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Wednesday 2 December 2020

Colour Creations: Mint Macaron

 Hi!


Welcome back to the new Colour Creations Creative Showcase - isn't that a mouthful to say?! This week we are working with one of my all-time favourite Stampin' Up! colours, Mint Macaron. It was originally an In Colour, and I was very excited to see it back in the line up after a colour refresh. It's a lovely, dusky mid green.

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I pulled out the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set to play with tonight for no other reason than it's been a while since I've played with it. In fact, I'd never used the small sunflower stamp before! I stamped is all over my Mint Macaron cardstock with the matching ink. I'd pre-cut cut the cardstock using the largest Stitched Rectangles Die, and after I'd finished stamping I ran it through my Big Shot twice using the Subtle folder, once in each direction. I love that it gives the cardstock a fabric-like look.

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The large sunflower was cut from Silver Foil card. I'd originally intended to just use the outline, but when I pulled it from the die, all the pieces stayed in place. I quickly cut the coordinating solid shape from Mint cardstock and glued it to the back, making sure I got a dot of glue on all of the tiny pieces. I was quite pleased with how it turned out, even if it wasn't what I'd intended! I tucked a few die cut leaves underneath, just to finish it off.

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I stamped that cute little sunflower image again on the inside, along with a sentiment from Under My Umbrella. My card base was one of the retired Silver Foil cards, as it has that lovely Silver Foil border to match the foil sunflower.

That's all from me for tonight, but please do head on over to Catherine's blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Mint Macaron cards. We have two more weeks of 'M' colours before we take a little break over Christmas and the New Year.

Bye for now,

Tina

6 comments:

  1. Lovely, Tina! I really like the stamped and embossed background, and the silver feature bloom; what a nice complement to Mint Macaron. Beautiful job.

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  2. Beautiful, Tina. I love how Mint Macaron goes with all the metallics and the silver sunflower is gorgeous!

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  3. Just lovely, Tina. I love the texture of the background embossing and all the silver elements.

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  4. Just gorgeous Tina - love your background and love Mint Macaron with Silver! Thank you for inspiring us all with your Mint Macaron Creation this week xx

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  5. Great card Tina - Silver and Mint Macaron were made for each other! I love all your different details - the more you look, the more you discover!

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  6. The sunflower looks amazing in silver foil and the extra details in mint macaron are very clever.

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