Golfer Birthday Card with Atlantic Hearts Sketch #455

 Welcome back to another Atlantic HeartsSketch Challenge blog post!  This week our sketch features a diagonally striped background with a round element in the bottom right hand corner.  My diagonal background was created by alternating Silver Foil Tape and Sapphire Ink stamped sentiments from My Hole in One Stamp set.  My round corner element is a Stitched Circle Thin Cut with a golf bag image on top of it.  The golf clubs were silver embossed while the bag was stamped in Sapphire Ink.  I used a pencil eraser dipped in ink for my 3 embellishments.

Here is our fabulous sketch that inspired my card layout and for you to try.  Our challenge is open until Sunday evening, January 16 and you can link up your project here.  We look forward to visiting your blogs and leaving some bloggy comment love. Please stop by our blog on Wednesday to see what the rest of the talented Design Team has to inspire you.

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

     AAA Birthday Game #33--Two Favorite Colors

       Seize the Birthday #229--Blue and Gray                                               Happy Little Stampers--Anything Goes with Dies

       Cardz 4 Guyz #287--Spots or Stripes     

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

:) Marie

 

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Golf Themed Card with Freshly Made Sketch #512

Besides paper crafting, golf is a passion of mine.  I've combined both of them in this card using Freshly Made Sketch #512.  

Close to my Heart products used:

      My Hole in One stamp and thin cut die

      Sapphire Ink

      Silver Embossing Powder

      Glacier Card Stock

         Silver Foil Tape (retired)

Other:

      Golf Ball Themed Paper--unknown source

Here is the fabulous Freshly Made Sketch that inspired my card layout:

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

     Aud Sentiments #288--Anything Goes with a Sentiment

     Through the Purple Haze #186--Anything Goes option For Him

     Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday--Die Cuts or Punches

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

:) Marie

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Color Dare #294--Tic Tac Toe

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog.  It is the last week of the month so we have another fun "choose your own" color challenge using the Tic Tac Toe challenge board featuring Beautiful Friendship color palette.  I used the top row featuring Sapphire, Silver and Canary.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Canary CS

     Beautiful Friendship paper (blue dotted paper)

     Make Waves--Stamps and Thin Cut Dies

     Stitched Circle Thin Cut Dies

     Silver Embossing Powder

     Silver Shimmer Trim

Here is the Beautiful Friendship Tic Tac Toe Board to inspire your creativity.  Please be sure to let us know which row or column you are using when you submit your entry. You must use 3 in a line but you may add other (or all) colors from the challenge board. Just click on the graphic below to get to the Color Dare blog to see what the rest of the fabulous Design Team has to inspire you.  Our challenge is open until Thursday evening, June 7.  We look forward to seeing how you use these colors. 

     

My card layout was inspired by this wonderful Crazy 4 Challenges sketch:

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

     Crafty Gals Corner--Anything Goes

     The House That Stamps Built--Anything Goes

     Simon Says Wednesday--Use More than 1 stamp

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

:) Marie

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Color Dare #252 Meets Your Next Stamp #68

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog post!  This week we would love to see what you can create with the following Close to My Heart colors:  Black, White Daisy, Raspberry, Sea Glass, Emerald with optional Silver.  Of course if you don't have these exact colors yet you can substitute similar colors so you can still play along.  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

My card features two stamp sets that are available again during the month of July 2017 only for the Close to My Heart Stampaganza special promotion.  (Buy two stamp sets and get the third FREE along with several stamp sets available for limited time only*).

Close to My Heart products used:

     Black CS

     Enjoy the Little Things* stamps

     Washi Wonder* stamps

     Sea Glass CS

     Emerald Ink

     Raspberry Ink

     Versamark Ink

     White Embossing powder

     Silver Embossing powder

     Itty Bitty Pearls

Other products

     Inkessentials Pen Nibs--used to color flowers and               leaves with Emerald and Raspberry Inks

Here is the Color My Heart Color Dare Color Graphic--just click on it to get to see what the rest of the fabulous Design Team has to inspire you.  We would love to have you play along with us!

My card layout was inspired by this fabulous Your Next Stamp challenge #68:

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

      Crafting With An Attitude--Anything Goes

      Crafty Creations--Anything Goes

      Shopping Your Stash--CAS for Simplicity Day

      Classic Design Team Open Challenge--Anything               Goes

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

:) Marie

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Heart 2 Heart Color Challenge with Case This Sketch #224

Every now and then I participate in the Case This Sketch challenge.  This week I'm combining the sketch with the Heart 2 Heart Color Challenge.  

