Colour Dare #482 Inspirational Valentine

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #482 is the inspirational valentines photo above, you are free to use Black, White, Gold and Silver. 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 #482 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).

First up I decided I wanted to make a birthday card for my nephew using the Smarty Pants Stamp and chose the Sneaker. I have the thin cuts too but didn't use them for this card. 

I cut some White Daisy Cardstock to an eight of an inch below the 4 x 5.25 inch 

Black Cardstock mat that fits onto the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card base perfectly. 

Then I randomly stamped in Memento ink (or similar for alcohol markers like 

Intense Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad or Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad). 

Looking at the colours in the valentines inspirational pic I chose the following colours... Coral TriBlend™ Marker, Citrus TriBlend™ Marker, Green Turquoise TriBlend™ Marker, True Blue TriBlend™ Marker and I coloured in the sneakers. I originally trialled shading but didn't love the shading (see blue sneakers) so the others I just solidly coloured without shading in 3 colour tones... I just picked one from each tri-blend that I thought went close to the inspiration picture. 

Colouring tip: I went out of the lines a couple of times but was able to hid that by using the White Gel Pens to hide the colour mistakes. I did try the colourless Blender Marker but it didn't remove the colour enough so I covered it with the white pens and it was perfectly hidden. 

For the title I used the "For All Occasions" stamp set and coloured each letter in... I tried to do a pattern but messed it up so it really ended up random. 

I matted the coloured party time title in black cardstock also and put thin 3D foam tape behind it wrapped Gold Embellishing Thread around and layered another foam tape under that to give it dimension. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #482. 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 #478 Neutrals plus one colour

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #478 is a choose at least 3 of the above colours, you are free to use Black, White, Gold & Copper. 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 #478 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 chose Green Apple to go with my neutrals. I pulled out the cutest stamp and thin cut set called Party Gnomes Stamp + Thin Cuts

I coloured the cute chocolate cake with a bunch of the Tri-blend markers from mostly the Essential Blends Marker Bundle. (pictured the pens I used). 

To add the wording I cut a peice of White Daisy Cardstock and cut to size. Then I grabbed all the words on the and arranged them on the block to fit the paper size. I used Green Apple Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad to stamp them. Then I added the Green Apple Cardstock around the white daisy. 

The card base was created with Kraft Paper because its a neutral colour. I used the off cut of the Silver Glitter Paper that was cut using Stitched Rectangle Frames Thin Cuts. The Birthday sticker was from an older sticker set with green apple. I used 3D foam tape. 

This is what I gave my husband for his birthday this week. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #478. 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 #474 Choose three

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #474 is a choose at least 3 of the above colours, you are free to use Black, White, Gold & Copper. 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 #474 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 chose Papaya, Avocado and Harbour. I pulled out the Love Story Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet (Black) with that gorgeous black and white flowers and decided to colour it. Its a "wedding" pack with the stickers but without the stickers its a great every use paper pack and great for colouring. 

I cut it to 3.75x 5 inches and I grabbed out the Close to My Heart guide that shows the CTMH colours of cardstock and the Triblend Markers equivalent. So the avocado is Alpine Green TriBlend™ Marker -light and Dull Green TriBlend™ Marker - medium x3. (see pic below)

FYI: Contact me if you'd like a copy of the PDF of the cardstock matching CTMH cardstock with the Triblend Markers as shown below (its 3 pages and you cut a 1 inch circle of cardstock and then colour in with triblend markers to make the matching colours). 

Unfortunately the guide hasn't got the new colours in yet so I pulled out the triblend marker colours to find the closest to the Papaya (which is new).  

I decided Coral TriBlend™ Marker was closest and used those three colours to colour in the petals and flowers. 

Note: The darker coral pen isn't a good match (too dark) so I only used the lightest coral and I covered that first one up with the cardstock and thanks title. 

To finish off the card I cut a peice of  Harbour Cardstock at 4x5.25 inches and an off-cut strip leftover which is about half an inch ish. Then I stamped the THANKS with Daisy Alphabet stamps using Papaya Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock  and trimmed it to size and then matted it in Harbour Cardstock. 

All attached to a White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card with a white edge. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #474. 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 #468 Inspiration Image

 

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #468 is the colours of the above inspiration image (at least 3 colours), 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 #468 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).

This image brings back lots of memories for me as I had these on a doona cover and some curtains when I was really small (*ahem* like 35yrs ago). 

I made a quick and simple card for this challenge as I was required to make a bunch of thank you cards for my son's teachers for his last day of school before his Year 12 Graduation. This card I made was for one of the music teachers. 

I picked out Dark Blue (Sapphire from the retired Wander collection with the white stars - you could create this look with sapphire cardstock and our new white White Gel Pens), then I picked light Blue (I chose Carolina Cardstock) and the brown, so I chose the new Mocha Cardstock. To get some tone-on-tone stamping I used an old stamp set with some music notes on it and random stamped all over the Mocha cardstock. I don't have the Mocha ink yet so I pulled out the reitred Nutmeg ink and they worked quite well together. I put an R in texta on the front of my ink pads that have retired so I know its an old colour but it still works well with current Mocha. 

After doing stripes of each of the 3 main inspiration colours I decided to do a little gnome sign. I picked the gnome from the Mini Garden Gnomes Stamp + Thin Cuts from the Slimline Celebration Cardmaking Workshop Kit.

I coloured him with triblend markers in Fair Skin TriBlend™ Marker for his face and hands, Earth Brown TriBlend™ Marker for his boots and belt, True Blue TriBlend™ Marker for his hat and clothes and the lightest and mid tones of the Ice Grey TriBlend™ Marker for the bird. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #468. 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