Sweet and Charming... Feeling Happy

The day has finally arrived, Take Heart Ideas, has finally opened its doors. Take Heart Ideas is a place for inspiring scrapbooking, paper crafting, card making, and digital cutting. Take Heart Ideas starts its very first challenge today with and Anything Goes challenge, but Take Heart Ideas requires you use at least one product from Close to My Heart. You are in luck because Close to My Heart products can be anything from ink to Cricut cuts. The challenge starts today, July 2, and ends on July 27th. You don't want to miss out on a fabulous paper pack prize!

***Chance to win Blog Candy... read until the end!

Even though the theme of the challenge is anything goes, the Design Team used this color scheme for our sample projects:

That color scheme led me straight to my DCWV, Dear Jane Stack. There are such fabulous colors and patterns that are all in line with the watermelon color scheme. 

Because I had so many colors and patterns I wanted to use, I decided to start with a Tri-Fold Shutter Card. The base paper from the Dear Jane Stack has foil running down the left side of the paper, and I wanted that to be part of the card, so I cut the paper in such a way as to keep the foil. Then I layered different colors and patterns throughout the folds. Next, I used the CTMH stamp set Hello Wonderful Flair (B1443), which you can purchase HERE.

This stamp is fantastic because it's 3" round and can be layered easily using any type of circle cutter. Instead of inking this with a colored ink, I used Versa Mark and dusted the stamp with Ranger, Perfect Pearls. I used the shade of Forever Red. The Perfect Pearls give of a beautiful shimmer. 

The words: happy, love, and cherish were all cut from the CTMH Cricut cartridge, Artbooking. (Yes, using CTMH Cricut cuts count in Take Heart Challenges!). The words were cut from glitter card stock by DCWV. The photo corners were cut using Paper Artist's Fancy Corner die cut in my Spellbinders machine, and finally, the white lace butterflies were added with gems all around them. Want to buy the CTMH Cricut cartridge, Artbooking, click HERE.

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Challenges Entered:

Darling Cardmakers - No scissors

Totally Gorjuss - Pink and Green

Lauralcraft - Things with Wings

Love to Create Challenge - Three or more designer papers