Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Stampin Up Butterfly Brilliance No Occasions Cards 2 Different Colour Ways

Our fiftieth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "soft suede" from the neutrals collection. I have chosen soft suede, blushing bride and rich razzleberry from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
Today, I have two cards to share with you.
Card #1, I made first but I thought I had a lot of "white space" I looked for ways to change in card #2. 
I cut the "bricks" using a die from brilliant wings dies and stamped that "splats" in soft suede from quiet meadow stamp set. The larger two butterflies are stamped in memento and coloured in with the blushing bride stampin' write markers. The smaller butterfly is die cut in blushing bride cardstock with the edges inked in blushing bride ink and sponge dauber. The very vanilla card is matted with soft suede cardstock and layered on a rich razzleberry card and champagne rhinestone jewels for a finishing touch. 

Card #2, is identical to card #1 only it has a soft suede background with a crumb cake matt. I personally prefer the colouring of card #2. Maybe the warmth of the soft suede, I'm not really sure its that is just has "less white space" in my opinion.


Card #1


Card #2


With decorated envelope


Inside card - both cards are exactly the same on the inside. More stamping "splats" from quiet meadow on this time in Sahara sand.


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Stampin' Up! Suit and Tie Dies Card

Our forty seventh colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "smoky slate" from the neutrals collection. I have chosen smoky slate, rich razzleberry and bermuda bay from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 

For this weeks colour creations blog hop, I had to use the suit and tie dies for a masculine no sentiment/blank card. I thought by leaving it as a blank card, it could be used for many occasions. A birthday, retirement, fathers day or even a graduation etc.
My card today is pretty basic, I added dots to the tie to bring in the rich razzleberry colour and I added fine tip glue pen to my buttons on the suit jacket to make them pop a little bit more. 


I used a the off cut from die cutting the tie to act as a stencil for decorating the envelope (and used the blending brushes to colour in the tie "stencil")


Inside the card


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Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $15.25	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $13.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00
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Stampin' Up! Inspiring Canopy No Occasion Card

Our forty sixth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "shaded spruce" from the regals collection.
I have chosen shaded spruce,  bermuda bay and soft suede from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
I have used a new die set from the upcoming 2021 - 2022 annual catalogue called "Inspiring Canopy" dies to create this weeks card. It creates a lovely scene of trees easily yet is also quite easy to cut apart to use singularly.
I tried to use the blending brushes to create a fabulous blended background and didn't have the patience for a large scene so I cheated and use the retired SAB DSP, oh so ombre. The trees, hills and sun are all part of the Inspiring Canopy dies. I stamped the seagulls from sailing home stamp set to add some non die cuts to my card front. 


Continuing on with decorating the front of my envelopes, I used a cut apart tree


Inside card - I left the inside of the card, very plain and blank intentionally so that I can stamp it for whatever occasion I use the card for


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Stampin' Up! Butterfly Brilliance "Just Wanted to Say" No Occasion Card

Our forty fourth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "sahara sand" from the neutrals collection.
I have chosen sahara sand, merry merlot and petal pink from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 

For my card today, I used the Butterfly Brilliance bundle. They Butterfly Brilliance bundle is a selection of products that are available as an early release from the upcoming 2021 - 2022 annual catalogue.
I have used the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set and stamped in sahara sand ink onto sahara sand cardstock for a tone on tone look. I decided it looked a little bland so I coloured in the butterflies with the dark petal pink stampin' blend marker. 
I added a die cut gold foil wobbly circle from Painted Label dies followed by a merry merlot circle from Circle Layering dies and a die cut butterfly from the Brilliant Wings dies finished off with a petal pink sentiment. The sentiment comes from the many messages stamp set. The finishing off touches on the card are champagne rhinestone jewels for some extra bling. 


Close up of butterfly embellishment


Inside card -  with the card front having a generic sentiment, I leave the inside blank sentiment wise and just stamped a single butterfly with a layered die cut and some more rhinestone jewels


Close up inside the card


Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels [151193] $10.50	Adhesive Sheets [152334] $17.50

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Stampin' Up! Real Red Poppy Moments with Painted Poppies No Sentiment Card

Our fortieth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "real red" from the regals collection. I have chosen real red, coastal cabana and old olive from the colour coach to work with today for my creation and I have also added in granny apple green.

I used the painted poppies stamp set and poppy moments dies for my no sentiment card this week along with the painted texture 3D embossing folder. Lots of stamping the shadow stamp from painted poppies and lots of die cutting to get all the leaves and floral pieces to create my background. I love the texture provided from the painted texture 3D embossing folder. I added basic rhinestones jewels for added pizzaz and went with a no sentiment card as I felt the card worked well without a sentiment.


Close up - you can see the texture of the painted texture 3D embossing folder better in this photo


Inside card



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Stampin' Up! Saleabration Paper Blooms Fussy Cutting Card

Have you noticed how pretty the Paper Blooms designer series paper from the sale-a-bration brochure is?


