Stampin’ Up! shared how they’re freshening up their colours for the upcoming catalogue with demonstrators this week. I’m sad and excited about what’s to come and I think you will be too! With the new Annual Catalogue coming in just a few weeks I’ve been taking some time to share projects with the 2021-2023 In Colours. As part of this I’ve been sharing projects this week to say goodbye Fresh Freesia. So imagine my surprise when I find out that I don’t have to!
Fresh Freesia is one of my favourites of the 2021-2023 In Colours. So I decided to use it to craft my card for my team’s monthly sketch challenge. Here’s the sketch we’re working with…
For my design I’m using the Happiness Abounds bundle (which sadly is retiring) to create a pretty bouquet of flowers. Fresh Freesia is the main colour, of course, but I’m also using Pale Papaya and Pear Pizzazz. I did a little bit of tone on tone stamping with Pear Pizzazz for the leaves. And then I used Fresh Freesia and Pale Papaya for the different kinds of flowers.
Behind the flowers I added a strip of Burlap ribbon from the Real Red & Burlap ribbon combo pack. Then popped up the centre, larger flower with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. The sentiment comes from the Friends are like Seashells stamp set. And I stamped that with Fresh Freesia ink and then used the Layering Circles dies. To have it on the same level as the centre flower I added a few more Dimensionals. Then finally to finish it off I added a few Brushed Brass Butterflies.
I’m so glad I don’t have to say goodbye Fresh Freesia! Sadly we do have to say goodbye to Pale Papaya. Check out one of the projects I featured last week using that colour here.
And if you want a sneak peek at some of the new colours, check out this YouTube video from Stampin’ Up!