Colour Dare #482 Inspirational Valentine

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #482 is the inspirational valentines photo above, you are free to use Black, White, Gold and Silver. When you are creating for more than one challenge please make sure your project meets our requirement. Most importantly - have fun!  Go to the link for Colour Dare #482 and add your entry. When you submit your entry you must provide a link to your post, not just to your blog in general. There are LOTS of ways to enter either a Blog Post or post to an online gallery (Facebook, Pinterest, SplitCoast Stampers, or Instagram).

First up I decided I wanted to make a birthday card for my nephew using the Smarty Pants Stamp and chose the Sneaker. I have the thin cuts too but didn't use them for this card. 

I cut some White Daisy Cardstock to an eight of an inch below the 4 x 5.25 inch 

Black Cardstock mat that fits onto the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card base perfectly. 

Then I randomly stamped in Memento ink (or similar for alcohol markers like 

Intense Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad or Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad). 

Looking at the colours in the valentines inspirational pic I chose the following colours... Coral TriBlend™ Marker, Citrus TriBlend™ Marker, Green Turquoise TriBlend™ Marker, True Blue TriBlend™ Marker and I coloured in the sneakers. I originally trialled shading but didn't love the shading (see blue sneakers) so the others I just solidly coloured without shading in 3 colour tones... I just picked one from each tri-blend that I thought went close to the inspiration picture. 

Colouring tip: I went out of the lines a couple of times but was able to hid that by using the White Gel Pens to hide the colour mistakes. I did try the colourless Blender Marker but it didn't remove the colour enough so I covered it with the white pens and it was perfectly hidden. 

For the title I used the "For All Occasions" stamp set and coloured each letter in... I tried to do a pattern but messed it up so it really ended up random. 

I matted the coloured party time title in black cardstock also and put thin 3D foam tape behind it wrapped Gold Embellishing Thread around and layered another foam tape under that to give it dimension. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #482. 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, subscribe to my blog so you don't miss a challenge.

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Vandra Stenton, Close to My Heart Consultant, Perth Western Australia

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