Color My Heart Color Dare #644

Afternoon all, 

As I was pondering what card to make today, whilst I sit here full of head cold, I came across the new colour board from Color My Heart Color Dare for their challenge #644. 

And I was only just thinking the other day how I'd like to make a layered floral with blue and orange so this was perfect timing! 

I used layering dies from Altenew and a sentiment from Uniko along with some blue gems to finish the card. 

That's all from me, I'm off to have a lie down and try to shake off the remnants of this cold.

I am also entering this into Double Trouble Challenge #187, having used 3 flowers, 2 colours and 1 sentiment.

Update:

Thank you for choosing my card as Sapphire winner at Colour My Heart Colour Dare.

Much love

Steph x

Seven Hills Crafts January Colour Challenge

Good afternoon, 

I'm very pleased that I have found time today to make a card to enter into the Seven Hills Crafts January Colour challenge. It has been ages since I entered a challenge as I'm usually too busy either working or creating cards for the Design Teams I am a part of but today I have found a snippet of time to complete this challenge. Hopefully I will be able to enter more challenges as the year progresses. 

The colour theme has been inspired by fashion and a minimum of three colours from the below need to be used:

My eye immediately went to the gorgeous mustard and teal combination on the top row and I decided to team them with the dark blue on the bottom row.

For my card I used Altenew Monstera 3D die set and Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday Line Border die, both brands are stocked in the Seven Hills Crafts online store. 

That's all for me for today, hope you like the colour match for my card!

Much love

Steph x

Miss Moo is Two!

Hi everyone, 

Strange blog title?! So my great niece turned two las week. Her name is Amelia but her pet name is Miss Moo, so Miss Moo is two! 

This along with her love of Koala's were the driving factors behind the very special birthday card I made for her.

I die cut three circles from a piece of white card the size of a slimline base. Behind these apertures I stamped Clearly Besotted Birch Background II, and also onto the middle size circle cut out which was then adhered to the end of the row. The letters are cut using Altenew Tall Alpha dies and I have stacked two on top of each other for dimension. The koalas and the leaves are from the Clearly Besotted Cute Koala set and I have fussy cut them out before adhering in place. Finally I found a heart stamp that was just the right size and stamped twice, fussy cut and added to the top right hand corner.

Since Time Out Challenges is celebrating their 8th birthday I will link up this card there and wish them many happy returns! 

Much love

Steph x

 

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #444

 Hi everyone 

Welcome back for another Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #444. Today we have another Tic, Tac, Toe board for you to choose your colours either from a row, a column or diagonal but feel free to add the other colours from the board and the free colours as listed also. No additional colours are allowed.

We reference Close To My Heart colour names but any brand can be used as long as it’s a very close match.

I was very excited to see the rose gold on this board and knew straight away I was going to use it but the only rose gold thing I currently own is some Wow! Fab Foil which I’m still trying to get to grips with. It looks much easier on online demonstrations than it actually is!

I decided to use the rose gold to imitate a marble effect background.

First I took Peach and Ballerina coloured inks and blended them randomly onto white card. Then I made trails of glue and left it to go tacky before laying down the Fab Foil. 

Once I was happy with my background I die cut the Altenew Burlap Texture die from Mink card and laid this on the bottom right. 

I stamped the Uniko Beautiful Blooms III in Peach, Ballerina and Sangria coloured ink and Blue Belle and Glacier for the stems and leaves. I actually used Lawn Fawn inks in the following colours to match the TTT board: Apricot, Ballet Slippers, Cranberry, Forget-Me-Not and Mermaid. I fussy cut the flowers and arranged them over the Burlap die cut. 

I decided to use an off cut of the marble effect background for my sentiment (Stampin Up! Delightful Dozen) which I stamped in Versamark ink and then added Wow! Bonding powder. Whilst still hot I laid over more foil and burnished with a bone folder, lifting off the foil when cooled. I used a scallop edge die to cut a frame from Mink card and adhered both to the top left of the card.

I do wish that you head over to the blog to see the rest of the Design Team’s fantastic projects. It’s really great to see how different all our styles are and you get a very good spread of inspiration. 

Much love

Steph x

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #443

Welcome everyone 

Challenge #443 for Color My Heart Color Dare is now live and it’s a good one:

Choose three of the colours in the wheel ensuring they are side by side and get creative! The only free colours for this challenge are black and white.

