Balmy Blue Nested Friends Bird Card

Balmy Blue Nested Friends Bird Card

Welcome to week ten of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!

This week we are showcasing Balmy Blue, which is a really lovely soft blue. My card is a CASE (copy and selectively edit) of these gorgeous Nested Friends cards, created by an amazing Dutch Stampin’ Up! Artisan design design team member, Berdien Weideveld.

Many of the products Berdien used on these cards have now retired, so I’ve merged the layouts of both the cards, switched the layout from vertical to horizontal and used current products for my Nested Friends card.

Old Olive and Early Espresso cardstock replaces retired colours Pear Pizzazz and Soft Suede. Flower dies from Around the Bend dies replace Berdien’s fussy cut flowers and my Balmy Blue DSP is from the current Subtles DSP 6×6 assortment pack.

Instead of the now retired frond and branch dies Berdien used, I’ve used the nest and leaf dies included in the Nested Friends dies, using my paper snips to chop up the nest to make branches.

As the brick embossing folder has also retired, I instead used the crosshatch embossing folder from the online exclusive Basics 3D Embossing Folders pack.

At the centre of the flowers I’ve popped a few of the brown Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins for a touch of sparkle.

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.

Andrea Sargent  

Christina Barnes

Kate Morgan

Di Furniss  

Rachel Woollard 

Sharon Davern  

Theresa Gerrard  

Christine Blain

Tina Gillespie  

Amie McIlroy   

Rachel Palmieri  

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor   – you are here!

Next Wednesday, 12th July, we’ll be back showcasing Basic Gray, a neutral core colour.

I hope you can join us then.



30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2022 – Day 2 Snowman Magic Bundle card

30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2022 – Day 2 Snowman Magic Bundle card

The 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge is a great opportunity to get all your cards made in time for Christmas!

For the Day 1 “Something Red” challenge I submitted my Framed & Festive Christmas Season Holly Card from Monday’s Heart of Christmas post.

The challenge for Day 2 is “In the Snow”.

I’ve used the adorable The Snowman Magic Bundle for today’s card. It includes the Snowman Magic Stamp Set and the Snowman Dies.

And here’s my little snowman in his wintery scene with his friend the Balmy Blue bird sitting at the top of the tree like a Christmas star!

The background snow effect is created using a layer of the Snowflake 12″ x 12″ Specialty Vellum – this sheet is flocked, while some of the other vellum sheets in the pack are foiled.

The sentiment comes from the Penguin Place Stamp Set – it works so well with the Snowman Magic Stamp Set too.

I couldn’t resist adding a few Basic Rhinestone Jewels to my card for some extra sparkle.

If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

I’ll be back very soon with some more cards for the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge and Heart of Christmas card inspiration!

Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm … and keep on crafting xxx

Cath xx



Balmy Blue Perfectly Penciled Card – Week 6 AWH Colour Creations

Balmy Blue Perfectly Penciled Card – Week 6 AWH Colour Creations

Welcome to week six 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.

My card today has very little stamping as the beautiful flowers are actually a new black and white Designer Series Paper called Perfectly Penciled.

After colouring one of the floral sprays on the edge of the DSP using Balmy Blue and Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends, I fussy cut the flowers out with my paper snips and adhered them to a layer of Basic White cardstock using multipurpose glue.

The “Thank You” sentiment is from a lovely new sentiment stamp set called Go-To Greetings. I felt that the ornate, slightly old fashioned script looked like handwriting and matched the pretty blue floral sprays.

A couple of excess pieces of DSP adorn 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.

Kate Morgan  

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Palmieri

Sharon Davern

Andrea Sargent

Christine Blain

Ros Davidson

Diane Furniss

Theresa Gerrard

Rosa Leyden  

Rachel Woolard 

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store or by clicking on the images below.

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Next Wednesday we will be showcasing one of our neutral Stampin’ Up! colours, Basic Gray.

Wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm … and keep on crafting xxx

Cath xx



Stampin’ Up! Balmy Blue – Week 2 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop

Stampin’ Up! Balmy Blue – Week 2 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop

This week we’re showcasing Balmy Blue for week two of our Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop 2020-21.

Balmy Blue is a lovely soft and powdery blue and part of the subtles family. It is available in the following products.

Today I’m sharing a card that uses two really versatile new products from the 2021-22 Annual catalogue: the Basic Border dies and the Biggest Wish stamp set.

To make an ombre card you simply chose a colour and fade from dark to light. Balmy Blue is our colour this week so I’ve paired it with the other blues as well as black and white to get an ombre effect.

Balmy Blue colour combination

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Each strip of card stock was die cut using one of the Basic Borders dies at approximately 3cm wide. Once all my card stock strips were die cut I carefully lined them up in ombre order, then adhered them to a piece of Basic White card stock. This ombre layer was then die cut using the largest stitched rectangle die. (Tip – if you place your rectangle die and card stock on a angle it is much easier to die cut.)

These Basic borders dies are incredible – there are six different shaped dies and the die I’ve used on my card leaves a stitched pattern on one side and a dotted pattern on the other side of the die cut.

My Stamparatus made creating an ombre sentiment quick and easy. I lined up the “happy” and the “birthday” stamps and then used sponge daubers and the Stamparatus to repeatedly stamp and gradually build up ombre colour. The ombre effect was created by stamping in Night of Navy, then Pacific Point and finally Balmy Blue.

A slightly smaller stitched rectangle die was used twice to die cut the sentiment and a single layer of Basic White twine from the Bakers Twine Essentials pack was wrapped around the side of the card.

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:

Michele Taylor

Rachel Palmieri

Kate Morgan

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern

Christine Blain

Tina Gillespie

Diane Furniss

Ros Davidson

Theresa Gerrard

Rachel Woollard

Rosa Leyden

Fiona Ryan

Vicki Boucher

To purchase any of the products used in my cards today simply click on the images below.

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Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase: Week 1 Balmy Blue

Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase: Week 1 Balmy Blue

Welcome to week one of our 2020-2021 Art With Heart Colour Creations Showcase.

Each week various members of our Art With Heart Colour Creations team will be bringing you weekly colour inspiration as we showcase our range of over 50 beautiful Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order.

Week 1 – Balmy Blue

Balmy Blue is a soft, powdery light blue that is part of the Subtles collection of colours. It is available as a Classic Stampin’ Pad and ink refill, Stampin blends combo pack, watercolour pencil, Stampin’ Write marker, Subtle Designer Series Paper and Whale of a time DSP, or you can purchase it within any of the Subtles collections.

Balmy Blue looks so fresh when paired with both of the darker blues – Pacific Point and Night of Navy – but today I’ve chosen Night of Navy because I wanted colours that are available in our Stampin Blends.

I used Tuxedo Black ink to stamp my flowers onto Whisper White cardstock because I coloured my stamped images with Stampin Blends. If I was going to watercolour with inkpads or watercolour pencils and an aqua brush I would have stamped using Stazon Ink instead and either watercolour paper or shimmery white paper.

The large floral images in the Bloom & Grow stamp set and its matching Budding Bloom dies make card making fast and easy because each stamp and dies creates one large spray of flowers already beautifully arranged!

For my card I’ve stamped and die cut the same flower spray twice. The large sentiment was die cut and layered using the long scalloped edge die.

Here’s a closer look at this gorgeous scalloped edge – it adds so much visual interest.

I’m really looking forward to using Balmy Blue with lots of different colour combinations and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Art With Heart team have come up with today.

Just click on the links below to see what they’ve all made.

  1. Kate Morgan
  2. Vicki Boucher
  3. Ros Davidson
  4. Christine Blain
  5. Tina Gillespie
  6. Sharon Davern
  7. Theresa Gerrard
  8. Diane Furniss
  9. Michele Taylor
  10. Caroline Manwaring
  11. Christina Barnes
  12. Kathryn Ruddick
  13. Andrea Sargent
  14. Sujatha Harding
  15. Rachel Woollard
  16. Fiona Bell Ryan

Thanks so much for hopping along with the Art With Heart Team on our very first weekly Colour Creations Showcase. Next Tuesday we’ll be showcasing one of the neutrals: Basic Gray. We hope you can join us all then.

To purchase any of the products featured in today’s post, simply contact your Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, any of the ladies in the AWH Colour Creations Showcase or click on the product links below.

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If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2020-21 Stampin Up! Annual Catalogue, the 2020-21 Beginners Brochure, or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.

In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx

Inspired by Marimekko

Inspired by Marimekko

Isn’t it amazing where the inspiration for a card can come from?

Two weeks ago I went to Bendigo for the very first time to see the Marimekko exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery and I fell in love with the classic bold graphics of this design house all over again.

And then last week I went to a lampshade making evening with some of my girlfriends and made not one, but two lampshades. 

I love the watercolour look of the fabric on this lamp. I found this fabric in a remnant pile.

But it’s the fabric I used to make this next lampshade that inspired my project tonight. This lampshade is made from a new colourway of one of my favourite Marimekko designs: Unikko.

At the Marimekko exhibition, I learnt that this classic design was created in 1964, despite the Marimekko founder having publicly proclaimed a ban on flowers in Marimekko prints. One of the artists designed a collection of floral patterns that were so fresh and unique that Marimekko produced eight of them, including their now iconic Unikko pattern.

To replicate this beautiful Marimekko design on my card I used Crumbcake, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, and a new colour Stampin’ Up! colour, Balmy Blue, for the lovely light blue centre of the flowers. In hindsight, I could have also replicated this fabric using Crushed Curry as the background colour.

The flowers, their centres and their stems were cut from cardstock using the Seasonal Layers thinlit dies. The stems were made using the Adirondack chair die cut into smaller pieces, and the middle of the flower was coloured in with a black marker. The sentiment comes from the matching stamp set, Colorful Seasons.

When I purchased the fabric I just couldn’t resist buying a matching cup for my morning cup of tea. I’ve actually had my morning cup of tea out of the Red Unikko mug for the past 10 years so it was high time to update my morning brew with a fresh new colour of that classic design I love so much.

This was a quick and easy card to make and I’m going to have a go now at replicating all of the beautiful Marimekko colourways of this gorgeous design using Stampin’ Up! colours. I’ll share them on my blog when they’re done.

In the meantime, To purchase any of the products featured in today’s post, simply click on the product links below.

If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2018-2019 annual catalogue l catalogue or find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.

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Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop: Week 1 Balmy Blue

Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop: Week 1 Balmy Blue

Welcome to week 1 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!

Because we have 52 stunning Stampin’ Up! colours (not including Whisper White) and 52 weeks of the year, it really made sense to decide to do a weekly blog hop to showcase each and every one of these beautiful colours. 

Stampin’ Up! have had a colour refresh this year, introducing 10 new core colours, 6 returning favourites, and 5 new in colours. Here’s the entire list of Stampin’ Up! colours for 2018-2019.

Working through the colours in alphabetical order, we begin our blog hop this week with a brand new colour: Balmy Blue. Balmy Blue is part of the subtles colour family and a great replacement for the now retired Marina Mist. 

To showcase this colour I’ve paired it with a classic and elegant colour combination of neutrals: Night of Navy and Whisper White, with just a touch of Old Olive for the leaves in the bouquet. Something old and something new… Night of Navy and Balmy Blue.

This card uses one of my all-time favourite stamp sets, Beautiful Bouquet, with the matching Bouquet Bunch Framelits dies.

That little gift tag is just the sweetest…can you see it peeping out from behind the Night of Navy bakers twine?

I’m hopeless at remembering to stamp the inside of my cards so I’ve set myself a personal challenge with this blog, to stamp the inside of every card!

I’m really looking forward to using Balmy Blue with lots of different colour combinations and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Art With Heart team have come up with today. Just click on the links below to see what they’ve all made.

  1. Rachel Palmeri 
  2. Ros Davidson 
  3. Sharon Davern
  4. Tina Gillespie
  5. Kathryn Ruddick
  6. Rachel Woollard
  7. Catherine Proctor (you are here)

Thanks so much for hopping along with the Art With Heart Team on our very first weekly Colour Creations Blog Hop.

Next Tuesday we’ll be showcasing an old favourite, and one of the most versatile neutrals: Basic Gray. We hope you can hop along with us all then!

To purchase any of the products featured in today’s post, simply contact any of the ladies in the AWH blog or click on the product links below.

If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2018-2019 annual catalogue or find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.

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