Colour Dare #572 Lucky 7 Home for Christmas

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #572 is a Lucky 7 challenge. You need to use 3 of the colours at least 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 wanted to create some earring holders for some earrings that my daughter made to gift to a charity drive currently happening called It's in the Bag - by the charity called Share the Dignity. If you're in Australia please consider this. "It’s in the Bag is one of Australia’s most loved Christmas appeals, where we encourage everyday Australians to put together Adult, Teen or Mum and Bub bags filled with essential items, and maybe some everyday luxuries and a handwritten note, to donate to someone in need for Christmas." 

My daughter is making Earrings to put into the bags from the "optional luxury item list". 

So I did a quick Pinterest check and found a few ideas for earring holders. I found this cool YouTube video via Pinterest called 3 DIY Earring Display Cards | Easy Jewelry Packaging Ideas | Handmade Gift I didn't use this person's idea specifically but I got some great ideas and decided to create a similar idea using products I had. 

I pulled out all my coloured cardstock in the greens and reds - Candy Apple Cardstock, Scarlet Cardstock, Pine Cardstock, Jade Cardstock and then the Home for Christmas Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet and the matching Mix-in Paper Packet (Sep–Oct)

Then I decided to do a double tag cut-out and pulled out French Vanilla Cardstock and cut it into 4 bits about 5 inches tall by 6 wide I think (or visa versa). I could have cut them smaller so I didn't waste as much but I wasn't sure when I cut them how much space I'd use to do this.  Then I folded them in half and used my Buildable Tags Thin Cuts and didn't cut the edges. Perhaps I should have done a small fold like a book fold, so more gap for the earrings to lay... but maybe for the next donation (she plans to make 10 sets and she's only made 4 so far). 

This is how I hung the tag over the edge of the fold line and then cut it so it became a little card double tag. Its hard to describe so I took a photo below. 

then I opened the tag up and cut the inside front rectangle hole. I tried to do two at once and it didn't really work so I didn't do that for the next 2... I didn't line them up very well. 

Oh well. some of them aren't that centred. 

I found an old retired stamp set called B1475 - Handmade - Flair (via Evernote) that had a stamp on it that says "made for you with love" in a circle so I stamped them using my Candy Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and stuck them on the corner of the thin edge. I added an offcut triangle behind the circle to have more stability (as shown below). 

Next I cut a few 2.5 inch strips off the paper from the Home for Christmas, Mix in and cardstock. 

Next I cut them into half inch, 3 quarter inch and 1 inch strips randomly. I used both sides of some of the papers as shown and the cardstock as shown below. 

Next I stuck them randomly onto the paper mostly alternating between red and green (but not always). 

Next I punched the tiny hole in the top of the tags for the earrings. The hole punch is a Fiskars single hole punch at 1/16th size circle. I bought it specifically for making earring holders for gifting the earrings that my daughter creates. I wasn't very good at lining those up either. 

This is showing some of the strips of paper and the triangle behind the circle. I did need to trim some of the edges of the 2.5inch wide stips. I think they varied a little in where I cut the tag with the fold line. 

These weren't very easy to photograph. 

I put the earrings into the cards and stood them up but it looks like the paper is on a diagonal angle, but its just an optical allusion. Well done Miss A who is only 15yrs old to create all these earrings for people less fortunate than us. Proud Mumma Moment. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #572. 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 #490 Browns plus one colour

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #490 is Browns plus one colour = Black, White and Gold 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 #490 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 had in mind for my colours to use Browns with Lagoon... so pulled out some Kraft Paper, Espresso Cardstock and some Mix-In paper (with brown tones) with Lagoon Cardstock.

My story about today's Colour Dare challenge project started with me making a special box for my Mother-In-Law's birthday in May using one of Jennifer Maker's Alphabet Cricut Boxes. I used Mulberry Cardstock with As You Grow Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet. 

My daughter also purchased a wooden pennant banner from Kmart and asked me to help her create a banner for her Gran. It came up really great using Black and White Vinyl. She designed it on paper and just had me help her design it in Cricut design space. 

It came out really lovely and while it took me a few hours to make it wasn't as hard as I thought... so I thought when it was my friend Sarah's birthday for her 50th I thought I would create an S shape using Jennifer Makers Cricut SVG. But the W was a walk in the park compared to the S. 

Also one of the tips that Jennifer Maker has is to use double sided paper so you can tell which side is which. THIS IS A MASSIVE CLUE.... I thought I would make a Kraft Base and an Espresso base or visa versa... but when was learning how to put it together I started with the Kraft paper which was a mistake because the Kraft is same on both sides whereas all of the CTMH Cardstock is double-sided with a light and dark side so its very easy to see which side is which. So I had messed up the Kraft side and ended up with two S the same shape... the W is the same both sides so it wouldn't have mattered BUT the S in reverse can not work together. Doh! 

So I needed to re-cut them again... I cut the base again in Espresso and a lid in Kraft and I re-did the S... By the time I got to the end of the 3rd S I was saying it was S for Swear words! 

