Balmy Blue and Tasteful Touches Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and to the 1st Colour Creations Showcase by members of the Art with Heart Team. Each week we will hero one of Stampin' Up!s colours as over the coming year we will work through all current colours. I hope you have been enjoying all the projects that have been inspired by this week's colour - 'Balmy Blue'. Our projects must include the featured colour for that particular week but we are also able to use any other current colours in the project. I so love playing with colour and am looking forward to stretching myself to use all of the 50 Stampin' Up colours. We all have our colour prefer if challenging. I love the Subtle colour range and so was comfortable using Balmy Blue. I wanted to use it in different design elements and also needed to decide what colours I would use also. This week I'm keeping the card to a monochromatic colour scheme with a touch of gold. I'm also using a number of new products from Stampin' Up!s Annual Catalogue 2020-2021 which was launched today. This catalogue has so many gorgeous products. If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, let me know if you would like the catalogue mailed to your door. I started with a light Balmy Blue watercolour wash on Shimmery White card-stock. When it had almost dried naturally, it was embossed using the new Old World Paper 3D Embossing Folder. I love the effect of this embossing folder - it looks as if the paper has been crumpled and partially flattened. So much gorgeous texture. This watercoloured textured card-stock is the card front. It was mounted on Night of Navy, Vellum and Balmy Blue card-stock. The gorgeous flower from the Tasteful Touches stamp set was stamped a couple of times in Night of Navy ink on to Whisper White card-stock. The flowers were coloured with Light and Dark Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends with some of the Colour Lifter to help with blending the highlights. The flowers were fussy cut. An inch strip of In Good Taste designer series paper was laid across the card front and lifted on dimensionals. To add some leaves without another colour, one of the new Forever Flourishing leaf sprays was used with Vellum. Some simple veins were added with a Chalk Marker. The vellum leaves and the coloured flowers were arranged over the DSP strip and a new Gold Hoop. These gold hoops are so gorgeous - I will need to control myself not to use one on all my cards. The sentiment also came from the Tasteful Touches stamp-set and was white embossed onto a small strip of the same DSP. The sentiment was fussy cut and set up non Mini Dimensionals to add some subtle dimension. To finish of some Basic Rhinestones were coloured with the Dark Balmy Blue Bends and the White crinkled seam Binding was stamped with one of the texture stamps in Balmy Blue ink. To carry the theme from the card front to the inside of the card, the Tasteful Touches flower was stamped inside the card and coloured with the Stampin' Blends. Usually, I don't add a sentiment inside the card so that it can be used in a range of circumstances. Thanks for dropping in to check out my 'Balmy Blue' project for this first Colour Creations Showcase for 2020-2021. There will be so much more inspiration in the weeks to come, so pease join us again over the coming weeks. The Creative Showcase will go live at 8.00pm EST each Wednesday. The lovely Catherine Proctor is hosting the Art with Heart Colour Creations Showcase each week. If you haven't finished checking out the team's colour creations, you can visit Catherine's page, at What Cathy Made by clicking here, where she has links to all the other Showcase participants. I do hope you are coping in these challenging times. It is so good that restrictions are being lessoned through staged approaches across the country, and life is expanding to a new normal, at least within Aus. Take care and look after yourself and your loved ones. Looking forward to seeing you next week. Andrea 😘 List of Products used to create this card: Stamps & Dies Tasteful Touches stamp set - #152562 Forever Flourishing dies - #152714 Inks Versamark ink pad - #102283 Balmy Blue ink pad - #147105 Night of Navy ink pad - #147110 Colour Lifter Stampin Blends - #144608 Balmy Blue Light & Dark Stampin Blends - #154891 Wink of Stella Glitter Brush - #141897 White Emboss Powder - #109132 Stampin' Chalk Marker - #132133 Paper Shimmery White card-stock - #121717 Whisper White card-stock - #106549 Whisper White Thick card-stock - #140490 Balmy Blue card-stock - #147007 Vellum card-stock - #106584 In Good Taste Designer Series Paper - #152494 C6 Whisper White envelopes - #106588 Embellishments Gold Hoops Embellishments - #152474 Rhinestone Basic Jewels - #144220 Mini Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon - #151326 Forever Greenery Trim Combo Pack - #152475 (used the gold metallic trim) Adhesives Multipurpose Liquid Glue - #110755 Mini Glue Dots - #103683 Mini Stampin' Dimensionals - #144108 Stampin' Dimensionals - #104430 Tools Old World Paper embossing folder - #153200 Aqua Painter - #151298 Take Your Pick Tool - #144107 Bone Folder - #102300 Paper Snips - #103579 Paper Trimmer - #152392 Stamparatus - #148187 Block D - #118485 Grid Paper - #130148 Silicone Craft Mat - #127857 Simple Shammy - #147042 Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine - #149653 Magnetic Cutting Plate - #149656