Colour Dare #370 Splash of Colour

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #370 and add your entry.

With this colour challenge I thought it would be a great opportunity to make a more masculine card. I grabbed out my favourite new thin cuts Buttoned Up Thin Cuts. They have all the cutest things to make Santa's outfit but also bow ties, mens ties and the cute pocket. As well as belt buckles and a button to make all the shirts. So cute I HAD to get it when this catalogue came out. Only available for limited time in this current catalogue while stocks last. Great for Christmas but also great for the rest of the year too!

I grabbed out my my favourite browns = Kraft Paper, Almond Cardstock, Espresso Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I cut the Kraft paper to 4.25 x 5.5 inches and put a slit in the top and cut the triangles out, then added them back in to be the collar. I cut a strip of almond cardstock 4.25 x 2 inches to be the top neckline as the white card base was too stark to leave without like a skin tone. I stamped with espresso ink. 

I used my stitched border thin cut to cut the stitches in the collar and cut out the thin cut pocket in kraft paper too. Then I used the Cedar & Pine Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet green paper for the tie. Its from the Christmas pack but I was going for a all year around style card. "Let's celebrate" was from one of the constant campaign stamps recently Birthday Joy CC61913. 

After I'd stuck it all down with Tombow® Permanent Adhesive and the tie with Thin 3-D Foam Tape I realised I needed the shirt to have a seem down the centre and if I'd thought about it before I had stuck it down I would have done the stitched border thin cut but I had to rule a line with pencil and draw a dashed line next to it. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #370 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

Colour Dare Challenge #322 Bold and Bright

 For those of you who are looking for open Challenges in December and you need to make a card for a special occasion (birthday, wedding, anniversary, thank you and/or holiday card (if you still need one) etc … this is the Challenge for you! 

You decide whether your project and will fit into one of these two colorchallenges: "Bold and Bright" or "Soft and Pastel" … these challenges will be open until December 30th.  So have some fun with our "Anything Goes" theme.  I was part of Bold and Bright so I made a Santa. 

#322 Bold and Bright Challenge

Neutrals: White, Cream, Black, Gray, Kraft and Brown(s) are free to use. 

For my Secret Santa Present for our ladies craft day I made some shaker cards and this cute 3D Santa from the Cricut® Season of Joy Digital Collection 

Using Candy Apple Cardstock, Black and White daisy cardstock.

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #322 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

Tis the Season CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® 'Tis the Season Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, stamp sets and ribbon, which is featured this month. If you have arrived here from Shaunna Richards - Passionate About Pages 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.

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Workshops Your Way® 'Tis the Season Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description Kit contents:

1 – 'Tis the Season Paper Packet (X7239B)
1 – 'Tis the Season Complements (X7239C)
4 – cardstock sheets (1 Candy Apple, 2 Linen, 1 White Daisy)
1 – 'Tis the Season Buttons (Z4227)
1 – 'Tis the Season Snowflakes (Z4226)
photo placeholders
printed instructions

Use the materials in this kit to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts or combine them with the ‘'Tis the Season Deluxe Bundle (Z4501) to create three enhanced layouts. (Instructions for both sets of layouts are included with each kit and are also found on your Consultants website or on my Website here.)

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Firstly I have to say the Complements in the Tis the Season pack are STUNNING!! Gold foil, Red shimmer, gold in the stickers and die-cuts. So pretty. Almost too good to want to use. 

For this card I started with scraps. This set the PML cut out cards are different from one side to the next (not all but some are different) so the naughty or Nice title card has a different background. Most of our other PML papers have just had the design repeated on the reverse in either Portrait or Landscape orientation, these and a few of the packs in this current catalogue have some different titles and things on the cards, from one side to the other. This is exciting to me to have some with little titles and some plain. 

I covered the base of my White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card at 4 x 5.25 with the Linen spot paper. on that I put the "Dear Santa"and Joy PML cards (I cut down the joy one slightly).  The pic below shows a tiny bit of the differences of the PML cards. 

I think this little title is cute so I wanted to use it on a card. I used the mini stapler to attach it to my Linen background and the White & Gold Skinny Ribbon was attached behind with Glue Dots® Ultra-thin Dots. I stuck Red Pearls on the naughty and nice spots (I was going to only put it on the naughty spot but thought maybe I've been a little naughty and a little nice too). 

I tied a gold ribbon for the vase PML card and the side.  

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® 'Tis the Season Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue which finishes in December (if not sold out beforehand) so go to my website or to 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  Megan - Crop Craft Create. 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

Sugarplum, Eggplant & Fern Colour Dare Challenge #313

This week's challenge Color Dare #313 was to use Sugarplum, Eggplant & Fern. 

Guidelines on Neutrals:  White, Cream, Black, Gray, Kraft and Brown(s) are free to use.  Unless they're listed in the challenge then you need to use them.

For some reason I thought Eggplant was more red so thought red, green and purple-pink... so I pulled out my Fair Dinkum Christmas C1728. This is one of our International Stamp sets that is available in all Close to My Heart Markets but can only be ordered online (ask your consultant). I had stamped the koala, with his  Sugarplum Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad hat and the Fern sentiment before pulling out Eggplant and realising it was more purple than red. Whoops, but I made it work anyway. I stamped the presents with Eggplant Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and the ribbons with Fern Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I fussy cut out my Koala and put it up on 3-D Foam Tape. I matted with Sugarplum Cardstock and Eggplant Cardstock. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour Dare Colour Challenge #313 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