A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order. Week 48 is all about Shaded Spruce and I’ve made a birthday card.
The Shaded Spruce background layer on the left was created using blending Brushes to apply Shaded Spruce, Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green ink to Basic White cardstock.
I then used a water painter to splatter water and white ink refill diluted with water over the coloured cardstock.
The right hand side of the card front is a layer of Basic White cardstock embossed with the Eyelet Embossing folder. The left hand side of the card is the Shaded Spruce section of the coloured cardstock, torn on the edge.
The leaves are punched from the rest of the coloured cardstock using the Leaf Punch which is in the Last Chance products section of the website (as is the Gold Twisted Thread). The flowers and gold leaves are from the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper and the “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Greetings for All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack.
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Welcome to week 8 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the regals family: Cajun Craze.
I need to share a little secret with you…Cajun Craze is a colour I had never used before today, and it was a colour I really struggled to embrace. But the process of making my project for this week not only made me enjoy this colour and see its possibilities…it also made me use some products I’d had for quite a while but had been too scared to use!
That’s right, I had been too scared to use embossing paste but let me tell you it is SOOOOOO much fun to play with, super easy to use and to colour (even without re-inkers) … check out the dimension on my Cajun Craze brick wall below!
I think nature is such a wonderful source of inspiration and as soon as I realised Cajun Craze was the colour of terracotta and house bricks the design of this card fell into place.
I was wondering how to tint the embossing paste without a re-inker but it is actually so easy to do by using an ink pad and a silicon sheet. You simply open the inkpad and tap some ink onto the silicon sheet, add some embossing paste and mix it all together with a palette knife.
My little terracotta pot is stamped using the Crafting Forever stamp set and then fussy cut and attached to the brick wall with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I wrapped linen thread around the pot, used a glue dot to hold the knot in place and tied a double bow. The old olive leaves are stamped with the Painted Harvest Stamp Set and then punched out with the leaf punch, and the little flowers and skinny leaves are the gorgeous Tropical Elements embellishments, also attached with glue dots.
Here’s a close up of these gorgeous little embellishments!
The final touch is the Happy Birthday sentiment stamped from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp set…this is my favourite Happy Birthday stamp and I’ve lost track of the number of times I have used it!
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
