Friday, February 15, 2013

Hampton Art and Core'Dinations Blog Hop - Day 5

Welcome to the Hampton Art Core'Dinations Hop! It looks like Blogger left out my pictures this morning, so I'm really sorry if you dropped by earlier and missed my project.


I used one of my favorite Hampton Art stamp sets for this card - Best of Times.  I stamped the flourishes on the blue paper, and colored it in with the Smooch Illuminate. The vines were heat embossed, using the same set, as well as the sentiment.


I love how fun it was to distress the Core'Dinations papers! They created the greatest texxtures for this card.


Hampton Art/7gypsies
Clearsnap: 
Core'Dinations 
May Arts Ribbon : 1/4 " BS34
Spellbinders Labels
Spellbinders M-Bossabilities
Xyron Mega Runner
Xyron 1.5" Create a Sticker
 
Here's the line-up for today's hop: 
Core'dinations
Friday: Gini Cagle http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/
Andrea Amu http://imlivinonscraps.blogspot.com/
Hampton Art
 If you missed the any of the blogs this week, here they are below.
 
Monday: 
Adora Concepcion http://adoraconcepcion.blogspot.com/
Beverly Sizemore http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
April Derrick http://memoryvilla.com/blog/

 

Tuesday: 
Britt Bass http://pinkpapercrowns.blogspot.com/
Vivian Keh http://contadinak.wordpress.com/ 
Ellen Sosnoski http://closeyourears.blogspot.com/


Wednesday:
 Gretchen McElveen http://gretchenmac.blogspot.com/ 
Nina Yang http://waffleflower.com/ 
Lydia Jackson http://lidibids-scrapnotions.blogspot.com/
Leica Forrest http://10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/leica_forrest/

Thursday:
 Gloria Stengel http://gloriascraps.blogspot.com/ 
Dana Warren http://kraftpaperstamps.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
Melissa Oliveira http://www.bzzyfingers.typepad.com/

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Heartfelt Creations - Sunny Days Collection

The Sunny Day Collection captures the tranquility of a sunny day in the garden. Setting the tone with serene garden views and peaceful plant and butterfly harmonies is the Sunny Day Paper Collection. Stamps include bustling bees, a vintage watering can and botanical butterfly medleys. The Decorative Butterfly Corner Die in this collection will add unique versatility to any project. Leave a comment on the HC blog by February 19th and you will be eligible to win the entire release.

Heartfelt Creations Products:
Busy Bee PreCut Set HCPC 3517
Decorative Butterfly Corner Die HCD 730
Sunny Day Collection Patterned Papers HCPP1 230
Dries Clear Adhesive
Other:
Copics: YR68; YG 61, YG63, YG97, BG000, BG01, E31, E34, E37, E74
WorldWin Cardstock

Cut a 5 3/4" square of patterned paper, positioning the doily print at the top.  Mount onto a 6 x 6 card base.  Die cut the decorative border in glue in the lower left corner.  Cut the sentiment from the paper pack, and use dimensional adhesive to position in the center of the card.  Stamp the behive and color with copics.  Fussy cut the image and glue onto the lower right corner of the sentiment.  Fussy cut a butterfly from the paper, shape, and glue to the upper left corner of the sentiment.  Stamp and cut two leaf branches and color with Copics.  Make 3 sets of flowers using the Tattered Blossoms stamp and die.  Each flower should have 4 layers.  Color using gelatos and add a Dew Drop to the center.  Arrange your flower cluster as shown.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Valentine Tag

You just have a couple more days to pull together your Valentine's goodies, and what ever you choose, it always makes things extra special to add some homemade love.  I created a tag to decorate a bottle of champagne for the special occasion, but you could just as easily add this to a box of chocolates (or even better - both!)

 


 I added the sentiment over the printed vintage picture (Pion Papers) -



Pion Patterned Papers
May Arts Ribbon: Pink Crinkle EA17; Eyelet 447-58-01
Viva Glitter Liner
Xyron Mega Runner

Challenges: