Color Dare #80 with Chantilly

I chose these colors for the Color Dare because they were 1/2 of the colors from the Chantilly paper pack. I really like them together, and they're perfect for Valentine's Day, which is what I might use this layout for. The colors are Ruby, Sunset, and Cotton Candy.

Please come play along with us this week at Color My Heart.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Sunset, Ruby, White Daisy
B&Ts: Chantilly
Complements: Chantilly
Other: Paradise Paper Shapes, Ruby Mini Medleys, Pink Buttons, Pink Sparkles, Sunset Baker's Twine

Shaving Cream Technique

I was so honored to be asked to be the guest designer for Technique Time Tuesday for the month of February! But I was super stumped when I found out what the technique was. Not that it's a hard one, I just didn't know if I had the supplies. You need shaving cream and reinkers, preferably in multiple colors. The only reinker I have is black, so I had to make that work for me. It's interesting that it turned out purplish, so I played that up and added Smokey Plum as my card base! The background paper looked a lot like a stormy sea to me, so I made this nautical card using the Tommy WOTG stamp set:

Here is the inside:

To try out the shaving cream technique, see the tutorial at Technique Time Tuesday!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Smokey Plum, White Daisy
Stamps: Tommy WOTG
Ink: Black
Reinker: Black
Other: Milepost shapes

Color Dare with Florentine

This week at Color My Heart, we are encouraging you to make a project using these colors: Crème Brulee, Goldrush, Olive, and Twilight. Or you can make a project using these colors: Honey, Sunset and Lagoon (from the Cloud 9 cardmaking kit). You get to choose! I chose the first combo, because I have these colors in the Florentine Paper pack. I made this layout based on a pattern from Cherish called Visual Texture. I used the Florentine B&Ts and Stickease.

Please come join us and show us what YOU can make with these colors!


Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White
B&Ts: Florentine
Stickease: Florentine

Butterfly Birthdays

Here are the challenges I made this card for:

Freshly Made Sketches
Simon Says - String or Twine
Color Throwdown

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, Blush
Stamps: It's Your Day, Say it In Style, Take a Picture
Ink: Blush, Sky, Desert Sand
Other: Wooden Mini Medleys, Pink Glitz Glitter Gel

Thank-you card Set

There are a lot of color challenges out there that are using pink right now. So I thought the challenge at the Friday Mashup to make a set of Thank-you notes was perfect to go with all these color challenges! They also are challenging me to use stars, and the sketch at Less is More is perfect for that. So here is my set of cards, each one using a different color combo from a different challenge:

 The first card uses the Dynamic Duos colors: I used Black and Smoothie.
 

The second card uses the colourQ colors. I used Hollyhock, Blush, Baby Pink, Kraft, and Colonial White.

 

For the third card I used the colors from Crazy 4 Challenges: I used Cotton Candy, Chocolate, Lagoon, and Colonial White.

 

 The last one is for Color Throwdown. I used Blush, Sky, and Desert Sand.

 

Here is the Less is More sketch:


Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, Smoothie, Black, Kraft, Baby Pink, Blush, Chocolate, Lagoon, Sky, Desert Sand
Stamps: Art Philosophy, Card Chatter - Sympathy
Ink: Colonial White, Smoothie, Hollyhock, Cotton Candy, Blush
Other: Dimensional Elements Stars

Bee Mine

I made this card last night, but couldn't decide how to finish it. That's why I'm posting it today. I decided on the Claire assortment for embellishments.

I LOVED the colors in the Inspired By photo, so I was trying to think of a paper pack I had that fit those colors. I couldn't think of one, but then I remembered my NEW papers (which will be available Feb. 1), and found that with a little chocolate cardstock, Ariana was the perfect fit! The sketch is from Pals Paper Arts, and I'm entering it into the Simon Says "make me laugh" challenge, and the "dual-sided paper" Heart2Heart Challenge.


Materials used:
Cardstock: Chocolate, White Daisy
B&Ts: Ariana
Stamps: Bees Petite Perks
Ink: Chocolate, Crystal Blue
Other: Claire Assortment

Christmas is Coming

...Not really. But I'm still making Christmas cards to ease my stress come December! I haven't used this stamp yet, so I wasn't sure how it would turn out. I'm not sure I like this card. I think I didn't do the sketch right. What do you think?

Maybe the paper is just too busy? I used Evensong, because the colors worked well with the ColourQ challenge. The sketch is from Deconstructed Sketch, and I'm entering it into Word Art Wednesday.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Chocolate
B&Ts: Evensong
Stickease: Evensong
Stamps: Mary and Babe
Ink: Chocolate, Cranberry
Other: Red Sparkles, Clear Sparkles