Inspired By Blog Challenge - Color Dare #96

I have been working on a Balloon Ride workshop (details to come soon!) so this week's Color My Heart challenge coincided perfectly! 

Color Dare Challenge #96 features the Close to My Heart colors: Sorbet, Creme Brulee, and Crystal Blue (Juniper & Sky optional colors). 

 

Lots of layering, dimension, and distressing.  It just fell together!

Thanks for stopping by - Happy Scrapping!!

Won first place for this blog challenge!! :)


Featured Products (all from Close to My Heart - SHOP HERE):

• Balloon Ride Paper Pack
• Balloon Ride Compliments
• Mini-Melody Accents: Rosewood Collection
• Cashmere Stamp Pad
• White Daisy Value Card Pack
• 3D Foam Tape

Inspired By Blog Challenges - Color Dare #95

Getting inspired and crafty again with another blog challenge this week.  This is one I have missed participating in and really helps get my creative mojo flowing.  Color My Heart's Color Dares are super fun!!  

Color Dare Challenge #95 features the Close to My Heart colors of Sunset, Olive & Lagoon. With many graduations upon me, I used this color pallet as my inspiration for one.

Thanks for stopping by - Happy Scrapping!!

I am a winner for this blog challenge!! :)


Featured Products (all from Close to My Heart - SHOP HERE):

• Paradise Assortment Baker's Twine
• Polka Dot Embossing Folder
• Olive, Sunset, & Lagoon Cardstock
• Olive & Sunset Stamp Pads
• Artiste Cricut Cartridge
• Perfect Fit-Dad Stamp Set
• Art Philosophy Stamp Set
• White Daisy Value Card Pack
• 3D Foam Tape

Inspired By Blog Challenges - Color Dare #76 & Mojo Monday #327

Guess what time it is?!  It's Blog Challenge time!!  I crave these now - LOVE it!!  This week {so far} I tackled and combined the Color Dare #76 and the Mojo Monday #327 challenges.

 

  
Here is my card:

Featured Products (*retired):

• Dotty For You Paper Paper*
• Artiste Cricut Collection (all hearts & swag)
• Smoothie & Colonial White Cardstock
• 3D Foam Tape
• Black Ink
• Holiday Tags Stamp Set
• Pearl Opaques (retiring Jan 31, 2014)
• Colonial White Value Card Pack

Inspired by Blog Challenges - Color Dare #74 & Mojo Monday #326

Challenges will be a main focus for me during 2014 - one of my favorites is the Color My Heart Color Dare weekly challenges.  I haven't had a chance to participate in a while, so I thought I'd end my vacation by going after this challenge.  For my design, I merged the Juniper & Ruby color combo with the Mojo Monday sketch.

Here is my card, inspired by these blog challenges:

I cut the circular card base, the scalloped card (polka dots) and the juniper B&T ring from the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.  I backed the silver geometric washi tape and backed it with white daisy cardstock to make it more sturdy and pop.  The washi tape banner, juniper base and happy birthday are all raised with 3D foam tape.  I used the CTMH alcohol markers to color in the present and the Slate stamp pad to ink the edges of the Juniper base and happy birthday tag.

This card exceeded my expectations!  It came together really nicely - hope you enjoy it and get inspired. Thanks for stopping by!!

Featured Products:

• Sparkle & Shine Paper Pack
• White Daisy Cardstock
• Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge
• Holiday Tags MyAcrylix Stamp
• Red Shimmer Trim
• Slate and Ruby Stamp Pads
• Juniper, Ruby & Slate Alcohol Makers
• A Little Gift Mini MyAcrylix Stamp
• Clear Sparkles Assortment
• 3D Foam Tape

Color Dare #57

Having won a color dare a couple weeks ago, I was asked to be a guest designer for the weekly Color My Heart Color Dare challenge!  This is such a fun challenge to be part of and am grateful to the awesome girls heading up the design team.

This week's challenge focuses on the two colors from the blue family:  Pacific and Sky.

Rules are easy-peasy ... make anything you want, featuring the colors for the challenge and Close to My Heart products.  Bonus points if it's all current products!  Only neutrals can be added to the projects, unless otherwise specified.

I typically lean to cards for these types of things and I can always need them for my stash!  So here it is:

It ended up being a bit more simple than I usually do, but I wanted to feature some cool new products and I failed to have any Sky cardstock! :0o  I know, right?!  So improvising and keeping up with "current" products, I stamped a background on the card using the Geometric Backgrounds MyAcrylix Stamp and then used an Artbooking CTMH Cricut Cartridge overlay to frame it up.  {BTW - if you have not gotten this cartridge yet, Oh-M-Gee!! You need to!! It rocks!! Between all 3 of the CTMH cartridges, I don't desire any other cartridges.} I topped the card off with a sentiment from one of the MyCrush stamps and blinged it up with the amazing Glitz Glitter Gel.

Hope you like it and get inspired to join this week's challenge with these colors!  Check out my website www.inspired.CTMH.com to get the products I used (listed below). Feel free to email me with questions or if you'd like to host/attend a workshop or home gathering.

Thanks!
~D

Featured Products:

• Geometric Backgrounds MyAcrylix Stamp - D1559
• Holiday Tags MyAcrylix Stamp - D1560
• Real Life MyAcrylix Stamp - B1431
• Artbooking CTMH Cricut Cartridge - Z1906
• Art Philosophy CTMH Cricut Cartridge - Z1686
• Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel - Z1483
• Sky Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad - Z2194
• Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad - Z2111
• White Daisy Value Card Pack - X254
• Pacifica & Chocolate Cardstock

Color Dare #50

This week's color dare features the colors in the Close to My Heart Surf's Up paper pack:

This is such a fun paper pack and is continuing forward in the next idea book (in case you haven't gotten yours yet!)  Here is my project - a 2 page layout, using a lot of the latest and greatest products, including flip flaps. 

