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,

Heart of Christmas - Week 8 - 2024

 

Welcome to the Heart of Christmas for week 8 of 2024. This week I have been working on baby shower cards so I have done a very quick card for you. I will show the baby cards during the coming weeks in our Colour Creations Blog Hops that you can catch on a Wednesday!

My card this week I have used the gorgeous Peaceful Season and Peaceful Evergreens stamp sets to create my card.

I am loving Lost Lagoon this year for the Christmas trees and using the Winter Meadows DSP. Along each side of this card you can see strips of this beautiful DSP.

I have a single piece of Thick Basic White which I have added the 2 strips of the Winter Meadow DSP to the edges and then another piece of Thick Basic White for the center fold of the card that I have embossed with the Dashing Designs 3D embossing folder folded in half and adhered to the back card base piece.

For the focal point of the card I have heat embossed in gold the sentiment from the Peaceful Seasons stamp set and then cut out the label using the Nested Essential Dies so that the sentiment was at the bottom leaving space for the Christmas tree.

The tree is stamped from the Peaceful Evergreens set in Lost lagoon ink and cut out with the Peaceful Evergreen dies along with the gold foil overlay and star. The tree and the focal point have been popped up on dimensionals.  

If you have any questions or would like to get you hands on the Sept-Dec Mini please contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person in our team that is here to give you some amazing Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to the lovely Andrea Sargent, I can't wait to see her wonderful creations each week, she does the most amazing water colouring, so hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If the next blog buttons at any time don't go where you are expecting please head back here and continue you Heart of Christmas blog hop from the list of the awesome team members below:
Andrea Sargent:
Kate Morgan:
Christine Blain:
Claire Daly:
Vicki Boucher:
Judy May:
Catherine Proctor:
Rachel Woollard:
Sharon Davern: <= You are here

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

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,

Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2023-2024 - Week 9 - Pecan Pie Pop Up Flower Card

 

Hello there and welcome to Week 9 of our 2023-24 Colour Creations Blog Hop and this week we have a new colour to add to our core  colours in the refresh and it is Pecan Pie. 

Now I lived in the US for 10 years and this was a staple of the pies to eat whenever you went to someone's place to have a meal or out to eat at a cafe. So Delicious! So I needed to make a card that was full of deliciousness. Of course I made a fancy fold!

All will be revealed!

Here is my colour combination for this project, not as many as last week.

I saw this card made by a UK crafter Sam Calcott about 5 years or so ago so I thought well I should give it a go. I was away with friends and watched a video of how to do it with no sound, to say that made it a lot more difficult to create would be a little bit of an understatement. The first attempt didn't work but the second did. I think I should get used to having those ear bud things in my ears but I don't like them! LOL!

So on the inside of the card when you untie the gorgeous Pecan Pie Bordered Ribbon which is so super soft and just beautiful to tie you have a garden path and steps full of lattice and flowers!

This side on view shows the steps so much better!

So as on the front of the card I have continued down the centre of the steps the Glorious Gingham DSP in Pecan Pie. Along the edges of the steps and like the edges of the path I have used strips of Pecan Pie card stock.

The flowers on the outside and the inside are from the Petal Park stamp set and I have stamped them in Sweet Sorbet, Crushed Curry and Old Olive and I used the Blender pen to draw out some of the ink from the centre to add a little colour. The Sentiments are stamped in Pecan Pie from the Nature's Prints stamp set (keeping it all in the one theme here) and then die cut out with the Nested Essential dies!

Of course you need a place to write your message so I have added some Basic White card to the back of the card and another little Sweet Sorbet flower!

Here is a quick video of the card opening!

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

Now is the time to head to the next very creative person on our journey of Pecan Pie and this week we are heading to the amazing Tina Gillespie, I love seeing what she comes up with each week. Please click on the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason one of the links doesn't work just come back here and head to our weekly host, the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating so you can continue your hop of Pecan Pie there: Cathy's Blog.

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