AWHT COLOUR CREATIONS BLOG HOP - WEEK 3: BASIC GRAY

 

Welcome to the Colour Creations Blog Hop, where several of my Stampin' Up! friends and I share creations showcasing Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order.  The feature colour in this week's blog hop is Basic Gray.  

This moody neutral is a great colour to incorporate on masculine cards - my favourite kind of card to make!  I have used the Mountain Air stamp set and co-ordinating Majestic Mountain Dies, along with my favourite soon-to-retire sentiment stamp set, You Are Amazing.

You may think I have used a green ink to create the mist shrouding the mountains, but no, it's just greys! Using the solid reverse side of the mountain stamp,  I used Smoky Slate ink, stamped off once onto scrap paper first, to give a light impression of mountains on a piece of Basic White card.  I then flipped over the stamp, inked it with Basic Gray ink, and stamped the line detail of the mountains over the top.  The Smoky Slate ink had not completely dried before I blended some Basic Gray ink over the top, using a Blending Brush.  Rather intriguingly, the result was a greenish hue.  I don't mind it!

I have used a Basic Borders Die, reminiscent of snowy mountain peaks, to cut the top edge of the Basic White stamped piece.  The trees are die cut from Basic Gray and Basic Black card.

I white heat-embossed the sentiment on a piece of Basic Gray card, and cut it out using a Tasteful Labels Die.  I mounted this on a Basic Black Tailor Made Tag, with a hole reinforcer in Basic White, and some Basic Gray baker's twine knotted through it.

The background paper is one of the sheets from the Simply Elegant Specialty Designer Series Paper pack.

Next up on tonight's blog hop is Fiona Ryan.  You can click on the graphic below, to be taken to her blog.

Here's a comprehensive list of everyone taking part in this week's Colour Creations Blog Hop:

Michele Taylor 

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Theresa Gerrard

Kristine D'Auria

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Di Furniss

Claire Daly

Christine Blain  --- YOU ARE HERE!

Fiona Ryan

Caroline Manwaring

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Rosa Leyden 

Listed below are all the products I used to make my card.  If you live in Australia, and would like to shop with me for your Stampin' Up! supplies, you can get to my online store by clicking on the thumbnail image below.

I made a few Basic Gray cards, so will share the other two in the coming days.  I hope you'll come back to visit, to see what I created.

Product List

Mountain Air Photopolymer Stamp Set [151610] $35.00	You Are Amazing Cling Stamp Set (English) [154534] $37.00	Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] $15.25	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $15.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $15.25	Simply Elegant 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155761] $26.00	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $13.00	Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165] $13.00
Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $31.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $21.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00
Majestic Mountain Dies [151608] $63.00	Tasteful Labels Dies [152886] $54.00	Tailor Made Tags Dies [155563] $38.00	Basic Borders Dies [155558] $50.00	Well Suited Twine Combo Pack [154566] $12.25
Stampin' Seal [152813] $14.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00

AWHT COLOUR CREATIONS SHOWCASE - WEEK 50: SOFT SUEDE

 

Tonight's Colour Creations Showcase, featuring Soft Suede, marks the end of our 50 weeks of sharing cards made with Stampin' Up!'s range of colours in alphabetical order.  If you go over to Cathy's blog, you will find a comprehensive list of everyone taking part in this week's showcase.

Soft Suede evokes strong thoughts of masculine projects for me.  I had a die-cut tree, cut from Soft Suede card, on my craft table, so used that as my starting point for the card I am sharing with you tonight.  Using my Stamparatus, I inked up the Stacked Stone background stamp in Crumb Cake ink, stamped it off onto scrap paper, then stamped it onto a piece of Very Vanilla card.  I wanted a subtle stamped impression, and am pleased with the result.   I knew I wanted to place the tree in the bottom right-hand section of my card front, so I stamped the splotchy (blossom?) stamp from Beauty of Friendship, onto the Very Vanilla panel using Bermuda Bay ink, around the area that the bare-branched tree would go.

I cut a piece of Crumb Cake card to the width of my Very Vanilla panel, and used a Curvy Die to create a decorative top edge.  I stamped, in Crumb Cake ink, the grounding stamp for my tree to sit on.  Using Bermuda Bay ink, I also stamped the splotchy images on this piece of card.  I then embossed the Crumb Cake piece with a Meadow Moments embossing folder, sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink, and added some Soft Suede leaves cut using the tiny leaf Meadow Dies.

After sticking down the "ground" piece, and the tree, I sponged around the edges with Crumb Cake ink.  I mounted this main panel onto a piece of Pool Party cardstock, and sponged the edges of that layer with Soft Suede ink.

The sentiment, from You Are Amazing, was stamped in Soft Suede ink on Very Vanilla card.  I cropped it with a Tasteful Labels die, which I raised up on Stampin' Dimensionals.  The twine wrapped around the card is Snail Mail Twine, that was white - I coloured it using the Dark Soft Suede Stampin' Blends marker.  A little Soft Suede die-cut bird, adhered to the raised sentiment label, finishes off my card.

Because I have used a Soft Suede card base, I decorated the inside after adding a Very Vanilla card panel.

We hope you enjoy checking out everyone's Soft Suede creations this week.  Make sure you hop over to Cathy's blog, to get the links to everyone's blog posts.  Next week we will be taking part in a special blog hop, showcasing all five of the new In Colors that joined Stampin' Up!'s range last month.

Listed below are all the products I used to make this card.  If you live in Australia, and would like to shop with me for your Stampin' Up! supplies, you can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

Product List

Stacked Stone Cling Background Stamp [152556] $30.00	You Are Amazing Cling Stamp Set (English) [154534] $37.00	Beauty Of Friendship Bundle (English) [155834] $90.75	Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Clear Block A [118487] $7.00
Soft Suede A4 Card Stock [119982] $15.25	Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] $15.25	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] $17.00	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] $15.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $13.00
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $13.00	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [147096] $13.00	Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154906] $15.50	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00	Curvy Dies [154319] $50.00
Tasteful Labels Dies [152886] $54.00	Meadow Dies [155852] $66.00	Meadow Moments Embossing Folders [153126] $14.00	Snail Mail Twine Combo Pack [154579] $12.25	Sponge Daubers [133773] $9.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $21.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00