I have all the bits cut for the second Kraft half of the S but I haven't put it together yet. My surname starts with an S so it wouldn't be the worst letter to have in our house but I just couldn't do it to myself so soon after the other 3 halves of the boxes. 

I used the Dual-tip Permanent Glue Pen but perhaps a quicker to dry glue would be less frustrating :) But having to bend the paper back on itself was quite tricky. I would not recommend doing this shape! Pick easy letters like I or L :) Don't look too closely at my finished product because its a little rough. 

I then cut flowers from Cricut® Flower Market Collection in Lagoon Cardstock. The flower I chose came with these size variations and I added one extra shape (so my two flowers are slightly different). Bottom one is bigger and I put it to the bottom to create that visual heaviness at the bottom. I alternated between light and dark side of Lagoon for the flowers and off-set them a little to create pretty flower clusters. I also bent them upwards using my finger nails. Attached with Glue Dots® Ultra-thin Dots. 

To finish off I added some Gold Glitter Gems to the centre of the flowers. Lagoon is the colour that suits my friend Sarah's massage table so she could have it in her treatment room if she chooses. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #490. 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

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Colour Dare #402 Monochromatic Blues

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #402 is Blue Monochromatic. Black, White, Silver and Neutrals are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #402 and add your entry. 

The card I made was for our Scout Leader who has done so much for our Scout Group during the lock-down stages within Western Australia. When we went back to Face-to-Face Scouting our Support Committee suggested a card to show our appreciation and our Scout Group Leader (my husband) commissioned me to make one... and by commissioned I mean "asked nicely for me to voluntarily make a card for no reimbursement". I was most happy to add my card making skills to gift this leader who has worked so hard for our youth. 

I used the Aurora Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet plus the Aurora Cardmaking Kit (since sold out) with the banner and world thin cuts cut with Glacier Cardstock, Peacock Cardstock and White Daisy Cardstock. 

To adhere the globe to the circle thin cut, I used Dual-tip Permanent Glue Pen and then the rest I used either Tombow® Permanent Adhesive with some height mixture of 3-D Foam Tape & Thin 3-D Foam Tape.

The Title "You're the Best" is from June's Stamp of the Month and the "You Mean the World to me" stamp was from the Aurora Cardmaking stamp set. I masked the "me" off and used an alphabet stamp to add the word "US" to the end as it came from the group so I needed it to say "You mean the world to us!". I added the blue and peacock paper from the  Aurora Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet and then added some white Shimmer trim (this is retired but you can still get silver Shimmer Trim which would have also worked on this card). I cut the white shimmer trim in half with my Aluminum Cut Rail Paper Trimmer. To cut shimmer trim I acutally stuck it to the trimmer and then peeled it off again. You can see I didn't cut perfectly in half so I put the larger half on the bottom and the smaller half on the top to show the weighting. 

All stuck onto a White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #402 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

Colour Dare #400 Purple Blue Green

The Colour Dare Challenge is up to special number #400.  To enter into this challenge you need to use shades of Purple, Blue and Green in your entry. Plus Black, White and grey neutrals are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #400 and add your entry. 

There are prizes for entering and you could Win!!!

This is a milestone so some of the design team members are working out what their first Colour Dare Challenge blog post was. My first challenge as a design team member was number #309 on 7 September 2018. Let us know when you first entered Colour Dare challenges - it might be today! 

For this artwork I pulled out a selection of purple, blue and green inks and some green and purple and blue cardstocks and cut Stitched Circles Thin Cuts and Basic Circles Thin Cuts.

I've been wanting to make magnets for all the members of our Bulk Buying group for ages - we buy in bulk as a group to get discounts on items that are usually expensive; to save postage, to help the environment, to save money, get bulk buying powers and healthier items (like free-range, organic, etc). We buy Who Gives a Crap Toilet paper to get a discount on the packs of 10 to save postage, get the bigger discount and save fuel for the delivery driver. We survived the TP crisis that happened a few months ago in Australia - I'm not sure we are over all the restrictions on toilet paper yet but I wanted to acknowledge that our group were #survivors. 

To order your own Toilet paper from Who Gives a Crap (click the link here)

I used an old real-estate magnet from 2018 and cut it into enough pieces for every circle to have a magnet. I checked that it was enough magnet to hold up the circles, I didn't want it falling off the fridge. Some had extra backing some were just the smaller circle. I did a selection of colours (see list below). 

 You can get the Toilet paper stamp set in the National Scrapbooking Day Cardmaking Bundle 1 and on my website you can click  Download Guide under the National Scrapbooking Day Cardmaking Bundle 1 to get the instructions for the original card kits. The kit comes with the most beautiful embossed cardstock (as shown above).

My gift has been gratefully received with a smile. 

Sage Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad & Sage Cardstock

Green Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Clover Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Thistle Exclusive Inks™ & Thistle Cardstock

Pansy Ink (retired)

Eggplant Exclusive Inks™

Carolina Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Sapphire Cardstock & Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

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 #400 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my magnets, 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