Cherry Blossom Filled Thoughts...

It's new release day with Heartfelt Creations...and this beautiful collection

  just makes spring seem like it's around the corner!

The new Cherry Blossom Retreat Collection is sure to be among one of your favorites!
Here's a little more about the collection...

Beautiful gardens filled with warm rays of sunshine, skies of blue, and trees filled with fragrant cherry blossoms make for the perfect retreat setting, where daydreaming can abound and the stress of everyday life just seems to melt away! Breathing deeply and enjoying the sweetness in the air becomes second nature, as you take in your enchanting surroundings…a decorative wishing well with beautiful vining florals, a whimsical wooden bridge leading to places imagined only in daydreams, and a darling collection of hand carved bird houses that your “tweet” friends serenading you from above call home. Let your imagination wander, and enjoy life at a slower pace, taking time to smell the delicate cherry blossoms with the new Cherry Blossom Retreat Collection from Heartfelt Creations! Enjoy a walk through a refreshing paper collection filled with beautiful springtime hues…grass like greens, pretty blossom pinks, clear sky blues, and charming corals, all encompassed in dreamy petite plaids, dainty polka dots, and elegant lace like accents. An inviting collection of cling stamp sets, along with coordinating dies, await to bring your very own garden oasis to life, filled with elegant garden benches, alluring wishing wells, and sweet springtime songbirds. A delightful assortment of varying sized cherry blossom petals, along with a coordinating dimensional shaping mold, allow for quick and easy assembling of gorgeous, delicate cherry blossoms perfect for all of your spring themed creations! So, join us as we bring a hint of spring to craft rooms everywhere…it’s the perfect day for a crafty daydream with the new Cherry Blossom Retreat Collection!

I love love love birdhouses, so I knew I wanted to create a quick and easy card featuring the gorgeous birdhouse image coupled with the adorable hanging sentiment sign! 

I hauled out my Zig markers and got to coloring up the illustrations while watching a hockey game.

I wanted to add some interest to the center of the card, so I die cut an oval window, and then cut a doily die cut in half and adhered them to either side of the window. Before doing that though, I did glitter them up with some chunky glitter. 

...here's a peek at how the whole project came together...

 

I used some dimensional foam tape and added the birdhouse and sentiment to the card base. 

I then cut one of the leafy branches illustrations I had colored up and used it to create the branch shaped I wanted to have the bird house hanging from. Before adding them to the card base though, I did do a small amount of hand shaping to them using the Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit. 

Then it came time to create those gorgeous florals!

...here's a little close up of those pretty, delicate cherry blossoms...

Aren't they just fabulous? 

They are so dainty, and I felt they just had to have some pretty stamens added to their centers!

I do hope you have enjoyed today's share...and if you're at the tail end of the winter season as we are, I do hope it has inspired you that spring in definitely on the way!

Be sure to hop on over to the Heartfelt Creations blog to see what the rest of the design team have come up with using this newest collection! You won't leave their disappointed!

Until next time...

Project Supplies and Instructions

HCDP1-2100 Cherry Blossom Retreat Paper Collection

HCPC-3866 Tweet Cherry Blossom Cling Stamp Set

HCPC-3867 Cherry Blossom Retreat Cling Stamp Set

HCD1-7230 Tweet Cherry Blossom Die

HCD1-7231 Cherry Blossom Retreat Die

HCFB1-474 3D Cherry Blossom Shaping Mold

HCD1-7157 Eyelet Oval & Basics Large Die

HCD1-7179 Butterfly Kisses Decorative Die

HCST1-401 Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit

478455 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers – 36 Pack

RACP436 Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Leaf Green

RACP531 Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Vivid Chartreuse

RACP482 Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Olive

RACP486 Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Jet Black

RACP412 Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Forget-Me-Not

TSMP301 Memento Dye Ink Pad – Rhubarb Stalk

71015 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pad - Rouge

HCDA1-449 Stack and Store Daubers – Pack of 6

HCS1-458-1 Bright Pearl Stamens - Small

352854 Metal Tip for Adhesive Bottles

159723 Designer Dries Clear Adhesive

PGM15015 Rajni Chawla’s Crystal Clear

85-glitter Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter

RLHS100 Hydra Sponge

Other Products: water color paper, white card stock, Big Shot die cutting machine, scissors, paper trimmer, spray bottle, water, foam tape, hot glue gun

Create a 4.25” x 5.5” tent fold card base from white card stock. Locate premade card panel on sample in Cherry Blossom Retreat Paper Collection. Trim to fit card base. Using the mid-size oval from the Eyelet Oval & Basics Large Die, die cut an oval into the center of the card panel. Ink all edges and inner oval using Stack and Store Dauber and Ranger Archival Ink – Forget-Me-Not.

Die cut the doily shape from the Butterfly Kisses Decorative Die. Trim in half. Using a piece of hydra sponge and Designer Dries Clear Adhesive, apply adhesive to accents and sprinkle with Rajni Chawla’s Crystal Clear. Adhere to backside of card panel along sides of oval opening as a decorative background accent. Adhere card panel to card base.

Stamp birdhouse image, sentiment sign and one tree branch from the Cherry Blossom Retreat Cling Stamp Set onto white water color paper using Ranger Archival Ink – Jet Black. Color using Zig markers. Die cut with coordinating dies from the Cherry Blossom Retreat Die. Using foam tape, adhere birdhouse and sentiment sign to card front as shown.

Stamp one inking of each size cherry blossom from the Tweet Cherry Blossom Cling Stamp Set onto white card stock using Memento Dye Ink – Rhubarb Stalk. Color centers using Stack and Store Dauber and ColorBox Chalk Ink - Rouge. Die cut using coordinating dies. Ink outer petals using ColorBox Chalk Ink - Rouge and Stack and Store Daubers. Layer into 3D Cherry Blossom Shaping Mold.

Stamp one inking of foliage from Tweet Cherry Blossom Cling Stamp Set onto white card stock using Ranger Archival Ink – Olive. Using Stack and Store Dauber, color leaves using a combination of Ranger Archival Ink – Vivid Chartreuse and Leaf Green. Die cut using coordinating die and layer into 3D Cherry Blossom Shaping Mold.

Stamp one inking of the tiny birds from the Tweet Cherry Blossom Cling Stamp Set onto white card stock using Ranger Archival Ink – Forget-Me-Not. Using Stack and Store Daubers, color using Ranger Archival Ink – Forget-Me-Not and ColorBox Chalk Ink – Rouge. Die cut using coordinating die and layer into 3D Cherry Blossom Shaping Mold.

Spritz die cuts in 3D Cherry Blossom Shaping Mold slightly with water and pass mold through die cutting machine. Set flowers aside to dry.

Using Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit, pierce flower centers. For large blossom, fold 3 non wired stamens in half and put through flower center. Secure from backside using hot glue. Repeat steps for mid-sized blossom using 2 non wired stamens folded in half, and 1 folded in half for smallest blossom. Once glue has set, trim off threads as close to base as possible.

Trim leafy branch in half, shape slightly using Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit and adhere around bird house as seen on card sample. Adhere cherry blossoms to branch and near sentiment sign using hot glue. Adhere small bird to sentiment sign.

Lastly, using fine metal tip and Designer Dries Clear Adhesive, glitter all cherry blossoms using Rajni Chawla’s Crystal Clear, and all preprinted florals using Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter.