Lily Corsages

Hello Everyone!

I made these corsages using the Sunrise Lily Collection this week!  I really had no idea if this was going to be an easy project or not, but once I had all my materials ready, they literally took less than half an hour to assemble both of them! 

I created all the lilies first from white cardstock, sponged on yellow and pink ink and used green Viva 3D stamp paint for my leaves.

I had some small craft sticks (or are those coffee stirrers??) that I used as my base. I hot glued some gathered tulle fabric onto the sticks, then added my flowers, tucked in the leaves, sprays and ribbon.  No real plan, just sort of followed some googled photos of corsages that I found to get the design somewhat realistic!  Once the corsage was assembled, I turned it over and hot glued a jewelry pin blank to the stick so they could be pinned on your favorite Mom, Easter Date, etc.! 

So this turned out to be much easier than I expected and now I have plenty of lilies left over to make several more to give away as gifts! I'm also thinking it's a fun way to use up some of the other leftover Heartfelt flowers I have waiting to be used on a project!!  "Bonus!"

The specific, step-by-step instructions are on today's blog at Heartfelt Creations!  Leave me a comment if you make some too!  I'd love to come see your work!!

The Heartfelt Creations blog is loaded with new and amazing inspiration this week!  Be sure to stop by and check it out. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a blessed week!



Anne

Sunrise Lily Frame

Hi Everyone,

Today's post features the new and gorgeous Sunrise Lily Collection from Heartfelt Creations!  I can't tell you how much I love this new flower!  It is simple to color, easier than ever to assemble and the 3-D effect is crazy beautiful!!

For my project, I used a yardsale-find frame that I cleaned up a bit.  I covered the inside display area with a card panel from the Sunrise Lily Paper Collection and stamped my sentiment.  From there it was just a matter of inking up the lilies, die cutting the pieces, and assembling them on my frame.

You can find all these HC Products that I used on this frame at Heartfelt Creations:

HCDP1-263 Sunrise Lily Paper Collection
HCD1-787 Sunrise Lily Die
HCPC-3720 Sunrise Lily Cling Stamp Set
HCD1-788 Sunrise Lily Swirls Die
HCPC-3722 Sunrise Lily Swirls Cling Stamp Set
HCD1-778 Fleur Borders and Pockets Die
HCD1-768 Enchanted Mum Die
HCPC-3691 Enchanted Mum Cling Stamp Set
HCPC-3311 Hope in the Lord

The Heartfelt Creations Blog has some amazing samples using this collection.  I hope you'll take a peek and get inspired!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Blessings my friends!
Anne

Mom's Card

Supplies Used:  SU roses image (no longer know it's name - sorry!!).   SU Gold Glory DP.  SU Watercolor Crayons.  SU Dazzling Diamond glitter.  SU 5/8" Pretty in Pink ribbon .  Que Sera Sera DP by K&Co.  The lacy edging is courtesy of my girl Martha Stewart.  The tag is Making Memories "Scrolls" collection of transparent overlays.  The buttons are Gina K.

Just finished this one tonight so I could mail off mom's Mother's day gift.  I always do this at the last minute!  No one is worse at sending cards and gifts than this card maker!!  What is that about??? 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Weekend Cards!

Here's the fruits of my labors this weekend.  I've been working on another project that isn't coming out so well, re-did it for the 3rd time today and I'm still waiting to hear if it will be ok!!  So I didn't get nearly the card-making done that I had hoped.

Anyhow, here's what I got this week:

Supplies:  Nestibilities Labels 5, Small Ovals, EK Success decorative border punch, MS leaf punch, Bazzil Dotted Swiss CS, SU Blue Bayou Textured CS and WWhite, SU Asian Artistry, Stamps by Judith leaf and sprite, Basic Grey Opaline half-back pearls, flowers were a gift from Birgit (aka Bigan)

This first card is for the Featured Stamper challenge over on Splitcoast.  This week the queen of the galleries is Pat Smethers!!  Congrats to a very talented, kind and fun stamper!

I chose her "Virginia's Garden" card.  Swapped out the materials and embellishments with what I had here in my little abode, but kept her layout.

