Heartfelt Creations - Sunny Days Collection

The Sunny Day Collection captures the tranquility of a sunny day in the garden. Setting the tone with serene garden views and peaceful plant and butterfly harmonies is the Sunny Day Paper Collection. Stamps include bustling bees, a vintage watering can and botanical butterfly medleys. The Decorative Butterfly Corner Die in this collection will add unique versatility to any project. Leave a comment on the HC blog by February 19th and you will be eligible to win the entire release.

Heartfelt Creations Products:

Busy Bee PreCut Set HCPC 3517

Tattered Blossoms PreCut Set HCPC 3468

Leaf Medley PreCut Set HCPC 3405

Decorative Butterfly Corner Die HCD 730

Tattered Blossoms Die HCD 722

Spellbinders Foliage Shapeablities

Sunny Day Collection Patterned Papers HCPP1 230

Dew Drops

Gelatos

Dries Clear Adhesive

Other:

Copics: YR68; YG 61, YG63, YG97, BG000, BG01, E31, E34, E37, E74

WorldWin Cardstock

Cut a 5 3/4" square of patterned paper, positioning the doily print at the top.  Mount onto a 6 x 6 card base.  Die cut the decorative border in glue in the lower left corner.  Cut the sentiment from the paper pack, and use dimensional adhesive to position in the center of the card.  Stamp the behive and color with copics.  Fussy cut the image and glue onto the lower right corner of the sentiment.  Fussy cut a butterfly from the paper, shape, and glue to the upper left corner of the sentiment.  Stamp and cut two leaf branches and color with Copics.  Make 3 sets of flowers using the Tattered Blossoms stamp and die.  Each flower should have 4 layers.  Color using gelatos and add a Dew Drop to the center.  Arrange your flower cluster as shown.

Valentine Tag

You just have a couple more days to pull together your Valentine's goodies, and what ever you choose, it always makes things extra special to add some homemade love.  I created a tag to decorate a bottle of champagne for the special occasion, but you could just as easily add this to a box of chocolates (or even better - both!)

 

 I added the sentiment over the printed vintage picture (Pion Papers) -

Pion Patterned Papers

May Arts Ribbon: Pink Crinkle EA17; Eyelet 447-58-01

Viva Glitter Liner

Xyron Mega Runner

Challenges:

Pion Valentine's Challenge

13 @rts - Love is a Gift

New Chipboard Release at Words or Whatever - Wow

Each month, Words or Whatever has a wonderful new product release.  This month, they are celebrating Back to School ( since it's an Australian company, their kiddos are heading off to school now).

So here are a couple of layouts that I created using a few of the new goodies.

 

I colored my chipboard with Clearsnap ink, and also added hightlights with Smooch.  My journaling was printed onto vellum and cut into strips and run through my Xyron 1.5" Sticker Maker - it works beautifully with the vellum, as it shows none of the adhesive through the paper.  I added a little text to the book in the lower right corner, by cutting apart Tim Holtz Tissue tape.

 

I found an image of an old school library card, and printed it out on cardstock and made a cute little library pocket for it.

The Little Kids border is not a new release, but it was perfect for this theme.

School Days:

School Pack (Wow1166)

 Vintage Book and Quill

Little Kids Border WOW1452

AltaMATZ Chicken Wire Piece (Alta055) 
Graphic 45 Patterned Papers - An ABC Primer
WorldWin Papers Vellum
Xyron Mega Runner
Xyron 1.5" Sticker Maker 
Clearsnap Ink

 

 

I added some puff paint to my abacus beads to make them look rounded and then painted them with Smooch.

 

I cut apart one of the "2013" titles, and used it for my math equation, with the help of some simple embroidery.

"No Matter How You Count It"

MDF Abacus

2013 Mixed Pack WOW 1741

Pink Paislee Patterned Paper - Old School

Epiphany Crafts Tools and Epoxies 

Xyron Mega Runner

Be sure to check out the Words or Whatever Blog, for my inspiration from the rest of the team, and to see more of the new products!

May Arts Ribbonista Valentine's Blog Hop Day 4

Welcome to the fourth day of the May Arts Ribbonista Valentine's Blog Hop!  We hope that you have loved what you've seen so far.  To sweeten the deal a little bit, the Ribbon Lady will be giving someone their choice of 4 spools of ribbon!  All you have to do is leave a comment on any of the participating blogs - the more comments you leave....the greater your chances of winning!

 I decided to make a Valentine magnet, so you can use it all year long to leave little love notes.

I started out my stamping/heat embossing my heart onto canvas cloth. I used Heartfelt Creations Passage to My Heart set.

I cut this out, leaving a little border around, so I could fray the edges.

Next, I misted it with various pink/red Tattered Angels  Mists.

While I still had extra mist on my work mat, I took one of the flowers from the

 Sheer/Frayed/Flowers/Wired 393-25-01, and trimmed away the outer petals, and just used the center, and ran it through the left over mists. 

I added a rhinestone brad to the center, and tucked a little piece of my favorite 5/8" Crochet Ribbon 361-58-26, behind it.

 

I die cut the bottom two layers using Heartfelt Creations/Spellbinders Timeless Amour from WorldWin Cardstock, and covered them with Sakura Crystal Lacquer, to make it more durable.  After that was completely dry, and attached the canvas piece to the front and the magnet to the back.

Be sure and check out the rest of the hop - we will have one more day tomorrow.  And leave comments for your chance to win!

Thursday

• Charlene Driggs
• Ashley N Newell
• Erin Thiem
• Marie Otake
• Gini Williams Cagle

Tag - You're it with Heartfelt Creations

 I thought I would sit down and make a quick tag, and ended up working on this all morning! But it was fun, and that's what counts.  I wanted to make a tag that would be great for Valentine's Day without being too girly.  So, I went with deeper red and lots of distressing and was pleased with the results.  Hope you enjoy!

 Heartfelt Creations Products:
Antique Lantern PreCut Set HCPC 3512
 Delicate Twining Asters PreCut Set HCPC 3496
Delicate Asters PreCut Set HCPC 3494
Burlap Background PreCut Set HCPC 3315
Vintage Word Background PreCut Set HCPC 3320
Delicate Asters Die HCD 726
Decorative Metal Fixtures HCD 725
Decorative Lace Border Die HCD 713
Vintage Floret Paper Collection HCDP1 227
Classic Editions Paper Collection HCDP1 224


Other:
Inkssentials Kraft Tags #8
Want2Scrap Pearl Heart
Fiskars XXL tag punch
Wow Embossing Powders
Various Glimmer Mist in shades of red and pink
Clearsnap Ink
Xyron Mega Runner


Start with a Kraft tag. Randomly stamp the Delicate Twining Asters around the edges of the tag using embossing ink.  Dry emboss using a dark pink powder. Spritz the tag with various shades of red mists. Dry with heat gun. Use dark brown chalk ink to randomly stamp the Vintage Word background  randomly on the tag.  Use a dark purple to stamp the Burlap background in other areas of the tag. Add highlights of the ultrafine glitter to areas of the stamped Delicate Twining Asters.  Use patterned papers for all of your die cuts.  Cut the fancy heart shape from the Decorative Metal Fixtures set and glue to the right side of the tab.  Place the pearl heart on the tag, where the right side hangs of the edge, and trim away the excess. This will overlap the fancy die cut. Stamp and cut Delicate Asters with the matching stamps and dies. Create one flower and place in the center of the heart.  Add a decorative pearl to the center.   Spritz seam binding  with the same mists and tie a bow at the top of the tag.  Stamp the sentiment on a small punched tag, spritz and crinkle.  Add to the bow using linen string. Cut the Decorative Lace border die, ink the edges and slightly crumble to break the surface tension.  Use double sided tape to attach as a ruffle along the bottom edge.  Glue a piece of leftover ribbon to the backside to cover the seam and tidy things up.

