Colour Creations Blog Hop- Week 45 - Shaded Spruce Spinner Card

Contributors to this blog hop are all members of Claire Daly's Art With Heart group. We love chatting, crafting and getting together in person. This is week 45 of our blog hop and the featured colour is Shaded Spruce. I chose to team this with Coastal Cabana to create a special birthday card for a grandson.

There is a reason that you are seeing two spinner cards here - the one on the left was the first I'd ever made, and I may not have had the twine tight enough, or I just may have played with it a bit too much. 

 

Hot Air Balloon bundle is perfect for a spinner card and the small balloon fits the aperture rather nicely. After card one ended up with a floppy balloon, I was too embarrassed to send that off to the Sunshine Coast, so I made another one.

On the second card I have circled the cut out with Shaded Spruce as well, it emphasises the opening more. A combination of Deckled Circles and Stitched Shapes circle dies were used to cut the openings and surrounding frames.

Wanted To Say dies have some lovely word sentiments and a few embellishment pieces, such as the stars included here. I like to add adhesive sheets to the back of these finer pieces of die cutting, so they are easier to stick to the accompanying piece.

Let's go check out Andrea Sargent's fabulous work of art.

If at any time you find a broken link or would like to see a full list of participants, please head to the blog of our host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Catherine Proctor.

Happy crafting, 

 

French Door Fun Fold Card

I suggest that you first make this card in a pattern paper which isn't your most precious, just to see how it works out.

You will need:

12" X 12" designer series paper (DSP) cut to 14cm high. Take 0.5cm from the short end to make this piece 30cm long.

1 piece of card stock 14.5cm by 10.5cm for card back.

Scrap pieces of card for the 2 labels & surrounds.

2 3/8" circle punch, bundled with Circle Sayings.

Stampin' Up! Paper Trimmer

Die cut machine or use ribbon for fastening.

Stitched Shape circle dies (largest & 2nd largest)

Please Note: where it says 10cm on diagram should read 14cm. If you knew how difficult I found it to put the diagram in this blog, I know you will forgive me for not making the correction!

• Designer Series paper measuring 14cm X 30cm
• Score at 5cm and 10cm
• Rotate 180° and score at 5cm and 10cm on the other end.

• Decide which side will feature on the card before gluing the folded pieces back on themselves. This also helps strengthen the paper. (or surprise yourself, like I did!)
• 28 minute Video, unfortunately despite my best efforts, sideways ):

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• Glue the plain card stock to the back of card with an even margin all around.

For this next part I will use the colours above as a guide.

• Cut the largest Stitched circle from lime and also cut twice more with the 2nd largest inside to form two rings.
• Cut the 2nd circle from white(1) and Pretty Peacock (1)
• 1 more white circle for the sentiment label, smaller punched circle 2 3/8", or 2¼" if you have.

I used Masterfully Made DSP, a new release in the annual catalogue and paired it with a backing card in Lost Lagoon. Lemon-Lime Twist is for the large frame, Pretty Peacock for the small circle and basic white. Melon Mambo ink and card were also included.

Enjoy making your French Door Fun-fold cards. Use your new DSP as well as chopping up the old. If you'd like to share your creations, its quite easy to add them to my Facebook page. Use the label #frenchdoorfunfold

 

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CTC #157 CASE A Colour Combination

Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing The Catty. The crew is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, demonstrate Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project.

In my very humble opinion, CASE-ing The Catty for a colour combination is the easiest challenge of the lot! Any catalogue, any colour combination. You might like to take a photo of your card or 3-D item sitting on top of the page you cased, just like I have here, and enter our challenge via Facebook. W'ed love you to join us.

For my card, I've CASE-d the main colour, Island Indigo, chosen a different woodgrain and added hints of yellow & green (from the sunflowers & fruit). I could also say that I also echoed a container holding something, like the barrel of sunflowers.

It has been quite a while since I have inked up Crafting Forever, but I am making some teacher gifts and thought it appropriate. Not only does it have some fun images in it, there is a Stampin' Up!® logo stamp for any of you happy crafters out there who'd love to sell some of your creations. Angel Policy requires you to add the ©Stampin' Up! to any work sold, containing Stampin' Up!® stamped images.

Three pens is another of the images in this stamp set, and I couldn't resist adding a couple to the pot of brushes. I have another stamp set, Pieces & Patterns which matches with a current DSP (pattern paper) and the loose pencil lying on the table is from that set. Stampin' Up!® prides itself on being a company with co-ordinating products, and this is a prime example of stamp set themes matching, and one of those matching with a paper, Pick A Pattern DSP, which then lists all the colours it co-ordinates with. How easy does that make crafting?

I'm sneaking in a new box framelit which is in the Occasions Catalogue. Let me know if you want me to get one out to you, as I am ordering catalogues this week. Last night I went shopping for chocolate, to see what little treat I could sneak in there, but unfortunately the packet of the delicious Lindt chocolate I bought was too long, but the right width, and I had to eat it!!!!

On the same page as the Lots To Love Framelits Dies (page 19) are narrow notecards and envelopes. I will add them to my pre-order too and make some little cards for the box next week. Lovely Words Thinlets and Stitched Shapes Thinlets helped me add a window, and let me used some of the Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate to dress it up.

These are some bonus cards using Crafting Forever. This one with pens above is a super-easy repeat pattern which looks good left plain black & white, or easy to colour too.

Another Fun! Fun! Fun! card using repeat stampings of the scissors in primary shades, and one of the Crafting Forever sentiments, I can see this card being perfect for a younger child's birthday card too.

This weeks hop is a big one, but there is bound to be a heap of crafting inspiration, (and maybe glimpses of new products as we all begin to get our pre-order shipments) so now is the time to hop over to see marvelous Mel Pagano

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