Colour Dare #564 - Six Pack

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #564 is a Six Pack challenge. You need to use 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 #564 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).

The colours in this six pack are all retiring colours so will only be available while stocks last. These are really lovely colours and I am sad to see them go but there are some lovely new colours too. 

I pulled out the first colours I could find so I grabbed Grape Cardstock, Green Apple Cardstock, and Nectarine Cardstock. Plus I pulled out my BRAND new Make it from the Heart Volume 6 and the New Stamp of the Month Thoughtful Tokens—September Stamp of the Month. I flipped to the card section and ended up choosing the very first card I saw. 

I picked pattern 20 for my card which has a diagonal cut. Because you have to cut diagonally, I figured I would go ahead and make 2 cards with the same papers. I chose Grape and Nectarine for the base. 

Then Green apple cardstock for the middle and white daisy cardstock for the centre rectangle. I decided that the coloured cardstock needed some decorating too so I pulled out my inks... Grape Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Green Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Nectarine Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Pewter Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad AND Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

I stamped the white daisy centres first. One with the round butterfly shape and one with the upright frame shape with flowers. The first one I stamped was in Black and then I decided to use pewter for the pattern stamp and black for the title. 

I stamped the corner bracket in Green Apple Ink on the Green Apple cardstock opposite corners. Then I stamped the thick border on the grape and nectarine. I was going to put thick on the grape and thin on the nectarine but then decided to do them differently on each card. 

This vintage style stamp of the month is really pretty and I really enjoyed creating with it. Its only available for September 2023 and you can get one for $9 when you put in an order for $80 of product or if you are a VIP you can get it for FREE with an $80 AUS order (different countries have different amounts to earn Stamp of the Month for free). 

I was really happy with how the 2 cards turned out and make a really pretty thank you card. I may add some bling to them later but right now I was content to leave them at this. 

I adhered it all together with my new Close to My Heart Adhesive Runner Bundle. A new CTMH branded dotted adhesive and stuck down to the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack.

After I completed these 2 cards I was still feeling creative so I opened up the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and found their latest challenge Sketch 540. 

I did the grape cardstock with 2 inches tall and stamped the film strip stamp in Grape ink randomly across it, the Green Apple light side with butterfly stamped with Green Apple ink twice and it was 1.5 inches tall AND then the Nectarine light side cardstock with Nectarine ink with the postage stamp looking stamp at 1 inch tall (all by 4 inches wide).

Then I took a scrap of white daisy for the tag I cut myself and stamped with black ink the vintage frame and then the rose top to imitate a bow at the top of the tag. 

I wanted to put the sentiment directly onto the Grape cardstock but I didn't leave enough room so it looked weird so I stamped on a thin strip of white daisy and added it. It looks weird on that angle but I had to cover the other one underneath. Oh well, never mind. Also interesting to me how the colour shows up differently in different lighting. They are all the same papers and inks but different photos make them look different. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest projects. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #564. 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 #558 Tic-Tac-Toe

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #558 is a Tic-Tac-Toe board. You need to use at least 3 of the colours from the above picture in Row, Column or diagonal). Plus.... Black, white, neutrals 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 #558 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 thought I better choose my favourite colours in this tic-tac-toe- so I chose Row 3: Lagoon, Raspberry and Mink.. I needed a design so I pulled up Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week Sketch 534 and thought I would create a card with this. *Click HERE for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

with the Sketch I decided to use Raspberry Cardstock to match with the red strip at the top. Then I got the Lagoon Cardstock for the bottom strip. I grabbed a largish scrap of Mink Cardstock and cut a banner and stamped with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

with my favourite Stamp set from the Annual Catalogue that is just about to retire For All Occasions Stamp Set (I will be sad when our current catalogue goes).

For the sketch there were flowers and leaves and I had the Cape Cod Embellishments

that I had won at a Consultant Crafternoon. They look perfect for the sketch. 

To finish as per the sketch I added white dots from my stash that are similar to the current 

Black & White Dots. 

A simple and easy card but I was happy with the results. I hope you like it too.  I wanted something easy because I am busy this week, doing the Close to My Heart Virtual Convention (the new annual catalogue launch and the new September/October seasonal catalogue launch). The theme is Heroes with Heart so we have been dressing up like super heroes. I am having LOTS of fun!

 Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #556. 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 #536 Tic-Tac-Toe

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #536 is a Tic-Tac-Toe Board. You need to choose at least 3 colours from the above photo from a row or column or diagonal. You are also free to use all 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 #536 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).

These colours are from the gorgeous Storybook Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I love all the dragons and castles and rainbows and crowns in this set. Its only available while stocks last so make sure you get into this!

To make my card I chose Row 3 - Paprika, Wisteria & Pewter. I pulled out my cardstock in those colours Paprika Cardstock, Wisteria Cardstock and Pewter Cardstock. 

With the Pewter I used the Slimline Shaker Window Thin Cuts and cut the largest outline and with the Wisteria I cut the inner shape with the wavy edge. Then I adhered them both to the 

Slimline Cards & Envelopes. 

Then I went to my Paper Envelopes with my Paprika cardstock in it and found some scrap strips of cardstock in half inch ish size strips. I put that across the entire length of the Slimline card to create a ribbon look. Then I pulled out my white cardstock scraps and found an old cricut cut out shape that was an oval shape. I think it was from the CTMH Artiste Cartridge but any Cricut shape would do if you want to replicate this card. Then I pulled out my Layered Butterflies Thin Cuts and cut a little butterfly in Paprika cardstock. I've got a thing for butterflies at the moment. 

I stamped on the Cricut oval shape with sentiment from Floral Sentiments Stamp Set with 

Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. To finish off I used some White Gems from my stash. 

Photography was a bit weird with the lighting so I edited a little to make it "cooler" so the wisteria looked to be the right shade. I tried a few times but the colour did not like to be photographed. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #536. 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 #529 Metallic plus 2 colours

I'm not on the design team for Colour Dare this week but I really liked this colour selection so I wanted to make a card using these colours. 

If you wanna play along too you've only got a few days HURRY.... Colour Dare Challenge for #529 is a Metallic (Gold, Silver, Copper) plus two colours of your choice. You are also free to use all Neutrals. Go to the link for Colour Dare #529 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 whipped one up really quickly because I grabbed out my favourite colour which is Peacock (its a retired colour now) and I grabbed a matching blue which was Glacier. I then pulled out my box of "Specialty papers" which has all my metallics and glitters and holographic and other specialty papers. 

I chose Silver Glitter Paper to go with the peacock and Glacier Cardstock. 

I pulled out the Layered Butterflies Thin Cuts which are still available to purchase and they're so pretty I can't believe they haven't sold out yet. 

I wanted the top layer to be silver and the middle glacier and the base peacock. So I ran each of them thru my Big Shot (I actually did 1 of each butterfly from each colour so I have another duplicate I could do - I didn't do extra Silver Glitter). I folded up the wings of each layer to get some dimension and then I ran adhesive down the centre of each layer (but left the back clear until after I'd stuck the base layer and stamped. 

I used off-cuts of the glacier cardstock and peacock cardstock cut to 5.5 inches wide to put along the bottom of the card and I cut a slice of the Silver Glitter Paper to break up the two blues along the bottom. 

 

I wanted a thinking of you card so I used my Evernote to find some thinking of you sentiments and found this one from an old set called "CC1030 #30years of happy National Stamping Month". 

I used peacock ink to stamp the tiny sentiment above the peacock cardstock and then stuck the butterfly on a slight angle. I finished it off with old peacock dots from a retired pack but I could have used Cake Day Dots because they have glacier coloured dots that would have looked similarly pretty or Clear Sparkles. 

I photographed the card standing up so you could see the dimension and took the sideways shot to get the depth of the butterfly. I did make sure that when the wings are down they're not hanging out over the base White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack so that it still fits inside the envelope when its posted. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #529. 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 #462 Pumpkin Patch Colours

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #462 is the colours of the Pumpkin Spice Scrapbooking Workshop Kit in a Tic-Tac-Toe grid (you can choose a row, column or diagonal line (or do all of the squares like me), you are free to use Black & White. 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 #462 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 pulled out cardstock in all the colours in the Tic Tac Toe I wanted to use my Slimline Celebration Cardmaking Workshop Kit, specifically the Fishy Greetings stamps and thing cuts and the Circle Cluster Thin Cuts. 

I cut fish and seahorses out of Peach Cardstock, Shortbread Cardstock, 

Paprika Cardstock, Papaya Cardstock and Nectarine Cardstock. Then I cut seaweed in Harbour Cardstock and the circle clusters in Harbour Glitter Paper. 

Such a great way to use up scraps. Also I did some on the light side of the cardstock and some on the dark side of the cardstock. LOVE Close to My Hearts two-toned cardstock for variations like this!!

I pulled out a Slimline Card & Envelope, and put a Mink Cardstock background of 8 inches x 3 inches (the main slimline card is 8.5 inches by 3.5 inches). 

I stamped them with Memento ink (similar to Intense Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad). I also stamped the little schools of fish & little sentiment directly onto the Mink cardstock using the NEW 1" × 1½" My Acrylix® Block.

I used Thin 3-D Foam Tape to pop up all the fish on top of the cluster circles and put the seaweed plants underneath. To finish off I used some Gold Glitter Gems, to use the centre square on the tic-tac-toe board. I'm really happy with how it finished off. 

The only colour I couldn't fit into my card was Toffee so I didn't complete the whole tic-tac-toe board completely!!

I love the look of the Harbour glitter paper in the background of this card. So pretty sparkles!

I did so many fish I decided to do another card as well. Using the Pumpkin Patch papers and Papaya ink for the bubbles on the background and black ink on the sentiment. Pretty happy that I have so many fish stamped and cut in different colours because its really easy next time to just grab a fish and create something without having to get out my thin cuts and inks and bigshot machine. Proactive Cardmaking for the future!! 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project/s. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #462. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cards, 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 #440 Crazy 8

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #440 is a Crazy 8 square. You pick four of the squares and you are permitted to use Black & White. 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 #440 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!!

Most of these colours come from Daisy Meadows Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet but I chose to use mostly cardstock to make my card. 

I grabbed out my brand new Build-a-Rainbow Thin Cuts. Then I pulled out 

Glacier Cardstock, Peacock Cardstock, Desert Rose Cardstock, Sundance Cardstock, and the peach paper from the Mix-in Paper Packet (Jul–Aug). A lot of these colours are found in the Daisy Meadows Coordinating Cardstock.

I used washi tape and stuck the 4 parts of the rainbow together and cut it out 4 times in each of the below colours and mixed and matched them to get 4 different rainbows. I used two of them in my two cards but have 2 left for next cards. I changed around the pattern a bit too. 

For the title I grabbed the After the Rain stamp (on sale April 2021) but didn't want to use the rainbow on it, just the sentiment. So I had to create a mask to just get the words to put on my cloud. I grabbed a sticky note that is sticky all over and stamped on it and cut out the words. Then I stamped over the mask to get the title for the cloud. I had cut some Glacier clouds first but it was too hard to line up the title cause I couldn't see through so I stamped first and then ran the cloud thin cut through my big shot.  I used Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Hopefully the photo below will show my process. 

I was happy with the final projects. On the other card I grabbed out a "thinking of you" stamp set that is retired and didn't use clouds.

To adhere the rainbow, I used Dual-tip Permanent Glue Pen, and to  finish the rainbow off, I added a couple of Bitty Sparkles. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #440 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cards, 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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