Heartfelt Creations Inspiration

Happy Wednesday everyone!

First, I want to let you all know that I made the Heartfelt Creations Design Team for another term!!!  I'm so excited to be able to stay on the team!  Thank you to all of you who voted for me!  It has been such a blessing to work with HC this past year, and I'm so looking forward to the next 6 months!  On the HC Blog you can see the 10 of us who will remain on the team and the 10 new designers we will be working with!


Now,  time for some inspiration!  I have 2 cards to share with you today!  The first is "Tranquil Evening".

I used the Tranquil Evening Set and colored this with Tombow Markers on watercolor paper.  I'm trying to get better with my Tombow Markers, but I think I'll stick with my pencils for now!  It's such a different medium to work with and I'm a little impatient with it!

My second card is "Peacock Delicate Aster Vase".

For this card I used the Delicate Aster Vase Set and tried the Triple Stamping/Seamless Tiers Technique from Split Coast Stampers.  Basically, you stamp the one image over 3 pieces of paper and add mats to cover the white spots.  All 3 pieces were colored with Black Pencil and mineral spirits.  (Complete instructions for both of these are at the end of my post.)

Make sure to visit the Heartfelt Creations Blog to see all the beautiful creations from the new design team this week! 

Thank you for stopping today!

Blessings!

Kathy

Tranquil Evening

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3525 – Tranquil Evening PreCut Set
HCDP1 – 232 – Balmy Breeze Paper Collection

Other Products Used:

Paper: Robin (DCWV), watercolor, Early Espresso (SU)
Ink: Black (Momento)
Accessories: Square Lattice Embossing Folder (SU), ribbon, Peacock Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), repurposed button, Bow-Easy, floss, brads, Labels One (Spellbinders), water pen, Tombow Markers: 451, 491, 526, 126, 850, 912, 076, 020, 990, 992, 969, 947, 899, N15, N55, N00

Instructions:

Base: Cut Early Espresso 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", score at 4 1/4" and crease.  Cut Robin cardstock 4” x 4” and emboss with folder.  Wrap ribbon around as shown and tape to back.  Add 3 brads to corner as shown and adhere to card base.

Image: Stamp image on watercolor paper with Momento Ink.  Color with markers or as desired.  Cut image out with Labels One Die.  Cut mat with next size die from brown designer paper.  Add each to card with pop dots.  Add bow and button with floss as shown.

Peacock Delicate Aster Vase

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3498 – Delicate Aster Vase PreCut Set
Product ID: 159723 – Art InstituteGlue – Dries Clear

Other Products Used:

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Black, turquoise (DCWV)
Ink: Onyx Black, VersaFine
Accessories: Peacock Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Blue Topaz Microbeads (Martha Stewart), Bow-Easy, pearl brad (Recollections), mineral spirits, Black Prismacolor Pencil

Instructions:

Base: Make card base with black cardstock by cutting 8 1/2” x 6” and score at 4 1/4".  Add white mat measuring 4 1/16” x 5 13/16”.

Image:  Use Triple Stamping Technique at Split Coast Stampers : http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/triplestamping/.   For measurements, cut white cardstock into 3 pieces:  5 1/4" x 3 1/2", 4 1/4" x 2 1/2", and 3 1/4” x 1 1/2".  As shown in the tutorial, place the 3 pieces as shown and stamp the image over them.  Color with pencil or as desired.  Mat each piece with black cardstock by cutting 3/16” larger than the image piece.  Glue these pieces together as shown.  Cut turquoise cardstock the same way by cut it 3/16” larger than the black piece.  Add these to the image piece with pop dots.  Wrap ribbon around bottom image and tape to back.  Adhere it to the card base and add the next 2 images as shown.  Add microbeads, bow and pearl brad.