Roses On Your Birthday!!!

Hi all, so who's enjoying summer??? With all the rain, I sure hope that summer is somewhere around the corner.....we seem to be getting more rain than shine :) So I just love the Heartfelt Creations Dies and Stamps and I love that they have more than one stamp set for their dies. So here's what I came up with for today's post............

Products Used:

Cardstock: White, Tim Holtz Coredinations- Weathered Wood and Victorian Velvet and Kaiser Craft Velvet Ensemble 6x6 Paper Pad

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations- Bella Rose Leaves, Bold Bella Rose and Classic Bella Rose and Justrite- Just Because

Dies and Punches: Heartfelt Creations Bella Rose Die and Martha Stewart Punch- Double Arches

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks- Victorian Velvet, Aged Mahogany, Crushed Olive and Forest Moss

Misc.: Prima Lace

This is a fairly simple card, but I did do a bunch of layering. So first off, I did all the stamping on the white cst and used the dies to cut everything out twice. Then I pop dotted the flowers and all of the leaves. I used the punch on one of the patterned papers and did a bunch of layering with the patterned paper, cst and lace. Once all of that was done, I adhered the two roses and the leaves with the flourish. Then did some more layering with cst and patterned paper and stamped my sentiment. I guess that's it for this one. The new Kaiser Craft Velvet Ensemble Papers are just so gorgeous and they go great with the Heartfelt Creations Roses Dies and Stamps! So until next time...........Have a great week!!!

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Smiles & Daisies

Hi all, guess what.....it's that time again....for another post.....I will say at least the weather is warming up here and it's supposed to get even warmer this week......woo hoo.....I can't wait for the snow to be gone, it feels like the winter has been so long this year!!! Anyways onto todays post.........

I just love playing with the new Heartfelt Creations Stamps and Dies......so I did a card using them and of course my distress inks!!! It's awesome that the dies match so many of their stamp sets, so you can use them over and over and you aren't limited to just one set of stamps. So here's the card I came up with.............

Products Used

Cardstock: Strathmore Watercolour Paper, Cream & Black

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations- Daisy Patch Background & Daisy Patch Flowers & Technique Tuesday Sweet Somethings

Dies: Heartfelt Creations Daisy Patch

Ink: Ranger Archival Ink Black, Distress Reinkers- Spun Sugar, Aged Mahogany, Faded Jeans, Tumbled Glass & Mustard Seed

Misc.: Ultra Fine Flower Soft- Citrus Crush & Raspberry Fizz, Flower Soft Glue



So a little bit on how I made this card......I stamped the 2 larger flowers on the cream cst and die cut them out. I stamped the daisy background stamp onto the watercolor paper, then using the reinkers, a paintbrush and some water, I coloured all of the stamped images in. Then using the glue and the flower soft I filled in the centers of all the flowers, except the 2 larger flowers on the daisy background stamp. then of course, I had to patiently wait for it to dry. :) Now I mounted the daisy background onto the front of the black card and pop dotted the 2 large flowers over top of the background flowers. Stamped the sentiment and border, cut it out and coloured it in with the tumbled glass distress reinker, mounted this onto black cst, timmed and pop dotted it to the card. The colouring took the longest, but I really love using the watercolor technique with the reinkers. So, that's all for this time, I hope you enjoyed my card and mini tutorial..........till next time..........

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Double Embossing Resist Tutorial

Hi all, well I was playing around and with some of my stamps etc. and came up with this technique.......I'm not sure if anyone else has tried it or even if they have a tutorial out there somewhere, but I thought it would be great to show you all!!! My card will be shown at the end, along with all the products I used for it. I hope you all enjoy it..........so, onto the tutorial.

Supplies needed for theTutorial:
Smooth White Cardstock, I used the X-press It Blending Cardstock
Hero Arts Clings- Happy Definition & Classic Fabric Design
Versamark Ink
Ranger Ink Blending Tool with Foam
Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Tumbled Glass, Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive & Walnut Stain
Tsukineko Clear Embossing Powder
Ranger Heat It Tool or other heat tool

Step 1: Ink up Happy Definition with the Versamak ink, stamp it on the white cardstock. Use the clear EP (Embossing Powder) and emboss with your heat tool.

Step 2: Use your blending tool with the foam and blend in the Tumbled Glass, Worn Lipstick and Crushed Olive, making sure to overlap your colours. You can wipe it with a baby wipe or a piece of paper towel to remove the excess ink from the embossing. Trim down to the size of the stamp. 

Step 3: Now before we do the next part make sure that the distress inks are completely dry, otherwise you will have the EP stick to the distress ink. (and yes, I learned the hard way....lol...) Ink up the Fabric Design stamp with the Versamark ink and stamp it over the Happy Definition embossed stamping, apply the clear EP and heat emboss this. I hope you can see how it looks in the photo.

Step 4: Now the magic happens......using your blending tool and the Walnut Stain Distress Ink, blend the ink and watch as a new design appears over top of the other one. You can wipe it again, with a baby wipe or a piece of paper towel to remove the excess ink from the embossing.

Here's a close up of it.....................









So that's it.....I really love this technique, I hope you have fun playing!!! Also, you can experiment with various stamps and colours, just remember that you want to use the darkest ink colour last, as it should be dark enough to cover all the other colours you have used. There's so much you can do with this technique, you could use just blues or purples etc., or try it with 2 different colours of EP.

Well I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, if you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the comments section and I will do my best to answer you ASAP.

Now onto how the card looks............

Products Used:

Cardstock: X-press It Blending Cardstock, Brown Cardstock

Stamps & Dies: Hero Arts Clings- Happy Definition & Classic Fabric Design,  Justrite Happy Everything Tag Making Kit, Justrite Nested Frames Dies

Ink: Versamark Ink, Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Tumbled Glass, Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive & Walnut Stain

Misc.: EK Success Binding Edge Punch,  Ranger Ink Blending Tool with Foam, Tsukineko Clear Embossing Powder, Ranger Heat It Tool, Brown Grosgrain Ribbon, Pink Rhinestones

So all I did to finish the card was use the punch down the side, stamped and cut out the sentiment and tag, then added some bling and the ribbon and bow.

I did do another card with the same technique, but I used the new Heartfelt Creations stamps, Daisy Patch Background & Stained Glass Background instead, here's how it turned out..............

So that's it for this post..........I'm still waiting for the warm weather to come..........lol........it doesn't look like I'm going to get my wish anytime soon!!! :)  So until next time.......................

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Dream Forever & Live for Today!!!

Hi all, it's time for another post........I hope you've all seen some of the amazing new products that have come in at Scrapbooker's Paradise!!! One of the new lines that we are carrying are the Heartfelt Creations line of Stamps and Dies, You can check out the whole line here, these are amazing stamps and dies and of course I couldn't resist buying a few........okay, well actually alot of them.....lol.......so I figured I would do a card using them. I hope you like it!!!

Products Used

Cardstock: Blue, Dark Brown, Beige & K & Company Julianne Designer Paper 6"x6" Pad

Stamps: Hearfelt Creations-Posy Patch Garden Delights & Stampendous Cling-Dream Forever

Ink: Momento Rich Cocoa

Dies: Heartfett Creations Butterfly Border Die & Spellbinders Labels 4

Misc: American Crafts Crocheted Lace-Vanilla Chestnut, Distressed Stickles-Brushed Corduroy, Queen & Co. Pearls-Chocolate Delight

So this card was fairly easy to put together.....I layered the brown cardstock and the designer paper added the crocheted lace to the middle and then adhere it onto the blue card base. Die cut 2 of the fancy corners and centered them on the front. Now, stamp the butterfly on the designer paper and cut it out with the die. I thought that the body of the butterfly needed a little something, so I added the brushed corduroy distress stickles to it and set it aside to dry, actually I found it took too long to dry, so I speeded up the drying time with my heat gun.....I'm a little impatient when it comes to waiting for things to dry......lol....just remember, that you can only use the heat tool on the distressed stickles, not on the regular stickles!

Okay now where was I? Oh yeah.....so then I stamped the sentiment, cut it out with the Labels 4 die and also die cut one out of the blue cardstock. Inked around the sentiment and cut the blue one in half and adhered it behind. Pop dotted this to the center of the card and I also pop dotted the butterfly. Added the pearls and that's pretty much it for this card. So I guess that's all till next time........I hope you all have a great week!!!

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