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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 21: Gray Granite

You will find a number of products in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue and July to December 2021 Mini Catalogue that feature Gray Granite including – Classic Stampin’ Pad, cardstock, ink refill, Stampin’ Blends, Neutrals Designer Series Paper pack, Neutrals Stampin’ Write Markers, Shimmer Ribbon, Christmas Whimsy Kit and the In Good Taste designer series paper.

But my favourite product to feature the colour Gray Granite is……

I love both sides of this paper as not only are the foliage images and patterns gorgeous, the B-sides include fantastic neutrals that work perfectly with anything.

Gray Granite is actually my favourite of the gray tones in the Stampin’ Up! range as it has a brownish tinge to it and is therefore a warmer colour than Smoky Slate, which is very much a cool gray. I use it quite often but was really stuck for ideas this time. It actually took me back to my late teens, early 20s when I was at college and I would only begin working on my essay the day before it was due. This meant for some very long nights or getting down on bended knee and pleading my case for an extension. As an extension was out of the question I did what we all do……turned to the internet for inspiration and luckily found the Global Design Project #314 | Sketch Challenge.

Sketches are a fabulous resource when you are lacking inspiration and this one really appealed to me.

So with the sketch in mind and a handful of supplies it was down to work, although thankfully, it didn’t take all night.

My card:

I used the Candy Cane background stamp to create my focal piece. The little diecut candy canes come from the Sweet Little Stockings bundle, the twine is from the Love, Santa Tag kit and the greeting is a favourite and it is from the Painted Christmas suite.

Gray Granite and Polished Pink are a match made in heaven. People who know me will laugh when I tell you that this was the colour scheme for our wedding party, although to be truthful, the pink was probably more Magenta Madness than Polished Pink. It was the early 80s……what more can I say?! Big hair, shoulder pads……you know the drill!

The DSP comes from the Neutrals 6″ x 6″ paper pack. These little packs are perfect to have in your stash as they are just so handy when you need the ‘right’ colour.

AWHT Colour Creation Blog Hop continues:

For more inspiration please visit the rest of the team starting with the lovely and talented Tina Gillespie who is the next crafter along in our Week 21 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 Highland Heather.

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 July – December 2021 Mini Catalogue, please contact me and I will pop one in the post for you.

Thanks Michele.

my list of products: