Color Dare #7

Thanks for joining us this week at Color My Heart. Thanks to the 13 entries we had last week. They were so creative - you can scroll down to the previous post to check them out! And thanks to the 111 followers we have so far!

A big congrats to the winner of last week's challenge: Karen Russell!

I loved everything about this card: The primary colors are subtle but fabulous, the faded sponging of the journalling spot is gorgeous, the sanding of the cardstock to match the B&T is a beautiful effect, and the embossing of the bird and the addition of the Baker's Twine are just the right touch! Great job, Karen!

Ruth's Pick: Lalia Harris!


Franny's Pick: Jody Gustafson!


This week's color dare is to choose your own secondary colors: any shade of orange, green, and/or purple will do. Pick two or use all three.

This is a design from Vicki Wizniuk at wizardshangout.blogspot.com. She has these cards for sale. I changed up the colors, but otherwise it is the same. I used Bohemian Alphabet in Sunset, the flowers are also from Bohemian Alphabet. They are stamped in Amethyst. The sentiment is from Little Reminder - stamped in Gypsy. I used the Sunset polka-dot pattern from Dotty for you, the textured circles from Dotty for You for the heart (cut on AP), and Sweet Leaf grosgrain ribbon.

Lesson: When you use secondary colors together, it usually lends to a bright and cheerful look. If you want to go more subdued, use a tint, tone, or shade (we'll talk more about those at a later date), or only use 2 colors. If you use all three, use one for your main color, the second as a secondary color, and accent lightly with the third color.

Ruth made a beautiful banner for her daughter using Sweet Leaf and Amethyst.

Franny made a card using Sonoma. This design is taken from Allisa Chilton at rockymountainpapercrafts.blogspot.com. The colors are Olive and Smokey Plum with Petal and Amethyst. She used Bamboo as her neutral, and the sentiment is stamped from A Little Thanks. Didn't she do a great job?

Here is Shelly Nemitz's beautiful layout. She was our winner last week. Isn't this gorgeous? Shelly's main color was topiary, and her secondary colors were Suset and Goldrush. Then she accented with Petal. Her layout goes so well with her pictures, doesn't it?

Bonus Points: You will get bonus points this week as for every week if you use 100%, current Close to My Heart Products. To get more bonus points, go find your muse! Look at the blog of someone whose artwork you admire, and let one of her pieces inspire you.

Here's what you do: Create a project using the provided colors, take a picture of it, post it to your blog, then link it up at the bottom of this page. Just leave a comment with your link if you have trouble linking. You must use something from CTMH, but it doesn't have to be completely CTMH. Have fun!

Color Dare #6 Entries

Annette Clark - Lucy with Petal

Shelly Nemitz - Florentine with Tulip

Joanne Barnes Dotty for You with Moonstruck

Amie Kiger - Footloose with Sunset


Karen Russel Footloose with Tulip and Buttercup


Dorothy Seiler - Pemberly with Creme Brulee and Olive


Cassandra Bennett - Pemberly with Cranberry


Diana Mathieson - Pemberly with Pear


Jody Gustafson - Elemental with Hollyhock


Lalia Harris - Lucy with Lagoon


Lalia Harris - Lucy with Stella, Footloose, and Dotty for You


Lori Brown - Mischief with Tulip


Lori Brown - Dreamin' with Sorbet

Lela N. - Florentine with Barn Red

Color Dare #6

Welcome to the Color My Heart color dare. We now have 100 followers; YAY! Thanks to everyone for your support. And thanks to the 16 entries we had last week. They blew me away!

Congrats to the winner:
Shelly Nemitz - I love the B&T's in strips and the Token Alphabet in matching colors!

Ruth's pick:
Cheryl Even - Ruth loves Cheryl's photos and the beautiful sunburst!

Franny's pick:
Tamytha Jenkins - Franny likes the simplicity of her card. It's very understated, yet it meets the color requirements.


Our color dare for this week is to pick a current Level 2 paper packet and add a new color to it.

Lesson: Go through and look at some of our previous posts. If you look at our current packs, you will see that some of them have monochromatic colors, some have analagous colors, some have complimentary, some have triadic, etc. If you take something that you've learned from us, and apply it to a paper pack adding an additional color or two, you will have something that is pleasing to the eye.

For example: I used the Mojo Monday sketch and chose Stella for my project. Stella has Tulip, Sunset (analagous), Olive and Lagoon (also analagous) for the main colors. I went ahead and added Buttercup (yellow), and Smokey Plum (purple), and I got a full spectrum of the color wheel (as per last week's lesson).

