Heart's Delight Cards: Thoughtful Branches

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Last One for 2016

Not the last card, just the last Christmas card. I won't be creating any more Christmas cards until sometime next February, when I start the ones for next year. I'm about Christmas carded out!

This is going to be a quick post because I need to finish my projects for tomorrow's Control Freaks blog hop! The theme is the new Occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration, which starts in 2-1/2 weeks! Be sure to check back here at 8:45 p.m. Eastern, when the Tour de Freaks starts.

Product List (Note: the birds are from the Thoughtful Branches bundle, which is now retired.)

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Thoughtful Branches Christmas

I'm still trying to decide what I'm going to do for Christmas cards this year. I figure since I work better and do some of my best designing when I'm nearing a deadline, inspiration isn't going to strike until the eleventh hour. When it does, there will be many late nights rushing to get things completed. I just hope the finished project, whatever it ends up being, is worth the stress!

This is one card the won't make the cut. The inspiration came from a card on Pinterest (that I can't find now), because I thought the colors looked Christmas-y. But even though I like the Emerald Envy glitter embossing powder on the tree, I'm not liking the layout much. Back to the drawing board!

Here's the "How To"
Image: Very Vanilla 4" x 5-1/4"
DSP strip: Moroccan DSP 3/4" x 5-1/4"
Greeting: Emerald Envy 2" x 2"
Mat behind greeting: Gold Glimmer 2" x 2"
Card base: emerald Envy 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" scored and folded at 4-1/4"

Stamp greeting in Basic Black on Emerald Envy square, and punch with circle punch. Die cut glimmer paper with 1-5/8" circle die. Adhere greeting to glimmer paper.
Adhere DSP to left side of Very Vanilla. Stamp tree trunk and hills in Tip Top Taupe.
Rub embossing buddy over cardstock and stamp tree leaves in VersaMark. Cover with Emerald Envy embossing powder, tap off excess, and heat with heat tool.
Emboss just the Very Vanilla with Softly Falling embossing folder (not the DSP).
Wrap gold baker's twine around and tie a bow near bottom left of Very Vanilla. Adhere greeting just above bow with dimensionals.
Adhere all to card base.

Product List

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Autumn Thanks SOS273

This week my BFF and I are participating in an awesome color challenge over at Shopping Our Stash. We both adored the color combo!!! Aren't these colors just so yummy together?

I chose Emerald Envy, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, and Tangerine Tango, with Copper Foil representing the bottom color. With the fall leaves really starting to get some color around here, I wanted to use the leaf from (the now retired) Thoughtful Branches. It's the perfect size to stamp background paper, which I did on a scrap of Whisper White, without having any idea what I was going to do with it! When I was finished, it looked awfully "busy" to me, so I trimmed it down to lessen the impact somewhat.

The embossed background was in my Box o' Useful Bits and was just what was needed to give the white space all around the stamped part some visual interest. I am so in love with the Copper Foil Sheets, and will be so sad when it's not available any more. *sniff* Apparently it's more popular than Stampin' Up! anticipated, because now it's not available to order until 10/17, and even the Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder is in low inventory.

Here's the "How To"
Greeting panel: Whisper White 2" x 3-1/4"
Mat: Copper Foil 2-1/4" x 3-1/2"
Stamped background: Whisper White 3-1/4" x 4-1/2"
Mat: Copper Foil 3-1/2" x 4-3/4"
Embossed background: Whisper White 4" x 5-1/4"
Card Base: Whisper White Thick 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" scored and folded at 4-1/4"

Emboss 4" x 5-1/4" Whisper White rectangle with the Seaside embossing folder and adhere to card base.
Randomly stamp leaves in Emerald Envy, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, and Tangerine Tango on 3-1/4" x 4-1/2" Whisper White, then mat on Copper Foil and adhere to card.
Using markers, color potted tree and greeting from Vertical Greetings (marker to stamp), huff on stamp to re-moisten it, and stamp on remaining Whisper White. Mat on Copper Foil and adhere to card with Stampin' Dimensionals.