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Stampin’ Up! Basic Beige City Sights Kit Alternatives Card
Welcome to week six of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!
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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.
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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.
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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
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My favourite element is this fabulous line drawing stamp set. It reminds me of happy times in New York.
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I’ve used this stamp set to make two alternative cards in a monochromatic colour scheme of Basic Beige and Pebble Path.
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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.
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I used the dotted grid stamp to create a cloud effect in the sky.
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For card two I used the Basic Beige offcuts from the shaped die cuts to frame a single stamped image of the city sky.
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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.
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One of the “happy birthday” printed sentiments was cut in half and placed top and bottom of the framed image.
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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.
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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!
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If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Catherine Proctor – you are here!
We’ll be back next Wednesday, 12th June, showcasing Azure Afternoon.
I hope you can join us then!