Week 7 Art With Heart Colour Creations Weekly Showcase Cajun Craze

Hello and welcome to Week 7 with the Art With Heart Colour Creations weekly Showcase. Which the lovely Catherine Proctor is running our weekly blog and with a selection of other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from the Art With Heart Team. 

This week we are featuring Cajun Craze, which is a colour I don't normally use, but I wanted to challenge myself by using this colour. I hope we will inspire you with our projects using Cajun Craze.

Cajun Craze is from the Regals Colour Collection and comes in a range of Stampin' Up! products such as the Classic Stampin' Pad, Cardstock, Stampin' Blends, DSP and more. 

The two masculine projects that I have made is a card and gift tag, using the colours Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Cinnamon Cider. I think these colours go well together.

I started with the card first by creating the feathers using Watercolor Paper, Water Painters applying a mix of ink using Cajun Craze and Cinnamon Cider. Once the ink was dry, I then stamped the feather stamp from the Tasteful Touches Stamp Set, stamped it in Cinnamon Cider and fussy cut the images out. 

The tree stump stamp is from the Rooted In Nature Stamp Set, stamped in Early Espresso onto Early Espresso Cardstock and fussy cut the image out. I've sponged some Cajun Craze Ink onto the pressed wood leaf element which gives a different look and colour to the leaf.

Using a panel of Crumb Cake Cardstock, I've embossed it with the Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder, using Crumb Cake Ink I've sponged ink onto the wood panel with the Stamping Sponges. By doing this it gives you a more defined look on your Cardstock and you can see the wooded texture. 

I wanted the tree stump, feathers and wood element to be layered onto a strip of Cajun Craze Cardstock. Before adding all of the elements, I've randomly stamped the feather stamp in Cajun Craze Ink onto Cajun Craze Cardstock. I've wrapped the Linen Thread around the panel to give it some added texture and then I added all of the different elements. 

The final addition is the sentiment, I've used the greeting from the Rooted In Nature Stamp Set, stamped it in Early Espresso Ink onto Crumb Cake Cardstock, die cut the image out using the stitched Tasteful Labels Dies. The card base is half a sheet of the Cajun Craze Cardstock.

For the gift tag, I've used Cajun Craze Cardstock for the base, punched it using the Scalloped Tag Topper and layered a piece of the embossed Pinewood Planks in Crumb Cake Cardstock. The feather is stamped in Cajun Craze Ink onto Cajun Craze Cardstock and fussy cut out. I've added a little of Cinnamon Cider Ink onto the pressed wood leaf element and the greeting is stamped in Cinnamon Cider onto Crumb Cake Cardstock. Then die cut out using the Tasteful Labels Dies.

Please visit Catherine's Blog to see her creation and all the links are there as well, so you’ll be able to see everyone’s creations for this week’s showcase.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope you’ve enjoyed how I’ve used Cajun Craze. Make sure you come back next week to see the colour Calypso Coral in our projects.

If you would like the new Stampin’ Up! 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue, I would be happy to send you a copy out to you. Please contact me here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Product List

Ink: Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Cinnamon Cider

Cardstock: Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

Stamps: Rooted In Nature and Tasteful Touches

Dies: Tasteful Labels

Embossing Folder: Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder

Punches: Delightful Tag Topper

Colouring Tools: Stamping Sponges and Water Painters

Other Stampin' Up! products: Linen Thread, Cinnamon Cider Ribbon and In Good Taste Elements 

Stampin' Up! Colour Creations ~ Week 40 ~ Pumpkin Pie ~ Art With Heart

Hello and welcome to my blog with the lovely ladies from Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop.

Today is week 41 and we are playing along with Pumpkin Pie which is one of the Regals Collection Colours.

When I think of Pumpkin Pie I see the colours of Autumn. Which is the season we are in now for Australia and it's such a beautiful time of year. In saying that I decided to use the cute squirrel stamp from Fable Friends which is in the Occasions Catalogue 2019.

The squirrel has been stamped with Stazon Jet Black Ink on Shimmery White Cardstock. I used an Aqua Painter and coloured in the squirrel with Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Blueberry Bushell and Granny Apple Green. 

For the background I used Shimmery White Cardstock and sponged some Pumpkin Pie Ink onto the Cardstock. Once I was happy with the effect I spritzed water using the Stampin' Spritzer and let it dry. Once dried I splattered black ink using the Stampin' Write Marker in Basic Black. To do this effect you use the brush end of your marker with the inside of the lid and flick the Ink onto your Cardstock. I love to create with this look. 

To finish off the card I used for the card base Very Vanilla Cardstock and then a piece of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock. I used Basic Black Cardstock and die cut out using the 2nd largest circle from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. To tie in with the card I used Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine.

Thank you for visiting my blog and now it's time to visit Catherine Proctor's blog  and the other Art With Heart Team's creations.

Supplies used

Stamps: Fable Friends and Picture Perfect Birthday
Inks: Pumpkin Pie, Blueberry Bushell, Granny Apple Green, Cajun Craze, Stampin' Write Marker in Basic Black and Stazon Ink in Jet Black
Papers: Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Shimmery White and Basic Black
Tools & Accessories: Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine, Stamping Sponges, Stampin' Spritzers, Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits