Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 18 - Coastal Cabana

 

Welcome to the Coastal Cabana Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023. 

Today I am will be bringing you a birthday card as a request from my daughter. She did not request a fancy fold but I had to do this fancy fold when I saw it on Frenchies Stamps Blog, A Canadian Stampin' Up demonstrator!

Frenchie called her card a Bendy Window card, I will call mine a Bendy, Bendy Window card. She got the inspiration from another demonstrator so live on the Bendy, Bendy Window cards!

So let me do a quick talk through of the card. The basics of the card is 4 card fronts folded in half and then stuck together after decorating! Then add a window sheet on the front! Sound simple doesn't it!

Here is the colour combination that I used. I have added the gorgeous Inked Botanicals colours to this palette that are in this particular sheet of DSP that I used along with the added Soft Sea Foam and our in the spot light colour Coastal Cabana so that you could see them all together!

So this is the front of the front of the card without the window sheet. For this I have cut a card base of Coastal Cabana of 14.9 cm x 10.5 cm and folded it in half then layered the gorgeous Inked Botanicals DSP on that. The Curved front section was created by making a layer of Coastal Cabana smaller than card front by 1 cm border all round and then adding a cm on each edge to fold under to adhere to the front of the card. I then used my bone folder to help give the card a bend. Once I had stamped the sentiment I knew which one of the Deckled Circle Dies I could use to cut out the sentiment and also the section in the front and then in the DSP before adhering it all together.

Under the sentiment I have also popped a little bridge for it to sit on so that it pops out when open. I then stamped the stem in Lost Lagoon, the leaves in Soft Sea Foam and the Flowers in Coastal Cabana and added a little bit more Coastal Cabana and Crushed Curry with my blender pen to the flowers before cutting them out with the Seasonal Dies. I added all of these with Mini Glue dots so they can move flexibly. Can you see that I have added the window sheet in this photo. It needs to be the same height as the card front but for the width leave an extra 2 mm on each side when you fold over the 1 cm extra to wrap over the front just to give yourself some space for the front decorations. You want your card flat!

For the back of the card so that you have somewhere to write your message to the recipient, you again cut a card front and fold in half layer with your Inked Botanicals DSP then stamp a little greeting from the Seasonal Branches Stamp set in Coastal Cabana, bend you card with the bone folder and when you adhere make sure the card is flat.

To adhere your front to the back create the 2 more card fronts (now you have 4 ) fold them in half. Half adhered to the back and half to the front.

Now you can see all the layers and the bends easily from the top of the card.

And yes it does fold flat and go into our envelopes!

Here is a little video

I am sure you are thinking "Sharon you said 4 card fronts, easy!" Well it is 4 card fronts all glued together the hardest part was working it all out with a migraine today and my son kept messaging me at the same time! Seriously they know it is Colour Creations Day! LOL!

I hope you enjoy this fancy fold and can understand a little of my ramblings if not please do contact me and I will be so happy to get back to you!

Now is the time to head to the next very talented team member and this week you will be heading to our lovely host Cathy Proctor. So hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason while you are on your journey around and one of the links don't work just head to Cathy's blog and she will have a list of all those participating in the Coastal Cabana Colour Creations Blog Hop: Cathy's Blog.

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 17 - 2023-2024 - Cherry Cobbler - Collapsible Pillar Card

 

Welcome to Week 17 of the Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2023-24. Today we are looking at the gorgeous Cherry Cobbler. I really like this colour and use it as my go to colour for Christmas Cards but today I thought I would use it for a birthday card.

Last week I didn't do a fancy fold and I let Theresa Gerrard down so I thought I had better get my skates on and make a fancy fold this week. So I hunted high and low for a different card and found this one by Jamie Rodgers, it is called a Collapsible Pillar Card. Now there are a few different versions out there but I have made this one similar to his in the construction but definitely decorated differently!

For this card I have chosen to use lots of flowers in many colours including Cherry Cobbler and use Cherry Cobbler as the base of the card. Here is my colour combination and when I say lots of flowers I have chosen to channel Christine Blain with her more is better philosophy!

To start the construction of the card I made the pillars and before adhering them closed I added the gorgeous Delightfully Eclectic DSP to the inside of the pillar. Then add Bright and Beautiful DSP to the card Base before adhering the first 2 pillars.

Well then I went to town and took out all the card stock in these colours and Oh I forgot Crumb Cake too and the Paper Florist Dies and the twig branches in the crumb cake are from the Seasonal Branches dies.

Layer 1 complete and no comes the challenge of putting on the window sheet. So I thought I would try with the tear 'n' tape to make sure it was not going to fall apart. Well let's just say next time I make it the Liquid Multipurpose Glue will be used as all stages! It forgot to anticipate the need to make sure it would fold down flat so needing to move a little before drying. I mean I know it needed to fold down flat and I thought it would but it became a bit toooooo inflexible so it is not as flat as I would like. I will show you at the end!

So in between the pillars is the window sheet.

Next layer of flowers a little lower down and on the opposite side as I want the card to collapse one way on the lower level and the other way on the top level.

After adding the second window sheet with the liquid multipurpose glue and making sure it would lay flat, for Christine I have added more gorgeous Delightfully Eclectic DSP and lots and lots of flowers before adding a little Happy Birthday sentiment stamped in Cherry Cobbler from the Seasonal Branches stamp set.

Here is the card all collapsed down and if you look at the DSP in the Pillars you can see that the back pillars collapse to the left and the front pillars collapse to the right. This means you can make and envelope for your card to go in especially if you get it to sit flat like the front pillars are. This time I will make a box to put the card in which will be beautiful as well.

I hope you have enjoyed my first attempt at a Collapsible Pillar Card and don't forget you can add a panel of basic white card on the back to write your message to your friend who is getting the birthday card.

If you have any questions about my project this week please contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Cherry Cobbler, and this week you will be heading to our lovely host Cathy Proctor, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week, she is very talented and I just love seeing her gorgeous creations, so just hit the next blog button and you will be take straight there. 

If for any reason the next blog buttons don't go where they are supposed to go please head back here and go to our weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of everyone participating and you can continue from there: Cathy's Blog

Thank you for spending some 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,