Colour Creations: Pacific Point

 Hi!

Welcome back to the new Colour Creations Creative Showcase. This week we are up to Pacific Point, a lovely bright mid-blue from the Brights colour family. I was scrolling through google images this week, looking for inspiration for my card, and I noticed a few cards that had used floral images to create a sort of china-like pattern. Delft, I think it's called? Hopefully you know what I'm talking about - the blue and white designs on crockery.

I didn't have any suitable floral images, so I settled on this scroll image from Ornate Style. I used my Stamparatus to stamp the image repeatedly on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I made the cardstock slightly longer and wider than I wanted to that I could trim it down. This allowed me to get the piece nice and symmetrical.

I used my new Pretty Perennials stamp set for the sentiment. The rhinestones aren't Pacific Point, they are retired Blueberry Bushell rhinestones, as they were the closest match that I had.

The bonus to making your DIY DSP a little bigger that you need is that you have left over pieces that you can use to decorate the inside! Just a simple strip was all I needed, matted on a scrap of Pacific Point cardstock.

Don't forget to head on over to Catherine's blog now, where you'll find the rest of this week's Pacific Point cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Crushed Curry

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It's Colour Creations Showcase time! Yay! Although, I must admit that I find it difficult to get excited about this week's colour - Crushed Curry. I really am not a big fan of yellow, so I found it difficult to start creating this week. In the end I was inspired by my own card from last time we did the Colour Creations, where I used Crushed Curry Ink to colour the negative space on the card.

Last time I watercolored to apply the ink - this time I masked the large floral image from Ornate Style and used a blending brush to apply the ink, but just in a 'halo' around the flowers.

Making the masks was quite fiddly. I had to make two so that I could cover both sets of flowers. I stamped the image on two fully adhesive sticky notes. If you can find these they are fabulous, as the entire mask will stick down, not just one edge. The masks were fiddly because I snipped out all the tiny sections without flowers so that the colour would be applied there too. Fiddly, but worth it, I think!

I repeated the technique again on the inside. You can see that on each set of flowers I coloured the centres with my Crushed Curry Marker. The white of the flowers was a little too white, and needed a touch of something to break up all the white.

Even though I find Crushed Curry a tricky colour, I'm very pleased with this card! You can find the rest of this week's Crushed Curry cards over on Catherine's Blog. She does a wonderful job of keeping us all organised every week!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #267 Week 2: Flowers Of The Ornate Garden Suite

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Welcome back for this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We are up to Week 2 of our current challenge, which is to make a card that is inspired by the flowers of the Ornate Garden Suite.

Last week I did a heap fo fussy cutting with the Peaceful Poppies DSP. This week I decided to go more literal and use one of the stamp sets from the suite, Ornate Style.

I started by stamping the frame from Swirly Frames on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I also stamped it on a piece of copy paper and trimmed away the piece on the inside of the frame. I then used the copy paper as a mask and stamped the flowers through it.

I then coloured the image with my Stampin' Blends. I used Rococo Rose, Daffodil Delight, Purple Posy and Granny Apple Green. I coloured the outer areas with Light Pool Party. A sentiment from Label Me Bold finished off the front of the card.

For the inside, I stamped the same flowers as the front, I just turned the stamp on it's side. They are coloured the same was as the front of the card. The sentiment is from Peaceful Moments.

That's all from me this week. We are at the halfway point for our challenge, so you still have a week to make a card and post it to the Facebook Group. What inspires you from the flowers of the suite?

Before you dash off to get creating, don't forget to finish the Blog Hop! Next up is the lovely Bec!

Bye for now,

Tina

Sneak Peek...

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One of the perks of being a Stampin' Up! Demo is that we often get access to new products before anyone else. SU released a new suite of products early, they will be in the new Annual Catalogue, but demos can get them in March, and they will be available to customers in April. Happily, my preorder arrived on Saturday morning, so I was able to have a play over the long weekend.

Isn't this floral image stunning? It's such a sweet bunch of flowers. I have no idea what kind of flowers they are meant to be, other than maybe daisies at the top. I stamped it in Memento ink and coloured it with my Blends.

The colours I used were Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Purple Posy, Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Bronze and Pool Party. How lovely is the die cut panel? It's from the dies that come in the bundle with the stamp set. I love that this one is a better size for Australian sized cards, as it's slightly longer than the largest Stitched Rectangle die.

This is another stamp from the set - a single daisy that I stamped twice. I left the inside sentiment free, so that the card is a little more multipurpose. The 'For You' on the front covers a wide range of occasions.

I also purchased the DSP from the suite, which is very retro and reminds me of sheet sets that my nana used to have. I can't wait to play more, skeet your eye out for more samples in the future!

Bye for now,

Tina