Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 26 - 2024 - 2025 - Garden Green - Sweet Peas Birthday Peek - A- Boo Card

 Hello my Crafty Friends, today I am bringing you a card fun fold that I made a few years ago but for some reason I must not have blogged it so I found my prototype and then found the original video from Dawn Stampin' Thoughts and now we have today's card for Garden Green week of our 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop! 

I saw this great version by @2bgcrafting using the Sweet Peas Stamp set so I just had to recreate this card and make a version of it myself, it is so fun!

For this card I have used Thick Basic White card for every part of the card except the frames which I used normal Basic White.

For the front of the card I have the Peek-a-Boo window which I have cut out with the Nested Essential Dies. I first cut all the different sections to create the fun fold and I will put a template at the end of the post. I then cut out the the frame using the same dies.

Before adding the frame to the front of the card I stamped the leaves and the sentiment. I coloured the leaves with the Light Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends, a little bit of Garden Green Watercolor Pencil was added to the leaves and with the Blender Pen it was was smoothed out over the leaf. The Garden Green Watercolor Pencil was also added over the PEA of the sentiment and using the Blender Pen smoothed over as well. 

The "Grumpy" Pea is on the very back page of the fancy fold so to get it in the correct location you have to hold the the top layer with the cut out window over the top and stamp through the window. I have coloured this Pea with light Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blend and then added the Garden Green Watercolor Pencil over the top to accentuate his grumpiness.

As you slowly open the card you can see that something is starting to cover our "Grumpy" Pea

When the card is fully open our Grumpy pea has been replaced in the window by a "Happy Birthday Pea" I have coloured the peas with the Soft Sea foam Light and Dark Stampin' Blends and the pea shell and added detail to the leaves and single birthday pea with the Garden Green Watercolor Pencil. The birthday Hat is Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blend.

Here is a little video of the card opening to show how fun it is.

Here is the template for the card.

The middle card is adhered to the back of the front and aligning the edge and the cut out windows. The small folded section of the card front is free flowing so that they can slide behind each other to create the peek-a-boo. The Card Back is then adhered to the edge of the middle card on the same side that you have adhered the card front. This stabilizes the middle section of the card and holds it all together. I hope you can see that through watching how the card opens and folds in the video. 

If you would like any information or have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful team member participating this week with our colour challenge of Garden Green. This week you will be heading to the amazingly talented Christine Blain, hit the next blog button and you will go straight there:

If for any reason a next blog button doesn't work please head to our host, Cathy Proctor's Blog, she does a wonderful job each week keeping us all organised. You will find a list of all those participating this week on the journey of Garden Green: Cathy's Blog

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