Colour Dare #574 Tic-Tac-Toe

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #574 is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. You need to use 3 of the colours at least in a row, colum or diagonal... plus... you can also use Black, white, 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 #572 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 decided to do diagonal because I LOVE the colour of the Year Journey, so I chose - Journey, Gold and Honey Butter. 

First step pulled out my  Card Front Stencil Pack 2 with the half hearts, my Journey Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and my Blending Brushes and got to blending. I did attempt to tap it down onto my All-purpose Mat but I didn't do a great job with it and it sort of moved (see top right hand bit). I decided not to re-do it because I was planning to stick things to the front of my card anyway. 

After doing the below half. You take the stencil and wash it and flip it over and line it up and do the second half of the heart. I was going to do it lighter on the second half but decided darker would look better. 

Second side flipped it shown below. the bottom middle one or two didn't look too lined up but I didn't do another or do anything to fix it. 

After creating my journey two toned hearts on 5.25 x 4 white cardstock with Journey ink, I matted that with Journey Cardstock. 

I wanted to create a shaker element so I got some Honey Butter Cardstock, and cut the Small Circle Shaker Window Thin Cuts solid circle and then the edge in Gold Glitter Paper. 

I lined the Honey Butter circle with Small Circle Shaker Window Foam + Acetate and filled it with Journey Loose Sequins, and then adhered the acetate and the gold glitter top. I put this all over the small slip in that top right hand corner. 

This card was made specifically for a CWA (Country Women's Association) of WA Branches 90th Birthday that my mum is attending next week. So I also cut a 90 from gold glitter paper from Classic Alphabet Thin Cuts. I adhered the glitter 9 and 0 with the left over foam tape from the middle of the small circle shaker window foam. 

Its hard to photograph a shaker card so I took a few snaps to show the movement. 

To finish off the card I added a Happy sentiment from the Operation Smile stamp set Your Smile Stamp Set. With every purchase of this stamp set, $7 USD are donated to the life saving mission of Operation Smile™. Set of 17.

I stamped in Black ink on white scrap cardstock and adhered with 3D Foam tape (on 2/3rds of the banner) the part that overlapped the circle I didn't add 3D foam. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #574. 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 #464 Wild Berry, Ballerina and Nectarine

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #464 is the colours of the Boo Crew Product Bundle, pretty Wildberry (colour of the year) with Ballerina and Nectarine, you are free to use Black & White. 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 #464 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, SplitCoast Stampers, or Instagram).

For Colour Dare Challenge #458 I made a 90th Birthday card for a gentleman who's like family and this month his wife also turned 90 so I needed to make another 90th card. I took the Design Space file I created in that challenge and tweeked it to make it more feminine. See my post #458 for that design space file.  

For this project, I used the Wild Berry Cardstock as the base, Ballerina Cardstock as the cover and Nectarine Cardstock as the flower centres. I then used White Daisy cardstock to cut a centre section to write on. You could write directly onto the Wild Berry but easier to read in white.  I did trim the white a little at the top to fit nicer into the inside of the 90 so that the card sat flatter. 

Here is my FREE Sharable Cricut Design Space File to make this card (Click HERE)

Note: The flowers are from the Cricut® Flower Market Digital Collection so you will need that before you can open my free Cricut file. If you already have it you should be able to open no problems, if you need it you can purchase from my website or your CTMH Makers website. 

After I'd cut all the peices I decided the ballerina peice was too flat and I wanted to give it dimension so I grabbed out my Ballerina Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and stamped Birthday all over it in a random pattern. My ink pad looks like it needs a refill as the whole pad isn't juicy but I liked how the mottled look was for this stamp, I thought it created extra dimension... so I wasn't overly concerned, but I will need to grab some Ballerina re-inker. Ballerina is a favourite in our house. 

The stampset is called For All Occasions and it has lots of great sentiments. 

Before I stuck the flowers onto the card I used my thumb nail to curve the petals upwards to create some more dimension. The card was to be posted so it might get flattened but I was hoping it stayed dimensional. 

Super happy with this colour arrangement for my card. You can get a selection of those colours in the Boo Crew Coordinating Cardstock pack or you can create your own cardstock pack with a Custom Cardstock Pack--12 Sheet or a Custom Cardstock Pack—24 Sheet. This means you can get a selection of coloured cardstock of your choice. Minimum quantity of 2 sheets per colour.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #464. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cricut card, 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