Friday 26 June 2020

Colour Dare #400 Purple Blue Green


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The Colour Dare Challenge is up to special number #400.  To enter into this challenge you need to use shades of Purple, Blue and Green in your entry. Plus Black, White and grey neutrals are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #400 and add your entry. 

There are prizes for entering and you could Win!!!

This is a milestone so some of the design team members are working out what their first Colour Dare Challenge blog post was. My first challenge as a design team member was number #309 on 7 September 2018. Let us know when you first entered Colour Dare challenges - it might be today! 

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For this artwork I pulled out a selection of purple, blue and green inks and some green and purple and blue cardstocks and cut Stitched Circles Thin Cuts and Basic Circles Thin Cuts.

I've been wanting to make magnets for all the members of our Bulk Buying group for ages - we buy in bulk as a group to get discounts on items that are usually expensive; to save postage, to help the environment, to save money, get bulk buying powers and healthier items (like free-range, organic, etc). We buy Who Gives a Crap Toilet paper to get a discount on the packs of 10 to save postage, get the bigger discount and save fuel for the delivery driver. We survived the TP crisis that happened a few months ago in Australia - I'm not sure we are over all the restrictions on toilet paper yet but I wanted to acknowledge that our group were #survivors. 

To order your own Toilet paper from Who Gives a Crap (click the link here)

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I used an old real-estate magnet from 2018 and cut it into enough pieces for every circle to have a magnet. I checked that it was enough magnet to hold up the circles, I didn't want it falling off the fridge. Some had extra backing some were just the smaller circle. I did a selection of colours (see list below). 


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 You can get the Toilet paper stamp set in the National Scrapbooking Day Cardmaking Bundle 1 and on my website you can click  Download Guide under the National Scrapbooking Day Cardmaking Bundle 1 to get the instructions for the original card kits. The kit comes with the most beautiful embossed cardstock (as shown above).


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My gift has been gratefully received with a smile. 

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Sage Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad & Sage Cardstock

Green Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Clover Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Thistle Exclusive Inks™ & Thistle Cardstock

Pansy Ink (retired)
White Daisy Cardstock


Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #400 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my magnets, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant (and you're in Australia) feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE
Vandra Stenton, Close to My Heart Consultant, Perth Western Australia

Friday 12 June 2020

Colour Dare #398 Tic-Tac-Toe

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Our Colour Dare Challenge for #398 is to choose a tic-Tac-Toe line of this grid. Diagonal or vertical line. Plus Black, White, Gold & Silver are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #398 and add your entry. 

These colours are from the Stitched Together range of colours from Close to My Heart. 
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For my Tic-Tac-Toe I picked the bottom line: Peach, Sapphire and French Vanilla. These colours are in Stitched Together but also the recent Seas the Day Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet.

I have been working through using up my scraps. so I still had some of the stickers from the sticker sheet and papers. I will do another post with lots of the cards from my using up my scraps. The card for the Colour Dare Challenge was using up a heap of half inch strips of  Peach Cardstock which I had stuck on a peice of 5.5 x 4.25 inches of French Vanilla Cardstock plus a half inch strip x 5.5 inch strip of French Vanilla for the title. I stamped in
Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ using the You Make Me happy stamp set (this stamp set is for Operation Smile Fundraiser $7 from the sale of each set of this goes to Operation Smile). It has great titles with cute animals on it. After I stuck the half inch strips of Peach Cardstock on the French Vanilla, I stuck some of the glasses from the Seas the Day Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet
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A great way to use up your scraps. I even had the skinny quarter inch strip of cardstock for the edge! So cool to use scraps. 

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Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #398 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my card, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant (and you're in Australia) feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE
Vandra Stenton, Close to My Heart Consultant, Perth Western Australia