Introducing the Happy Camper Collection...

Hello there!

Welcome to my little spot in blogland!

I'm so glad to be able to spend a few minutes with you here today!

It's another Heartfelt Creations Wednesday...and it's a new release day!

Have you seen the preview of the Happy Camper Collection?

It is just the sweetest assembling of papers, stamps and dies!

Now, we are a family of avid campers, so this collection has become a fast favorite of mine!

...let me share a little about this newest collection...

There’s absolutely no better way to spend the lazy, hazy, dog days of summer than packing up the camper and heading out onto the open road for a weekend adventure! Whether parked in a secluded campsite among the towering pines, or hunkered down in a modern camping resort, spending time in your home on wheels always guarantees fantastic memories made, and time to slow down and unwind. Soaking up the sun, splashing in the lake, and then heading back to warm up around the campfire and enjoy a chocolatey s’more while the stars come out and flickering fire flies dance through the trees…this is life at its finest! Join us as we celebrate grand traveling adventures with the new Happy Camper Collection from Heartfelt Creations! Wind your way through a fun filled decorative paper collection showcasing picturesque scenes of playful campsites featuring whimsical camper trailers, exciting sentiments, and cheerful florals! Relax and kick up your feet as you soak in the happy colors of grass like greens, sunny yellows, rustic reds, playful pinks and sky blues, along with enchanting patterns including colorful banners, bright polka dots and pleasing plaids! An adorable assembling of cling stamp sets, along with coordinating dies, allow for designing and creating a multitude of adventurous scenes and settings perfect for the summer season! With two adorable camper trailers, an assortment of camping themed accessories such as stringed lights, playful party banners, a charming patio set, as well as a campfire and your favorite fur baby, the design possibilities for handmade greeting cards, scrapbook layouts and altered art projects are endless, allowing you to dream up the perfect happy place to escape to! So, come along with us as we hit the trails, set up camp and take time to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life with the new Happy Camper Collection….no bug spray required!

 Now, for my first project, I just couldn't resist creating a camper shaped card!

Who wouldn't love to receive well wishes in an adorable retro style camper?

...here's how the project turned out...

Wouldn't this also make the most adorable post card?

Our daughter is hoping to work at summer camp this year after she takes her training program, and I thought to receive a card like this would be so much fun for her!

I've created a card base using the camper die and some white card stock. If you're not familiar with die cutting a shaped card base, Emma Lou has a wonderful YouTube video demonstrating how it's done...I'll pop that link here! I've then stamped, colored and die cut the camper image and adhered it to the shaped card base. 

To color up this fun shaped card I've used my Zig Markers...I've stamped the image onto watercolor paper and then watercolored using a glass of water and a fine tipped water brush.

I love that this camper can be colored up in so many ways...you can create a more feminine version or a masculine! 

I've die cut the door to the camper, the center of the wheel, as well as the window using the coordinating dies from the Happy Camper Die. I've then used some foam tape to pop them up off of the card base.

I've used the "I Miss You" sentiment from the For My Friend Sentiments Cling Stamp Set...and I have die cut it using the ticket die cut from the Ticket and Tags Die!

I've popped the sentiment off of the camper using some dimensional foam tape.

I've added some Nuvo Drops around the sentiment for some interest!

I've also stamped and die cut some of the little flowers, as well as as the flag banner included in the Elements of Home Cling Stamp Set. I've "planted" the flowers in front of the camper, and hung the banner along the top of the camper!

Lastly, I've added some Ultrafine Transparent Glitter using some Designer Dries Clear Glue to the curtains, the flag banner, as well as the flowers. It's amazing how that glitter brings the whole project to life!

I do hope you've enjoyed today's share!

Be sure to stop by the Heartfelt Creations blog to take in the rest of the fun camper themed designs!

Until next time...

Project Supplies

HCDP1- Happy Camper Paper Collection

HCPC-3878 Happy Camper Cling Stamp Set

HCPC-3880 Elements of Home Cling Stamp Set

HCD1-7242 Happy Camper Die

HCD1-7244 Elements of Home Die

HCD1-7201 Ticket and Tags Die

HCPC-3844 For My Friend Sentiments Cling Stamp Set

409311 Color In Watercolor Brush

478455 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers 

159723 Designer Dries Clear Adhesive

352854 Metal Tip for Adhesive Bottles

85-glitter Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter

NU673 Nuvo Crystal Drops - Dandelion Yellow

NU667 Nuvo Crystal Drops - Red Berry

Christmas in July...

Hello and Welcome!

It sure has been awhile since we've visited, hasn't it!

School is out, my kids are enjoying the summer so far, and we've just returned from a week of holidays...and now it's time to start thinking Christmas!  LOL

It's another Heartfelt Creations Wednesday...and it's another release...we're doing Christmas in July with the new O Holy Night Collection!

Here's a little more about this adorable release...

Celebrate and create inspirational Christmas greetings that spread the true meaning of the holiday season with the O Holy Night Collection from Heartfelt Creations! Immerse yourself in the Christmas story right alongside the angels who announced the Savior’s birth, the shepherds who received the good news, as well as the loving family who welcomed the holy babe in Bethlehem so many years ago! Swaddled in a traditional color palette of reds and greens mingled with hues of midnight blues, golden starlight yellows and snowy whites, this festive paper collection has been beautifully wrapped with tender lace like details, charming plaids, flowing swirls, and elegant brocades all nestled among pretty poinsettias, delicate snowflakes, fanciful Christmas ornaments and gentle images depicting that holy night when Christ was born! Three exquisite cling stamp sets along with coordinating dies provide wonderful options for creating dimensional nativity scenes, holiday themed accents such as an old fashioned scroll, a pinecone with greenery, as well as an assortment of beautifully scripted Christmas sentiments in a variety of styles perfect for all of your holiday card making! The substantially sized and intricately detailed ornament die is magnificent for creating wonderful focal point images on card fronts, stunning accents on scrapbook layouts, or for creating ornament shaped cards ready to deliver your Christmas greetings to friends and loved ones! So pause, reflect and spread the message of God’s love given that holy night so many thousands of years ago as you create and send off holiday wishes with the O Holy Night Collection. 

For my first project with this release, I decided to do an ornament shaped card! 

I've used the ornament die to cut my card base and have then decorated it with the other ornament layering die cuts!

Here's how it turned out...

I decided to go with a bit of a country Christmas vibe by using the plaid paper as an underlay to the red die cut overlay. I opted to ink the edges of the white card base using Ranger Archival Ink - Red Geranium just so it wasn't so stark in contrast to the other colors. The die cut with the sentiment I have used a dries clear glue to add some Rajni Chawla's Crystal Clear Powder just on the decorative portion of the die cut to give the card some additional sparkle. I've raised each of the ornament layers using dimensional pop dots so the ornament has quite a bit of dimension.

I've stamped the pine cone images, poinsettia and holly cluster images onto white card stock using black ink and have then colored them using the Stack and Store Daubers. I've then die cut all of the embellishments and shaped my poinsettias using the coordinating 3D shaping mold. 

I've arranged my pinecone cluster and then adhered it to the ornament using a dries clear glue and have then created a small double poinsettia and backed it with one of the smaller holly leaf clusters. I've then added it to the center of the pinecone arrangement!

To give the floral cluster a bit of sparkle and the appearance of being snow covered, I've applied dries clear glue and then sprinkled those areas with Rajni Chawla's Frosting Powder, which I have then heat set using my heat tool! And, of course I've given the poinsettia a center with some prills!

This card came together so quickly and easily, and is one that I will surely be repeating for my own personal greeting cards this Christmas!

So, I hope I've encouraged you to get a jump on your holiday cards so that you're not stuck last minute in December trying to get them all completed! Be sure to pop on over to the Heartfelt Creations blog to see what the rest of the uber talented design team have come up with for your inspiration!

Until next time...

Gate Themed Christmas Card...

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Happy Wednesday!

Hello and Welcome!  I'm so glad you're here!

We're still celebrating the holiday season over at Heartfelt Creations, and this week I wanted to share with you a card I created using one of the flip fold inserts from the Flip Fold Album Collection!

The inserts make for such wonderful interactive cards, and are really quite quick and easy to embellish.  

I've used the square flip fold insert from the Pocket and Flip Fold Inserts B - in black...

 

...that's the first one on the left in this photo.

I've kept the first small fold to hold the main stamped images on my card, I have not folded the middle section...I have left it as a large square which will form the center of my card, with the last top square folding in over the center to create the front of the card along with the small fold.  (Don't worry, it will all make sense when we have a peek at the project!)

So, I decided I wanted to create a scene with the large gate stamp in the Celebrate the Season Collection as my main focal point on this card.  

Here's how it turned out...

 I've covered the small flip fold piece to the opening of the card using decorative elements from the paper collection.  I've stamped the gate and adhered part of it to the small flip fold so that it will open along with the small flip fold.  I've shaped the gate slightly so it has a curved bend...but you can leave it straight as well.  I've cut the sleigh scene from one of the layout pages from in the collection and placed it behind the gate.

Here's a closer look...

I thought it was such a festive scene to open the gate and find the sleigh all decorated and ready to be filled with gifts!  As you can see I've added some sparkle to the snow beneath the sleigh as well as the poinsettias it has been decorated with.  I've also added a touch of glitter to the poinsettias on the fence as well as the gifts waiting at the gate!

And, then of course there is the inside of the card to complete...

These interactive type of cards are just so amazing to give and to receive, aren't they!
To finish off the inside of this one, I've trimmed down one of the premade card panels in the paper collection and added it in as the focal point for your handwritten greeting to appear!
Should you be gifting a gift card, I think it would be a wonderful idea to include it on the larger panel on the card with an envelope created from the coordinating paper collection!

Well, I hope you've enjoyed today's little bit of holiday inspiration!
There is a whole assembling of Christmas inspirations waiting for you on the Heartfelt Creations blog again this week!  Be sure to stop by and take in all of the beautiful creations!

Until next time...

Project Supplies and Instructions

Celebrate the Season Paper Collection, HCDP1-268
Festive Gate Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3746
Ornate Sleigh Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3745
Celebrate the Season Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3747
Gift Wrapped Presents Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3748
Celebrate the Season Die, HCD1-7106
Festive Gate Die, HCD1-7105
Ornate Sleigh and Presents Die, HCD1-7104
Pocket and Flipfold Inserts B - Black, HCFP1-434-1
Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit, HCST1-401
Memento Dye Ink Pad - Bamboo Leaves, TSMP707
Memento Dye Ink Pad - Northern Pine, TSMP709
Memento Dye Ink Pad - Sweet Plum, TSMP506
Memento Dye Ink Pad - Teal Zeal, TSMP602
Designer Dries Clear Adhesive, 159723
Metal Tip for Glue Bottles, 352854
Dove Blender Kit, 241159

Other Products Used: BigShot die cutting machine, scor tape, paper trimmer, scissors, Glitter Ritz, VersaFine Smokey Grey Ink, white card stock, sponge daubers, black card stock, Memento Dye Ink Pad - Grape Jelly

Locate light blue snowflake patterned paper within paper collection.  Trim out pieces for small outside fold, along with pieces needed for the inside of the card (back of small fold, center panel as well as side panel). Trim slightly smaller than the original measurements if you desire the black frame around each part of the card.  Now locate the 12"x12" layout page that has the large sleigh image on the bottom.  Cut out the sleigh in a square measuring 6"x6".  This will be the image that will appear on the card behind your stamped fence image.  Using a sponge dauber, ink all edges of all the pieces you've cut using a teal colored ink.  Adhere pieces where they belong on the card.  Now locate the strip with the purple poinsettias and trim to fit along front of small flip fold, ink all edges with teal ink and adhere as shown.  Cut out a backing for the back of the card using black card stock to cover up scor line if you desire. Using the preprinted tag from within the paper collection, fussy cut skates and poinsettia image to use in the upper corner on the small flip fold.  Ink all edges with a teal colored ink and adhere as shown.  Stamp gate cling stamp using grey ink and a heavier white card stock.  Cut using coordinating die and ink edges using a teal ink.  Adhere to card as shown.  Stamp present cling stamps onto white card stock - one in purple, one in plum and one in teal.  Add a touch of color using dove blending kit, and cut using coordinating dies.  Stamp one image of the mittens in teal ink, die cut and apply teal coloring using sponge dauber.  Using a dark green ink, stamp one inking of the vine along with the decorative wreath onto white card stock.  Die cut, add a touch of light green color to leaves and some plum color to berries.  Shape wreath, vine and presents slightly.  Adhere to card as shown.  Next, stamp both sizes of poinsettias onto white card stock three times using a dark purple ink, and the holly three times as well in a dark green ink. Sponge poinsettia petals with a plum ink and then sponge dark purple around the edges of all petals.  Sponge insides of the holly leaves with light green ink and sponge edges with a dark green ink.  Shape poinsettias and leaves, assemble a double bloom backed with holly leaves. Adhere to card as shown.  Locate one of the 6"x6" card panels in the paper collection that showcases the sleigh, trim to fit inside center of card and ink all edges with a teal color. Adhere to inside of card. Working carefully, shape the gate into just a slight bend so the center comes outward. Add a touch of glitter to blooms and preprinted elements on outside and inside of card.