Heart's Delight Cards: Occasions 2018

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Happy Easter

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I know tomorrow is Easter, but that's the day the Stamp Review Crew is featuring a new stamp set, so I wanted to share this Easter card today. I really like the way it turned out!

The flowering vine was inked up on a Wild Wasabi ink pad, then I used these precision cotton swabs to wipe off the ink from the flowers and clusters. These are GREAT to have on hand for crafting; they have a firm tip and they don't leave fibers behind. (They also work for removing blobs of mascara from your eyelid. I heard that from a friend, *ahem*.) You can also use a Blender Pen to take the ink off, but probably not blobs of mascara, LOL.

After removing the ink, the flowers were colored with Sweet Sugarplum and the floral clusters with Perfect Plum Stampin' Write Markers, then the stamp was huffed on to re-moisten and stamped on Whisper White cardstock.

The cross was stamped in Perfect Plum (stamped it off twice, & then huffed). Two retired items were used here - the Framed Tulips embossing folder for the frame, and the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack for that lovely cracked glass look behind the cross.

This card perfectly fits the theme for this week's Global Design Project #GDP131, so I'm thrilled to play along! It's been a while since I've played in a challenge (being a Design Team member doesn't count, LOL).

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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Bold Birthday

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Want to make a card that makes a bold statement? Try this one! All it takes is a piece of Whisper White cardstock, a few Stampin' Blends markers in your choice of colors, and a few minutes of your time. It's very easy to get the ombre effect with the Blends, just make sure your cardstock is well saturated with your first color (I always start with the lightest color), then begin the second color overlapping the first one. You may need to blend a little more with the first color to eliminate the line between the two.

Continue adding new colors, overlapping each one and blending to make the transition between each color as smooth as possible. Once it's finished, let it dry (this only takes a few minutes), and the use the Happy Birthday Thinlits die to cut it out. I added a fussy cut hat and balloon from Bird Banter and adhered it all on a Tutti-Frutti card front that was cut down to leave a border. Simple, yet it certainly gets the message across!

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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Time to Relax

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I finally had time to get back in the my "happy place" after the last two days of rushing to get Mom ready to go back home. The past two weeks just flew by, and I'd have loved it if she could have stayed longer, but she needs to see her doctor so I had to let her go.

This card is one of the ones I made for the Stamp Review Crew Petal Palette blog hop, but I didn't get the photo done and edited in time. Sometimes that last-minute-deadline-looming-mojo comes back to bite me in the behind, LOL.

The bird is colored with Night of Navy, Pool Party, and Bermuda Bay combo Stampin' Blends. I don't know what kind of bird he is (and obviously it's a male, because of the bright plumage), but I like him! He's perched on a branch borrowed from Colorful Seasons.

The pretty scalloped edging was made with the filigree die in the Petals & More Thinlits. I cut two of them, then split them lengthwise and glued them to the back of the mat. You have to look really hard to see the seam where they are joined to make them longer!

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Monday, February 19, 2018

Control Freaks Celebrate - BIRTHDAYS!

Welcome to the February 2018 edition of the Tour de Freaks! This month we are celebrating birthdays, which is kind of appropriate for me because I have so many friends and family members with February birthdays!

If you started at the beginning of the hop, then you just landed here from Debbie's blog, Debbie's Designs. If you are starting here, just follow the link at the bottom to go on to the next stop on the tour!

I have two completely different birthday cards to share today. My creativity has been all over the spectrum lately, and it shows with today's projects! Up first is a bright, kind of "poke you in the eye" card using the Picture Perfect Party DSP as the starting point. I love the photographic imagery, and that the back sides are patterned paper.

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There were so many colors I could have pulled from the DSP, but I chose Lemon Lime Twist because there was a coordinating glimmer paper in the Myths & Magic Glimmer Paper pack. I wanted that greeting to SPARKLE! It was cut three times in Lemon Lime Twist, the glimmer paper, and Basic Black, then glued together slightly offset. Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (cut in half) make it stand up off the back ground.

My next card is a little more subdued, but makes up for it with the cuteness factor! I adore the birds in Bird Banter, and the greetings that come with it are equally cute! This card was made for a friend's hubby, who I just learned had a birthday a couple days ago.

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Inside the card says, "Obviously, it wasn't an early bird." That just cracks me up! Anyway, I hope a parrot with a balloon and party hat gave him a smile, even though it was a bit late. It was fun coloring the images with Stampin' Blends. The balloon and party hat were fussy cut and popped up on dimensionals.

That's all I have for today - up next is Dawn Olchefske, over at Do Stamping with Dawn!

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