A Tattered Birdy and an Altered Purse Project

Hello All and [Almost] Happy New Year!

Today is my Wedding Anniversary and everyone is celebrating tonight (LOL)!  Carl and I have been married 26 years today!  I think after awhile you just stop counting and the years fly by -- I never would have thought 26 years felt this way when we first got married.  It seems like nothing has changed, but everything has changed.  I couldn't be more happy and blessed!!

For this week's Heartfelt Creations post, I have a card and an altered project!

On my card, I used products from the Tattered Blossoms, Arianna Lace and Raindrops on Roses collections.

My little rusted tin birdy is something I found at a tiny shop in NM on our last vacation.  I love rustic, antique, re-purposed findings and I have boxes and drawers and nooks and crannies full of the stuff that I've collected from estate sales, garage sales, second-hand stores, unusual boutiques, etc.   And "some day" I'm going to alter and re-purpose all of it! Ahem...

Anyhow... to get the flowers to have an aged, rusted look, I used Viva Decor 3D Stamp Paint. 

I sponged the die cut pieces with Walnut Brown, Light Blue, Gold and Copper Stamp Paint.  I just randomly added the colors, no particular order, until I achieved the look I was going for.  This Stamp Paint is super shimmery, almost metallic looking and it really has a wonderful shine when you're done with the sponging.  It dries almost immediately so it's perfect for paper crafting. (And yep, you can get all the colors on the Heartfelt Creations web site!)

Up next is a small vinyl purse I altered.  It is a clear pink, vinyl one that came packaged with a blue and green one just like it.  I recall buying the set at one of the big box stores at what I'm sure was a "bargain" price LOL!  I've been wanting to dress them up for years!  Today is the day! The bag "storage" size is about 5-1/2" x 5-1/2". 

To begin with, I inserted two panels of designer paper from the Romantique Garden paper collection into the purse (front and back) facing out to start the altering process.  That gave me the canvas for all the rest of the embellishing.  From there I decorated the outside by adding Arianna Blooms and Heartthrob flowers that I stamped, diecut and shaped from more of the Romantique Garden paper.

I added charms, lace, pearls ("findings" from my yard sale and estate sale scavenger-ing!) and rhinestones to transform it into something fun and almost vintage looking!

The complete step-by-step and product details for the purse AND the card are on the Heartfelt Creations Blog today!  You'll find so much more to inspire you, stop by and check it out!

Back of purse

Front of purse

Thanks for reading this far!  I know this was a particularly long blog post today!!  I appreciate your patience and interest!!

Happy New Year everyone! 

Christmas Eve Post!

Hi Friends!

Hope all your Christmas preparations are well on their way - if not done! - and you're planning a fun holiday with your family!  I know we're really looking forward to going to my sister's house and celebrating with her family!  We attended our Christmas Candlelight Service this past Saturday evening and I've prepared some traditional family recipes for our Christmas dinner (Posole and red chili !).  I even tried out a new Pinterest-inspired treat ("Trisha Yearwood's Crockpot Chocolate") that I'll be bringing to our get together, so I'm excited to get the party started!

Meanwhile, I've got my weekly Heartfelt Creations post for you and I wanted to make it a "festive" card so it's all dressed up with shinny gold cardstock!  The paper collection I used on this is called "Antiquity" (LOVE this collection!!) and the die cut flowers are made with the Arianna Blooms dies.  I added stamen centers and a little bit of flourish from the coordinating Arianna Lace dies in black cardstock along with a gold Spellbinders Lattice Die background.

As always, the step by step instructions for my card can be found on the Heartfelt Creations Blog and there's lots more to see while you're there today!!  The awesome HC Design Team outdid themselves!!  Hope you'll check it out!

Have a wonderful blessed Christmas my friends!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Merry Christmas!  

Two of My Favorite Things on One Card!

Hi All,

Today's card makes me happy!  I designed it around two of my favorite elements: Heartfelt Creations flowers and fan-fold rosettes!  The "rosette" on this card is actually a fan instead of a rosette but the technique is the same.  Either way, I just have always found both the flowers and the fans (rosettes) easy to incorporate into my cards!

I used HC Arianna Blooms die for the flowers, the Decorative Lace Border for the fan, Spellbinders Foliage for the leaves and all are stamped and die cut from HC Once Upon a Time Paper Collection. 

Specific instructions and products for my card can be found over on the the Heartfelt Creations Blog.  Be sure to check out all the cards and projects that have been posted there today!  The Design Team has been busy being fabulously creative!! 

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you!!

Hugs,
Anne

Winter Snowflake and Spring Flowers

Hello Friends!

Today on the Heartfelt Creations blog are lots of wonderful samples to inspire you!  For my contribution, I created a "Winter" card and a "Spring" card.

