Colour Dare #540 Fancy Five

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #540 is a Four Square Board. You need to choose at least 3 colours from the above photo. 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 #540 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).

This challenge I wanted to focus on Stamping because this month Close to My Heart has a stamp special.  Stamptacular savings of 35% on My Acrylix® stamp sets and up to 60% on Stamp + Thin Cuts sets! So I pulled out 4 colours and 4 stamp sets and 4 inks. 

I pulled out Ballerina Cardstock and Ink, Sage Cardstock and Ink, Toffee Cardstock and Ink & Sapphire Cardstock and ink. The four stamp sets I chose were Meowgical Stamp + Thin Cuts,  For All Occasions Stamp Set, Pretty Little Ponies Stamp + Thin Cuts (only a few left), Background Elements Stamp Set. To do Tone-on-tone stamping. 

I cut the 4 cardstock colours into 1.25 inches x 4.125 inches. 

I used Background Elements Stamp Set (shown above) on the Sapphire Cardstock with Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

I used the For All Occasions Stamp Set (shown above) with Sage Cardstock and Sage Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. Note: I did some stamp surgery by cutting the Party Time stamp set in half with scissors. If you don't want to do that, you'll just need to mask it off each time. 

I used Pretty Little Ponies Stamp + Thin Cuts (shown Above) [only a few left so hurry if you want the pretty ponies!!] with Toffee Cardstock with Toffee Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

The Meowgical Stamp + Thin Cuts (shown above) I used with Ballerina Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad  on Ballerina Cardstock but the pink was so faint it was too hard to see, so I went over it with Toffee Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. You can sort of see the pink behind it. 

I spaced out the 4 strips of card and adhered them with Air Touch Adhesive so they are flat to the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. 

To finish the card off I put the BIRTHDAY stamp from For All Occasions Stamp Set with Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock. I attached it with 3D Foam Tape and put gold embellishing thread and gold glitter gems from my stash. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #538. 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 #508 - Six Pack

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #508 is a Six Pack where you need to choose at least 3 of the colours, plus Black, White, Gold and Silver 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 #508 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).

A brand new catalogue launched a few days ago so I wanted to use brand new stamp sets for this challenge. I pulled out all the cardstock in the challenge but settled on Avocado Cardstock and Mulberry Cardstock. 

I used Mulberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and stamped with the dashed lines from Background Elements. I filled in the space stamping over and over. 

I also used this above stamp set to stamp the dots on the top half of the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack in Mulberry Ink also. 

Then used New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (which is WSL because the colour is retiring at the end of this month) and stamped on the Avocado Cardstock (lighter side) with the You Deserve It All Stamp + Thin Cuts. I used my Big Shot to cut out the shapes. This present stamp set is for pull up cards but I cut off the pull up part and stuck the lid on permanently (no movement). 

I then stamped with New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and the Background Elements for the X's along a thin strip of Avocado cardstock on the darker side.  

I used this same stamp set for the Happy Birthday that I stamped on White Daisy Cardstock strip with New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (WSL) and then used my 

Micro-tip Scissors to dove-tail the pennant banner. I used the New England Ivy Ink to ink up the edges by running the paper over the stamp pad. 

I love how much texture this card has from this must have new stamp set from the new Annual Catalogue. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #508. 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