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Hello Happy Birthday

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I have another birthday card to share with you using more of the clematis flowers that I made last week for my YouTube channel. Once again I have used a die that I have had in my stash for many years. I love dies that have ornate decorative features and lots of lattice and this die from Sue Wilson – Striplets – Lattice Window is one that I will never give away. I love making layers to create dimension and depth and here I have die cut several times to get the dimension I wanted and was able to use all the die cuts with no waste. Another bonus. I have also started going through my cardstock stash and begun using my old stock up. Another bonus! Overall I was really happy with how this card turned out.

My Project

For my card I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ card out of white cardstock. I then layered up white pearlescent cardstock to create the base for the decorative dies. I die cut three lattice windows out of the pearlescent card. I stacked three outer frames together and added it to the centre of the card. I die cut the lattice inner using the left over inner panels and adhered them to the centre and sides of the decorative lattice window.

I die cut three ‘hello’ dies – two from scrap pearlescent card and one from silver card. I stacked the sentiments together with the silver on top and then adhered it to the bottom right of the decorative windows.

I hot foiled the sentiment using silver holographic foil on pearlescent card and die cut it with the coordinating die. I matted the sentiment using silver metallic cardstock and added it below the ‘hello’ sentiment with some foam tape.

I then made the leaves and flowers (see video below my list of products I have used) and adhered them to the card as shown.

Products Used:

Creative Expressions Striplets – Lattice Window

Altenew – Hello die

Spellbinders – Everyday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Spellbinders Foil – Silver Holographic

Spellbinders Silver Metallic Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Cardstock – White with Gold Tint

Spellbinders Silver Metallic Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Hot Foil – Holographic Silver

Ranger Archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Periwinkle, Violet, Buttercup

Medium and Large Ball Stylus

Soft flower shaping mat

Dress My Craft Micro Thread Stamens

Dress My Craft Yellow Wire Pollens

Upholstery thread

Bearly Art Glue

Foam tape

Spellbinders Susan’s Garden Shaping Mold

Here is a video tutorial on how I have created my clematis flowers:

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Hello Happy Birthday Peonies

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This year it has been my mission to learn how to colour with alcohol markers. I have been taking lessons with Alyce at Kit and Clowder and I am so enjoying them and I am finding that I they are so much easier to use and the colouring is much quicker – better for my neurodivergent brain lol. Anyway, I have been purchasing different floral stamp sets to practice with and one of the sets I purchased was the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Cling Stamp set. This is such a beautiful design and great for practice. Here is one of my first attempts at colouring using Copics on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib paper and I have used a colour combination from one of the classes that I have taken. (I have since discovered I prefer to use X-Press It card as it is much easier to blend). I have done a similar card design to this a few years ago. I had completed an Altenew class – All About Layering 4 (2) and I used all Altenew products then. You can see the post here.

I must admit that I do struggle with adding sentiments to coloured images as I feel that I have spent sooo much time colouring the images and don’t want to cover them up. Here I feel I have made a compromise by adding the die cut ‘hello’ and adding the stamped sentiment to the bottom right of the card just covering a small portion of the coloured image.

My Project

I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered it to the front of the card base. I then cut a piece of black cardstock 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ and embossed it with a diamond embossing folder from my stash. This was then added to the front of the gold card.

I stamped the peony image from the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib cardstock. I coloured the image in with Copic markers and then fussy cut the image. I went round the edges of the image with a Memento Tuxedo Black Marker to get rid of all the white edges and then adhered the entire image on the black embossed card.

I die cut four ‘hello’ dies from the Altenew Fancy Hello die set – three from black cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were then stacked together with the gold die on top and then adhered to the centre of the card over the flowers.

I stamped the sentiment from the Altenew Dotty Blooms stamp set in gold pigment ink on black cardstock and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment out using a banner die from the Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set and die cut another plain banner from black cardstock. I adhered the stamped banner on the plain banner and added the sentiment to the bottom right of the card as shown with some foam strips.

