Color Dare 128 - a bit late

I have had a rough couple of weeks! I found out on Jan. 28 that my youngest brother died unexpectedly. I didn't feel like creating anything after that. Then I went to Ohio for his funeral and I didn't create anything while there. Then I lost (or hopefully misplaced) my camera, so I haven't been able to take pictures of my creations. So I finally today got around to creating what I had meant to make last week for the Color Dare, and I took a picture of it with my cell phone. Sorry about the poor quality!

This card is a complete case of one I saw on pinterest. I just wanted to see if I could make it using only CTMH products. I think it turned out nicely. The cricut cuts are from Artbooking.



Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Kraft, Black, Cranberry, Flaxen
Stamps: Chantilly Scrapbooking WOTG
Ink: Cranberry
Other: Bitty Brads, Red Sparkles, Clear Sparkles, Waxy Flax, Artbooking Cricut cartridge

I'm Dreaming of a ... Purple Christmas?

Here are a couple purple cards I made. I was making a purple card to CASE Rocky's card at CASE-ing Christmas, so while I still had the purple out, I decided to make a card for the other two Christmas challenges I like to play in: 52CCT - Bells; & Merry Monday - House.

Here is the CASE-ing Christmas card I made:

And here is the Original:

For my other card, I used the Snow Days stamp set because it had a house AND jingle bells. I made a little scene with the one-horse open sleigh riding over the river and through the woods to pick out a Christmas Tree. The bells are on the little horse. I added the little ticket that says "oh what fun" to tie it in to the song Jingle Bells.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Amethyst, Gypsy
Stamps: Frosted Card WOTG, Yuletide Carol Scrapbook WOTG, Snow Days
Ink: Amethyst, Gypsy, Black
Markers: Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, Gypsy, Crystal Blue, Whisper
Other: Purple Sparkles

Color Dare 127 - Snowmen!

This week at Color My Heart we are challenging you to use Black and White with Indian Corn Blue and silver. I CASED a card from Anne Marie Hile that I've had on one of my pinterest boards.

I also want to enter this into the Close to My Heart Weather challenge. Even though it's been warm enough to melt some of the snow here the last day or two, there's still enough snow on the ground to make a family of snowmen!

Come play along with us this week!

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Indian Corn Blue
B&Ts: Magic Moments
Stamps: Pair-a-Phrase
Ink: Black
Other: Bitty Sparkles, Black Ribbon Rounds, Silver Glitter Paper, Paper Fundamentals - Basic, Blue Buttons

Love & Hearts

Yesterday I found some challenges that I thought would go great together, so today I combined them to make this card. They are:

Freshly Made Sketches
Color Throwdown
Word Art Wednesday
Simon Says - Have a Heart

 

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Baby Pink, Pear
Stamps: He Is Risen
Ink: Black
Other: Lagoon Ribbon, Damask Embossing Folder, Cricut Artiste & Art Philosophy cartridges

Christmas Trees

I've been loving the CASE challenges at CASE-ing Christmas. My goal is to see how close I can get to the original using all Close To My Heart products. Here is my card:

And here is the card for CASE-ing. This one is from Judy.

I thought that Mistletoe would be perfect for this card. I think my "candy cane" stripes come pretty close to the original card, don't you?

Materials used:

Cardstock: Garden Green, Cranberry, Colonial White

B&Ts: Mistletoe

Stamps: Christmas Love

Ink: Garden Green, Cranberry, Canary, VersaMark

Other; Gold Embossing Powder, Red Glitter Gems, Red Sparkles, Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge

Love Target

So, last night I made this card. I had found some challenges, but I really wasn't inspired until I found the Close to My Heart bingo card. The first challenges are:

Nacho Average Challenge - sketch

colour Q - (CTMH colors) Hollyhock, Lagoon, Chocolate, Kraft + Neutral

Clear it out - Love theme (oops I forgot the flowers)

Then I found this bingo card, and my finger landed on "Mix it up with Ribbon." So I decided to go left and right. 

"incorporate arrows into your design"

"choose a stamp and use masking to stamp it"

"use 4 patterned papers"

"use ShinHan Touch Twin markers"

Ok, I knew this was going to be a challenge, but hey, that's what I live for! I decided to use the January stamp of the month (that I haven't used yet). I stamped 3 arrows and cut them out of scrap paper. Then I used that to mask the target. I stamped the target in Black, and the arrows again in Lagoon. I stamped the target again in Hollyhock and cut out just the heart for the middle.

To choose the patterned paper, I just decided on my colors, then looked through my scraps and found the first papers with those colors - Chocolate from Pathfinding, Hollyhock from Ivy Lane, Lagoon from Chalk It Up, and Kraft from Scholastic.

For my ribbon I realized that the zipper lace comes in both Hollyhock AND Lagoon, so I used both of them.

Using the markers was a little trickier, since I didn't have an outlined image to color. So I used the brown markers to distress my Sentiment piece. I may have stumbled upon a new ingenious form of distressing! Or not.

So here's my card:

 

Materials used:

Cardstock: White Daisy, Chocolate, Kraft

B&Ts: Pathfinding, Ivy Lane, Chalk It Up, Scholastic

Stamps: This Moment

Ink: Black, Lagoon, Hollyhock

Markers: Clay, Barely Beige

Other: Zipper Lace

Unicorn Baby Card

I didn't feel too inspired to play in any challenges yesterday, so I made a point to play in today's challenges. They are:

Sweet Sunday Sketch
Sunday Stamps - Red, White, and Kraft
Pile It On - Fantasy
Sentimental Sundays - New Beginnings

For my fantasy element, I used the only fantastical stamp I own - Unicorn Dreams. And for the "new beginnings" element, I made this a baby card. I thought the unicorn goes well with the baby  theme. And for my red, I used Tulip, which has a touch of pink, better for babies I think.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Kraft, Tulip, White Daisy
Stamps: Unicorn Dreams
Ink: Tulip
Other: Spring Blossom Just Blooms, Burlap Ribbon, Garden Wooden Shapes