Flip flaps are AWESOME for adding dimension and interaction to your pages, as well as providing additional "space" for pictures or journaling.  The flip flap is tucked under the dessert sand cardstock.  After I placed the page in the page protector sheet, I used a technique to pull the flip flap to the outside of the page, so it could be opened from the outside and not tear the page protector.  Last, I adhered a button and some baker's twin to the corner to signal "open me" to people.

I also created my own "washi" tape from the paper by cutting it to the width I wanted, tearing the edges to make the white core (all CTMH's papers are like this) of the paper show through and then adhered it down.  Adds a great coordinating look!

Another cool technique - you can probably see it on the photos at the bottom better - is to distress the edges of your photos and stamp directly on it.  It gives them more dimension and as long as it has enough time to dry, you're good to go!

Thanks for stopping in!  Contact me or visit my website to get the products featured in my layouts.

~Denise

Featured Products:

- Surf's Up Paper

- Surf's Up MyStickease

- Trinity Alphabet stamp set

- Baker's Twine: Paradise Assortment

- Sightseer Stamp Set

- Flip Flaps

- Color Ready Trinkets Wooden Shapes 

Inspiration with Tommy

Tommy is one of the new paper packs in the 2013 Spring/Summer Idea Book.  It's a super fun, nautical, and bright paper pack - perfect for summer fun.

Featured colors for Tommy are: Cranberry, Desert Sand, Honey, Outdoor Denim, and White Daisy.  I had a couple cards I needed to make, so I pulled this paper pack out and this is what I came up with (on the fly, and sorta tired!, but they met my standards & I was happy with them).

The Birthday cards above are pattern 20 from Make It From Your Heart-Vol #1 How-To-Book - yup both of them! One is just turned a quarter to give it a whole different look and feel. 

I also wanted to show the difference of what distressing your projects can add to your projects.  "To distress or not to distress??" is something I always ask myself when I'm crafting.  It usually comes down to time, my mood, or my creative vision.  Sometimes, a project must be distressed - it'll just look incomplete without it; others just work with the simplicity of the paper, stamping and embellishing.

The Birthday card on the left is completely distressed - it's easiest to see with Cranberry on the base paper and Honey with the raised (with 3D tape) sentiment.  Stamping the sentiment at an angle gives the Perfect Fit - Frames 2 stamp an added flair, as show on the left-hand side card.

The baby card is for a dear friend of mine that just gave birth to an adorable little guy.  I used the Artiste CTMH Cricut cartridge (LOVE our cartridges - yes there are 2! Art Philosophy is the other.  I have no desire or need to buy or have any other cartridges).  The "treasured moments" tag is part of the zip strip on the Tommy paper!  All edges on this card (excluding the baby diecut) are distressed.

When I have more time, I'm looking forward to adding some bling (sprakles) or some texture (mini-melody accents wooden collection or complements canvas shapes)... and creating a couple great layouts with these fun colors to my Caribbean album.

Now that you are {hopefully} inspired, either to use Tommy or with the color palette - specifically Cranberry, Honey & Outdoor Denim, then get to scrappin!!  And enter the Color My Heart challenge with Color Dare #43!

Featured Products (not referenced above):
- Perfect Fit-Birthday Stamp Set:  B1417
- Cards & Envelopes:  X254
- Artisan Studs: Z1816
- Outdoor Denim Chevron Ribbon: Z1808

Color My Heart: Color Dare #40

I went looking for inspiration to keep my creativity flowing, so I pulled up this week's Color Dare on the Color My Heart blog.  The rules are simple; basically create a project using the featured Close to My Heart (CTMH) colors and try to use 100% CTMH projects - bonus points if they are current.  Post and reference the blog challenge & woo-la!

This week's challenge focused on three colors from the warmer side of the palette:  Creme Brulee, Sunset, and Goldrush.

Having recently worked with the Buzz and Bumble paper pack, I had an idea of what I wanted to create - here they are:

This was a fun challenge - I definitely plan on participating more!!  Do you want to follow the Color My Heart Blog or participate in the Color Dares?  Here is the link Color My Heart: Color Dare Blog. 

Visit my website to shop for the products featured in my cards above:  www.inspired.CTMH.com

Products Used for the Note For You Card:
- Buzz & Bumble Paper:  X7164B
- Goldrush Stamp Pad:  Z2123
- Just For You Stamp: B1398
- Opaques Pearl Flourishes:  Z1744
- Glitter Paper - Brown & Tan:  Z1830
- Almond Glitz Glitter Gel:  Z1769
- Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge:  Z1686
- Cards & Envelopes-White:  X254

Products Used for the Happy Birthday Card:
- Buzz & Bumble Paper:  X7164B
- Cocoa Stamp Pad:  Z2114
- Kraft Cardstock:  Z1375
- Burlap Ribbon:  Z1760
- Artisan Studs:  Z1816
- Goldrush Cardstock:  1243
- Glitter Paper - Brown & Tan:  Z1830
- Joyful Birthday Occasions Stamp:  B1419
- Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge:  Z1686
- Cards & Envelopes-White:  X254
- 3D foam tape:  Z1151
- Glue Dots:  1772