The Winter Snowflake card uses the Ariana Lace dies to make a snowflake. The first time I saw those dies back in the Spring, I thought of snowflakes!  I die cut the lace pieces and my panels from the Romantique Garden paper collection using the soft pinks and coordinating maroon colors from the papers.

All the panels have been distressed with Vintage Photo ink and I finished it off with some sequence, organza ribbon and burlap twine.  Each of the die cut pieces have been sponged with Viva Decor Silver 3-D Stamp paint to give them an amazing shimmer.  I am such a fan of the 3-D stamp paint, I have every color in the collection!  It's like shimmer on steroids but has the neatest transparent property similar to shimmer sprays -- but better!  Wish I had been able to capture the shimmer better in the photo!

This is my "Spring" card that I made using the Decorative Flower Pot Die set to cut a two-layer panel from the Romantique Garden paper collection.  I positioned the "flower pot" sideways on the card and decorated it with several small Arianna Bloom flowers.  The sentiment is from Heartfelt Creations Sentiments Old English Collection.




Be sure to check out all of the projects here that the Heartfelt Creations Design Team has in store for you on the blog today!!  Gorgeous and festive!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Anne

Easy Angel Ornaments!

 

Hi Friends!

I made these little angel ornaments this morning and wanted to get them posted before the day gets away from me!  They were so simple to make.  All you need is cardstock, some tinsel, the "Heralding Angel" die from Frantic Stamper and a hot glue gun!  

The die has a flourish that cuts out within the dress of the angel so you can take that out and use it separately - which I did for these ornaments.

Here's the steps to create them:

Cut a 1-3/4" strip of white cardstock 11" long, score it every 1/4" and accordion fold it at all the score lines.  Glue the two ends together so you have a cylinder.  Set it aside for a moment.

Die cut two of the angels so that you can glue them back-to-back (since you'll be seeing both sides of the die cut).   Remove the flourish piece from the dress of each of the angels and set them aside.  Glue the two angels together back-to-back, and insert a piece of twine at the top before sealing together to create the hanger for the ornament.



Return to the cylinder, insert the angel into the center of the cylinder, and gather the cyclinder around the waist of the angel so it makes a "tee pee" shape.  Hold this together with one hand and squeeze hot glue into the center around the waist area to adhere the angel into place and secure the "tee pee" shape of the ornament.

 
Glue tinsel around the waist to camouflage the transition between the dress and the angel.  Glue on the flourishes to the dress area.

And that's it!  Really quick and very sweet ornaments.  The angels stand about 3" tall when done.

Cherish Card - Its All About the Stamping

Hi Friends!

Another Wednesday of Heartfelt Creation cards!  This week I'm focusing on using the stamps and paper collections from HC.  I have to confess, I am truly obsessed with the paper collections, they are my first stop for inspiration when I start creating with the Heartfelt Creations product line!

For this card, I first chose a background panel from the Romantique Garden paper collection. The border you see around the stamped scene is already printed on the paper -- the center area comes blank to be filled in!

I stamped the image onto the background panel and only colored in the parts I knew I would not be covering up. Next I stamped the same image again onto a white cardstock panel and colored in the "other" parts of the scene that I had not colored before.  I cut away the segment that I just colored from the white cardstock panel.  Next, I "selectively" inked up just the little girl from the image, stamped her once onto patterned paper (notice it matches the border!) from the paper collection, and then fussy cut her dress out.  Finally, I inked up just her hat and stamped it onto a white piece of scrap cardstock, colored it in and fussy cut it out. 

I layered the cut out pieces onto the image I had stamped on the background panel and used dimensional foam tape to separate the layers.  The result is almost a "paper toile" technique with layers for dimension.

My next card is similar in that I again stamped the image onto a card panel that I chose from the same Romantique Garden paper collection.  I colored in the image parts that I knew would not be covered up by my fussy cut pieces.  Next I stamped the bleeding hearts onto a scrap piece of white cardstock, colored them in and die cut them.  Then I selectively inked up the leaf from the flower image and stamped it onto a scrap piece of cardstock, colored it in, and fussy cut it out.  I used the image I had stamped onto the background panel as a template and layered on the bleeding hearts and the leaf over the image.  I added some gold Stickle glitter lines to add some sparkle.

 I finished the arrangement off with a little of bit of ribbon, a button, and a cut-away sentiment from the paper collection.

Please be sure to stop by the Heartfelt Creations blog today and check out the dozens of samples created by the amazing HC Design Team!  The inspiration is breathtaking!  Believe me, I've seen them and I'm completely impressed with the talent and variety on display there!!

Have a blessed week!
Anne