Ruth chose Sonoma for her layout. Sonoma uses monochromatic purple shades. She added Buttercup to create complimentary colors. This layout works so well!

Franny made a card using the Dotty for You papers, and a previous RetroSketch. She copied the design of this card from Allisa over at RockyMountainPaperCrafts. Go check her out - she's fabulous! Franny used the blue, green and grey striped pattern and the Lagoon dotted pattern. She stamped her sentiment in Key Lime and inked up her seam binding ribbon in Key Lime as well. This made for a subtler addition - just slightly brighter than the Sweet Leaf in the paper.

Cheryl Even, our winner from last week, chose Roxie as her paper pack. The leopard and zebra prints are very neutral, and she added Sunset and Topiary. These are two secondary colors (we will talk more about secondary colors at a later date). This is very beautiful, Cheryl!


Here's what you do: Create a project using a current paper pack with one or two added colors (cardstock, ink, other B&Ts), take a photo of it, upload it to your blog, and link your blog post at the bottom of this page. Feel free to add any of our neutrals to your project.

You will get bonus points if you use 100% current CTMH products, but it's not a requirement (just use something from CTMH). This week, you will also get bonus points if you go find a sketch from some other source and use that for your project. We need to get our name out there!!! Frosted designs is a good one for layouts or cards. Mojo Monday, Freshly Made, or Retro Sketches are good ones for cards. (If you have any other blogs with sketches for layouts, I'd love to know about them).

Have fun!

Color Dare #5 Entries

Here are the entries from the rainbow dare. Very Beautiful, ladies!


Amy Moore


Cheryl Cuddie


Karen Russel


Caroline B.


Joanne Barnes


Marie Flayer


Rebecca Kings


Julia Hammond


Shelly Nemitz


Lynn Darda


Karen Day


Wendy Coffman


Amie Kiger


Cheryl Even

Annette Clark

Tamytha Jenkins

Color Dare #5

Hi! Welcome back to Color my Heart. Thanks to all 9 of you who played along last week. Scroll down to see all the entries in the previous post. We are up to 95 followers! Almost 100; yay!

Congratulations to Cheryl Even! She is the winner of the primary colors dare:


Franny's pick: Shelly Nemitz


Ruth's pick: Annette Clark


This week's color dare is: Create-your-own Rainbow based on the color wheel.

Lesson: This is going to be a very Elementary lesson on the color wheel.
There are 3 primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. When you mix the primary colors, for example: yellow and blue or blue and red, you get secondary colors. The secondary colors are green, orange and purple. Then, when you go even deeper, you can mix the secondary colors with the primary colors. This week we are focusing on primary and secondary colors. These colors are very pleasing to the eye when placed in this order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. This is the order of the colors in a rainbow. (I love rainbows because they are God's promise to us that he will never flood the earth again.)

Close to my Heart has many shades of these colors. Your assignment is to pick any shade of these 6 colors (it must be all 6), and use them on your project. Feel free to use any of our neutrals.

I made a simple stamped card with these 6 colors: Barn Red, Autumn Terracotta, Sunflower, New England Ivy, Indian Corn Blue, and Smokey Plum. I used Love Life, Just for You!, and Lucy WOTG stamp set. I stamped on White Daisy, and layered it onto a Barn Red card. I put a bitty Sparkle on each butterfly and a White Daisy ribbon next to the sentiment.

Ruth's card is really clever. I love how she combined the treasure at the end of the rainbow pot-o-gold from Pair-a-Phrase and paired it with the sentiment from Treasured Friend. And then she emphasized it with a blooming rainbow square made from CTMH cardstock. Her colors are: Cranberry, Sunset, Sunkiss Yellow, Pear, Moonstruck, and Amethyst. And to top it all off, she embossed the image in gold and added a beautiful sheer gold ribbon with a button. So pretty, Ruth!

And here is a special treat from our guest designer, the winner from last week: Jody Gustafson!

Isn't this a beautiful mini album cover? I love how Jody used B&T's from all different paper packs to make a very eye-catching rainbow!!! Head over to her blog to see the insides of this gorgeous album.

Bonus points: add some stamping to your project. If you use 100%, current CTMH products, you can also earn bonus points.

Here's what you do: Create a project using the featured colors, take a picture of it and upload it to your blog. Include a link to this site in your post, and link your post up at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!