Summer Flowers

I have continued to practice my  watercoloring with markers. For this card I used a stamp from Heartfelt Creations. This is probably the very first stamp I ever purchased from them many years ago at the very first stamp show I went to. I love the image but have always felt threatened by the coloring that it needed. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and heat embossed it. I used Tombow and distress markers to do the coloring.

The inside--

I made the card for our first sketch challenge at Altered Art Addicts. I love using a sketch for making a card. Here is the sketch--

Christmas Greetings to Family and Friends

This is my online Christmas card to all my Family and Friends. May you be blessed this holiday season.

Christmas Cards

For these cards I used the Heartfelt Creations stamps from the Sparkling Poinsettia sets. These are beautiful stamps and create lovely cards. The three cards below are all similar but different. I was doing a class last Saturday, December 12, and I wanted to show how you can make similar cards without making them exactly the same.

Poinsettia on Vellum

Experimenting--
That's always fun, especially when the projects turn out the way you were wanting them to. I used the Heartfelt Creations Sparkling Poinsettia set again. This time I stamped the flowers on Chartham Translucent Clear Vellum, 36# weight, which I had purchased from Marco's Paper.The flowers were stamped using VersaMark ink and heat embossed using white detail embossing powder. SU Soft Sky ink was sponged on the backs of the flower layers and the leaves were sponged with SU Always Artichoke ink, again on the back. I love the icy effect of this method. The background paper was created by applying ink (SU Soft Sky) to the inside of the embossing folder, adding the white card stock and running it through the Big Shot. The card base was SU's Soft Sky card stock.

11/29/2015
This card was mentioned as a Weekly Favorite at Splitcoast Stampers

More Sparkling Poinsettia Creations

I want to post more cards that I have made using the Heartfelt Creations Sparkling Poinsettia stamp sets and matching dies. Once I got started it has been hard to stop. I just keep getting ideas that I want to try.

This first card was made using the Sparkling Poinsettia Candle set. The image was stamped on watercolor paper using VersaFine Black Onyx ink and heat embossed with clear detailed embossing powder. I used ink from distress markers and my aqua brush. Crystal glitter was added to the top of the candle and the flower petals.

 The sentiment on the next card is from the Sparkling Poinsettia Swirl set, stamped and heat embossed with gold powder onto a SU top note die. The poinsettia was stamped on red card stock with black ink, die cut and sponged with white craft ink around the edges. Encore gold ink was used to color the berries. The card base was stamped with a Impression Obsession background stamp with VersaMark ink, brushed with silver perfect pearls and spritzed with water to activate the binder in the Perfect Pearls.

The next two cards used a stamp from the Poinsettia Swirl set and circle Nestabilities.

This is a tri-fold card. The card base is SU Soft Sky card stock with designer paper from my scrap box. The poinsettia parts were stamp on white card stock and embossed with silver powder. The petals were sponged with SU Soft Sky ink and gentle shaped before gluing together. The center berries were sponged with SU Always Artichoke ink, shaped and glued to the flower center. For the ribbon I used white "Hug Snug" rayon seam binding. I moistened the binding with water and used a couple of drops of Soft Sky reinker to add color. I left the binding crunched up to dry. Love the result.

The inside--

Sparkling Poinsettia by Heartfelt Creations

I have been making some cards using stamps by Heartfelt Creations "Sparkling Poinsettia" set. There are also some coordinating dies that go with two of the stamp sets.

For the first card, I made a tri-shutter fold card.

The poinsettia was stamped on white card stock with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with silver powder. Before cutting the images out with the coordinating dies, I sponged the flower petals with "worn lipstick" distress ink. For the leaves, I used a yellow distress ink and SU Old Olive ink. The flower centers were sponged with SU Always Artichoke ink.

The card base was cut from a sheet of 12 x 12-inch SU Old Olive card stock.  Some papers were from my scrap box and others came from a 6 x 6-inch pad by Graphic 45.

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It's Friday and I am just getting my card finished for Wednesday's sketch challenge at SCS. My goal is to do all the sketch challenges for this year. These challenges always encorage me to use things (images) that I have already finished. That was the case again this week. This image was made with one of the first stamps I purchased from Heartfelt Creations. I created several images, used one or two and put the others away for a later date. That was at least two years ago. So, this was the week to use one of those images.

When I made the image, I was trying out the technique called (I think) "out of the box". The white oval was cut around the hummingbird's wings.

Last night I had a class on "Bring a tool that you have but don't know how to use". I knew that someone was going to bring a brayer, so I did a little practing ahead of time. I knew about inking up an embossing folder before embossing your card stock. As I was practicing, I decided to run the inked brayer over a piece of card stock that was already embossed. That created a great effect. That is the way I created the third element on my card. I think this will be a technique that I will be using often.

I used colored pencils and gamsol to color the image, Spellbinder's Nestabilities to cut the ovals, SU Perfert Plum card stock for the base, SU designer paper and light colored card stock from my collection. The "Happy Birthday" was heat embossed with light purple embossing powder.