Stampin’ Up! Basic Beige City Sights Kit Alternatives Card  

Stampin’ Up! Basic Beige City Sights Kit Alternatives Card  

Welcome to week six of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!

Today we’re featuring another new colour, Basic Beige, which is a new addition to the Stampin Up! colour range. Basic Beige is a great replacement colour for the now retired Sahara Sand.

I’ve created this graphic to show how Basic Beige compares to the other light brown neutral/core colours in the Stampin Up! colour range.

I’m always on the lookout for masculine cards and I love anything with buildings, so the new City Sights Kit was a kit I just couldn’t resist. I love these water coloured cityscape designs in neutral colours, its masculine charm, and these big city skylines.

As this is an all-inclusive kit it includes so many different elements!
* City Sights Photopolymer Stamp Set
* Pebbled Path Stampin’ Spot
* 8 printed card bases and 8 printed envelopes
* Shaped die cuts, printed sentiments and corrugated cardstock accent pieces
* Copper metallic embellishments
* Mini dimensionals and tear’n’tape
* Acrylic block

My favourite element is this fabulous line drawing stamp set. It reminds me of happy times in New York.

I’ve used this stamp set to make two alternative cards in a monochromatic colour scheme of Basic Beige and Pebble Path.

For card one I drew a line in pencil and stamped along the line to create a city horizon and added a narrow strip of Pebbled Path offcut from the printed sentiment sheet.

I used the dotted grid stamp to create a cloud effect in the sky.

For card two I used the Basic Beige offcuts from the shaped die cuts to frame a single stamped image of the city sky.

The Basic Beige offcut was adhered dusing the mini dimensionals – it gives a really cool effect that you can see in this close-up photo below.

One of the “happy birthday” printed sentiments was cut in half and placed top and bottom of the framed image.

I did also make a couple of the cards as per the instructions in the kit and I love these cards too. Here are the four cards I’ve made so far. I can’t wait to make some other designs using this city skyline stamp set.

Now it’s time to hop in 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

Kate Morgan   

Di Furniss  

Christine Blain  

Michele Taylor

Rachel Palmieri

Rachel Woollard

Vicki Boucher

Rosa Leyden  

Ros Davidson    

Theresa Gerrard

Sharon Davern

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

We’ll be back next Wednesday, 12th June, showcasing Azure Afternoon.

I hope you can join us then!



2024-26 In Colors – Petunia Pop Card  

2024-26 In Colors – Petunia Pop Card  

Welcome to week two of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!

Today we’re featuring another of the new 2024-26 In Colors: Petunia Pop. I’ve created this graphic to show how Petunia Pop compares to the current pink/purple colours in the Stampin Up! colour range.

The Country Woods Suite is so stunning and versatile I’ve decided to use it for the first five weeks of our blog hop as we showcase the five new 2024-26 In Colors.

This week, I’ve used the Country Woods Designer Series Paper and both the Country Birdhouse Dies and the Country Flowers Dies. I was inspired by this pattern in the Designer Series Paper.

I used my Stampin’ Blends to colour a different design from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper to create different coloured wood panels for my birdhouse.

I’ve also stamped the “Happy birthday” sentiment from the Country Birdhouse stamp set directly onto this DSP.

I love this colour combination of Petunia Pop, Misty Moonlight, Pool Party, Gray Granite, Basic Black and Basic White!

TIP – to define the wood panels and make this DSP look more like the original DSP design that inspired this card I used a Stampin’ Marker in Basic Black and a ruler to draw black lines between each of the colours.

I used a different DSP pattern for the base of the card – you can see it under the card in this photo below. The Basic Black circle forming the opening of the birdhouse is from the Bright Skies Dies.

Adhesive-backed Fresh Freesia and Misty Moonlight gems from the Tinsel Gems Three-Pack add the 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.

Kate Morgan  

Michele Taylor  

Andrea Sargent

Tina Gillespie  

Rachel Palmieri

Christine Blain  

Kathryn Ruddick  

Theresa Gerrard

Ros Davidson

Sharon Davern  

Vicki Boucher  

Di Furniss 

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

We’ll be back next Wednesday, 15th May, showcasing another new 2024-26 In Color, Pretty in Pink.

I hope you can join us then!



2024-26 In Colors – Peach Pie – Country Birdhouse & Country Flowers Card  

2024-26 In Colors – Peach Pie – Country Birdhouse & Country Flowers Card  

Welcome to week one of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!

Today the new 2024-25 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue goes live and we’re kicking off our 2024-25 blog hop with the five new 2024-26 In Colors: Peach Pie, Petunia Pop, Pretty in Pink, Shy Shamrock and Summer Splash.

Our colour for Week One is Peach Pie. I’ve created this graphic to show how it compares to the current orange/pink/peach colours in the Stampin Up! colour range.

I’ve paired Peach Pie with Basic Black, Old Olive, Basic White and a new Basics colour called Basic Beige.

My favourite suite in the new Annual Catalogue is the Country Woods Suite Collection.

I’ve used two of the stamp sets from this suite for my card tonight –Country Flowers and Country Birdhouse – as well as the Eyelet embossing folder on my Peach Pie card.

Here’s a close up of the embossed cardstock – swoon! I think this is one of the prettiest embossing folders we have ever had.

The striped DSP down the left side of the card is from the 2024–2026 In Color 6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Designer Series Paper that all new demonstrators joining in May 2024 will receive for free. And the brand new 2024–2026 In Color Shimmer Gems complete my card!

Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rosa Leyden – I can’t wait to see what Rosa has made this week!

If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.

Ros Davidson  

Christine Blain

Andrea Sargent

Rachel Woollard  

Kathryn Ruddick

Theresa Gerrard

Tina Gillespie

Michele Taylor  

Vicki Boucher

Sharon Davern  

Kate Morgan 

Catherine Proctor  – you are here!

Rosa Leyden

We’ll be back next Wednesday, 8th May, showcasing another new 2024-26 In Color, Petunia Pop.

I hope you can join us then.



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