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...
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
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.
