A Color Challenge

At Color My Heart

This week's colors were not fitting into my working on Christmas cards. Then I was looking at our Christmas tree with some bright colored ornaments. So I grabbed my ornament stamp set and made some brightly colored ornaments for my card. Thanks Color My Heart for this unusual color combination at Christmas time.

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Paper Tree

Card Creations At Heart 2 Heart

I've been working on some folded paper trees for Christmas

 cards this year. This one is my favorite. You can view my other 

paper trees on my blog,  Be sure to share your card 

creation at Heart 2 Heart.

It's Tic Tac Toe Time

At Color My Heart

I've been working on my Christmas cards. It was hard to decide which 

Tic Tac Toe colors to use.

I finally decided on the top row: Harbor, Shortbread, and Scarlet.

I really like to add gold or silver to my cards but that will be for

another day. I did add the Shortbread colored liquid pearls

 on the berries. Liquid pearls are a fun addition to holiday cards.

Come play Tic Tac Toe with us at Color My Heart.

Crazy 8 Time at Color My Heart

Christmas in July

Christmas in July card using the Candy Apple, New England Ivy,

 Avocado, and the poinsettia with the rectangle frame for a background.

As we are entering the last months to order from the current Annual

Catalog be sure to get your rectangle frame and New England Ivy 

basic collection of Card Stock, Inkpad, and  re-inker before they retire.

Choose your 4 blocks and create a Christmas in July project 

to share at Color My Heart.

Christmas Cards

With Rose Gold

Add a little fancy to your cards with the new 

Rose Gold Foil papers. There are six patterns to

 choose from. Choose your Rose Gold project 

and share with us at Heart 2 Heart.

Colors featured with the 

Rose Gold Foil papers are Sangria and New England Ivy.

 

Color Dare #466

O Christmas Tree

My choice of colors from the 6 pack below are 

Rosemary, Mulberry, and Sangria.

The tree is embellished with a white glitter star

 and white dots using the white gel pen.

Have fun with the 6pack. 

Be sure to share at Color My Heart

Tic Tac Toe Time

With Holly & Ivy

This card is made using the bottom row of the 

Tic Tac Toe board below from Color My Heart.

The colors are Candy Apple, Harbor, and Evergreen. 

The greeting is embellished with the Holly & Ivy

 die cuts of deep green holly leaves and a red glitter berry.

The white dots on the circle frame are made with the white gel pen.

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It's Tic Tac Toe Time

At Color My Heart

Using the bottom row of colors: Raspberry, Evergreen, and Clover

 I made this simple and easy JOY card. The background is the 

Stitched Lattice card front and the snowflake is from Elegant Snowflakes.

 I added some Evergreen and Clover holly leaves 

with some Raspberry berries.

Now it's your turn to share your Tic Tac Toe

 creation with us at Color My Heart

 

Color Dare Recipe

1 Neutral-1Glitter-1Color

Card Color Recipe

1 Neutral: Pebble

1 Glitter: Blue Belle Glitter paper

1 Color: Blue Belle

This angel was an accident and headed for the trash when with a second look I came up with this card. I was trying to make the angel white with white daisy pigment ink. It didn't turn out so I stamped Blue Belle on top of the white daisy which left the white shadow around the edge of the angel. I set it aside and came back the next day and came up with this card. Sometimes mistakes turn out to be a new and different technique.

Use this recipe to make your creation to 

share at Color My Heart.

 

It's Tic Tac Toe Time

At Color My Heart

For my card I used Candy Apple, New England Ivy, and Gold.

The card has a Candy Apple on Black base with a black lattice paper accent piece (a sneak peak from the new book coming on Sunday). I used the flower from Operation Smile and added some gold glitter trim and a gold glitter gem in the center of the flower.

Use this Tic Tac Toe color board to make your

 creation and share at Color My Heart.

Shaker Card Tutorial

Fun Shaker cards are easier now with our 

window foam and acetate kits.

Our kits come in all shapes for all occasions.

Step 1. Choose your shape. You can choose from squares, 

rectangles, circles, stars and hearts.

Step 2. choose your paper pack and the coordinating

 color for your shaped frame.

Step 3. Cut the base section Stamp on the base or cut

 the base out of decorative paper.

Step 4 Add your window foam to your base leaving om the 

protective cover.

Step 5. Powder inside the shape with baby powder to prevent 

the shaker pieces from sticking to the foam.

Step 6. Add your desired shaker elements: sequins, 

star confetti, beads, cut outs, etc.

