Colour Creations: Fresh Freesia

 Hi!

Welcome to the Fresh Freesia week of the Colour Creations Blog Hops. Are you a fan of Fresh Freesia? It's a soft mauve that is yet to grow on me. Knowing the rest of the Colour Creations hoppers, by the time I've seen everyone's creations I will love it!

I started with my pack of Bright & Beautiful DSP. While 'bright' might not apply to my selected papers, I think that 'beautiful' does. I love the spotty paper, and the soft wash of the bottom paper.

I struggled with what to do after creating the base of the card, and then I found the die cut from Artistic Dies floating on my desk. I painstakingly added little snippets of Dimensionals to the back so that I could pop it up over the base. I love that I got the floral effect, but I can still see lots of the spotty paper underneath.

Because I loved it so much, I used it again on the inside of the card. A sweet twine bow finishes it off nicely, along with a sentiment from Days To Remember.

Next stop in tonight's hop is my lovely friend, Andrea Sargent. I'm sure that she has made something fabulous with Fresh Freesia!

If you happen to run into any problems with links, just jump on over to the wonderful Cathy Proctor's blog. She keeps us all organised, and will have a list of all of tonight's participants on her blog to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Crushed Curry

 Hi!

Thanks for stopping by for our new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Crushed Curry's turn to be the feature colour. Do you like Cushed Curry? I think it's one of those polarising colours. I'm not a huge fan, and I really struggled with my card.

As ever, Brian King was the source of a fantastic colour combination featuring Crushed Curry. I had in mind to do a masculine card, but nothing I tried really worked. In the end, I tried something completely different.

At a recent stamping day with friends, I took the opportunity to crop a few of these flowers from the Artistic Dies in white. I thought about colouring the die cut, but it seemed to be a fiddly job, so I kept thinking! The coordinating stamp set is designed to layer with the die cuts, so how could I get a similar look without the stamps? Different dies! I used the hexagons from Beautiful Shapes Dies to go underneath the flower.

I really like how it turned out! I used my retired Hexagon punch to crop the sentiment. It's slightly smaller than one of the hexagon dies, so it layers beautifully.

I completed the inside with a partial die cut using a similar technique as the front of the card.

Thanks again for joining me for the hop tonight, but please do continue your way around all the blogs to see how lovely Crushed Curry can be. The next stop is my wonderfully artistic friend, Kathryn Ruddick.

If you run into any problems with links, please jump on over to Cathy Proctor's blog. She does a fabulous job of keeping us all organised, and will have a list of all of tonight's participants on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina