Colour Creations Blog Hop week 9 - Basic Gray Sketched Butterflies

It's time for week 9 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop. Every week the Art With Heart Team have been featuring on of the fabulous Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order. This week we are featuring Basic Gray from the Stampin' Up! Neutrals colour family.

Basic Gray is a colour a I often choose for stamping outlines when I want something a little bit softer than black. As Basic Gray ink is water based it can still be used for outline stamping when colouring with Blends Markers.

For tonight's card I used the Sketched Butterflies Bundle. I stamped the butterflies in Basic Gray on Basic White card stock.

I coloured the butterflies with Petal Pink and Bubble Bath Blends Markers. Colouring with Blends Markers has become my favourite way to colour images.

I cut out the butterflies with the coordinating dies.

The circle hole in the card front was cut with one of the Stylish Shapes Dies. I cut through the DSP and the Petal Pink layer at the same time and then transferred the location of the hole on the card base with a pencil and then cut out with the same die.

The Basic Gray circle around the hole was cut with two of the Stylish Shapes Dies.

For the threads behind the largest butterflies I cut up a strip of Silver and White Sheer Ribbon. I love the silver threads with the Basic Gray tinted wood grain DSP from the Country Woods DSP pack.

I stamped the greeting from the Sketched Butterflies set in Silver Embossing Powder on the inside of the card. I also stamped two sets of the tiny butterflies in Basic Gray on the inside of the card.

One more pic of the inside of the card. Those tiny butterflies are so cute!

I also added a couple of the coloured tiny butterflies to the inside of the card.

Now it's time to see what my stamping friend Kate Morgan has to share with us. Please follow the hop to all of the blogs to see the beautiful Basic Gray inspiration.

If you have any issues with the links in our blog hop please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the wonderful host of our Colour Creation blog hops and has a complete list of tonight's participants. Be sure to hop around and check out all of the other blogs.

Come back next week when we will be featuring Berry Burst in our projects.

Thanks for visiting,

Rachel 

Product List

Sketched Butterflies Bundle (English)

[163492]

$87.25

Country Woods 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[163393]

$21.75

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

$20.25

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad

[149165]

$15.75

Petal Pink A4 Cardstock

[147009]

$20.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$23.00

Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154893]

$19.25

Bubble Bath Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack

[161675]

$19.25

Silver & White 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Sheer Ribbon

[162149]

$15.75

Metallics Embossing Powders

[155555]

$32.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$53.00

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Colour Creations Blog Hop week 8 Balmy Blue Snowflakes

 

Hello stampers, welcome to week 8 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Balmy Blue, a lovely soft, pale blue.

When I was deciding about this week's project I thought that Balmy Blue was well suited to a frosty snowflakes card. Most of our current Christmas sets are only available in our online store. Check them out here. For this card I used the Sparkling Snowflakes stamp set.

The largest snowflakes are stamped in Balmy Blue, the middle size are white embossed and the smallest are silver embossed.

I used a Blending Brush and Balmy Blue ink to add shading to the top left corner and the bottom right corner.

To add some extra sparkle to my Christmas card I used a strip of White Glimmer Paper across the top of the greeting. I love this greeting set, I was very excited that it was staying in our online store. Christmas is stamped in Balmy Blue and the Merry is embossed in silver.

I placed a Silver Foil mat behind the card front before it was adhered to the Balmy Blue card base. The final bit of sparkle on the card was some Rhinestone Jewels added to the centre of some of the snowflakes.

All of the products used here are available in my Online Store.

Please contact me with any questions, I'm always happy to chat about stamps and Stampin' Up!

Now it's time to hop over to the next stop in our Blog Hop, which belongs to my lovely stamping friend Kathryn Ruddick. Please make sure to see what all of the participants have to share for lots of Balmy Blue inspiration.

If you have any issues with the links in our hop please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the fabulous host of our hops and has a complete list of tonight's participants.

Be sure to come back next week for Basic Gray inspiration.

Thanks for visiting,

Rachel

Product List

Sparkling Snowflakes Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[162158]

$35.00

More Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[162324]

$44.00

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

$20.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$23.00

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Berry Burst, Old Olive & White 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Glimmer Specialty Paper

[163769]

$10.50

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$8.75

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$27.00

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First Christmas card of the season!

 

I know it's a bit early to be starting Christmas cards but I was working on projects for my stamping weekend and wanted to offer a Christmas card option. I am a little bit of a hoarder (Ok, a lot) of discontinued stamps and papers and there is nothing I love more than delving into my treasures and combining old and new to come up with a unique creation.

For this card I used the current Merriest Trees Dies and All Is Bright DSP(retired).

The greeting is from the discontinued Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set. 

The distressed background for the card is embossed with Quatrefoil Embossing Folder. I rubbed the Versamark stamp pad sparingly over the embossed piece and then heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. The pretty star on the top of the tree is cut from Distressed Gold Specialty Paper.

Sorry but I have another Christmas card to share with you on Wednesday when it's time for another Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team.

See you then,

Rachel

Product List

Merriest Trees Dies

[162047]

$65.00

Itty Bitty Christmas Cling Stamp Set (En)

[150513]

$38.00

Quatrefoil Tile Embossing Folder

[158655]

$16.75

Metallics Embossing Powders

[155555]

$32.00

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

[121681]

$20.25

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

$23.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Distressed Gold 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper

[159237]

$8.75

Deckled Rectangles Dies

[159173]

$53.00

All Is Bright 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[147892]

$19.25

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