Colour Dare #562 Pink, Lavender, Yellow, One-Two-Three

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #562 is a One-Two-Three challenge. You can use 1, 2 or 3 of the colours from the above picture Plus.... Black, white, neutrals AND Metallics 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 #562 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 had just got my order with my NEW Gnomes for Autumn Thin Cuts in it. Its part of a special and we were told there will be all 4 seasons coming - so I hope they do this gnome thin cut in other themes cause I LOVE them!! its while stocks last so don't wait grab it now.... I just had to play with it. So I pulled out my cardstock that is all scraps in its headings of "Yellow", "Purple" and "Pink" plus I pulled my "Grey" and "Browns" because I had also pulled out my old CTMH Basic Fundamentals pack which was all greys and browns (I mostly used that for the backgrounds). 

So I used a light pink cardstock to cut the base of the gnome. Then I cut the dress in a pink patterned scrap of paper  and a darker pink nose. I cut a dark yellow/gold for the flower and brown for the centre of the flower and same brown/grey for the shoes. I also did a Kraft Paper neutral stem. I cut the hair in that but didn't use it. Purple hat to finish it off. This was all using scraps!!

After cutting all the bits laid out above, I stuck them all together using Air Touch Adhesive (on my All-purpose Mat so the adhesive that runs over doesn't stick to the table). 

After I stuck my gnome girl together. I put the basic fundamentals on the card base. I ripped a strip so that it would be something for her to stand on. 

I thought this was going to be the ONLY card I did for colour dare this week but I got the bug for the gnomes. While we had the Big Shot out and the scrap paper we cut more and more to show some variations of those scrap papers. My mum came to help me and she cut lots of bits with the scraps we had to use up the scraps before throwing the bits out. I have a heap in bags ready for the next time I make gnomes. 

NOTE: for the first two I did I cut the little hands out to stick over the top... after the first 2 I decided the tiny little hand bits were just annoying and didn't add that much so I left them off my second two cards. Let me know in the comments if you think they're better on or off?

So I made some blonde and then some dark hair and then thought why not go for a radical free thinking purple haired gnome girl so my third one ended up with Purple hair. 

Then we decided we should make a different skin tone, so went with a kraft coloured gnome with darker hair. I had lightened the skin tone on the pink ones by turning over the light pink to the lightest side which made it even paler skin tone.... With our Close to My Heart two-toned cardstock we get a bunch of extra colours. 

We just kept cutting with a variety of the 3 colours from the Colour Dare and using up scraps but you can't even see where I've been. These are a great use of scraps and you can do so many varieties. They just kept going and going. 

They fit perfectly on White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack with the neutral fundamentals papers. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #562. 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 #442 Choose at least 3 colours

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #442 is a Choose at least 3 colours.  You are also permitted to use Black, White, Greys + Metallic and Glitters. 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 #442 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). 

So join in TODAY!!

I chose Blue Belle, Sapphire & Wisteria as my three colours and the card I ended up with almost looks monochromatic even with these three colours used, so they are a perfect compliment to each other. Plus white is my free to use colour.  

I grabbed out my scraps of sapphire print from the Mix-in Paper Packet (Jul–Aug) which is still available to purchase. To put in the middle - I didn't measure the sizes this was literally just scraps. 

Then I grabbed my tiny amount of scraps of blue belle patterned paper from Happiness Lives Here Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet for the top section. The skinny diagonal stripe is a sticker too. I put Sapphire Cardstock on the bottom of the card. 

I stamped Wisteria Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad with the Mother Days sentiment from a previous Stamp of the Month and stamped the wisteria onto a white daisy cardstock circle I had already cut (watch out next month for new thin cut circles!! this one is an old retired Thin Cut but I'm sure its a similar size to the new ones!). The heart stamps are also from that stamp set. Its called Time to Celebrate Stamp of the Month S2005 (SOTM May 2020) pictured below. 

The two branches are stickers from the Happiness Lives Here Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet and I finished it off with white dots from the Black & White Dots embellishments. 

I know blues aren't traditionally mothers day card colours but I wanted something that men could give their mothers without being too overly flowery. 

I love that this was made with essentially my scraps and leftovers. I love to make cards to use up all the paper I have from each paper pack I hate being leftover with lots of paper. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #442 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 #398 Tic-Tac-Toe

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #398 is to choose a tic-Tac-Toe line of this grid. Diagonal or vertical line. Plus Black, White, Gold & Silver are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #398 and add your entry. 

These colours are from the Stitched Together range of colours from Close to My Heart. 

For my Tic-Tac-Toe I picked the bottom line: Peach, Sapphire and French Vanilla. These colours are in Stitched Together but also the recent Seas the Day Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet.

