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Welcome to the Art With Heart Team’s Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2022-2023. Each week members of the team will showcase a colour from the extensive Stampin’ Up! range. We begin our blog hop with the fabulous NEW 2022-2024 In Colors and will then continue to showcase the entire Stampin’ Up! range, in alphabetical order.

Week 4: Sweet Sorbet

I am definitely not a lover of red or pink but for some reason this pinky red really appeals to me. Real Red says Christmas to me and Poppy Parade is a bit bright but this one seems to be just right and I have been using it a lot already.

Being an In Color you will find a number of products in the 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue that feature Sweet Sorbet.

But my favourite product to feature the colour Sweet Sorbet is……

My cards – Set A:

My first two cards, which were part of my launch samples, feature the Tea Boutique suite, In Color 2022-2024 DSP and include a wreath design using the Sending Smiles stamp set.

I love the way the teacup I diecut from one of the designs in the Tea Boutique DSP collection looks so similar to my Royal Albert teacup. My much loved aunt gave us a complete set of Royal Albert as an engagement present. For a number of years after, I received an additional piece on my birthday. These included a range of serving plates, coffee pot, display pieces, vases etc. These all still sit proudly on display in our home. Whenever she came to visit I would use them to serve lunch or afternoon tea. Since her passing they have become a wonderful reminder of the generous and loving person that she was.

I used the ‘stamp and rotate’ technique when creating this wreath design. This simple techniques uses a Stamparatus. Simply place your square panel in the corner, position the first of your selected stamps, stamp and then rotate 90 degrees and stamp again. Repeat until the image has been stamped four times. Change the stamped and begin the next rotation. Repeat until your design is complete.

I also made a tea box as part of my launch collection.

My cards – Set B:

My second set of cards features the fabulous Lovely in Linen suite of products. This suite includes DSP, a stamp and punch bundle and an embossing folder.

I really did overlook this suite the first couple of times I read through the catalogue. Please do not do the same. It is a MUST have!!! I love how you can combine all the various greetings, smaller images and the punch to create a variety of sentiments. And, that embossing folder is just glorious.

Both of these cards are super simple. The designer series paper does all the work. The large image on the first card was stamped using Sweet Sorbet before being embossed. I used the scroll image on the greeting panel as it replicated the scrolls in the DSP.

The leaves and small flower in the photo below come from the Cup of Tea bundle but I felt they worked so well back with this very sweet floral paper.

Don’t forget to give the inside of your card and the envelope a bit of a jazz up too.

AWHT Colour Creation Blog Hop continues:

For more inspiration please visit the rest of the team starting with the lovely and talented Kate Morgan who is the next crafter along in our Week 4 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 Tahitian Tide.

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 NEW Stampin’ Up! 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue, please contact me and I will pop one in the post for you.

Thanks Michele.

my list of products: