Welcome to my blog. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope that you will find some inspiration for your projects as I have from many lovely people. This is just a little space for me to share some of my cards, scrap book pages and maybe even some of my embroidery and quilting projects.
Welcome to Early Espresso Week of the Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2024.
Today I have for you a Double Tri-fold card. It is 2 tri-fold cards joined together. I follow Jay and Barry at Mitosu Crafts and this was a fold that Barry did so I thought I would give it a go.
Here is the colour combination that I used which I largely took from the Country Woods DSP.
I used 3 stamp sets for this card 2 on the front and another for the inside. The base of the card is in Early Espresso card and I went from there.
I have embossed a layer of Basic White card with the Exposed Brick embossing folder and layered a strip of Country Woods DSP after attaching the Basic White diagonal Trim from the Petal Pink and White Combo pack. The leaves are stamped in Early Espresso from the Thoughtful Wishes stamp set and coloured with light and dark Pool Party Blends and die cut out with the Thoughtful wishes dies whish are the 2 sprig of Early Espresso behind it. The sentiment is from the Country Birdhouse Stamp set and stamped in Early Espresso and Cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies.
Now to open the card.
The card opens to not 1 but 2 tri fold cards!
On the left tri-fold the card I have decorated the fold with the Country Woods DSP which has Early Espresso as one of it's colours and this piece also has Pool Party. I have embossed another piece of Basic White with the Exposed Brick. I have stamped the images from the Country Flowers stamp set.
and I have coloured the images with the Stampin' Blends.
The flowers are Light and Dark Pool Party, Light and Dark Petal Pink, Lemon Lolly and a dab of Wild Wheat. The Pot is coloured in Light and Dark Gray Granite and a little Dark Crumb Cake. The Happy Birthday was then stamped in Early Espresso. The table is coloured in light and Dark Crumb Cake and Dark Pool Party.
On this second tri fold card I have added a sprig of die cut flowers in Pool Party, Lemon Lolly and Petal Pink with a little bit of Early Espresso and attached that to the front and the stamped image from the Thoughtful Wishes is coloured in with Stampin' blends and attached to the back.
Here is a little video to show you how the card opens.
If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.
Now is the time to head to our next Art With Heart team member participating this week and you will be going to Cathy Proctor, I can't wait to see what she has for us, she is so talented. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.
If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you expected please head back here and head to our wonderful weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and on her blog she will have a list of all those participating this week for our journey through Early Espresso: Cathy's Blog.
Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care
Welcome to week 1 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop! How exciting it is to be in a brand nee year of Stampin' Up! with a new catalogue and 5 brand new InColors and a new neutral colour. These 6 new colours will be the first 6 weeks of our Colour Creations Blog Hop for this year. I can't wait for you to join me and the some of the amazingly creative Art With Heart Team as we share with you the year of Colour Creations Inspirations!
This week we start with Peach Pie!
So today I have made a simple fancy fold card for you as why wouldn't I. I have made a Double Box Fold Card. I only have 1 project today as I am in the middle of making 100 boxes for Mother's Day and I have just finished a project of 45 boxes, 11 baskets and 12 embroidered table cloths for an event. I will have photos at the end of this post to show you. I hope you forgive me for a quick card today!
I have used the beautiful Country Flowers Bundle from the Country Woods Suite which you can find on page 50 of the new Annual Catalogue!
I created the base of the card in Crumb Cake and decorated it with the New InColor DSP leaf design with Peach Pie before continuing on with the focal point design.
Behind the pot of flowers I have cut a piece of the Country Woods DSP using the Nested Essential Dies. After cutting it in the largest of die in the rounded rectangle I decided that it was not quite tall enough for all of my lovely flowers, pot and stool, so I extended it by cutting half and then turning and placing the die in the grooves to line up the die correct and extending it a little more and only cutting half again.
It the Country Flowers stamp set there are 2 lots of flowers and I thought that I could stamp both sets and add lots of flowers to a bucket. Plus who doesn't like to get a lot a flowers! I have popped all of these up on dimensionals and added a couple of Peach Pie die cut flowers as well with the Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls. I love that all of these stamped images can be die cut! Did you notice a little bit of Peach Pie ribbon peaking out?
I have loved to colour since the year dot and here are all the Stampin' Blends I used to colour these images.
The stool: Dark and Light Crumb Cake The Pot: Light and Dark Smoky Slate The Flowers: Light and Dark Peach Pie, Light and Dark Petunia Pop, Dark Bubble Bath, Light Flirty Flamingo, Light, Lemon Lolly, Light and Dark Daffodil Delight, Ivory, Light Lost Lagoon.
Do you see the flower market stamp? I stamped that in Basic Gray after I had finished colouring the pot, you could also leave it off but I kind of like it.
On the back of the card I stamped the sentiment from the Country Flowers stamp set and cut them out with the Nested Essential dies and the card folds up neatly to go in an envelope.
If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the new 2024-25 Annual Catalogue
please do not hesitate to contact me.
Now is the time to head to the next amazingly talented person on our Peach Pie journey and you will be heading to the very talented Kate Morgan. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.
If at any time the next blog button doesn't go where you expect at any time please come back here and head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of those participating today and you will be able to continue your blog hop from there: Cathy's Blog
I hope you will come back next week and join us for the next new InColor which is Petunia Pop!
Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care,
P.S. here are the items I worked on for the guest speaker for all those who attended, now I am working on 100 more for Mother's Day!
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