My Heart felt Creations Extra projects

Today I wanted to share a couple projects I created for Heartfelt Creations. I was one of the semi-finalists and received a couple stamp sets and a couple dies to create my projects I am sharing.
I wasn't chosen as a finalists but I am still honored that I made it to a semi finalists.
I know this isn't my usual format for a post but this is how I submitted for Heartfelt Creations.

Products used 
Layered Scalloped Posy Die Product ID: HCD 717
Posy Patch Flowers Pre-Cut Set Product ID: HCPC 3303
Vintage Doors Pre-Cut Set Product ID: HCPC 3440
Open Falling Leaves PreCut Set Product ID: HCPC 3334
 Falling Leaves Die Product ID: HCD 707

Directions  For Card


cut a 5 x 8 piece of Kraft card stock, score at 3' mark on 8' side.This will make a partial flap card.Cut and attach a 5 x 5 pattern paper and  cut (2) pieces of 3 x 5 and attach on front and inside of 3 x 5 flap.Ink all edges. Cut  4 sets of  four smaller Posy patch flowers in various yellow papers. Hopefully you have the die to cut each of the flowers otherwise you need to hand cut each of the posies. Ink all edges with distress ink.
Stamp, cut  (8) leaves in the smaller sizes and ink edges with green ink. Use the flower tool kit to design the flower petals on the backside of each flower. Layer flowers and leaves, use an aggressive glue to hold together.Leave dry while finishing the rest of the card.Attach a pearl inside each flower and use stickles to decorate inside.
Stamp and cut (2) doors,cut out the panels from one set and ink all the edges with brown. Run full door image with embossing folder ,Pop dot door panels to second set. Center door on the 3 x 5 panel and attach pearl for door knob.Attach a smaller flower to front of door. Place three pearls on front 3 x 5 top right corner and  bottom right corner. Stamp Vintage Door sentiment above door I used the top line and wiped the bottom line off and stamped in the inside behind the 3 x 5 flap panel.
Attach three larger made flowers and leaves on 5 x 5 panel in the lower right corner being careful to place so the 3 x 5 panel closes without touching the flowers. Tie a yellow ribbon on the front panel

Supplies


Papers:pink paislee -think big, Webster's Pages-your life beautiful,Pebbles-Antique Light,Daisy d's, Cosmo Cricket-Sunshine and Flip n Fun,Wild Asparagus-Fall Paisley
Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon-Crinkle Yellow
Pearls- Pizzazz Aplenty
Tim Holzt-Tea Dye
Sizzix- Wood embossing folder
Hot glue gun and glue
Helmar Glue 450
Memento - spruce,Brown
McGill flower kit maker

Layout Products used:
Layered Scalloped Posy Die Product ID: HCD 717
Posy Patch Flowers Pre-Cut Set Product ID: HCPC 3303
Vintage Doors Pre-Cut Set Product ID: HCPC 3440
Open Falling Leaves PreCut Set Product ID: HCPC 3334
Falling Leaves Die Product ID: HCD 707

Directions for Layout
Cut  (8)sets of  four smaller Posy patch flowers in various yellow papers, and (1) set of 5 smaller flowers. Hopefully you have the die to cut each of the flowers otherwise you need to hand cut each of the posies. Ink all edges with distress ink.Stamp, cut  (18) leaves in a mixture of sizes and ink edges with green ink. Use the flower tool kit to design the flower petals on the backside of each flower. Layer flowers and leaves, use an aggressive glue to hold together.Leave dry while finishing the rest of the layout.Attach a pearl inside some of the flowers and use stickles to decorate inside.
Die cut  (5) of the larger half medallions , take (2) and cut out the inner piece to make smaller medallions. Use the largest arch, using a coordinating paper for backing for one of the medallions.Ink all edges with tea dye and brown.
Stamp and cut (4) doors,cut out the panels from two sets and ink all the edges with brown.Pop dot door panels to second sets.Press hinges, keyholes, and key into the embossing pad and cover with embossing powder and heat set. and let cool before attaching, use red ink to rub over lightly  ..I used hot glue.Attach hinges and  keyholes to doors. Mat a 5 x 4 piece of card stock on a piece of 5 x 6 piece of paper. Attach door by the hinges only on top of papers.
Cut the school lined paper down to 11 x 11 and mat with a 12 x 12 piece of designer paper.Ink all the edges with Tea dye and Brown.Cut and place vintage lace across top on top of 11 x 11 piece. Mat largest medallion with one of the larger cut medallions and place under the edge of the lace and attach. Mount the largest flower and leaves on top. Place the rest of the small and large medallions along the edges alternating the sizes.
Take the vine and hot glue flowers and leaves in a pleasing design. Make and attach a couple bows to branch.
Stamp vintage door sentiment to front of chipboard piece and attach key with a bow attached place in bottom right corner. Attach chipboard word to top left section
 
Supplies

Papers:pink paislee -think big, Webster's Pages-your life beautiful,Pebbles-Antique Light,Daisy d's, Cosmo Cricket-Sunshine and Flip n Fun,Wild Asparagus-Fall Paisley, Graphic 45, school lined-Hobby Lobby
Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon-Crinkle Yellow
Vintage lace
Melissa Frances - Vintage Keyhole
Tattered Angels- vintage Hardware Key
Pearls- Pizzazz Aplenty
CTMH -silver hinges
Prima vine branch
Prima chipboard
Green checked ribbon-Hobby Lobby
Tim Holzt-Tea Dye- Fired Red Brick
Embossing pad
Rich Red embossing powder
Hot glue gun and glue
Helmar Glue 450
Sizzix- Wood embossing folder
Memento - spruce,Brown
McGill flower kit maker

Some Thrilling News to Share! Will You Vote For Me?

 I am totally humbled by an email I received, I was chosen for the first round at Heartfelt Creations! As a crafter it always is my goal to make projects that make people say Wow! or That's so Beautiful!, but when a company or team say they like your work and want to see more, it always makes me swell with pride.

DT Semi- finalists: Today we are pleased to announce the HC Design Team Semi-finalists. Choosing from such great talent and diversified submissions is very difficult and we appreciate all the applicants that participated in the design team call. Without further ado, here are the semi-finalists;: Dawn Lotharius, Sarah Miller, Connie Piotter, KimberlyRae Forde, Susan O'Connell, Alissa Wells, Stephanie Lee, Erika Selander, Linda Neff, Emily Neihaus, Mari Harpham, Kathleen Rooney, Deborah Cuypers, Charmagne Welch-Rivera, Rachel Dluhy, Miranda van den Bosch, Stacy Cook, Debrah Scott, Giovana Smith, Jackie Payne, Jackie Smith, Karin Zander, Cynthia Lorens Renaud, Marisa Job, Linda Selymes, Kim Nath, and Steph Ackerman. Congratulations! 
The semi-finalists will be receiving some HC products and then they will be creating two projects for the final round. The design team finalists will be announced on April 25.
 
Vote for your favorite Semi-finalists: We would love to have you particpate and vote your 5 favorite semi-finalists listed above.
 Review each one of their blogs and then CLICK HERE to submit your vote. 
 When you vote, you will also be entered into a drawing to be eligible to win a $50 HC Gift Certificate. You can only vote one time and you have to select 5 or more to be eligible to participate. Voting ends on April 13th, 2012

Just wanted to share a couple of the projects I submitted for consideration and the written tutorials in HC style of posting them.

Floral  Layout

 

Floral layout of my daughter

 

Supply List:

Vintage Wildflower stamp set, Innoscents flowers stamp set, Falling Leaves Die, blossom two die, Peony die,Spell binders –Rose Creations, Cheery Lynn- Olive Branch, Fanciful flourish.Quickutz butterfly die.

Martha Stewart hand punch, SA Crafter’s -White pearls, purple pearls. Really Reasonable Ribbon-yellow/green ribbon, Colorbok letter stickers,Stickles-Stardust, Pattern paper from- Coredinations,My Mind’s Eye, Close To My Heart, DCWV. Hobby Lobby, McGill Flower making kit

Inks- Stampin Up, Memento

Instructions Floral Layout

Start by choosing several coordinating papers and stamp and die cut various flowers to layer. Die cut leaves and vines. Use a piece of foam and McGill flower making kit to individually make each flower, shaping and inking the edges as you.

Use a white piece of card stock and mat an embossed sheet of designer paper with decorative border. Double Mat picture and angle to right side of layout.

Gradually lie flowers out in a design you like (pre plan before adhering) Go slowly and use a liquid glue for thinner vines and gradually use pop dots to attach flowers at different levels. At this point add pearls to flower centers and edges of layout.

Attach word title by using a clear ruler with words spelled out and half stuck to ruler and hanging over edge. Easy to attach and see alignment on the layout.

