Thursday, 10 January 2013

Color My Heart "Daring" Challenge #25


Hello Crafty Friends!
Welcome to my first official posting as a member of the 2013 

This week's assignment is to use the two primary colors 
RUBY and INDIAN CORN BLUE.

 I created a bunch of thank-you cards, with a "subway art" design. I used stamps from several different sets, mostly from Close to My Heart, and a couple from Paper Smooches.  As we were limited to just the two colours (I added the neutral WHITE DAISY), I did some second-generation stamping and stamp-swiping to add some variety, as you can see here:
I alternated mat-colours, using contrasting Twinery twine to embellish the cards. The stamped panel is popped up over the card base with foam tape.

I had seen a tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, where she gave some tips for mass-produced cards (link to her blog HERE). She did a minimum of stamping by creating a prototype, then using that lay-out to position multiple stamps on one block, so all stamps of one colour were done at the same time.  I tried this with the word-stamps I intended to colour RUBY:

It worked pretty well! The other words were stamped individually, as I was varying the ink intensity, but having those first stamps as landmarks sped up the process.

So, head on over to the Color My Heart Color Dare blog to see the creations by the other DT members, and to link up YOUR project to this week's Dare. 
You have until next Thursday to play along.  AND there are new blog badges for the challenge winners!  
Can't wait to see your take on RUBY and INDIAN CORN BLUE.  
Come have some Colorful fun!
Happy Crafting,
Caroline

Supplies Used:

Card stock in White Daisy, Indian Corn Blue and Ruby
Inks: Indian Corn Blue, Ruby
Twine: Denim and Maraschino, from the Twinery
Foam tape
Stix-to-Anything double-sided tape.

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15 comments:

  1. Linda Anderson10 January 2013 at 19:07

    Oooooo, these are gorgeous Caroline!! What a nice set of thank you cards. I saw that technique too by Jennifer, perfect for mass producing.

    Linda

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  2. Lela10 January 2013 at 19:59

    Great Idea for Thank You Cards -- Thank You for sharing! They look so cute in these colors

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  3. Miriam Prantner11 January 2013 at 06:56

    Great cards! Great composition with the stamps and I really love the generational stamping you did too!

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  4. Amie Kiger (Kigz) 11 January 2013 at 21:05

    I am beginning to love this whole "subway art" craze! This turned out awesome. That takes a lot of planning for laying out the words! :)

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  5. Pam11 January 2013 at 22:03

    Awesome thank you cards. Love the random stamping.

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  6. Emily Leiphart12 January 2013 at 07:43

    Amazing design, Caroline! Seriously fabulous thank you cards. I love all the different fonts (spot some PS) and colours!

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  7. Mary J12 January 2013 at 08:55

    Great cards, Caroline - suitable for women and men! Love the touch of twine too!

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  8. sarahstone12 January 2013 at 10:01

    What a cute set of cards, Caroline! I love your technique and thanks for explaining it.

    Sarah

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  9. Shelly Nemitz12 January 2013 at 10:12

    Caroline ... I love this. It's so fun to use multiple stamps to make your own. You REALLY took it up a notch by combining colors. For those who dont' know, that's NOT easy. Great cards using this weeks Color Dare.

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  10. Unknown13 January 2013 at 05:20

    Congratulations on being part of the Colour My Heart design team! And your cards are amazing! Thanks for the tutorial, I'm off to try my hand at this *Ü*

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  11. cvanholstein13 January 2013 at 08:25

    Hi Caroline!
    You're making such a great cards with fun techniques, very cool!
    And eh... you need a Dutch "Dank je wel" stamp!
    I'm going to look for one :D
    xxx, C

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  12. Lynn13 January 2013 at 10:49

    What a neat idea. Great tutorial on how to group those stamps for a word collage. I am going to give that a try. TFS!

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  13. NJ Stamping Queen14 January 2013 at 06:29

    Beautiful all inked card! Thanks for the great photo that shows how you did it. I just may have to try this.....
    great job on it!
    :) Marie

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  14. Lyndal15 January 2013 at 23:13

    LOVE this collage stamping Caroline - looks FAB :)
    Thank you so much for stopping by too, much appreciated!

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  15. Morag17 January 2013 at 12:04

    Liner these are great... I love the technique and you rocked your colour challenge!

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