Water Lilies and Dragonflies for Mojo Monday 350

There's a great sketch this week at Mojo Monday and I found some time to play along.

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Sky Ink

     Love Life 

     Sky CS

     Creme Brulee CS

     Sunset CS

     Outdoor Denim CS

     Just Blooms butterfly (retired)

     Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel (retired)

     Bronze Shimmer Trim

Other products

    Repeat Impressions stamp "Water Lilies and Dragonflies"

    Prismacolor Pencils

    Anna Griffin embossing folder

Here is the Mojo Monday sketch that inspired me:

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

:) Marie

    

Color Dare #99 With Retrosketch # 119

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge post!  Can you believe this is challenge #99 already?  Perhaps we should plan something special for our 100th challenge--would love to hear your ideas on that.  We would love to see you use all 5 of the following Close To My Heart colors in your papercrafted creation:

You can add neutrals such as white, black, greys or tans.  If you don't have the exact Close To My Heart colors you can use similar colors.

Close To My Heart products used:

     Black CS

     Creme Brulee CS

     Sweetheart paper (retired)

     Pear CS

     Sweet Leaf CS

     Blush CS

     Casual Expressions Stamp

     Glitter Gems from Frosted Workshop on the Go (retired)

Other products:

     Flowers--unknown source

It was fun to put this card together following the Retrosketch model #119:

I'm also entering this card into Seize the Birthday--Anything Goes challenge.

Check out what the fabulous Color My Heart Color Dare Design Team  has to inspire you.  You have until Thursday, June 20 9PM CDT to enter your papercrafted creation here.  We look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create with the colors Cotton Candy, Blush, Creme Brulee, Sweet Leaf and Pear.

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

:) Marie

Color Dare #89 With Creme Brulee, Juniper and Sorbet

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare post where we challenge you to create something using Close To My Heart colors.  (Of course, substitutions are allowed as long as they are close to the challenge colors.)  Our colors for Color Dare #89 are Creme Brulee, Juniper and Sorbet.  If you enter our challenge you must use all 3 of these colors which can be combined with neutrals such as white, black, tans, and greys if you wish.

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Sorbet CS

     Creme Brulee CS

     Juniper CS

     Laughing Lola Cardmaking kit thinking of you stamp

     Artbooking collection heart cuts and floral heart stamp

     Juniper Washi Tape

Please stop by and check out what our fabulous Design Team has to share with you here.  We look forward to viewing your creations in our gallery.  You have until April 17 9PM CT to enter our challenge. Please use a direct link to link up your post (not your general blog name) here. 

We have blog badges that are awarded each week and a monthly prize drawing of craft supplies to go to a randomly selected participant.  The more challenges you enter the greater your chances of winning a prize.  

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

:) Marie

Ombre Challenge for Heart 2 Heart

Welcome back to another Heart 2 Heart Challenge blog post where we feature Close To My Heart products!  We would love to have you join us in entering the "Ombre" challenge combining several shades of colors.  I chose a very simple yet effective way of doing this (easily repeatable and great for mass card production).

I started with cutting up 1" x 3.75" strips of Buttercup, Creme Brulee, Goldrush, Sunset and Autumn Terracotta.  Next I placed them over a contrasting piece of Barn Red CS and then over a Cashmere card base.  The ovals were cut with the Artiste cartridge (page 36) at 1.25" and 1.5" to coordinate with the greeting from Casual Expressions stamp set.  Happy Birthday was stamped in Barn Red Ink.
Before I adhered the Barn Red piece to the card I wrapped some Sunset Bakers' Twine around and tied a bow.  How did I get the bow to lie flat?--a mini-glue dot!

Now it's your turn to share your papercrafted creations..  Please use a direct link to enter this challenge here.  You don't have to use 100%  Close To My Heart products but we would love it if you did!  (If you don't use any CTMH products your entry will be deleted).  Since this is our last challenge of the month, you have until August 3 to submit your entries for any of the July challenges.

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

Sunday Stamps Color Challenge #53 with a Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch #124

Welcome back to another Sunday Stamps Challenge!  This two week period features a color challenge--blue, orange and yellow.  Here is the inspiration photo:

 

Last Friday evening my friend Doris made a "Hole in One" during league play and I wanted to make her a special card to commemorate this special event.  When I saw the Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch #124  I knew how I would do it using the Sunday Stamps colors and TSOT sketch.  The products I used are all from Close To My Heart although the Tee Time stamp set retired several years ago.  The CTMH paper colors are Pacifica, Sunset and Creme Brulee with Sunset and Pacifica inks. The "congrats" greeting is from Say it in Style (CTMH retired).

Here is the inside of the card:

Here is the Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch:

Please head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the talented Design Team has to share with you and leave them some appreciation.  We would love for you to join in the challenge--you have until Friday, July 12 at 6PM EST to link up your creation here.  Please be sure to mention (and link back) to Sunday Stamps if you enter the challenge.

You can visit the rest of the Design Team's blogs here:
Hayley, Joan, Brenda,  and Kathya

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

:) Marie

Color Dare #44--Creme Brulee and Juniper and Blog Candy Giveaway Details

This week's Color My Heart Color Dare features the Close To My Heart colors Creme Brulee and Juniper.  Several of the Color Dare Design Team members and I are also participating in this weekend's Operation Write Home blog hop so I will be using the same Operation Write Home sketch for today's post as well as tomorrow's.  I chose to use OWH sketch #71 which looks like this:

My card uses a Juniper colored patterned paper from Jingle which was available several years ago, Creme Brulee CS, a thin Cocoa CS stripe, Quick Cards--Bumblebee stamp, Cocoa ink, Versamark ink, Clear Embossing Powder, Creme Brulee ink with honeycomb stamp from Wicked stamp set (CTMH retired) and glossy paper (retired CTMH).  3D Foam Tape lifts the focus panel from the center panel.

Before I stamped on the center panel I used a Polished Stone Technique to create the background.  I soaked a cotton ball with Rubbing Alcohol and then put drops of Creme Brulee and Juniper reinkers on the cotton ball.  I then rubbed the alcohol and color soaked cotton ball over the glossy paper to create the multicolored or marbled effect.  (I did not add a metallic ink to the cotton ball as originally described in this technique here).  Although I have plenty of Glossy CS in my stash it may be hard to find.  The blue package of glossy photographic paper pictured here would be a source--I got this package at Dollar Tree.

 

This was a very easy sketch to follow as the paper dimensions are listed in the sketch photo.  I will definitely be using more OWH sketches in the future!

We hope you can join in on this challenge.  If you don't have Close To My Heart colors you may substitute something similar.  Please use only the 2 challenge colors (this week it is Juniper and Creme Brulee)--you may use neutrals to complement these colors but the challenge focus is to use these colors. Link up your papercrafted creation (it does not have to be a card!) here by Thursday, May 30, 2012 9PM CST.  There is a monthly prize to be won by one lucky person!  Don't forget to see what the rest of the Design Team has ready to inspire you!

BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

In celebration of our military heroes (proud Navy mom here) I'm offering a prize to one lucky person whose name will be picked at random.  The prize package will include 100+ assorted cardfronts (4.25" x 5.5").  All pieces are from Close To My Heart papers--some current and some retired along with some border strips.

 

To be eligible to win you must:

--Become a follower of my blog AND

--Write a comment on my 5/25/ 2013 Operation Write Home post indicating you are a blog follower

--Deadline to comment on my blog is midnight EST, May 31st, 2013

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!  Good luck in the prize drawing!

:) Marie