Today, we have week eight of the colour creations blog hop. We have returned to the traditional blog hop like a circle, for this new round so we hop you enjoy blog hoping round to everyone's blog. You may have found me via Catherine Proctor's blog. If not that's ok! Hi and welcome!
For this weeks blog hop, we are focusing on the colour, cajun craze.
I originally picked cajun craze, so saffron and old olive from the colour coach to work from this week. Then I decided I wanted to work with the In the Wild DSP and and tired to keep my colour choices in mind with my cardstock swatch and have gone with cajun craze, crushed curry and evening evergreen instead.
I'm working with the In the Wild DSP this week for two reasons, 1. It is one of the DSP's available at 15% off till August 2nd and 2. I rarely use a lot of DSP and come the end of the catalogue I tend to have a stash of unused DSP. I am trying to get better at using my stash of DSP.
I got the In the Wild DSP in a DSP share (so it wasn't a full pack I had to work with) and I had no other products from the suite to use but I took it on as a challenge to create a card for today. After I fussy cut the cajun craze tiger out and because I didn't leave a very large white border, I felt the tiger was competing with the colour leaf DSP I was using. I have used a piece of vellum over the top of the DSP as an overlay to tone down the colours. The vellum is held in place by hidden adhesive under the tiger, happy birthday sentiment and matt black dots.
The happy birthday sentiment is from artistically inked stamp set and I used the messages die to die cut the sentiment birthday sentiment. The matt black dots add some visual interest and I think make it look like the tiger is looking for food.
Close up
Inside card - I actually like the inside of the card better than the card front but as it didn't have a lot of cajun craze on it I didn't seperate it and use it for another cajun craze card. I typed the words on my computer leaving a space for the playful alphabet die cut word "wild".
Up next we have Rachel Palmieri. I can't wait to see what she is sharing.
If you have find a broken link on the blog hop, the master list for the blog hop can be found here.
Check out my previous cajun craze creations here and here.
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Great minds and like you I so wanted to use this paper for the challenge and did not get the stamp set. I do like the your use of the vellum to tone down the bright DSP. Love the inside of your card Ros.
Posted by: Rosa Leyden | July 21, 2021 at 08:28 PM
Love your card Ros, great use of this paper
Posted by: Rachel Woollard | July 21, 2021 at 08:43 PM
Great idea to use a vellum layer, to tone down the patterned paper background, Ros. I, too, love the inside of your card! Nicely done. :)
Posted by: CHRISTINE BLAIN | July 21, 2021 at 08:46 PM
Ros I'm "wildly" excited by both the outside and the inside of your card but I can see why you love the inside better with those patterned letters - what a lovely surprise for the recipient of this beautiful card.
Posted by: Catherine Proctor | July 21, 2021 at 08:47 PM
What a fantastic card! I love how the strips of DSP on the front balance out the layout, and the inside is very cool!
Posted by: Tina Gillespie | July 21, 2021 at 09:48 PM
Great card! I really like the use of the vellum on the front, and the inside of your card is great too!
Posted by: Claire Daly | July 21, 2021 at 11:29 PM
Ros, that is such clever use of the DSP to create your Wild card. The vellum to tone down the bold DSP is clever and the inside is amazing too!
Posted by: Kate Morgan | July 22, 2021 at 02:03 PM
Your tiger looks as though he/she is walking through a misty jungle, Ros. I really like the inside too.
Posted by: Caroline Manwaring | July 22, 2021 at 04:43 PM
Lovely card Ros, I like the vellum over the DSP to mute the brightness down, it works so well.
Posted by: Diane Furniss | July 24, 2021 at 11:54 AM
Great fussy cutting Ros and I love how you have achieved the sentiment on the inside of the card.
Posted by: Theresa Gerrard | July 26, 2021 at 04:39 PM