Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 21 - 2024 - 2025 - Crushed Curry - Swing Arm Pop Out Fun Fold Card

 

Welcome to Crushed Curry week of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop with the Art With Heart Team. Now the team knows this is not my favourite colour at all. I was asked many years ago to cut 1000 crowns for an even and Crushed Curry was the colour that was requested so I am a bit traumatized by the colour as that took a long time to do. IT really is a great colour to use for a bright golden yellow!

So for my card today I found this fancy fold on Dawn's Stamp'n Thoughts another fancy fold I hadn't tried before. It is called a Swing Arm Pop Out Fun Fold. I have used the Something Fancy stamp set for my sentiments and the Meandering Meadows DSP which had Crushed Curry as one of it's colours to bring my card to life this week.

My Colour combination for this card is:

For this card you need 1 long piece of card which is 10 inches by 5 1/2 inches and you then score at 4, 5 and 6 inches along the 10 inch side. From that first score mark you cut diagonally across to get a triangle piece and guess what that piece you cut off you turn around and use as the other part of the front of your card!

Because I wanted to have the same picture of the DSP on the front of the card I used 2 pieces of Meandering Meadows DSP to cut the triangles to go on the front of the card. If I had used plain card stock and cut the 2 triangles I could flip the triangle over to get the correct direction for the top piece without a problem but I wanted the same picture so needed 2 pieces of DSP.

Now hidden in the card is a small piece of Crushed Curry card and a small piece of window sheet to create a mechanism that when you pull the front and back edges (left and right) away from each other you will have the Swing Arm Pop Out surprise!

I have stamped the Sentiments on Basic White in Night of Navy and used the Stylish Shaped Dies to cut them out.

Here is a video of the card opening and closing for you to get a good understanding of how fun it is!

It is one of the quickest and fun fancy folds I have made in a long time and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I can see lots of fun applications to this one!

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Crushed Curry and this week you will be heading to Christine Blain. She is the Queen of how to use our Designer Series Paper and how to put all the different designs together to make a fabulous card. I can't wait to see what she has for us today. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you are expecting please head back here and go to our amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating this week in our journey of all things Crushed Curry: Cathy's Blog

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