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Wednesday, 3 August 2022

Colour Creations Blog Hop Week 14 - Coastal Cabana Hippest Hippos

Welcome stampers, to week 14 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. This week our featured colour is Coastal Cabana, which is a fresh green/blue colour from the Brights colour family.

For tonight's card I have used a couple of the Sale-a-bration rewards items, the Hippest Hippos stamp set and the Hippo Dies. These items are each FREE with any $90 purchase.

I started with the 'waving hippo' and stamped in Stazon ink on Shimmery White card stock.

I used my Watercolour Pencils and a Water Painter to gently colour the image. The colours I used are pictured below. I cut out the hippo with the co ordinating die.

I also used the dies to cut out a boat from Real Red card stock. I decided to add a bit of fun to my card by adding a Wobble Spring (not Stampin' Up!) to the back of the hippo/boat piece. These are self adhesive on both sides and means that the hippo looks like he's getting a really rough ride in his boat.

On another piece of Shimmery White card stock I used the widest Water Painter to apply a a soft wash of Coastal Cabana ink for the background and then when dry I cut out the largest circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies.

From a sheet of Coastal Cabana DSP from the 6"x6" Brights pack I cut two of the waves pieces. I layered these on the bottom of the circle, then ran the circle through the Cutting Machine again to shape the waves to fit the circle.

The Basic White card front was layered on a Coastal Cabana card base.

I hope my cute hippo has inspired you to take advantage of the Sale-a-bration specials. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Now it's time to hop over to Theresa's blog to see what Coastal Cabana inspiration she has to share with us.

If you encounter any issues with our blog links please head to Cathy's blog as she is our wonderful host and has a complete list of tonight's participants.

We will be back same time next week to feature Crumb Cake.

Happy stamping,

Rachel

Product List

Hippest Hippos Cling Stamp Set (English)

[159921]

$0.00

Hippo Dies

[159928]

$0.00

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

$16.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.00

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

[159258]

$21.00

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

[101406]

$17.50

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

$28.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$23.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[147084]

$14.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$53.00

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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.