Last steps are to use pop dots and twist ribbon in between flowers and attach a bow in at least one area.

My last step is to outline letter stickers and edges of some of the flowers.

Some of you that are my faithful followers might remember this project that I shared at Christmas time

 

Poinsettia Wreath

 I wanted to share a wreath I made this past December.

Supply List:

Regal Poinsettia Stamp Set, Open Falling Leaves Stamp Set, Blossom Nestabilities, Falling Leaves Die set,Book Die Cut,Pine Branch die cut (Cheery Lynn),Vintage Music sheets, Memento Ink( tuxedo black, Rich Cocoa,New Sprout,Lady Bug,Bamboo Leaves),Lipton tea bags, Close tom My Heart card stock-White,Red,Green,Red Ribbon-Really Reasonable Ribbon, Berries-Hobby Lobby floral, Gold Elastic Ribbon-Hobby Lobby

Instructions to make a wreath:

Start with a basic wreath shape, I chose to use a foam material.

Take old sheet music and cut or tear into 2’inch strips. I used (7)-Seven pages. Make a tea mixture to stain your music strips. I like to steep 5-6 tea bags with 4 cups water and let it sit with the strips for 10 minutes or less.

While you have the tea mixture you can die cut more music sheets with the book shape or you can make your own special pages with stamps-like verses or hymns.

After steeping the papers I place my sheets on an absorbent towel and let dry, these can also be dried with a heat gun. It will be your personal preference to how dark you choose to make the strips; I like to re-stain a couple times.

A strong liquid adhesive that holds to foam suggested. Hot glue was used for the assembly of this wreath.

Slowly wrapped the strips making sure to completely cover the foam shape, make sure each new strip is flat and does not show a gap.

Stamp flower stamp and leaves enough times to cover your wreath, embossing is recommended to give dimension.15- (3 layer) sets were made to finish this wreath. Die cut all shapes using matching die cuts, these also could be hand cut if you don’t have matching sets yet.

Distress ink the edges to give a little dimension and shape with fingers. Each flower was assembled, distressed, and finished with Stickles.

Miniature music book was matted with a Chipboard base distressed with ink. Several pages were layered to give a full look, and tied with elastic gold trim and accented with a smaller flower.

Red and white berries were added for more texture and a 2’inch red ribbon was used to hang from the top. Extra greenery dies can be used to accent or fill in areas at this time.

Thanks so much for checking out my post I hope you take the time to vote- you could win also!

Beauty in Orange Acetate Card

*** I have two posts today-check out my Second post below***

Today I have two cards almost the same-I used the same Beautiful Orange crinkle ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon. I also used the same Heartfelt Creations Stamp set, and same die cut from Heartfelt .
 one was colored with Spectrum Noir Markers and One with Copic, one on card stock and one on Sticky back canvas from Claudine Hellmuth.
I am having a little giveaway for the first person that leaves the correct answer

 This is card # one with a key added to the crinkle ribbon and a Martha Stewart punch was used for the inside. Isn't that a wonderful sentiment in the inside?

This is a different angle and close up  of the flowers

 This is card two with the same rich orange crinkle ribbon- I added a butterfly brad to the ribbon for an accent.

Did you know there is a BIG 3-Day SALE at

Really Reasonable Ribbon!!

Now through midnight EDT on Thursday, 3/29 Really Reasonable ribbon has a terrific SALE going on. The more you buy, the more you save!! Please use the applicable code found below in the promotional code area on the first page at checkout.

The codes are good now through midnight EST on Thursday 3/29. (Sale code is not valid on prior orders, ribbon club subscriptions, ribbon club gift subscriptions, or special order items).

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Be sure to use the correct code to correspond with your order subtotal.

The sale code is good on everything including SALE items.  Just wait until you see all of the fabulous NEW items!! 

 how about another view and the inside

OK, now I need you to guess which one is card stock, which is canvas? Which is Spectrum Noir and which is Copic- can you tell?

I am entering the following challenges:
The Cheerful Stamp pad- anything goes
Paper Pretties- paper piecing or piercing

Shadowbox Garden Card

*** I have three posts today-please check out my other projects and  will you vote for me and share my good news***

My project today using Creative Inspirations Paint is something really different then a usual type card.
I decided to make a shadowbox type card.
All the flowers were cut out with a rose die cut my friend had   (SEE STEPH I USED THE SAME ONE)- I decided to use Mango and Citrus paints to accent many of the pieces after I lightly inked the design while it was in the die and then accented with my Spectrum Noir markers.

