Take Heart Ideas Challenge 2

Wow - We had quite the turn out for our first challenge. The projects were fantastic, and now it is time for Challenge 2, and we have a fabulous prize waiting for the winner, so get out your CTMH products and start playing. Remember, Take Heart Ideas requires you use some products from Close to My Heart, and you can include CTMH Cricut cartridges as products if you would like. You can make anything you want in any style or theme. The challenge starts today, July 30, and ends on August 24th.

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

Even though the theme of the challenge is anything goes, the Design Team used this sketch for our sample projects. I love sketch challenges, but I end up getting way too inspired and deviate from the sketch - but isn't that the beauty of a sketch!

I immediately went to my Skylark stash because I find the geometric patterns so versatile. The only problem was, once I started, I found two colors that I wanted to work with... and ONLY those two. I felt the yellow pattern was gorgeous with the teal-ish blue. The embellishments were made to work together. I started with the frames, then added embellishments for the journaling box, and added a sentiment where a title would be. Then I added different circle embellishments - all from the Skylark kit around the frames. 

The base sketch gave me the inspiration that started the entire project, but once I had everything ready to go, I realized that something else was needed. The embellishment title was a little too light. While I loved the two toned colors, I need something darker - brown maybe - to break it up and give the work a direction. I liked the way the two die cut "titles" had a blockish feel to them, especially against the frames, and I loved the inadvertent rhyming. 

All of the elements used were from the Skylark kit. The die cuts are from CTMH Cricut Artbooking. Want to buy these supplies, click HERE.

WAIT, there is more... Follow my blog, and leave a comment letting me know you followed, and I will pick a random follower to win a stamp set from CTMH!!! Winner will be announced when the challenge ends.  (US residents only.)