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

Colour Dare #394 Shades of Green

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #394 is Shades of Green. Using monochromatic greens, Black, White and all neutrals are free to use. You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #394 and add your entry. 

I love the Green challenge so pulled out some old Central Park paper that I've been trying to "scrap my stash" and use up. Then some Clover Cardstock

that you can get on sale this month in the Green Cardstock Bundle. 

I HAD to use the new "Toilet paper" stamp set from the National Scrapbooking Day Cardmaking Bundle 1. its my very favourite stamp set and from the National Scrapbooking Day event held by Close to My Heart this stamp set is THE MOST POPULAR stamp set in the history of CTMH! I really love this! I love that we can make light of the darkness that is the current Global Pandemic! 

Its awesome that Close to My Heart Cardstock is double sided. So I stamped on the Clover Cardstock with Evergreen Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on each side of the paper and cut it out with Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors. 

Then I stamped in Clover Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad for the circle and cut it out with the Stitched Circles Thin Cuts. 

To stamp the title I stamped on French Vanilla Cardstock, 

using three colours of inks - First totally stamped with Green Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, secondly I stamped about half of the green apple covered sentiment with Clover Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad  and lastly along the very bottom  I stamped with Evergreen Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. All three shades on the one stamp. I watched a video on the CTMH Facebook page that demonstrated it recently and I did know this technique, but I haven't done it for so long I thought it was a good time to trial it again with this Colour Dare Challenge. 

I stamped the three green inks of the small heart - one in each colour in the gradient (in the corresponding locations, dark bottom, Clover middle and lighter top). Then I trimmed the paper to the size I wanted freehand and used my scissors to cut a toilet paper like edge on it. 

I used varying thicknesses of 3-D Foam Tape and Thin 3-D Foam Tape. 

This made three heights for the three elements. I followed the rule of threes with the heart stamps, the cluster of toilet paper embellishments and I finished off with 3 of the clear opaque looking hearts from the Julep Loose Sequins. 

I didn't have any bright green ribbons or twines so I was stuck for embellishments on this one. I thought black would be too dark as the darkest colour on this card is Evergreen!

I didn't want to use the cardstock that came with this set cause I had old green to use first but you could totally recreate this card using the lovely embossed papers of this kit. Also I've seen a lot of people emboss their toilet paper and I want to give that a try too but my embossing folders were packed away under a box. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #394 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