New 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Catalogue, means new In Colours

Welcome to a whole new Stampin' Up! catalogue year, and Week 1 of the 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog Hop, which means, we are starting with new In Colours!

Our first showcase colour for this catalogue is Peach Pie, which is kind of fitting because I have been harvesting, harvesting, harvesting all summer and autumn and the pantry and freezers are full of stewed fruits, jams and sauces. So having Peach Pie as the first colour for the years worth of blog hops is a great segway into slowing down the outdoor harvest activities and spending more time indoors - hopefully crafting!

Peach Pie

In order for me to jump back into blog hopping after a LOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG break, I decided to keep it really simple this week, and use up the pieces I stamped at our After Dark Stamping Night at our wonderful On Stage Conference in March. The evening was ALL about making some cards with new colours, and this card is inspired by the Country Flowers - Sketch 2 that was in our instruction sheets.

Above is the sample from the instructions and below is my version. You can see I chose to use Spotlight on Nature stamp set instead of Country Flowers. And I stepped it up a little by adding an extra layer of Pecan Pie to the base, and giving it a vintage feel by kissing all the edges with ink and roughing them with my finger nail.

I would never think to pair Peach Pie with Pecan Pie cardstock (although it does sound a bit lip-smackingly good!!).  I do love how the tulip image becomes a strong focal point with the contrasting darkness of the stamped image on the Basic White panel.

The tulips are coloured using the Water Painters, picking up a touch of ink from the Classic Ink Pads. Flowers in Peach Pie, and leaves in Lemon Lime Twist. I switched up the green from the sample for this warmer shade as I feel it sits better with the two other warm colours.

The greeting is from the Simply Zinnia Stamp set which is in the Online Exclusives. I chose a longer greeting and extra twine to just go that little bit extra. The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White with a thin sliver of Lemon Lime Twist card underneath, and mounted on Stampin' Dimensionals. I hand cut the flag ends with Stampin' Snips.

Now it's time for you to go and see what the other talented Art With Heart Team stampers have been creating with Peach Pie. Click on the image below to go to lovely Theresa Gerrard's blog in the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop.

If there is broken link in the blog hop, or you just get confused, you can come back here to THIS LINK to be taken to dear Cathy's blog where she is hosting the blog hop and has ALL the links to the other Peach Pie creations.

See you again next week with beautiful Petunia Pop!

Kathryn Ruddick

The Arty Farmer

Mansfield Victoria