Grateful - Color Dare #359

My DT card for ColorMyHeart Color Dare Challenge #359 using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #332. 

Chose to create a coffee, tea or cocoa theme at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Caffeine Fueled Paper Play as a tribute to Craftin' Desert Diva's who have contributed, shared and sponsored so many adorable stamps and digitals.  All you have to do is pull out your favorite Craftin’ Desert Divas stamp or digital image and use a coffee, tea or cocoa theme and play along! 

The three colors I chose were Goldrush, New England Ivy and Sage + Peach and Neutral Brown. My background was design paper from "Cats & Bats", the scalloped border was design paper from "Hawthorne" and both were layered with NE Ivy cardstock. A ribbon was added down the middle of the card.  

Started with a White Scalloped frame, stamped leaves with black ink on NE Ivy cardstock, a couple of design papers and adhered leaves with 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  Found some acorns in my stash and added them to the bottom of the leaves.  

I chose the Craftin' Desert Diva's digital squirrel garden image, colored with copics and placed in the pile of leaves...which pretty much covered my frame. Die cut a coffee cup from Paper Smooches with a piece of the PML image from the paper pack to include the heart and placed so the bee appeared as the coffee steam.  Grateful die sentiment was cut from chocolate cardstock, layered and adhered to bottom r-h corner.  

Also sent to the following Challenges:  Please visit each of these challenges to see DT members' inspiration, along with other participants that have entered these challenges and maybe you can combine some these challenges too. Color My Heart Color Dare challenges are carried forward for two weeks, so please join us and also check out our previous Challenge #358 which is still open.  

  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Stamp It" 

Cut It Up #182 "Farm Friends" - Squirrel

The Paper Girls "Falling In Love

Coffee Loving Cardmakers "Caffeine Fueled Paper Play" 

Heart2Heart "Stamp It Up" 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #30 "Anything Critter" 

Cupcake Inspirations "Food & Drink" 

Through the Craft Room Door "Anything Goes" 

Craftyhazelnut's Pattern Papers "Sept" All About Patterned Paper 

TPC Tuesday Sept #361 "Layer Up" 

The Outlawz "Monday Greetings - Layers" 

CWS #42 "Autumn"  

Fusion Card Challenge "Autumn" Inspiration Photo

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Paper 

     Backgrounds & Leaves - Cats & Bats 

     Border - Hawthorne

     Coffee Cup - Sweet Girl (PML side)  

Cardstock 

     New England Ivy, Chocolate, Toffee and Colonial White 

Stamps 

     B1492 Fallen Leaves 

     Craftin' Desert Diva's "Squirrel Garden" 

Dies 

     Peachy Cheap "Holiday Sentiments" 

     From Stash - Cricut Cut "Acorns" 

     Frame - Sizzix 

     Scallops - A Punch Borrowed at Crop

     Paper Smooches "Coffee & Tea Dies"  

Pens / Inks 

     Copics Sketch alcohol-base Brush Pens 

          C3, C7, E71, E77, E79, YR15, 

     Copic MultiLiner "Black" 0.05 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Ribbon Rounds "Cocoa Collection" 

Candy Corn is a Vegetable, Right? - Double Trouble Challenge #37

This is my interactive DT card  for Double Trouble's Challenge #37 "Make Like a Tree and Leave" using the Atlantic Hearts Challenge #332 (turned landscape), adding S'more fun with Twisted Sister's "Fall Sweet Treat" and entered in The Paper Girls Challenge #183  "Falling in Love", our partner for this Challenge.   

What movie was this phrase used in "Make Like a Tree and Leave".  Hint given in this post will direct you to the answer, and if you add the movie name in my comments you will be eligible for a special random draw gift from me.  

I had so much fun putting this card together...already decided what I was going to use for my sweet treat and sentiment and design papers with trees and leaves.  Now all I had to do was put it all together...the challenging part.  

The card may be a little busy; but after all it's a Corn Maze nearby a forest of Fall colors. 

The corn stalks were cut using the striped pattern so that it would fade into the forest background. Used the same stripe for my other two panels and layered with another design paper. The cute candy corn was cut from Colonial White cardstock, colored with copic brush pens using orange, yellow and neutrals to mute the colors to match the background.

Three candy corns staggered and hand-printed speech bubble with corny sentiment were adhered to square panel. Additional candy corns were added on bottom right-hand corner. I went to bed knowing that I had completed my card; however the next morning another idea sparked ... adding a pull tag with a sentiment. Found a "corn maze" stamp in my stash, perfect, and decided to use Happy Halloween as the main sentiment. Pull out the corn candy on the bottom right-hand side and you have successfully completed the Corn Maze with sentiment. 

I was still contemplating whether to change my corn stalks and cut a couple strips in plain colors but didn't work for me...I liked the transition of the corn stalks against the background forest of trees and hope you do too.  The balance of the Fall background was added to the bottom of the inside.  

Please visit each of these challenges to see DT members' inspiration, along with other participants that have entered these challenges and maybe you can combine these challenges too. 

For S'more fun be sure to join us at Double Trouble Challenge #37 

Thing 1 Trouble Maker 

"Trees and/or Leaves"

Thing 3 Twisted Sister 

Optional Twist

"Fall Sweet Treat"

Thing 2 Double Dare 

The Paper Girls 

"Falling in Love"

Also submitted to the following challenges:
Cut It Up #181 "Outdoor Fun" (Corn Maze)
Heart2Heart "Stamp It Up"
Through the Craft Room Door "Anything Goes"

Craftyhazelnut's Pattern Papers "Sept" All About Patterned Paper 

TPC Tuesday Sept #361 "Layer Up" 

The Outlawz "Monday Greetings - Layers" 

CWS #42 "Autumn" 

Products Used:  
Design Papers
     Carta Bella "Autumn" 
Card Stock 
     Colonial White and White Daisy 
Stamps 
     CTMH S1209 "Fall Favorites" corn maze 
     CTMH S1608 "Purr-fect Halloween" Happy Halloween 
     Message Bubble - Hand Printed Sentiment 
Dies 
     Memory Box #2121 "Whittle Candy Corn" 
     La-La Land Crafts 8203 "Heart Speech Bubbles" 
     Craftin Desert Diva's "Harvest Border Dies" 
Inks / Pens 
     CTMH Cocolate Ink Pad for Pull Tab Sentiment 
     Copic Multi-Liner for Hand Printed Sentiment on Bubble 
     Copic Sketch alcohol-based Brush Pens 
         E50, E42, YR07 and Y15 for Candy Corn 
Other 
     3D Thin Foam Tape 





  

Double Trouble Challenge #34 - SomeThing AnyThing and EveryThing

This is my DT card for Double Trouble #34 "Something Anything and Everything" including Twisted Sister's optional twist of Sunshine and using the Try Stampin' on Tuesday's Sketch No. 418.  

Paper Smooches has an adorable Sunshine Cup die.  Many cuts of this die were made in a variety of design papers from Magical.  After arranging the many papers I finally got the recipe I wanted for a bright sunny day...did a lot of layering with the extra pieces...magical.  Can't get much better than to get up in the morning, throw on some flip flops and take a cup of coffee out on the patio.  

"Grab your Stuff" and join us at Double Trouble

THING 1: Trouble Maker

says, "This is a 1-Week Free-for-All Challenge so have a little fun creating with "Some Thing", "Any Thing" and "Every Thing". 

THING 3: Twisted Sister

says "Sunshine on my shoulder makes me Happy." Create your impression of Sunshine, Sunburst and/or sunrays using paper and/or techniques (stenciling, embossing, sponging, masking, die cutting, etc.) This is an OPTIONAL twist.

THING 2: Double Dare
dares you to multiply the fun and link up your project with any of our previous partners, however, make sure you read their guidelines carefully and observe their dates. We don't want you to get into Trouble with them.

Also Submitted to the Following Challenges. Please visit each of these challenges to see DT members' inspiration, along with other participants that have entered these challenges and maybe you can combine these challenges too.     

Paper Smooches "Anything Goes" (missed date to submit) 
CLC Caffeine Fueled Paper Play "July" 
Crafty Friends Challenge "Summer" 
Daring CardMakers "Whatever the Weather" 
Cardz 4 Galz #101 "Sun, Sea and Sand" 
Ellibelle's Corner "Summer themes" (June/July) 
The Outlawz - Tuesday "TicTacToe" 
     (Column: Blue, Red, Pattern Paper) 
As You See It Challenge #205 "Beaches" 
Simon Says Stamp which is Bright and Cheerful 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:  
Design Papers 
     Magical Paperpack and Zip Strip 
Cardstock 
     Saphire, Crystal Blue and White Daisy 
Stamps 
     D1290 August Word Puzzle 
Dies 
     Paper Smooches #J2D441 "Cuppa Sunshine"  
     Sizzix #662347 Framelits w/Stamps 
Other 
     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Hoppy Easter "You are Somebunny Special" Color Dare #339

This bunny image was from one of my Copic Classes; however, instead of using the card kit I decided to do my own card design and change some of the colors to meet the ColorMyHeart Color Dare TicTacToe Challenge #339.  I chose a tutorial "How to make a flip/swing card" by The Frugal Crafter by Lindsay Weirich.  These colors were perfect for a Easter card.

A variety of Copic Sketch Brush Pens were used for the bunny image...the pants were thistle with polka dots using Row 1 colors: Fern/Raspberry/Carolina and the bunny using Gray Neutrals, Sugarplum on the paws and Carolina for the eyes.  

