Choose Your Own! :)

Yes!  This should be fun.  Are you ready to choose your own colors for this one?  Color Dare #46 is all about choice, so pick your own shades of pink, orange, and yellow!  Woo, hoo!!!!

I chose Close to My Heart Colors Smoothie, Sunset, and Buttercup.  This is such a happy combination, that I wanted to do a happy card--and if you're happy, then you sparkle.  :)

LOTS of sparkle...in the form of Silver Shimmer Trim, Sparkles Black Flourishes, Sparkles Clear Assortment, and the Glamor Glitter Alphabet.

This button and acrylic flower on my card USED to be clear.  The flower is from the Clair Assortment and the button is actually on clearance for only $1.25 on my website in While Supplies Last!

I learned a little trick from my fellow Diva teammate Stephanie Davis at The Gypsy Chic to turn them any color I want!  You just tap, tap, tap on them with your little Mini Pigment Ink Pads until they are coated how you like...sprinkle them with Clear Embossing Powder, and hit them with a shot of your heating tool!  Walla! Coordinating colored embellies for any project!  ;)  You can see Stephanie's post HERE for details and to see her amazing creation. 

This pretty flower up above is made with cuts from the Cricut Artiste Cartridge and the Hello Blooms and Hooray Bouquet My Acrylix stamps. I used Smoothie, Sunset, and Buttercup Exclusive Dye Inks.

I combined the playful Buttercup and Smoothie retired Dotty for You paper and Chantilly Textiles with the elegant script B&T Duo of For Always.  Somehow, it totally worked!   The bottom front of the card is edged with the Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Edger Punch and trimmed out with a ruffle of the textiles.

 

Just in case you would like to give this ruffle a try, there are several consultants who have put together tutorials on the process.  There are probably tons of them on YouTube.  I used my ATG as the adhesive base for mine and proceeded like this:

Here is a look at how I covered up the rough edges of the ruffle on the inside of the card with a bit of heavily adhesived CS and some more shimmer trim...

So, which shades of Pink, Orange, and Yellow will YOU choose?  Play along with us at the Color My Heart Color Dare this week and link up to us by Thursday the 13th in order to be considered for the coveted Color Dare Diamond Blog Badge!  :) 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Do-Over!

Hi everyone!  I am back with another Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge--and this time, I made sure to get it in before the deadline!  ;)  This is their 5th sketch, and they are a pretty new challenge blog.  I have grown to really like the sketch challenges.

Here is my card!

 This is the sketch...which I squished the long way, lol.

The first thing that popped into my head was a sunset, but I have already done that recently, so I went with the second thing I thought of...a hill.  That led me down the path to this beautiful sentiment and the flowers that I added.  (See what I did there?)  I am really pleased with the direction this went!  :)  Do you recognize the cupcake wrapper from the Cricut Artiste Cartridge?  It isn't JUST for giving your cupcakes a bit of flair! 

I was not sure how it would turn out since the markers are generally for coloring, but I used my Whisper Alcohol Ink Marker to draw the stitching and it worked really well.  I can't believe I faux stitched twice in one week!  What is going on here?  ;)

This is my complete creative formulary of available Close to My Heart products that I used:

Cricut Art Philosophy and Artiste Cartridges
White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, and Whisper CS
Cotton Candy, Blush, Buttercup, and Whisper Inks
Whisper Alcohol Ink Marker
B1420 Hello Tweety My Acrylix
D1491 Hooray Bouquet (one of my all-time faves!)
C1538 Girls Rock
Bitty Sparkles