Colour Dare #550 Six Pack

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #550 is a 6 pack of colours (You need to use 3 of the colours at least). 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 #550 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 chose Ballerina because I had this gorgeous Ballerina Marble paper in the Friendly Borders Cardmaking Workshop Kit (available for MAY 2023 only) and the paper is also available in the Dream Maker Product Bundle. This is only available for a limited time for National Scrapbooking Day. Until 30th June while stocks last. So if you love this paper as much as I do, please order it quickly to avoid disappointment.  

I also chose Melon & Sage cardstock because the paper was on my desk :) How all good decisions are made... what's closest to hand gets chosen. 

After I had my chosen papers I thought lets create a card... I found the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week and decided to create with my colours. I wanted the background to be the Ballerina Marble paper as its the prettiest. 

To get my circle I cut the Happy Birthday Shaker Window Thin Cuts with Sage Cardstock (Darker side of the paper) then cut a white cardstock circle with Circles Thin Cuts. I adhered them together before I cut the circle edge off. 

To get the banner I cut a scrap of  Melon Cardstock and stamped on it in 

Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I also cut out the Happy letters from my Slimline Alphabet thin cuts (only the 1,2,3s are available now the alphabet have retired... Slim Numbers Thin Cuts.) The letters were so thin I used my tiny adhesive Quickie Glue™ Pen. 

To finish it off I added 3 little Melon Flowers. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #550. 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 #548 Pewter plus one

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #548 is a Tic-Tac-Toe board using Pewter grey plus Peach OR Clover OR Sundance (pick one). 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 #548 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 chose Sundance because I had this gorgeous Sundance Marble paper in the Friendly Borders Cardmaking Workshop Kit (available for MAY 2023 only) and the paper is also available in the Dream Maker Product Bundle. This is only available for a limited time for National Scrapbooking Day. Until 30th June while stocks last. So if you love this paper as much as I do, please order it quickly to avoid disappointment.  

I checked out the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge that is happening right now and its Sketch 524, so I decided to use Pewter, Sundance and this Sketch. 

Firstly I pulled out my Pewter Cardstock, Pewter Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and 

Sundance Cardstock (Sundance marble paper from Friendly Borders Cardmaking Workshop Kit) and I pulled out all my scraps. In my scrap container I had some already embossed with an old hexagon embossing folder. Yay for texture. The lighter side of the sundance is represented below too, it looks more yellow than the dark side. 

Then because of the sketch and not using multiple colours as shown in the sketch I wanted to differentiate the banners, so I pulled out my Background Elements Stamp Set. 

I decided to use the pewter ink and different background elements from the stamp set on each of the plain cardstock banners. 

I cut a 1.5 inch strip off the sundance marble paper for the top 5.5 inches wide. Then cut parts off that for some banners in varying wides and lengths... I couldn't tell you what the dimensions are because I grabbed my scraps and some I cut what i thought was right and then cut it down when adhering it to the card base. 

I cut a narrow strip of the pewter cardstock, also a scrap so no idea the dimensions. I cut each of the banner piece but I forgot to photograph before I started stamping but you can get the idea in the pic below I did remember to take in progress. 

After I had stamped all the plain cardstock (light and dark sides) with different background elements from the stamp set with Pewter ink, I decided the hexagon embossing wasn't clear enough so I used a wedge of Round Sponge and sponged some ink across it. I also decided that one of the marble bits needed some definition so I inked the edges of it with the pewter ink. 

Friendly Borders Cardmaking Workshop Kit stamp set 

Then I stamped the "Thank you, thank you, thank you" stamp from this set in Pewter ink directly onto the marble cardstock and the most annoying thing happened. A tiny sliver of cardstock was lying on the paper and it meant the y in the second thank you didn't work. I did all sorts to try fix it. First pic below shows me attemping to stamp just the y (I masked the other bits but the O was also involved and the y looked silly... Then I masked off to get a bit on white cardstock (2nd pic below) and that looked Terrible too. 

Then I decided to cover it with a bit of Sundance Cardstock. The worst nightmare of stamping directly onto artwork. 

I was happy with how it turned out. To finish it off, as per the sketch I used some old grey embellishments which are similar to the current Grey 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 #548. 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