Heartfelt Creations Wednesday

Happy Wednesday everyone!  It's the second Wednesday of the month which means Heartfelt Creations has a new release! 

We are delighted to present the Old English Garden Collection. Come have a cup of tea with us in our Old English Garden. With flower blooms as fresh as the morning dew and cracked walls as old as the dirt beneath it, this set offers a rustic flavor. The typography flows as smoothly as a calm spring breeze. Be sure to grab the custom die for maximum creative versatility and fun 3D depth! There are 6 new PreCut Stamp Sets and one beautiful new exclusive Spellbinders die designed for Heartfelt Creations.

Leave a comment on the HC Blog by May 15th and you will be eligible to win the entire release valued at $141.99.  The winner will be announced on May 16th on the HC Blog.

For my card today, I used images from 3 of the new sets in the Old English Garden Collection.

These new sets are SO GORGEOUS!!!  I am so thrilled to be able to work with these beautiful images as one of Heartfelt Creations' Designers!  I love the way the sets all coordinate with eachother or can be used separately and also having dies to match!

For my card, I did the center-step technique.  I love making these, and they are pretty easy to make.  I colored the center image using Prismacolor Pencils and mineral spirits on Natural White Neenah paper.  The small flower swirls are colored with pencils (no mineral spirits) on patterned paper.  I'm in love with this little flower swirl!  I know I'll be using this little one a lot!

You'll definitely want to visit HC's Blog and leave a comment for the contest.  Also, check out all the other DT's beautiful creations!

Blessings!

Kathy

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3468 –Tattered Blossoms PreCut Set
HCPC 3469 –Tattered Blossoms Swirls PreCut Set
HCPC 3474 –Heartfelt Expressions PreCut Set
HCD 722 –Tattered Blossoms Die
Product ID159723 – Art Institute Glue – Dries Clear

Other Products:

Paper: Serenity Love (Bo Bunny), Natural White (Neenah), Black (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Wheat Chalk Ink (VersaMagic), Midnight Confession Powder Puff
Accessories: Regal M-Bossabilities Embossing Folder & Labels 20 Nestibilities Dies (Spellbinders), Brad (Bo Bunny Et Cetera), Olive Wrinkled Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Adhesive Pearls (Want 2 Scrap), Prismacolor Pencils – Olive Green, Marine Green, Sepia, Bronze, Ginger Root, mineral spirits, Copper Micro Beads (Martha Stewart)

Instructions: Make center step card base with cream colored cardstock: cut piece 6” x 9”, score at 1”, 2”, 5 ½”, at 1” mark on each side cut at 1” to 5 ½”, score at 4 ½” between cut lines.  (Basic instructions for center step cards can be found on Split Coast Stampers, these measurements here are a variation.)  Mat each section with black cardstock and adhere to base.  Cut the narrow strips of designer paper and stamp using the small flower spray from the Tattered Blossom Swirls Set as shown.  Color flowers with Bronze pencil.  Ink edges with black chalk ink.  Add micro beads using glue and adhere to card.  For middle section, emboss designer paper with Regal EF and run black chalk ink over raised pattern and edges.  Adhere to card.  Stamp large flower image from Tattered Blossom Swirls Set on Natural White Cardstock and color with pencils and mineral spirits.  Die cut image with labels 20 die and sponge with wheat ink while in die.  Die cut black cardstock and cut down center lengthwise and adhere to back of image to create mat.  Stamp sentiment from Heartfelt Expressions Set and cut with Labels 20 die and sponge with wheat ink.  Add image, sentiment, bow, and brad to card as shown.

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ODBDSLC107 - Scrapbook Page

Happy Saturday!
It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs!

This week's challenge:

Since today is National Scrapbooking Day, we want to see you make a scrapbook layout (any size).

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, May 11th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

 

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, May 11th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC107. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my scrapbook page for the challenge this week.

This is a picture of me when I was probaby about 4 years old.  Probably seems silly to scrapbook one of my own photos, but this one has special meaning to me.  It just totally reminds me of my Mom who passed away a few years ago.  I don't remember if she kept it framed on the wall or not, but I think she may have.

The photo was "colorized" so I tried to match the papers and embellishments with it.  I found these beautiful papers at a scrapbook store that I use to go to a long time ago when I did a little scrapbooking.  Things have changed a lot since I made scrapbooks for my boys, so I did the best I could with what I've seen.

I used a new stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs called "Flourished Verses".  It's a pretty set with some basic sentiments that are good to have on hand.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Flourished Verses (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper: Be Happy Be Joyful Paper, Follow Your Heart (My Mind's Eye), darl green, med. green, peach, pink, old pink (no names - from scrapbook store)
Ink: Creamy Caramel (SU), Sweet Blush (Palette), Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Adhesive pearls (Recollections), Flowers (RAK, Prima Sugar Blooms Collection), lace, ribbon & trim (scrapbook store), seam binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), decorative brads & layered stickers (Follow Your Heart - MME), Grand Adhesion Stickers (K&Co), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Classic Petals Edgeabilities, Paisley Impressionablilies, Holly Motifs Shapeabilities, Foliage Shapeabilities, Classic Scalloped Ovals Large, Floral Ovals (Spellbinders)

For some more inspiration this week, check out the other DT ladies and their beautiful creations!

Lori Ulrich

Jan Keen

Jan Marie Ennenga

Sabrina Jackson

Debi Southard

Rosemary Dennis

Chris Olsen



Hope you can join in on the ODBD Challenge this week and try doing some scrapbooking!

I'm also entering this in the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #47 for Mother's Day or Feminine theme creations with ribbon that you can find here.

Also, Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #137, Jeremiah 17:8, something green or planted...lots of pretty flowers on this one.  You can find this challenge here.

Also, Word Art Wednesday #26, Nahaum 1:7, which you can find here.


Blessings!

Kathy

Heartfelt Creations - Almanac Tri-Shutter Card

Hi there!

I thought I would show you the projects I made for Heartfelt Creations' Design Team submissions.  This is the first project, a tri-shutter card.  These card are so easy to make even though they look a little complicated.  They have so many places to embellish too...if you want to.

This is the card opened up.  I love these gorgeous Almanac papers and the Pristine Lilies Stamp Sets.

A closeup of the front image.

The back...

The card closed...

These are the ingredients and instructions I gave to Heartfelt Creations.  You can also find these and lots of other gorgeous creations from the design team members here on the HC Blog.  There is also a sneak peek of HC's new release for May that will be released next Wednesday, 5/9th, what a GORGEOUS collection I have been playing with for this release!

Products Used on This Project
HCPC 3452 Pristine Lilies PreCut Set
HCPC 3455 Butterflies and Lilies PreCut Set
HCD 718 Decorative Chateau Gate Die
McGill Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
McGill Paper Blossoms Molding Mat

Other products used. Paper: Natural White (Neenah), Almanac Collection (Prima), “Pink” (DCWV Cardstock Stack), Black (Stampin’ Up). Inks: Wheat (VersaMagic) and Onyx Black (VersaFine). Accessories: Copper Micro Beads (Martha Stewart), Aleene’s Paper Glaze, scissors, exacto knife, Labels 13 Nestibilities (Spellbinders), adhesive pearls (Recollections), pop dots, mineral spirits, tortillons, Prismacolor Pencils (Cream, Goldenrod, Yellow Ochre, Chocolate, Light Umber, Dark Umber, Dark Brown, Ginger Root, Kelp Green, Black, Pink Rose, Nectar, Chestnut), white pencil.

