Heart Felt Happiness

Today, I am featuring products from Heartfelt Creations. I am a big fan of this company's line. I love helping out at the HFC booth in Mesa every spring and fall. I have been doing it for 3 years now.

I just finished a stint last weekend and came away with lots of new goodies including three packs of their designer paper. These papers are gorgeous; heavy weight, and two-sided. They match so beautifully with HFC stamps, and best of all, the second side is just lightly patterned and coordinating so you don't have to choose which side to feature. It allows for lots of design options.

There are two cards in today's post, and I made them both from only one sheet of patterned paper with one small exception. Using the HFC papers as the starting point, these cards almost fell together.

On the first card, I used the upper right corner of the paper, attached it to a
5 1/2 x 7 inch ivory card base, and added a corner die cut from a heavy metallic bronze card stock using the Decorative Blossom Corner Die. From the flip side of the patterned paper, I stamped and die cut Open Vintage Florets in several smaller sizes. Then I used Tim Holtz Faded Jeans ink and a sponge to add some depth to the florets. I shaped them using the Paper Blossoms Tool Kit and Mat, and adhered them to the floral spray in the paper design with glue dots.

I die cut two sizes of the Spellbinders Labels Four dies, one from each side of the patterned paper. The larger one got the sponged ink treatment while still in the die. On the smaller yellow one, I stamped the sentiment from Melodious Songbird stamp set. After gluing these two layers together, I put them onto the card with foam squares. Then I added more of the florets and finally, I put some pearls into the center of the flowers.

On the inside, the sentiment is from the Bold Vintage Floret Background stamp set. I should add here that I used Memories black dye ink for all the stamping here. More florets, this time with centres made using Rangers Enamel Accents. This keeps the inside flat so that it can be closed without damaging anything.








On to card two.

Same piece of paper, but cut from the lower left corner. (It is just my photography that makes the colours so different looking.) This time, before I did anything else, I cut around the butterfly wings with a craft blade, leaving them attached at the body. Then, I shaped them slightly and glued a rectangle of the patterned paper to the back to cover the hole where the wings were cut out. Now, the whole thing could be attached to the card base. Here is a side view showing the dimension in the card.

I die cut two scroll medallions from the same bronze card stock using a die from the Timeless Amour die set and attached them to the card end to end. I also made a die cut using SB's Lables 13. Here is where I went to a second piece of the patterned paper, still from the same pack so that I could match the lilac shades of the butterfly. A bit of Tim Holtz Dusty Concorde ink was sponged on; then I stamped the words (the same stamp I used above) individually on the label with Color Box Cats Eye black. Some foam squares were used to adhere the label to the centre of the double die.

A few more shaped florets (the same ones as card one) were added and then I added several sized half pearls to label, florets, and butterfly.

The inside is almost the same as card one, but I only used the bottom half of the sentiment stamp.



I hope I showcased how easy it is to use this great paper. I had great fun creating these cards because it was really so easy.