Stampin' Up! Blackberry Bliss

 

This week, week 9 in the Colour Creations blog hop we continue our journey  featuring all of the Core Stampin' Up! colours, in alphabetical order. This week's feature colour is Blackberry Bliss, a member of the Regals colour group .

 

For my card this week I decided to break open a new stamp set and die bundle from the upcoming new July to December mini, that will be available to purchase from this Friday but as a demonstrator we have the privilege to purchase in a preorder. The stamp set is Splendid Thoughts and is paired with matching dies. I have teamed Blackberry Bliss with Old Olive and Fresh Freesia. 

 

I started my card by stamping the leaf outline in Old Olive and the flower stem in Blackberry Bliss. The stamp set does come with a "filling stamp" but it's designed to be offset somewhat as and I wanted to die cut these images I chose to break out my "little used" watercolour pencils and Blender Pens instead. As Stampin' Up! do not have a Blackberry Bliss pencil I opted for Rich Razzleberry instead. I think it's close enough. I also die cut a couple of open leaves from the Splendid Stems dies using some Matte Rose Gold Specialty Paper. I then mounted this bunch on a circle of White cardstock that has been matted with a scalloped edge of Blackberry Bliss. Both from the Layering Circles dies.

For the base of the card I have used a piece of the Design a Daydream paper which features Blackberry Bliss and what I think is Fresh Freesia.  I have used the scallop edge die from the Scalloped Contour dies for the edge of the paper and embossed the Fresh Freesia cardstock using the Pretty Flowers embossing folder. You can see the detail a bit closer in the photo below.

I have then added a bow of Fresh Freesia to the spray.

The sentiment is from Happiness Abounds and has been stamped in Blackberry Bliss and die cut using one of the dies from Harvest Dies. Finally I have added a few In Colour Opal Rounds to break up some of the space and to the sentiment panel. 

Next in tonight's blog hop is the lovely Rosa Leyden. I look forward to seeing her lovely creation. 

 

 If the "next" button link is not working or you would like to see a full list of participants then you can hop over to our host Cathy Proctor's blog where you can see a full list of tonight's participants.

Don't forget to pop back next week when when we will be featuring the next Core colour in our journey, Blushing Bride.

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As always enjoy your week.

Theresa