To finish I added some gold pearls around the die cut ‘hello’.

Products Used:

Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp Set

CTMH Diamond Embossing Folder

Altenew Fancy Hello Die

Altenew Dotted Blooms Stamp Set

Altenew Featured Sentiments Dies Set

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Marker

Copic Markers – RV10, RV21, RV23, FV25, RV29, YG11, G21, G94, G99, B05, B12, B000

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx

Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib

Bearly Art Glue

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Encore Gold Pigment ink

Heat gun

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Dogwood Birthday Wishes

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I am really enjoying branching out into different brands and one of the brands I keep coming back to is Honey Bee Stamps. I love their 3D Embossing Folders and their Lovely Layers including flowers and birds and today I have teamed these up with Amazing Paper Grace Frame dies and Heartfelt Creations Dogwood Flowers.

I really struggle to put sentiments on cards and this card was no exception. I spend a lot of time on flower making and putting a card together and sentiments are often the last thing on my mind and this card sat here for a couple of weeks before I finally sorted out the sentiments. I purchased the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamps and coordinating Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages – Banners Honey Cuts and these were perfect to add to the card without detracting from the overall card.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Petite Picot Ovals Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Ovals Dies

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood

Honey Bee Stamp: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds

Honey Bee Stamps 3D Embossing Folder – Dogwood

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamp

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages – Banners Honey Cuts

Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood Dies

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Portabello, Black Onyx, Dahlia, Alabaster

Ranger Archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Jet Blac

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Sky Blue, Summer Shower

Foam Tape

Green wire pollens

Allenes Tacky Glue

Bearly Art Glue

Clear gloss gel medium

Art Glitter Ultrafine Crystal glitter

Small and medium ball stylus

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A Sparkly Rainbow Birthday Card

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I recently won a challenge in a Facebook group for one of my cards and I was thrilled with my prize that I received. In it was this gorgeous stencil with no branding on it but I loved it. I am relatively new to stenciling and ink blending so I had another go at a rainbow design but this time I added some sparkle to the ink blending with some Nuvo glitter paste – Moonstone. I was thrilled with the result and I will definitely do this again. I have kept my card very simple so as not to distract from the pretty sparkly pattern and just added a simple white border from the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles and a white flower die that I embossed from Spellbinders that I have had for quite a while. A simple hot foiled ‘Hello’ from Pink Fresh Studio and a stamped ‘Happy Birthday’ from Honey Bee Stamps finished off this card. I was inspired for my card from a card on Instagram – however that card featured a plain dramatic ink blended background and white accents. I am in my happy space with pastels and sparkles.

Scroll past all the photos for a list of the products I have used.

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles dies

Spellbinders Asters and Poppies Dies

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamps

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Banner Honey Cuts

Pink Fresh Studio – Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and coordinating die

Distress Oxide inks – Picked Raspberry, Saltwater Taffy, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac

Ranger Archival ink – Jet Black

Spellbinders Foil – Gold

Nuvo Glimmer Paste – Moonstone

White cardstock from my stash

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Bearly Art Glue

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An English Country Garden

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Today I have a very special card to share with you. I was asked to make a very special birthday card for a very special Grandma who is about to turn an incredible 94 years old and she lived in England. The brief was for roses and alstroemeria flowers as these were her favourite flowers and I thought that I would do a English country cottage scene with different flowers, a lovely seat to sit on and admire the garden and some sweet birdies to fill the air with song. The Heartfelt Creations Gateway Fold cards were perfect for this occasion. I have used many different products from Heartfelt Creations and as I did not have a lot of time I die cut the images from the paper collection rather than colouring them. I am so happy how this turned out and Olya if you are reading this I really really enjoyed making this. Thank you so much for asking me to make this card and I hope your Grandma really loves and cherishes this very special card/gift that has come from the heart from New Zealand.

