Welcome to week forty-two of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Pretty Peacock, a deep teal colour that is an absolute favourite of mine.
As there’s only one day left of Sale-a-bration, I’m sharing a card I’ve made using the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Cards & Envelopes, one of the new items added as a Sale-a-bration reward in February.
This pack contains 20 cards and 20 envelopes. Having the card base and envelope ready cuts down on your prep time and helps you get to crafting much quicker.
It’s my husband’s birthday this weekend and as he is a surfer it was a no-brainer to use the Beach Day bundle to make his birthday card.
I’ve used the surfboard die from the Beach Days dies and two of the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More cards from the card pack to make the floral and the striped Pretty Peacock surfboards, with the black and white surfboard die cut from the Zoo Crew 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.
The rest of the stamped images and dies are from the Beach Day bundle.
The Happy birthday sentiment is created using stickers found in the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Card Pack.
This gorgeous matching envelope is also included in the free Sale-a-bration Sweet Thoughts Memories & More cards and envelopes.
Now it’s time to hop on 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.
Welcome to week forty-one of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Poppy Parade, a lovely bright red that certainly packs a punch!
As there’s only just over a week left of Sale-a-bration, I’m sharing a birthday card I made in November for my youngest son who is halfway through his electrical apprenticeship. He loves his tools so the Sale-a-bration Trusty Toolbox DSP was simply perfect for him!
Apart from being a great DSP for masculine cards, what I particularly love about the Trusty Toolbox DSP is that the tool sheets have been designed to be die cut out using the Trusty Tools dies. This makes card making a breeze!
My simple silver tool box and handle were die cut from silver foil, mounted onto the card front using Dimensionals and then it was simply a matter of die cutting the tools from the DSP and arranging them into the tool box.
The tape measure is also a strip of Trusty Toolbox DSP. I love that there are both inches and centimetres on this particular design.
The “Happy birthday” sentiment is from the Hello Kiwi stamp set. I love the modern masculine font on this stamp set.
Die cut offcuts from the DSP that weren’t used on the card front decorate the inside of my card.
Now it’s time to hop on 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.
Welcome to week forty of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Pool Party, a pale/green colour that is wonderful for skies and water. This is such a pretty and versatile colour!
I have a very special project to share with you this week. I’ve made another envelope counting book, using the SALE-a-bration Sunny Days 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.
If you didn’t see the counting book I made for SALE-a-bration last year and you’d like to know how to make an envelope album, I have included the instructions in this video.
Envelope albums are super easy to make as you only need envelopes and tear’n’tape. As you can see in the photo below, the envelopes form a spine as you adhere them together, making the counting book easy to open for little hands.
Throughout this counting book all of the letters and numbers are die cut using the Mini Alphabet dies and the Alphabet A La Mode dies.
The DSP for the box and the book is all from the Sunny Days DSP pack.
Here is a short 1 minute video that takes you through the pages of the Sunny Days DSP envelope counting book.
One Barn
The barn is made using Poppy Parade cardstock that has been embossed with the Timber embossing folder. The cow is stamped and punched out using the Cutest Cows bundle and the trees are die cut using the Forever Forest Dies.
Two Cows
The Rays of Light stamp has been stamped in Crushed Curry. The black arch on the left and the grass and hills on the right are die cut using the Garden Meadows dies.
The Crushed Curry sun is stamped and die cut using the Bright Skies Bundle. The flowers are also die cut using the Bright Skies dies.
Three Sunflowers
The three sunflowers are from the cutest Cows stamp set and the cardstock layers are die cut using the Radiating Stitches Dies and the Scalloped Contours Dies.
Four Gumboots
Both the gumboots and the flowers are stamped die cut using the Garden Meadow Bundle.
Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blends are an easy way to add colour, shine and dimension to the gumboots!
Five Playful Poultry
Two roosters, two chickens and a tiny chick are all stamped using the Cutest Cows Stamp Set.
Six Milk Churns
There are a lot of different products used to create this scene, which might be my favourite page in the book!
The Trucking Along Bundle (Crushed Curry truck and black milk churn trailer), Garden Meadows Dies (holding the milk churns onto the trailer), Garden Meadow dies for Shaded Spruce grass, Crushed Curry sun and the yellow flower.
The clouds were fussy cut from the Sunny Days DSP.
Seven Strawberries
The wheelbarrow has been stamped and die cut using the Garden Meadow bundle.
Fussy cut strawberries fill the wheelbarrow and the “shading” stamp from Garden Meadow stamp set grounds the scene.
Eight Clouds
These clouds were die cut from the Sunny Days DSP using the Bright Skies dies. The lightening and raindrops are also die cut using the Bright Skies dies.
Nine Cow Bells
As these little cow bells from the Cutest Cows stamp set are so small I needed to find a a way to make them stand out on the page.
Stamping the cow bells onto Crushed Curry cardstock and popping each cowbell onto a contrasting monochromatic green and white background makes them stand out for ease of counting by children.
And the hopefully the cows being green makes the reader laugh too!
Ten Trees and Ten Flowers
Lika many of the scenes in this counting book, the proportions are totally out of whack, but that’s pasrt of the charm of children’s books. You get to play with colour and proportion in fun and exciting ways that really create visual interest for the child, sparking their imagination.
A strip of this gorgeous Pool Party DSP from the Sunny Skies DSP is adhered to the back flap of my envelope album.
I made a simple box using the Sunny Skies DSP for the lid and Poppy Parade cardstock for the base.
I hope you enjoyed my envelope album! I just love making projects for children.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Palmieri – I can’t wait to see what has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week thirty-nine of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Petal Pink, a soft and slightly orangey pink from the subtles family.
As I needed to make a new baby girl card for a friend of mine, it was the perfect opportunity to use the FREE (with any purchase over $90) “Cradled with Love” Saleabration stamp set.
This is a pop-up fancy fold card called a Double Z card. Here is a metric template for this simple fancy fold.
After cutting, scoring and folding the card base I’ve added a DSP layer using this pretty spotted pink paper from a brand new online exclusives suite of products coming in March, called Flowering Zinnias.
The cradle, rug and elephant were all stamped in Memento black ink and coloured using Petal Pink and Crumb Cake stampin’ blends.
I’ve used the new Mini alphabet dies to personalise this card for sweet baby Essi.
Scalloped rectangle die layers create a place to write a message inside.
Or you could also add the largest Scalloped rectangle die to the back of the card too.
In the inside fold I’ve stamped a little message and added another elephant, stamped onto the DSP and fussy cut out.
A strip of DSP adhered to the back flap of the envelope is the final touch.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week thirty-eight of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Our colour this week is Parakeet Party, an 2023–2025 In Color. This vibrant green sits somewhere between Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist and really adds a pop when placed against neutrals, such as this Pebbled Path DSP from the FREE (with an order over $90) Sale-a-bration Softly Stippled DSP.
Parakeet Party also looks great with other greens, so I’ve paired it with Old Olive, Garden Green and Pebbled Path for my “birthday wishes” card.
The Planted Paradise card is a reversible stamp set that all demonstrators received for free at the last OnStage conference. This stamp set is especially great for masculine cards!
To create the plant stand for the Pebbled Path pot I’ve used the easel die from the Crafting With You dies. Line up the die at the edge of the cardstock as shown in the photo below.
This type of stamp set is so much fun to play with and create different arrangements of plant leaves in different colours and shapes. I’ve die cut the Softly Stippled DSP using the second largest Deckled Rectangle die.
The “birthday wishes” sentiment is from the Sending stamp set, white heat embossed onto a strip of Parakeet Party.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
