Color Dare #248 Meets Mojo Monday Final Sketch

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog post!  This week we are challenging you to use all and only the following exclusive Close to My Heart colors:  Desert Sand, New England Ivy, Glacier, Sapphire and White Daisy.  Of course if you don't have these CTMH colors yet you may substitute similar colors so you can still join in on the fun!

Here is a closeup photo so you can see the shimmery detail created with the Clear Shimmer Brush.

Close to My Heart products used:
     Desert Sand CS
    White Daisy CS
     Sapphire CS
     Glacier CS
     Glacier Ink
     New England Ivy Ink
     Clear Shimmer Brush
     Paintbrush
     New England Ivy Gingham paper (retired)
     Never Stop Dreaming
     Sentiment stamp (retired)

Here is the Color Dare Graphic.  Just click on it to get to the challenge site where you can be inspired by what the rest of the fabulous Design Team has to share:

My card layout was inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch:

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:
     Craft Rocket Challenges--For the Men/Boys
     Star Stampz Challenge--Make it for a Man
     Addicted to Stamps and More--Anything Goes
     Inspiration Destination #130--Anything Goes   
     Through the Craft Room Door--Anything Goes
     Tuesday Throwdown #347--For the Men

We are having a Design Team Call over at the Color Dare blog!

Would you be excited about:

    -- Using Close to My Heart products in creating on a regular basis?

    -- Creating one project and posting it to your blog every other week (twice a month)?

    -- Commenting on assigned entry #'s on weeks you submit a project? (Fellow DT members also appreciate comments)

    -- Voting for favorite entries every week?

    -- Becoming part of our Color Dare DT Facebook group where we plan and communicate with each other?  

    -- Donating an occasional "prize" for our monthly prize winners? 

NO PREVIOUS DESIGN TEAM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

If you can say "yes" to all the above then we would love to hear from you.  We are asking for a six month commitment to run from July 2017 to December 2017 which may be extended if you wish to stay longer.

To apply--write DT after your challenge entry AND email Marie (AKA NJ Stamping Queen) at mflayer at comcast dot net.  Applications will close at the end of Color Dare challenge #248 or on June 22, 2017.

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

Pretty Poinsettias for Freshly Made Sketch #253

There is a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I just finished my card with 30 minutes to the deadline!

Close to My Heart products used:

     Flower Market cartridge

     White Daisy CS

     Desert Sand CS

     Fern CS

     Canary CS

     Sea Glass Glitter paper

     Oh Deer! paper

     Ruby Ink

     Pretty Poinsettia stamp

     Ruby Ink

     Canary Ink

     3D Foam Tape

Here is the sketch that inspired my card:

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

:) Marie

Masculine Birthday Card with Freshly Made Sketch #249

I went a little "wild" with the Ink Blot stamps again!  This card is for my nephew who will begin his army military service soon after graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Loyola ROTC program.  Needless to say, I'm extremely proud of him!

Close to My Heart products used:
     Champagne CS
     Colonial White CS
     Desert Sand CS
     Aspen CS--retired
     Ink Blot Stamps
     Card Chatter Birthday--retired
     Salute Our Heroes--retired
     Ranger Fine Detail Silver Embossing powder
     Aspen Green Ink
     Desert Sand Ink
     Slate Ink

Here is a link for another army camo style card in which I used the back side of the ink blot stamps and another one here done in girly colors.

The layout for my card came from Freshly Made Sketches #249:

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

     Seize the Birthday--anything goes

     Stampin' Royalty--anything goes

     Simon Says--going wild

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

:) Marie

Seashell Card for Bitten by the Bug and Designer's Choice Challenge #713

Have you ever bought a Cricut cartridge because you really liked one image? One day I was looking to make a seashell type card from the choices in Design Space and found this card from Anna's Summer Soiree cartridge.  Off I went to Ebay to bid on the cartridge and several days later it arrived at my door.

Which one do you like best?

Products used:

     Anna's Summer Soiree cartridge

     Recollections Shimmer Champagne paper

     CTMH Desert Sand CS

     CTMH Indian Corn Blue CS (retired)

     Cricut Copper and Bluebonnet Pens

I'm entering these cards into the following 2 challenges:

     Bitten by the Bug--Pool or Beach Theme

     Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions--Masculine Theme

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

:) Marie

Army Fatigues and Dogtags Card With Global Design Projects Sketch

My newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant nephew in the US Army needed a Get Well card so I made him one that I think he will appreciate.  The background started with CTMH Desert Sand paper with the wrong side of 3 different Ink Blots stamped in Aspen Green (retired CTMH color) and Slate inks.  The dogtags were embossed in Ranger Fine Detail Silver Embossing Powder and the greeting is from CTMH "Kiss it Better".