Hampton Art CHA New Release Projects

Hi, I"m back today to share with you a couple of the cards that I created for the new product release at CHA. The design team was assigned different stamps for the show, and we each were chomping at the bit to see what goodies would arrive in our mailbox. Well, you know I was thrilled to receive a big box of goodies from Hampton Art! We had a quick turnaround time, so papers, stamps and inks were flying around my studio. But there is something really cool about the rush of getting ready for the big show. I hope you enjoy!

Supplies:

Hampton Art Stamps: NEW Art Warehouse Dreams Grow (IC0237)

Clearsnap:

Archival Ink: Pumpkin Pie

Pigment Ink: Moss Green

ColorBox Chalk Ink : Dark Moss, Chestnut Roan

Mix’d Media Inkz Embossing Powder: Truffle

Top Boss Watermark Ink

WorldWin Papers Cardstock

My Mind’s Eye Patterned Paper: Stella Rose

Embossing Pen

Madeira Machine Embroidery Thread

 

Instructions:

1. Stamp three carrots by inking the top portion with the Moss Green and the lower portion with the Pumpkin Pie. Fussy cut, and ink the edges with the Chestnut Roan. Shape the leaves by wrapping them around a pen. To add the roots to the carrot, take a short piece of embroidery thread, and glue to the back, letting a tail hang down.

2. Glue the carrots to a piece of brown cardstock, so that it looks like the leaves are above the ground and the carrots are below.

3. Use an embossing pen to trace the word “Grow” from the stamp, stamp on the lower corner of the patterned paper and emboss with dark brown powder. Machine stitch around this layer. Ink the edges of the patterned papers using the Dark Moss.

4. Finish as shown. 

 

 

 Supplies:
Hampton Art licensed 7gypsies cling stamp set: Under the Sea (IC0222)
Clearsnap:
Donna Salazar: Leather Mix’d Media Ink
Colorbox Chalk Ink: Chestnut Roan
Topboss Embossing Ink
Brown and silver embossing powder
Farmhouse Paper Company patterned papers
Worldwin Cardstock
Want2Scrap Pearls
  
Instructions:
1. Stamp the frames using watermark ink and emboss in silver. Cut the frames out.
2. Stamp the sea creatures with the watermark ink and emboss with dark brown powder. Fussy Cut the images and mount on the frames using dimensional adhesive.
3. Add a mat of dark brown behind each of the frames.
4. Ink the edges of patterned papers with Chestnut Roan. Arrange as shown.
5. Add pearls to finish.

Valentine Shaped Card

WorldWin Cardstock
Xyron 1.5" Create a Sticker
Xyron Mega Runner

Family Another Word for Love

Since it's Wednesday, that means I get to share another Heartfelt Creations Project with you!  Today I've got a layout that I made using a picture of my sister and sweet little nephew.  We took this at the local pumpkin patch this fall.

I love the detail that the matching stamps and dies give to these flowers.

The chipboard title (from Words or Whatever -Wow) was embossed using several colors of powder. 

Heartfelt Creations Supplies

Countryside Evening Paper Collection HCDP1 229

Burlap Background PreCut Set HCPC 5315

Weathered Fence PreCut Set HCPC 3513

Open Vintage Floret PreCut Set HCPC 3500

Mini Vintage Floret PreCut Set HCPC 3502

Bella Rose Leaves PreCut Set HCPC 3390

Decorative Blossoms Corner Die HCD 729

Vintage Floret Die HCD 727

Bella Rose Die HCD 712

Dries Clear Glue

Metal Glue Tip - Art Institute

Other Supplies:

Spellbinders Foliage Two

Words or Whatever - Wow Chipboard (Family Another Word for Love)

