Hooray Bouquet for Color Dare #199

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog post. This week we have a 4 color challenge--Pacifica, Sunset, Cranberry and White Daisy.  My flowers were cut with the soon to retire CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped with the soon to retire Hooray Bouquet stamp set.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Pacifica CS

     Cranberry CS

     Sunset Ink

     Cranberry Ink

     White Daisy CS

     Art Philosophy cartridge

     Hooray Bouquet stamp set

     White Shimmer Trim

     3D Foam Tape

Here is the Color Graphic for Color Dare #199.  Just click on it to get to our challenge blog to be inspired by the rest of the fabulous Design Team.  We would like you to use all and only these colors but if you don't have these Close to My Heart colors yet you may substitute with similar colors.

My card layout was inspired by this fabulous sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #242:

I'm also adding this card to the Simon Says Stamp Shimmer challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Father's Day Key on the Artiste Cartridge for Rose Blossom Garden #5--Card #1

Until June 15 the challenge at the Rose Blossom Garden is to make something using the Happy Father's Day key from the Artiste cartridge (pg. 75).  I chose a jagged edged cut (accent 4 shift at 1.25") and cut off one edge and alternated the placement of the jagged edges.  The pretty patterned papers are Topiary B & T papers (retired CTMH).  The vertical panel was stamped with Keyboard Uppercase Alphabet in Topiary Ink and Hooray Bouquet flowers in Buttercup and Topiary ink.  This piece was matted over Outdoor Denim CS.  The final touch was the placement of Durable Square Studs on each horizontal panel. 

 

It was a very easy card to make!  Come back tomorrow when I'll share a second card made for this challenge.

Have you checked out the latest Color My Heart Color Dare yet?  Pick your own pink, orange and yellow and link it up by Thursday, June 13 at 9PM CST here.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!
:) Marie

Use it Tuesday #48 Warm it Up with Freshly Made Sketch #70

The focus of the Use it Tuesday challenge blog is to use your stash and I certainly have accumulated a lot of "stash".  I combined a new stamp "Cozy Cat" (my absolutely favorite!) along with the new paper (cat's pillow) from "Chantilly" which will be available to order from Close To My Heart this Friday, Feb. 1.  The other 6 elements I've had in my stash for quite awhile (Burlap Ribbon, Chocolate CS, Sunset CS, Victorian Buttercup B&T paper (retired), Cranberry B&T paper (retired) and Dotty for You--also retired.  The greeting "You Make Me Smile" is from Hooray Bouquet.  The focus of the Use it Tuesday #48 challenge this week is to use warm colors such as yellow, orange and red.  I followed the Freshly Made Sketch #70--I love their clean lined sketches and play along with them as much as I can.  Some extra embellishments I used were Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel, Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel, Silver Glitz Glitter Gel and 3D FoamTape.

 

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch I followed (flipping the pattern to fit in with the direction the cat is facing.) :

I am also entering this card into Send a Smile for Kids Challenge Anything Goes.

If you are looking for a good color challenge try using these 3 shades of green at

 

Color My Heart Color Dare:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week filled with fun and creativity!
:) Marie

More Hexagons for Tuesday Morning Sketch #181 and Make it Monday

I had some leftover hexagon pieces from my last card for Color My Heart Color Dare and they are useful in the Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet Use Your Scraps Challenge this week.  It fits in quite nicely with the Tuesday Morning Sketch #181 and gave me the chance to use Cozy Cat again--he'll appear in the Close To My Heart catalog on February 1.  The greeting is from Hooray Bouquet and the hexagon pieces are from CTMH retired Black Background and Texture paper.  The cat was stamped onto Grey Wool B & T paper and Holiday Red B & T paper and then cut out and lifted up off his pillow with 3D foam dots.

The sketch:

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

p.s. don't forget to check out the current color challenge at Color My Heart--black, white and a pop of color (your choice of Close To My Heart colors!)  due Thursday, Jan. 25 at 9pm CT

Leaf Themed Card for Numerous Challenges

I spent a lot of time deciding on how many stamp challenges I could fit this card into as is the challenge at pile it on #40.  This is a new challenge for me along with some of the others ones I've chosen to enter this week.

