Color Dare #96 - Creme Brulee, Crystal Blue, & Sorbet (Juniper & Sky optional)

Greetings! We have another great Close To My Heart paper pack that we are featuring this week - Balloon Ride! The featured colors are:

Creme Brulee
Crystal Blue
Sorbet
Optional: Juniper & Sky

I made a layout using the Balloon Ride paper and Complements:

Our guest designer is Arlene Bonsma. She made a unique Clean And Simple card:

Now here is some talent from our design team:

Michelle Loncar

Marie Flayer

Gretchen Stumme

Hansi Brittain

Now it's your turn! Make a project using the featured colors. You do not have to use the Balloon Ride paper pack, and if you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest you have. Take a picture of your project and upload it to your blog. Make sure you link to us in your post. Next, link your post up here. See our sidebar for complete rules. Don't forget to have fun!

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Winners ~ Color Dare #94

As a member of the Design Team, this was a hard week for voting on the winners in Color Dare #94 (Hollyhock, Buttercup). Thank you  to all who joined us in the challenge! 

First we'd like to thank Morgan Vogt for being our Guest Designer for Color Dare #94 and sharing a wonderful project.

Now on to the winners:

Our Diamond winner is Cat and her cute card full of textures! 

Our Emerald winner is Pam and the lovely and simple birthday card.

The Ruby winner is Debbie E and her beautifully simple design.

Congratulations to Cat, Pam and Debbie E for being the winners for Color Dare #94! Thanks for sharing your creations. Don't forget to grab your Winners Blog Badges from the tab at the top of this page. 

Be sure to check out all the entrants blogs for more great ideas! 

Don't forget about the Color Dare for this week: Sunset, Olive and Lagoon.  If you don't have these exact colors just use something close. Neutrals are always an option to go with the Dare colors. 

Color Dare #95 will be open until 8:00pm 9CDT) Thursday May 29, 2014. Come and join the fun!

Color Dare #95 - Sunset, Olive, & Lagoon

Sorry I didn't get this posted sooner. I had a mental block and forgot all about it!

Our combo for this week is:

Sunset

Olive

Lagoon

Here are our fabulous designers:

Michelle Loncar

Becca Whitham

Marie Flayer

Now it's your turn! Make a project using the featured colors. If you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest you have. Take a photo of your project and upload it to your blog. Include a link to us and our challenge photo in your blog post. Link your post (not your blog in general) up at the bottom of this page. Most importantly, don't forget to have fun! Please read the sidebar for complete challenge rules.

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Winners--Color Dare #93

We had 9 wonderful entries for Color Dare #93 a four color challenge (Cranberry, Honey, Twilight and Juniper) and it was really hard to pick the winners. Thanks to all that took our challenge last week!  The Design Team has voted and the winners are:

Color Dare Diamond Winner Allie with her fabulous masculine birthday card:

Color Dare Emerald Winner Jody with her fun card using this month's free downloadable images from Close To My Heart:.  She has a series of 4 cards made with these images on her blog.

Color Dare Ruby Winner Dawn with her fantastic summer card:

Color Dare Sapphire Winner Christy with her beautifully colored Hot Air Balloon card:

Please go visit their blogs and see what other wonderful artwork they have to inspire you!

Congratulations to Allie, Jody, Dawn and Christy--don't forget to grab your Winner's Blog Badges from the tab at the top of this page.  

Here is a reminder about the current Color Dare --just two colors this week!

There is still plenty of time to join us in this week's color dare: #94 Buttercup and Hollyhock (if you don't have these exact colors it's ok to use something similar). The color dare closes Thursday May 22nd at 8:00 PM CDT. Come and join the fun!

Color Dare #94 - Buttercup & Hollyhock

Hi and happy Friday again! Thanks for visiting us here at Color My Heart. We hope you get a chance to play along with us using these flowery spring colors:

Buttercup

Hollyhock

I used the (very old) retired paper pack, Sonata, to make a layout of my kids. You can read more about it on my blog.