Instructions: Card measures 4” x 5 1/2”. (Used the Tri-Shutter Card instructions from Split Coast Stampers.) Cut 5 1/2” x 12” piece of pink cardstock. Score long side at 2”, 4”, 8”, and 10”. Place cardstock on cutter on short side and cut between the 2” and 10” score lines at 1 1/2” from the side. Repeat on opposite side. For sides, fold first and third mountain fold, second and forth valley folds. For center section, fold second mountain fold and third valley fold and leave first and forth flat. Using the card base as a template, trace the section with the T-shape fold onto black cardstock with white pencil. Cut 2 of these shapes and trim 1/32” from all sides of paper. Do the same with the script writing designer paper and trim 1/16” from all sides of paper. Glue these to the front and back T shape of the card. Cut 4 pieces of black and pink designer paper 1 3/8” x 1 7/8” and 2 pieces 1 3/8” x 3 7/8”. Glue these as shown. Cut 1 piece of black cardstock 2 3/8” x 3 7/8” and glue to center panel. Cut 1 - 2 1/4” x 3 3/4” piece of a lighter shade of script designer paper and glue over the black mat in the center panel. Stamp candle and scroll image from the Butterflies and Lilies PreCut Set and color with pencils. Die cut candle scroll image using Labels 13 die. Sponge edges of image while inside die using Wheat Ink. Glue Copper micro beads to flower centers. Add dots to stamen tops with Gold Stickles. Cut 1 die cut with same die out of black cardstock. Cut in half on tall side and glue to back of image creating a mat on each side of image, trimming slightly on top and bottom to hide cut. Stamp 1 second largest flower, 1 third largest flower, 3 fourth largest flower, and 1 smallest flower. Cut each out with scissors (or appropriate die for stamp set) and glue copper micro beads to flower centers. Add 4 of the flowers to image as shown using pop dots and add image to front T of card with pop dots as shown. Add the other 2 flowers to the small panels in the back of the card using pop dots. Cut the image piece in the center of the card from the designer paper and glue with pop dots. Add pink pearls at each corner. For back of card, cut 1 small gate die from pink cardstock and 1 from black cardstock. Slightly offset and glue together. Adhere to card as shown. Cut piece of Natural White cardstock measuring 1 3/8” x 2 1/2”, ink edges with wheat ink and glue to small gate center. Stamp the butterfly image from the Butterflies and Lilies PreCut Set onto Natural White cardstock and color with pencils. Fussy cut image and adhere with pop dots as shown.

I hope this gives you a little inspiration today!  I am so blessed to be on Heartfelt Creations' Design Team!  Blessings to you!

Kathy

Everything is Coming Up Daisies!

Hi there!

It's time for a new challenge at Elphine House Australia!  The new Challenge is to incorporate daisies on your creation!  That shouldn't be too hard to do, where a lot of Elisabeth Bell's stamps have daisies on them and you can use ANY of her stamps not just EHA's!

For the challenge this week, I'm using a new stamp from Elphine House Australia called "Carrie: Three Wheeling"...so adorable! 

She has such a sweet face! Her tricycle reminds me of when my boys were little!    I colored her with my Prismacolor Pencils and mineral spirits to match these beautiful Eva papers from Basic Grey.

For all ingredients used:

Stamp: Carrie: Three Wheeling (Elphine House Australia)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Brocade (Bazzills), White card base (Georgia Pacific), Eva Designer Papers (Basic Grey), Certainly Celery (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Certainly Celery (SU)
Accessories: White and Black gel pens, White Opal Liquid Pearls, Prismacolor Pencils, Mineral Spirits, ribbon & lace (Michaels), Moss Seam Binding & White Netting (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn Designs), Labels 18 (Spellbinders), adhesive pearls (Want-2-Scrap), sponge, Petite Petals Punch (McGill)

You can use any Elisabeth Bell stamp or image to enter the Challenge!  The winner will be picked randomly and will receive 2 stamps of their choice!


Hope you can join us this week!

I'm also entering this in the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #26 - Flowers - using dies or punches which you can find here. 
Blessings!

Kathy 

ODBDSLC106 - No Designer Paper

Happy Saturday!

It's time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs!

This week's challenge:

No Designer Paper- This week we want to see creations created with your own backgrounds, embossing, or just plain cardstock….no designer paper.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, May 4th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, May 4th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC106. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my take on the challenge this week...

I just loved this coral-pink flower and I pretty much did the rest of the card around it.  I found paper that match the color really well and lots of pretty cream color on the rest.  I embossed the background with an embossing folder for a delicate background.  Very, very simple card to make, and I love the way it came out!

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Birthday Blessings (ODBD)

Paper: Natural White (Neenah), Pink (Cardstock Matstack - DCWV), Palo Verde (Bazzills)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Sweet Blush (Palette)

Accessories: Labels Four (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Rose Leaf Punch (Martha Stewart), Charm (RAK from Sabrina), rose flower (Prima), button (Michaels), adhesive pearls (Recollections), Ornate Flowers & Frame Embossing Folder (Sizzix), seam binding & pleated ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

For more inspiration for the challenge, please visit the other design team members!

Jan Marie Ennenga

Sabrina Jackson

Lori Ulrich

Jan Keen

Rosemary Dennis

Debi Southard

Chris Olsen

I'm also submitting this to one other challenge:

Stampin' Sister's in Christ Challenge #136 - use soft pastel colors

Hope to see you join in on the challenge this week!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

For the Love of Flowers HOP!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop for the For the Love of ODBD Flower sets! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, go to the ODBD blog for the full link list. One of the post is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love! You have until Wednesday,May, 9th at 6 pm. The winner will be announced May 10th! Enjoy all the awesome inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Flower sets!

If you've come here from SANDEE'S Blog, you are in the right place, if not you may want to start back at the ODBD Blog so you don't miss any of the beautiful creations along the way!!!

I chose ODBD's Flower Border Stamp to make my card.  This makes a beautiful frame for Bible Verses, sentiments, and quotes.  The coloring of the flowers on it is really quick and easy to do.

This stamp matches the Spellbinders Labels 18 Dies which ODBD has in their Shop.

For my card, I made a 4 1/4" easel card in white.  I embossed the Black Iris paper with an embossing folder for the background.  I stamped the Floral Frame and colored it with Prismacolor Pencils.  I cut the frame using Labels 18 and then the center with Classic Ovals Nestibilities to create a frame.  I stamped the sentiment using the Sentiments Collection from ODBD and cut it with the Classic Ovals (one size larger than the frame opening).

For the inside of the card, I stamped part of the border on one side and cut it with Labels 18 using a smaller die, colored it to match the front, and popped it up on foam dots.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Flower Border, Sentiments Collection (ODBD)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), White (Papertrey Ink), Black Iris (Coredinations), Old Olive (SU), The Preppy Princess Stack (DCWV)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Labels 18, Classic Ovals (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Branches with Leaves and Flowers Embossing Folder (Spellbinders), flower (Recollections), ribbon (Michaels), Bow-Easy, adhesive pearls (Recollections), charm (Michaels)

Now you need to go to the sweet, talented GRACE!!!

Enjoy the HOP!

Blessings!

Kathy

So Exciting!!! New Heartfelt Creations DT Member!

Hi there!

I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to be a Design Team Member for Heartfelt Creations!!!  I love their stamps and matching dies and I can't wait to start creating with them!  I will be creating a project each week and posting them here on Wednesdays.  Heartfelt Creations releases their new products on the second Wednesday of the month.  My first project post for them, on May 9th, will be using the new May release!  I can't wait to see what they send me!

I'm so honored to be selected by them and to be working with this talented group of ladies and for such a wonderful Company!  Here is the announcement on their Blog showing the new DT ladies:

Thank you to each one of the talented semi-finalists. We would like to extend a warm welcome to 10 new design team finalists that will be joining the Heartfelt Creations design team for the next 6 months: Sarah Miller, Alissa Wells, Erika Selander, Emily Neihaus, Kathleen Rooney, Rachel Dluhy, Cynthia Llorens Renaud, Giovana Smith, Karin Zander, and Marisa Job.   
Blessings!

Kathy

ODBDSLC105 - Going Green

Happy Saturday!  It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! 

This week's challenge:

Go Green- Either mostly green on your card/project or recycle something on your card/project in remembrance of the nature God has created for us!!

