Colour My Heart Red and GOLD

Hello crafty friends!

The challenge this week at Color My Heart is to use

CRANBERRY

and 

??ONE OTHER COLOR??

of your choice.

Here's the result of my first thought:

PINK

It is Canadian Thanksgiving here this weekend, and I'll be making a couple of pies. 

This card features an older Sizzix pie die--I spritzed, inked and crinkled a piece of Kraft paper for the crust, before die-cutting it. I couldn't find any PP with apples or pumpkins on it, so I used this cheery dotted paper from CTMH's (retired) Cherry-O. 

Then I received a parcel in the mail from Paper Wishes, which contained some metallic gold paper and new gold embossing powder and saw this red-and-gold beauty by Brenda H. Inspiration!

I've been seeing many lovely cards using CTMH's Stamp-of-the-Month, Scandinavian Wishes. 

It looks beautiful in simple red-and-white, like traditional Redwork embroidery. See HERE and HERE for some examples.

Adding GOLD gave it a big WOW-factor.

I heat embossed the image in gold on white, with matting in red & gold. A few red Jewel Dazzle stickers added a little more shine.

Inside:  the beautiful border stamp!

Then I rotated the sketch and changed the order of the matted layers:

Inside of this one needed just a strip of that gold paper:

So, which version do you prefer?

I'm wishing I'd ordered more than one sheet of gold paper...

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Head on over to the Color My Heart blog to see the winner's from last week's Dare, and the DT projects with CRANBERRY + ?

Then put on your Emerald City glasses, pick a colour and show us your stuff! We love to see what you create.

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Supplies:

CTMH cardstock: White Daisy and Cranberry (and Cocoa & Kraft for the pie card)

Cricut: Art Philosophy cartridge for the ornament 

Inks: VersaMark and Cranberry (and Cocoa and Cashmere)

Embossing powders: White detail and Gold

Embossing folders: Provocraft/Cuttlebug

Fibres: White collection (CTMH-retired) and Cranberry baker's twine

Doily: Paper Wishes

Atlantic Hearts warms things up...Sketch #23

Good Morning--it's October!

We are enjoying a couple of beautiful weeks of Indian summer, here in the Nation's capital.

However, this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge, made me think of bundling up!

Maybe it was the poinsettia in the middle...

Anyway, I went with the wintry theme, creating a snowy background with the Swiss dots embossing folder, sanding the raised dots, then painting the bottom of the panel with white pigment ink, for a snow-drift effect.

I chose to interpret the fish-tail banner as a scarf, using the new Ruby Chevron ribbon from CTMH.

 The sentiment comes from Very Merry Christmas, a retired CTMH set. I stamped it on patterned paper, matted with Ruby, then tucked it into a Lacy Rectangle Frame from Paper Wishes.

The wonderful grey felt rose comes from the Frosted Assortment-CTMH. It is mounted on a die-cut snow-flake from My Favorite Things.

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Off you go to the Atlantic Hearts blog, where you can see more inspiration using this super sketch, from the design team. You have until Sunday night to create something of your own to share with us. 

Hope you play along!

Happy crafting,

Caroline

CTMH Supplies Used:

White Daisy, Slate, Ruby and Desert Sand card stock

Frosted patterned paper

Ruby Chevron ribbon

Very Merry Christmas stamp set: S1210

Desert Sand dye ink; White Daisy pigment ink

Frosted Assortment (rolled felt flower)

Other Supplies:

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Paper Wishes Lacy Rectangle Frames dies

My Favorite Things snowflake Die-namic