Scroll past the photos for a full list of the products that I have used in this card. I will also have a video tutorial on my YouTube channel showing you how I have made these roses coming soon.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations 5″ x 7″ Gateway Fold Card

Lattice Flourish Gateway Die

Heartfelt Sentiment Stamp set

Eyelet Frame Gateway Die

Tear Drop Lattice Gateway Die – outer frame die

Cut Mat Create 1B die – sentiment

Spellbinders Victorian Numbers die

Cottage Tree’scapes – leaves and floral spray

Countryside Cottage Paper Collection

Hollyhock Stem and Bloom Dies

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Wishing Well Oasis stamp and die – chair

Hollyhock Fence – hollyhock

Floral Fashionista dies – small flowers

Rustic Sunflower Bucket Die – bucket

Rustic Sunflower Paper Collection

Clematis Birdhouse and Trellis Dies- birds

Climbing Clematis Paper Collection

Classic Rose dies

Sweet Pea dies – alstromeria

Garden Lily Die- alstromeria

Leafy Accents Dies

Countryside Cottage Collection – pot plants – fussy cut (Cottage Summer’scapes

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Ranger archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Rosey Posey, Magenta Hue, Sunflower

Artline black pen

Petite Pollen Stamens – medium

Wow embossing ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – pink, yellow

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Luxe Gold cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Copic markers – C7, C5, C3, C1

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Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Birthday Card

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I love lacy dies and these Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Dies are just stunning to add some pretty edges and decorative backgrounds to add some flowers and a butterfly. These border dies can be used in so many ways and today I have done a 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card. I had some flowers left over from a previous project so this card was so quick and easy to put together. You can see the other card card here and on that post there is a link to a video tutorial on how I have made these flowers on YouTube.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I then cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4″ and scored at 1/8″ intervals down the long side of the card and then adhered it to the front of the card.

I cut the following pieces of card:

Blue card – 4 1/2″ x 4″

White card – 3″ x 4″

Pink card – 2″ x 4″

I die cut each end of the blue card with the ‘broderie anglais’ edge and stitch edge dies, the white card with the scallop and stitched dies and the pink card with the lacy decorative edge dies. I then layered the pink strip to the white strip to the blue strip and adhered them to the front of the embossed layer on the front of the card.

I cut a strip of white card 7/8″ x 4″ and embossed a line at 1/8″ along each long side to add some interest to this panel. I then stamped the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set in Jet Black ink to the right side of the strip. This was then added to the centre of the pink lacy edged strip.

The flowers were made using the Amazing Paper Grace Primrose Heart Facade Dies. I have ink blended pink and yellow inks on white cardstock before die cutting the flowers out and assembling them. I have also used the same flowers on another card that you can see here. The small sprays are from the Amazing Paper Grace October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies and have been die cut out of yellow and green cardstock. I added some gold pearls to the centres of the open flowers.

To finish the card I added a blue, white and gold butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Romantic Slimline Borders Dies

Primrose Heart Facade Dies

October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies

Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies

Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Glacier, Beeswax, Chamomile, OnyxBee

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Ranger Archival ink – Ranger Black

Distress Oxide inks – Squeezed Lemonade, Kitsch Flamingo, Saltwater Taffy,

Bearly Art Glue

Scoreboard

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

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Happy Birthday Golfer Z-Fold Card

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I was asked to make a birthday card for my husband’s colleague for her father-in-law who is a keen golfer and here is the card that I made for her. I have created a z-fold card to set a scene for a golf course with trees, foliage, golfing accessories and a bird that symbolises the scoring at golf. The golfing images have been coloured with copic markers and I have used a range of different Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers dies to make my backdrop. This is such a fun interactive card and I know that the recipient will cherish this.

For the instructions on how I have made this base card please visit my post here and scroll past the photos below to see the list of all the products I have used for this card.