Our guest designer is the VERY talented Morgan Vogt. She made this card with the lovely rosette:

Now here is some inspiration from our talented design team:

Gretchen Stumme

Michelle Loncar

Marie Flayer

Now it's your turn! Make a project using the featured colors. If you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest you have. Take a photo of your project and upload it to your blog. Include a link to us and our challenge photo in your blog post. Link your post (not your blog in general) up at the bottom of this page. Most importantly, don't forget to have fun! Please read the sidebar for complete challenge rules.

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Winners ~ Color Dare #92

#92 was a two color dare using Crystal Blue and Sweet Leaf. Thanks to everyone who joined us last week. You were all so creative! It was hard to chose winners but here we go!

Our Design Team voted and here are the winners:

Color dare Diamond Winner: Jody and her adorable baby card.

Color Dare Emerald winner: Sheila with her swirls card.

The Color Dare Ruby winner: Judy and her cute flower card.

Congratulations to Jody, Sheila and Judy! Be sure to collect your winner's badge from the "Blog Badges" at the top of the Color My Heart blog. 

There is still plenty of time to join us in this week's color dare: #93 Cranberry, Honey, Juniper and Twilight (if you don't have these exact colors it's ok to use something similar). The color dare closes Thursday May 15th at 8:00 PM CDT. Come and join the fun!

Color Dare #93 - Cranberry, Honey, Juniper, & Twilight

Greetings! Happy Friday! Here is a color combo for you... this is a nice bright one, so have fun with it!

Cranberry

Honey

Juniper

Twilight

I made a layout using the retired Cruisin' paper pack with the level 2 foil complements. This is my 2 year old son here! Isn't he cute? You can read more about this layout on my blog.

Our guest designer this week is a former design team member, Caroline Bredeson! She made this really cute watercolor Mother's Day Card:

Now for some inspiration from our design team:

Gretchen Stumme

Becca Whitham

Michelle Loncar

Marie Flayer

Now it's your turn! Make a project using the featured colors. If you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest you have. Take a photo of your project and upload it to your blog. Include a link to us and our challenge photo in your blog post. Link your post (not your blog in general) up at the bottom of this page. Most importantly, don't forget to have fun! Please read the sidebar for complete challenge rules.

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Winners ~ Color Dare #91

The colors for Color Dare #91 were Ariana Coral, Ariana Green, Ariana Grey, Crystal blue and Outdoor Denim. Thanks to all who entered last week--you all created wonderful projects with these colors and it was hard to select winners!

Our Design Team has voted and selected the following winners:

Color Dare Diamond Winner: Arlene with her fabulous use of the Blue Striped paper and fancy flower.



The Emerald Winner is Jody with her wonderful May basket with the ornamental handle and flower embellishments.  What a terrific project!



The Ruby Winner is Shelly  with her beautiful Thinking of You card:

Congratualtions to Arlene, Jody and Shelly--please pick up your Winners Badge from the tab "Blog Badges" at the top of the Color My Heart Color Dare.

There is plenty of time to join us for Color Dare #92!  Colors are: Crystal Blue and Sweet Leaf. (If you don't have these exact colors it is OK to substitute similar colors.) The challenge closes Thursday May 8 at 9:00 PM CDT. We'd love to have you join us!

~~~~MONTHLY Prize Winner -- APRIL~~~~

And the APRIL winner is........JODY GUSTAFSON!

Congratulations to Jody for winning the monthly prize drawing*

 at Color My Heart!

Please email me at stamplady@kc.rr.com with your mailing address and we'll send you a prize!

Thanks to everyone that joined us in April! Keep the creativity going and check out the color dare for this week: 

#92 Crystal Blue and Sweet Leaf. Click here for details.

*Monthly winners are determined from a random drawing using Random.org.

Color Dare #92 - Sweet Leaf & Crystal Blue

Our dare for this week is a nice spring combination:

Crystal Blue

Sweet Leaf

I made a layout using a little of the old Cherry-O B&Ts. You can read more about it on my blog.

Here are our design team projects:

Gretchen Stumme

Michelle Loncar

Marie Flayer

Hansi Brittain

Now it's your turn! Make a project using the featured colors. If you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest you have. Take a photo of your project and upload it to your blog. Include a link to us and our challenge photo in your blog post. Link your post (not your blog in general) up at the bottom of this page. Most importantly, don't forget to have fun! Please read the sidebar for complete challenge rules.

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