 

 I tried to share a few angles so you could see the flowers and the beautiful colors.

Here you can see the dimension of the display card and how I did a three step base in the inside to layer the flowers at different levels.

That beautiful ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon and is from their Ribbon of the month assortment this month.I believe the decorative brad is from SEI.
The leaves were cut out from dies from Heartfelt Creations and a couple Martha Stewart punches.

I just wanted to take the time to Thank Molly and the design team  at Creative Inspirations Paint-this is my last post as a design team member, I know I will be playing along with the challenges and be back in April for both of the challenges.
I have enjoyed playing and painting everything I could with my paints, glitter, and embossing powders.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Celebrate The Occasion-Welcome Spring
Crafty Bloggers-Floral
Love To Create-Anything Goes
Stamp and Create-paper piecing
Unstampabelles- no stamp ,Easter, extra folds

Shall We Have Tea?

Won't you come in and sit down and have a cup of tea with me today?

Won't you check out my altered idea using Really Reasonable ribbon supplies

I have been on a search for some time to find tea cups and saucers to use for some projects.This is my cup, I was fortunate enough to find two of these sets.

These are the products I used:

1" Satin with Grosgrain Edge Moss

 Amelia White Crochet Lace 

I used another single Satin that came in a set or was in clearance

Was this what you were expecting?

I LOVE,LOVE pin cushions and vintage items to have I can display in my craft cave.

 Here is another view with some of the pieces I used.

 I love the vintage velvet I had in my sewing supplies and pearl pins from Pizzazz Aplenty.

I made leaves out of card stock using a Heartfelt Creations die cut, and their leaves stamp. Pearl centers from SA Crafters.

I hope you enjoyed your visit ,I know I enjoyed sharing.

Some challenges I am entering:
Blessings Ink-A Muse Studio-die cuts 
Catered Crop- Ribbon (I won this past week)
Paper Sundaes-Green or Good Luck
Penny Black & More-Springtime 
Stampin Sisters In Christ-winged things
Crafty Ann's Challenge-Anything but a card
The Craft Garden- Picture Inspiration
Paper Play- Something Old (velvet and cup) Something New (lace, ribbon)

RRR challenge Today

*** I have three posts today, please refresh and check out my Crafter's Companion and Creative Inspirations Paint posts***

The theme for our Challenge  at Really Reasonable Ribbon is Pink & Brown & Ribbon

The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to Really Reasonable Ribbon . We will also be drawing a random winner from all the entries to win a second $10 gift certificate to Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Here's what you need to do:

* Create a new project using the posted theme. A layout, card, ATC, home decor item, hair bow, or anything your can think of.

* You may enter as many times as you like, but you're asked to provide newly designed projects. No back-linking please.

* All projects must also include some sort of ribbon/lace/trim. 

 My quick project today is a gift bag made with Striped Big Bitty Bags and Brown Wrinkled Ribbon.

 I started by decorating the bag with some stickles to accent the stripes. The paper doily and chipboard die cut were some items I have had on my desk for other projects.

 Now you know there had to be some goodies in the inside?

I used a few extra flowers and a leaf to make it pretty.

In my last photo I wanted to share that I added a few glittered brads to the chipboard piece-this was made with a die cut from Heartfelt Creations.

So that is my project today- Hope you pop in and join us for our Pink & Brown & Ribbon challenge.

Let Me Organize You

 

                                      Welcome,

I want to share my organizing idea today with you.

I pulled out my Purple Cows Craft Geek Stamp It.

I decided to play around with designs and colors.

Now I had no clue what I would do with them after I had them.

 I used all four seasons and tried to keep them in the sets as they are available.

Here is the whole project together

This is the top, I loved this design stamped on patterned paper from CTMH.

I matted my design with black card stock to add weight and ground the colors.

These are the next two panels decorated. I had these vintage holly leaves and very thin red ribbon from my stash.How about those mini colored clothes pins? I just hot glued them to the top of each panel.

Here is the last two panels- sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it hanging.

One last view of a vintage image clipped to show you how it van be used.

I also wanted to share the Poinsettia was paper pieced after using Spellbinder dies and stamps from Heartfelt Creations.

I am hoping to share this project with someone that can use it to clip notes or messages in a tight spot.

Thanks for joining me today-so glad I could share my Purple Cows project with you.

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