I have been working through using up my scraps. so I still had some of the stickers from the sticker sheet and papers. I will do another post with lots of the cards from my using up my scraps. The card for the Colour Dare Challenge was using up a heap of half inch strips of  Peach Cardstock which I had stuck on a peice of 5.5 x 4.25 inches of French Vanilla Cardstock plus a half inch strip x 5.5 inch strip of French Vanilla for the title. I stamped in
Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ using the You Make Me happy stamp set (this stamp set is for Operation Smile Fundraiser $7 from the sale of each set of this goes to Operation Smile). It has great titles with cute animals on it. After I stuck the half inch strips of Peach Cardstock on the French Vanilla, I stuck some of the glasses from the Seas the Day Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet. 

A great way to use up your scraps. I even had the skinny quarter inch strip of cardstock for the edge! So cool to use scraps. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #398 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 Challenge #342 Sweet Girl Colour Palette

This week's challenge Colour Dare #342. 

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #342 and add your entry. 

TicTacToe "Sweet Girl" Color Palette 

Black & White Free - No Extra Neutrals

My Daughters school were having a Mothers Day stall this week and I made a bunch of 3x3 sized cards in this weeks colours in the middle line. Mink, Sapphire & Ballerina. I grabbed mink card stock and the ballerina dots and plaid/gingham scraps I had from some older paper packs including Mixed in Papers from the last catalogue. The Sapphire crosses were from that Mixed in papers too. I used ink from Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ and Mink Exclusive Inks™ for edges and stamping and some light Ballerina Exclusive Inks™ stamping of flowers on some of the cards in the white daisy sections of the card (You'll have to look closely to see them). Then used the grey twine called Whisper Thick Twine  (in the clearance section) and the NEW Sapphire Crochet Thread. 

The titles are from a bunch of older stamp sets - I grabbed out a few and used them over and over in different ways. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #342 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 #324 - TicTacToe with Oh What Fun

This week's challenge Colour Dare #324 is All the colours of our Oh What Fun Paper Pack. 

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #324 and add your entry. 

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.

My card below is a simple card I made using all scraps of Oh What Fun paper. Plus a white cut out using the Thin Cuts—Decorative Borders. I really love the note paper border, it looks like real torn off notepaper. The "Just a Note" title is from this months Stamp of the Month called Card Captions—January Stamp of the Month A fabulous stamp set for cardmakers. 

NB: The scraps were left from my Card and Scrapbooking Club cards & Pages. If you live in Australia and would like to join a club (facebook based) where you pay a fee each month and get sent out via snail mail, a kit of 4 standard cards and 2 gift cards, please contact me or go to my Facebook business page Vandra Stenton Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #324 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, so I'd love you to leave a comment. Check out my other Oh What Fun blog hop post for more inspiration. 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

A Little Bit of Pun S1712 Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the "A Little Bit of Pun—December 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 project which features the A Little Bit of Pun—December Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout December 2017 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

This month there is a special calendar kit available Through the Year Calendar Kit and I made up the kit and then had lots of scraps left over that I decided to use to make my cards with this months Stamp of the Month - the CUTEST stamp set = there are so many options for these stamps and I loved the Mermaid stamp most so after seeing some ideas on Pinterest and around abouts, I decided to make a mermaid scales card.

I used the second smallest thin cut circle and used some green, yellow, pink (Aka Sweet Leaf Cardstock, Lemon Cardstock and Bashful Cardstock) plus Gold Glitter Paper... The circles were exactly in the three-quarters of an inch on each side. I had to cut more than was pictured because I decided to go up higher than I originally planned. 

I placed the first three circles touching the sides, the bottom and slightly overlapping each other. Then I cut some in half to do the bottom overlapping and the pink bottom corners were a half cut into quarters. The rest were full circles besides down the sides that were half sized, vertical. The bottom halves were horizontal. 

Hint: only put adhesive on the bottom half of the circles to start with - then go back and add glue dots to those that require it after you've finished. 

I added the text We MERMAID to be Friends with 3D foam tape. I stamped in 

Black Memento™ Ink. 

 The second card I made was using the gem stamp on white cardstock using Black Memento™ Ink. I didn't take any progress photos. After I had stamped I then coloured in with Watercolor Pencils the bottom third of the gemstone and spread the colour around using the Shimmer Brush—Clear. The photo doesn't show it but the gemstone is glittering and shimmering. My birthstone is amethyst so I think I'm partial to purples stones :) 

This purple (Pansy Cardstock) is scraps from the Calendar kit also. As is the grey Basics Fundamental Paper Packet leftover from that kit. Added a tiny touch of Silver Shimmer Trim, dovetailed with my Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors and it finished it off nicely. 

Remember this great stamp set A Little Bit of Pun—December Stamp of the Month is only available throughout December 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 

Doris Taylor Creative Inspirations

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