Color Dare #126

Our colors at Color My Heart this week are only neutrals - Bamboo, Champagne, and Black. I made this set of three 4"x5 1/2" note cards using one sheet of Bamboo cardstock for the bases. I layered them with Champagne, then embossed black, embossed with our quatrefoil embossing folder. This was an idea I saw on Pinterest!

Come join us this week!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Bamboo, Champagne, Black
Stamps: Potential
Ink: Black
Other: Quatrefoil Embossing Folder

Let Your Light Shine

Here is a masculine CAS card I made for:

Freshly Made Sketches
Color Throwdown
Word Art Wednesday
Simon Says - "it's a guy thing"

I had an embellishment to put on there to try to tie the colors together, but I really thought it looked sharp just like this. So I left it as is!



Materials used:
Cardstock: Grey Wool, White Daisy
Stamps: Illuminate
Ink: Black, Sorbet, Buttercup, Glacier
Other: Slate Organdy Ribobn

Christmas Critter Shaker Card

You guys know I like putting challenges together. Here are some from yesterday and today that I found quite challenging to work together, but I LOVE the finished product!

Tuesday Morning Sketches (new for me!)
Merry Monday - Critters
The Pink Elephant - Shaker Cards
Clear it out - Pink/Pink Things
Colour Q

For my pink I used Smoothie (translated from Melon Mambo), and I used Smoothie mini medleys as my "pink things." Wonderland was the paper I thought of for this combination, so I just had to add some smoothie cardstock and accents and we were good to go!

This was my first shaker card. I just happened to have a piece of acetate from my Ariana assortment that I didn't want to throw away. I stamped the penguin in Outdoor Denim and smoothie and layered him onto a piece of Wonderland B&T. I put Prisma Glitter and silver sequins in my shaker. They don't move much, but they're pretty! I wanted Grey Flannel cardstock for the background, but I didn't have any left, so I random stamped White Daisy with Grey Flannel snowflakes, and I love how it turned out!



Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Smoothie
B&Ts: Wonderland
Stamps: Wintry Wishes
Ink: Outdoor Denim, Smoothie, Grey Flannel
Other: Smoothie Mini Medleys, Prisma Glitter, silver sequins (not CTMH)

Purple Shimmer

Today I found some challenges: I liked the purple Christmas card from CASE-ing Christmas, and I thought it would go nicely with the embossing folder stamping technique at Friday Mashup.

I used the technique for the purple and blue banner panel. Here is my card:

I was looking for something to go where the big flower is, and I found these old blue flower dies made from old textured cardstock (I don't even know what color they are!). So I embossed them, filed them, and inked them to fit my card. I used a bling gem from La Belle Vie for the center. For the banner, I used Gypsy and Moonstruck inks and some homemade shimmer mist. I took this picture in direct (afternoon) sunlight so you could see the shimmer, so... sorry about the shadows!

Here is the inspiration card:
 

Materials used:
Cardstock: Gypsy, White Daisy
Stamps: Countdown
Ink: Gypsy, Moonstruck
Other: La Belle Vie Assortment, Blue Flower Die Cuts, Create-a-Shade Pearl Paint, Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug, not CTMH)

Calendar - post one

This is going to be a long post, so sorry about that. I've been seeing lots of sketch challenges, but I've been meaning to finish this calendar that I started - I am putting it in the My Creations Flip Stand Album. It has 12 page protectors, so when it's opened, there is a page visible on each side. What I made today are the pages that are opposite the calendar pages. They are basically 6"x6" cards. I used White Daisy for the bases, and different paper packs for the colors. In addition to the sketch challenges, these are the challenges I am entering these cards into.

Heart 2 Heart - What's Old is New
Opus Gluei - Out with the Old, In With the New
Simon Says - Something New
Clear it Out - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Anything But a Card
Word Art Wednesday - Uplifting Sentiment

The "new" thing is the calendar, the old is the paper packs that I'm using the scraps from!

January -Deconstructed Sketch, Merry Monday

Paper - Frosted

Stamps - Snow Days

Other - White Daisy Brads

Colors - Crystal Blue

February - Nacho Average Challenge Sketch, Shabby Tea Room, Runway Inspired

Paper - Free to Be Me

Stamps - Wonderland WOTG

Colors - Cotton Candy, Desert Sand, Tulip

Other - Opaques Flourishes

March - Mojo Monday, Colour Q

Paper - Ivy Lane

Stamps - Look to the Light

Colors - Olive, Ivy Lane

April - Atlantic Hearts

Paper - Ariana

Other - Art Philosophy

May - Sweet Sunday Sketch

Paper -Balloon Ride 

Stamps - Love Life

Ink - Saddle

Other - Sparkles

June - Sunday Stamps

Paper -Lollydoodle

Stamps - The Little Things

Ink - Juniper, Pear, Cocoa, Cotton Candy, Sorbet

July - Retro Sketches

Paper - Jubilee

Other - Olive Ribbon, Green Epoxy Bubbles

August - Freshly Made Sketches

Paper - Timberline

Stamps - Camper Crazy

Ink - Ponderosa Pine

Markers - Marigold, Turquoise Blue, Sap Green, Mahogany

September - CAS(E) This Sketch

Paper -Chalk it Up

October - Deconstructed Sketch

Paper - Scaredy Cat

November - Operation Write Home

Paper - Pathfinding

Stamps - Always Grateful

Ink - Barn Red

Other - Olive Ribbon

December - Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

Paper - Yuletide Carol

Other - Square Sparkles

Golden Doves at Christmas

Here is a fun new blog called CASE-ing Christmas. I like this inspiration card, and I was inspired by the colors and the dove and the layers. This card also fits the black and gold challenge at Pink Elephant. So here is what I came up with:

And here is the inspiration card:

What do you think?

Pink Elephant inspiration photo:

Materials used:

Cardstock: Colonial White, Black

B&Ts: Yuletide Carol

Stamps: Roxie WOTG, Christmas Love

Ink: Black

Other: Scallop Border, Gold Glitter Paper, pearls and flower punch (not CTMH)

Calendar Cover

They do a lot of mixed media and different kinds of art over at Our Creative Corner. I usually stick to cards and scrapbook pages, but I decided to branch out a little. Their challenge is to reuse something leftover from Christmas. I had a load of Christmas cards, and I wanted to make a calendar for the year, so I decorated the front of a Flip Stand Album that I can use to put calendar pages in (calendar coming later.) I used an image from one of the cards on the front. It was a sweet card from my cousin and I could tell they put some thought into it. So I cut out the little house and added it to my cover. I painted a little over it so it looks like it's in a blizzard!

Some of the materials I used are CTMH, but some are not. The CTMH materials are:
My Creations Flip Stand Album, Florentine Assortment, Colonial White Floret Ribbon, Sarita Assortment, Bronze brads, Chocolate Distress ink, Bronze ShinHan marker

The other products are: Recollections paper, ribbon and jute from my stash, Spare Parts flowers, Folk Art White enamel paint