Colour Creations Blog Hop - Balmy Blue

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you another colour for Colour Creations blog hop and we are now at week 8 with the Art With Heart Team in Australia. 

The next colour is Balmy Blue which is part of the Subtles range and it's a lovely blue to use in your projects. It comes in Cardstock, Classic Ink Pad, Ink Refill, Embellishments, Designer Series Paper and many more Stampin' Up! products.

I have to tell you a secret this is not the card I was going to be presenting to you tonight in fact I had actually used another colour altogether and it was Boho Blue. Silly me used the wrong blue! Has this ever happened to you? I've saved the card for when Boho Blue comes along which will be week 13 and the good thing is I'm already for Boho Blue.

Well, here's my very quick card using Boho Blue and it's a masculine card as I needed a birthday card for my dad which is coming up soon. As this card was made very last minute, I decided to go with a sketch challenge which is called THIS or THAT for the month of June and it's located over on Stampin' Up! Official Instagram page. You can also find lots of helpful sketches on page 22 of the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. I went with THAT for the challenge.

I've used the Spotlight on Nature and Country Birdhouse stamp sets for the birthday card. I love all of the images from the Spotlight on Nature stamp set especially the sprig of leaves stamp and I have stamped it a number of times throughout the card. 

I went with a tone-on-tone look using Night of Navy cardstock and ink. I also stamped the same image using Night of Navy ink onto Balmy Blue cardstock and also Balmy Blue ink stamped onto Basic White cardstock, then I've fussy cut out the images to add to my layers.

As I needed a birthday stamp for the card, I went through my stamp sets and then I found Country Birdhouse Stamp Set and used the happy birthday greeting. I also used the bird image and stamped the bird in Night of Navy and coloured the bird in with Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends. To finish off the card I added Balmy Blue embellishments. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Now for the next blog please visit the very talented Theresa Gerrard click on the link below.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher