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

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 

Color Dare #664 - Thank You

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #664 using at least two shades of blue.  As I was looking through my stash I came across a very old floral from one of CTMH Fundamental paperpacks and it already had two blues meeting the requirement and perfect as a background. Decided to use a third color, Sapphire, for a second border. 

 

My immediate thought was to add butterflies using the same colors... so I sought out a pair of butterfly dies.  Cut the shadow base for each butterfly with glacier and cut the decorative butterfly for each using Lagoon. Each were glued on body part only, then adhered to background using 3D thin foam tape and the wings were rolled for additional dimension.  

Sentiment was cut using Lagoon cardstock and then adhered direct to the background and a butterfly was added to the inside r-h corner of card base. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #664 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:

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

The Neglected Stuff "   Used: Floral Paper retired CTMH Paperpack 

     and Butterfly Dies

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - August 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     CTMH Fundamentals - Floral   
Cardstock

     (3) Shades of Blue (Sapphire, Glacier and Lagoon), and White Daisy 

Dies
     Lawn Fawn - Thank You Border 

     Spellbinders "Butterflies"   
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape

TSOT #676 - 25th Anniversary

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #676. The CTMH paperpack "Love Story - Silver Pack" had some paper I've wanted to use for quite some time. My inspiration and plan was to use the 3-2-1 Recipe at Double Trouble but my final card ended up as a grey/silver monochromatic perfect for a 25th Wedding Annniversary. 

I chose a scalloped hexagon cutting out the center with a smaller hexagon to make the frame for the focal point. The focal point was a flower that was right in the middle for the background patterned paper and the hexagon frame was approximately the same size as my focal point. The frame was adhered with 3D thin foam tape and from the same patterned paper the same floral was fussy-cut to use for layering and dimension. 

For more dimension the leaves were lifted up over the frame, another sprig was fussy-cut and adhered with 3D thin foam tape over the same sprig on the patterned paper. Wink of Stella was added to the frame, floral, leaves and sprig which gave a little sparkle against the background.  

To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using three different dies, layered 3 times for dimension and adhered to the bottom of the background. Again added Wink of Stella to bring in more sparkle against the background.  

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 also see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

I Spy With My Little Eye No. 28 "Something to Celebrate"

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 31" 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - Aug 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     Love Story Paperpack "Silver"    

Cardstock 

     Gray and White Daisy  

Dies 

     Pink and Main Scallop Hexagon Dies 

     Lil'Inker Mixed/Stitched Numbers Die Set 

     Paper Roses "Words" 

     My Artc Alphabet Stamp and Cuts 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

DTC Challenge #197 3-2-1 Recipe "You're In the Spotlight" with TSOT #676

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #197 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" consisting of 3 Color of Choice (Purple, Yellow, Lagoon and Green), 2 Layers Not to Include Card Base, and 1 Spotlight Technique.  Click on Spotlight Technique here for easy tutorials for creating this technique. Also included using  Twisted Sister's optional twist to include flower(s) and share my card with our alternate challenge "Triple B (Butterflies, Birds & Blooms)".  My inspiration came from our sister challenge, TSOT, Try a Sketch on Tuesday #676, rotating the sketch to landscape.  

In the CTMH paperpack "Love Story" there was a large floral sticker in black and white.  I chose a scalloped circle, cutting out the center with a smaller scalloped circle to make a frame for the spotlight technique. I circled off the space to be colored and then colored the florals and leaves within the circle using Copic Sketch  (alcohol-base) pens.  

Adhered the floral on black cardstock, added 3D thin foam tape to adhere to the card base.  The frame was place around the colored floral sticker and adhered to the background.  To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using white cardstock was placed in upper right-hand corner. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" and play along with our optional twist and double dare while earning additional chances to our random drawing. Check out the Design Teams inspirations 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 "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 30" 

The Neglected Stuff "   Used: Floral Sticker from retired CTMH Paperpack

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - August 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Love Story Paperpack "Floral Sticker"     

Cardstock 

     Black and White Daisy

Dies 

     Scalloped Circle Dies 

     Peachy Cheap "Words" 

Inks/Pens 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) Variable Colors

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

Color Dare #660

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #660 and combined it with the Sketch Saturday Challenge #779 and flipping sketch to portrait.  The blend of the Graphic colors is quite pretty; but not sure I got a perfect match with the pinks and oranges.  

I made some modification of the horizontal banner and replaced it with the dragonfly stitched trail, and the vertical banner was the same patterned paper as in the circle; placed and lined up with the the oval blossoms.  The dragonfly was cut using the pink patterned paper with another in pink cardstock for a shadow. The sentiment was added in the oval using black ink and on the inside added a strip of the orange patterned paper border with pink cardstock alongside the right-hand border of card base. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #660 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: 

A Cut Above "July" Must use at least one die 

The Neglected Stuff "July" Stuff Used 6 x 6 packet never used

Triple B:  Birds, Butterflies and Blooms "July" (Paper is Blooms; and there is a dragonfly, not butterfly)  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     My Favorite Things "Bundles of Pastels Blossoms" 2 shades a pink/orange and         a light orange closest match to Color Board  

Cardstock 

     A Pinkish/Orange and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Sentiment by Rubbernecker Stamps "Beautiful Wishes" 

Dies 

     LaLa Land Crafts #8274 "Dragon Fly"

     Waffle Flower "Flutter By Trail Die"

     Tuttie Designs "Scalloped Stitched Nesting Ovals" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     

TSOT Sketch Challenge #674 and DTC #195 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #674 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble #195 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies". 