This card follows the Global Design Projects Sketch #38:

Close to My Heart products used:

     Desert Sand CS

     Aspen CS (retired)

     Aspen Ink (retired)

     Slate Ink

     Black CS
     Ink Blot stamps

     Salute Our Heroes stamp

     Kiss it Better stamp (retired)

     Versamark Ink

     Ranger Silver Fine Detail Embossing Powder

Other products:

     Recollections White Gold Shimmer paper

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

:) Marie

     

Seeing Double for Heart 2 Heart Challenge

Heart 2 Heart is a challenge blog that features the use of Close To My Heart products. (In other words you must use some CTMH products if you link your project up to this blog).   This week's theme is "Seeing Double" and I chose to use Desert Sand cut reindeer from the new CTMH Artbooking cartridge (page 57 Icon cut at 3").  The background was stamped with the Quick Card--Bright All Night Hostess Reward Set (stamped three times, trimmed and pieced together for the sky) in Crystal Blue ink.  The bottom of the card was run through the Cuttlebug machine with an embossing folder.  Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel was applied to the antlers and a White Chalk marker was used on the tail and the front of the reindeer.

How will you interpret this challenge?  We look forward to seeing what you create for this "Seeing Double" challenge.  Remember to use some Close To My Heart products in your creation.  Use a direct link to link to Heart to Heart--you have until the end of November to enter this challenge.

Check out what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you:

Brittany, Carol,  Haley,  Lucy and our Guest Designer Hansi.  Please leave them some well deserved comments.   

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

:) Marie

Artbooking in August #4

Welcome to the 4th and final week of the Artbooking in August series.  A group of 35 Close To My Heart consultants have been hard at work creating one of the following 4 items to share with you each week--card, mini-album, giftable item or home decor and 2 page scrapbook layout.  We have each had the opportunity to stretch ourselves in the creative process.  Please visit as many blogs as you can and leave some appreciation for all the hard work we've put into this fabulous undertaking. Give a big thanks especially to Adeline Brill for setting this all up!

If you have come from Pam Ellison's blog you are on the right track! If you get lost you can go here to get back on track.

My last entry in this series is a 2 page layout which will also be a gift for a very dear friend.  I used the overlay cut on page 66 cut at 11" for the background of each page (the left side has the negative cut and the right side has the positive cut).  The "Great Outdoors" title was also cut at 11" (Real Dial Size off!) as all the cuts coordinate in size at the recommended 11"--how cool is that?

Materials used:
Artbooking Cartridge
Champagne CS
Desert Sand CS
Cranberry CS

Now head on over to see what the talented Shalana Glass has to share with you.

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

Color Dare #24--Neutrals and Design Team Announcement

Have you been to Color My Heart Color Dare this week?  If so, you'll see that there is a brand new Design Team and I'm on it!  I'm very excited to  join the very talented ladies that are on this team!  Visit my sidebar and check out their amazing blogs. I've had the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for this challenge which I thoroughly enjoyed and now I will be submitting something made with the fabulous Close To My Heart products every week!

This week's challenge is to create a project (card, layout or other papercrafted item)  using only neutral colors from the Close To My Heart Basic color palette.  They are:

White Daisy
Colonial White and

At first I thought that this would be difficult as I usually prefer bright colors but then I remembered that I had the perfect CTMH paper in my stash.  Silhouette was one of my favorite Close To My Heart papers which retired several years ago but it works great for this color challenge!  It features Black, Bamboo, Colonial White and White Daisy.  The paper I chose has a lovely floral pattern to it.  On  my first card I also added Chocolate, Colonial White and Desert Sand cardstocks and used Almond Glitz Glitter Gel and Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel to embellish the patterned paper.  The sentiment is from Card Chatter--Sympathy (a very versatile set) and it was inked in Versamark ink, Chocolate ink and then clear embossed to give it some texture.

After I applied the CTMH Glitter Gels I wondered if maybe I went overboard with it so I made two more cards trying out different neutral colors.  In this next card I used Black and White for the greeting and Colonial White as the card base.

This last card features  Black embossed sentiment on a Bamboo strip of cardstock with a black card base.

I like all of these cards with a slight preference for the glittered first one.  Do you have a preference?  I would be interested in reading it and would love for you to leave me a comment if you have the time.

This neutrals color challenge at Color My Heart Color Dare ends at 9PM Central Time on Thursday.  We would love to have you join us there! 

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

:) Marie