowflake on the Crumb Cake window and added a tiny bow of Black Bakers twine.
My wooden cabin in the snow has been die cut using the Country Birdhouse dies from the Country Woods DSP – there are so many wonderful wood patterns in this DSP pack!
The trees and the deer are from the Grassy Grove stamp set and Grove dies.
Inside the card I’ve used the largest sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Sharon Davern – I can’t wait to see what Sharon has made this week!
If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern’s blog.
The AWH tea will be back on Wednesday night, showcasing Cajun Craze, or you can enjoy some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
Welcome to week fourteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Bubble Bath, a beautiful pale pink in the subtles family.
I’ve created a “no stamping” birthday card that uses beautiful Bubble Bath flowers from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack and a sentiment from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
My colour combination for this week’s card is guided by colours in the ephemera pieces.
The striped background layer DSP is from the new Nests of Winter DSP and it will be available in the forthcoming Christmas Catalogue.
I’ve used some of the beautiful Bubble Bath and Petunia Pop flowers and Garden Green leaves from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack.
The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
The final touch is a few 2024–2026 In Color Shimmer Gems in Petunia Pop.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard – I can’t wait to see what Rachel has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