It screams to be fussy cut to me so I fussy cut various flowers and leaves and used another sheet for the matt on my card. I did cover the matt with a sheet of vellum to tone it down a little so the focus was more on the tag of flowers. I choose to go with a blank/no sentiment for this card as I feel it could be used for a variety of occasions and I didn't want to "lock" it in for just one yet.


Inside card


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Stampin' Up! Art Gallery Just Want to Say Card

Our thirty first colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is old olive from the regals collection. I have chosen old olive, flirty flamingo and poppy parade from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
For my card this week, I have used the fine art floral suite from the January - June mini catalogue. I adore the various floral images you can use in the art gallery stamp set and the gilded leaving embellishment is lots of fun to play with. I have mixed all these products with the Paper Blooms 12" x 12" designer series paper which you can get for free during sale-a-bration when you place a minimum order of $90. I've also added in some of my faux resin dots to help mimic the dots on the designer series paper. 


I used stampin' dimensionals to pop up my floral image and this photo angle shows it a little better


Inside card - I have created a blank card/no sentiment card. Despite the "just want to say" on the card front I have left the inside blank so when the time comes, I can add whatever sentiment inside I need to. 


Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.

Here is my card from 2018.  

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Colour Creations #24 - Mango Melody

Our twenty fourth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "mango melody" from the brights collection. I have chosen mango melody, garden green and flirty flamingo from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 

I have used the spring trio of colours to create a floral card featuring the many layered blossoms die. I love how this die can create many different looks. If you are a regular reader of my colour creations posts, you may have noticed I have used this die on 3 other cards yet I think it still looks unique when I use it again and again.
I have die cut the two layers of the die in the following colours: early espresso and mango melody in the fine thin layer and the other layer in flirty flamingo and whisper white. I cut garden green cardstock in both layers of the dies. I took some time to create the inlaid die cutting technique as I love the look it gives and it provides a stand out design on the mango melody designer series paper.
As the card front is quite bright and bold, I decided to have this card as a blank/no sentiment card and also left in the inside of the card reasonably plain as well.

Is this a die set, you can see yourself creating with?


Close up


Inside card


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Colour Creations #15 - Early Espresso

Our fifteenth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "early espresso" from the neutrals collection. I have chosen early espresso, cherry cobbler and so saffron from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
Here is my early espresso card from 2018. 

For my card this week I decided long ago to make block of chocolate card as early espresso screams chocolate to me. When Kate  make her chocolate version a few weeks ago for crumb cake I was not going to be swayed in my decision. So if you think you are seeing a repeat, you kind of are. I'd also like to say thanks to Tina for the "chocolate" die cuts as I don't own the love you more than dies and she cut a whole stack for me and mailed them to me so I could finish me creation. 
My chocolate "squares" which aren't squares at all, LOL measure 2.5cm x 2cm and 2cm x 1.5cm on a 13.5cm x 9cm early espresso layer. I have used a layer of chipboard packaging between the two early espresso rectangles to give a more realistic look and depth to the chocolate blocks on the overall card.


I used 'Tis The Season DSP (and normal aluminium kitchen foil) to create the "packaging" for the chocolate bar and I love how many of the sheets from this DSP don't read Christmassy and can be used for other things (like this chocolate bar 😀.) I finished off the card with a label created from painted label dies and the chocolate word die from love you more than dies.
Did you know that if you ever get someone else to die cut dies for you, ask them to cut them in whisper white and you can make them any colour you like using the sponge brayers or daubers and ink pads. 

Close up


Inside card - as mentioned above I don't own the love you more than dies nor do I own the nothing better than stamp set so I improvised for the inside of the card. I typed the "I thought you might need some ____ today." and left a blank space for the die cut word chocolate. I used the font Andale Mono (size 14) and used the hex code (#64412C) for early espresso coloured font.   


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Colour Creations 2020 #9 - Cherry Cobbler

Our ninth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "cherry cobbler" from the regals collection. I have chosen cherry cobbler, petal pink and mossy meadow from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
Here is my card from 2018. 

For tonights card, I have used the large floral from ornate style stamp set and have coloured it in with stampin' blends on shimmery white cardstock. I fussy cut a few of the cherry cobbler images and raised them up on stampin' dimensionals for added interest, similar to paper toile. I also added rhinestone jewels both basic and champagne coloured ones to the centre of most flowers for a bit of bling. I fussy cut the large floral image and laid it on top of the frame from ornate layers dies. I then layed the die cut frame onto a petal pink cardstock piece I had run through the subtle embossing folder. 
I went with the no sentiment/blank card instead of the for you route I was going to do so it can be used for any occasion. 


Close up


Side view of the paper toile "effect"


Inside card - I stamped a portion of the floral image in gray granite 


Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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