Here is another view so you can see the shiny silver embossing powder:

Close to My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

      Adventure Paper Fundamentals (Willow, Lemon               and Blossom)

      Fairytale Birthday (retired)

      Little Dreamer Glitter Gems

      3D Foam Tape

      Belated Birthday Stamp (retired)

      Versamark Ink

      Ranger Silver Embossing Powder

Other products:

      Silver Glitter Tape (source unknown)

      We R Memory Keepers Geometric embossing                  folder

This Case This Sketch #224 inspired my card layout:

Here is the Color Challenge from Heart 2 Heart:

Other challenges this card will be entered into:

      AAA Card Challenges--3rd Birthday Celebration
    Crafty Gals Corner--Emboss it!
    Through the Craft Room Door--Anything Goes

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

French Manor Thinking of You Card

Here are two  quick cards I made for the "Thinking of You" challenge over at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge blog this week.  I love how quick it is to create something lovely with my Cricut machine!

Products Used:

      French Manor Cricut cartridge

      Peacock CS (Close to My Heart)

      Thinking of You stamp (Repeat Impressions)

      Silver Lining Stack paper (DCWV)

      Silver Embossing Powder (Ranger)

Here is a slightly different card--the silver patterned paper is replaced with Antique Gold Shimmer Paper by Recollections and White embossing powder. 

Which card do you like better?

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

     Sunny Day Crafting--Anything Goes

     Through the Craft Room Door--Anything Goes

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

     

Case This Sketch #167 With a Golf Theme

I really liked this week's Case This Sketch #167 and this is the third card that it has inspired:

Close to My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Grey Wool CS (retired)

     Tee Time stamp set (retired)

     Topiary Ink

     Share the Love greeting (retired)

     Versamark Ink

     Ranger Super Fine Silver embossing powder

Here is the Case This Sketch #167 that inspired my cardmaking:

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

:) Marie

Your Own Kind of Wonderful in the Watercolor Blog Hop

Welcome to our Watercolor Blog Hop!  We will be featuring the Watercoloring products from Close to My Heart such as our Watercolor Paints and our Watercolor Pencils.  If you have come here from Kathy Burrow's blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html. 

This month we have 30 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using Watercolor Products and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! 

My project features a technique called "Watercolor Lifting".  Basically you paint your panel and then clear emboss your images.  Next you paint your panel with plain water to lighten the colors so your embossed images are darker.  It's pretty easy to do!

Here's a close up so you can see how shiny the silver embossed panel is:

Can you guess how I got the silver embossed dots on the butterfly?  Okay, I'll tell you--I used a small Q tip cotton swab dipped in Versamark ink pad and then applied silver embossing powder and a heat tool.  I got the Happy Birthday Greeting from the Perfect Fit Birthday stamp set.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Watercolor Paper

     Watercolor Paints

     Art Philosophy cartridge Pink dotted butterfly

     Versamark Ink

     Clear Embossing Powder

     Ranger Silver Embossing Powder

     Your Own Kind of Wonderful stamp set

     Perfect Fit Birthday stamp

My card layout was inspired by Freshly Made Sketch #226:

Now "Hop" on over to Lela Norris' blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get the products I used in this project.

Here are some other projects I've made recently using the Watercolor Paints:

     Monochromatic Blue Watercolor Card

     Spring Critters Frog Card

     Watercolored Striped Card

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

:) Marie

     

Share the Love Blog Hop

Welcome to the Share the Love Blog Hop!  We are featuring this month's Constant Campaign promotion called "Share the Love". ($7 from each stamp set purchase will be donated to benefit Operation Smile).   This special set has 13 stamps.   If you have come here from Michelle Jones' Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html. 

This month we have 27 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's special promotion and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

My card follows the current Mojo Monday sketch:

Close to My Heart products used:

    White Daisy CS

    Black CS

    Enchantment Fundamentals

    Zoe paper

    Share the Love stamps

    Peacock CS

    Peacock Ink

    Ranger Silver Embossing Powder

    Versamark Ink

    Liquid Glass

    Sponge Dauber

Now "Hop" on over to Jeanie Burch's blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the Share the Love special stamp set is only available until February 29!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set.

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

Beloved Bouquet in Glacier, White Daisy and Silver

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog post.  This week we are inviting you to use just 3 colors:  Glacier, White Daisy and Silver.