Step 7. Pull off foam protective tape and add the

 acetate window to the sticky foam.

Step 8. Adhere the window frame to the acetate cover. 

Step 9. Your shaker window is ready to add to your card.

Distressed Oxide Ink

Background Tutorial

Use the new Distressed Oxide Inks to make some fun backgrounds for a Christmas Nativity Scene. There are 14 colors top choose from in our new Ink collection. I used the blending technique for the background on the card. The ink colors are Antique Linen, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, and Chipped Sapphire. You will need the ink blending tool with the foam applicators for this technique.

Step 1. Apply the first coat of color with the blending tool using a circular motion on your white cardstock.

Step 2. Apply a second color next to the first color using the circular motion to blend the two colors together. You can see where the Picked Raspberry on the Mustard Seed made a shade of orange.

Step 3. Apply the third color using the circular motion blending the Chipped Sapphire with the Picked Raspberry to make a little shade of purple.

Step 4. Apply a spatter of glittery drops for the night sky with your clear shimmer brush.

Stamp your selection of images on your blended background with your Black Ink pad. 

Add a sentiment of your choice. Soften the edges of the Mustard Seed with the Antique Linen Ink using a circular motion to blend the two colors.

Tic Tac Toe Time

At Color My Heart

My color choices are from the top row on the Tic Tac Toe board below: 

Eggplant, Saffron, and Pixie with an accent base of Thistle.

I colored the Christmas Ball in the center with Saffron, Shaded around the gold with Pixie and edged it with Eggplant. I used Eggplant to stamp the word background on Thistle cardstock. The slim line card pattern is a copy right released pattern from the Wishes Card program Top Band. There is a Silver glitter star on the top of the manger.

Come play Tic Tac Toe with us at Color My Heart.

Circles of Christmas Fun

With A Whimsical Stamp Set

A Heart 2 Heart challenge with circles

Meets the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge #343

 Use this sketch from Atlantic Hearts

 for a fun and easy card.

Whimsical circle ornaments

Whimsical circle Candy Bar Wrap

Whimsical circle Candy Bar Wrap

Be sure to share your circle adventures with 

Heart 2 Heart.

Color Dare #364

 Meets Sketch #339

Close To My Heart's paper pack "Boutique" brings out my colors from the color pallet at Color My Heart. I used the colors Glacier, Saffron, and Peacock for my card. I've been working on Nativity cards for Christmas and liked these colors for a card. I also like the sketch at Atlantic Hearts for my pattern. Thanks Color My Heart and Atlantic Hearts for adding to my Christmas Nativity cards.

Color Dare 320

Picking Up the Pieces

A piece of Kraft paper, a piece of Candy Apple B&T paper, strips of New England Ivy CS, a circle of Linen, some twigs & berries and December SOTM make the NOEL on the oval. Layer it all randomly on a white card and you've got a fun Christmas card.

Use the colors above from Color My Heart

 to make your own Christmas card.

From The Three Hearts

Heart 2 Heart, Color My Heart,& Atlantic Hearts

This card is complements of the spot light challenge at Heart 2 Heart, the color challenge at Color My Heart, and the sketch at Atlantic Hearts. The Heart 2 Heart spot light is on the manger scene with some white glitter paper in the background. The Color My Heart monochromatic blue color scheme is shades of Sapphire. And...the sketch is from Atlantic Hearts.

Use this sketch for a special card for someone special.

Check out the 3 Heart blogs weekly for your creative inspiration.

Heart 2 Heart

Color My Heart

Atlantic Hearts

Color My Heart

Inspired by Nature at Heart 2 Heart

Christmas is full of Nature with the Christmas Tree, mistletoe, pine cones, poinsettias, holiday wreaths, and all the trimmings. My card features some pine twigs with red berries and pine cones inspired by the nature challenge at Heart 2 Heart. The colors come from the bottom row of the Tic Tac Toe challenge board at Color My Heart: Pomegranate, Espresso, and Fern.

Use this Tic Tac Toe color challenge to create you own special

 project to share with us at Color My Heart.

Color My Heart

Meets Atlantic Hearts

It's a monochromatic green challenge at Color My Heart.

I used New England Ivy and Fern with papers from

'Tis the Season and Grateful Heart. The snowflakes are

Winter Flurries thin cuts using White Daisy CS layered 

with White Glitter paper.

Be sure to check out the sketches at 

Atlantic Hearts each Monday.