Colour Dare #552 Inspiration Photo partnering with Double Trouble

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #552 is an Inspiration Photo partnering with Double Trouble (You need to use 3 of the colours). Plus.... Black, white, neutral and metallics free to use. The requirements for adding into the Double Trouble challenge is to create a Summer Project, Include Flip Flops and use the colours from our Colour Dare Inspiration Photo. 

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 #552 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).

After you've added your project to the Colour Dare challenge you can add your project to the Double Trouble challenge here.... DOUBLE TROUBLE,

For my card I struggled with the idea of a Summer Card because in my home city right now its the start of winter with cold cold cold weather. 

I still had out the gorgeous paper from Dream Maker Product Bundle so I used the lagoon colour marble paper and cut to the full size of the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack 5.5x 4.25 inches. 

Then I stamped with an OLD stamp of the month called I Heart Summer from June 2022 - S2206. I used the border that had the flip flops in it. 

Then I grabbed scraps from my Nectarine Cardstock and Lemonade Cardstock. 

I cut them into banner shapes and stamped Happy Holidays from my favourite sentiment stamp set For All Occasions Stamp Set

I finished off with Melon Pearls which are on sale THIS MONTH for Melon Mania as we get a new colour of the year soon. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #552. 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 Challenge #346 at least 3 colours

This week's challenge Colour Dare #346. 

LOC Choose at least 3 Colors from the above colour photo - Candy Apple, Smoothie, New England Ivy, Linen, Lagoon and Sapphire. 

Guidelines on Neutrals:  Black, White, and Neutrals are free to use.

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #346 and add your entry.

I chose Linen, Lagoon & Sapphire with a pop of Candy Apple. I got some Linen Cardstock and stamped on the beautiful cake from the It's Your Day to Sparkle—June Stamp of the Month (shown below). 

Then I pulled out my Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and my Waterbrush—Medium Round  and used the Sapphire ink in the lid of the ink to paint the main part of the cake. 

Then I used the waterbrush to paint the leaves with Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

Then the red roses (Candy Apple red) with the Shimmer Brush—Red. 

After I had finished painting, I matted the linen cardstock with Lagoon Cardstock and Sapphire Cardstock. 

My finished card is below. Very happy with how it turned out. 

 Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #346 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, 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

Seasonal Trees CTMH Stamp of the Month S1811 Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. A group of us have been creating with the "Seasonal Trees—November Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Doreen Watkins then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started. 

Today I would like to share with you my projects which feature the Seasonal Trees—November Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout November 2018 for $29.50 or for just $8.25 when you spend $82.50. 

I've been making some Christmas cards in quick easy styles to make hundreds for my kids to give out. Also smaller sizes to be more like Gift cards for them to give with gifts. I thought this might be quicker to make and give a 4 x 4 sized card instead of the usual 4.25 x 5.5 sized card. 

So I stamped the Tree with Espresso Ink, then the leaves with New England Ivy Ink. Then I did the star with Canary Ink and the Espresso Ink outline. For baubles I used Red Pearls. 

The paper behind the 4 x 4 card is a 3.75 x 3.75 piece of holly paper from 'Tis the Season Paper Packet. Then I finished it off with some Gold Shimmer Trim. 

Remember this great stamp set Seasonal Trees—November Stamp of the Month is only available throughout November from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project ideas. I'm really interested to hear what you think about them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Lauren Moore I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. See you again soon. 

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Classic Summer Bash S1805 CTMH Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. A small group of us have been creating with the "Classic Summer Bash—May Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Wendy Hopper -Expressions of the Heart then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started. 

Today I would like to share with you my projects which features the Classic Summer Bash—May Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout May 2018 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

Its been a tough week, I've been really sick with a head cold and my sister flew out to live in the UK from living with us for the last 2 years, as I'm writing this she is in the air. So I made a card for the Blog Hop and realised I still wasn't 100% well when I'd used next months Stamp of the Month instead of this one (YAY for being ready a month early for next month!). So I needed to make a new card. I used the new paper that was launched TODAY with the New Seasonal Expressions Catalogue. I LOVE this paper set that I've used is called Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit. *Come back to us on the 20th May for our Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit Blog Hop to see more ideas!

I used the lovely Colour of the Year Bashful and white laced paper in this Beautiful Friendship  set and some vellum with spots (from next months National Scrapbooking Month papers) to stamp on with Black Memento™ Ink then I fussy cut it out with the Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors.

