Welcome to week twenty three 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 Gorgeous Grape from the brights family.
The Hues of Happiness DSP has a rainbow of colours, including Gorgeous Grape. For my cards today my colour scheme includes some of the colours in this DSP.
One of my favourite things about the Hues of Happiness DSP is that many of the images can be die cut out using the Happiness Abounds dies. For both my cards, the only stamping is the sentiment – the DSP really does all the hard work for me!
Card one is a horizontal card that has a strip of one of the Hues of Happiness DSP patterns as well as a Gorgeous Grape flower cut from another sheet of the DSP.
Gorgeous Grape and Pool Party dots from the Glossy Dots Assortment are the only embellishments needed with this stunning Designer Series Paper.
Card two has a layer of Gorgeous Grape DSP peeking through the die cut Basic White layer, die cut with the largest Happiness Abounds Die.
I’ve layered die cut flowers from the DSP in Gorgeous Grape, Pool Party/Coastal Cabana and Fresh Freesia, along with Granny Apple Green leaves.
The strip of black and white striped DSP is from the the Perfectly Pencilled DSP.
For both cards I’ve used the “happy birthday” sentiment from the Happiness Abounds Stamp Set.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina 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 fourteen of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop!
Do you ever love the “B side” patterns more than the “A side” patterns in a Designer Series Paper pack? I especially love the “B side” patterns of the Storybook Gnomes DSP – it is full of beautiful snowflake and tree patterns in soft blues, aquas and greens.
My card tonight was inspired by the Pool Party snowflake pattern in the Storybook Gnomes DSP so I decided to pair it with the Evening Evergreen Glimmer Specialty Paper to create a Christmas wreath card.
Pool Party and Evening Evergreen work so well together I decided not to add any more colours to this colour combination.
My favourite die in the Country Wreaths die is this elegant double bow die. I’ve layered it on top of a Pool Party Sheer ribbon bow for extra dimension and impact.
The Evening Evergreen “berries” on the wreath are created using the Dots & Spots Die to die cut out the Evening Evergreen Glimmer Specialty Paper. This die is great for creating your own embellishments using specialty papers.
I also added a strip of this gorgeous Evening Evergreen Glimmer Specialty Paper underneath the sentiment which is stamped in Versamark ink, white heat embossed and die cut out with the Stylish Shapes dies.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina has created today!
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 twenty 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 Garden Green, from the regal family.
I love making scene cards, so I’ve had my eye on the Waterfall Canyon stamp set for a long time now. When the coordinating Waterfalls dies become available this month as part of the Perfect Partners Promotion, I just couldn’t resist this bundle.
I’ve made a slimline card so I could make an extra long waterfall. The card base base is Garden Green card stock measuring 21 x 28 cm.
Garden Green works very well with so many other colours – today I’ve paired it with colours that work for a nature scene: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, Gray Granite, Pear Pizzazz, Basic Black and Basic White.
The “Adventure” sentiment is not a stamp – it is a sticker from the “Today is the Day” Memories & More card pack, adhered to a scrap of Basic White card stock.
The birds at the top of the card are not stamps either – they are tiny dies from the Waterfall dies.
I love these Waterfall dies, especially the ones that I’ve used for the Gray Granite rocks, the Garden Green grass pieces at the bottom of the waterfall and the Garden Green foliage that sits on the rocks.
The size of the grass dies gives an instant sense of perspective with the Pear Pizzazz tree dies being so much smaller.
I only realised after photographing this that I’ve actually adhered the Crumb Cake rock pieces upside on my card front, LOL! Hopefully it still works?
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina 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 thirteen of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop!
Wondering how to use up your leftover strips of designer series paper or how to incorporate more than one DSP pattern on your card front? This simple layout is very effective and it can be made with virtually any DSP.
The trick to stop the background DSP competing with the foreground elements is to use a DSP that has a smaller pattern or more solid colours.
I originally intended to use the Painted Christmas DSP for this card, however I felt that the Boughs of Holly DSP was a better match as it really allowed the sentiment and foliage pieces to shine.
The foliage is stamped and die cut using the Christmas Banners Bundle in colours selected to match the Boughs of Holly DSP: Real Red, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent, Old Olive (stamped off) and Basic White.
Stampin' Up! Boughs of Holly DSP colour combination
I love the versatility and impact of word dies. This layered “sending” sentiment is from the Sending Smiles dies and I reach for a lot. Don’t forget to use an adhesive sheet for the top word layer – it turns the word into a repositionable sticker and prevents any adhesive mess.
There is no Christmas sentiment in the Sending Smiles bundle, so I used the “Christmas” and the “wishes” sentiment from the Christmas Banners Stamp Set, stamped in Versamark ink onto scraps of Evening Evergreen cardstock and then white heat embossed.
I’ve stamped some more of this gorgeous foliage from the Christmas Banners stamp set inside the card too.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rosa Leyden– I can’t wait to see what Rosa has created today!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants on Sharon’s blog.
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Welcome to week twenty 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 Fresh Freesia, a 2021-23 In Colour.
Tonight’s card features another new die set from the Perfect Partners Promotion – the Fresh Cut Stems dies that coordinate with the Fresh Cut Flowers stamp set.
There are so many gorgeous dies in the Fresh Cut Stems dies, however I decided to use just the ones that die cut the stamped images for my “thanks” card.
This largest image is simply perfect on its own to fill the front of a card.
Fresh Fressia works with any of the greens – for this card it has been paired with Soft Sea Foam, the lightest of the greens in the Stampin’ Up! colour range.
I’ve used Stampin’ Up! blends to colour the delicate line images in the Fresh Cut Flowers stamp set, however you could use any colouring method that you prefer.
The “Thanks” layered sentiment is from the Amazing Thanks dies. Don’t forget to use your adhesive sheet for the top layer before die cutting the top word.
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.
