Colour Dare #542 - Lucky 7

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #542 is Lucky 7 Choose at Least 3 (All neutral and metallics free to use). 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 #542 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).

I pulled out my Peach Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Papaya Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Candy Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I had earlier created a fun Stamping Foam impression with the Floral Slimline Embossing Folder and used that. Stamping Foam is SOOOOooooo FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

*Posted this to my Instagram & Facebook showing both sides of the embossing folder with the stamping foam. Colours are Melon and Glacier with the For You Thin Cuts. 

For this card today's challenge I decided I liked the more solid stamp image so I used my Peach stamp pad to ink up about half the block. Then I rubbed the Papaya along the middle and finished with Candy Apple Ink as per below. Then I stamped it down on White Daisy Cardstock. 

Once I stamped the 3 toned image I cut it down with a slight white edge, I added layers of Peach Cardstock , Papaya Cardstock, Candy Apple Cardstock (full size of the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack). 

I stamped the Happy Birthday from the You Deserve It All Stamp Set with Candy Apple Ink on White Daisy Cardstock. I edged the square with Peach ink to give it some definition. I adhered it with 3D Foam Tape. 

To finish it off I used Melon Pearls which go great with Peach and Papaya colours (somewhere in the middle). This is colour of the year so they will be retiring in the middle of the year. They're so pretty. 

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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 Colour Dare Challenge #542. 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.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Colour Dare #541 Shades of Grey plus 2 Colours

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #541 is Shades of greys plus 2 colours of your choice (Black, white and metallics free to use but NO other neutrals). 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 #541 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).

I had some scraps left of a paper pack coming next month called Cosette from the April–June 2023 Catalogue. So I used a scrap of Pine Green paper from Cosette (Under the Celebrate sentiment) and some Mist blue design from a Zip Strip from Cosette (The grey/blue banner with white lines on it). You'll have to wait until 1st April to see the new catalogue - No Joke :) 

Okay to start my card I pulled out my favourite grey colours...  

Charcoal Cardstock, Pewter Cardstock and Linen Cardstock. 

Using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 517 as a basis for my design... I cut half an inch off each of the 3 cardstocks (or scraps already cut to half an inch) then cut them to 2 inches long. I used the backs and fronts of all 3 cardstock EXCEPT I realised that the dark side of Pewter is basically the light side of Charcoal so I didn't double up on those. 

Charcoal

Pewter

I went along and put the half inch strips along the bottom of my White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. Technically there should have been exactly the right amount of space so obviously some of my scraps were cut slightly less or more than half an inch so my spacing didn't line up as well as it should have... so I lined them all up from each side and stuck the last dark side of charcoal on last to even the weird spacing. It is centered so I don't hate it. 

Finished the grey off that base section with some Silver Shimmer Trim (as a shade of grey and a metallic). 

The title Celebrate is from For All Occasions Stamp Set. I stamped that in 

Charcoal Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock. 

I used the Pine patterned paper from Cosette to back it and some leftover Charcoal Cardstock and the Mist Coloured zip strip with white stripe from Cosette as pennant banners. 

I put them up higher than the sketch because the sentiment was smaller and I didn't want to cover the silver shimmer trim. I adhered the two banners on flat and the Celebrate sentiment up on 3-D Foam Tape.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #541. 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.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Colour Dare #540 Fancy Five

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #540 is a Four Square Board. You need to choose at least 3 colours from the above photo. 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 #540 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).

This challenge I wanted to focus on Stamping because this month Close to My Heart has a stamp special.  Stamptacular savings of 35% on My Acrylix® stamp sets and up to 60% on Stamp + Thin Cuts sets! So I pulled out 4 colours and 4 stamp sets and 4 inks. 

I pulled out Ballerina Cardstock and Ink, Sage Cardstock and Ink, Toffee Cardstock and Ink & Sapphire Cardstock and ink. The four stamp sets I chose were Meowgical Stamp + Thin Cuts,  For All Occasions Stamp Set, Pretty Little Ponies Stamp + Thin Cuts (only a few left), Background Elements Stamp Set. To do Tone-on-tone stamping. 

I cut the 4 cardstock colours into 1.25 inches x 4.125 inches. 

I used Background Elements Stamp Set (shown above) on the Sapphire Cardstock with Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

I used the For All Occasions Stamp Set (shown above) with Sage Cardstock and Sage Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. Note: I did some stamp surgery by cutting the Party Time stamp set in half with scissors. If you don't want to do that, you'll just need to mask it off each time. 

I used Pretty Little Ponies Stamp + Thin Cuts (shown Above) [only a few left so hurry if you want the pretty ponies!!] with Toffee Cardstock with Toffee Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

The Meowgical Stamp + Thin Cuts (shown above) I used with Ballerina Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad  on Ballerina Cardstock but the pink was so faint it was too hard to see, so I went over it with Toffee Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. You can sort of see the pink behind it. 

I spaced out the 4 strips of card and adhered them with Air Touch Adhesive so they are flat to the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. 

To finish the card off I put the BIRTHDAY stamp from For All Occasions Stamp Set with Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock. I attached it with 3D Foam Tape and put gold embellishing thread and gold glitter gems from my stash. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #538. 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.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Colour Dare #538 Four Square

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #538 is a Four Square Board. You need to choose at least 3 colours from the above photo. 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 #538 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).

So to start I pulled out all my ink colours in the Four Square Glacier Stamp Pad, Sage Stamp Pad, Periwinkle Stamp Pad, Melon Stamp Pad. But then where to start... I checked and found Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge because I've been doing them a lot lately so decided I did want to do a card based on the current week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 514 so I based my card of this sketch. 

I decided to use the Layered Butterflies Thin Cuts shape to replace the oval shape (rotated to be a horizontal card). I have been using these butterflies for heaps lately (I'm stuck on butterflies at the moment) also I've been inspired by Laura Beacham a sister CTMH consultant who's done some lovely things with butterfly thin cut lately too. I cut a tiny butterfly out using Glacier Cardstock and out of a 4.25x5.5 inch piece of Sage Cardstock (dark side) I cut a big butterfly. (note: I cut one shown in the first pic and then made an error with attempting to put a black edge with a pen around the edge of the shape so I cut a second one in a different butterfly shape as shown in second picture - one with antennae and one without.... I didn't attempt the black pen edge on the second time - I was putting the black pen inside to make the edge stand out... the tiny parts around the butterflies antennae and head are very fiddly and it didn't work out). 

Anyway I then decided to use the Floral Sentiments Stamp Set to randomly stamp on a piece of White Daisy Cardstock about 5x4 inches (it was a scrap) that I had roughly used a pencil to show approximately where the butterfly was to go so I had a rough idea of how much stamping I needed. 

I love this stamp set and have used it lots recently too. This month its ON SALE!! 

Also originally I wasn't going to use Sage ink because I had used Sage Cardstock BUT... I ended up doing a few leaves in sage ink so later photos I included all 4 ink pads. 

When I had finished my random stamping with the 4 ink colours, I rubbed out the pencil lines and adhered the Sage cuttout to the white daisy cardstock stamped base with 3-D Foam Tape. I couldn't go right down next to the butterfly's head even though I did cut my 3D Foam tape very thin and got it in quite close (same at the bottom, I got it as close as I could to those tiny parts). 

Then I adhered the whole lot onto the base White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack with Air Touch Adhesive.

I had made some White Daisy Cardstock circles on my cricut and had them left over (after my daughters birthday party) so used a circle to stamp the sentiment onto in Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and then added the small glacier butterfly to it with some Thin 3D Foam Tape. It sort of has a snowman shape with big circle at the bottom and smaller butterfly above... Its is very loosely based on the Sketch. 

I finished it off with a heart from the Melon Dots.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #538. 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.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au