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The Lush Lilac Collection...

Hello Friends!
I hope you are doing well!
As I sit here scheduling this post, we are once again experiencing very chilly weather...and I'm just so ready for the spring season!

So, it's the perfect time for the Lush Lilac Collection from Heartfelt Creations to be making it's debut!
It's a beautiful spring collection that makes me feel that perhaps the season of awakening is just around the corner!

Here's a little more about the collection...

The elegant, and well known lilac blossom takes center stage early in the spring season and is one of the first flowers to usher in the season of new beginnings! Enchanting clusters of tiny blossoms come together to create quaint floral displays with amazing color and a sweet-smelling fragrance that brings with it a feeling of gentility and old world charm! Join us in celebrating a perennial favorite…Introducing the Lush Lilac Collection by Heartfelt Creations! Venture out for a springtime stroll through a dreamy, garden themed paper collection filled with soft hues of luscious lavenders, deep purples, sky blues and pastel pinks accented with dreamy and romantic illustrations of cozy cottages, lilac filled parasols and lovely lilac filled garden settings! Softly scrolling swirls, vintage script and lace like details bring an old fashioned charm to this soft and innocent assembling of decorative papers, while three graceful cling stamp sets along with coordinating dies boast lush lilac sprays, a fetching lilac laden scroll, several endearing sentiments, as well as a winsome lilac filled parasol perfect for paper craft creations celebrating a multitude of occasions! A wonderful mix of lilac buds and blossom petal illustrations lend themselves beautifully to creating realistic and dimensional lilac blossoms when paired with the coordinating die and will bring a gentle touch of spring to all of your garden creations! So come along with us as we celebrate new beginnings and springtime beauty with the new Lush Lilac Collection!

Moving along, allow me to share with you my first creation with this breathtaking collection!


I opted to create this card with one of the Spellbinders dies that had been sitting in my stash for awhile but had not yet been used on a project!
I thought that it would lend such a pretty backdrop for that gorgeous cottage image!

I have to say that I can get lost in that cottage image!
It looks so tranquil and pretty...so I decided it would be the perfect serene scene to add the Praying for You sentiment from the collection of quotes/sentiments!
I also thought that it would be beautiful framed up with the window frame from the Winter's Eve Collection. I love how it turned out with the fancy top and bottom accents and I think it looks very regal paired up with the Spellbinders background die cut!

I stamped the largest lilac blossom from the Lush Lilac Cling Stamp Set, and several from the Sweet Lilac Scroll and Quotes Cling Stamp Set onto white card stock using a dark purple ink. I've colored the images using a mix of ColorBox Wisteria and Memento Lilac Posies ink. 

I've adhere the die cuts to the card base as shown, and then started adding the dimensional flowers. 
The Lush Lilac Shaping Mold makes creating these little gems so quick and easy!
I finished them off with some prills in the center and of course a bunch of glitter so the card just shimmers and shines!

I do hope you've enjoyed today's share...and be sure to pop by the Heartfelt Creations blog to take in the rest of the beautiful projects the rest of the design team have created for the Lush Lilac Collection debut!

Until next time...
 Project Supplies and Instructions
HCDP1-287 Lush Lilac Paper Collection
HCPC-3816 Lush Lilac Cling Stamp Set
HCPC-3818 Sweet Lilac Scroll and Quotes Cling Stamp Set
HCD1-7172 Sweet Lilac Scroll and Cage Die
HCD1-7170 Lush Lilac Die
HCFB1-465 3D Lush Lilac Shaping Mold
HCD1-7150 Window Box Elements Die
HCST1-401 Deluxe Flower Shaping Tool Kit
71083 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – Concord
71005 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – Wisteria
71012 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – Olive Pastel
TSMP501 Memento Dye Ink Pad – Lilac Posies
159723 Designer Dries Clear Adhesive
352854 Metal Tip for Adhesive Bottles
HCDA2-450 Stack and Store Daubers – Pack of 30
359848 Spellbinders Tool N’ One
282873 Tombow Dual Brush Marker N00 Blender
85-glitter Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter
ANC804 Heart of Gold Prills

Other Products: white card stock, Spellbinders Art Deco Astoria Decorative Die, Gemini Die Cutting Machine, BigShot Die Cutting Machine, tape runner, paper trimmer, scissors, pop dots

Begin with a 5” x 7” white card base. Trim down a piece of blue hued decorative paper from within the Lush Lilac Collection just slightly smaller than the card base. Locate premade card panel with cottage image as shown. Trim down the first outer frame of the image, and stamp sentiment onto panel. Ink both pieces of decorative paper with ColorBox Wisteria ink. Adhere large mat to card base and set aside cottage image.

Die cut the large decorative frame from within the Spellbinders Astoria Decorative Die from white card stock. Adhere to card base using pop dots. Next, die cut the window frame and two decorative topper elements from the Window Box Elements Die. Adhere topper to top and bottom of window using glue. Cut apart several pop dots and adhere to window frame. Adhere frame to cottage panel. Adhere cottage panel to card base using pop dots as well.