On my card I used Yellow, Yellow-Green and Green. I wanted to make a masculine card as I’m short on those in my stash so I went with a black card base. I cut the Altenew Burlap Texture die from white card and built up the Altenew Monstera dies using my three chosen colours. I added a die cut sentiment in yellow to finish. 

Aside from the piecing together of the monsteras, this was quite a quick card to make so I decided to make it again this time using Green, Blue-Green and Blue.

I hope you like my take on the challenge and look forward to seeing your creations in our gallery. Pop over to the Color My Heart Color Dare blog to join in. Check out the rest of the Design Team’s fantastic projects and leave them some love if you have time. We all love a kind comment! 

Much love

Steph x

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #440

Good morning everyone 

Today we have a great challenge from Color My Heart Color Dare called Crazy 8! Since there’s more than 8 of us on the Design Team I don’t think it’s referring to us!! 😂

The idea behind challenge #440 is to select at least 4 of the eight blocks shown and they aren’t all colour based so you can do a bit of mixing it up!

As always we reference Close to My Heart colour names but you can use any brand as long as it’s a very close match.

For my card I chose the florals, Glacier, New England Ivy and Sundance (with a little bit of Peach thrown in at the end!).

As I haven’t done a slimline card in a while I decided it was time and I already had the florals stamped and heat embossed with clear powder from another project I had been working on. I have recently treated myself to some Spectrum Noir Triblend markers so I tried them out my flowers and was happy with how they work. I then fussy cut the flowers (I’m one of those strange people who quite likes fussy cutting!) and decided on my arrangement. I wanted to bring my main three colours into the card as much as possible so I used all three for card layers. I already had the sentiment stamped (again from a previous project) and as I’m trying to use up my ‘overflow’ bits and pieces I decided it would be perfect for this card. Finally I added some sequins, which is not like me at all but I seem to be more and more drawn to embellishments these days. 

There’s a fair few stamp sets used for this card so it seemed easier to list them:

Altenew Dahlia Blossoms

Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 162

Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 178

Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 204

Creative Stamping Issue 81

Lisa Horton Crafts Festive Flora and Fauna

Hero Arts Calla Lily (sentiment)

Phew! That’s a fair few stamp sets!

So hopefully you’ve all been inspired to join in and you like the style of this week’s challenge. Pop over to the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #440 and see what goodness the rest of the Design Team came up with.

Much love

Steph x

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #434

Hi everyone 

Oh my goodness how is it March already?? In some ways the year is flying by but in other ways it’s dragging...think lovely craft time versus UK lockdown 3.0 and home schooling! 

Today we go live with a new Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #434. For this challenge choose at least three of the colours shown and create any type of paper craft. We reference Close to my Heart colours but any brand is fine as long as it’s a very close match. 

I decided it was time to get out a layering floral stamp set that I have had for a while but have not yet used...I have a lot of stamps sets like this!! The stamp set is Altenew Modern Anemone for which I also have the matching dies so cutting out the flowers and leaves was very easy. 

I started by stamping the outlines of the flowers and leaves in black. I then stamped the inner coloured parts in Sage, Canary and Grape. Once die cut I settled on an arrangement I liked and decided to bring a bit more colour to the card with a Blue Belle background layered onto Canary yellow card. I added a sentiment strip in Canary and used a stamp from a Clearly Besotted set to finish.

Please head over to the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge blog and join in. This colour scheme would be perfect for some Easter cards. Check out the rest of the Design Teams beautiful creations and leave them some love on their individual blogs. 

Much love

Steph x

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #424

Morning everyone!

Today we are going with non traditional Christmas colours at Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #424. You don’t need to complete a Christmas card so this is a great challenge to get involved with.

I did make a Christmas card and I took my inspiration from the photo. I inked up an Altenew layered bauble stamp and made a bauble wreath, very similar to one currently residing on my gate!!

I have used one of my favourite Christmas sentiment stamps from Uniko. Sadly it’s no longer available but I do love the font style.  

Thanks so much for visiting today. I hope you are inspired to join the challenge and go take a look at the rest of the design teams creations over on the Color My Heart Color Dare blog.

Merry Christmas!!

Steph x