Colour Creations Blog Hop week 12 - Calypso Coral Season of Chic

 

Hello stampers, welcome to week 12 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. This week all of our projects will feature Calypso Coral, which is a lovely warm coral colour, as the name suggests.

This week my projects use the Potted Geranium Bundle. I'm a little late to the party with this bundle as I was trying so hard to resist it, but alas, I couldn't. This is my first play with this bundle and I have made one card that uses mainly the dies and on card that uses mainly the stamps.

These stamps and dies were straight forward to use and did not involve a huge number of small pieces to complete the flowers and leaves. I'm looking forward to using this set with my online classes especially.  

The first card uses the dies in this bundle. As we are featuring Calypso Coral I cut one of each of the flower pieces from Calypso Coral. I paired the Calypso Coral flower base with Poppy Parade shading and used a Petal Pink flower base with the Calypso Coral shading  piece.

The leaves and stems are cut from Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green. The pots are two of our lovely new In Colours Starry Sky and Orchid Opulence. 

The clouds are cut using on of the Basic Borders Dies. These are my absolute favourite dies, I used them so often, either for clouds like this or as a mask that I colour with Blending Brushes. A few Brushed Brass Butterflies finished the card.

For the second card I used mainly the stamps, except for cutting out the outline images of the flowers and leaves. By using the stamps the second card has a lot more detail and texture than the dies alone, but I like both options equally.

The flowers are stamped in Calypso Coral and Petal Pink ink and the leaves are stamped in Pear Pizzazz ink. The first image is stamped full strength and the second, smaller image is stamped off once.

The background behind the pot is a Deckled Rectangle that has been embossed with the In The Clouds Embossing Folder. I used a sponge Dauber and Balmy Blue ink to gently highlight the sky parts of the folder as opposed to the clouds. The brick wall below all of the pots is a piece of Crumb Cake card stock that has been embossed with the Bricks and Mortar Embossing Folder.

Both of the greetings are stamped in Calypso Coral and have been die cut with a die from the Geraniums set. This die is a very versatile size and I'm sure I will be using it regularly. Again, the final touch to this card was a few Brushed Brass Butterflies.

All of the products used to make these cards are available from my online store, the links are listed below.

Now it time to see what the next stamper has to share with us. Please head to Diane Furniss' blog by clicking on her name or on the graphic below.

If you have any issues following the links in our hop tonight please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the host of our Colour Creations Blog Hops and will have a complete list of tonight's participants.

Thank you for visiting.

Rachel

Product List

Potted Geraniums Bundle (English)

[159062]

$90.75

Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock

[124392]

$16.25

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

$16.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

$16.25

Poppy Parade A4 Cardstock

[121694]

$16.25

Starry Sky A4 Cardstock

[159264]

$16.25

Orchid Oasis A4 Cardstock

[159265]

$16.25

Shaded Spruce A4 Cardstock

[147006]

$16.25

Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock

[147014]

$16.25

Basic Borders Dies

[155558]

$51.00

Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder

[149643]

$17.50

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

[147101]

$14.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[147108]

$14.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[147104]

$14.00

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$14.00

Deckled Rectangles Dies

[159173]

$53.00

Brushed Brass Butterflies

[158136]

$17.50

Into The Clouds Embossing Folder

[159171]

$15.00

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