Challenges:
pile it on #40--card made for a child (I think the smiley face on the maple leaf qualifies for this)
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #70  Falling Leaf
Friday Mashup! -- Fall leaves with Twine
Frosted Design Fabulous Friday -- Something Embossed
Dynamic Duos -- Cherry Cobler and choice of other color
Cupcake Inspirations --photo of leaf topped cupcakes as inspiration

Here is my card:

 

 

 

The leaves were cut with the Close To My Heart Artiste Cricut cartridge (pg.78 at 2" and 1.75") and the acorn and oval were cut using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge (acorn pg.36 at 1.25" and oval2 from page 32 at 1.25".)  Papers are CTMH Colonial White background, Cranberry (Cherry Cobbler substitute for Dynamic Duos), Honey and Kraft.  I used the Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder to texturize the oak leaves and acorn and the Spots and Dots folder to dry emboss the kraft stripe.  A deckle edge scissor was used to trim the cranberry stripe.  The greeting stamped in Cranberry ink is from Hooray Bouquet and the smile face stamp is from a very old wood CTMH set called Scrapbook Kids.

Keep reading my blog--a Giveaway of some sort--details to come soon!

I will be celebrating my 100th post as a blogger soon. I am planning some type of giveaway but am open to hearing your suggestions too. What kind of requirements should I have to be eligible to win? Please leave a comment below if you have any suggestions for me. (this is post #98 already!)

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful week filled with creativity and fun!

:) Marie

FTL 186 Clean and Simple Sketch Challenge

I love this sketch provided by Clean and Simple Stamping. The pink paper is from the Close To My Heart paper pack "Lucy" and the bluish green paper is from the CTMH paper pack called Florentine. The dragonflies were cut with the CTMH Art Philosophy cricut cartridge at 1.5" and 1". The dragonfly bodies were glittered with CTMH Silver glitz gel and the wings were glittered with CTMH Stardust glitz gel. The greeting was embossed with white EP and is from CTMH D1941 Hooray Bouquet.

You still have a few days to enter this challenge. Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my card. If you like it please feel free to leave a comment. Have a great week filled with fun and inspiration!

H2H Challenge--Make a 3D Item--Covered Tissue Box

This is the first project that I've done using the new Pemberly paper by Close To My Heart. You can see the other beautiful patterns in this new paper set here. Last week's challenge at H2H can be found here and here is my 3D item. I've made a tissue box cover with photo frames. The tutorial to make this box came from Splitcoaststampers.com and can be found here. (Their version was just a decorated box and I adapted it to hold photos to make it even more functional.)

The photo frames were cut using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. I found it on page 44 and used shift + card function set at 4". (2nd row--very last grey image.)

First I trimmed my photos to 3.75" x 3.75". Then I made a template where I cut off the corners at a 45 degree angle. I then traced around it and made a frame that I placed over my photos to get the best possible image. I traced the inside edges with a blue photo marking pencil onto the photos and then cut them out on the lines. I used Tombow adhesive to attach the photos to the Pemberly photo frames.

The cardstock papers that I used are CTMH Outdoor Denim and Indian Corn Blue for the top. The navy and white leaf print border on the box lid is the zip strip from the Pemberly printed paper that I used. On the top of the box lid I stamped and clear embossed a greeting from the Hooray Bouquet stamp set which says "You Make Me Smile" and of course, looking at pictures of my grandson do that for me. The labels were cut at 1" (Indian Corn Blue) and 1.25" (Outdoor Denim) and were cut with the cricut from page 65--Rectangle 8. The label is popped up twice with 3D foam tape and is placed in one corner. I used an Outdoor Denim marker to color inside the swirls cut in the top paper layer on the box lid.

Here are a couple of other tissue box covers that I made to decorate my home for the holidays last year. (Do you recognize last year's CTMH papers Olivia and Mistletoe?) These were all easy to make. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!

Clean and Simple Sketch Challenge FTL 172

I love the design of the Clean and Simple Sketch Challenge this week and used it as inspiration for my card. It can be found here. My card uses Close To My Heart products including Dreamin' paper, Buttercup Gingham (retired), Pacifica Ink, Art Philosophy and Hooray Bouquet stamp set. All edges were distressed with a foam brush and Pacifica Ink. Blue and white Bakers' Twine was tied around the middle of the card to complete the card.

Here is the sketch that I followed:

Thanks for taking a look at my artwork and for leaving a comment if you have time.

H2H Sketch Challenge with Roxie and Hooray Bouquet

This week there is a sketch challenge at H2H challenge blog. Here it is:

My card uses Close To My Heart products: Roxie paper, vanilla cream CS, D1491 Hooray Bouquet, Cocoa and Hollyhock inks. The vertical strips are from the end of the Roxie paper--don't you love the scallops?

Thanks for looking!