There was a lot of layering and piecing of all the florals using the same colors, adding pearls to the center and then randomly placed white Nuvo drops around the florals and the bunny oval frame on the inside.  Two great sentiments were added to finish the card.   

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #312:  Maybe a little out of the box; but I think the front and inside both take on this sketch challenge.  

Please stop by and view the DT's inspiration for the Color Dare's TicTacToe Mix-up Spring/Easter Inspirational Board and join us...we would love to see the projects you create. This Color Dare Challenge will be open for (2) weeks. Please make sure you use only the colors that are on the Board and use neutrals as identified for each challenge...this weeks challenge "all" neutrals free.  

Entered these Challenges who previously partnered with Double Trouble
Three Amigos BlogHop Challenge #25 "Springtime" 
Use Your Stuff #355 "Easter/Spring" 
Brown Sugar Challenge #289 April "Spring or Fall" 
The Crafter's Café Challenge #217 "Easter and/or Florals" 
Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #312 

Joy of Sets TicTacToe #004 

Row 3: DieCuts/White/Pearls

Also submitted to the following Challenges:  
2 Crafty Critter Crazies #25 "Critters"  
Crafty Catz Challenge #458 "All Creatures Great & Small" 
Daring Card Makers "Blooming Wonderful" Lots of Flowers 
Just Add Ink #453 "Just Choose Two - Bunny/Flower/Cross 
Cute Card Thursday #578 "Flowers"   
Moving Along With The Time #95 "That Spring Feeling" 
The Outlawz - Saturday Paper Ala Mode "Spring" 

Simon Says "Spring Mood Board" 
Inspiration Photo for Wednesday Challenge 

Simon Says "Beautiful Blooms" 
Monday Challenge 

Products Used: 
Design Paper  
     CTMH Celebrate Mix-In
     CTMH Paper Fundamental "Fern" 
Cardstock 
     CTMH Carolina and White Daisy 
Stamps 
     Paper Smooches "Critter Card Puns" 
     Image in Card Kit:  Whimsey 
Dies
     Tutti Designs #417 "Scalloped Stitched Nesting Ovals" 
     I.O. Dies #667-Q "Spring Branches" 
Pens/Ink 
     Memento "Tuxedo Black" 
     Copic Sketch Brush Pens - C0,C00,C1, B02, B04, BG34, BG45
          YG03, YG17, RV17, V15
Embellishments 
     CTMH Opaques - Pearl 
     Nuvo Crystal Drops "Simply White" 

I'm Lucky to Know You - Double Trouble Challenge #23 "Wearing of the Green" with Heart2Heart

This is my DT card for Double Trouble Challenge #23 "Wearin' O' the Green"  and partnering with Heart2Heart "St Patty's Day".  In my stash there was a House Mouse standing in a field of clovers so took out my copic alcohol-based brush pens and started coloring.  The greens for the clovers were matched up to the background paper, colored the four-leaf clover gold and used a pop of red in the small buds.  Stamped and heat embossed the sentiment gold, colored a clover and bud from a second stamped image, fussy-cut and adhered to the back of the sentiment.  

Please join us at Double Trouble and Heart2Heart and create your interpretation of the following requirements:

THING 1: Trouble Maker
says, "Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Wearin' O' the Green!" Dress up your project with green as the primary color. It does not have to be a St. Paddy's Day card... celebrate any occasion.

THING 3: Twisted Sister
Include a "golden touch" on your project for an added chance at our random draw.

THING 2: Double Dare
says, "I'm proud of my Irish heritage and double dare you to play along by linking your green project at Heart2Heart.  Even though the H2H challenge is open until the end of the month; the Double Trouble challenge closes March 17th, so please post before the end of the month for more chances to win the random draw.  

Don't forget to look for the golden shamrock in Secret Sister's Blog and when you find it make sure you leave a special comment and tell us where the shamrock was found in her blog to be eligible for the special prize.   

Also sent to the following challenges: 
House-Mouse & Friends #286 Anything Goes - Opt Stripes or Dots 
2 Crafty Critter Crazies "Anything Critter" 
Cute Card Thursday #571 "Greens"  
The Outlawz - Monday Greetings "St. Patty's Day"  
Cupcake Inspirations #465

  

Products Used: 

Design Paper 

     Lawn Fawn "Knit Picky Fall" Knee High Socks 

Cardstock 

     CTMH New England Ivy and White Daisy 

Other 

     Ranger Embossing Powder "Princess Gold" 

     CTMH 3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Thin Foam Sheet 

Pens / Inks 

     Delicata Pigment Ink "Gold"
     Copic (alcohol-based) Sketch Brush Pens