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Welcome to the Art With Heart Team, Colour Creations Blog Hop, for 2021-2022. Each week members of the team will showcase a current colour (in alphabetical order) from the extensive Stampin’ Up! range.

Week 12: Coastal Cabana

You will find a number of products in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue that feature Coastal Cabana including – Classic Stampin’ Pad, cardstock, ink refill, Soft Pastel Assortment, Brights Designer Series Paper pack, Brights Stampin’ Write Markers, Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2 and the Playing With Patterns Resin Dots.

But my favourite products to feature the colour Coastal Cabana are……

Anyone who has ever read my blog knows that these are my favourite and my go to embellishment. They just work with everything. I have lost count of the number of packets of these little beauties I have purchased.

These are another staple in my card making kit. The iridescent quality means that they too work with lots and lots of the colours in the Stampin’ Up! range. And, with that adhesive backing……no sticky fingers……BIG bonus!!!

My card:

I am going to be honest and tell you that this was a STRUGGLE. I do love Coastal Cabana as a colour but find it very difficult to work with. Like Bermuda Bay it screams beach and the tropics to me, so that is where I started.

Using blending brushes and masks cut from the Basic Borders set of dies I created a background. Didn’t like it! Actually threw it in the bin. Fished it out and persevered.

By using the Layering Diorama dies I was able to create little areas in which to tuck the shells, flowers and palm trees.

I piled up the stamped and diecut shells and added a few Mango Melody flowers and sequins. In the end I am happyish with the card but I amso  looking forward to creating a card with the lovely neutral Crumb Cake for next week’s blog. 🙂

sale-a-bration:

Our second Sale-a-Bration for 2021 has begun! Yay!!! It runs from 3 August to 30 September. When making purchases from the Annual Catalogue, the new Mini Catalogue, Collection Kits or the Clearance Rack you can earn exclusive items from the Sale-a-Bration brochure. Best part is that, you get to choose.

Level One – FREE with any $90 purchase.Select any of the Level 1 products to add to your order. You can choose between……

• Be Dazzling 6″ x 6″ Specialty Paper | #156629
• Penguin Playmates DSP | #158420
• Feels Like Home | #156607
• Beautifully Penned DSP | #156630
• Peaceful Prints DSP | #156628
• Counting Sheep | #156591
• Sheep Dies | #156600
• Textures & Frames | #156616

Level Two – FREE with any $180 purchase. Select one of the two Level 2 products to add to your order. You can choose between……

• Summer Shadow Dies | #156618
• Delicate Dahlias | #156601

My current favourite Sale-A-Bration product is……

I love that this paper is so bright and colourful – a ‘trendy’ playful take on Christmas. But, what I love most about this designer series paper is that the snowy theme is only apparent on one side of the paper, meaning that the B-Sides are perfect for those of us who live in the Southern Hemisphere. it could actually be used for baby cards and birthdays as well as Christmas.

AWHT Colour Creation Blog Hop continues:

For more inspiration please visit the rest of the team starting with the lovely and talented Rachel Woollard who is the next crafter along in our Week 12 blog hop.

If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants, please hop over to Catherine Proctor’s blog. Catherine is the wonderful host of our weekly hop.

Thank you for visiting. Please remember that our Colour Creations blog hop happens every Wednesday. Next week we will be featuring Crumb Cake.

If you would like to purchase any of the products that I used when creating these cards, the links are included below. If you would like a copy of the Stampin’ Up! 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and/or the NEW July – December 2021 Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration brochure, please contact me and I will pop one in the post for you.

Thanks Michele.

my list of products: