Long before we had heard or even read the 'Fifty Shades' saga, 'Stampin' Up!' were leading the way with their fifty shades of SU colour! My crafty friends tell me that I have a thing for 'Soft Suede' from the 'Neutrals' group, so following in the footsteps of 'Anastasia Steele'- and her trying something new!!! I turned to my SU version of 'Christian Grey'.......my trusty 'Colour Coach' for guidance into a new colour combo!!
I had a desire to use the lovely 'In Colour'- 'Wisteria Wonder' and the colour coach suggested that a good tonal match would be 'Elegant Eggplant'- a combo that I have never tried before......... but what about a 'Neutral'....well SU may have a whole rainbow of Fifty colours in their range but they don't have fifty shades of grey, they only have one colour that is referred too as grey, and that is 'Basic Grey'- well there was nothing basic about Mr Greys, grey eyes, so I choose 'Sahara Sand' the colour that can sometimes looks icy grey or sometimes look warm grey!!!
As it was my first time, I stayed safe, and made a few pillow box die, thank you's for my 'Stampers 5' group. The grey of the tea cup, from the 'Summer Mini' SU Stamp Set- 'Tea Shoppe' looks very warm on these, and you can just make out the over stamping, on the 'Cup of thanks' label, with the flourish, from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set.
Each of the boxes got a little hand cut butterfly, that was stamped from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set, in the 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink.
To finished each of the boxes, I gave each of the tea cups a little 'Itty Bitty' punched flower in 'Wisteria Wonder' SU card stock, with a little SU rhinestone gem for the centre, they also all got a squirt of the 'Champagne- Shimmer Paint' that has been watered down and put in a misting bottle!
So now I had dipped my stamping into a new colour combo, there was no stopping me.......
Getting braver, I made some little card blanks from some 'Sahara Sand' SU card stock, and decorated them with Stamping- using the same Stamp sets as the pillow boxes.
For this card, I used the large tea cup from the 'Tea Shoppe' Stamp set and stamped the label from the same set too, it works with the large oval and scalloped punches beautifully.
The other two cards were made using waste 'Wisteria Wonder' card stock, from when I die cut the boxes, to make a decorative panel with the addition of the flourish stamp from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set and as with the Pillow Boxes I used 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink.
To add a little variation to the other, I just tuned the band horizontally!
The paper lunch bag was decorated in the same way too, using the larger label text stamp from the SU 'Tea Shoppe' Stamp set, it coordinated beautifully with the 'Extra Large oval Punch' too!
To the bag, I added the large tea cup, which was stamped in 'Sahara Sand' SU Ink and hand cut. To finish a butterfly, stamped in 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink, and was stuck to the top edge of the tea cup.
I have enjoyed my foray into using different SU colours. and as the old adage goes......
'Don't knock it, till you try it!!'...
I am off to twiddled my colour coach,
a little more!!
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The letters were cut with my trusty SU 'Big Shot' using the 'Timeless Type' dies, out of textured white card stock, and colour was sponged around the edges to make the letters 'pop'!
Here you can see that the letters were stuck flat to the page and that the No.3 was raised up, to do this I just chopped a dimensional to fit!
The scoops of ice cream were cut from the 'Subtles- Designer series paper pack' using the scallop circle punch, I then cut at them with the 1"circle punch, to get a scalloped edge.
I have include this photo of the layout, which is taken from above......I always find it tricky to take decent photos of scrapbook layouts, taking a photo of a photo and getting the colours right.....do you have any tips?? I would be glad to hear them x