I've Got the Blues - and Greens

Good morning everyone. Again today, I have created a couple of cards using a single page of the Heartfelt Creations patterned paper and, like last time, these cards fell together. The collection I choose my paper from for this post is called 'Sunny Day'.

On the first card, I used a corner of the paper that had a leafy spray printed on it. I matted it with a dark green card stock and mounted it all on a 5x6 1/2 inch white card base.



Next, I cut two dies in the same green card stock using the Decorative Chateau Gate Die. I cut off the bottom half of each die cut and then placed them end to end to create an oval backing for my sentiment.

The sentiment is from a page of printed sentiments at the back of the pack of paper. This is another reason I love these paper collections by HFC. If you are on a tight time schedule and need to push out a quick card, you don't even have to pull out the stamps and ink. A few quick cuts and some glue and you have a finished product.



There are also two pages of ATC sized labels that you can use to stamp your own sentiment on.




Do you get the feeling that I am partial to HFC's papers?

Okay, so I cut, trimmed, and corner-rounded one of the sentiment labels that matched the paper and adhered it to the green die cut I created in the previous step.

Using all the little floral dies from the Layered Scalloped Posy Die, I cut ten little flowers from white card stock, sponged on a bit of yellow ink, added an orange center with a Marvey Marker, and attached five of them to the front of the card.


The other five went on the inside of the card, on top of a strip of the patterned paper and two die cut leafy branches from the Chateau Gate die set used above.













On the second card, I cut a square of patterned paper from the same piece of paper, but from an area where there was very little design showing. This was glued on to a 6x6 inch mat of dark green card stock, and then to a white card base.

I used the die from the Bella Rose die set, and a lighter green card stock to create my leafy spray die cut. Then, while it was still in the die, I sponged on some Tim Holtz forest moss ink to give the leaves a bit of depth. I attached it to the card front and added a bunch more little posies with glue dots.

The frame for the sentiment was cut using the Spellbinders decor labels eight set and the dark green c/s. Layered on top is another of the pre-printed sentiment labels with rounded corners.

The inside of this card is the same as the previous one, so I did not take a picture of it.

Usually, the design process is what takes me the longest when creating, but that has not been the case for these last two post. I have a feeling I will be using up these papers very quickly!