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Soft Sea Foam: Seaside Bay

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Each week some of the Art With Heart team are joining  the Colour Creations Blog Hop to bring you creative inspiration showcasing our range of 50+ gorgeous Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order.

Week 48 – Soft Sea Foam

Today I have used the Seaside Bay Bundle with the coordinating By the Bay Specialty DSP.

By the Bay SDSP 2023

Although these papers don’t have Soft Sea Foam in them, it still works well. The card base is Soft Sea Foam and I’ve used the shell stamp inked with Versamark, gold emboss powder added and melted with my Heat Tool. This creates a lovely border, don’t you think?!

Seaside Bay card by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2023 Sooft Sea Foam

The next two layers are cut using the Stitched Rectangle dies from the DSP. These are glued together and added to the card base with Dimensionals.  The larger bird is die cut from the papers too, how cool is that?! The smaller birds and shell are stamped with Soft Sea Foam ink and die cut. The sea grasses and shells are die cut from Soft Sea Foam and the Gold from the 12″ x 12″ Fine Shimmer pack. The birds are added with Mini Dimensionals and the shells/grasses are adhered with Tombo Multipurpose Glue.

Seaside Bay card by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2023 Sooft Sea Foam small

On the inside, I used the Waves of Inspiration Bundle. I stamped the birds from the Waves of Inspiration stamp set and the waves with the Waves dies in the Soft Succulent Fine Shimmer pack.

Seaside Bay card by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2023 Sooft Sea Foam insert

You can really see the gorgeous shimmer of all the gold in this photo! Finally I added the sentiment and some Flat adhesive-backed Pearls.

Seaside Bay card by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2023 Sooft Sea Foam angle

Here are all the retiring colours that will leave as the refresh takes place with the new Annual catalogue. But rest assured, there are lots of new colours coming to be excited about. If you want any product in these colours, get it now as they will sell fast!

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Thanks for dropping by. I hope you can join me next Wednesday for inspiration using Soft Succulent.

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Soft Sea Foam Blog Hop ~ Interactive Pansy Patch

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Each week some of the Art With Heart team are joining the Colour Creations Blog Hop to bring you creative inspiration to showcase our range of 50+ gorgeous Stampin’ Up! colours.

Week 45 – Soft Sea Foam

Tonight’s card features the Pansy Petals DSP, Pansy Patch Bundle and the Give It a Whirl dies.

My card base is Soft Sea Foam (tent fold design). The top layer is two pieces of the Pansy Petals DSP. I placed them in my Cut & Emboss Machine and placed the large die over the top to work out where the join would be in the centre. After die cutting this large piece, I then used the circle piece from the dies to cut the window.

Give it a Whirl Pansy card for CCBH by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2022

Turning the scallop circle mechanism (where you see the arrow), turns to feature other stamped images! Starting with the happy birthday sentiment, then next is a flower ready to bloom.

Give it a Whirl Pansy card for CCBH by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2022 3

Then rotate again, you have this gorgeous pansy. The stems and leaves are stamped in Soft Sea Foam and the petals are Fresh Freesia (1st an 2nd generation stamping). The DSP layer is adhered with Dimensionals to allow space behind for the mechanism to turn. I added a small strip of Soft Sea Foam card across the centre join of the DSPs for a neater look.

Give it a Whirl Pansy card for CCBH by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2022 2

Here you can see the mechanism better. The brad which the mechanism spins on, is hidden behind the scallop circle on the front (behind the Brushed Brass Butterfly). This is popped up on Mini Dimensionals.

Give it a Whirl Pansy card for CCBH by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2022 close up

I finished with adding three Brushed Brass Butterflies and three 2021-2023 In Color Jewels.

Give it a Whirl Pansy card for CCBH by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2022 side

Thanks for dropping by. All the products used tonight are linked at the end of this post.

Please click on the image below to head across to the next blog on tonight’s hop and see the wonderful inspiration of Caroline Manwaring!

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