COLOR MY HEART COLOR DARE AND DOUBLE TROUBLE CHALLENGE

Welcome back to another Color Dare Challenge but wait! Before you start your project, we are partnering with the Double Trouble Challenge "Cuddle Up" and you will want to start off with their 3-2-1 Recipe and our Colour Board gives you the first ingredient. All you need to do is add the other ingredients from recipe under Double Trouble Kitchen Clipart and end up with a warm and cuddly project, share with Double Trouble and be eligible for three chances at their random draw prize.

A lot of friends and family, including myself, have sadly been poorly over the Festive Season with Covid and flu so I seemed to be drawn to make a Get Well Soon card inspired also by our choice of colours.  

I grabbed a Clearly Besotted set I haven't used in a long while called Pawly Pals and stamped the little images and coloured round them and parts of them in the peach colour.  I edged the card stock with some of the Sage and added a piece of embossed card stock behind.  The embossing folder is a cable knit - just perfect for feeling cosy.  I then layered it onto some Desert Rose card stock and added a few drops of Nuovo drops.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

Krafty chicks - Stamps 

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - DOUBLE TROUBLE PARTNERSHIP #512

A full on challenge for you this week as we partner with Double Trouble again - here's our sketch for Try Stampin on Tuesday - if you want to be able to join in with Double Trouble also here are all their details.

Thing 1 Trouble Maker 

says, "Twisted Sister has often referred to me as being a square and out of touch with the current trends. She tells me it's better to be a circle because it's cool and groovy. Whenever this happens I sing 'It's Hip to be a Square' and, at least for a while, she stops calling me a square.

Talking about squares and circles, our partner for this challenge has a great sketch.  Following the sketch, include at least two squares or circles on your project using dies, frames, paper, embossing folders, stencils, etc., and show us whether you are square, groovy, or both.  

Note: Feel free to change the orientation of the sketch... rotate the sketch or use its mirror image. You may also modify by using a mix of squares and circles as long as the basic sketch is visible in your project.  

Thing 3 Twisted Sister will be embossing, dry or heat embossing. 

Optional Theme: Embossing

I started off by using an embossing folder from Stampin Up called Painted Texture for my background card stock.  I then rubbed a small Tim Holtz Distress ink pad over it in Pear Pizzazz to add the extra darker green.

The stamp is from Chocolate Baroque called Garden Wall and was coloured with Distress Inks and I added a cut out stitched framelit as the border.  The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp set.

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - #TSOT490/DOUBLE TROUBLE CHALLENGE

We are teaming up again today at Try Stampin on Tuesday with Double Trouble Challenge which means you get the chance to join in with two challenges in one go if you fulfil the criteria.  Follow our sketch and to be able to join in with Double Trouble add a musical theme to your project.

I started off my card by using a new Tim Holtz stencil I got with the lovely musical notes and I coloured it with Distress Inks Peeled Paint.  I then stencilled over this with a stencil from Sheena which was gifted to me by a crafty friend from my Facebook Group - I used TH Frayed Burlap for the trees.

The bird is made with one of TH's dies.  I cut it out first in cardstock and then used some very old scraps of music paper I have and layered them on top.  The music paper is from my own stash - I play piano and have had some of these papers for over 40 years but they are much older and were all torn but I didn't have the heart to throw them away.  Using them for mixed media has given them a new lease of life.  I used TH distress inks to colour in the bird.  I added a nest from Kaisercraft ephemera.  The little piece of Washi tape I found in my stash and was delighted to see the musical instruments on it!  Just goes to show you don't always know what you have.  I added some linen thread and the sentiment came from Stampin Up Home to Roost which seemed ideal.

 

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - #TSOT 476

For our sketch for you this week at TSOT we are joining up with Double Trouble Challenge blog again with their theme of Off The Edge.

I had great fun making this card - I started off by using the brick stencil mask from Stampin Up and some Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Ink from Tim Holtz.   I made the front of the card slightly smaller than the inside and layered it with some Cajun Craze cardstock with some washi tape from my stash on the outside edge of the inside of the card.  Hope that makes sense. 

My bird and cat are from Tim Holtz Crazy Birds and Cats and I inked them up with TH Distress Inks - used the matching dies to cut them out and sat them on a same piece of washi tape.  The little ball of wool comes with the cat stamps and I added some twine to run it to the cat.  Some googly eyes finished off this wacky card!

 

JOY OF SETS TIC TAC TOE - #JOSTTT017

May is my birthday month and sadly I won't be able to see the family or my darling new baby granddaughter for my birthday.  Thankfully hubby and the pets will be around so I won't be on my own and I feel for those who have had to spend their birthdays alone this year.  As it's my birthday month I've chosen the themes this month for our grid.  There is so much going on over at The Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe this month - firstly I am delighted to say we are being sponsored by Clearly Besotted stamp company who have offered a £20 voucher for one winner.  Wow!  I'm so grateful and I love their stamps.

We are also teaming up with Double Trouble challenge and their challenge goes live in a few days on 4th May.  

And so on to my card.  To join in with all three of Double Trouble's requests I used Birthday, Things that Fly and Sponging. 

 I used one of the masks from Stampin Up for the background on my card stock but didn't use the paste this time - just some Tim Holtz distress inks and a sponge.  I then used some of Tim's Wild Flower die cuts and used various shades of SU blue card stock to cut them out.  I made the background for my butterfly from three Distress Inks, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers and Ripe Persimmon and then used the Tim Holtz butterfly scribble to cut it out.  

This is such a delicate thinlet and really needs a good plate for the Big Shot to help it cut so beautifully.  The sentiments stamped in Bermuda Bay by SU are from Clearly Besotted.

 I hope you have fun with our grid and joining in with Double Trouble and good luck for the prize.