Happy Birthday - Color My Heart Color Dare #380

Here is my DT card for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #380 "TicTacToe" using one of the layouts from the CTMH Celebrate Today Cardmaking Workshop Project #3 with modifications and an adorable Paper Smooches "Cutasaurus".

Well, I was able to complete a card at Our Little Crop Group "Super Bowl Celebration" in between all the snacks and social time...fun time by all.

Please pop over to ColorMyHeart Color Dare and see DT members' inspiration, along with other participants that have entered this challenge, and join us in this fun color challenge. Color My Heart Color Dare challenges are carried forward for two weeks so if you didn't share your project the first week you still have another week to enter that challenge. 

Submitted also to the following Challenges: 
Seize the Birthday "Creatures Great and Small" 

Heart2Heart "Celebrate Good Times" 
The Paper Girls Challenge #193  "Birthdays"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Papers 

     Celebrate Today and Zip Strip 

Cardstock 

     Bluebird and White Daisy 

Dies 

     Paper Smooches "Cutasaurus" 

     Catherine Pooler "Circle Love Connection" 

     Spellbinders "Inspire By Sentiments" 

Inks/Pens 

     Copic Sketch Brush Pens - alcohol base 

     B21, B24, G03, G19, E71, E74, E77 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Sorry I'm So Slow - Color Dare #355

This is my Design Team card for ColorMyHeart Color Dare Challenge #355 using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #328. This was made for my Grand-daughter's 13th Birthday...she loves sloths and when I saw this stamp set it was an immediate purchase.  The goldrush leaf design paper was perfect background for the sloth hanging from the tree branch and the die cut leaf border was perfect for the scalloped edge and was complemented by the green polka-dot design paper. 

The sloth was stamped, cut by the Brother Scan and Cut, colored using Copic Sketch alcohol-based brush pens colors closest to the CTMH colors, adhered with 3D thin foam tape and liquid glass was added to the eyes.  Sentiment was stamped with Espresso ink and NuVo drops placed randomly around the sentiment.  

Another stamp of a sloth was colored and added to the inside right-hand corner of the card and room left for a personal note.  

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. 

Don't Forget:  Color Dare challenges are carried forward for two weeks, so please join us and also check out our previous Challenge #354 - Closes Aug 15th.     

Also sent to the following Challenges: 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #29 (Aug 2019) "Anything Critters" 

Tuesday Throwdown #437 "Furry Friends"  

Simon Says "Happy Birthday" 

Simon Says "Use a Die Cut" 

Cut It Up #180 "Focus on Sentiments" 

Daring Cardmakers "1,2,3,4,5" 

     1-Image, 2-Design Papers, 3-gems, 4-lines of sentiment, 

     5-or more Leaves 

Seize the Birthday #171 "Optional Flowers"  

If You Give Your Crafter a Cookie #123  

     Used the Colors Orange/Green/Brown and a 

     Forest Animal Sloth  

 

CTMH Products Unless Identified Otherwise: 

Design Paper 

     Grateful Heart 

Cardstock 

     Espresso, Toffee, White Daisy

Stamp Set

     Inky Antics NicoLour "Sloths" 

Die 

     Penny Black 51-325 "Leaf Edger" 

Inks/Pens 

     Espresso and Black Inks 

     Gelly Roll 05 Pen

     Copic Sketch alcohol-base brush Pens 

          E40, E42, E43 (Toffee) 

          E74 (Espresso)

          100 (Black) 

          YG67 (Fern) 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Liquid Glass 

     NuVo Crystal Drops "Bottle Green" 

Happy Birthday To You - H2H W3 "Ribbon"

This is my Design Team project for Heart2Heart Product Challenge "Ribbon" using a design found on Pinterest  by Stacy Cohen, but errored to site.  So, I pulled out some Adhesive Ribbon bought a couple years ago and chose three colors and designs that went well together, cut several 2 1/2" strips and adhered them to the center of the cardstock.  Cut two pieces, 1 1/4" and 1 1/2", border dies and adhered to the ribbon cardstock with 3D thin Foam tape.  Cut three sentiments, two colors, and layered and adhered to the the bottom of the card.  Placed some sequins and done...not a difficult card to make and a very pretty card with the right choices.  

