Colour Dare #498 Purple, Blue & Green

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #498 is Shades of Purple, Blue and Green (all 3) - Black, White, Gold and Silver are 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 #498 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).

We have had a few rough weeks so I have been behind in crafting and I needed to make my son a card for his 18th Birthday so I did a search on Pinterest and was inspired by this card which was shared by Joely Berry see https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/14214555065416463/ 

I decided that this would be perfect for this colour shades purple, blue and green. I pulled out the Block Alphabet Thin Cuts & Numbers but they were the number version which now would be similar to the new Birthday Numbers Thin Cuts or you could use the  Slim Numbers Thin Cuts which would also look awesome with this design. 

So I cut a 12x 6 inch white card base and folded it to a 6x6 card base. Then I cut the scraps of cardstock in Thistle (retired), Grape Cardstock, Sapphire Cardstock, Blue Belle Cardstock (last years colour of the year), Mint Cardstock, Avocado Cardstock and Clover Cardstock. I adhered them with Air Touch Adhesive.

Then I used Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and the Sentiments by Melissa Esplin Stamp to stamp Celebrate and Happy Birthday sentiments. 

I trimmed the 18's that were hanging over and the card was complete. Simple and effective colour wash. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #498. 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 #452 Candy Apple, Glacier & Lemonade

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #452 is Candy Apple, Glacier & Lemonade and you are free to use Black, White and silver. 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 #452 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).

I started with an old retired sheet of printed Glacier cardstock that was printed with a coating to give it the subtle shapes. Its just cut 4 inchs x 5.25 inches. Then I cut a strip of red dots 4 inches x 3/4 inch from the Sweet Safari Cardmaking Workshop Kit.

Then I cut a butterfly from the Layered Butterflies Thin Cuts in Lemonade Cardstock. The circle Thin Cut was cut in White Daisy and stamped with Glacier Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad using the Congrats stamp from Sentiments by Melissa Esplin, as close to the "top" of the circle as would fit. 

Then I trimmed the circle down so it only peeked out. I put the red strip and the circle on before placing the butterfly and then I adhered the butterfly only by the body with 3-D Foam Tape.

To complete the look I used Bitty Sparkles to create a butterfly flight path. To ground the butterfly to the page and not have her floating off into nothingness. A simple but effective card. 

Note: We've had really overcast weather so my white is showing a bit pink. Trust me its white daisy cardstock on white daisy card and envelope. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #452 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my 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

Colour Dare #422 Serenity TicTacToe

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #422 is a tic tac toe challenge using the colours from the Serenity Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. You are free to use Black, White, Neutrals, Gold & Silver free. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #422 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).

Serenity is my most favourite collection in AGES. Its so pretty and delicate. Within our family we have ordered one of EVERY single thing in the serenity range we all LOVE IT but my order did not arrive in time for me to do the challenge.

For this challenge I pulled out a bunch of things to use with my cards. I pulled out Blue Belle Cardstock, Blue Belle Cardstock and Toffee Cardstock. Then I pulled out Olive Branches Background Thin Cuts from the Background Thin Cuts Bundle and the Stitched Scalloped Brackets Thin Cuts.

I could not decide if I wanted to make the sapphire or the blue belle the main colour so I did one of each. I cut a 4.5 inch strip of each colour and got both parts for both cards out of it. After running the blues through my Big Shot machine, I used scraps on Toffee cardstock to cut the scalloped bracket and I did one light side up and one dark side up to have a lighter one for the blue belle and darker toffee for the sapphire top. 

I stamped in Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, using stamp set called Sentiments by Melisa Esplin. 

To finish off the card I put Gold Shimmer Trim accross the middle, stuck the sentiments up with 3D Foam tape and put some Gold Glitter Gems on the side. 

I am happy with how they came out and doing them in the same but opposite colours really made them unique but similar.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #422 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cards, 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 #420 Shades of Orange

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #420 is a shades of Orange challenge. Use any shade of orange. You are free to use Black & White and all other neutrals & Metallics. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #420 and add your entry. When you submit your entry you must provide a link to your post, not just to your blog in general. When you write your Blog Post or post to an online gallery (Facebook, Pinterest, SplitCoast Stampers, Instagram) identify the products that you use.

I grabbed Nectarine Cardstock and cut out with Stitched Lattice Background Thin Cuts.

Then on the light side of the Nectarine Cardstock I cut out  Stitched Hexagons Thin Cuts

I stamped Hello from the Sentiments by Melisa Esplin with Nectarine Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

I wrapped some orange twine from my stash around with a bow and stuck the stitched lattice to the card with 3D foam tape. 

Then finished the card with some bronze sequins 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 #420 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cards, 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 #392 Tic-Tac-Toe

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #392 is using these lovely colours in the tic-tac-toe - so choose three that go down, across or diagonal.  Black, White and all neutrals are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #392 and add your entry. 

I chose the centre of the Tic-Tac-Toe board. I chose Wisteria, Gold & RUby. I used. 

Wisteria Cardstock, Wisteria Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Gold Glitter Paper and Ruby Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Red Pearls (only White Pearls are available to purchase now... so if you don't have red pearls, you will have to colour your white ones). 

I am sending lots of cards to friends who are finding it tough to be in isolation, or lock-down or quarantine (depending on where they are living). So I need to do lots more Thinking of you, sending love, sending hugs, love you always, just for you, hello, and Grateful cards for things they are doing for us while we are also self-isolating.  So I created this card for this challenge to be a Thinking of You card. 

The beautiful calligraphy "Thinking of you" is from the Sentiments by Melisa Esplin stamp set.  

I did the random stamping with the flower/leaf in the Wisteria Ink and then the little red flowers in Ruby ink. Those stamps are from the You make me Happy stamp set that is the Operation Smile Fundraiser. When you purchase this stamp set, $7 US dollars goes to Operation Smile. A non-profit organisation that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children around the world. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #392 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my card, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon. 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