Products used:

Heartfelt Creations – Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Ornamental Tags Dies

Heartfelt Creations Classic Border Basics Dies

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Trees Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Birds Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts

Gina K Designs Hole in One Stamp and coordinating Die

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Graphite, Onyx, Portabello, Raniforest, Snowdrift, Peridot

X-Press It Card

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black ink

Copic Markers

Distress Oxide inks – Mowed Lawn, Wild Honey, Frayed Burlap

Elegant Birthday Slimline

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The new slimline dies from Heartfelt Creations are just stunning and I love love love the sentiment dies that go with some of them. today I have a slimline card featuring the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die and the pretty images from the Ornate Peacock collection that I have painted using Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers. This card would be easy to post as it is flat with no dimensional flowers.

For more details of the products I have used please visit here: https://www.heartfeltcreations.us/gallery/elegant-birthday-slimline

Today’s project was created with products provided by Heartfelt Creations.

Scroll down past the photos for instructions on how to make this card.

Instructions:

Cut a piece of Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper 8” x 9”, score at 4” along the 8” side and fold to create a base card of 4” x 9”  Cut a piece of gold cardstock 3 7/8’ x 8 7/8” and adhere to the front of the card.  Cut a piece of pattern paper 3 3/4” x 8 3/4” and adhere to the front of the gold cardstock.

Die cut two decoratie edges from the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die out of Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper.  Adhere the two die cuts together, add Frosting Powder with Dries Clear glue on a dry sponge and then adhere to the front of the card.  Die cut the eyelet rectangle out of gold cardstock using the No. 2 die from the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die.  Die cut a plain rectangle out of green pattern paper using the No. 3 die from the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die and adhere over the gold eyelet rectangle.  Die cut the white eyelet rectangle using the No. 4 die from the  HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die out of Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper and adhere to the front of the green paper.  Die cut the plain rectangle out of pale blue pattern paper using the No 4 die from the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die and adhere to the front of the white eyelet rectangle.

Stamp the peacock from the HCPC-31015 Peacock & Posies Cling Stamp Set and the posy flourish from the HCPC-31014 Ornate Peacock Cling Stamp Set on Iris cardstock with Jet Black ink.  Colour the images using Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers and die cut with the coordinating dies.  Adhere the peacock to the bottom left and the posy flourish to the top right with foam tape.  Add Heart of Gold Prill to the centres of the flowers and Micro Mini Pearl Beads to the flowers.  Add Crystal Clear glitter to the centres of the feathers with Dries Clear glue.

Die cut three sentiments using the sentiment die from the HCD3-7449 Slim Eyelet Heart Rectangle Die – two from Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper and one from gold cardstock.  Stack the three die cuts together with the gold die cut on top and then adhere to the centre of the card as shown.

Other Products Used:

Iris cardstock, foam tape, Dress My Craft Micro Mini Pearl Beads,

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A Nautical Birthday

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Today I am sharing a very quick and easy birthday card with you. This card has been totally outside my comfort zone but I am happy with how it turned out. I have done some stenciling, ink blending and stamping to create a clean and simple card that only took 45 minutes to make! I think I will be doing more cards like this.

I have used the following products to create this card:

Taylored Expressions 6″ x 6″ Masking Stencil Arched

Gina K Masking Magic

Gina K Time to Coast Stamp Set

Spellbinders Sunburst Stencil

Altenew inks – Buttercream, Fresh Lemon, Citrus Burst, Obsidian Pigment ink

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sky Blue, Summer Shower

Neenah Solar 80 Ib Classic Crest Paper

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A Blue Happy Birthday

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Welcome back and today I want to share a birthday card made with Heartfelt Creations Arianna Blooms. I have shaped these flowers using the Oakberry Lane 3D Flower Shaping mold and they came out really well except for the largest flower.  The new flower shaping card is just so easy to use in the mold as well.

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I hope that I have inspired you to use the molds for lots of different flowers.

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Ka Kite Anu

Patricia