Added a border of one of the ribbons across the bottom of the inside of the card.

Hop on by this week's Heart2Heart theme to see inspirations from Design Team members. Heart2Heart invites you to showcase your favorite project...you have until the end of the month to create and submit. Earn a Perfect Attendance Badge if you create a card for each weekly theme during that month...to view these challenges they are listed on the sidebar at the top of the Blog. 

Also sent to the following Challenges: 

Seize the Birthday - Topping: Die-Cuts or Punches 
The Outlawz - Festive Fridays "Happy Birthday" 

Products Used: 

Cardstock 

     CTMH Pear, Bluebird and White Daisy 

Dies

     Sizzix ThinLits #661096 "Hello Doily" Borders 

     Lawn Faun #LF852 "Happy Birthday Border"

Embellishment 

     Studio G "Adhesive Ribbon" 
     CTMH Florence Sequins 

Other 

     CTMH 3D Thin Foam Tape 

Let's Party - Heart2Heart - Sept Week 1 South of the Border

This is my Design Team Card for Heart2Heart "South of the Border". My daughter had gotten this adorable Hero Arts Fiesta stamp set for Mother's Day and this theme was  perfect.  The stamp set also came with a beautiful frame die and all the dies for each stamp.  It wasn't until I did all the fussy-cutting and realized I had the dies; however, I'm actually very pleased with it because I could cut closer to the outlines of the images. 

The focal point was made using two stamps (Dancer and Musician) and masking them to give them dimension.  Colored with a variety of Copic sketch alcohol-based pens, fussy-cut, layered with poppy cardstock and adhered with thin foam sheet between the focal point and the background paper. Framed the background paper with poppy cardstock and then decided to decorate the edge with one of my rectangular dies.    

There are so many pieces to this set and it was difficult to choose which adorable image I would use...the Mexican birdie was adorable, so just colored with same colors and set him on top of the "Let's Party" Sentiment.  Added some glitter flowers around the sentiment and upper left-hand corner using small gems for the center and a few scattered around. 

Inside of card used another one of the stamps in the same set, stamped a banner, colored and adhered to the border on the inside of the card.  

Close up views of the masking and coloring of the Mexican dancers, musician and Birdie, along with random placing of the glittery flowers and gems.  

Also submitted to the following Challenges: 

Seize the Birthday "Rainbow"  

Hero Challenge "Sparkle & Shine" 

Papercraft Challenges #19 "Animals"  

heARTful Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes + Stamp 

Products Used: 

Design Papers 

     CTMH Prickly Pear

Cardstock 

     CTMH Poppy and Daisy White 

Stamp Set 

     Hero Arts "Fiesta Time" 

Dies 

     Cottage Cutz #CBB-059 Nested Stitched Eyelet Rectangles 

Embellishments 

     Hobby-Lobby Small Glitter Flowers

     Hobby-Lobby Small Glitter Gems 

Copic Sketch - Variety of Colors 

Happy Birthday - Double Dare #8

This is my DT card for Double Trouble Challenge #8 "Summer Birthday" celebrations with a lot of glitter for our Twisted Sister. For the next two weeks we are partnering with Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge.  This is a fold card sketch that one of our Crop friend's shared with our group and thought it would be a challenge to make this card using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #278...and I think it worked.  

  

We lost track of time and Twisted Sister let it be known that we forgot her birthday. Well, in our defense we didn't forget...we just wanted to surprise her with a mile-high cake and many glitter cards with the help of our followers from Double Trouble. Please help us get back in good graces with her because our birthdays are coming up in December.  

And if you want to get on the good side with Twisted Sister add some glitter to your project...she will give you an extra chance for our random draw prize.  And wish her a Happy Birthday in the comments and another chance.  And share with Pause Dream Enjoy and yet another chance.    