Here is another card with the same style as my previous card but using different stamps. Again I went to my stash to look through my backgrounds previously created and foiled with gold. Chose a stamp set that I had never used before and it was begging me to use it.  Added a sentiment and strips of the background on the inside of card base on the right-hand border.  

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.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - July

Simon Says Fun with Paint featuring Paper Artsy 

The Neglected Stuff "March" Stuff Used: Another Background in stash  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Background: In stash Jel Plate Technique and Add of Gold Foil 

Cardstock 

     Lemon and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     AAL & Created "Morphed Pallet"

     CTMH "Connections" 

     Paper Smooches "Botanicals 1"

     CTMH "Just to Say" Sentiments 

     CTMH Universal Backgrounds

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Inks:  Lemon, Blossom, Sea Glass 

DTC #195 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies" Beautiful Wishes.. AND TSOT #674

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #195 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies" and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #674) which starts on July 7th. 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 interested participants.  

I love this style of card but I don't do them very often.  I like to experiment with them as there are a lot of cardmakers that do this style and make it look simple... but don't let that fool you... it's not that simple. It was fun to look through my stash for backgrounds peviously made and foiled to use with one of my favorite butterfly floral stamps and with an add of a couple more stamps it seemed to fit the sketch.  Added a sentiment and strips of the background on the inside of card base on the right-hand border.  

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: 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 30 

The Neglected Stuff "June" Neglected Stuff Used: Background Techniques 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - July 

Simon Says Fun with Paint featuring Paper Artsy 

Elllibelle's Crafty Wednesday "Anything Goes"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Background: Jel Plate Technique and Add of Gold Foil 

Cardstock 

     Lagoon and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Rubbernecker Stamps "Beautiful Wishes"

     Visible Image "Transmission Glitch" 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Try a Sketch on Tuesday #672 "Happy Father's Day"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #672  and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Double Trouble #193 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "My Guy".  

The TSOT sketch is perfect for layers and patterned papers. "My Guy", same guy,  but this time is a bird enthusiast and a Father's Day card. Used complementary papers from CTMH's Skylark paperpack and colors that went well with Kraft. The patterned papers were cut and bordered with Toffee (Kraft-like) cardstock and adhered to the white cardbase as in sketch. 

The focal point was a larger cut panel from the Skylark patterned paper and then cut to size and fussy-cut the bird to fall off edge of panel.  A sentiment was stamped on same as one of the panels, bordered with Toffee and adhered to bird panel.  

On the inside a couple of the patterned zip strips from the same paperpack were adhered to the right-hand border. 

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.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenge #99 

(Paper Rocks Scissors "June Challenge" (Used Papers and Scissors on Bird)

The Neglected Stuff "June"  Neglected Stuff Used:

Triple B "Birds,Butterflies,Blooms" Challenge 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Skylark Paperpack and Zip Strips 

Cardstock 

     Toffee (Kraft-like) and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     D2629 Just to Say Sentiments

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

 

Color Dare 610 Six Pack "Hugs"

Here is my Design Team card for Color Dare #610 "Six Pack" using at least three of the colors (Flamingo, Peach, Lagoon + Sage) and combined these colors using the Try a Sketch on Tuesday #651, our Double Trouble sister challenge, rotating sketch left for portrait and using a Butterfly as my circle.  A sentiment was required for the sketch so I used letter stamps on the patterned paper for a vertical sentiment and layered with Mink cardstock.  

This card started out with a stamped image on white cardstock and colored using Copic Sketch pens, along with a second stamped on white cardstock to use for dimensional piece for the left-side of the butterfly. 

I wasn't happy with the match of colors so stamped another image on a patterned paper and layered with Mink cardstock. Fussy cut the layered butterfly left wing and the other florals. Stamped a partial image of the butterfly (floral side) on a Peach patterned paper to replace the colored florals I was not happy with. Some of the florals were adhered direct to the stamped image on the patterned papers and some were adhered with 3D thin foam tape. 

On the inside left-over fussy-cuts of the floral were colored and adhered direct to bottom corner of the cardbase in colors 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #610 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to Try A Sketch on Tuesday, our Sister challenge,  and see how easy it might be to combine challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Goes" #19 

   I made Top Four at Beautiful Blossoms

Cardz Z Galz #229 "Shades of Blue" 

Critter Crazy Challenge "AG with Featured Creature" 

Monday Challenge Simon Says "Lots of Layers" 

Try It on Tuesday "Things with Wings" 

Triple B July 2024 "Birds, Butterflies, Blooms" 

    I made Top Winner at Triple B 

    

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie "Inspiration"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Background:  CTMH Mix In "Mink" 

     Flowers:  CTMH Mixo-In "Peach"

Cardstock 

     Mink and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms"  

     MyArtC Stamp "Letters"

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Sakura Gelly Roll "White" 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

        Colors similar to Peach, Flamingo, Lagoon and Sage

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Black and White Dots