Colour Dare #546 Tic-Tac-Toe Cosette

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #546 is a Tic-Tac-Toe board using the Cosette Colours (Plus.... Black, white, 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 #546 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'm loving Cosette. The colours are really pretty. I used them ALL I couldn't choose just one row or column. 

Check out the Close To My Heart YouTube video about Cosette HERE.

I made the cards when we were given for our CTMH Launch event and we were given cutting guides for 2 cards each. So I cut both but didn't want to make the cards the same so I flipped most of the paper and varied the cards. 

I really love the Cosette—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts because they have thin cut shapes for the flowers plus the archway and oval. The archway and oval are perfect for card fronts but would also make great spaces on scrapbook pages. 

We coloured with Antique Pink TriBlend™ Marker, Dull Green TriBlend™ Marker, 

Gold Yellow TriBlend™ Marker, Ice Grey TriBlend™ Marker. Then we used Mulberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Toffee Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and used a sponge for edges and background and water brush. 

Some of the flowers were stamped on the die cuts and some where stamped directly on the ovals or arches. 

Lots of splatter with the waterbrush. We also inked the edges of the Cosette Die-cuts (the butterfly, banner and hearts etc). 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #546. 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 #545 - Fancy Five

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #545 is a Fancy Five and you must use at least three colours (Black, white, 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 #545 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 wanted inspiration so I grabbed the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #521 for inspiration and guess what it has 5 colour slots... PERFECT for Fancy Five. 

I pulled out all the colours Lagoon Cardstock, Glacier Cardstock, 

Avocado Cardstock, Sundance Cardstock and Nectarine Cardstock and cut strips 5 inches long by 7/8th wide (which was a fraction too long, I took 1/16th off each one and it was good for spacing). When I did the calculations for 4 inches wide divided by 5 it is 0.8 but I didn't know what that equated to in fractions of inches.

I wanted to find a small and a BIG title like the Sketch. I found the cute title from the new National Scrapbooking Day Promotion called the Friendly Borders Cardmaking Workshop Kit. 

The stamp set below is what I used for the small title - the "A little birdy told me it was your birthday!". This collection is Sooo pretty it has papers that are AMAZING. 

 

I also still had the cute Easter Stamp set... Sweet Easter Stamp, on my worktable from my quick Easter tags I'd created (see Instagram or FB for pics) and I realised the little lamb with the chick on its head isn't specifically Easter looking... its a sheep with a "little birdy"... YAY this fits my title perfectly. I stamped the sheep/chick on white daisy cardstock and was sad that I hadn't splurged on the thin cut dies for this set (I figured I don't make that many Easter cards, but I hate fussy cutting and did it poorly so I ended up colouring outside the lines because it looked better than the white edge. I regretted not buying the thin cut in that moment. 

I coloured with Gold Yellow TriBlend™ Marker for the chick (to match with Sundance)... Brown Grey TriBlend™ Marker for the Sheep (a neutral) and Fair Skin TriBlend™ Marker (a neutral) for the sheep's cheeks. 

As with the sketch I wanted to use a BIG title for the second half of the sentiment so I went looking on my Evernote for all my stamp sets to find a BIG "BIRTHDAY". I found an old long deleted one in my stash (See below picture). 

A retired set called B1462 - Lovely Birthday - Occasions 

I grabbed a scrap of white cardstock and cut it to 4 inches wide. I placed the big BIRTHDAY Wishes stamp set hanging over the edge and then stamped the "A little birdy told me it was your" and masked off the little birthday (I also hung it over the block to have less ink stamped down - I did this with both stamps). I just used standard Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

for the titles. 

I stuck it all down flat (no 3D foam) using Air Touch Adhesive.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #545. 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 #544 - Triple Play

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #544 is a triple play. You must use ALL three colours, Peach, Harbour & Rosemary (Black, white, 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 #544 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 started with the Sweet Tweets—April Stamp of the Month because I thought it would be great as a paper pieced with Peach Cardstock, Harbour Cardstock, and Rosemary Cardstock. I stamped the middle bird on each of the colours with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and fussy cut them out. I decided it looked like a Robin Red breast so thought I would make that part the Peach colour.  

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I thought perhaps I could darken the edges of the "breast" and beak so I used the 

Blending Brushes with Peach Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad... but it didn't really turn out how I wanted. Due to that I didn't bother to blend any ink on the other paper pieced parts.

I also stamped the centre bird onto a white cardstock piece 2.75 x 2.75 inches and then layered the peach cardstock and Rosemeary cardstock on top. Then I matted the whole square with a 3 inch x 3 inch square of Harbour cardstock. I had done the square and then thought... What am I going to do with a 3 inch square so I looked up Pinterest and found an idea... 

Click here to see the design I found that I was inspired by - Pinterest design - https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/363736107415793846/

The part I liked was the folded corner. So I folded down the corner of a White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack. On the underneath base I used Peach cardstock. I cut the corner of the 5.5x4.25 inch full bit of peach cardstock. Later I ended up attaching the peach corner back on underneath the cutout section but I flipped it over for the darker side to be showing. 

I also stamped the border footprints on the edge of that peach card in Black Ink and stamped the Birthday Wishes sentiment onto a white scrap. I then matted the scrap in dark side of peach, then harbour (light side) then Harbour, to finish it off. 

I am finding it hard to photograph peach because outside it looked very pink and inside it looked orange... trust me its Peach cardstock and peach ink. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #544. 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 #543 Black and White plus One Colour

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #543 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 #543 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've been creating with Cosette Scrapbooking Workshop Kit so when this challenge came up I thought oooh I love the Mulberry coloured paper. 

I cut the mulberry lined paper into 4x 5.25 inch square and inked the edges with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

I cut an oval with the Cosette—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts

and used a Round Sponge cut into wedges to ink the edge of the oval with Mulberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. Then I stamped on the oval with the flower stamp and thankful title in Black Ink.

I used an offcut of Mulberry Cardstock cut to 4.25 inches wide sitting across the card. I wanted to line the edge of the mulberry cardstock but the Black Shimmer Trim from my stash I had was too wide, so I decided to split in half. You cut it to the right length and stick it onto the base of the Aluminum Cut Rail Paper Trimmer across both sides and then slice it in half. 

I was able to finish with an uneven number of the Black & White 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 #543. 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