Colour Dare #574 Tic-Tac-Toe

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #574 is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. You need to use 3 of the colours at least in a row, colum or diagonal... 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 decided to do diagonal because I LOVE the colour of the Year Journey, so I chose - Journey, Gold and Honey Butter. 

First step pulled out my  Card Front Stencil Pack 2 with the half hearts, my Journey Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and my Blending Brushes and got to blending. I did attempt to tap it down onto my All-purpose Mat but I didn't do a great job with it and it sort of moved (see top right hand bit). I decided not to re-do it because I was planning to stick things to the front of my card anyway. 

After doing the below half. You take the stencil and wash it and flip it over and line it up and do the second half of the heart. I was going to do it lighter on the second half but decided darker would look better. 

Second side flipped it shown below. the bottom middle one or two didn't look too lined up but I didn't do another or do anything to fix it. 

After creating my journey two toned hearts on 5.25 x 4 white cardstock with Journey ink, I matted that with Journey Cardstock. 

I wanted to create a shaker element so I got some Honey Butter Cardstock, and cut the Small Circle Shaker Window Thin Cuts solid circle and then the edge in Gold Glitter Paper. 

I lined the Honey Butter circle with Small Circle Shaker Window Foam + Acetate and filled it with Journey Loose Sequins, and then adhered the acetate and the gold glitter top. I put this all over the small slip in that top right hand corner. 

This card was made specifically for a CWA (Country Women's Association) of WA Branches 90th Birthday that my mum is attending next week. So I also cut a 90 from gold glitter paper from Classic Alphabet Thin Cuts. I adhered the glitter 9 and 0 with the left over foam tape from the middle of the small circle shaker window foam. 

Its hard to photograph a shaker card so I took a few snaps to show the movement. 

To finish off the card I added a Happy sentiment from the Operation Smile stamp set Your Smile Stamp Set. With every purchase of this stamp set, $7 USD are donated to the life saving mission of Operation Smile™. Set of 17.

I stamped in Black ink on white scrap cardstock and adhered with 3D Foam tape (on 2/3rds of the banner) the part that overlapped the circle I didn't add 3D foam. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #574. 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 #560 - Fancy Five

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #560 is a Fancy Five. You need to use at least 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 #560 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 chose the colours Melon, Sage & Harbour from the Famous 5. Then for this colour dare challenge I decided I wanted to use Laura Beecham's latest technique using sequins stuck onto Adhesive paper. Find Laura's video on Facebook here and on YouTube here. 

My daughter got excited at this technique and wanted to be involved too. I pulled out all my Close to my Heart sequins and let her have a go, she mixed a few sets to get her colours (but we haven't used her's to make anything yet). She was using my Pick-up Tool and my retired Close to My Heart tweezers but she really loves the pick-up tool for this. 

I used the silver sequins I had left but they're retired now (you can still get lots of other colours including Gold Loose Sequins).

My daughter after seeing Laura's idea decided to use one of the squares to stick the extra left over "beads" from her glass painting. Every glass painting artwork has HEAPS of leftovers. 

She used the special tool that comes with those artwork kits. Some of her full sized art peices are shown below. We haven't made a card using her blingy bits yet but she has HEAPS of them. 

Okay getting back to my artwork. I stamped and cut the the flower cluster from the Cosette—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts. 

I stamped with Memento Ink from my stash which is similar to Intense Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad or Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. You need to use a good water-stable ink such as these 3 listed above so you can water colour paint them and they wont bleed the black ink. 

I used Sage Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Melon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad to paint the leaves and flowers respectively. 

I used my Medium Round Waterbrush to paint by putting ink into the lid (by squeezing the lid onto the pad while its closed). Making sure to clean off the water mess on the lid before closing again so the ink doesn't get watered down on the stamp pad.  

I used Harbour Cardstock and cut it at 4 x 5.25 inches as the backing and stuck the adhesive sheet with sequins on it behind (as per Laura's technique). Then I used a 3.75x 5 inch Sage Cardstock and cut a circle with the Circles Thin Cuts. Then in Harbour cardstock I cut the frame from the Circle Shaker Window Thin Cuts. 

I put the sage cardstock up with 3-D Foam Tape. To finish it off, I added the painted flowers thin cut shape. Plus the title with Harbour Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad Stamped on Sage cardstock, then matted with White Daisy cardstock and double matted with Harbour cardstock. I used Melon Dots to the centres of the flowers and a few around the card. 

I love how blingy this technique is and how special it makes the card look. Its also easy and fast. THANK YOU LAURA!!!!!!

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #560. 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 #372 Tic-Tac-Toe Cedar and Pine

Tic-Tac-Toe in the Cedar & Pine Colours. 

Black & White Free - No other Neutrals

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #372 and add your entry.

I chose the Candy Apple, Evergreen, and Gold side of the tic-tac-toe plus a little peach for skin colour. My green pen was a little light coloured and my colouring was terrible!

I used the Evergreen from the Cedar & Pine Cardmaking Workshop Kit. Shaker Window Foam & Acetate, Gold Glitter Paper, Shaker Window & Confetti Thin Cuts with the red & Green shaker bling (Holiday Loose Sequins). Then Gold Thread. 

Holly Jolly Cardmaking Workshop Kit for the thin cut elf. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #372 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

Shake Things Up! - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to our Shake Things Up Technique Blog Hop. We are using our new shaker card products to make a shaker card or incorporate the associated products into our artwork in a creative way. This is an International blog hop 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 Miss. Carrie’s 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 for using texture in your artworks and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

I have to say how much I love Shaker Cards and Close to My Heart have made it SOooo easy for us now with the new Shaker Card foam and acetate windows. Plus we have the fabulous Thin Cut to make the windows and confetti for our Shaker Cards. I have made HEAPS of these kinds of cards and its a fairly new product.

We have also been working on a YouTube Video which I will post here to give you an idea of how to use the Shaker Card items. I haven't given much description in this blog post so you can watch the video and find out how we made some of these cards. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project ideas. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my Shaker cards and our Video so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Technique 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.

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

Grateful Heart CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Grateful Heart Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, stamp sets and ribbon, which is featured this month. 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.

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Product Description

Kit contents:
1 – Grateful Heart Paper Packet (X7237B)
1 – Grateful Heart Complements (X7237C)
4 – cardstock sheets (1 Mink, 3 White Daisy)
1 – Grateful Heart Cork Shapes(Z4229)
1 – Fern-stitched Ribbon (Z4215)
photo placeholders
printed instructions

Use the materials in this kit to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts. (Instructions also found On my website HERE.)

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I am totally in love with the new SHAKER card system that Close to My Heart released this catalogue so I had to make one with the Grateful Heart papers. 

Caroline at my Cardmaking class put it all together for me. The base is 4 x 5.25 and a 1 x 4 inch strip of the blue pattern and a zip strip 0.5 x 4. 

Then I cut the shapes with the Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti. 

White daisy for the large circle, then I stamped Happy Birthday in Sapphire ink with Mini Birthday Party Hat stamp set. Saffron cardstock for the ring and stars. Plus Loose Sequins—Silver. 

The best thing Close to My Heart released is the Shaker Window Foam & Acetate. 

These fit the circles perfectly and make it so easy to make gorgeous shaker cards. I put my stars and a few sequins into the circle before closing it up. I think I could have put quite a few more in before its considered too full :) Although with words inside you need to leave room for the words to show through. 

Caroline & I will be doing an instructional video in the coming weeks to explain how to make these cute cards. Check us out on YouTube "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra". 

Remember this great set  Workshops Your Way® Grateful Heart 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 Lauren Moore- CTMH Craftings. 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

Thanks and Giving SOTM S1810 CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. A group of us have been creating with the "Thanks & Giving—October Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Doris Taylor - Creative Inspirations 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 Thanks & Giving—October Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout October 2018 for $29.50 or for just $8.25 when you spend $82.50. 

I love this stamp set as its all about Gratitude, giving, being thankful and being at home (my favourite place to be). Plus the flowers, leaves, branches, wreath, house, and arrow are all elements that can be used in many different ways on many different projects. Its a must have stamp set. 

I am still loving the Boutique paper packs and the colour of the year is my favourite new thing. Sugarplum! I love it. Also I've been playing with and madly in love with Shaker cards. I've made heaps of them since I got my order with Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti and Shaker Window Foam & Acetate plus Loose Sequins—Silver.

This card I made using the gorgeous floral paper with the peacock background plus some Sugarplum Cardstock. I cut the base of the thin cut circle in white daisy and stamped it in Sugarplum ink, I filled the heart with 2x the shaker hearts which is about 48 hearts (but I found a few had missed getting inside before I closed it up tight) and a few sprinkles of silver sequins. I put on the acetate cover and stuck the outside cover on using Sugarplum cardstock and Tombow adhesive. 

I stamped the Thankful in Peacock ink and the small hearts in sugarplum on white daisy cardstock. I raised it up on the base to the same height as the shaker window with the 3D foam tape from the inside of the shaker card foam.  

The 3D foam adhesive is such a bonus with the shaker cards because you can use the smaller "corner" parts for tricky edges of shapes. See what I mean below with an earlier project. 

Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti

Remember this great stamp set Thanks & Giving—October Stamp of the Month is only available throughout October 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- CTMH Craftings I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. See you again soon. 

Also please note: this card also fits in with the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #312. I have been following these challenges too as I am part of the Design Team now, and this challenge is to use the Boutique colours to create something. Hoping more people can join in the challenge and add cards using Facebook or Pinterest or your blogs (plus a few other ways). Have fun creating, see you soon. 

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au