Week 12 of our Art With Heart 2025-26 Colour Creations Insta Hop celebrates Bubble Bath, a soft pink colour that I’ve combined with Fresh Freesia, Old Olive and Pecan Pie.
And as I needed to make a birthday card for one of our bookclub members who is celebrating a very special birthday, I took the opportunity to create a personalised bookcase card with matching bookmark.
I love how Stampin’ Up! products allow me to really personalise my cards for the recipient.
For The Books Mid Century Bookcase Card
The inspiration for this card came from a gorgeous circular mid century bookcase card created by UK demonstrator, Elizabeth Shannon. As the large circular dies Elizabeth used are now retired I decided to make my own version of her bookcase card using the Everyday Arches Dies instead.
To create the cardbase I cut an A4 sheet of Pecan Pie cardstock in half, then scored and folded it at 10.5cm. I then slightly offset the left hand cutting edge of the largest Everyday Arches Die so that it did not cut the fold of the card base when run through the cut and emboss machine to create an arched shaped card.
On the other half of the A4 sheet of Pecan Pie cardstock I used the largest and the second largest Everyday Arches Die to die cut the outer “frame” of the book case. The offcut smaller arch was then used for the inside of the card, along with an arch cut from Basic White cardstock for the message.
I then used stamps and dies from the Birthday Celebration Bundle to create the sentiment on the inside of the card.
The shelves of the bookcase are 5mm strips of Pecan Pie cardstock attached with white adhesive foam strips. I used the Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blend to colour the side of the adhesive strips and the shelves of the bookcase.
The birthday girl has a little black dog who she adores so I stamped the dog face stamp from the “She’s the Greatest” stamp set and adhered it over the top of the face of the cat stamp. Using one of the Stampin’ 0.4 Journaling pens I shortened the tail of the cat, creating a wee dog to sit inside the book case.
The journaling pen also allowed me to hand draw a vase of the correct proportions for the bunch of flowers from the “She’s the Greatest” stamp set.
This cute little pot plant on the top shelf also comes from the “She’s the Greatest” stamp set. All of the books and the pair of reading glasses are all from the “For The Books” stamp set and I have to admit there was a lot of fussy cutting for this card!
The matching envelope is made from Country Woods 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper with a closure created using one of the stamps from “For The Books”.
For The Books Personalised Bookmark
This matching bookmark was super easy to make and personalise using the “For The Books” stamp set and the Stampin’ 0.4 Journaling Pens.
I’ve used the journaling pen to add the list of book club members who are gifting the present to the birthday girl!
Take a look at some more Bubble Bath inspiration on our Insta Hop!
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Next in our hop is Helen @apaperparadise. Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
Be sure to check out her gorgeous project/s.
The full list of this week’s InstaHop is listed below:
Helen @apaperparadise
Kirsty @crafty.littlemiss
Leanne @createwithleanne2
Andrea @andreaksargent
Vicki @vickiboucher
Rachel Woollard @handstamped_by_rachel
Kate @craftwithkate
Rosa @hum.and.stamp
Cathy @whatcathymade – you are here!
We’ll be back next Wednesday when we are showcasing Cajun Craze.
Welcome to week fourteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
This week we’re featuring Bubble Bath, a beautiful pale pink in the subtles family.
I’ve created a “no stamping” birthday card that uses beautiful Bubble Bath flowers from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack and a sentiment from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
My colour combination for this week’s card is guided by colours in the ephemera pieces.
The striped background layer DSP is from the new Nests of Winter DSP and it will be available in the forthcoming Christmas Catalogue.
I’ve used some of the beautiful Bubble Bath and Petunia Pop flowers and Garden Green leaves from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack.
The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Saying Something Ephemera pack.
The final touch is a few 2024–2026 In Color Shimmer Gems in Petunia Pop.
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Rachel Woollard – 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 seven of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Bubble Bath is a gorgeous light pink that’s in the Subtles family, sitting somewhere in between Fresh Freesia and Moody Mauve.
My three Bubble Bath cards are all paper quilt cards that feature the Delightfully Eclectic DSP, one of the Designer Series Papers on sale at 15% off for the entire month of June (the entire list of papers on sale is listed here).
By only using four of these DSP designs, I’ve narrowed my colour pallette to Bubble Bath, Misty Moonlight, Garden Green and Basic White – with just a tiny touch of Night of Navy, Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze in the selected DSP patterns.
If you’ve never you ever made a paper quilt card before it’s such a fun technique for using DSP. I’ve created three different paper quilt cards this week, however there are as many ways to make this style of card as there are ways to make quilts!
This “Thinking of you” card is a cathedral windows card, named after the cathedral windows style of quilts it looks like. It has a lot of dimension as you can see more clearly in this side-on photo.
I’ve used the 1 3/4″ circle punch (you can also use dies) to cut Basic White cardstock circles as I wanted the effect of the white edges against the Misty Moonlight layer.
Insert squares of DSP inside the circles and use your fingers and your bone folder to fold the edges of the circle around the squares of DSP, creating the square cathedral window shape.
The colour of these pink Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins are actually listed on the packet as Petal Pink, but I think they match Bubble Bath perfectly.
My “Happy Birthday” card uses the the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack. These punches are designed to slot into each other so they are ideal for making a paper quilt.
No folding or measuring required for this paper quilt! Simply arrange the punched out pieces into your preferred quilt design, glue them onto a layer of Basic White cardstock and adhere your quilt to your card base.
The “Hello” card uses dies from the Patchwork Pieces dies, the Stylish Shapes dies and the Radiating Stitches dies. Seriously, how many different dies can I use on the one card, LOL!
Die cut four different DSP patterns using the Patchwork Pieces die and then arrange them in a symmetrical design, gluing alternating DSP pieces onto a cardstock layer.
The Misty Moonlight base layer and the Misty Moonlight circle layer under the sentiment are die cut with the Radiating Stitched dies – an online only product. The Hello sentiment is die cut using the smallest circle from the Stylish Shapes dies.
All three cards use sentiments from the “Go To Greetings” stamp set, stamped in Misty Moonlight. I thought the soft feminine script of these sentiments really suited the colour pallette and DSP patterns on my quilt cards.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Kathryn Ruddick – I can’t wait to see what Kathryn has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