Stamp two of the lilac clusters from the Sweet Lilac Scroll and Quotes Cling Stamp Sets onto white card stock using ColorBox Concord ink. Stamp one inking of the large lilac cluster, and two inkings of the lilac petals found in the Lush Lilac Cling Stamp Set. Die cut using all pieces using coordinating dies and color using a combination of Memento Lilac Posies ink and ColorBox Wisteria for lilacs and ColorBox Olive Pastel ink for leaves. Use Tombow blender for smaller areas, and for lilac petals add a light base of Memento Lilac Posies with a hint of ColorBox Wisteria over top to create a multi colored lilac blossom.

Shape all stamped lilac clusters with Deluxe Shaping Kit and adhere large cluster to top corner of card as shown, and the two smaller clusters across the bottom and up the side of the card as shown.

Shape lilac petals using you die cutting machine and Lush Lilac Shaping Mold. For full instruction on how to shape the Lush Lilac, please see YouTube video here. Adhere shaped lilac blossoms to clusters as shown.

To finish add prills to flower centers, and transparent glitter to lilac clusters, shaped flowers and on cottage image using a dries clear glue.

A Simple Thank You

Hello! It's Wednesday again!
Can you believe it?!?!
  And it's also the last Wednesday of January!
Where has the first month in 2015 gone?
Here in Manitoba Canada we've had a relatively nice January weather wise...and I'm hoping that February will be the same.  I'm not missing the -40 C with windchill forecasts, and the small amount of snow we have received suits me just fine! 

Speaking of nice weather...the Birds and Blooms Collection at Heartfelt Creations has me dreaming of spring...to see the summer birds return, flitting in the bird bath in my flower garden...smelling the fresh flowers in the breeze...
If you haven't checked out this awesome collection, don't wait any longer!
The patterns, colors and images are sure to chase away your winter time blues!

I decided to go with a more simple design this week.
I wanted to do something feminine with a touch of vintage, but nothing over the top.
I wanted to showcase one of the fabulous stamped images in the collection...and I had the desire to water color!
So, that's exactly what I've done!

Let's take a look...


...and a closer look at the image and shaped flowers...


I love to water color!  I love the look of it...so soft and romantic!
I may not be one of the very best at it, but I do so love to try!
I find the technique I have the most luck with when it comes to water coloring is to scribble a small amount of color from my distress markers onto my splat mat and pick up the color from there and apply it to the image.  I find I have more control over how much color is applied and can pull in my different shades of color better that way.  

This collection is so versatile...you can color with markers, water color and even chalk...and it all looks great!  No matter what color you decide to create your flowers in, they turn out wonderful! 
You can create with the beautiful bright hues in the collection, or you can create beautiful muted vintage projects.  It's such a great collection that works in so many ways!
Be sure to stop by the Heartfelt Creations blog to see how the rest of the design team members have been inspired to use this collection!

I'm including the instructions and project supplies for this card here on the blog as well!
It's really a quick creation that you can use for any occasion, simply by changing the sentiment.
I hope you give it a try!

Until next time...

Project Instructions & Supplies
HCDP1-250 Birds and Blooms Paper Collection
HCPC-3648 Home Sweet Home Cling Stamp Set
HCPC-3644 Birds and Blooms Cling Stamp Set
HCD1-757 Leafy Branch Die
ANC850 Spring Bling Prills - Tu Tu Pink
159223 Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
459222 Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
SMP001 Stamp Mat Pad
273900 Zip Dry Paper Glue

Other Products Used:  premade 5"x7" card stock base, white card stock, water color paper,  Memento Angel Pink ink, Versa Color Pine Cone ink, Stampin Up Basic Black ink,  Ranger blending tool and pad,  Ranger distress markers - tumbled glass, faded jeans, salty ocean, mustard seed, vintage photo, tea dye, crushed olive, forest moss, peeled paint, victorian velvet, spun sugar, Ranger Water Color Brush, Spellbinders Exquisite Labels Eleven die, Spellbinders Floral Ovals die, scor tape, 3D pop dots, BigShot Die Cutting Machine, Zig 2 Way Glue Pen
To begin, choose a background paper from the Birds and Blooms Paper Collection that you wish to use as a background mat.  Trim this mat slightly smaller than the 5"x7" card size so that you will have a small white perimeter around the card face.  Muddy up the entire panel with some brown ink using a blending tool, and then ink all of the outer edges with the ink pad itself to give the panel a vintage look.  Move along to cutting your first die cut to use on the top of the patterned mat piece...using a piece of white card stock, run the largest of the  Exquisite Labels Eleven dies through your die cutting machine.  Next stamp your image using a permanent blank ink onto water color paper.  Allow to dry and then proceed to color.  (I prefer to scribble the color on my splat mat and pull the color off of there with a water brush and apply to paper rather than coloring on the image and then brushing.) Die cut your image with the largest of the Floral Ovals dies. Adhere the large decorative die to the background mat, and then the image die cut onto the top of the grouping.  For the image panel I have used scor tape on the centre and allowed the decorative edge to stand off the card ever so slightly as it does not have any adhesive on it. Adhere the card front to the card base.  Stamp your flowers and once dry, proceed to water color and shape, adding a touch of Angel Pink Memento ink to the edges and  TuTu pink prills to the centre of each as shown.  Decide on your flower arrangment and then adhere to card. Choose the sentiment you wish to use from the Birds and Blooms paper collection, ink with a brown ink around all edges and apply to the card front with 3D pop dots.  You are now ready to  send a friend or loved one a beautiful handmade vintage style greeting card!  Enjoy!

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