Stampin' Up! Azure Afternoon

 

This week, is week 6 in the Colour Creations blog hop and this week we commence our journey through the Stampin' Up! core colours, working in alphabetical order, starting with a new core colour, Azure Afternoon.

My intention this week was to feature the new Bright and Beautiful Memories and More cards and to show you how easy and quick it can be to create lovely cards, but instead being a bit time poor I have only ended up using one of the smaller cards. Oh well it allows me to show you others in weeks to come. The Bright and Beautiful Memories and More cards feature the lovely new core colours and are as the name suggests, Bright and Beautiful. 

 

The multi coloured centre star panel is one of the smaller Memories and More cards and was the starting point for my card. 

The background paper is also from the Bright and Beautiful suite of products, and is from the Bright and Beautiful DSP. It features Azure Afternoon in an ombre fashion. I have randomly stamped one of the smaller star stamps from the Beautiful Balloons stamp set, in Azure Afternoon, and then embossed the piece using one of the Basics 3D embossing folders, that are one of the Online Exclusives. 

I have then added an overlay of the Celebrations Specialty papers, which are gold on one side and silver on the other. So very versatile.

The sentiment, which has been embossed in white,  is also from Beautiful Balloons and has been die cut using one of the dies from the coordinating bundle.

I have added some Silver Simply Elegant Trim to the sentiment tag. Finally I have added a few stars that have been die cut using one of the dies from the Beautiful Balloon bundle and using Holographic Specialty paper. The smaller star has been die cut using one of the Sentiment Silhouettes dies and Azure Afternoon cardstock. 

Next in tonight's blog hop is the talented Rachel Woollard. I look forward to seeing this week's beautiful 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 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

Stampin' Up! Boho Blue

 

Welcome to a new round of the Colour Creations Showcase blog hop. Once again we are very fortuante to have the lovely Cathy Proctor as our host.  Last week the team finished off with Soft Suede and now we start all over again but this year we have a whole lot of new colours as Stampin' Up!  have done a colour refresh and retired some colours and brought in new ones as well as the 2023-25 In Colours, which is where we start our journey all over again. 

This week, week 1, we start with one of the In colours, Boho Blue, which I absolutely love.

To me Boho Blue is the absolutely perfect blue to use to create baby cards and that is what I have done this week.

Along with Stampin' Up having a colour refresh it is also the start of the new 2023-2024 Annual catalogue, which also means the retirement of some of the stamp sets and bundles but yay it also means lots of new products for us to create with. Because the new Annual Catalogue only went live 2 days ago I haven't been able to purchase many of the lovely new products and some of my existing baby products have retired so I have had to make do with what I have been able to pre-order along with existing products. 

For the background I have used one of the streamer stamps from the new Beautiful Balloons bundle. These have been "stamped off" using Misty Moonlight. I have then embossed the piece of Basic White cardstock using one of the Online exclusive Basics 3D embossing folders.

The balloons have been die cut using Boho Blue cardstock and one of the dies from the new Beautiful Balloons dies. The letters on the balloons have been created using the Alphabet A La Mode dies and stuck to the balloons using adhesive sheets. 

For the balloon strings I have used the White Bakers Twine and coloured it using a Boho Blue Stampin Blend. Finally I have added a few In Colour Dots in Boho Blue. All of this has been mounted on Misty Moonlight cardstock and finally Crumb Cake. 

For the inside of the card I have used several of the Countryside Corners dies with Basic White and Boho Blue cardstock. 

The sentiment is from Charming Sentiments and has been stamped using Boho Blue.

Next in tonight's blog hop is  lovely Tina Gillespie. I look forward to seeing this week's beautiful 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 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