Tuesday Morning Sketch #454 Meets Double Trouble #1

Some of my Color My Heart Color Dare Design Team friends have started a new blog challenge and I just had to be supportive and try it!  The inaugural Double Trouble Challenge is to use at least two different patterned papers.  I combined this with last week's Tuesday Morning Sketch #454 to create a special card for a friend who turns 90 next week.

Here is a second view so you can see how shiny the Silver Foil paper is!

Close to My Heart products used:

     Blossom CS

     Adventure Fundamentals Paper (heart pattern)

     Silver Foil Paper

     Beautiful Friendship Paper

     Bashful CS

     Silver Embossing Powder

     Silver Metallic Marker

     Just a Number stamp (retired)

Other:

     Dazzling Details by SU (highlights on flowers)

Here is the wonderful Tuesday Morning Sketch that inspired my card layout:

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

     HeARTful Stamping--Anything Goes with a stamp

     Seize the Birthday--Patterned Paper

     

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

:) Marie

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September Joyful Stars Blog Hop

Welcome back to another Joyful Stars Blog Hop! We are a group of Close to My Heart consultants who share something each month on the 9th and at 9PM EST. If you are coming from Andrea Sherman's blog you are on the right track. (The complete lineup is also on Joyce's blog in case you get lost.) Have fun being inspired!

My card features the September Stamp of the Month called "Feel So Blessed". 

I stamped the feathers onto Adventure Fundamentals paper (Lagoon, Blossom and Pacifica) with Black Memento Ink and then fussy cut them.  The silver sparkled feather veins were made with the Silver Metallic marker.  The yellow background panel is Lemon cardstock with the Chalk Marker creating a background texture.  Thanks was stamped in Memento Black ink and matted with Raspberry cardstock and popped up with 3D Foam Tape.

Here is what the rest of the September Stamp of the Month includes:

This fabulous stamp set is available for a limited time only.  You can get it for just $5 with a $50 order from your Close to My Heart consultant.  If you don't already have a consultant you can get it from me here.

Now it's time to hop on over to Michelle Loncar's blog. I'm sure you'll be inspired by what she shares.

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

     Simon Says Wednesday--Stamp it!

     Simply Papercraft--Anything Goes

     Aud Sentiments Challenge #188--Anything                  Goes with a Sentiment

     Craft Rocket Challenges--Something                               Beginning with "F"--Feathers

     Pile it On #134--Feathers and/or Scales

     

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

:) Marie

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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