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Tuesday 23 April 2019

Spruced Up Flamingo

Hi!


Gosh, we are getting to the end of our Colour Creations Blog Shares now. I will miss them! Hmmm, I wonder if I can convince everyone to continue for a further 5 weeks with the new In Colours? Maybe!

Anyway, this week we are up to Shaded Spruce. It's a fabulous deep green, new to the range this year as a part of the Regals colour family.

scissorspapercard, Stampin' Up!, Art With Heart, Colour Creations, Tropical Chic Bundle, Fabulous Flamingo, Amazing Life, Tropical Escape DSP, Fancy Fold

I recently saw this card by my JAI friend Lou, and thought it was a simple, but very effective fancy fold. Before I explain, let me show you how it folds out. You can see that there's a round window in the front of the card. I used my Tropical Chic stamp set to create a little frame for the window. It's carrying over to the new Annual Catalogue - yay!

scissorspapercard, Stampin' Up!, Art With Heart, Colour Creations, Tropical Chic Bundle, Fabulous Flamingo, Amazing Life, Tropical Escape DSP, Fancy Fold

The first flap opens to show the image from Fabulous Flamingo. I used my Stamparatus to line up all of the layers, making it so much easier to stamp. Sadly, the flamingo is retiring at the end of May. I used a piece of Tropical Escape DSP to anchor the flamingo panel. I will miss that DSP! You can see another little strip of it down the left side of the card....

scissorspapercard, Stampin' Up!, Art With Heart, Colour Creations, Tropical Chic Bundle, Fabulous Flamingo, Amazing Life, Tropical Escape DSP, Fancy Fold

...which is actually on the inside of the card. I like how it adds interest to both the middle layer and the inside layer - much like the flamingo for the front and middle.

So how do you make this card? Just take a piece of A4 card and cut it in half longways. Score at 4 inches and 8 inches and you're done! Oh, cut your window in the first 4 inch section so that it becomes the front of the card. This way the shorter panel becomes the middle flap, showing that little strip of DSP from the inside. It also folds much more nicely this way.

Time to pop on over to Catherine's blog for the rest of this week's Shaded Spruce cards. Don't forget that if you right click on each link you can open the link in a new tab or window to avoid having to jump back and forwards from Catherine's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

5 comments:

  1. Another fabulous technique Tina and another stunning card! Yes, let's do another 5 weeks and include the new in colours. Thanks for hopping along tonight

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  2. Great fancy fold card & I love how the Flamingo and Tropical Chic/escape coordinate so well together, especially the flourish of flowers on the front!

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  3. Thanks for sharing the fold Tina and instructions. Cute card, I love the flamingo, and the flowers on the front add a lovely touch.

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  4. Tropical Chic must be the in stamp set this week. stunning card Tina.

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  5. Wow, such a clever technique, and yes, definitely have to continue with the new In Colours :)

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