Colour Creations Blog Hop - 2024-2025 Week 24 - Flirty Flamingo

 

Welcome to Colour Creations Blog Hop for Flirty Flamingo week of 2024-25!

This week I wanted to go simple as I have a migraine so my brain was not up to thinking too much so I went to the Annual Catalogue and CASED the catty! (Page 46) This is the wonderful thing about the Stampin' Up! catalogue and the mini catty they have wonderful ideas and templates that you can use to give you ides and use to spark your own creativity or copy and put your own twist on it yourself! Same with your Stampin' Up Demonstrator and the Art With Heart team we are here to give you all the inspiration for when you are crafting at home.

For my card today I am using the wonderful Thoughtful Wishes bundle. I love this stamp set and dies combo. I have started with a Flirty Flamingo card base and added a piece of Thoughtful Journey DSP before adding a piece of Basic White card that has been dry embossed with the Birch Wood Embossing Folder.

For the decoration on the front of the card I have used a piece of the Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and using the Water Painters I have done a simple water wash with the Flirty Flamingo, let it dry die cut it with the Nested Essential Dies and stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso. I cut out 2 of the leaf dies to put behind the center focal point and along with the main leaf on one of them I added a little colour. To add this colour I used the water colour pencils in Old Olive and Flirty Flamingo and used the Blender pen to blend the colour. On the front leaf I made it darker and a lot more subtle on the leaf in the background. To finish off I had to add some bling and I used the Smokey Slate Pearls!

If you have any questions or would like to get your hands on this wonderful stamp set please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next amazing team member on our journey through Flirty Flamingo and this week you will be heading to our wonderful host Catherine Proctor. I love her elegant style and I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and go straight there:

If at any time one of the next blog buttons goes not to the place you were expecting please come back here and head to our lovely host Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of all those participating in this weeks challenge of Flirty Flamingo: Cathy Proctor

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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 16 - 2024 -2025 - Calypso Coral Double Door Pop Up Card!

 

Welcome to Calypso Coral week of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. I think this would be my Dad's favourite colour and I think that is because it is like a salmon colour and he likes fishing! LOL! 

I need to thank the wonderful Stampin' Up Demonstrator Michelle Grech from thINK out loud Papercrafting here in Victoria Australia for my fun fold today. I followed her Facebook live tutorial to create my card. The fun fold card is a Double Door Pop Up!

For my card base I have used Calypso Coral and a layer Pebbled Path before adding the gorgeous Thoughtful Journeys DSP which has some of our lovely Calypso Coral as one of its colours.

When you open the card you will see 2 doors on their opening mechanism. I have added a little Pebbled Path on the doors and then on the outer edge and on the doors I have decorated with the beautiful Thoughtful Journeys DSP.

When you open your card completely the doors will fold out and on the inside of the card I have again layered with Pebble Path and on the Basic White layer I have stamped the lovely little flower stamp in Smokey Slate and the sentiment in Pebble Path. The flowers I have coloured with Stampin' Blends - Light & Dark Mossy Meadow and Light & Dark Calypso Coral.

On the front of the card have cut 3 circles with the Deckled circle dies and I have embossed the Basic White layer with the Cross Hatch Embossing Folder from the Basic 3D embossing set of folders. The labels are cut from the Something Fancy Dies and I have stamped the sentiment in Pebbled Path. The leaves have been stamped in Smokey Slate and and coloured in Light & Dark Mossy Meadow. The Die Cut leaves have been blended first before die cut.

I have used the blending brushes to add Calypso Coral and Mossy Meadow ink on Basic White card before cutting out the large leaf die and 2 smaller leaf dies. It doesn't have to be perfectly blended as leaves are mottled.

Here is a short video of how the card opens to give you an idea of how wonderful this fun fold really is!

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 wonderful person on our journey of Calypso Coral and this week you will be heading to Theresa Gerrard, I can't wait to see her beautiful creation. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime the next blog button doesn't go where you want it to go please head back here and go to out amazing weekly host Cathy Proctor and she will have a list of all those participating this week for our journey of Calypso Coral.

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

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 2 - 2024-25 - Petunia Pop

 

Welcome to week 2 of the 2024-25 Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the second New InColor called Petunia Pop!

If you were playing along last week I was making a 100 boxes for a Mother's day High Tea this coming Saturday, well while I was in the fancy fold mood I decided to make a fancy fold card for our Petunia Pop colour challenge this week. (I have photos of the finished boxes at the end of this post)

For the card base I have used Pebbled Path and when you open the gate fold the inside part of the fold will look like this. Now let's decorate!

I decided to used the gorgeous Thoughtful Journey Suite of products as the Thoughtful Journey DSP is simply gorgeous and has Petunia Pop as one of the colours. Thoughtful Wishes stamp set and dies are also gorgeous so it was calling my name this week.

You may be saying, Sharon I can't really see Petunia Pop on your card apart from the little bit of ribbon and the stamped sentiment. I can see lots of Blackberry Bliss. Guess what my favourite colour goes really well with Petunia Pop don't you think!!!!  I have backed some of the gorgeous Thoughtful Journey DSP on each side of my Gate fold with Blackberry Bliss and the belly band is also Blackberry bliss but WAIT......

Slip off the belly band and open up your card and there you have all of your Petunia Pop for this week.

Each section of the fold is layered in Petunia Pop and then I have followed the design around with the gorgeous Thoughtful Journey DSP.

In the center of the card that pops up I have embossed with the Eyelet 3D embossing folder and using the dies that come in the Thoughtful Wishes bundle I cut out some leaves and flowers in Mossy Meadow, Basic White and Petunia Pop to layer with the Petunia Pop Ribbon under the sentiment from the stamp set that I cut out with a deckled circle die.

On the back of the card I have also added a piece of Basic White so that you can write your greeting to the card recipient.

I do hope you have enjoyed my surprise Petunia Pop fancy fold card today.

If you have any questions about my project today or if you would like to get your hands on the gorgeous new Annual Catalogue please do not hesitate to contact me

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Petunia Pop journey and this week we will be going to Vicki Boucher I can't wait to see what she makes this week she always makes the most gorgeous creations. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time on your Petunia Pop journey the next blog button doesn't go where it is supposed to go please head back here and go to our host for our weekly Colour Creation Blog Hops Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of those participating and you will be able today and you will be able to continue your hop there: Cathy's Blog

Next week we will be looking at the colour Pretty in Pink, I do hope you will join us.

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

P.S. for those who played along last week I have now finished up the 100 boxes just in time for the friend to fill them for her Mother's Day High Tea on Saturday morning!