My Heart Is Full

 

Hello, hello Creative Peeps! You may have noticed I've been a bit MIA on my blog, but as you can see in my layout, I've been busy with my precious little bundle! So, I'm back and happy to share this layout with you! 

 

Since I hadn't made any flowers in awhile, I figured I need a bunch of them (plus, I'm really ready for spring).

Directions:
1. Cut patterned paper 11 x 11.  Distress and ink the edges. Adhere to 12 x 12 patterned paper, whose edges have been inked and distressed.
2.  Layer a piece of corrugate behind where the photo will go.  Spray with mist to color before it is glued down.
3.  Use texture paste and argyle stencil over Dusty Attic Chip. While the paste is still wet, sprinkle with embossing powder.  Allow to dry, then heat emboss. Spray with color mist while the embossing powder is still hot. Mist the chipboard title.
4.  Arrange chipboard, paper panels, photo  and ribbons on the layout as shown.
5.  Stamp Heartfelt Creations Wildwood Florals on white cardstock. Cut with the matching die. Use a sponge dauber to apply color to the images. Shape with the Deluxe Flower Shaping Tool.  Glue prills to the centers of the flowers and arrange on layout.

Thanks for coming back to my blog!

I played along with the Dusty Attic sketch/inspiration this month. You can check it out here, if you would like to play along.

Let Your Soul and Spirit Fly

 I had so much fun creating this mixed media triptych and couldn't wait to share it with you.  The form was from Retro Cafe Art and it was exactly what I had been looking for.  After I misted the background,I added some gilding flakes and then started stamping the flat background images.  Then I used modeling paste and stencils to add French Script words.  I stamped the large Peony image onto vintage French dictionary pages using Versamark Ink and embossing powder.  After that was heat set, I fussy cut the image and adhered it to the panel.  I overstamped images and heat embossed them as well to add more dimension.  I love how these colors pop together!

Supplies:
IndigoBlu Stamps: Crackglaze Background, Giant Peony, Floral Swirl, Discover Your Passion, Ledger Background
Lindy's Stamp Gang:  Starburst Sprays: Azure Sea Asters, Tibetian Poppy Teal, Alpine Ice Rose; Flat Fabio Sprays: South Shore Sand; Embossing Powder: Cafe 'au Lait;  King Midas Gold , Hollyhock Scarlet Plum
Retro Cafe Art - Triptych
Deco Art - French Script Stencil

Challenges:

Lindy's Stamp Gang May Color Challenge(Products listed with supplies and linked)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Stencils

PaperArtsy - Words

Time to Nest with Technique Junkies

 

Hi, it's Gini, and I'm excited to share my first blog post with you today on the Technique Junkies blog!  I love trying new techniques and of course, adore beautiful stamps - so this is the perfect place for me.

I used two different stamps for my background - Burlap Flowers and Fat Smudged Lines.  I had fun with some embossing techniques, including a variation of the Outlined Resist Tutorial from the Bodacious Background Stamps CD.  

My focal image, Nesting Bird, was colored with Spectrum Aqua markers.  I then cut the image and used foam adhesive to apply it to the card.

The sentiment is from the very fun Mae West Sentiments (from the Palettini Collection).

 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a bright and beautiful day.

Supplies:

Technique Junkies Stamps: Burlap Flowers, Fat Smudged Lines, Nesting Bird, Mae West Sentiments

Technique Junkies CD:  Bodacious Background Stamps

Lindy's Stamp Gang:  Embossing Powders: Geranium Coral Blush, Tilt-a-Wheel Teal; Oakleaf Olive; Flat Fabio Sprays: Tilt-a-Wheel Teal, Raspberry Lemonade, Merry-go-Round Green

Noor! Designs Dies: 6003/0026; 6003/0035

May Arts Ribbons: 5" Tulle; Double Faced Satin: HA-8-04, HA-78-94; Burlap String; Cotton Eyelet

Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Markers

Prima Flowers

Want2Scrap Pearls

Challenges:

Lindy's Stamp Gang April Challenge  

(All products linked in supplies)

Noor! Designs UK

Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

April Showers/ May Flowers

Discover Your Passion

It turned out to be a day of experimenting  with colors and mists ( and yes, I still have the proof on my fingertips!)

