Step It Up with Avonlea

Color Dare Gets a Step Up

This week's colors at Color My Heart are Creme Brulee, Sorbet and Twilight.

Those colors are the main colors in the Clementine paper pack.

 I've been playing with the Step It Up Palettes by Tresa Black.

 Debuting in  the new Fall/Winter Idea Book there are three new

paper packs that feature “Trend Colors.”  Flirty, Avonlea and La Belle Vie 

paper packs have two or more limited edition colors.

Tresa gives us some other colors to use with each of these packs to

Step It Up. She uses Creme Brulee, Sorbet, and Twilight with the

 Avonlea Paper Pack. I decided to give this a try with this card set.

So get out your Creme Brulee, Sorbet, and Twilight

and take the Dare at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Avonlea, Clementine

Cardstock: Creme Brulee, Sorbet, Twilight, Colonial White

Stamps: Casual Expressions

Ink: Creme Brulee, Sorbet, Twilight

Embellishments: Blue Buttons, Bakers Twine, Paradise Flowers, Floret Shapes

Pattern: #24 Make It From Your Heart



Back to School Time

A Post It Note Holder

The Heart 2 Heart challenge this week is to craft something for back to school.  Also at Inspired By the inspirational photo is all about apples. I originally made this for the Inspired By challenge but it just happened to fit the Heart 2 heart challenge. Very seldom does it work for me to make one project for two challenges.

For teacher or student this post it note holder will work for all those important  messages.

Using two coasters, cover with Scholastic B&T Duos. Add your back to school images.

 Put the coasters together with Bind It All spiral and attach the post it notepad inside. 

If you don't have a Bin It All you can use binder rings to make the book. 

Insert some coordinating B&T inside the RSVP pen and 

tie some ribbon scraps to the clip of the pen.

Inspired By inspirational photo

Now it's your turn to share your crafty Back to School project at Heart 2 Heart

or your project inspired by the inspirational photo at Inspired By.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Scholastic

Cardstock: Colonial White

Stamps: Classmate Alphabet, Mayberry WOTG stamp set

Ink: Ruby, New England Ivy, Cocoa, Saddle

Embellishments: Binder Clips

Other: RSVP Pen, ribbons from stash, Post It pad

A New Crafty Color Combo

Lagoon, Pear, & Sunset

Heart 2 Heart's weekly challenge is a color challenge. 

Lagoon: Some printed B&T Duos from Stella and cardstock

Sunset: cardstock and a flower from Paradise Flowers

Pear: leaves made with cardstock and a border.

Add a little faux stitching and some burlap for texture.

Now it's your turn to create with these crafty colors 

and share with us at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Stella

Cardstock: Lagoon, Sunset, Pear

Stamps: A Garden

Ink: Black

Embellishments: Paradise flowers, bakers twine, basic buttons, Bling Assortment, Burlap ribbon
Pattern: #24 Make it From Your Heart

Color My Heart with Less is More

A new Color Dare and Challenge

The Color My Heart color dare: Blush, Hollyhock, Olive

The card challenge: Less is More Week 81 "Tearing"

This color combination is one of my favorites. I chose a stamp set that 

I haven't used in a while. The simpleness of the card is the challenge at 

Less is More. Create a simple card with clean lines, minimal elements, 

areas of white space and few or no embellishments. Now, this is harder than 

you think. Lots of white space and no embellishments. That is so not me. 

However, it was really fun to just grab the stamps set, the ink pads, 

and do some tearing. So take the dare at Color My Heart 

and take the challenge at Less is More

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Olive, Colonial White

Ink: Blush, Hollyhock, Olive

Stamps: Rosey Regards

Countdown to Christmas

My Creation Cubby

Make a Countdown to Christmas Treat Box

Each box holds a candy treat as well as a Christmas note to celebrate the season.

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Cranberry, Desert Sand, Olive, Garden Green, Smoothie, New England Ivy

Stamps: Countdown

Ink: Cranberry, Olive, Bamboo

Note: Workshop details can be viewed Here.

Hands On Fun

Celebrating the new Paper Packs

At my Open House CTMH Celebration of the new Fall/Winter Idea Book 

I cut papers from all the new packs using my 6X6 sheets. I packaged some 

old give away stamps together so each person could choose which stamps

 they wanted for their card. We made card #28 from the new 

Make It From Your Heart how to publication. Each person could choose 

which papers they wanted to use and which stamps they wanted to keep. 

It was a fun way to introduce the new papers.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Flirty

Cardstock: Olive

Stamps: Give Aways from Dream Big

Ink: Olive, Sunset

Embellishments: Seam Binding Ribbon

Note: I used the Color Confidence with Flirty as described by Tresa Black for my color choice.

Pear & Partridge Cards with Option

Pear & Partridge Workshop on the Go Cards

This WOTG includes an amazing stamp set.

Not all the stamped images are used with the workshop guide. 

So I used the same card parts, mixed it up a little and

 used the other images for option #2

 Card #1 WOTG

 Card #1 option: Use a different stamp for the background stamping.  

Add the  partridge and some packages on the branch.

 Card #2 WOTG

 Card #2 option: Mask the birds when stamping the greeting and insert packages.

 Card #3 WOTG

Card #3 option: Stamps the "Love" birds on the branch. Use the sentiment with "Love." 

Turn the card and add ribbon under the stamped piece.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Pear & Partridge WOTG

Ink: Cranberry, Olive, Cocoa

Stamps: Pear & Partridge WOTG

Embellishments: Pear & Partridge WOTG

Scrapbook Shadow Box

A Ballerina Keepsake

Ashley's solo in the Nutcracker Ballet was her part in the Waltz of the Flowers. 

For her keepsake Shadow Box I've been wanting to try some of those3-D roses 

made with the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge. However, since I wouldn't put them 

on a card or in a scrapbook this option seemed just right for some 3-D roses.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: La Belle Vie

Cardstock: Blush, Hollyhock, Baby Pink

Ink: Blush

Letters: Eclectic Alphabet

Embellishments: Opaques, Sparkle Flourish, Bitty Buds

Pattern: #18 Make It From Your Heart

National Stamping Month Blog Hop

A Memory Book for a Senior

Welcome to the National Stamping Month blog hop featuring the new stamp set "It's Your Day." 

If you have come from Kristine's blog you are on the right path.

For my project I made a memory book for my granddaughter Ashley who is a Senior in High School. She is a major photographer and enjoys life to the max. Her Senior Year will be a memorable and exciting one and now she will have a place to save all her favorite events, thoughts, and activities.

My Creations Bookmark Album

 Front Cover

 Page 1

Front of Tag

 Back of Tag

 Page 2

 Page 3

 Page 4

 Page 5

 Page 6

 Page 7

 Page 8

 Page 9

 Page 10

 Page 11

Page 12

Ashely's school colors are red and black so I did a mix and match 

with several new paper packs from the new Fall/Winter Idea Book. 

For the red I used the B&T duos from the Pear & Partridge pack. 

For black I used the striped B&T Duos in the Moonlight pack. 

Added some school B&T Duos from the Scholastic pack.

Now it's time to check out what Jen has created for you.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Pear & Partridge, Scholastic, Moonlight

Cardstock: Cranberry, Slate, Cashmere, Colonial White

Stamps: It's Your Day

Ink: Cranberry, Black, Saddle

Embellishments: Seam binding Ribbon, Red Buttons, Binder Clips, Bakers Twine

Other: My Creations Bookmark Album

Avonlea Cards With an Option

Avonlea Card Making Work Shop on the Go

This WOTG includes an amazing stamp set. Not all the images are used with the workshop guide. 

So I used the same card parts, mixed it up a little and used the other images for option #2

 Card #1 WOTG

 Card #1 option: Stamp a border with the lace border stamp, 

turn the card, and add some faux stitching.

 Card #2 WOTG

 Card #2 option: Stamp a different sentiment in the corner, turn the card,

 tie ribbon around the floral image, add faux stitching to the background band.

 Card #3 WOTG

Card #3 option: stamp the script background on the top of the card, 

use a different sentiment, tie ribbon around the sentiment piece 

long ways, use the zip strip for the border piece.

CTMH Supplies: 

B&T Duos: Avonlea

Cardstock: Colonial White, Smokey Plum, Slate, Chocolate, Avonlea White

Stamps: Avonlea WOTG

Ink: Smokey Plum. Slate, Chocolate

Embellishments: WOTG Supplied