Color Dare #296- Celebrate

It's time for another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge! This week we are challenging you to create something using only Toffee, Juniper, and Pomegranate with Gold as an optional add on. You may also include White Daisy and Black, but please do not add any other colors.

It's been a while since I've been able to get into my studio. My dad came to visit for 10 days, then I ended up sick in bed for another 4 days. I'm still not feeling 100%, but I was feeling too restless to stay in bed. I put this card together fairly quickly when you subtract the breaks I had to take to rest.

I used the new Thin Cuts- Stitched Circles dies to cut an assortment of circles from Juniper and Pomegranate Cardstock, making sure the side of cardstock I wanted showing (I used the light side) faced the cut edge of the die. I drew three light pencil lines on the left side of a Toffee cardstock panel (light side cut 1/4" smaller than the card base) and began arranging the circles. Once I was happy with the design, I lightly adhered each circle in place, poked holes using the Stitch Ruler and Piercing Tool, and hand sewed them into place with two strands of the White Twine. 

I dug through my embellishments and found retired sequins from Dreamin' Big and No Worries that matched the Juniper and Toffee colors perfectly. I wish I could have found a match for the Pomegranate as well. I'll have to keep digging. The sentiment is stamped with Juniper Pigment Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I brought a few of the die-cut circles and sequins to the inside of the card as well.

Ready to play? Just create a project using ALL and ONLY the colors in this week's challenge. If you don't have the exact colors, use the closest colors you have. Our color challenges are open for two weeks, which gives you until 11pm EST Thursday, June 21st to enter this one! I can't wait to see what you create!

This card actually fulfills three challenges this week. Color Dare, Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenges (machine die-cutting challenge), and a new one called Double Trouble Challenge. Be sure to check them all out! 

Thanks for taking time out of your day to visit!

Supplies Used:

X5950 Toffee Cardstock

X5979 Juniper Cardstock

X5964 Pomegranate Cardstock

Z2865 Juniper Ink Pad

Z2854 Pomegranate Ink Pad

Z3216 White Twine

Z1852 Stitch Guide

Z2046 Piercing & Embossing Tool Kit

Whimsy Mini Pigment Ink Pads (Retired)

Dreamin' Big Sequins (retired)

No Worries Sequins (retired)

Color dare #284 Keep Your Fin Up

It's time for another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge! This week's challenge is Glacier, Pacifica, and optional Silver. Unless otherwise indicated, you may also use Black and White Daisy.

I was feeling a little under the weather this week, so I'm a little late with my post. I knew I wanted to make something with the whale from the Make Waves-Cardmaking Stamp Set for this challenge, but wasn't sure how I wanted my project to come together. When I was finally able to sit down and create, my card practically made itself!

Since we have a Die-namite sale going on with our Thin Cuts this month, I decided to use a couple on this card. Using the negative cut from the Scallop Border Thin Cuts, I created waves for that sweet whale using Pacifica Cardstock and Pacifica B&T paper from the Adventure Fundamentals Paper Packet. I like the variation of color from the watercolor design of the B&T paper, and the shadow effect from the solid cardstock. My sky was created by sponging White Daisy Pigment Ink onto Glacier Cardstock using a couple cloud-shaped templates I made.

I stamped the sentiment and the whale with Archival Black Ink, and then with VersaMark Ink before heat embossing with clear embossing powder to give them a little shine. For added texture, I stitched the spray lines. The front panel is double matted with Silver Foil Paper and Black Cardstock.

The inside has plenty of room to write a message. I stamped the fin image in the lower corner to play on the front message.

