I love leaf and foliage stamps. I also like Clean and Simple so it was hard to resist playing along with The Paper Players this week.
I started with the Artistic Mix Decorative masks and created a horizontal ground with Crushed Curry and Calypso Coral before stamping one of the leaves from Season of Chic in Early Espresso.
After that, it was a simple matter to add a couple of die cut leaves, one of which had a stamped under-layer, and a sentiment. The label die for the sentiment comes from the Meadow die set.
After some internal deliberation, I added a couple of Brushed Metallic Adhesive dots to finish.
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It's sketch week at CAS Colours and Sketches, just what I needed to get my flagging mojo moving!
I turned, yet again, to my current favourite bundle Season of Chic. I used the Deckled Rectangle dies, sized down, to cut a rectangle from the Texture Chic Specialty DSP. I stamped, coloured and cut the sea shell stamp.
The seashell looked a bit lonely by itself, so I added in some seaweed, created with the leaf dies, in Soft Sea Foam and a tiny distressed gold seashell.
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Thank you for joining in with the latest hop from the crew at Around the World on Wednesday. If you haven't hopped with us before, we're a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from every time zone in the world where Stampin' Up! operates. You're here with me, in New Zealand.
Each month we present a different theme to inspire you to create.
This month, our theme is 'It's a Wonderful Day in the Neighbourhood'. Where is our favourite place? Where have we enjoyed being?
For me, my happy place is the beach. I love being by the ocean and listening to the waves, wandering along the shoreline just seeing what's been washed up and paddling if it's warm. Many of our best family holidays have been at the seaside so there are many happy memories associated with it too.
One of the many reasons I love the Season of Chic bundle is the seashell stamps. There's also some beautiful seashell paper in the Texture Chic Specialty DSP pack. So these products and the seaside memories have inspired this project.
The fancy fold is one I'd never seen until I received a birthday card using it from an Australian demonstrator, and team mate at Colour INKspiration, Julia Quinn. So I call it Julia's fold but I suppose it has some other much more descriptive name!
Here it is in 'ready-for-the-envelope' form.
If you'd like to see how I made it, here is a video tutorial.
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If you get lost in the hop, here's a list of participants.
Welcome to a new challenge at Colour INKspiration. Today's bright palette was chosen for us by crew member Monica Formosa.
If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the three easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.
Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. We welcome Rebecca Nutley as our guest for this challenge,
If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Night of Navy for Starry Sky. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.
While really liking this bright combination, I wasn't quite sure where they were going to take me. PlentifulPlants kept coming to mind whenever I was thinking about it so I got it out to see what would happen!
I've seen some unusual bright foliage in Fiji, Tahiti, Rarotonga and Samoa but I'm not quite sure that I ever saw bright blue - but it would be great if there were some because I'm really happy with this little grouping of plants.😀
We'd love to have you join in the challenge with us. Visit the Colour INKspiration site to check out the album of Crew Cards for inspiration. You can also add your entry there. We all enjoy seeing what you do with our colour palettes, so join in!
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