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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 19: Gorgeous Grape

You will find a number of products in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and July to December 2021 Mini Catalogue
that feature Gorgeous Grape including – Classic Stampin’ Pad, cardstock, ink refill, Brights Designer Series Paper pack, Brights Stampin’ Write Markers, Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2, Ombre Specialty Paper and Sheer Ribbon.

But my favourite product to feature the colour Gorgeous Grape is……

The struggle is real some days in my craft room. After a big week preparing for World Card Making Day, it was suddenly Sunday and I realised that I didn’t have a card for this week’s Colour Creations Blog Hop. It is funny as I have cards made for quite a number of the weeks ahead, but had been putting off making my Gorgeous Grape card.

Now, it is not because I don’t like the colour. In fact the opposite is true. Purple is one of my favourite colours and a colour that evokes so many fond memories of very special people in my life, unfortunately and sadly, no longer with us. However, I just wasn’t feeling it until I opened an order that had been sitting on the floor in my room since midweek, unloved and unopened. The order contained mainly boring things like glue, envelopes and cardstock and I had actually forgotten that I had also finally ordered the Welcoming Window bundle.

Truth be told I ordered it just for the window die as I want to use it for a Christmas card I have in mind, but suddenly I was motivated by the opportunity to work with something new.

My card:

Yes, I know that you have to look carefully to find the Gorgeous Grape, but it is there. I do so love purple flowers. Our garden is full of them as we settled on a purple and white theme when we first planned out and planted the garden many years ago. Over the years we have introduced a few yellow blooms but in the most part our garden is still predominantly purple and white.

I wanted to represent sitting in a cosy room, looking out to the blue sky beyond. We actually do have a corner in our family room filled with pot plants that you look out over to the garden beyond.

I added the same pot plant to the inside of the card and the envelope. Of course, I had to also add some of my favourite Gorgeous Grape product (Pastel Pearls) to my card as a finishing touch. I also thought I needed a third spot of Gorgeous Grape on my card. It helps to draw your eye from the top to the bottom of the card.

AWHT Colour Creation Blog Hop continues:

For more inspiration please visit the rest of the team starting with the lovely and talented Theresa Gerrard who is the next crafter along in our Week 19 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 Granny Apple Green.

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, please contact me and I will pop one in the post for you.

Thanks Michele.

my list of products: