Color My Heart - Guest Designer

I was very excite to be asked by the Color My Heart Blog team to be a guest designer.

The Challenge? To use 2 different paper packs on one item.

Well for those of you who know my OCD tendencies - this was WAY out of my comfort zone - you all know how I like everything to match !!!

Anyway - I came up with this 3" x 6" card which features Chantilly and For Always papers.

The base I made from CTMH white Textured card-stock.

I then added a piece of the Green Chantilly paper and added texture and sparkle with a piece of Sweet Leaf Ribbon and the new Black Shimmer Tape.

The blue background?? That is the black and white paper from For Always which I graduated ink 

sponged with Twilight, Crystal Blue and Sky inks and the Texture Tools. 

I also ink distressed 2 Milepost Shape stars - one with Sky Ink and the other with Twilight. I painted them both with Create a Shade Pearl Paint, then added liquid glass to the smaller one. 

Another piece of the Black Shimmer Tape was added to the large star.

Rosette ribbon added softness to it & a Cricut cut flower with the center filled with the 

Stardust Glitter Glitz Gel added more height.

Finally the sentiment is from the Avonlea Card-making kit .

I had fun with this challenge and hope it inspires you to mix your papers :O)

Love Sara x

Color My Heart Card #25

I'm not sure how I managed to find the link to this blog/competition but I am very glad I did.

Challenge #25 asked us to use a Dyadic color scheme  - 

A Dyadic color scheme is 2 colors which are 2 colors apart on the color wheel. 

The 2 colors we were given to play with were Ruby and Indian Corn Blue.

I have to admit that this was a little intimidating as the 1st thoughts that come to mind when putting these two colors together is Patriotic & July 4th .

I really didn't want to go along that route of design as it seemed too obvious.

So this is my card - I used the gorgeous stamp set from the Flirty Workshop On The Go.

This Workshop will retire at the end of this month - so if you love the limited edition stamp set that

comes in this kit - you need to move fast !

The base and sentiment piece were cut from Colonial White Cardstock.

I used the Indian Corn Blue Exclusive Ink for the sentiment and did 2nd generation stamping 

in the same color for the branches in the background. 

The sentiment was ink distressed with the same color ink.

I also sponged it onto the Color Ready Seam Binding Ribbon using the white sponge tool 

from the Texture Tools.

I pleated the ribbon when it was completely dry and kept the pleats in place with Mini Glue Dots.

I used the Ruby Exclusive ink for the 3 flowers - again the lightest flower is 2nd generation - the left hand flower I rolled the edges again so that the color would graduate and the right hand flower was stamped twice and I cut out the center section and overlaid the 1st flower using 3D foam tape to give it dimension.

All of the flowers were ink distressed using the Sponge Dauber and Ruby ink.

The sentiment was matted on Ruby cardstock which again was ink distressed and given height 

using 3D foam tape.

I used Liquid Glass on all of the buds on the branches and then scattered bitty pearls.

I used the medium sized Cream Pearls on the sentiment and the large ones on the ribbon.on the ribbon.

Finally 2 Pins from the soon to be retired Bling Assortment completed it.

I love the way it turned out and hope you do too

Love Sara x