Fragrant Layers for the Stamping Inkspirations Colour Challenge Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I am taking part in a blog hop with some fellow enthusiasts who love sharing their creative talents using their Stampin' Up!® products. This month we have a colour challenge for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop.

Our challenge is to use at least three of the colours from the selection. We can choose from Azure Afternoon, Darling Duckling, Pretty in Pink, Granny Apple Green and Pecan Pie.

I selected the floral Fragrant Layes bundle to create my cards with. I stamped the detailed floral image, using Versamark, on to Basic White card and then heat embossed it using gold powder. I always love watching the transformation from powder to the beautifully smooth, shiny raised finish that you get with heat embossing.

Next, I used in fill stamps to colour the petals and leaves. These two step stamp makes colouring a breeze. The stamps intentionally add texture. I enhanced this by adding some tone on tone dots using one of the smaller stamps in the set. The heat embossing resists the ink, so to avoid smudging, it is important to dab the coloured image with a clean cloth to remove the excess ink. Initially, I forgot to do this and ended up throwing away some fuzzy images!

Using a blending brush I added colour to the edge of the Basic White before adding it to a slightly larger matting layer. This in turn was added to an embossed piece which was adhered to the base card. The simple Hello was also heat embossed in gold and then die cut using the stitched edge banner. Both the sentiment and banner are included in the bundle. Finally, I added a trio of gems from the Strawberry Slush and Pretty in Pink pack. The palest ones even coordinated witht he Azure Afternoon flowers!

True to form, I couldn't stop at just one card. They all start with a gold heat embossed image which is coloured using the two step stamp and I had fun playing with the palette of colours. This last one was a little more tricky to make because I wanted to overlay the die cut flower frame over the stamped image. The gold heat embossing still shines through the gaps.

Here they all are together!

Please continue along the hop to see what the others have created too...enjoy the projects! We would love to hear from you and so if you have been inspired, please leave a comment.

 

 Leonie Stuart  ●  Mo Rootes

Angie McKenzie  ●  Karen Henderson

 

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Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

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Love Notes for the New at SU! Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today, I am participating in the New at SU! blog hop. I am so happy to be creating again. I had a poorly shoulder so I had a bit of an enforced break from crafting. Sigh! Anyway I am super happy to be hopping again - we are a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators from around the world who are full of creative papercrafting ideas to share with you to get you crafting. The theme this month is Handcrafted Hearts. Projects that focus on Love, Weddings, Anniversaries or Valentines are the order of the day and as I love anything heart shaped this is right up my street!

As soon as I saw the Love Notes Designer Series Paper I could visualise these cards! They are simple cards, using some of my go to card recipies, allowing the DSP to shine! I have teamed the papers up with words from the Reason to Celebrate stamps and the shapes from the Endless Love dies.

The split front of the card allows two patterns from the DSP to shine and then a die cut heart forms the focal point. The words are heat embossed using white powder and mounted to make them pop.

Valentine's is raised on dimensionals to add a bit more interest. 

The next split front card uses the same heart shape but this time the decoration is a fussy cut flower arrangement, which is raised up on Dimensionals, instead of the words. For added decoration this time there are tiny die cut hearts and some of the Loose Valentine's Assortment embellishments together with a twist of Bakers Twine.

My other two cards use a square die from the Stylish Shapes to crop out one of the square images on the DSP, which I then used as a focal point. The papers are adorable, so I think my simple approach works!

Ordinarily I don't think I would mix pink and red, but with these papers, and especially for for Valentine's Day, I think it works. What do you think about Real Red and Flirty Flamingo together? I hope that you have been inspired by my cards today. Continuing along the hop to the others will provide you with even more project ideas - you are currently with me, Furry Cat Designs by Karen Henderson - but before you hop on to the next post, please take a moment to leave a comment. We love reading your comments!

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Do you need any of the products used on today's cards? If you live in the UK please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator. To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. The products I have used on today's project are linked from the images shown below.

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Bonus Days are back! When you shop between 6 January and 2 February and spend £45, you will earn a £4.50 coupon! Make sure you save all your coupons because you can redeem them between 3 and 28 February. And don’t forget—each purchase earns you Stampin’ Rewards, so that’s even more value for money!

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Click on the images of the products I have used today to purchase them in my online shop: