🌟 Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop – Week 3: Golden Glow

This week the Art With Heart Team continues our alphabetical colour hop, and our focus is the warm and beautiful Golden Glow. My project for this week is my weekly journal page, created with the Fern & Floral Suite and the stunning Moonlit Flora DSP. I’m loving this combination more each time I use it.✨ 

My Golden Glow Journal Page

Week 3 journal page featuring Golden Glow with Fern & Floral and Moonlit Flora DSP. I couldn’t decide between two sheets of the Moonlit Flora DSP, so I used both. One sheet forms the booklet pages where I’ll write my journal entries, and the other sheet is used for the little rectangles, which I popped up on dimensionals so I can slide notes behind them📘creating the booklet pages.

Booklet pages cut with Extraordinary Life Dies and extended for extra writing space. The booklet pages are cut using the Extraordinary Life Dies, I didn't cut right to the side, so the pages are longer than the die itself. I scored each page, so it opens easily for writing — a simple trick that makes journaling much more comfortable.🌸 

Stamped Flowers & Die‑Cut Details

Stamped flowers from Extraordinary Life Dies with Fern & Floral flower dies used as leafy accents. I didn’t realise the Fern & Floral Suite also had flower dies, and I had cut out some "flowers" in Peaceful Pine, so not wanting to waste these I used those as leaves behind the stamped flowers — and I love the layered effect it created.

🎨 Colour Palette & Embellishments

My colour palette this week includes:

• Golden Glow
• Bubble Bath
• Berry Burst
• Peaceful Pine

I finished the page with the 2026–2028 In Color Dots, which add the perfect touch of sparkle.

I Hope This Inspires You

Thank you for joining me for Week 3 of our Colour Creations Hop. I hope this project inspires your own journaling, memory‑keeping, or cardmaking. Happy Stamping, Hx 🧡

➡️ To see what other gorgeous Golden Glow projects have been created go to my Instragram page @apaperparadise.🌼 

Crisp Cantaloupe – Art With Heart Team Colour Hop (Week 2)

Week 2 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Hop is here, and this week we’re celebrating the soft, peachy glow of Crisp Cantaloupe. For my project, I created a weekly journal page using the beautiful Waterside Retreat suite. The gentle tones and peaceful imagery pair perfectly with this In Color.Journal 

Page LayoutBase layers & measurements:

• Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock: 190mm × 132mm
• Waterside Retreat DSP (main panel): 102mm × 132mm
• Smaller DSP pieces: cut to the size they appear on the sheet (no trimming needed)

These layers create pockets where I can tuck in my weekly journaling pages behind the larger DSP and slip little words of encouragement behind the smaller pieces.

Fussy‑Cut Bicycle & Spoke‑Tracing Technique

I wanted the bicycle to be a feature, so I fussy cut the bicycle and removed the center of the wheel. To add the spokes back onto the DSP, I used a simple tracing‑paper method: 

• Trace the spokes lightly in pencil onto tracing paper.
• Flip the tracing paper face‑down onto the DSP.
• Shade over the back of the traced lines — the pencil transfers onto the DSP.
• Adhere the bicycle over the transferred spokes.

I was genuinely impressed with how well this worked. It looked so good that I ended up using that bicycle on a card instead of the journal page. The bicycle on the journal page is a fresh one — I didn’t repeat the spoke technique because I wanted to 3D the bike, and time was not on my side.

Cattail Reeds – Layered Colour Technique

To add more detail around the bicycle, I cut four cattail reeds:

• Two in Old Olive
• Two in Crisp Cantaloupe

I trimmed the cattails off the Crisp Cantaloupe pieces and adhered them onto the Old Olive reeds. This gave me two‑tone cattails that coordinated beautifully with the rest of the page. I then attached them in front the bicycle for a soft, natural look.

Sentiments

All sentiments are stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock using Crisp Cantaloupe ink from the Waterside Retreat stamp set. The warm tone keeps everything cohesive and gentle.

Finishing Touches

I added In Color dots for texture and interest. They give just enough dimension without overwhelming the soft palette.

 make sure you check out the gorgeous projects on Instagram, go to my Instagram page @apaperparadise to see the other projects.

I hope this project inspires you.  Happy Stamping Hx 🧡

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