Stampin' Up! Highland Heather

 

This week, week 26 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  Highland Heather, is a member of the Subtles colour group and as the name suggests is a purple colour.

It's been a few weeks since I last participated in the blog hop as I've been busy holidaying in Darwin and celebrating our son's University graduation. 

 

One of the benefits of being a Stampin' Up Demonstrator is that we have access to upcoming new products before everyone else. This week I have chosen to feature some new upcoming stamps and coordinating dies which will be available to purchase from November 1st, called Framed Florets. The bundle consists of floral and greenery stamps with corresponding dies as well as frame dies and who doesn't love a frame die?

The floral images have been stamped in Black Memento and then coloured using Highland Heather and Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends. I have then die cut them using the corresponding dies. Yay no fussy cutting required!

I have used Highland Heather cardstock on top of Thick Basic White cardstock for the base. To break up the base a bit I have stamped some of the leaf images in Highland Heather. The Basic White cardstock has been embossed using the Painted Texture Embossing folder and then die cut using the beautiful oval heart die from the Framed Floret dies. It has then been die cut again using one of the Deckled Rectangle dies. It's a bit hard to see the embossing in the photo above but this close up should show it in more detail.

 The inner oval has been die cut using another of the frame dies from the Framed Floret dies. 

The sentiment is also from the Framed Floret stamp set and has been stamped in Gorgeous Grape to be a bit bolder than Highland Heather. 

Finally I have added some Pastel Pearls and coloured some Iridescent Pearls to the flower centres and the sentiment panel. 

Next in tonight's blog hop is the talented Rachel Woollard. 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.

As always if you live in Australia and would like to know more about Stampin' Up! or would like to purchase some of the products then click on the Facebook tab at the top of the page and send me a message.

As always enjoy your week.

Theresa

Heart of Christmas Week 17

 

Welcome to Week 17 of the Art With Heart Heart of Christmas. This year we will be hopping weekly until the end of November, so hopefully we can provide you with some festive inspiration. Our host for this week's blog hop is once again Sharon Davern.

It's been a few weeks since I last participated in the blog hop as I've been busy holidaying in Darwin and celebrating our son's University graduation. 

For my card this week I have once again used the beautiful Lights Aglow Specialty paper along with the coordinating Christmas Lights bundle and the Brightest Glow bundle. In particular I wanted to use the non-traditional piece of Lights Aglow paper featuring black. 

 

I started by stamping a couple of the largest snowflakes in Versamark from the Christmas Lights stamp set and then embossing them with gold. I then die cut these using the corresponding die from the Twinkling Lights dies along with another using Gold Glimmer paper.

I have then mounted these onto the Lights Aglow paper featuring black and mounted all of this on to a piece of Gold Glimmer paper. 

The sentiment from Brightest Glow has been gold embossed onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and then die cut using one of the Labels Aglow dies.

I have then threaded some of the Gold and Vanilla Satin Edged Ribbon through the ends of the sentiment panel and wrapped it around the band of the card. All of this has then been mounted onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.

Finally I have added a few Gold Festive Pearls for some bling.

Next on tonight's blog hop is the talented  and enabler Christine Blain. Click on the button below and it should take you to her blog where you can see her lovely Christmas creation.

 If the button link is not working or you would like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern's blog.

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Enjoy your week.

Theresa