I stamped the straw onto White Daisy Cardstock with Smoothie Exclusive Inks™ and fussy cut that out too. To make the straw look more realistically coming from the jar, I sliced a cut into the "opening" of the jar so the straw appears to have the allusion of coming up out of the jar. I just used my scissors to slice a line but you could use your blade from the 12 inch trimmer. 

 Next I decided I needed to mat the pink lace with some more smoothie. I used one of the PML cards True Story and cut it down from 4x6 to 4x5.25 inches and then the pink lace was just under 3.75x5 inches on White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack.

To Finish it off I stamped Eat, Drink, Barbecue with the & underneath (I think its intended to be put next to the Drink for Eat, Drink & Barbecue) but I cut the "make a wish" banner from the top of one of the small 3x4 PML cards and added that to the card. So now it reads... Eat, Drink, Barbecue & Make a Wish. 

At the bottom I stamped some Juniper Exclusive Inks™ on some Juniper Cardstock for the leaf and fussy cut them out. 

When I adhered them all down, I used the white dots of the vellum jar to hide the adhesive. 

One sample is all I could manage this time, as I've got a second card made too for next month. I already have my one sample for next months stamp of the month so maybe I'll do a second or third in the next month :) 

Remember this great stamp set Classic Summer Bash—May Stamp of the Month is only available throughout May from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project ideas. I'm really interested to hear what you think about them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Creating with Kara Davies.

I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. See you again soon.

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Hello Foxy S1706 Australasian Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the "Hello Foxy—June Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Chris Woodward: woodies-creations  then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started. 

Today I would like to share with you my project which features the Hello Foxy—June Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout June 2017 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

This is super cute set. I wanted to do something completely different this month. My sister has been talking to me about Bullet Journals - a new popular type of diary journals, and this set is PERFECT for this type new hobby. Stamping in your Bullet Journal with Close to My Heart Stamps is a great use of our stamps. Making it easier to be creative with the journalling. 

Google Search says "The Bullet Journal is a customizable and forgiving organization system. It can be your to-do list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above."

A really interesting article from Marie Claire is linked here to explain it and show some videos. There are lots of Pinterest boards, and YouTube clips and Blogs about Bullet Journalling. 

Using Black Memento™ Ink Pad, Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Pen, and the blocks with the flowers and wreath, I stamped onto a notepad to get a sense of how it will work and this will be my sample. Once I decide on what I want to put into my journal I will find a nice bound note book to enter this into, lots of the info I read about this is to not use an expensive journal just a cheap notepad. You can use sticky notes to find your most used pages. . 

I stamped the wreath and it makes a perfect heading.

Then each of the flowers make a great bullet point (hence the name bullet journalling). 

One of my goals is to drink more water and in the bullet journal you can track things, like drinking water. So after the main page I created a diary of days with 8 flowers per day to represent the 8 glasses of water I want to drink. The idea is to colour in each flower to show each glass of water that is drunk. 

Using a highlighter I coloured in some water "flowers" to show this. 

Then I can go back to my main goal page and colour in that goal. 

Lots of bullet journals have indexes at the front and then you can add page numbers and add whatever you'd like to your bullet journal. 

I really see why its taking off as a new fad. Its a fun way to record all sorts of information. 

Some of the things I think I'll record is - movies I've watched, Books I've read, Podcasts I've listened to, Netflix, Further Goals, Blessings (gratitude journal 10 things everyday I'm thankful for), To-Do list, organising my decluttering, Days I've crafted or created art (and what I've created), Graphs. Days without buying work lunches (bringing lunch from home), 

This type of journalling goes so perfectly with our Everyday Life™ Stripes Album & Planner Pages Bundle and Everyday Life™ Sea Glass Album & Planner Pages Bundle.

These planner bundles give you a diary base with plenty of room to add extra things into it. Using the flowers as bullet points means you can colour them in as you complete them. 

You could use the flowers for savings goals, weight loss goals, drinking water, days without take-away/junk-food, exercise goals, phone calls for your business, number of nights you eat with your family, or read to your children.

You could laminate a selection of the flowers and your list- I'm thinking for my kids before school, to-do list, each day my daughter could colour in with whiteboard marker on the laminated sheets each flower once she had completed her list.  

Ideas from Pinterest below. 

I found this list on Pinterest but the link to it doesn't appear to be working. Put the search into Pinterest to find this list. "Bullet Journal Goals". 

Remember this great stamp set Hello Foxy—June Stamp of the Month is only available throughout June from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project idea. I'm really interested to hear what you think about them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Georgia O’Shea - Georgia Creates.