Also Submitted to the following Challenges:
Always Happy Birthday "August"
The Outlawz - Festive Friday "Birthday"
Kitty Bee Designs #125 "Birthday" 
Three Amigos "Blast From the Past"  
     Challenge #15 Machine Die Cutting Inspiration

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 
Design Paper 
     Blossom Paperpak and Complements 
     Glitter Paper - Lagoon, Sweet Leaf and Sorbet 
Cardstock 
     White Daisy and Lagoon 
Cricut Die Cuts 
     Cricut Home for the Holidays-Spring "Butterfly" 
Other 
     Glitter Tape - Lagoon, Sweet Leaf and Sorbet  
     Liquid Glass 

Scale for the three-fold card with score lines and cut lines.  This document was provided to me at a Crop and used for my card.  

Hello - Color Dare #240 (Cinco de Mayo)

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #240: This week’s colors shown in the Photo are from Some Kinda Wonderful Paper Pack - Glacier, Lemon, Pacifica, Raspberry, Whisper, Willow, White Daisy and Black (Use at least 4 of these colors).  Love all the colors and the design papers so not a difficult color challenge if you have the paper pack.  

We encourage you to use CTMH products; however you may use any products to participate using closest to colors or paper packet ... join in the fun.  

You don't need a blog to submit your entry...if you are a member of Pinterest you can set up a Folder and link your entry to our Challenge. You have until Thursday, April 27th to enter your project. Please hop on by to see the DT member inspirations and other entrants.  

If you do share a Some Kinda Wonderful project with us you may also share it in these two other Close to My Heart themed challenges:

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge April (ends 4/30) 

Between the Folds--Some Kind of Wonderful (ends 4/24) 

The paper I liked the least in this paper pack has turned out to be one of my favorites...first a theatre, then the colorful stamped flowers, and now an Arizona Cactus Bed with Quail. And I've had suggestions that the design looks like popsicles and tombstones...so you'll know what's next.  

Started out selecting a PML card from the packet and tried to work around just that....but that crazy design paper was calling to me...so I cut around several of the colored cacti and adhered it to one of the other design papers.  Decided to cut the Hello PML card and adhered to the corner...that was going to be my finished card.  

I've been wanting to use the quail stamp as well...so I dug out the grey ones that I had made for another card (because that's the color of quail, plain ole grey).  Well they looked kinda boring, so back to my daughter's advice on paper crafting..."There are no rules, you can do whatever you want in paper crafting".  Soooo...stamped a family in pacifica ink and started coloring with the many pretty colors in the paper pack. 


Then I got to thinking about the cactus again and decided to stamp three cacti and then put faces on them.  Cinco de Mayo is coming up soon, which is a big celebration here in Arizona, so I put a Mexican hat on the one, but couldn't stop there.  Stamped a couple of flowers, colored and then put on the two other cactus. 

Around this time of year we have a family of Quail that nest in our back yard, or you can see them walk across the golfing greens as mother strides along slowly, but the little ones feet go a mile a minute to keep up. They have 8-10 babies following them.  

On the inside added a die-cut cactus that I had in my stash and another Mexican Hat, and left the sentiment inside open to any occasion "Party-Cinco de Mayo" but I will be using for a May 5th "Birthday Card".  




Also being submitted to the following Challenges:  
Three Amigos - Some Kinda Wonderful Inspiration Won Random Draw on Three Amigos
Between the Folds "Some Kinda Wonderful" paperpack 
Seize the Birthday Challenge #238 "Twist: 2 design papers" or "Anything Goes" with no Topping

Addicted to Stamps #238 Holiday - Cinco de Mayo








CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 
Design paper 
     Some Kinda Wonderful 
Cardstock 
     White Daisy
Stamp Sets 
     S1704 Flock Together SOTM
     Crafton Desert Diva "Prickly"
Inks/Pens
     Black Ink 
     ShinHan and Copic alcohol-based pens 
Other 
     3D Thin Foam Tape