Handstamped by Rachel: July to Dec Mini Catalogue

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Colour Creations Blog Hop week 11 - Cajun Craze Rustic Harvest

Hello Stampers, welcome to week 11 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. The eleventh colour alphabetically in the Stampin' Up! colour range is Cajun Craze. Cajun Craze is a deep, rich, rust colour that is in our Regals colour family. I do love this colour but it's not one that I use very often.

For this week's card I am featuring Cajun Craze with the Rustic Harvest DSP from the July to Dec Mini Catalogue.

I dug out my Watercolour Pencils and used Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green and Garden Green.

I randomly coloured the leaves with the pencils, then I used a Water Painter to blend the colours.

I mounted the DSP piece with a piece of Cajun Craze 6x6 DSP onto a Cajun Craze card base.

The greeting is from the Go To Greetings stamp set and has been heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. This greeting set has four different greetings in three different sizes and scripts. It's so versatile! The ribbon under the greeting is a piece of Gold & Vanilla Satin Edged Ribbon that has been coloured with a Granny Apple Green Blends Marker.

The final embellishments I added were a few Basic Rhinestone Jewels that have been coloured with a Soft Suede Blends Marker.

All of the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card are listed below and are available from my online store.

Now it's time to hop over to the next blog in our hop which belongs to the very talented Diane Furniss.

If you encounter any issues with the links in blog hop please head over to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the host of this hop and will have a complete list of tonight's participants.

Do you have a copy of our amazing July to December Mini Catalogue? If not and you live in Australia, let me know and I will send one to you.

The Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration is on now, FREE rewards with every purchase of $90. Contact me for your copy.

Thanks for visiting,

Rachel

Product List

Rustic Harvest 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159633]

$21.00

Cajun Craze A4 Card Stock

[121683]

$16.25

Regals 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159256]

$21.00

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2

[149014]

$21.75

Go To Greetings Cling Stamp Set (English)

[158763]

$42.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$23.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Metallics Embossing Powders

[155555]

$32.00

Heat Tool

[129056]

$53.00

Gold & Vanilla 3/8" (1 Cm) Satin Edged Ribbon

[159555]

$14.00

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154885]

$15.75

Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154906]

$15.75

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Colour Creations Blog Hop Week 7 - Basic Gray

It's Wednesday again and time for another Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. Week 7 sees us feature one of our very versatile Neutral colours Basic Gray. I did think for a few minutes about trying to do a monochromatic card with Basic Gray, but it goes so nicely with so many of the other Stampin' Up! colours that I decided to use it as one of many colours instead.

As it is nearly time for the new July to Dec Mini Catalogue (that is not really mini) and the next Sale-a-bration I have lots of new stamp sets to inspire you.

When I saw these Hippos in the Sale-a-bration brochure I knew they would be a hit as they are sooooo cute. I have used the not so delicate, but really sweet ballerina Hippo on my Pull Tab Flip Card.

I mounted her in one of the frames from the Fabulous Frames Dies and then mounted this piece on to the pull tab mechanism. I am planning to write my own tutorial using the Fabulous Frame Dies, but in the meantime there are numerous tutorials on the internet.

I stamped another one of the hippos to go inside the pull tab. Both Hippos were stamped in Memento ink and coloured using the Blends Markers listed below.

My second card is the first Christmas card I am sharing with you this season. Most of the products used to make this card are available in the July to Dec Mini Catalogue that begins on the first of July. The stamp set is called Trees For Sale, and as an extra bonus there is a coordinating Die Set as one of the rewards from the upcoming Sale-a-bration promotion.

This time I have paired Basic Gray with a Polished Pink tree. The base layer of the tree is stamped in Polished Pink ink that has been stamped off once for a lighter shade. The second tree image is stamped in full strength Polished Pink ink.

The tree is framed by one of the dies in the Fabulous Frames Dies cut from Silver Foil. The background has been embossed with the Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder.

The Basic Gray background has been embossed using the really cute Whimsical Wonderland 3D Embossing Folder which is in the July to Dec Mini Catalogue.

The scripty greeting is also included in the Trees For Sale stamp set.

I hope you like my Basic Gray creations, next week we will be featuring Bermuda Bay.

Now it's time to see what my fellow team members have created using Basic Gray. The next stamper along in the Blog Hop is the lovely and very clever Diane Furniss.

If you have any issues following our Blog Hop please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the host of our hops and will have a complete list of tonight's participants.

Don't forget to check out the Last Chance Products list to pick up some bargain priced Stampin' Up! products.