Welcome to week thirty two of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop!
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Night of Navy from the neutrals family.
This is a special card I made for my sister-in-law’s birthday last week. My present to her is a girl’s night out together at the Open Air cinema, a new tradition we started last year.
I highly recommend this experience to anyone who is visiting Sydney, as you get to enjoy a drink and a meal, before watching a movie on a giant outdoor screen that rises up from our iconic Sydney Harbour!
photography – andrewmaccoll.com
To recreate the Open Air Cinema experience I decided to make a double easel card, using the Stitched Rectangle Dies to create the actual cinema screen in the harbour.
Here’s what the card looks like when it’s closed.
Opened up…
Laid out flat…
Folded into an easel…
We always drink champagne together to start the night so I stamped one of the images from the “In The Moment” stamp set twice and fussy cut it out to show us both enjoying a drink and looking at the view before the movie starts.
Hang on a sec! What is the Designer Series Paper you’ve used for the front of the card and the inside harbour scene, I hear you ask?
By The Bay is a gorgeous 6×6 DSP from the January–April 2023 Mini Catalogue, which will be available from January 5. It’s part of the By The Bay suite and one side of all of the DSP designs is pearlised – so stunning!
I’ve used one of the pearlised patterns for the front of my double easel card. To tie it flat I’ve used another new product from the catalogue: Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge and birds in the sky are created using the Waterfall dies, currently on sale in the clearance rack and reduced to $26.
Other products used in the card include the Biggest Wish stamp set for the birthday sentiment, the Breaking News Stamp set for the clinking champagne glasses and heart, and the Floral Gallery Dies for the sentiment on the front of the card.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Fiona Ryan – I can’t wait to see what Fiona 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 one of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop!
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Mossy Meadow from the subtles family.
I love Mossy Meadow when it’s paired with other neutrals or with Kraft cardstock, which is what I’ve used today for my simple stamping card.
The Peaceful Deer stamp is perfect for this card design because it has four different tree stamps in different sizes, making it quick and easy to create a forest scene.
Although it looks like I’ve used two greens, my trees are all stamped in Mossy Meadow. I’ve stamped at full strength and then once again without reinking the stamp – this is called “stamping off” and it gives you two shades of the one colour, adding dimension to the card.
The snow was created with a white gel pen and the “Merry Christmas” sentiment can be simply cut out with a paper trimmer or even by hand using paper snips.
This is such a quick and easy simple stamping card – ideal if you haven’t started making your Christmas cards yet and you need to quickly build your stash.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Palmieri – 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.
Welcome to week twenty-two of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop, our last one for this year!
This week’s Christmas card was created primarily for this hop, but also for a colour challenge that used colours I would not naturally chose to use for Christmas – Cajun Craze, Petal Pink and Early Espresso.
I decided that the pinecones from the Christmas Season stamp set would work well for this very unusual Christmas colour scheme.
I was originally using the Joseph’s coat technique, however, once I added the top layer of Early Espresso ink I realised I’d spaced my pinecones from Christmas Season too far apart to use the cardstock layer I’d created with this technique, so I decided to use the Seasonal Label dies to die cut out the pinecones and turn them into a Christmas ornament instead.
The ombre effect on the background layer was created using a blending brush to add Petal Pink ink, then it was embossed with one of the Wintery embossing folders.
Gold holly leaves, Simply Elegant Gold twine and Champagne Rhinestone Jewels all add a touch of sparkle and elegance – I think they work well with this colour scheme.
The double bow uses both Early Espresso Faux Suede Trim and Simply Elegant Gold twine.
The sentiment is one I use a lot and it’s from the Christmas to Remember stamp set, stamped in Cajun Craze and die cut with the matching die from Seasonal Labels.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Sharon Davern who has hosted our Heart of Christmas blog hops this year. Thank you so much Sharon!!!!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon’s blog.
Welcome to week thirty of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop!
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Mint Macaron from the subtles family.
Hands up if you’re excited about the drill die in Stampin’ Up!’s Rugged Icons dies!
That’s my hand you can see frantically waving in the background, as my youngest son, after trying university for a year, decided to become an electrician instead and he has never been happier.
I think he has finally found his tribe 🙏😍 … and I’ve found the perfect die for my tradie son!
When Ben turned 21 last weekend I knew I wanted to use the drill die from the Rugged Icons die and the die-cut pieces from the He’s The Man DSP, but I wasn’t sure what type of card I would make.
When I saw this fabulous Masculine Fun Fold 3D Shutter Card made by my fellow AWH teammate and friend, Kate Morgan, for our Colour Creations Merry Merlow blog hop last week I knew I’d found the perfect design.
Unfortunately, Kate’s template was too small for these die cuts, so I’ve created a new template for my card.
Trifold Shutter Card Template
Start with a piece of cardstock (this is for the inside fancy fold) measuring 24 cm wide x 18 cm high.
Cut, score and fold the cardstock as shown on the template to make the fancy fold.
Make an inner card base measuring 24.5 cm wide x 17.5cm high, scored at 12.25 cm and then folded in half.
After decorating the inside of your trifold shutter card, glue the outside panels to the inside of your card base as shown below.
I have to confess that it was not until I’d finished making the card that I realised the light green in the He’s The Man DSP was Soft Succulent, not Mint Macaron! So I’ve used Mint Macaron cardstock throughout but I think it still works okay?
All of the images inside the card are from the He’s the Man DSP apart from the centre 2 panels that have “21 today” and “create memories”. Can you guess where these are from?
The word “today”, the tiny heart above it, the “create memories” and the two sprigs are all stickers from the “Today Is the Day Memories & More Card Pack”.
The “21” on the inside of the card and the “Happy Birthday” on the front of the card are a brand new product from the forthcoming January – April mini catalogue: Alphabet À La Mode dies. These dies are 1 ½ inches (3.8cm) high and there are 52 dies in the set!
If didn’t already have your hand in the air for the Rugged Icons dies, I bet you do for these brand new Alphabet À La Mode dies!
I’ve also used these Alphabet À La Mode dies (always attach an adhesive sheet on the back of the card stock before die cutting) to make the Happy Birthday for the front of my card.
A card this size needs a homemade envelope, which leads me to a confession. It was when I used this sheet of He’s The Man DSP to make the envelope that I realised I’d mixed up my greens!!!!!
This photo also shows the back panel of the card for writing on. A couple of glue dots under the “Cheers to all your years” die cut make a resealable envelope for the card.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Di Furniss – I can’t wait to see what Di 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 twenty-one of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop!
Oh my goodness, I love it when different products are designed to coordinate together!
Did you know that two of the stamps in the Christmas To Remember Stamp Set fit perfectly into the Stylish Shapes Dies, which in turn, fit into the centre of the circles and squares on this design in the Lights Aglow DSP?
I made four cards from this one sheet of DSP, deliberately keeping my colour scheme very monochromatic by only using Cherry Cobbler and gold.
In the photo above, Cherry Cobbler looks very pink, but in the photo below, it looks more like a rich red. Either way, this is a stunning colour.
Can you see the gorgeous shimmer of the Lights Aglow DSP? These two cards use another pattern from the Lights Aglow DSP – the small gold foiled star pattern for the background layer.
These next two cards use the foiled festive garland design from the Lights Aglow DSP as their background. I love the classic colours and elegance of this DSP!
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Sharon Davern. I can’t wait to see what Sharon has made this week.
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon‘s blog.
