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 31 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Night Of Navy from the Neutrals family, one of my all time favourite Stampin’ Up! colours.
My three Night of Navy cards all use a different image from a new stamp set called “In the Moment”. If you like colouring, this stamp set is a must have and it can be found on page 57 of the new January – June catalogue.
I’ve combined Night of Navy with Crumb Cake and Balmy Blue for a classic colour scheme and used my light and dark Stampin’ Blends! to colour each of the images after I’d stamped them in Tuxedo Memento ink.
Each card has a different Night of Navy background. For the woman relaxing with a good book I naturally couldn’t go past the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder – what a perfect match!
I ran my Night of Navy ink across the inside surface of the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder before embossing the background Basic white layer. TIP – to clean the ink off your folder once you’ve embossed simply run the embossing folder under tap water and then leave to dry.
I’ve used another new product for the second card – the Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks. By using a Blending Brush to lift ink off the Night of Navy ink, it was quick and easy to create an lovely ombre background layer.
All three cards have a bow of Night of Navy Bakers Twine which is from the new “Fan Baker’s Twine” pack. This pack contains three spools of Baker’s Twine in Evening Evergreen, Night of Navy, and a Poppy Parade/white twisted twine.
Card three was the fastest of the three to create because the coloured image is layered on this beautiful Sweet Symmetry Designer Series Paper. I love this DSP!
For all three cards I die cut the image using the Scalloped Contours Dies as they are just the perfect size for these images. The sentiments are all from the “In the Moment” stamp set.
Each of these cards perfectly captures some of my favourite ways to relax. Enjoying my morning cup of coffee or tea as I look into my garden and listen to the birdsong. Savouring a glass of wine at the beach where I am lucky enough to live. Reading a book and enjoying a cuppa while snuggled up with my dog!
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.
