Week 41 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Rich Razzleberry"

 

Well one of my favourite colours is this weeks in the spotlight! 

Rich Razzleberry for week 41

Don't you just love that name Rich Razzleberry? I do it is quite a fun name and it a great purple and goes so well with my favourite colour which is Blackberry Bliss  but today I didn't put them together. I know shock horror!

Tonight I have used the Dragonfly Garden stamp set and punch bundle along with the Dandy Garden 6 x 6 DSP from the Jan-June Mini page 25 and I have also done a fancy fold for you. 

I have created a cross over gatefold card for you. I have made a cross over card once before but I saw this design with the dragonfly by Gloria Kremer and I wanted to give it a try for my young friend.  I have made a thank you card as I wanted to give a card to a young lady that played violin for me on Sunday to help accompany a song I conducted for our church choir. Her playing was just gorgeous. I know that she and her mother have quite the garden so I thought I would use this bundle to create a fun card for her. She is such an amazingly talented musician I love hearing her play.

For this card I have used the Rich Razzleberry as the base of the card as well as for the cross over layers. The base of the card is half of the A4 cut at 10.5 cm vertically and then folded the 2 ends in to meet in the middle Then I have layered the front with 2 different pieces of the Dandy Garden 6x 6 DSP. The Bumblebee layer to add contrast with the Rich Razzleberry and the predominant flower and mossy meadow layer. The strips across the middle are layered the same way.

In the centre of the card I have stamped the sprig of flowers in Rich Razzleberry. You can't leave the inside blank.

The top and the bottom cross over strip are attached on the left front and then I have attached a punched out dragonfly which I have stamped in basic grey and then stamped off once the Rich Razzleberry wing colours. This is so when you fold the middle cross over strip through your card all stays closed.

The middle cross over strip is attached on the right hand front fold and I have also stamped and punch out a thank you. To make this I first punch out the label with the Label me fancy punch in Basic White then with the "Thank You for your Kindness" Stamp from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set I put sticky tape over all the words except the "Thank" inked it up in Basic Grey took off the tape and then stamped on the label. Cleaned the stamp and then repeated the process with the sticky tape over all the word except the "You"

 It slips nicely through the middle so that you can open and close your cross over gatefold card.

Now to finish off the card I added a few white dragonflies and a couple of Ladybug trinkets. How cute are they?

Hope you have enjoyed my Rich Razzleberry card today, please now head to our host of or Colour Creations Showcase for each week Cathy Proctor there you will find the list of everyone playing along and lots of fantastic inspiration for our colour this week: Cathy's Blog

If you have any questions about today's card or would like to purchase any of the products to make this card please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,