Joyfully Made Designs: Your Special Day

Be Joyful

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in EVERYTHING by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the PEACE OF GOD, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7

These are verses I memorized years ago and they are written on my heart. There are times when I still need to remember not to be anxious, but I eventually listen to my heart saying these verses. I didn't really understand what the "peace of God" was until I experienced it. It's having peace inside you, even when you're going through heartbreaking situations and trials. It does "surpass ALL understanding" and you know it comes from GOD alone. Praise the Lord for His wonderful promises!

I love, love, love what I do. I am passionate about the things I create and the talents God has placed in me. I SO appreciate the time you take to look at my things and the comments you all leave me!

Blessings to you!

Kathy

FTC Declaration

FTC Declaration - I declare that I am a freelance designer. I currently receive or have received in the past products that I promote and endorse as a freelance designer for free or at a discount from the following companies: Heartfelt Creations, Our Daily Bread Designs, CottageCutz, The Robin's Nest, Scor-pal, Paper Temptress, Elphine House Australia, Creative Embellishments, Really Reasonable Ribbon. Any product that I use in my designs and recommend, I do with complete honesty. I have not and would not recommend products I do not personally love.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Your Special Day - Heartfelt Creations

Happy Wednesday!

It's time for the new release for October, 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!

My first project with this collection is called "Your Special Day". I love this teal and brown color combination!

Such beautiful and rich colors in the designer papers! I heat embossed the main image on the designer paper using Clear Bark Embossing Powder. I then added a mechanical flower with Brown Gala Glitz, leaves, some Natural Jute Ribbon and a brad. You can see the complete instructions for this at the bottom of my post.

Be sure to visit the HC Blog and see all the awesome projects by the designers this week and a new video by Emma Lou showing you some fun techniques!

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #153 - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps & More #116 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy

Your Special Day

Heartfelt Creations Products and Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3634 - Tarnished Gears PreCut Set
HCD 754 - All Geared Up
HCD 745 - Luggage & Tags Die
HCDP1 248 - All Geared Up Paper Collection
452255 - Grand Calibur
368770 - Scor-Pal

159723 - Art Institute Glue - Dries Clear
SMP001 - Stamp Mat Pad

9brn - Brown Gala Glitz

Other Products:

Paper: Early Espresso (SU), Aegean (Coredinations)
Ink: VersaMark Watermark (Tsukineko), Java (PowderPuffs - Quick Quotes)
Accessories: Clear Bark Embossing Powder (Recollections), Brown Twill, 1.5" Jute Ribbon Natural (Really Reasonable Ribbon), brad (Bo Bunny - Weekend Market), orange stick, pop dots, Fast Grab Tacky Glue (Aleenes).

Instructions: Make card base with Early Espresso measuring 5 3/8" square. Cut mat with Aegean card stock measuring 5 3/16" square and ink edges with Java Ink. Cut striped designer paper (dp) 5" x 1 1/2" and cut teal/brown dp 5" x 3 1/2". Stamp image (as pictured) on teal/brown dp with VersaMark and heat emboss with Clear Bark Embossing Powder. Ink the two papers with Java and glue down as pictured to Aegean mat. Cover seam of two papers with Brown Twill and secure in back of mat. Add to card base with pop dots. Cut ticket sentiment from dp with Luggage & Tags Die, ink edges with Java and add as pictured with pop dots.

Die cut 2 leaves from Early Espresso and 3 from Aegean. Die cut 1 small flower with Early Espresso and 1 from teal/brown dp. Shape all pieces with orange stick or pen as desired and ink with Java. Trim pieces of Jute Ribbon and add as shown using Fast Grab Tacky Glue. (For the "bow" on top right, I removed a couple of the fibers in the middle and tied it to shape into a bow.) Add leaves and flower as shown using Fast Grab Tacky Glue. Add clock face brad to "bow" center. Add Brown Gala Glitz to flower center using Art Institute Glue Dries Clear.