Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves Canvas

I love a great find! I was milling around TJ Max and found a five pack of canvases on a random clearance table. I figured hey, this will come in handy some day! Well guess what? Today is the day! I'm dipping my toe into mixed media. I needed a daily reminder for my weight loss journey so I chose an appropriate quote and my fav stamp (that I own) by Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves.

To achieve this look, I stamped the image in the upper left hand corner with Stazon ink. Then I painted the entire canvas with gesso. When it dried there was a light outline of the stamp showing through the gesso. I used those guidelines to trace the stamped image with Stickles. After about a couple of hours drying time, I used brush stix (chisel and round tips) to add color to the leaves with Tim Holtz distress inks.

I then added the quote in my own handwriting and faux stitching around the edges using a Copic marker. Next, I sponged on distress inks to blend a two-color background. To activate the ink and leave a subtle spotted background, I sprayed on some sheer shimmer spritz by Imagine Crafts. The final touch was some bling of course!

Supplies:

• Flat canvas 7 1/5 x 5 3/4"
• Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves
• Gesso
• Stazon Ink - Forest Green
• Copic Marker - 100 Black
• Stickles - Pine
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Forest Moss, Evergreen Bough, Salty Ocean, Broken China, Worn Lipstick
• Recollections - clear bling
• Imagine Crafts (Tsukineko) - Psst! Sheer Shimmer Spritz: Sparkle, Brush Stix
• Nicole Heat tool

Here's a close up of the Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves. I think it is a great focal point for my  daily reminder. This stamp is versatile. It can be used alone or with the Bella Rose stamp set and/or the Bella Rose Die set.

Thanks for taking a peek at my latest project. I'd love to hear your opinions on my work and Heartfelt  Creations.

La-Vie

Challenges

• Crafting from the Heart #33 - ATG
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday #50 - ATG using a square or rectangle
• Inky Impressions Challenges #174 - ATG use a stamp or digi
• Cute Card Thursday #336 - ATG
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #109 - ATG
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #46 - ATG
• The squirrel and the fox #76 - Spring or Autumn
• Creative Corner Challenges - ATG

Heartfelt Creations - Dutch Iris

Here's my latest creation - a thinking of you card stamp by Heartfelt Creations. I think this is a retired stamp but I'm glad I purchased it a while ago. It's a great ready to go card front. I used Copics to color it (which took quite a while), but I could see coloring it with watercolors, or wink of stella in the future. The possibilities are endless!

Supplies:

• Heartfelt Creations - Dutch Iris (retired)
• American Crafts - 5x7 card (green)
• The Paper Cut - Mirricard (purple)
• The Paper Studio - Yellow polka dot ribbon
• Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Wink of Stella - Clear
• Tim Holtz - Grid Blocks
• Copic X-press It Blending Card
• Copic Markers - YG: 61, 63, 67  V: 12, 15, 17   Y: 00, 15    

Thanks for stopping by! Do you love Heartfelt Creations? Id love to hear about it. Please leave me a comment!

La-Vie

Challenges:

• Crafting from the Heart #33 - ATG
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday #50 - ATG using a square or rectangle
• Inky Impressions Challenges #174 - ATG use a stamp or digi
• Cute Card Thursday #336 - ATG
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #109 - ATG
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #46 - ATG
• Delightful Challenges - Layer it (use layers)
• The squirrel and the fox #76 - Spring or Autumn
• Creative Corner Challenges - ATG

3D Flowers - Heartfelt Creations - CKC Lancaster 2012

 

 

Heartfelt Creations makes THE BEST 3D flowers and didn't fail to deliver during the Thursday night technique workshop at CKC Lancaster this year. Everything was pre-cut and pre-embossed so this layout came together really fast. That was my kind of scrapbook kit! We learned how to color the flowers, cut them in the right places to make them pop and to use that ball tipped tool to work the flowers into a 3D shape.

 

I loved the background stamp (shabby chic lace precut) and was able to get it free with purchase at the booth! Check it out here if you're interested in getting it too. It comes unmounted as a rubber stamp.

 

I used the layout as is in a Baptism layout for a baby's first year album for some friends of mine who are expecting. The title from Jolee's was so detailed I decided to make a simple color blocked page. That leaves the journaling and pictures to be the stars!

 

 

 

La-Vie

CKC Lancaster Haul! Post 2

Here's my 2nd post debuting my haul from CKC Lancaster.  My next stop was Dollar Scrapbooking. They had the cutest fabric brads, crochet flowers, stickers, polka dotted felt and my fav find - Luminarte Radiant Rain Color Concentrate. It's a dauber of twinkling H2O's. I got several colors.

At Heartfelt Creations I found these unmounted stamp storage sheets. They are ridgid and can hold the weight of my unmounted stamp collection. I had a coupon for a free stamp so I chose the one they used for the project they taught at the crop.

This is my favorite company for African and African-American stamps. Rubbernecker has @ 25 stamps with images of color. I have bought several before but here are my new ones!! I also got the 3-pk summer colors of Distress Ink at their booth.

Creek Bank Creations had some really cool items that my crafty friend who attended the convention with me introduced me to. I always have way too many great pics to add to a layout. They have photo fold out books in several sizes that allow you to add a mini book on a scrapbook page. They close with magnets!! I fell in love at first sight. The mini rulers and thread spools from maya road were too cute to leave behind! And I am finally going to try action wobbles so I can get caught wobblin and receive a prize from the action wobble blog!

I have a lot of plans for this colored sand called mud puddles. I bought a brown and a blue colored container with the spatula for spreading it onto my projects. Can't wait to share the projects I make with these cool tools! 

If you have used any of these items, please give me your thoughts and advice in the comments sections of this post. Thanks in advance!

La-Vie

Thinking of You

This card is cut from Sophie with an understated edge. I thought it was a perfect card to try out my Heartfelt Creations Dutch Iris stamp. I learned that this stamp needed my pressure. The words could be seen but I traced over just to be sure they could be read. On a lighter card I'll pull out my Copics and color in the Irises. The C'oordinations cardstock is green on the inside. The coordinating ribbon from my stash - cut on an angle - completes the look.

La-Vie