May Arts Ribbon  - 1.5" Crochet NP 10

Wow Embossing Powder  - Ultra High Gold, Earthtone Pepper, Cable Car Red

WorldWin Papers Cardstock

Clearsnap Ink - Color Box Chalk - Dark Peony, Chestnut Roan

Top Boss Embossing Ink
Xyron Mega Runner

Glimmer Mist - Rum Punch

Copics: R39, YG95, YG97, E74, E77

Directions for 12 x 12 layout:

Stamp the Burlap background directly onto your background page using embossing ink - and emboss with gold. This will be the mat for your photo. Line the Decorative Blossoms Corner die up, to cut two adjoining corners, that will make a lacey semi-circle, using a light colored patterned paper.  Glue this so that it slightly overlaps the bottom right corner of the embossed burlap. Add your photo over the burlap. Stamp and fussy cut the Weathered Fence and color with copics.  Layer this to the left of your picture.  Stamp the Vintage Floret flowers using the Dark Peony ink and cut with the coresponding die.  Mist with Glimmer Mist, shape and assemble.  Add foliage around the flowers and add to your layout.  Heat emboss the chipboard title and and to the layout to finish.





Alstroemeria Lily Card

Patterned Paper: Graphic 45
Cardstock: WorldWin Papers
May Arts Ribbon  -  1/4" Silk SK19
Clearsnap Ink
Flower Soft
Xyron Mega Runner



Tea Lovers Gift/ Mini Album

Are there any tea lovers out there?  Then, I hope you will enjoy this mini- album and holder I have to share with you.

I started out with a Tea Pot Party Favor from Kaisercraft. It's such a cute little box, but was begging for a mini album to sit inside of it.  So I thought it would be really fun to create a little album to hold tea bags from around the world.  Wouldn't this make a great gift for any tea lover?

 

I started off by painting the wood teapot, and then covering it with patterned paper.  Since I was going to highlight teas around the world, I thought the addition of map paper would be a great choice.

I die cut my large letters andI ran them through the Xyron 900 Creative Station to apply my adhesive.  All of the Xyron machines are great for adding adhesive to intricate die cuts. You can arrange as many cuts as you wish (right side up), and run them through at the same time.

 

You just crank the handle, add your cuts come out on the other side.  Rub your finger over the film to make sure the adhesive is secured, and pull the film away.  The letter is ready to be applied to the project. Super easy!

I also added a narrow strip of trim - using CLD Celtic Band. Since this is narrow, it worked very easily with my Xyron Create a Sticker 150.  I always keep this on my work desk, because it's so handy for attaching little small bits and bobs. 

This works on the same principle, except there is no handle to turn.  You simply start feeding your paper through the top of the machine, and then pull the adhesive sheet out on the other side.

It comes out like this - and again, you just rub and peel.

To finish decorating my box front, I used an old silver plated tea spoon, and hammered it flat, and added my title with alpha stickers.  (It looks almost like paper here - but it's really not!)  I tied a big bow using May Arts Twill Stripes 382-34-14 Ribbon.

Now it was time to make the album.  I decided to create a paper roll album, so each page would have a pocket to tuck a tea bag in. After I flattened the tubes, I covered each one with a different coordinating paper. I also made the outer cover by using left over cardboard, and covering it with cardstock.  So, this project is a perfect way to use those recyclables.

Then the fun began - embellishing the book! Why don't you take a look?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you notice the tea bags peeking out? This project not only is fun to look at- but it smells great too! Thanks for sharing a cup of tea with me today.

Supplies

 Kaisercraft: Tea Pot Party Favor; Mini Alpha stickers, Pearls

Farmhouse Paper Company: Fair Skies -Patterned Paper, Chipboard

Create a Sticker 150

Xyron 900 Creative Station

Xyron Mega Runner

May Arts Ribbon: 

Twill Stripes 382-34-14

Paper Cord 420-10

Sheer/Frayed/ Flowers/ Wired 393-25-09

Solid/ Iridescent BS34

JBS - Button