Welcome to the July Creation Station Blog Hop! I'm happy you are visiting today! We are an international group of Stampin' Up! independent demonstrators who create a themed blog hop for you each first Sunday of the month. This month's theme is "In Color Combos". We are highlighting our five new 2020-2022 In Colors: Bumblebee, Cinnamon Cider, Just Jade, Magenta Madness and Misty Moonlight.
I love the new In Colors plus I love the new packaging options in our 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. One of those options is the 3-1/8" x 3-1/8" Acetate Card Boxes (#150428) which hold up to five 3" x 3" note cards and envelopes. Five new In Colors and 5 note cards to a box. Perfect for a little monochromatic In Color fun!
I wanted to do something a bit different for my monochromatic theme, so I chose to create watercolor emboss resist designs. I used images from the Four Season Floral (#152801, in the Beginner's Brochure) and Celebrate Sunflowers (#152517) stamp sets and combined them with texture/background images from Comfort & Hope (#152509), Very Versailles (#149275) and Forever Fern (#152559) stamp sets. Each image was stamped in VersaMark onto watercolor paper and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder before the watercolor wash was applied in one of the In Colors. I had a whole lot of fun with these and have the ink-stained fingernails to prove it!
The sentiment labels were die cut using the two smallest dies in the Stitched Nested Labels die set (#149638). Whisper White baker's twine was used on each note card.
The box was decorated with a 3" x 3" piece of Just Jade card stock, a Daisy/Bumblebee watercolor resist piece, and a 2020-2022 In Color Enamel dot (#152480). It was tied closed with the Just Jade gingham ribbon from the Flowers for Every Season ribbon combo pack (#153620). The ribbon was placed so that it can be untied to open the box without disturbing the decoration. (And, yes, all five note cards & envelopes fit neatly inside!)
Now it's time to see what wonderful projects Kerstin Kreuger has for us today:
Hope you enjoy all of the In Color inspiration today!
--Sara Nell
These are just wonderful. I love the different choice of stamped images on each one. Beautiful xx
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