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.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au