September Heartfelt Creations Alumni DT Blog Hop

Welcome to the September  Heartfelt Creations Alumni DT Blog Hop. Be sure to comment along the way in order to be eligible to win the $25 gift certificate to the Heartfelt Creations Store. There is a list of all the participants at the bottom of the post so make sure you visit all the blogs for a better chance at winning. Comments close at midnight on Friday, September 27, 2013 and a random winner will be announced on Saturday, September 28 at noon.

This weekend, my mother-in-law will celebrate her 80th birthday! I love making cards for her because she really appreciates the work that can go into making them. Although my usual style is clean and simple, she prefers the more elaborate cards I make, so I wanted to make her something special and I am really happy with how this turned out.

The Aztec Gold Sunflower stamps (now retired) are one of the first stamp sets I purchased from Heartfelt Creations. I LOVE sunflowers and I am so glad I picked this one up. I stamped and cut the flowers using the coordinating Blossoms Two die from Spellbinders and then I painted the sunflowers using a couple different colors of Silks acrylic glaze. I edged the flowers with some stickles for a little glitz and added Cacao Elements to the centers.

The sentiment is also a Heartfelt Creations stamp that I had received as part of a class I took a couple years ago at CKC. I edged the top and bottom with a line of pearls from Want2Scrap.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment here and on the other designers' blogs in order to be eligible for the $25 Heartfelt Creations gift certificate. Once again, you have until midnight Friday, September 27, 2013. You're next stop is Mary's blog. You're going to love what she created!

Alumni DT Participants
Selma Stevenson
Dina Kowal 
Emilia van den Heuvel 
Vicki Dutcher
Caroline Duncan
Alissa Wells
Cibele Glazer (You Are Here)
Mary Faus
Linda Payne
Debbie Seyer
Candy Slabaugh
Lisa Allen




Products Used:
Stamp Sets - Aztec Gold Sunflowers 1 and 2 (retired); Cards from the Heart (class set)
Paper - Rustic Cream and Harvest Gold
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Bella Rose die; Spellbinders Blossoms Two, Fancy Lattice and Radiant Rectangles dies; Gold Sttickles, Pretty Peridot, Yellow Rose and Harvest Sol Silks Acrylic Glaze; Elements Cacao; Want2Scrap Pearl line