Paper Adventures Colour Challenge Blog Hop - Guest Designer

 Hello and welcome to the Paper Adventures Team blog hop and welcome to my blog! I've been asked as Guest Designer for this month and it's a colour challenge! Thank you to Narelle for inviting me along for the challenge.

I hope this post finds you well and you are enjoying the Colour Challenge. The colours are Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie they were chosen by the team. 

Colour challenges is something I do a lot of when it comes to paper craft and card making. I've created a succulent watercolour look for my thank you card. Something a little bit different as succulents are using shades of blues, greens and purples.

I've used the Simply Succulents and coordinating Potted Succulents Dies for the challenge. The images are stamped in Stazon Jet Black Ink onto Shimmery White Cardstock. I like to use the fine tip brush when using the Water Painters for intricate detail. 

I've used all three colours for the succulents starting off with a lighter colour and then add more ink as I go. For the pot I've started off using the large flat tip and applied Rich Razzleberry Ink lightly and then using the fine tip for more detail.

The card base is Rich Razzleberry Cardstock adding a layer of Basic White Cardstock. I've applied Basic Gray Ink with the Blending Brush to the white cardstock this gives the look of a shadow for the pot and succulents.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and thanks to the Paper Adventures Team for inviting me along to be part of their hop.

Click on the NEXT button to visit Lisa Whitehead I'm sure you're going to love her creation using these colours.

I would so love hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Colour Creations Blog Hop Bermuda Bay Week 4 Art With Heart Team Australia

 

 Hello and welcome

Tonight I'll be sharing with you Week 4 of Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team in Australia. 

Each week there will be a Colour Creations blog hop showcasing Stampin' Up! Colors with a selection of members from the Art With Heart Team who will be joining in. I'm looking forward to seeing their beautiful projects using the Stampin' Up! Colors. You'll be able to hop around by clicking on the next link at the end of my blog.

The colour for tonight is Bermuda Bay which is part of the Brights Collection and comes in a number of different mediums such as Ink, Cardstock, DSP etc.... I've used Bermuda Bay with Soft Seafoam and Evening Evergreen as well as Crumb Cake and Gray Granite for my handmade cards.

I wanted to see how Bermuda Bay would interact with two very different greens from the Stampin' Up! Colors by using different ink blending techniques. I always love using greens for the Simply Succulents Stamp Set and coordinating Pottered Succulents Dies which is in the Stampin' Up! 2021 - 2022 Annual Catalogue.

For my first card I've used the Faux Masking technique by ripping up Grid Paper and placing it onto a panel of Basic White Cardstock. 

I've placed masking tape onto the Grid Paper as you don't want it to move on you. I started applying Soft Seafoam ink using the Blending Brush then onto Bermuda Bay and finished off with Evening Evergreen. I also added splattered ink by using the Stampin' Blends in the same colours. 

The stamped images of the succulents for the first card are inked up in Memento Black Ink and coloured in using Bermuda Bay and Evening Evergreen light and dark Stampin' Blends. I also like to take off some of the colour by using the Colour Lifter.

For the Potted Succulents die cut images, I've blended Bermuda Bay and Soft Seafoam Ink onto Basic White Cardstock. I like to add a little dimension to my cards, so I've used Stampin' Dimensionals for some of the images. 

For my second card, I've created a watercolour look using the large succulent image and stamped it in Stazon Ink onto Shimmery White Cardstock. I've coloured in the succulents using the fine tip Water Painter and combined Bermuda Bay, Soft Seafoam and Evening Evergreen Ink. It's amazing the colours you can come up with when combing them together. 

The ink blending background is a panel of Basic White Cardstock using the Blending Brush and starting with Soft Seafoam, then mixing in with Bermuda Bay and finishing off with Evening Evergreen. This makes a lovely soft background.

The card base for both cards is Bermuda Bay Cardstock. I wanted a couple of birthday cards, so I've used the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. I've heat embossed the sentiment using Versamark Ink, White Stampin' Emboss Powder and Heat Tool.

Now it's time to hop along and visit the lovely Andrea Sargent to see her project please click on the link below.

The list of participants are listed below.

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Kristine D'Auria

Rachel Palmieri

Christine Blain

Rachel Woollard

Diane Furniss

Theresa Gerrard

Caroline Manwaring

Rosa Leyden

Tina Gillespie

Vicki Boucher you are here

Andrea Sargent

  

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

If you live in Australia, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

Happy Stamping 

Vicki Boucher

Colour INKspiration Challenge #99

 

Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration challenge #CI99 and this stunning photo was chosen by Jacque Williams one of the Design Crew Members. This colour combo is so beautiful and something I normally wouldn't create using these colours, but I do love a colour challenge!

The colour combination for #CI99 are Mint Macaron, Just Jade, Smoky Slate and Soft Suede. As well as the chosen colours you may also add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics to your project. We also allow 'Ivory' and 'Bronze' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie: Gray Granite instead of Smoky Slate.... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm on the 31st May 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Today's card is a watercolour handmade card using the Simply Succulents Stamp Set and Potted Succulents Dies. The challenge colours I thought are perfect for the succulents, by mixing the colours together with different combinations to achieve a variation of colour.

I've stamped the images using Stazon Jet Black Ink onto Shimmery White Cardstock and I applied ink with the Water Painters. I like to use the fine tip brush for the succulents and large flat brush tip for the planter pot. 

Before layering the die cut pieces to the card, I added Smoky Slate Ink with the Blending Brush to the panel of Basic White Cardstock. The sentiment is also from the Simply Succulents Stamp Set, I stamped off before randomly stamping the image three times to the Basic White panel.

To finish off the card, I've heat embossed the sentiment with Versamark Ink, sprinkled White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set using the Heat Tool. The card base is Smoky Slate Cardstock and the bow is White Baker's Twine.

I hope you can participate in this latest round and as we so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specially for this challenge.

#CI99 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 31st May 2021.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Just a reminder to upload your challenge pics straight to the discussion wall and not in an album.

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

If you live in Australia, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

You can request the Stampin' Up! 2021 - 2022 Annual Catalogue here

Happy Stamping!

Vicki Boucher