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, April 27th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, April 27th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC105. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here's my take on the challenge this week...I used mostly green.  This lantern image is from "The Light of Life" Stamp Set, which I colored with my Prismacolor Pencils.  I thought this made a nice masculine card for a birthday or Father's Day.

 

 

 

For ingredients used:

Stamps: The Light of Life (ODBD)

Paper: The Guy Stack (DCWV), Solar White (Neenah), Palo Verde, Truffle (Bazzills)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Wheat (VersaMagic), Amaretto (Powder Puff)

Accessories: Hemp cord (Darice), metal art (K&Co), Prismacolor Pencils, mineral spirits, Large Labels, Labels One Dies (Spellbinders), stylus, hole punch, charm (RAK from Sabrina)

For more inspiration, please visit the other design team members to see their gorgeous creations!

Sabrina Jackson

Lori Ulrich

Jan Keen

Jan Marie Ennenga

Rosemary Dennis

Debi Southard

Chris Olsen

I'm also submitting this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge #24 which you can find here!  The verse this week if you choose to use it is:

Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

Rest, Strength, and Comfort

Hi there!

I'm back again with another card I made using the layered Crosses, this time making a Double Z-Fold card.  It's my first time doing one of these, pretty easy and fun.  I used the tutorial on Split Coast Stampers' Resources which you can find here. 

This card is pretty CAS compared to what I normally do, but it didn't seem to need anything more added to it.

Here's the card closed up.

Here it is opened up.

The sentiment on the inside of the card, is from the newly released Sentiments Collection from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I LOVE this set!  These are all sentiments that the designers at ODBD contributed!  So cool!

I'm submitting this to the F4A113 Challenge at Split Coast Stampers to use 2 or more pattern papers.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Sentiments Collection (Our Daily Bread Designs)

Paper: Linen Closet, Cardstock Stack Pastels (DCWV), Natural White (Neeneh)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)

Accessories: Floral Ovals, Crosses Two, Moroccan Accents (Spellbinders Dies), adhesive pearls (Recollections), stylus, Petite Petals Punch (McGill), flower (RAK from Sabrina), ribbon (Really Reasonal Ribbon), Hydrangea Punch (Martha Stewart)

That's it for now!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy



Purple Cross with Great Peace

Hi there!

I made this easel card using a few different techniques I wanted to try out. 

This is the card closed up.

The card itself is made using the Labels Twenty Dies to create the card base.  Angie Crockett did a tutorial on ODBD's Blog in January showing how to make shaped cards from Spellbinder's Dies.  You can find her tutorial here.

I also added a second purple Labels Twenty Die card to the back so that purple would show on the bottom and top of the card and enabled me to turn it into an easel card.  I just used the basic easel card instructions you can find on Split Coast Stampers' Resource Section here.

The mat on the front of the card, was done using the Faux Silk Technique where you use patterned tissue paper to create it.   I bought this tissure paper at a $1 store, and had adhesive paper sheets I bought from Papertrey Ink that worked perfectly for this.  Angie also did a tutorial on ODBD's Blog for this technique a few weeks ago that you can find here.  It's a fun and easy to do.

The cross is made using the Crosses Two Dies from Spellbinders that I recently bought. I loved the look of them matted together using 4 of the dies, and wanted to use them on a card.

Here's a close-up of the cross and the tissure paper mat.

The Bible Verse I used is from the Scripture Collection 8 Stamp Set from ODBD.  This particular Verse, Psalm 119:165, is the one I chose to contribute to the collection this year...so exciting Kelley at ODBD allowed us to do this!!!

I'm submitting this to the latest Word Art Wednesday Challenge #24 that you can find here.

For ingredients used:

Stamp: Scripture Collection 8 (ODBD)
Paper: Lavender Lace (SU), Solar White (Neenah), adhesive paper (Papertry Ink)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Tissue paper ($1 store), Crosses Two, Moroccan Accents, Labels Twenty (Spellbinders Dies), adhesive pearls (Want-2-Scrap), stylus, flower (Recollections), lace (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

That's is for today!

Blessings!

Kathy