Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 15 - 2023-2024 - Cajun Craze

 

Welcome to another fun week of  the Art With Heart Teams Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the colour Cajun Craze! I would have to say this is not a colour I use very often so I have to think a little bit outside the box for this one I think. I had something in mind but I am not sure if came out quite like I intended.

So my card is really a simple "Z-Fold" card with an added bonus. I know you just can't help yourself can you, I hear you all saying! Well no, not really but you can do it I promise you!

So I started with the card base of Cajun Craze and folded it for a normal card base and then folded the front back on itself to get the "Z" fold. To that I adhered the gorgeous Inked Botanicals DSP. Isn't it gorgeous?! Now that is Calypso Coral and it goes so well with Cajun Craze so they are my 2 base colours that I worked with. They I decided to get a little fancy and used the Nested Essential Dies and Cut the Cajun Craze out in the large one of the stretched hexagon. (I will not tell you what it reminds me of) I cut them in half and on the Basic white in the next size down I used the sentiments from the  Seasonal Branches and stamped in Cajun Craze.

On the 2 for the inside of the card and so you have a place to write I used the little line stamp from Gorgeously Made! I love that stamp! I adhered both of these to the card on the inside making sure they were hidden under the two on the top. 

Ok so that would be your basic "Z-Fold" card with a little bit of fancy die cutting and all you would need to do is decorate. Well I added a step.

Literally a pop up step! I stamped another sentiment and turned it the other way around and added a little pop up step!

It was all a bit of fun and I thought it fit quite well into the centre of the other two parts of the stretched hexagon.

And it closes flat to put in an envelope so all I had to do now was decorate!

I stamped the branch, leaves, flowers and bird from the Seasonal Branches on Smokey slate and die cut them out and then took out my Stampin' Blends. The leaves are Dark Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam, The flowers are Light and Dark Cajun Craze and Light and Dark Calypso Coral and I added some bling to the flowers with colouring the basic Rhinestone jewels with the Dark Cajun Craze Stampin' Blend. The Bird I used Light and Dark Pretty Peacock, Light Lemon Lolly, Light Wild Wheat and Light Cajun Craze.

Of course I had to finish with a little linen thread bow. I do hope you enjoyed my extra "step" to the z-fold card today and give it a try yourself and maybe try a different shape.

If you have any questions about my project today please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next talented team member that participating in our Cajun Craze colour challenge and this week you will be heading to Rachel Palmieri, I can't wait to see what she has for us. Just hit the next blog button and you will head straight there.

If for any reason the next blog button doesn't work please come back here and head to our host of the weekly colour challenges the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating and you can continue your blog hop from there: Cathy's Blog.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care,