A Partridge in a Pear Tree

Tis the season...actually I have been making Christmas crafts for almost 2 months in preparation for my 1st craft fair on Dec. 8th.  This is a personal stretch for me, so wish me luck!  I did pause today to check out the new dare on Color My Heart.  Dare #20 uses the complementary colors Smoothie, Olive. New England Ivy, & Cranberry.  These just happen to be the colors of Close To My Heart's Pear & Partridge paper.  I love this paper & have used a lot of it.  Here are 2 items that will be decorating my house this year...a NOEL banner (which uses another paper along with Pear & Partridge) and a large 3D star that can be used a s a tree topper or (in my house) hanging in a corner nook.

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Peaceful Christmas!

  Color My Heart Dare #19

   I'm honored to be chosen as this week's guest designer for Color My Heart Dare #19.  This week's colors are Cranberry, Hollyhock, and Sweetleaf.
   I chose to use the card on page 36 of the Cricut Artiste cartridge in Sweetleaf cardstock as my base. I then cut a slightly smaller version of the same card in Cranberry.  I attached a 1" strip of Hollyhock inside the card to fill the heart.

   The dove & sentiment are from the Blessings of Peace stamp set (B1406). The dove is stamped with Hollyhock pigment ink on Sweetleaf cardstock & heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I used the back of the stamp to make a coordinating shape in White Daisy cardstock to help the dove pop out a bit more. (Thanks for the idea, Sarah.)

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Supplies Used:  Cranberry, Hollyhock, Sweetleaf, & White Daisy cardstock

                          Hollyhock ink & pigment, Cranberry ink

                          Clear embossing powder/ heat tool

                           1/8th inch wide white ribbon

Color My Heart Dare #18

I can't help but to brag a little...I won last week's Color My Heart Dare.  Now I get to be the guest designer for next week's dare.  Here is Sarah's write-up:

Hey everybody! Welcome to the color dare for Close To My Heart's exclusive color pallette! You're in for a surprise today. But first, congratulations to Joanne Barnes. She won the color challenge from last week with her card using Smokey Plum, Sweet Leaf and Sunset! Technically, she broke the rules by adding an extra color (Honey, maybe?), but I'm just smitten with this card. I think it's the ribbon, or maybe the cute little coffee beans. Anyway, I made an exception for you, Josie, just this once. ;)

This week's challenge is to use three kit-exclusive colors for our dare this week:

Flirty Raspberry, La Belle Vie Pink, & Avonlea Teal

I went for "keep it simple" with this fun present card inspired by Brittany Fitch at http://craftypapercreations.blogspot.com/.  There are so many different ways this card could be used.

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P.S.  I just love the bow from the Cricut Artiste Collection!

Latte Love - Color My Heart Dare #17

This week's colors are triadic, secondary colors:

Smokey Plum
Sunset
Sweet Leaf

     For today's challenge I'm using my newest stamp set, Cup of Cheer, B1404.

And my new favorite embellishment, Colonial White Rosette Ribbon, Z1800.

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H2H Halloween Challenge!

Happy Halloween

     This spooky wreath was created with the Artiste Cricut Cartridge with the assistance of Cricut Craft Room.  All the cuts with the exception of the circles can be found on pages 76 and 77 in the Artiste booklet. The trickiest part of this project was arranging the small spider webs around the wreath shape.  When I started, I thought just the tops of the webs would peek over the top of the circle, but you can see that is not what happened.  However, I loved the result.  the words and spiders were cut out of Moonlight paper, with red & clear bitty sparkles added for eyes.

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Moonlight Blog Hop

 Thank you for joining us on our “Take a Walk in the Moonlight” Blog Hop.  We have a fabulous path for you to follow as you take your walk in the moonlight with us as we feature Close to My Heart’s Moonlight paper pack.

If you just happened to come to this blog, you should begin your walk at the  beginning at Lucy's blog.

My project is a 6 x 6 card. Along with the Moonlight paper, I used a fun faux stitching technique you can find on Melinda Everitt's blog. I think it looks so real! The wreath is stamped in Cocoa, Autumn Terracotta, Honey, and Holiday Red then hand cut & popped with foam tape. I used a fairly straight stem stamp & then bent it on a wide block to get the hanging effect. The sentiment is from the same set as the wreath.

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Here's a better look at the faux stitching...

The colors swirl together to form the wreath...

Materials: Autumn Terracotta CS & Moonlight paper,

                   Inks - Autumn Terracotta, Honey, Cocoa, Holiday Red, & Smokey Plum

                   Stamp sets - Remarkable Wreath(C1473) & Sweetheart(B1370-retired)

                    Bling - Brown & Tan Sparkles(Z1753) & Licorice Opaque Gems(Z1335)

The next stop on your moonlight walk is Julia.

Here is the list of all the talented consultants who are participating in this months blog hop:

Lucy ~ http://www.love2createitall.com 

Darla ~ http://www.stampingunderdoctorsorders.blogspot.com/

Deanne http://deannestamps.blogspot.com

Bethany ~ http://stampingathome.blogspot.com

Wendy ~ http://MyScrapbookingBlog.com

Stephanie ~ http://www.quiltedscrapper.blogspot.com

Erin ~ http://www.imcreaterin.blogspot.ca

Maria ~ http://mariawoodworth.blogspot.com

Carolyn ~ http://nuts4scrappin.blogspot.com 

Joanne ~ http://josiesjoy.blogspot.com .....................YOU ARE HERE

Julia ~ http://youcancreatectmh.blogspot.com/

Theodora  ~ http://www.celebratecrafts.com

H2H Christmas Challenge!

     I love making Christmas cards, especially with the Pear & Partridge paper.  The colors are so warm.  This week's challenge at Heart 2 Heart is to create anything Christmas using your Close to My Heart products. 

Enjoy!