Colour Dare #474 Choose three

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #474 is a choose at least 3 of the above colours, you are free to use Black, White, Gold & Copper. 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 #474 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 chose Papaya, Avocado and Harbour. I pulled out the Love Story Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet (Black) with that gorgeous black and white flowers and decided to colour it. Its a "wedding" pack with the stickers but without the stickers its a great every use paper pack and great for colouring. 

I cut it to 3.75x 5 inches and I grabbed out the Close to My Heart guide that shows the CTMH colours of cardstock and the Triblend Markers equivalent. So the avocado is Alpine Green TriBlend™ Marker -light and Dull Green TriBlend™ Marker - medium x3. (see pic below)

FYI: Contact me if you'd like a copy of the PDF of the cardstock matching CTMH cardstock with the Triblend Markers as shown below (its 3 pages and you cut a 1 inch circle of cardstock and then colour in with triblend markers to make the matching colours). 

Unfortunately the guide hasn't got the new colours in yet so I pulled out the triblend marker colours to find the closest to the Papaya (which is new).  

I decided Coral TriBlend™ Marker was closest and used those three colours to colour in the petals and flowers. 

Note: The darker coral pen isn't a good match (too dark) so I only used the lightest coral and I covered that first one up with the cardstock and thanks title. 

To finish off the card I cut a peice of  Harbour Cardstock at 4x5.25 inches and an off-cut strip leftover which is about half an inch ish. Then I stamped the THANKS with Daisy Alphabet stamps using Papaya Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock  and trimmed it to size and then matted it in Harbour Cardstock. 

All attached to a White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card with a white edge. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #474. 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 #456 Colour Wheel Complementary Colours

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #456 is an Colour wheel complementary colours (opposite sides of the colour wheel), you are free to use Black, White, neutrals and gold. 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 #456 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 decided to do a Green and Red colour wheel opposites. I had some red colour striped paper leftover from Stars & Sparklers Bulk Paper Packet and some green scraps from Lovely Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet plus I pulled out the Gold Foil Patterns Paper Packet and put a strip on the top of the card front from the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack.

Scrap strip of stars and sparklers (WSL)

Scrap strip of green Lovely paper (retiring soon)

Small part of gold glitter foil paper (retiring soon)

The red in the Stars and Sparklers is scarlet and I didn't have any scarlet ink so I did some colour matching of other reds in my retiring inks. I also tried the Candied Apple Distress Oxide™ Ink Pad but it was too orange-based for Scarlett. I found that Cranberry was the closest to Scarlet (not exact but close enough). I used the old cranberry to ink the edges of the whole card, then I cut a white daisy Stitched Square Frames Thin Cuts 

and sponged all that plus edges of a pre-cut white daisy heart that was in my white scraps.

I also found a pre-cut circle in Gold Glitter Paper to place inside the square and used 3D foam tape to adhere the heart to the glitter paper. 

I stamped an old sentiment from an old stamp set and cut the white daisy very fine and adhered it directly to the heart. 

I'm sad to see so many of my favourite things go from the annual catalogue but I'm excited to see new things coming 1st September!! 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #456 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 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

Purposeful Plastic - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

This Purposeful Plastic CTMH Technique Blog Hop will be incorporating Flip Flaps, Pocket Plus Pages/Plus in our artwork in a creative and fun way to show their valuable uses. This is my first time joining this Technique blog hop group and I'm very happy to be part of it because its an international group and I am in Australia, with lots of my sister consultants in this blog hop in the US and Canada.  If you have arrived here from Kimberly Bower 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 for using and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

For my artwork I decided to use Flip Flaps™ Memory Protectors™ 3" × 4"

and I used the side fold flip flap. I used the PML cards from the Workshops Your Way® Documented Scrapbooking Kit or the Documented Paper Packet. The stamp I used is from the Workshops Your Way® Sweet Friends Cardmaking Kit which is also in the CTMH Documented range. 

I stamped the "Wishing you the" and "Today & always" titles in Black and the "best" in New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. The leaves in the New England Ivy and the Flowers in Eggplant Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad I stamped upside down on the Details PML 3x4 card and to hide the "details" I covered it with Gold Shimmer Trim.

I really love the double doors PML 3x4 card and that was to be my front for the card. The Green diamond paper is from the Documented paper pack and then I stuck the 3x4 Flip Flap onto the 4 x 5.25 inch card front on the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. I cut a 3x4 piece of the purple spot paper from the Documented paper to put on the back of the door inside the flip flap. Then I lined up very carefully the stamped sentiment PML card (pictured above) and stuck it over the top of the plastic flap adhesive and the backing paper. 

The above picture shows the card front with the flip flap closed.  

This picture shows the card opened and the video underneath shows how it opens and shuts. 

I think it would make a great wedding or Engagement card as the door symbolises going opening the door to a new life. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project idea. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my flip flap door card, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Technique Blog Hop which is Melissa Robinson 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

Colour Your Life S1804 Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. A small group of us have been creating with the "Color Your Life—April Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Georgia O’Shea - Georgia Creates 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 Color Your Life—April Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout April 2018 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

As April is the Month that Close to My Heart features Gimme Some Sugar Scrapbooking Kit. I made up all the pages and with the scraps and some of the cards and then I used the design from the Kit but changed it up a little.. 

This is the optional cards in the kit that I got the cutting guide from. 

This is the pattern using the Celebrate from the Stamp of the Month. I decorated it with the sticker from the Gimme Some Sugar Complements and the cork hearts from the Gimme Some Sugar Cork Shapes. I stamped the Celebrate in Black ink. 

Then I flipped the paper over (from green check to the pink flowers) and rotated it to be a landscape version. I also added some Peacock cardstock underneath. I stamped the always and put it on 3D foam tape. I also stamped the stitching looking stamp along the bottom of the celebrate and embellished with the flower sticker from Gimme Some Sugar Complements and the Pink Pearls. I really loved the simple use of the pattern in different ways makes it looks so different. 

The last card I made was below, I used one of the 4x6 picture my life cards and made it into a smaller card 4 x 5.25 size by slicing it and removing a section in the middle. 

I was going to make it a landscape card and then decided to do a portrait card. 

Then I added some half inch strips (one zip and one cardstock) to the top of the So Kind that I stamped with Black Memento ink. The S and O were from the Hostess Reward Stamp (featured in the Seasonal Expressions catalogue). I embellished with stickers (hearts and flowers) from the Gimme Some Sugar Complements and the Pink Pearls 

Remember this great stamp set Color Your Life—April Stamp of the Month is only available throughout April 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 Shaunna Richards: Passionate About Pages.

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