Welcome to week 8 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop!
This week we are showcasing one of the regals family: Cajun Craze.
I need to share a little secret with you…Cajun Craze is a colour I had never used before today, and it was a colour I really struggled to embrace. But the process of making my project for this week not only made me enjoy this colour and see its possibilities…it also made me use some products I’d had for quite a while but had been too scared to use!
That’s right, I had been too scared to use embossing paste but let me tell you it is SOOOOOO much fun to play with, super easy to use and to colour (even without re-inkers) … check out the dimension on my Cajun Craze brick wall below!
I think nature is such a wonderful source of inspiration and as soon as I realised Cajun Craze was the colour of terracotta and house bricks the design of this card fell into place.
I was wondering how to tint the embossing paste without a re-inker but it is actually so easy to do by using an ink pad and a silicon sheet. You simply open the inkpad and tap some ink onto the silicon sheet, add some embossing paste and mix it all together with a palette knife.
My little terracotta pot is stamped using the Crafting Forever stamp set and then fussy cut and attached to the brick wall with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I wrapped linen thread around the pot, used a glue dot to hold the knot in place and tied a double bow. The old olive leaves are stamped with the Painted Harvest Stamp Set and then punched out with the leaf punch, and the little flowers and skinny leaves are the gorgeous Tropical Elements embellishments, also attached with glue dots.
Here’s a close up of these gorgeous little embellishments!
The final touch is the Happy Birthday sentiment stamped from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp set…this is my favourite Happy Birthday stamp and I’ve lost track of the number of times I have used it!
To see what the rest of the team have made click on the links below.
Catherine Proctor ⇐you are here
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Great card, Cathy. I love your tip about colouring embossing paste – it never would’ve entered my head to do that! Thanks for sharing. x
Love the way you coloured the bricks in your card, i wouldn’t have thought about colouring the paste in this way.
Yep, perfect use of this colour, Cajun Craze! The terracotta pot is a wonderful addition with the punched leaves and button flowers, so cute.
Snap on the brick wall idea! Your card looks lovely with the embossing paste.
Catherine I love your card. That brick wall is AWESOME and believe me when I say that I don’t use that word often. The cajun craze colour is perfect for bricks and your little pot with its leaves and flowers is completely gorgeous!
I can’t believe I’m the only one who loved Cajun Craze before this Blog Share!! Hopefully there’s some converts now 🙂 Your wall looks amazing, and the flowers/leaves are beautiful.
How good is Cajun Craze for terracotta pots? This is such a cute card, Catherine.
I love your card. Yes I agree with you Cathy, I have never used this colour before either. It takes something like the blog to find the possibilities.