Colour Dare #530 Triple Play - Desert Rose, Peach & Sage

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #530 is a Triple Play Challenge. You must use all these 3 colours (Desert Rose, Peach and Sage). You are also free to use all Neutrals and Metallics. 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 #530 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 or Instagram etc), more details on the Colour Dare Blog post (see link above).

We are also joining with the Double Trouble Blog too for this challenge. Its a fun challenge. 

Recipe: Warm & Cuddly 3-2-1 Recipe

Servings: Unlimited Portions of Fun
Ingredients:
3 Colours of your choice
2 Layers
1 Warm & Cuddly Image
Use a stamped or digital image, or
one that is die-cut or hand-drawn
Directions: To enhance your recipe you may use more than the ingredients stipulated but you must include at least the required minimum.

Direct Link to Double Trouble

So to start with I went looking for my coloured cardstock for colour dare. Desert Rose Cardstock, Peach Cardstock and Sage Cardstock. Then I looked for a cute and cuddly image in my stamp sets for the Double Trouble challenge and I found my Meowgical Stamp + Thin Cuts with the cutest little kitty unicorns.

This reminded me of rainbows so I pulled out my Build-a-Rainbow Thin Cuts which are still available to purchase. I decided to use the Sleeping on a cloud kitty, but I die-cut and stamped a number of different kitty-unicorns in case I changed my mind. Next time I create with this set I've got a bunch pre-cut and in the envelope with the stamp set and thin cut. I cut the kitty-cloud and the regular cloud from White Daisy Cardstock and stamped with Memento ink for colouring (I would suggest using archival or intense black if you don't have memento ink). 

While I was die-cutting I also cut the rainbow from Build-a-Rainbow Thin Cuts in both Desert Rose Cardstock and Peach Cardstock. Because there are 4 layers of the rainbow, I used front and back of these for the light and dark and luckily desert rose and peach both have similar tones so my rainbow was sort of monochromatic. 

I was going to do darkest to lightest but my die-cut moved and squished the middle of the peach colours as I cut all four at once. Note: use washi tape. Previously i've used washi tape to hold all 4 layers together and it never moved but this time I didn't and it messed up... so I was oh well... we're going light to dark then. 

To colour the kitty-unicorn I used the Pale Pink TriBlend™ Marker for the tale as I thought closest to peach and desert rose and then Dull Green TriBlend™ Marker for the horn to match sage and then Ice Grey TriBlend™ Marker as neutrals were free to use, so my kitty-corn was grey. I also used some white gel pens to put a bit into the tail to create a shine look. I'm not sure how successful it was but hey I liked it. :) 

On the Build-a-Rainbow cloud thin cut there is no outline on the cloud so to match the outline as per the kitty-corn on the cloud I used a black journaling pen (I think it was the 0.3mm size... all our pens are currently out of stock since our boxing day sale so I can't check online to see what they're called). 

I didn't love my pen work but it looked better than being plain white. Finished is better than perfect!!

To get the background and to introduce the sage cardstock. I cut a 5.25x4 inch sage piece and put onto the White Cards & Envelopes. Then I used an offcut scrap at 5.25 wide but not full 4 inches tall and ripped it in half. I used both halves of the torn but flipped the middle section to get the colour variations. I love double sided cardstock for this purpose. Look how much variation of colour I got in this card! I also got layers which was part of the double trouble challenge. 

This photo taken prior to adhering the clouds. I just put them there for placement. 

I then stamped the sentiment with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad across the bottom of the "sky" from the same meowgical stamp set. 

I decided I needed more layers so I adhered the clouds with 3-D Foam Tape to create dimension and layers. To finish off I used Bitty Sparkles and Clear Sparkles.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #530. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my project, 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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