Heartfelt Creations - Western Sympathy

Today I have some wonderful news!  Thanks to all of you who voted, I have been asked to remain on the Heartfelt Creations Design Team for another term.  I am thrilled to be able to continue bringing you projects made with these awesome stamp sets and dies.

For today's card, I used the Western Elements stamp set with some distress inks and a water brush to create this scene.  I stamped the image onto a piece of watercolor paper using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink.  My sentiment was cut using the Perfect Petals die and popped up with dimensional foam.

I hope you will visit the Heartfelt Creations Blog to see what all the other ladies have created this week. There you will also find the detailed instructions on how to make my card.

Products Used:
Paper – PTI Fine Linen and Cream; Watercolor paper
Ink - Versafine Vintage Sepia; Pine Needles, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Old Paper distress inks; Tea Dye Duo
Water pen, dimensional foam

Western Elements PreCut Set

Large Elegant Words

Classic Message PreCut Set

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Perfect Petals Die

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Heartfelt Creations - Strength and Courage

Happy Wednesday!  I have a new Heartfelt Creations project to show you today using the newest Floral Cross Collection.  This time I made a sympathy card using a technique I found on Splitcoast but you could easily change this to a Baptism, Communion or Easter card by changing the sentiment.

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I used Bamboo ink on the inside of my embossing folder and embossed onto white cardstock.  I love the look you get with this technique.  I layered the embossed cross onto the die cut cross which I cut using Bamboo cardstock.  I added the sentiment with Bamboo ink for a soft look.  You can find the complete instructions on the Heartfelt Creations blog, along with some amazing creations from the other Design Team members.

Need another reason to check out the Heartfelt Creations Blog?  Well the search for a new Design Team is underway and if you love their products as much as I do, I strongly encourage you to apply.  This is a great team to be a part of and the stamps and dies are so fun and easy to work with!  You can read all the details HERE.

Products Used:
Paper -PTI SS White; CTMH Bamboo
Ink -CTMH Bamboo
Sizzix embossing folder, foam dimensionals, corner rounder

Cross and Lilies

Cross and Lilies Die

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Sympathy in Blue

This week, my neighbor's mother passed away.  It's been almost three years now since my own mom passed and I still feel the sadness, so I can empathize with the grief my neighbor is feeling.  I wanted to make a simple card to show that we were thinking about him and his family at this time and this is what I came up with.  Unfortunately, I don't think the camera was able to pick up the fact that I used a Linen impression plate on the card base.  I also used one of the sentiments from PTI's With Sympathy on the inside.

Enjoy your Saturday!

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - PTI Year of Flowers: Collection, Botanical Silhouettes, With Sympathy
Paper - PTI SS White, Spring Rain
Ink - CTMH Sky and Black
PTI Linen impression plate
Ribbon

Pencil Me In Wildflower and Some News

Yesterday, I learned that I am a semifinalist for the Heartfelt Creations Design Team.  I was thrilled because I really like their stamps and matching Spellbinders dies, especially the flowers.  Now I am just waiting on some goodies so I can make a couple of projects to submit for the final round.

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In the meantime, there is a fun challenge over at Splitcoaststampers to use a No. 2 pencil to color in your image.  I thought this would be fun to try.  I had the perfect floral image from Heartfelt Creations to try this technique so I stamped the flower in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then got to work with my trusty pencil.  This stamp makes it really easy to have your flower looking professionally colored in no time.  When I was done, I thought the card needed just a little something so I added some bling to the center of my flower and called it a day.  I love trying something new.

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - Heartfelt Creations Vintage Wildflower; PTI Botanical Silhouettes
Paper - PTI Rustic Cream
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Adhesive bling
No. 2 pencil

1 Card, 3 Challenges

Happy Monday to you!  It's raining....again but what perfect inspiration for a Sympathy card right?  And it just so happens that is the Make it Monday Challenge this week over at PTI.  This card also qualifies for the challenge at Mark's Finest Papers which is to use tone-on-tone stamping and pop up the sentiment.  Here I used CTMH Bamboo ink on PTI Fine Linen cardstock and then popped up the whole center panel.



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The final challenge that this card qualifies for is a new one I discovered a couple weeks ago but haven't had the time to play.  It's a fairly new challenge blog with an awesome Design Team and wonderful inspiration called CAS-ual Fridays.  This week's challenge was to use bling on a CAS card.  I used adhesive backed pearls from CTMH and also added a little sparkle to the leaves using my favorite Sakura clear glitter pen.

Be sure to also check out this Make it Monday blog where each week you can upload any of your cards.  No challenge involved.

Have a wonderful day!

Products Used:

Stamp Sets - PTI With Sympathy and Out on a Limb Sentiments

Cardstock - PTI Fine Linen; CTMH Dessert Sand

Ink - CTMH Bamboo and Dessert Sand

Sakura clear glitter pen

Adhesvive backed pearls

Smashing Trees

Happy Monday morning to you.  This weekend I decided to finally try a technique that has been on my "to do" list for a long time - Acrylic Smashing.  The how-to can be found HERE on SCS.  I followed  this weeks CPS 213 Sketch and came up with this card.  Here's a picture of the sketch:

CPS #213

I  used two colors of blue acrylic paint for the sky and two colors of green for the trees and ground.  The acetate is actually a recycled carrier sheet from a PTI stamp set (I save everything).  I added pressed leaves to the patterned paper for some added interest.

This technique is so easy and so much fun, I made another card which I will share with you later this week.

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - PTI Through the Trees and Daily Designs
Cardstock - PTI Ripe Avocado and Fine Linen
PTI Pacific Vineyard patterned paper
Ink - Black Stazon, Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo Distress Inks
Nestabilities dies
PTI Woodgrain impression plate
Acetate sheet
buttons