Challenges:

Indigo Blu:  A Touch of Red

IndigoBlu stamps used: Bloomin' Great; Crackleglaze Background; Discover Your Passion

Creative Embellishments: 

Inspiration Photo + Ombre Effect

I was inspired by the colors and the layered swirls - I created the ombre on my background - and turned it sideways so the darkest color was to the left and it gradually lightened.

Lindy's Stamp Gang

February Color Challenge

LSG products used:Embossing Powder:  Hyacinth Blue Jade , Magic Moon Pearls , Midnight Ruby

Flat Fabios: Hibiscus Rose, Raspberry Lemonade, I'm Late, I'm Late Slate

Play Day in the Studio

At the end of the week, I need time in my studio to unwind and create.  So today, I did just that.  I made this mixed media piece on a wood panel and really just had fun. I sprayed the background, then stamped/heat embossed the next layer, and added stenciled modeling paste with embossing powder sprinkled on it while still wet.  The snowflakes were rub-ons, and worked great over the modeling paste (I wasn't sure if it would work or not, so it was a happy success!).  I also thought it would be fun for a frosty canvas to add "frozen" droplets of water.

So after playing for a bit today, I feel refreshed and ready for the week ahead!

 Supplies:

Lindy's Stamp Gang:

Flat Fabio: Pop Rock Purple

Starburst: Tea Pot Purple; Jazzy Jivin' Purple; Clam Bake Beige

Embossing Powder: Midnight Ruby; Magic Moon Pearls; Terra Cotta Plum; Pop Rock Purple

Creative Embellishments:  Under the Mistletoe Chipboard

IndigoBlu: Bubbles Background

7 Dots Studio: Nature Walk: Cloudy, Tags

Webster's Pages: Flowers

October Afternoon: Rub-ons

Stampendous: Shaved Ice, Glass Glitter

Golden: Molding Paste, Gesso

Layers of Color: stencil

Zva Creative: Bling

Challenges

Lindy's Stamp Gang January Color Challenge

(Supplies listed/linked in supply list)

Creative Embellishments

Inspiration + Modeling Paste

IndigoBlu: Glitz and Glamour

7 Dots Studio - December/January Challenge

The Holiday Spirit 

I wanted to create a canvas to celebrate the New Year and somehow a frosty landscape celebrates a clean slate, a type of starting anew.

Simon Says Monday Challenge

Inky Backgrounds

Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop for November

Welcome to the November Edition of the Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop!This is the first chance I have had to hop with the alumni, and I'm excited to be able to continue to share my love for Heartfelt Creations with you!  The hop runs now through Friday night - at midnight.  And one lucky commenter, chosen from one of the stops on the blog hop, will win a $25 gift certificate to HC.  How great is that?  You get to hop around and see some wonderful projects, plus have the chance to win some goodies of your own!  The winner will be announced on Saturday, November 29th.