Ready to play? Just create a project using ALL and ONLY the colors in this week's challenge. If you don't have the exact colors, use the closest colors you have. Our color challenges are open for two weeks, giving you more time and flexibility to create, share, and invite your crafty friends to join us too. You have until 11pm EST Thursday, March 29th to enter! I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies Used:

Z4160 Make Waves- Cardmaking Stamp Set + Thin Cuts

Z3351 Adventure Fundamentals

1385 White Daisy Cardstock

1386 Black Cardstock

X5967 Pacifica Cardstock

X5978 Glacier Cardstock

Z3366 Silver Foil Paper

Z3271 Archival Black Ink Pad

Z2892 Pacifica Ink Pad

Z2841 Glacier Ink Pad

Z2863 White Daisy Pigment Ink Pad

Z891 VersaMark Ink Pad

Z2088 Ranger Clear Super Fine Embossing Powder

Z2046 Piercing & Embossing Tool Kit

Z3348 Scallop Border Thin Cuts

Z3341 Thin 3-D Foam Dots

X254 White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack

Other: Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders, Sakura GellyRoll White Pen, Needle, Thread

Three Amigos December 2017 Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog Hop. We are three Close To My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping, and would like to share our creative ideas with you. On the 3rd of each month, we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project. There are only three stops on this hop, so it will only take a few minutes to hop through. When you finish hopping, be sure to check out the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge!

This month we are featuring projects using the Silver & Gold Paper Pack (papers or featured colors). The featured colors are Black, Pebble, Pewter, White Daisy, and Gold Foil.

Time doesn't seem to be on my side when it comes to creating things these days. I put together a quick and easy card using two papers from the pack, a little bit of cardstock, ink, some die cut shapes, ribbon, and sparkly embellishments. The card is so pretty in person. It's hard to capture all of the sparkle and shine from the foil and gems.

The black ribbon actually has gold threads running through it. The stars are cut from Gold Foil Paper with the Basic Stars Thin Cuts. I added clear shimmer to the word JOY (you can see it if you zoom in a little). The sentiment is from the WYW Joyful Tidings Cardmaking Kit.

Did you notice the pierced edges on the black cardstock? Our ruler has stitch guide holes for piercing, but it'll be going soon! I pierced around the black panels on the front and the inside.

Thanks for hopping by today! Hop over to Lisa's Blog and Donna's Blog to see what they created for you, then over to the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge. We hope you play along!

Supplies Used:
X7226B Silver & Gold Paper Packet
G1142 Workshops Your Way Joyful Tidings Cardmaking Kit
X7226D Silver & Gold Coordinating Cardstock
Z3365 Gold Foil Paper
Z2833 Pebble Ink
Z3271 Archival Black Ink
Z4012 Black Shimmer Ribbon
Z3312 Gold Glitter Gems
Z1263 Bitty Sparkles
Z3328 Thin Cuts- Basic Ovals
Z3329 Thin Cuts- Basic Stars
Z3293 Shimmer Brush- Clear
Z2046 Piercing & Embossing Tool Kit
Z1471 Ruler (Going Soon)
Z1859 Foam Mat (Going Soon)

Three Amigos June Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog hop.  We are three Close to My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you.  On the 3rd of each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project.  There are only three stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are featuring the Stitch Guide or Ruler with the Piercing Tool. I created the Confetti Wishes Workshop on the Go layout and added a little bit of stitching on the pages to go along with the stitched accents. We are in the midst of relocation activities around here, and I can't find the box my camera  was stuffed into. I had to use my iPad to take pics for this post, so the quality may seem sub-par. I can't make the pics any larger for viewing here either. Sigh. You can barely see the stitching in the first photo, but it's there.

I added the stitching around a few of the stamped star embellishments. The stitch guide has four circle sizes to choose from. I temporarily placed my embellishment on my layout, centered the circle on the stitch guide over my embellishment, and used the piercing tool to poke holes to sew through. If you squint and look closely, you'll notice I also stitched around the star shapes on the photo mats. The stitch guide contains all sorts of shapes and patterns. 

The title and stamped embellishments were also heat embossed with clear embossing powder to add a little more texture to the layout.

Thank you for stopping by today. Hop over to Lisa's blog and Donna's blog to see what they created for you.