Creating Kindness Design Team April Blog Hop - Colour

Hi Everyone and welcome to the April Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop. I am excited to tell you that I am now an official member of this team of talented and creative people. No pressure!

Our theme for this hop is Colour. That is quite a broad theme and I was a bit stumped at first as to which direction I would go in. I kept coming back to a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Sweet Soiree pack. I didn't want to cut it until I had the right project in mind for it. It had to be something where the gorgeous colours were on show and not covered. So I decided to make a fun sliding card with a hidden message.

I have used the sliding mechanism from the Sliding Door framelits. You can see other cards I've made using it here. I love it when you can use products for much more than what they were intended for. My brain goes into overdrive sometimes! So instead of a sliding door, I have a sliding tag that reveals a secret message.

 I made 2 versions. This if the first one - it helped me iron out the kinks in my design!

Instead of adding a big message panel I have just added small sentiment strips - don't want to cover up all of that gorgeous DSP!

 I added some DSP to the envelope and back message panel too. I decided less is more in this case!

I had intended to stamp lots of elements on this card but it all seemed to compete with the DSP. I wanted the colours in it to stand out so I only added solid cardstock. You will find a link below to my first ever YouTube video. In that I show you how I made this card, including a neat technique called partial die cutting that helps you get more use out of your thinlits/framelits.

For your reference, here are the measurements that I mention in the video.

• Card base - 1/4 of a piece of cardstock - if using A4 - 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm.
• Message panel and DSP piece - 0.5 cm/1/4" shorter and narrower than the card base. If using A4 - 10 cm x 14.3 cm.
• Tag - 10 cm x 4.7 cm or 3 7/8" x 1 7/8"

Up next in the blog  hop is my fellow Aussie, the uber talented and extremely hilarious (make sure you read her posts - she always cracks me up!) Cheryll Miller.

The Design Team also have a video hop to show how to make the projects in more detail. Eek! This is my first YouTube Video! Hope you like it!

Lou

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Product List

Sweet Soirée Specialty Designer Series Paper [145564] $21.00	Sliding Door Framelits Dies [145662] $47.00	Cake Soirée Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145745] $61.00	Sweet Cake Framelits Dies [145617] $57.00	Cake Soiree Clear-Mount Bundle [147627] $106.00	Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies [141488] $45.00	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $7.00
Champagne Foil Sheets [144748] $7.00	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $17.00	Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [144084] $11.50	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] $11.50	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $14.00	Old Olive A4 Card Stock [106576] $14.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75
Silver Baker’S Twine [145569] $7.00	Silver Mini Sequin Trim [144230] $10.50	Calypso Coral 1/4" Ombre Ribbon [144235] $12.25	Foam Adhesive Strips [141825] $14.00	Glue Dots [103683] $8.00