Supplies

• Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Die HCD753
• Heartfelt Creations Decorative Lace Border Die HCD 713 
• Heartfelt Creations Cut Mat Create 1B Die HCD 750
• Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower PreCut Set HCPC 3626
• Heartfelt Creations Vintage Word Background PreCut Set HCPC 3320
• Heartfelt Creations Beautiful You PreCut Set HCPC 3532
• Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Paper Collection HCDP1 247
• Crafter's Companion Indian Bouquet Embossing Folder
• Lindy's Stamp Gang Azure Sea Asters Starburst Spray
• Lindy's Stamp Gang Glory of the Seas Gold Starburst Spray
•  Lindy's Stamp Gang Red Hot Poker Orange Starburst Spray
•  Lindy's Stamp Gang Gag Me With a Spoon Gray Starburst Spray
•  Lindy's Stamp Gang Violacious Violet Moon Shadow Mist Spray
•  Lindy's Stamp Gang Pumpkin Fiesta Embossing Powder
•   Lindy's Stamp Gang Queen Sheba's Silver Embossing Powder
•  Lindy's Stamp Gang Sunrise Salmon Gold Embossing Powder
•  3D Crystal Lacquer
•  May Arts Ribbon Twine
• May Arts Crochet Ribbon
• Core'dinations Cardstock - Graphic 45 Signature Series Darks
• Core'dinations Sand-It Gadget
• Imagine Crafts: VersaMark Ink, Staz-On Ink ( Ganache)
• Spellbinders Circle Dies
• Spellbinders Grand Caliber
• Cheesecloth
• Cold Press Water Color Paper
• Xyron Mega Runner, Foam Adhesives
• Heat Tool

Directions:

1. Cut a piece of water color paper 5 3/4" square.  Color using the mists.
2. Distress the edges and dip the edges of the paper in the Moon Shadow Mist.
3. Cut another square of water color paper 4 1/4".  Stamp with watermark ink and heat emboss using a mix of the embossing powders.
4. Spray the paper with water, and lightly mist.  Use a paintbrush with the mists to achieve a water color effect.
5.   Flick droplets of mist over the stamped background.
6. Distress the edges, and dip in the Moon Shadow Mist.
7. Add layers of cheesecloth, lace and die cut borders underneath the center panel.  Glue panel in place.
8. Machine stitch around the two square panels.
9. Layer two circle dies to cut a ring.  Emboss the ring and sand the raised areas.
10. Stamp the sunflowers with Staz-On ink.  Die cut with the matching die.
11. Color the flowers with the mists.
12.   Use a VersaMark pen to add details on the flower petals and heat emboss using the Pumpkin Fiesta powder.
13.  Shape the flowers.
14. Use 3D Crystal Lacquer to glue microbeads to the flower centers.
15. Stamp and cut the sentiment.
16. Finish as shown, gluing the card front to a 5 x 6 card base.

 Blog Hop Order

Giovana Smith

Glenda Brooks

Lisa Gregory

Emilia van den Heuvel

Vicki Dutcher

Caroline Duncan

Amarilys Doria

Mary Faus

Sarah Miller

Loretta Lock

Gini Cagle - You are here

Alissa Wells

Lisa Allen

Challenges:

• Lindy's Stamp Gang November Color Challenge  (All LSG products listed and linked in the supply list)

• Cardabilities Sketch 111
• Scrapyland - Challenge 6 - Die Cuts (Heartfelt Creations) and Texture

Heartfelt Creations Inspiration

Heartfelt Creations Supplies

HCPC 3632 Plates and Gears PreCut Set

HCPC 3634 Tarnished Gears PreCut Set

HCDP1 248 All Geared Up Patterned Paper Collection

HCD 754 All Geared Up Die Set

Dries Clear Adhesive 

Paper Shaping Tools and Piercing Mat

Other Supplies:

May Arts 1.5" Turquoise Netting

May Arts Jumbo Leaves Olive

May Arts Burlap Center Stitch Turquoise

Core'Dinations Cardstock

Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: Versamark Watermark ink; Versamagic - Turquoise Gem
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Sea Mint Green
 embossing powder
Derwent Artbars

Cut the printed panel from the paper collection. Stamp the sentiment in the center with watermark ink and heat emboss using a copper powder. Tear down the center of the net ribbon, and adhere to the backside of the panel, with the edges sticking out. Adhere to a 6 x 6" card base. Stamp the gear bouquet and color with Artbars.  Fussy cut the image and apply to card. Die cut gear flowers.  To make the flower centers, cut a 6" piece of burlap ribbon, and use the center stitching to gather.  Spray with mists and sprinkle with embossing powders and heat set.  Finish the card with Jumbo Ribbon leaves.

Heartfelt Creations Debut of the All Geared Up Collection

Shift your creativity into high gear with the All Geared Up collection from Heartfelt Creations! This imaginative mix of gears, cogs, and mechanical flowers uses deep shades of rust, brown, teal, red and cream to create a fabulous industrial vibe. Clever vanity license plates, chains, wire, rugged stripes and distressed graphics mesh perfectly with Steampunk or masculine projects, and will keep your wheels turning with ideas for "girly grunge" creations, too. The versatile All Geared Up dies feature fanciful sprockets, gears, cogs, chains and license plates that can be shaped into innovative 3-D embellishments or die cut from white cardstock to create beautiful doily accents. Six hand drawn stamp sets continue the mechanical theme with a large Cogs and Gears background stamp, themed accent stamps, mechanical bouquets and playful sentiments that are "geared" to carry your project across the finish line with a smile. The All Geared Up Collection has been designed to inspire the bold in you....so let's gear up!

  

Heartfelt Creations Supplies

HCPC 3632 Plates and Gears PreCut Set

HCPC 3635 Shifting Gears PreCut Set

HCPC 3636 Cogs and Gears PreCut Set

HCPC 3637 All Geared Up PreCut Set

HCDP1 248 All Geared Up Patterned Paper Collection

HCD 754 All Geared Up Die Set

Dries Clear Adhesive

Other Supplies:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Mists: Time Travel Teal, Cocklebells Coral, Opal Sea Oats

Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powder - Cleopatra's Copper

Martha Stewart Microbeads

Behr Venetian Plaster

Gesso

Golden Molding Paste

CTMH flower centers

USArtQuest Mica Flakes - Copper

StazOn Ink - Emerald City

Use a putty knife to spread Venetian Plaster over an 8 x 10 wooden board.  Use the background stamps to stamp into the plaster, or apply the plaster to the stamps and stamp with it.  Using the two techniques together will create a variety of textures. Wash the stamps immediately to avoid the plaster drying in the designs. When dry, paint over the plaster with gesso. Spray a combination of mists in copper, teal, green and brown over the canvas.  Use StazOn ink to stamp the texture stamp from the Shifting Gears set, randomly on the canvas. Use the positive and negative cuts from the chain die to cut cardstock, glue to the canvas for more texutre, and spread modeling paste thinly over the top.  Sprinkle with microbeads before it dries. Spray with mists when dry. Cut gear flowers from a mix of metallic paper, vellum and patterned paper. Shape and arrange around the canvas. Stamp the license plate and heat emboss with copper powder. Die cut and add to the flowers. Add die-cut leaves.  Finish the canvas by gluing mica flakes randomly around the flower clusters.

Challenges:

Lindy's Stamp Gang October Color Challenge 

(See supplies above for colors used)

Xyron and Maya Road Week

 Welcome to the second day of the Xyron Dt playing with some fun  Maya Road products..  This is a bittersweet day for me because it's my last project as a member of the Xyron team.  I've thoroughly enjoyed the past year and a half that I've designed for them - but this term ends on the 31st of this month (So you might want to keep your eyes open for a DT call!)  Anyhow, be sure to stop by the blog this week for more inspiration.

Supplies

Xyron - 5" Creative Station

Maya Road - Feathered Friend Resin Embellishment, Paper Twine

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Sunset Yellow OrangeEmbossing Powder, Autumn Maple Crimson Magicals, Red Hot Poker Orange Magicals, Azure Sea Asters Magical

Dies: Spellbinders, Prima

3 Birds Design - Stickers

Tim Holtz Tissue Paper

Challenges:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Color Challenge July

Life Itself is a Wonderful Adventure

 Hampton Art has added  a new product - stamps sets with a coordinating stencil/mask.  The really cool thing is that the stencil has a reusable sticky backing - so no matter what fun mixed media techniques you are using, your stencil is not going to shift.

1.  Stamp the Weathered Background with Black StazOn ink on white cardstock.

2.  Lay the stencil over the stamped area and mist with color.  Allow to dry.

3.  With the stencil still in place, ink some areas with the watermark ink, and sprinkle with embossing powders.  Heat set.

4.  Spritz with the Opal Sea Oats mist.

5.  Ink the edges with Gingerbread ink - bring some of the color onto the main design area as shown.

6.  Die cut the Spellbinders Branching Out with the gold foil paper.  Mount on a mat of Aqua Denim (4.75" x 6.75").  Place on a 5 x 7" card base (Spring Green).

7.  Stamp the sentiment with gold ink, and die cut with Lables 27.  Attach to the card, offset, using foam adhesives. 

8.  Tie a bow with the metallic gold crochet ribbon and glue to the right of the label.

9.  Stamp the feathers with the gold ink, sprinkle with the Starlight Gold Green embossing powder, heat set and fussy cut.

10.  Stamp the bird, fussy cut and arrange this along with the feathers and flowers and leaves on the card as shown.

Supplies

Hampton Art /Vintologie  Birds SC0648

Hampton Art/Art Warehouse Weathered Background PS0713

Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powders; Desert Moon Turquoise, Reindeer Moss Green, Starlight Gold Green; Opal Sea Oats Starburst

Tsukineko Ink: VersaMark Watermark Ink, StazOn Ink; VersaMagic - Gingerbread; Delicata - Golden Glitz 

May Arts Ribbon - Metallic Crochet Ribbon HP30

Prima Marketing Flowers

Spellbinders :  Branching Out, Labels 27

WorldWin Papers:DoubleMates - Spring Green; ColorMates: Aqua Denim; Light Totally Tan; Gold Foil

Xyron Mega Runner, Teresa Collins Foam Adhesives

Challenges:

Lindy's Stamp Gang June Color Challenge

Heartfelt Creations Inspiration

Welcome back for another Heartfelt Creations Inspiration Wednesday! Today's layout is pretty technique heavy, so I have a lot of pictures for you.  I also have to tell you - out of all of the pictures I took last fall of my nephew at Disney World - this is one of my favorites!  He had on his Peter Pan hat - and the sun was perfect to "catch his shadow".  I also borrowed some of my favorite Peter Pan quotes to journal onto the page-

•  To live would be an awfully great adventure. 
•  Second star to the right and straight on til morning.  
• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.)

 

 The title letters were stenciled with Modeling Paste onto burlap paper, and then heat embossed with powder.  More journaling was added to the tag behind the photo.

Small details are all over this layout!  I doodled around the title, heat embossed the edges of the paper, machine stitched , spritzed, stamped...allright, you get the idea!

 The flower was heat embossed with gold and then colored with inks.

 I assembled pieces from Heartfelt Creations dies to create a clock tower - perfect for the Once Upon a Time stamp in the center.

 The alarm clock was fussy cut from the patterned paper, and layered onto a matching piece of paper using foam adhesives.  The face of the clock was covered with Crystal Lacquer and sprinkled with Lindy's Stamp Gang Mica Powder (Jolly Swagman Olive Green).

 

 There are two different star streamers here - The dark blue panel has small stars cut from HC Gift Ensemble Die and stitched to the paper.  The larger stars were cut from a retired Spellbinders, and then dry embossed and heat embossed with LSG Oakleaf Olive Embossing Powder.  Gala Glitz Glitter was glued under the Zva Creative Flourish to give a truly explosive feel.

I used the March Color Challenge for Lindy's Stamp Gang for this palette. 

I used the Once Upon a Sketch for March for my sketch. 

Heartfelt Creations Products and Products Carried by HC 
HCDP1 241 Once Upon a Time Paper Collection
HCPC1  239 Majestic Morning Paper Collection
HCPC1 229 Countryside Evening Paper Collection
HCD Once Upon a Time Die
HCD 742 Majestic Blooms Die
HCD 736 Classic Leaf Die 
HCD 737 Ornate Gateway Die
HCD 735 Gift Ensemble Die
HCD 732 Decorative Flower Pot Die
HCPC 3592 Timeless Clock PreCut Set
HCPC 3515 Burlap Background PreCut Set
HCPC 3320 Vintage Word Background PreCut Set
HCPC 3578 Majestic Morning Background PreCut Set
HCPC 3545 Open Leaf PreCut Set
Gala Glitz - Blue Waltz
Crystal Lacquer
1259723 Art Institute Glue (Dries Clear)
Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Paper Blossoms Tool Kit 

Other Products Used 

Zva Creative Gem Flourish CRW-07CA-153; CR-07CA-110

May Arts: Paper Cord 420-33; Pom-Poms 419-16; Sheer Daisy Edge QK4-45; 1 1/2" Natural Silky With Woven Checkered Edge 475-15-33
Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powder: Hydrangea Blue Mauve; Oakleaf Olive
Lindy's Stamp Gang Mica Powder: Jolly Swagman Olive Green
Teresa Collins Alphabet Stencil
Stencil Girl - Damask Stencil
Spellbinders - Stars (discontinued)
Tsukineko Ink: VersaMagic: Night Sky, Gingerbread, Moss Green; Versamark Watermark Ink; StazOn Ink - Jet Black
Gold Embossing Powder
Faber- Castell Gelatos
DCWV Burlap Paper
Liquitex Modeling Paste, Gloss Gel Medium
Xyron Mega Runner, Teresa Collins Foam Adhesives

12" x 12" Layout -Water distress the edges of the backing page.  Trim the working base page to 11.5".  Distress the edges and heat emboss with a mix of Hydrangea Glue Mauve and Oakleaf Olive.  Machine stitch the edges.  Randomly stamp the Burlap background and Vintage Word Background stamps using StazOn ink - close to the focal area of the layout.  Lay the damask stencil on the page and use a palette knife to apply Modeling Paste to the design. Let dry completely and color with an olive gelato.  Assemble a "clock tower" by using die cuts from the Decorative Flower Pot and the Ornate Gateway die sets.  Stamp the clock face using the Timeless Clock PreCut set.  Add metal hands to the clock.  Add to the layout as shown. Tear two strips of navy paper from the Countryside Evening Paper collection and ink the edges and glue the strips together.  Die cut small stars from the Gift Ensemble die set and stitch down the center of these strips. Layer ribbon and corrugate paper under the strips and adhere to the layout with foam adhesives.  Mix Gloss Gel Medium and Mica Powder together and paint onto cardstock.  Allow to dry then cut and emboss large stars using a Spellbinders die. Leave in the die, and apply watermark ink, and heat emboss the raised areas using the Oakleaf Olive embossing powder.  Machine stitch the stars to form a streamer and add to the layout.  Glue Gala Glitz Glitter to the areas beneath the gem flourishes.  Cut a printed panel from the Majestic Morning Paper collection , distress the edges and add the photo. Stamp the Majestic Morning flowers using watermark ink and heat emboss with gold. Cut with the corresponding die and shape.  Stamp and cut greenery using the Open Leaf stamp and corresponding die.  Nestle the leaves behind the flower. Cut a tag from the patterned paper.  Add journaling if desired, and tuck under the photo. Add twine to the tag to make it easier to remove. Fussy cut the alarm clock from a second piece of the base paper.  Fill in the face using Crystal Lacquer and tap Mica powder around the edges.  Use Modeling Paste and an alphabet stencil on burlap paper to create the title.  After the paste is dry, cut out the letters, rub watermark ink over, and heat emboss with Hydrangea Blue Mauve Powder.