Color Dare #270 Gift Tags

It's time for another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge! This week's colors are Espresso, Heather, Mink, White Daisy, Pick Your Own Red, and optional Gold.

I had the Merry Everything Cut Above Tag Kit sitting on my studio table and decided to put together a few quick and easy tags for this challenge. The striped gold foil bases and gold glitter bows are included in the kit. I die cut circles from Heather (Large circle) and Mink (small circle) Cardstocks, and flipped them over to the "light" shade of each color. The edges are inked heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I added a strip of patterned paper (Espresso dots and Pomegranate stripes) to each Mink circle before placing the gift recipients initial on top.

After die cutting each initial with the Block Alphabet Thin Cuts, I masked the top portion of each letter and heat embossed the lower portion with gold embossing powder. I then clear embossed the top portion of each letter to add some shine. The "E" was cut from Cranberry Cardstock. The "A" and "N" were cut from Espresso Cardstock. Each letter is popped up with Thin 3-D Foam Circles.

Ready to play? Just create a project using ALL and ONLY the colors in this week's challenge. Remember, for this challenge you can pick your own red! 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 10pm EST Thursday, November 30th to enter! I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Z4049 Cut Above Tag Kit- Merry Everything

Z3353 Basics Fundamentals Paper Pack

Z3352 Enchantment Fundamentals Paper Pack

X5942 Basics Cardstock Combo Pack

X5975 Cranberry Cardstock

Z3318 Thin Cuts- Basic Circles

Z3386 Thin Cuts- Block Alphabet

Z891 VersaMark Ink Pad

Z2066 Ranger Princess Gold Embossing Powder

Z2088 Ranger Clear Super Fine Embossing Powder

Z4014 White & Gold Twine

Z3341 Thin 3-D Foam Dots

Three Amigos April 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 our projects will feature washi tape. The Seasonal Expressions 2 idea book debuted yesterday chock full of paper crafting goodness. The two new washi tape packs were just begging to be used together on a card. I pulled out the new Wavy Blooms stamp set, a few of my Shin Han Markers, White Daisy Cardstock, and the Boardwalk and Carnival Washi Tape Packs and got to work. I wasn't sure about the bright colors at first, but love how vibrant the card turned out.

The thin washi tape is perfect for creating a woven plaid design. You can see how the colors show through at the intersections.

I kept the inside simple, adding a touch of washi tape and a Kraft Cardstock mat.

As I was cleaning up my studio the other day, I came across a few scraps of Snowhaven Paper and extra Cricut cut tags. I decided to assemble the pieces and make a few tags that can go on gifts or adorn a card. I used the thin Glacier Washi Tape on the Slate Twist Ties as an experiment and liked the result. It's hard to tell in the picture, but the cup has "Bitty Sparkles" steam coming from the top.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out Lisa's blog and Donna's blog to see what they have created for you!

Supplies Used:

Card:

D1651 Wavy Blooms

1385 White Daisy Cardstock

Z1375 Kraft Cardstock

44751 Archival Black Ink Pad

Z2469 Shin Han Colorless Blender

Z2454 Shin Han Leaf Green

Z2465 Shin Han Turquoise Blue

Z2461 Shin Han Peacock Green

Z2464 Shin Han Tender Pink

Z2452 Shin Han Golden Yellow

Z3066 Boardwalk Washi Tape Pack

Z3067 Carnival Washi Tape Pack

Z3042 Coral Reef Sequins

X254 White Cards with Envelopes

Z2060 3-D Foam Tape

Tag:

C1616 Treats of Frendship

X7188B Snowhaven Paper Pack

44751 Archival Black Ink Pad

Z2469 Shin Han Colorless Blender

Z2448 Shin HanCarmine Red

Z2445 Shin Han Barely Beige

Z2451 Shin Han Clay

Z1864 Slate Twist Ties

Z1989 Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon

Z3066 Boardwalk Washi Tape Pack

Z1263 Bitty Sparkles

Z2060 3-D Foam Tape

Other- Shin Han Frost Blue Marker

Three Amigos September 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 special stamp set celebrating National Stamping Month, #30yearsofhappy. The last two weeks of August were especially busy for me this year shopping, packing, and moving my girls off to college. As I was removing the tags from some of their new clothing, the creative wheels in my head began to turn. The altering possibilities were endless. Since my studio time was limited, I kept my creations fairly simple. I designed the first tag from an extra blank Cricut-cut tag I had in my scrap folder. I stamped a border of the "it's your day" image above the gold shimmer trim and lagoon washi tape.  I paper-pieced the gift and added slate diagonal striped ribbon and flamingo dots for texture.

The next two tags are altered tags from clothing my girls purchased. I have before and after photos of each.

I was going to add more bling to this tag, but the simplicity of it appealed to me.

My youngest is studying environmental science in college. Altering and re-purposing the tags is a great way to keep them out of the landfills. She'll be so proud!

Thanks for hopping by! Hop over to Lisa's Blog to see what she created for you.

Supplies:

CC1030 #30yearsofhappy

M1030 A Little Gift

White Daisy Cardstock

Z2165 Juniper Ink Pad

Z2173 Slate Ink Pad

Z2196 Smoothie Ink Pad

Z2010 White Enamel Stars

Z1934 Flamingo Dots

Z1988 Black Striped Twill Ribbon

Z1989 Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon

Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim

Z1918 Teal Shimmer Trim

Z1809 Black Shimmer Trim

Z2004 Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape

Z1151 3-D Foam Tape

Smoothie Bakers Twine (Retired)

Clothing tags

Three Amigos January Blog Hop

Happy New Year! Welcome to the Three Amigos CTMH Mini-Blog Hop. We are three Close to My Heart Consultants with a love for Stamping and Scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you. Each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout or other project. There are only 3 stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.  Several products will be retiring at the end of this month to make room for all of the new products in the Spring/Summer Idea Book that goes live on February 1st.  Our projects this month will highlight some of our favorite retiring items.

I'm going to share three simple projects with you this month.  My first project is a Burlap Valentine treat bag.



I covered Dimensional Elements Heart Shapes with Chantilly and Sparkle & Shine Textiles.  The hearts are layered with ruffled Color Ready Seam Binding Ribbon, a heart from the Base & Bling Word Accents, a bit of baker's twine from the Ruby Mini Medley Accents Collection, and one sparkle from the Pink Glitter Gems.

The next two projects are tags that came together fairly quickly.

 

 

This tag features the Babycakes Paper Pack.  The base for the tag was cut on the Cricut using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  I cut the background and texture paper 1/4" smaller than the sunset base.  The chocolate medallion is adorned with a sentiment from the Perfect Fit- Birthday stamp set and a border from Holiday Tags.  I added Dark Chocolate Striped Grosgrain Ribbon and Slate Striped Twist Ties that I inked to match the papers.  I curled the twist ties around my quilling tool to make them look like confetti.

 

 

My final project features the Frosted Paper Pack.  I used this tag for a Christmas gift, but the sentiment could easily be changed for a birthday, thinking of you, or thank you.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Now hop over to Lisa's blog to see what she created for you.