You're the Best - Color Dare #672

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #672 wherein you have to use both colors and no additional colors; however you can use free, black and white, neutrals an gold metallic. Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #649 was combined with the color graphic. 

Looked through my stash for patterned papers in sapphire, brown and vanilla shades and cut in 1/2" strips. Made a Vanilla strip 3/4" and adhered diagonally on a 4" x 5 1/4" panel, randomly placed 1/2" strips from the vanilla strip around the perimeter. Cut off the overlap of 1/2" strips, bordered the panel using Sapphire cardstock and adhered to a vanilla cardbase.  

For the focal point I used a stitched rectangle and cut florals in a vase, two in sapphire and two in vanilla, added a small cut of each color and placed opposite color behind dots of each vase between layers.  The floral vases were adhered to stitched rectangle using glue and some 3D thin foam tape.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #672 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Florals with Optional Mood Board #

Cut It Up #340 "Use more than one die"  
Triple B Oct "Birds, Butterflies & Blooms"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     Variety of Scraps using Sapphire and Brown Patterned Paper 
Cardstock
     Sapphire and Vanilla    

Stamps
     Sentiments "Just to Say" 
Dies
     Peachy Cheap "Spring Easter"

     Frame Die in Stash 
Inks/Pens
     Sapphire Ink
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape

TSOT #680 with DTC #201 3-2-1 Recipe "S.A.E."

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #680 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble #201 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing". 

While looking through my stash I found another Halloween stamp, never used, and thought this would be a good time to create another Halloween card. One of the stamps was a corner spider web stamp which I used to create a frame and still give me the cross-over design.  I then stamped four spiders to embellish the background and cut a black panel for my focal point.  

My focal point consisted of a ghoul, ghost and a fun pun sentiment, adhered to the black panel using glue and 3D thin foam tape for dimension. The panel was then adhered to stamped background with 3D thin foam tape, background bordered with black and adhered completed layout to a card base. Oh, and why not blacken the eyes with white highlight, blackened noses of stamped images and add some pink cheeks to the ghost. 

Stamped a column of spiders on the r-h border on the inside of card base. What a fun time creating this ghoulish card... hope y'all enjoy it too. 

My Enhanced 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" from Stash

  3 - Alike Images  (4- Spider Web                     Corners and 4-Spiders)

  2 - Stamped Images (Ghoul and Ghost)

  1 - Sentiment - Fun Pun 

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

AND 

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there also.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:

SAS4 Kids "Cute Fall/Halloween Cards 4 Kids" 

The Paper Players #757 Sketch 

  Using a Square for a Focal Point 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock

     Black and Daisy White 

Stamps

     2022 Fa-Boo-Lous CC8225 Stamp & Thin Die Set 

Inks/Pens

     Memento "Black" Ink

     Copic Sketch Brush Pen (alcohol base) Pink on Cheek of Ghost

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" Fill in Eyes 

     Gelly Roll 10 for Eyes on all stamped Images 

Other

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC Challenge #201 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" with TSOT #680

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #201 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday #680) which starts on Sep 30th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges and show how easy it is to participant in both challenges for additional chances at the random draw. This challenge also allows you to use an alternate challenge and chose the Color Dare Challenge #671 that looked like candy corn or colors for a Halloween card.  

Chose to do my wrap around shapes using one yellow polka dot, and one orange polka dot patterned paper needed for the Must Use Both Colors in the Color Dare graphic. For my +1 color I chose a gnone, stamped, fussy-cut and colored orange, yellow and purple... my alternate challenge was completed. 

Now I needed to determine my 3-2-1 recipe and still stay within the guidelines of the Color Dare and TSOT sketch. 

My 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing Recipe

  3 - Patterned Papers 

  2 - Colors 

  1 - Stamped Image 

Since my colors and stamped image were completed I chose a black and white background with spider webs to complete my third patterned paper... recipe completed. 

To complete my TSOT sketch I embellished with four stamped spiders on the web patterned paper, added the wrapped around shape with 3D thin foam tape and added a black border before attaching to card base. Finished inside with strip of spider web pattern paper and stamped more spiders along r-h border. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble and have fun creating your own Recipe SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Also hop over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration... you may want to consider using their sketch with your 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge #9  "Anything Fantasy w/Opt Focus Genies" 

Inspiration Station Sept 2025 Photo #77

     Inspiration Photo: Using Orange & Yellow Fall Colors

SAS4 Kids "Cute Fall/Halloween Cards 4 Kids" 

The Male Room #202 "Create Your Own Background" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Fa-boo-Lous "Spider Web" patterned paper 

     Echo Park Paper Co 6"x6" "Dots and Stripes" 

Cardstock 

     Black and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Spooky Gnomes D-1962 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Orange, Yellow, Purple

     Gellly Rolll #10 "White" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #670

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare Color Board #670 choosing at least three colors from the Inspiration Photo. My choice was to use all the different shades of blue, plus green and yellow.  