As I was reading through some old blog posts I came upon a new to me technique called spotlighting.  I found more information about it on the Gina K Designs blog here.  Instead of using a frame stamp I just pencil traced around different sized CTMH acrylic blocks and then later used the CTMH silver metallic marker to fill it in.  Here is my creation:

Close to My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Glacier CS

     Beloved Bouquet January Stamp of the Month stamp

     Glacier Ink

     Silver Metallic Marker

     Silver Embossing powder 

Please check out what the rest of the awesome Design Team has to inspire you with this challenge here.  We hope you will find the time to create something and share it with us on the Color Dare blog.  If you don't have the exact colors you may use something similar.

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

:) Marie

Have an Ice Day for Numerous Challenges

Don't you just love penguins?  I think they are really cute and I decided to play with numerous challenges today.  My favorite penguins are retired Hostess Rewards from Close to my Heart called Wintry Wishes.

Close to my Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Moonstruck CS (retired)

     Wintry Wishes stamps (retired)

     Moonstruck Ink (retired)

     Silver Embossing Powder

     Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel

     Art Philosophy cartridge  (snowflakes and scalloped rectangle)

     Silver metallic marker

Other products;

     Prismatic Reflective Paper by Colorbok

The Atlantic Hearts Sketch inspired me with this layout:

Other challenges that I'm entering are:

     The House That Stamps Built-What If Wednesday--Blue, Silver and White

     Bitten By the Bug--Snowflakes

     House of Cards--Glitter

     Die Cutting Divas--Photo Inspiration

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

:) Marie

Snowflake Swirls Tutorial for Merry Monday #97 Challenge

Sparkle and Shine with Aqua, White and Silver/Grey is the theme for Merry Monday #97.  This challenge gave me the opportunity to try out a technique with Gelatos, Gesso and Dry Embossing to create the background for my card.

Here is a slanted view so you can see the silver metallic beauty:

How did I do it?  First I used a sponge brush to cover White Daisy CS with a thin coat of Gesso.  I let it dry for an hour and then used my heat tool to complete the job.  Then I spritzed the paper with water and scribbled with Cotton Candy and Silver Ice Gelatos.  I used my fingers to spread out the colors.

Next I heat dried this piece before running it through my Cuttlebug machine with the Darice Snowflake Swirls Embossing folder.

Then I used a "wet wipe" to gently remove some of the color from the raised parts of the CS.  (You can see this in the finished card).

Here is a photo of some of the art supplies I used to create this card:

Supplies Used:

      White Daisy CS

      Cotton Candy and Silver Ice Gelatos by Faber Castell

      Silver Metallic CS (retired D.O.T.S.)

      Christmas Melodies stamp (retired Close To My Heart)

      Versamark Ink

      Silver Embossing Powder (retired Close To My Heart)

      Snowflake Swirls Embossing Folder by Darice

      Twinkle Brads (retired Close To My Heart)

      Glitter Ribbon by Celebrate It!

      3D Foam Tape

It was fun to try out a new background technique and I really like how this card turned out.  I can't wait to try it out with more than 2 colors!

I'm also entering this card into http://52cct.blogspot.com/2014/02/metallic-papers-challenge.html52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge to use metallic papers and Addicted to Stamps and More for a Clean and Simple card.

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

:) Marie

Happy Holidays Card for Atlantic Hearts Sketch #32

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge always gives us wonderful sketches and I'm always happy when I can make the time to play along!

Materials Used:

    White Daisy CS

    Ruby CS

    Sparkle and Shine Paper

    Poinsettia stamp (retired D.O.T.S.)

    Holiday Tags

    Versamark Ink

    Silver Embossing Powder

    3D Foam Tape

Here is the Atlantic Hearts Sketch:

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

:) Marie

Starburst Card for Friday Mashup

Two posts in one day!  How did that happen?  I wanted to try this Starburst Technique to enter the Friday Mashup Challenge and the deadline was 2 hours away so I had to do it today.  I used Miracle papers (retired CTMH), Silver Embossing Powder, Versamark Ink, Silver Shimmer Trim, Twilight CS and A1125 Thanks--all from Close To My Heart.  I found the directions to make this card here.

 

Please excuse the flash photography--it was dark outside when I got the inspiration to make this card and I wanted to post it right away.  I will be approaching my 100th post in a few weeks and would welcome suggestions on how to commemorate it on my blog.  I would love to read your comments.....

 

Happy creating!

:) Marie