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Stampin’ Up! Coastal Cabana Card

by What Cathy Made | Aug 28, 2024 | Beach Days bundle, Coastal Cabana, What Cathy Made

Welcome to week eighteen of our Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop!

This week we’re featuring Coastal Cabana, a beautiful aqua colour from the Brights Family.

As it is Father’s Day this Sunday I’ve made a Father’s Day card for my husband. You’ll see the Father’s Day card I’ve made for my dad in next week’s Art With Heart 2024-25 Colour Creations blog hop.

I found the instructions for this pop up fancy fold card on Youtube. The papercrafter who designed this fancy fold is called Ann Melvin and she has wonderfully clear and easy to follow instructions on her Positively Papercraft Youtube channel. Although Ann calls this type of fancy fold a “Nappy fold card” I prefer to call it a hexagonal pop-up platform card!

This card folds flat to pop into an envelope and the pop up element is created without any dies, which is great!

I’ve chopped up one of the card bases from the Boho Beach Kit to decorate the outside hexagon band. This Lost Lagoon pattern looks just like the froth and bubble of the ocean and coordinates beautifully with Coastal Cabana!

Inspired by the Boho Beach Kit, my colour combination is Coastal Cabana, Lost Lagoon, Early Espresso, Pecan Pie and Basic White.

It was a no-brainer to use the Beach Days bundle to make a card for my surfer mad husband, however this pop-up fancy fold card base can be used to create any kind of scene.

The “Happy Father’s Day” sentiment is from the Gone Fishing stamp set, die cut using the smallest rectangle in the Nested Essentials dies. The DSP used to create the surfboards is from the Brights 6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Designer Series Paper.

A trio of brown Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins completes the front of the card.

Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Amie McIllroy – I can’t wait to see what Amie has made this week!

If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.

Catherine Proctor – you are here!

Amie McIllroy

Rachel Palmieri

The AWH Colour Creations team will be back next Wednesday 4th September, showcasing Copper Clay or you can join us on Monday night for some more Christmas inspiration.

I hope you can join us then!

AWH Colour Creations Pretty Peacock Card

by What Cathy Made | Feb 28, 2024 | Beach Days bundle, January–April 2024 Mini Catalogue, Sale-a-bration catalogue, Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Card Pack, Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Cards & Envelopes, What Cathy Made

Welcome to week forty-two of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!

Our colour this week is Pretty Peacock, a deep teal colour that is an absolute favourite of mine.

As there’s only one day left of Sale-a-bration, I’m sharing a card I’ve made using the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Cards & Envelopes, one of the new items added as a Sale-a-bration reward in February.

This pack contains 20 cards and 20 envelopes. Having the card base and envelope ready cuts down on your prep time and helps you get to crafting much quicker.

It’s my husband’s birthday this weekend and as he is a surfer it was a no-brainer to use the Beach Day bundle to make his birthday card.

I’ve used the surfboard die from the Beach Days dies and two of the Sweet Thoughts Memories & More cards from the card pack to make the floral and the striped Pretty Peacock surfboards, with the black and white surfboard die cut from the Zoo Crew 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.