Decided to go through my stash of images colored at Jenn Dove's Bootcamp in December of 2021. I came across this alien/space image and the space blending was perfect for all the shades of blues in the inspiration photo. The wings of the butterfly caught my eye as there is a touch of pink/purple which was also in the space blending already colored. The other two colors were green and yellow which met the requirement of three colors. This was a fast card to get together; but my initial coloring was at least a half day at Bootcamp and then stored in my stash with others... plus it had already been fussy-cut.   

I was so happy to finally share it almost four years later.  This card certainly does not recreate the inspiration photo; but fun using the same colors and creating something totally different. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #670 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
The Neglected Stuff "September" -  The previously colored alien/space images were totally neglected and brought to life 4 years later                               

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     Retired patterned paper from CTMH
Cardstock
     Sapphire  and White Daisy 
Stamps
     Prestamped in Black Ink - Alien Image supplied by Boot Camp 

Inks/Pens
     Memento "Black" Ink
     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Variety of Colors
     Gelly Roll White Pen 
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC Challenge #200 3-2-1 Recipe "Oodles of Doodles" with TSOT #679

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #200 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Oodles of Doodles" and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #679) which starts on Sept 16th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

    

Had lots of fun with pencil doodling and once I decided on the hedgehog I replaced pencil using a Sharpie black thin tip pen. The rest of the doodling was free-hand using Sharpi and once comfortable with doodling the card went pretty fast. 

Used Copic Sketch brush pens for Twisted Sister's optional twist "Punch of Color", bordered my doodle card with pink cardstock and adhered to card base. Added a corner doodle on the inside of card.  

Below are experimental doodles which I'll save for another time. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe " " and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenge "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter" 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Cardstock 

     Pink and White Daisy     

Free Hand-doodling 

     Hedgehog Image and scene, border design outside and inside, 

     and sentiments  

Inks/Pens 

     Sharpie Fine Tip "Black" 

     Copic Sketch Brush Pens (Alcohol-base) Varity of Colors 

Color Dare #668

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #668 which you must use both colors as shown or closest to.  My first thought was to use these colors for a blended background with a silhouette, but then leaned toward an older technique I had not used in a while, "Triple Time Stamping".  

Cut three proportional rectangle panels, stacked securing with some adhesive and used the Misti to stamp floral images using these colors in, around and across the panels. Randomly stamped small wire mesh around florals using Heather ink. Separated panels and bordered each with candy apple cardstock. and adhered each panel to match up with the floral design.  Stamped a small sentiment in the lower right-corner. 

From same stamp set another floral was stamped on the inside bottom right-hand corner along with a the wire mesh.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #668 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Consider hopping over to our DTC sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Florals with Optional Mood Board #32 

Colorful Options Sep 2025 "Anything Goes, Colors and/or theme" 

Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 6 "Anything In or From a Garden" 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday September Challenge "AnyThing Goes"

Inspiration Station Sept 2025 Photo #77

     Inspiration Photo: Using Red & Yellow Colors
The Neglected Stuff "August" 

     Stuff:  Paper Garden Stamps, Triple Time Stamping Technique 
Triple 3 Sep 2025 Challenges "Birds, Blooms and Butterflies"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Cardstock
     White Daisy and Candy Apple 
Stamps
     S1509 Paper Garden 

     D1629 Just to Say 
Inks/Pens
     Memento "London Fog" Ink
     Candy Apple Ink 

     Canary Ink 

TSOT #678 with DTC Challenge #199 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #678 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble #199 "3-2-1 Recipe Sweet Surprise" and using Twisted Sister's optional twist to shake it up a bit and make a Shaker Card adding some of your favorite shaker bits. 

I've had these CTMH Heart Shaker window kits which had never been used. There were no instructions so put together as best I could. I realized the window would not be embedded flush with the surface of my card because I put a backing on the heart with a snowy-like patterned paper.  

Didn't have the heart die that went with the kit so traced the heart shaker onto another 4" x 5 1/4" panel of same paper, fussy-cut and adhered to card base with foam tape and inserted the shaker window. My fussy-cut had a couple small mis-cuts so I needed to do a horizontal flip of the sketch. Stamped two images, colored using Copic Sketch brushes, and ahered to the background covering the two mis-cuts. 

Finished with a sentiment, and a few snowflake images on the inside of card.  

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there. 

DTC also has another small random-draw gift if you join us in celebrating a "sweet surprise" by telling us about your favorite donut and/or filling. Add it to the comments DTC Challenge post and you will be eligible for an additional randomly drawn prize.


Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Christmas (or not) Bingo Challenges #15 

     Bingo G Column: Christmas, Free, Hand Colored Image 

The Holly and the Ivy #190 "Anything Christmas" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Papers

     CTMH Specialty Paper in stash  

Cardstock 

     White Daisy

Stamps and Dies 

     Rubbernecker Stamp & Die Set "Snowmen with Presents" (Retired)  

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Shaker Window, Foam + Acetate "Heart" 

     Kat Scappiness "Snow Flurries" shaker bits 

     

 

DTC Challenge #199 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" with TSOT #678

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #199 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" and Twisted Sister's optional twist to fill in your aperture with at least one image or make a shaker. My choice was to add one image in aperture. Also used our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #678) which starts on Sep 2nd. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges.

My birthday card used CTMH "Party Gnomes" stamps which had never been used and sitting in my stash since purchase. First selected a party patterned paper, bordered with red cardstock, adhered to card base and then cut out a stitched circle aperture.  

Went back and forth on whether it was going to be an aperture card or a shaker; but decided to go with the aperture using several of the party gnomes images. 

Gnomes were stamped using Memento black ink, cut with Brother Scan&Cut, and colored with Copic Sketch pens. 

On the inside of the card I placed the same patterned paper and adhered one gnome to display on aperture cut,  another in the corner, and placed a third gnome on front of card hiding one of the ones on the inside. 

When opening the card I wasn't pleased with the gnome on the left side. As with alcohol-inks they bleed through cardstock... so, cut another gnome, pencil drew the back of the gnome, used Black Multi-liner over penciled, erased pencil marks, colored and carefully cut with circle die to fit in aperture cut. My art wasn't perfect but looked better than the color bleed.   

I then cut another piece of the same patterned paper using same circle die, fussy-cut around the stitching and applied to the inside of aperture opening.  Sentiments were stamped on the front and inside of card. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twist and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above - Sept "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" 

Addicted to Stamps #500 "Die Cuts or Stencils" 

Allsorts Challenge #831 "Birthday" 

Cut It Up #337 "Anything Goes" (Must Include at Least one die cut)

The Neglected Stuff (9/25) Challenge 

   Neglected Stuff Used: Patterned Paper, Gnome Stamps 

Try It on Tuesday "Going Round in Circles 

The Paper Players PP753 Tic-Tac-Toe: 

Left Diagonal: Celebration, Free, Stitching 

 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

    CTMH - Prehistoric Party Patterned Paper Packet  

Cardstock 

    Candy Apple and White Daisy   

Stamps 

    Party Gnomes   

Dies 

    Stash - Stitched Circle Die    

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #666

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #666 "Must Use All Three Colors" and found a cool stencil in my stash to use with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #643 flipping to landscape.   

I needed to make a quick card because my family from back East are visiting this week and wanted to spend time with them. They only make it out here every couple years, and it's the only time our pool is used... lol. This stencil was a good match to the sketch challenge, so simply blended the three colors and then added the sentiment... CAS, finished and posted all within an hour. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 
Dies  

     Lawn Fawn Words: Happy Birthday   
Inks/Pens
    Peacock, Goldrush, Buttercup Inks
    

DTC Challenge #198 - 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" with TSOT Sketch Challenge #677 for Inspiration

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #198 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" (3-layers, 2-patterned papers, 1-sentiment) and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #677) which starts on August 19th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

Twisted Sister says, "Let's be cool and take this fan-tastic opportunity to cool off, and use my optional twist and create a fan-fold card using TSOT's Sketch Challenge #677 above. Here are two tutorials in two different sizes for creating Fan Fold cards: Patty Dolan's A2 Tutorial and Lisa Curcio's A7 Tutorial 

This was such a fun card to put together and I chose to do a Christmas card. First I sized and printed the sketch to an A2 and used that as my pattern for the different panel cuts...that procedure saved me many cuts. 

My fan was decorated with foliage and pinecones to add more dimension to the card... undecided on what pinecones and foliage to use several cuts were made using cardstock and patterned paper. After completing the front of the card the balance of cuts were placed on the inside corner against one of the patterns in the fan.  A sentiment was added bordered with evergreen cardstock.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare for inspiration and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge, Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Double Trouble's alternate challenge for another chance at DTC random drawing was shared with Creative Creases #106 "Anything Goes, Fun Fold". 

Christmas Crafts All Year Round (Songs of Christmas:Pinecones and Holly Berries) 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge "Aug Anything Goes" with Top Pick Twist

The Neglected Stuff "8/25" Neglected Stuff Used: Christmas paperpack & dies 

Jingle Belles "The Sprit of Christmas Past"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Evergreen (Used 3 of the patterned papers)

Cardstock 

     Vanilla, Evergreen, Acorn, Chocolate and White Daisy

Stamps 

     Sentiment: D1629 "Just to Say"

Dies 

     Ultimate Crafts "Wild Branches & Pinecones" 

     Ultimate Crafts "Rustic Christmas" 

     Penny Black "Jolly Holly" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Evergreen" Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape