May Arts Post is Up!

 

I've got a post up on the May Arts Blog today, that will tell you all of the details on how to make this card, using May Arts Ribbon, Heartfelt Creations stamps and Kaisercraft papers. I hope you will check it out!

 

And remember...if you haven't voted yet for your favorite semi-finalists/returning design team members at the Heartfelt Creations blog - you have less than a week to vote and you could win a $50 gift certificate to Heartfelt Creations. (And of course, I would be really thankful if you would vote for me in the semi-finalists list!)

 

challenges:

Simon Says:Dies or Punches

Heartfelt Creations - I Believe In You

I have had so much fun playing with Heartfelt Creations stamps, dies and papers and am excited to share a card with you today!  In case you don't know, I was named a semi-finalist for their Design Team - and now it's up to you to vote for your favorite semi-finalists (and returning team members), to see who will be on the team.  If you haven't voted, I would be honored and thrilled, if you could take a moment and vote for me.  Just for voting, you have a chance to win a $50 gift certificate!  There is one poll for the semi-finalists and one for returning members (and each poll offers a prize).

So now, onto the details of this card.  My papers are all from Heartfelt's new paper line - Classic Editions Collection and features the Tattered Blossoms collection of stamps and dies.

Supplies:
Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossom Swirls Pre-Cut Set HCPC 3469
Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms Pre-Cut Set HCPC3468
Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms Die HCD722
Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch Swirls Pre-Cut Set HCPC 3304
Heartfelt Creations Western Broncos Die HCD 720
Heartfelt Creations Decorative Butterfly - Border Die HCD 702
Heartfelt Creations Classic Editions Collection Papers
Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles
Spellbinders Fancy Tags Three
Kaisercraft Sparklets
May Arts 1.5" Satin Pleats Ribbon - 379-15-47
McGill Paper Blossoms Paper Tool Kit and Mat
Gathered Twings Distress Ink, Seedless Preserves Distress Ink
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Creme de Rouge
Wow Embossing Powder - Sierra Sunrise
Clearsnap Fairy Dust Glitter - Pralines and Cream
Helmar Spray Adhesive
Dries Clear Adhesive
Bazill Cardstock

1.  Randomly stamp the large swirl flower from the Tattered Blossom Swirls pre-cut set using Versamark Ink.  Heat emboss with glitter embossing powder.  Ink the edges of the panel with Gathered Twigs Distress ink.

2. Cut two nesting frames from the Spellbinder's Romantic Rectangles set, in coordinating papers.  Keeping the papers in the dies, ink the edges as a stencil.  Cut a journaling square from the patterned paper and layer on the smallest Romantic Rectangle. Attach to the card base using dimensional foam.

3.  Adhere May Arts Pleated Satin Ribbon (with adhesvie only down the center portion of the ribbon). Die cut two borders from the Decorative Butterfly - Border set. Ink the edges and tuck under each side of the ribbon.

4.  Die cut the tag from Spellbinder's Fancy Tags Three, ink the stencil and stamp the sentiment from
 Posy Patch Swirls set.

5.  Stamp the three flower cluster form Tattered Blossom Swirls onto white cardstock and fussy cut the image. Color the image using Copic markers.

6.  Stamp 3 coordinating flowers for each of the three -flower cluster using the Tattered Blossoms Pre-cut set (for a total of 9 flowers. Die -cut these using the matching Tattered Blossoms die.  Spray the flowers with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and allow to dry.

7.  Shape each of the flowers using the McGill Paper Blossoms Paper Tool Kit and Mat.  Glue the flowers onto the base flower, aranging the petals, so there are no gaps.  Lightly mist with Helmar Spray Adhesive, and then sprinkle with Clearsnap Fairy Dust Glitter (Pralines and Cream).  Add a Kaisercraft Sparklet to the center of each flower.

8.  Attach the flower cluster to the card, to the left side of the sentiment tag.  Cut foliage from the Western Broncos die, ink the stencil, and tuck behind the flower cluster.

Thanks for looking and remember to go vote!

How Was Your World Card Making Day?

 

Good Monday morning! Did you celebrate World Card Making Day this weekend? I did, but I'm just now able to start sharing the fruits of my labor.  Last week it still felt like summer here, but this weekend the temperatures dropped to true fall weather. So of course, I was inspired to create an autumnal card for you.

 

Shaped cards are so easy using Cheery Lynn Designs' Reflections Boutique collection.  For this one, I used the Mini Pearl Coved Rectangle, and just lined the top up with the scored edge of my cardstock.  I used the next size down to add my patterned paper.

 

The flower was made with the Build a Flower 2, but instead of using rose leaves, I added oak leaves from the Large Leaves 1 set, which seemed a little bit more appropriate for the season. The rose is sitting on the Notre Dame Cathedral Doily - but I altered it just a bit, by cutting the circular frame away.

 

 

 

If you would like to play along with the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge this week - the theme is ornage and black.  One person will be chosen to win a $20 gift certificate to the CLD store.

 

Cheery Lynn Designs

Mini Pearl Coved Rectangle - Reflections Boutique

Notre Dame Cathedral Doily

 Build a Flower 2

Large Leaves 1

DCWV Papers - Autumn Melody Stack

Unity Stamps - Fall Splendor

Cardstock - Core'Dinations

 

 

Ellen Hutson WCMD Trend Challenge (Pennants)

DCWV - October Stack-a-Holic Card Sketch

Unity Stamps - Color Challenge

Core'Dinations - Show some Core

May Arts and Stampendous Week

This week the May Arts Ribbonistas have teamed up with the design team from Stampendous, to share with you tons of fun projects.  My project is up on the blog today - it's a fun birdhouse giftbox. All of the details are at the May Arts Blog.While you are there, take a look at all of the other projects for the week (and be sure to leave plenty of comments for your chance to win a fantastic prize package!)

Give Thanks

Here's my card that was up on the Hampton Art blog yesterday (in case you missed it!)

 

 

Supply List:

Hampton Art Stamps:  This Day Sentiments DT0046

Clearsnap:

Colorbox Chalk Ink: Dark Moss

Colorbox Pigment Ink:  Brown

Authentique Patterned Paper:  Free Bird Series One (Warmth, Poised)

Worldwin Cardstock:  CutMates Olive Oil

Cheery Lynn Designs Die:  Horizon Coved Rectangle, Classic Window Stackers

Advantus metal arrow

Close To My Heart Button

Tools: Grand Callibur, Scor-Pal

Adhesives: GlueArts Glue Glider Pro – Perma Tac; U Cut It Dimensional Adhesive; Extreme Tac Adhesive Squares

 

 

 

Designer Notes:

1.      Die cut decorative rectangles.

2.      Stamp sentiment 5 times on the smaller rectangle using the brown ink.

3.      Ink the edges of all papers with Dark Moss.

4.      Cut (4) 2.5”circles.  Cut a square of scrap paper 1.75” square.  Lay the square on the top of a circle, and draw lines around it.  Score each of these lines and fold towards the center.  Repeat for each circle.

5.      Arrange the quilted circles into a flower pattern and add a button in the center.

Hampton Art and Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop

 

 

Welcome to the Hampton Art and Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness! You should have arrived from my friend Debbie Seyer's blog - if not then, be sure to start at the Hampton Art Blog, so that you don't miss anything!

 

Make sure to leave comments on all of the blogs for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Really Reasonable Ribbon or a Hampton Art Prize package with stamps and ink valued at approximately $20.

 

 

 

I used the brand new stamp set- Graphic 45 Ladies Diary One to create the focal point of my card.  The sentiment was heat embossed and then the script was stamped below that using ColorBox Chestnut Roan Chalk inkpad. The edges were curled and inked using Mixd Media Inkz - Leather. The lady was heat embossed using Hampton Art Pink powder - and then colored in with Copics.  I built a layer of ribbons using some gorgeous May Arts ribbons that I recieved from Really Reasonable Ribbons.  On the bottom is May Arts 1.5" Pink Crocheted Lace, with a paper panel over the center. Next is May Arts 5/8" Sheer Ruffle Edge Pink - I tied my bow with this as well.

Finally, and added a little pink bling from Studio G Adhesive Gems.

 

I hope you are starting to see pink! You are almost finished with the hop - head over to Cheryl Walker's  blog and then you will just have the final stop at the Really Reasonble Ribbon blog.

 

 

Happy Fall

 

Welcome to the first day of October! I really love fall, so I am thrilled to be able to make projects for this season.  Today's card features stamps and dies from Heartfelt Creations and papers from Farmhouse Paper Company.

 

 

I've been selected to be a semi-finalist for the Hearfelt Creations DT - and need all of my friends and readers to help me out!  If you could go to the Heartfelt Creations Blog, and vote for at least 5 of your favorite Semi-finalists (you can also vote for your favorite returning designers).  Just by voting, you are entered to win a $50 gift certificate to HC - and you will really be helping me out!

Heartfelt Creations Elegant Autumn Swirl Leave HCPC3330

Heartfelt Creations All Seasons Tree HCPC 3331

Heartfelt Creation Carnation Florals 2 HCPC3438

Heartfelt Creations Open Falling Leaves HCPC3334

Heartfelt Creations/Spellbinders Falling Leaves Die HCD707

Heartfelt Creations/Spellbinders Decorative Dutch Iris Die HCD711

Spellbinders Carnation Creation Shapeabilities

Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two

Spellbinders Marvelous Squares

 

Farmhouse Paper Company - Sugar Hill - Fall

 

May Arts Ribbon

361-58-10 %/8" Crochet Ribbon

SP25 Burlap Cord

 



Fresh Fall Morning

 

Sometimes when I look back through my photo files, there are pictures that I've forgotten about, and it's fun to revisit those  memories with a new layout.  This  is  a picture that I cherish of me and my sweet nephew, on a fall outing to Mount Mitchell.  It was well into October, but the leaves still had not changed.  It was however, still a gorgeous weekend to remember.

 

 

 

I used the lace edger to create a pattern around my large panel. The photo was matted on a panel  embossed using the Rock Grunge plate. This is such a nice pattern to add texture without having a competing design. The gardenia was creating using Build a Flower 2 for the bottom petals and Pretty Petals for the top layer.  The Asters were made using the Stacker Flower 5, and the large sun for the center, from the Embellishment Two plate. 

 

Since fall is officially here, the new Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge is Halloween.  So think of a great way to trick or treat us and play along! 

 

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Lace Edger

Tropical Flourish

Rock Grunge Embossing Plate

Build a Flower One

Build a Flower Two

Build a Flower Embellishment Two

 Stacker Flower 5

Pretty Petals

Small Lace Butterfly

Lacey Pumpkin Corner Flourish

Lace Flourish Lower Case

 

Kaisercraft: Magnolia Grove Patterned Papers, Stickers

 

 



So Thankful!

I found out some fantastic news! I am a semi-finalist for the Heartfelt Creations Design Team.  I completely love their products, and have been on the team before - and really missed working with them.  I sent in three projects for the submission, and would love to share them with you, but... one has been picked up for publication (woo hoo!), one is still being considered for publication (fingers crossed) and the final one will be on the May Arts Blog on October 11th ( and I don't want to spoil the surprise).  A little bit of panic set in, as to what I could share with you, so I made a new card for you.

The design team process is a little different....the semi-finalists have been chosen, but they are counting on people to vote for the finalists.  You must choose at least 5 of your favorites, and when you do, you are entered to win a $50 Heartfelt Creations Gift Certificate!

I used several stamp sets on this one - Flora Grande 1(HCPC3375); Flora Grande 2 (HCPC3374) ; Distressed Leaves (HCPC3376); Swirly Autumn Leaves (HCPC3328).

My flowers were embossed with Wow Gold Embossing Powder, and then colored with Viva Decor Gold - and then lightly spritzed with Smooch Spray in River Mossy.  I also added a little bit of Gala Glitz Glitter (Blue Waltz). May Arts Ribbons were layered across the card and for the bow: Crochet with Velvet Center 372-1-34 and Sheer/Center Band QM18.   Papers were from DCWV Rustic Stack.

 

Now, I can't show you my submission projects, but I can give you just a couple of  tiny peeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm really thankful that you stopped by my blog to see my creations and hope that if you like what you see you will go to the Heartfelt Creations blog and vote for me - Gini Cagle.  Thanks again!

Keep Dreaming

  I have a sweet card to share with you today, that's a really simple fold, but it looks great.  You just start out with a hexagon shaped card base, make a couple of scores with your Scor-pal and you are in business!

 

 

 

Designer Notes:

1.  Cut a Hexagon from cardstock with all sides 3.5” long.  Place the hexagon on the Scor-pal with the points faced right and left.  Score from top left corner to the bottom left corner, and from the top right corner to the  bottom right corner, to form a rectangle in the center of your cardstock. Fold the triangular sides in towards the center. Ink all edges.

2. Cut another hexagon from patterned paper, with sides each 3” long. Cut two triangles from this by cutting off the two pointed sides, ink the edges and adhere to the outside of the cardbase.
3. Cut from a coordinating paper, a panel measuring 3 ¼” x 5 ¾”.  Ink the edges and glue to the center of the cardstock.
4. Cut a tag, 3” x 5”. Decorate the tag with a printed panel from the paper collection, matching stickers, paper flowers, die cut leaves and lace. Position the tag inside the card, and use a Crop-a-Dile to punch a hole through the tag and card.  Secure the layers together with ribbon.
5. Punch a small hole on the point of each triangle, and use Baker’s Twine to secure the card closed. 

 

 

Scor-pal Scoring Board and Scor-Tape

Patterned Papers, Stickers: Carta Bella – Beautiful Moments

Cardstock: WorldWin Papers ColorMates – Mustard

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies: Flourish Leaf Strip (B178)

Kaisercraft Mini Paper Blooms – Honey (F645)

May Arts Ribbon – 7/8” Solid/Ivory Check (AKB10); 5/8” Crochet (361-58-10); Baker’s Twine (412-10)

Clearsnap Mix’d Media Inkz – Leather

Crop-A-Dile

Fiskars Fuse Die Cutting Machine