Welcome to the Art with heart team Colour Creations Blog Hop, this week we are looking at Blueberry Bushel.

So today I have made a floating panel card for you! I saw the idea on an English crafter's page Sam Calcott and thought this was perfect. Well I thought it was the only thing I could make if I was making this card for my Dad! You see my Dad loves to fish, he even ties his own flies to go fly fishing but he also gets motion sick so a floating panel card is perfect for a fishing card! Here is how I put it together.

I started with this net looking piece of DSP from the Let's Go Fishing DSP and with the blending brush added some Blueberry Bushel around the outer edge. Then I layered it with the Pebbled Path Luster Specialty Paper on to the card base of Blueberry Bushel.

Now comes the floating panel part. See those 3 Blueberry Bushel sections they are springs that I have adhered to the centre of the card.

I have cut a piece of card 1 inch by 4.5 inches and scored at 1, 1.5,2,3,3.5,4 inches and then folded to look a little like this.

And when you glue them together and adhere them to the card front they look like this. Now don't burnish them with your bone folder you want then to be as springy as possible.

Here are all the elements of the card. The front and don't forget the inside too.

This section goes on the 3 springs on front of the card. Again I have layered the Blueberry Bushell and the Pebbled Path Luster Specialty Paper but on the Basic White I have used a couple of the Gone Fishing Dies and cut out the ripples in the water and then with the little bit of ink left on my blending brush from colouring the Net DSP I blended over the ripples.

Here is the card before I coloured it with the blending brush.

These are the dies I am talking about when you look for them in the catalogue and in your dies if you already have this cute set!

The fish that you see trying to escape from my Dad's clutches were fussy cut from the Let's Go Fishing DSP. Once I had that all sorted and let the fish get away I put some glue on the 3 springs and lined up that panel and adhered it to the springs.

The sentiment I have stamped in Blueberry Bushel and cut out with the Deckled rectangle dies but made them to fit the size I wanted. I also made another spring to place the sentiment on. Now this little assortment of fish, fly, sinker and float I cut out using the dies. The fish are from the Let's Go Fishing DSP and they cut out perfectly with the dies. I cut the sinker out with the Pebbled Path Luster Paper and then added a little Wild Wheat blender pend to add a patina to the sinker. I stamped the float and fly in Smoky slate and coloured them with the Stampin' Blends. Wild Wheat for the fly and Calypso Coral for the float. My Dad likes coral colours so I think that will be a winner.

I joined them all together on some crumb cake bakers twine with a couple of knots and some mini glue dots which also helped adhere it to the underside of the sentiment. This was then adhered to the front of the card.

To get the full effect of the springs this is what it looks like side on.

Here is a little video of me squashing the front panels down so you can see that they do fold down so that you can put the card into an envelope to send.

I do hope you have enjoyed this floating panel card and you didn't get too motion sick!

If you have any questions about todays card please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next creative team member who is participating in the Blueberry Bushel challenge and this week we will be heading to the very talented Rachel Woollard. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time the next blog button doesn't work just come back here and head to our weekly host Cathy Proctor and there you will find the complete list of those who are participating with this week's Blueberry Bushel challenge: Cathy's Blog

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, and please make sure you come back Monday August 7 where the Art with Heart team will be starting our Heart of Christmas blog hop, hope to see you then, take care,