Colour Creation Blog Hop - Week 15 - 2024- 2025 - Cajun Craze - Side by Side Stepper Card

 

Welcome to Cajun Craze week of the 2024-2025 Colour Creations Blog hop! 

I must admit this is not a colour I use very much but I dug deep and tried to find a fancy fold for you to help with the process. I went to Mitosu Crafts the home of Jay and Barry in the UK for this weeks inspiration on the fold and this one came from Jay!

The fold is called a Side by Side Stepper Card

Here is my colour combination for the card.

The card fold is a very simple fold but very effective I think and really the gorgeous Thoughtful Journeys DSP in combinations with the Changing Leaves Bundle Does all the work for you. Don't you just love these gorgeous papers!

So the fold is an 8 inch x 8 inch and you score at 1 inch and then at 2 inch along the bottom and turn and score down the middle at 4 inches. Then cut up to the 2 inch mark on that centre score line and fold. Really simple, then comes the decorations!

I have layered the Cajun Craze base with Very Vanilla and on this panel I have used the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing folder on the Very Vanilla layer. The leaves are in Mossy Meadow and Cajun Craze and a couple of sprigs of Crumb cake. For the solid leaf I use my sponge dauber directly on the stamp and used Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry ink before stamping onto Very Vanilla card. The little bird is from the Country Birdhouse stamp set and I have coloured him using L & D Cajun Craze, Light Calypso Coral, Light Daffodil Delight light Wild Wheat, Black Dot Stampin' Blends.

The little branch that the bird is sitting on is also frontthe  Country Birdhouse stamped 3 times in Crumb Cake then coloured with Cajun Craze watercolour pencil.

On the second panel I have again layered the gorgeous Thoughtful Journey DSP on the Very Vanilla and Cajun Craze and I have added a little bit of lined threat under the sentiments that I have stamped in Cajun craze and then cut out using the Changing Leaves dies.

On the back I have decorated with more of the fabulous Thoughtful Journey DSP and Very Vanilla so your can write to the recipient.

Of course when your card is all folded up it fits perfectly into our envelopes.

I do hope you enjoyed this fun fold if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful creative joining us for Cajun Craze and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard. I can't wait to see what lovely project she has for us. Hit the next blog button and go you will head straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't go quite where you were expecting, please head back here and go to our weekly host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all the participants for this week of Cajun Craze.

Thank you so much for spending some crafty time with me this week, take care,

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 7 - 2024-2025 - Azure Afternoon

 

Welcome to Week 7 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are delving into the colours that are in the Annual Catalogue that were not added new this year! Azure Afternoon is a blue from our bright colour range! 

Today I have made a card for you called the Stacked Triple Diamond Card! I followed the directions from Iced Images so it is a bit bigger than will fit into our envelopes. Next I will need to work on making it a little smaller to fit into our envelopes. Alternatively I will make a box or an envelope to fit it!

I have used 2 stamp sets for this card the Spotlight on Nature and the Country Birdhouse.

Now this is all one piece of Azure Afternoon card for the base. It may look a little complicated but it is all about 2 cuts and some scoring vertically and diagonally and you fold and guess what you get a stacked triple diamond fold!

For the decoration on the side panels I have layered first with a gorgeous panel of Wildly Flowering DSP, which is gorgeous but I wanted to have the muted colour and little pops of the design behind rather than the starkness and boldness of straight card stock can sometimes be as a layer! Try DSP as a layer sometimes it softens the look! So then I stamped the flower and the butterfly from Spotlight on Nature and coloured those with the Stampin' Blends. I used Light and Dark Soft Sea Foam and Light Mossy Meadow and the leaves. For the flowers I have used Dark Bubble Bath and Light Moody Mauve. The Butterfly I have used Light and Dark Azure AFternoon, Light Balmy Blue and Dark Crumb Cake. I stamped over top of the whole card with the cross hash stamp in Basic Beige. I stamped off once first then kept stamping until no ink then inked again stamped off once then went again until the whole panel was stamped.

For the decoration on the diamonds I have used the Country Birdhouse stamp set and dies. I stamped the greeting in Smokey Slate and fussy cut out then layered on Azure Afternoon card and fussy cut again before popping up on mini dimensionals. The middle diamond, I have stamped the bird in Smokey slate and coloured again in Stampin' Blends, Light and Dark Crumb Cake, Light Wild Wheat, Light Balmy Blue and Light Azure Afternoon. And if you go in real close I have given the bird a red eye. Those photographs always getting red eyes! The 3rd Diamond I have coloured the little flowers with the same coloured Stampin' Blends I have used before and like under the bird I have have layered with the die cut Soft Sea Foam and Mossy Meadow leaves.

On the back of the card I have layered the gorgeous Wildly Flowering DSP and some Basic White card so you can write to your friend. You can also see the fun folding of the diamonds from the back!

Well dear friends it was a fun card to make so please reach out if you have any  have any questions about my project today, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey around Azure Afternoon and you will be heading to Cathy Proctor, I can't wait to see what she has created for us. Hit the next blog button and you will go directly there.

If for any reason the next blog button goes where you were not expecting please come back here and head to our amazing weekly host the lovely  Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of those participating in this week's challenge and you will be able to continue your hop from there: Azure Afternoon

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