The pretty teeny roses I used on this card were a gift from Birgit, aka Bigann over on SCS!  So adorable!!  Thanks again Birgit!!

Supplies:  SU Kraft CS, White Signo Gel pen, "smile" stamp unknown, Corner Rounder punch, Pixie Pink Textured CS, K&C Company Grand Adhesions.

Next card uses this cute little monkey sticker by K&C Company.  DH picked these out for me (along with several other sticker sets -- I tell ya, I'm blessed!!) and I played around with several different designs all weekend.  But this one is the one I liked the best.

Supplies:  American Crafts DP, SU Kraft and Chocolate Chip CS, Primas, PTI Aqua Mist CS and Perfect Match Ribbon, SU Scallop border punch, SU Tiny Tag punch, Chipboard Sticker alphas by a.t.d.

Lastly, another chipboard letter sticker card to feed my chipboard obsession!!  No stamping here, just punching and paper piecing!!  Way fun!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Mother's Day Baskets and Wreaths

Hi There, Just wanted to show ya'll what I made my Mom, my 3 sisters, and my favorite Aunt for Mother's Day. I didn't photograph all of them, a couple of them were duplicates. These are based on the flower basket I made awhile back. You can find the tutorial here. The roses are quilled using this Spiral Roses Quilling Kit from Quilled Creations. All the punched flowers were made by various teeny flower punches and were pressed inward in the middle (while sitting on a mouse pad) with a small stylus. More details can be found on the original tutorial. Thanks for checking in!!

Grown Up Maggie

Hi all! I've been away for over a week and I'm so behind on my stamping and posting. My plan was to schedule this post on "Grown Up Maggie" to post yesterday, but I messed up somewhere and it didn't post, so it's a day late!! I was in NM visiting mom for Mothers Day! And while I was there, got bronchitis and ear infections and lost my voice. I ended up at the Urgent Care on Mother's Day! Ughhh!! Anyhow, all is well, I'm home and taking one more day to rest (still can't talk) but the plan is to return to work tomorrow for one day of catch up there... Now back to stamping... This card if for the (now) bi-weekly Creative Belli Challenge. Chris asked us to create a card using the go-jus colors of Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, and Cameo Coral. So that was the easy part!! Then, I really wanted to get caught up on my Doubledog Dare Challenges and our hostess Joan, of Stamping with a Passion fame, wanted us to make a Mother's Day card and include an article of clothing. This was the not-so-easy-part!! I remembered some cute stamps I recently got from SugarNelli and found this little cutie! Her name is "Dress Up Maggie" so I embellished her with a grown up pearl necklace, a fun fuzzy boa, and a fancy dancy big-girl purse! This became my Mother's Day card to my mom because inside I wrote "I always wanted to grow up to be just like you!". Hope you are inspired to join in these fun challenges!! Be sure to head over to the Creative Belli Challenge blog to link your card so we can all oooh and awe!! Then check out what the rest of the creative Belli Challenge team did with this challenge! You can also upload to SCS using keyword CBC65. If you want to join in the DDC by making a card with an article of clothing, please do!! Leave me a comment with a link to your card so we can all find your creation! Or upload to SCS using keyword DDC!! There's no time limit, we'd love to see what you did!! Thanks for checking in!!

Mothers Day Fan Card

The nicest person found one of the Mother's Day Fan Cards I made last year in my SCS gallery and asked me for instructions...YIKES! I didn't write up any but I promised I would figure out something and get her the info. The ones below are posted on SCS, but I don't know which one it was that she originally saw. Anyhow, I thought I would include them in this tutorial just so you could see how different they can look depending on the DP and stamping you use for each one. Here's how they're done... (Just know that the number of layers and card size will vary depending on how creative you feel!) This tutorial is specifically for the 5-1/4" square card shown at the top center of this post. I started with a 4-3/4" square piece of Textured Pink Piorette CS for my base and a 10 x 4" piece of Walk in the Park DP series (both SU) to make the card. I created a scalloped border with my SU Scallop Border punch. (For this tutorial, I will call the scalloped side the "top" of the fan and the straight edge the "bottom".) Next I scored the 10x4" piece every 1/2" (I used my Scor-Pal, but you can measure and score it any way that is easiest for you). I folded at the score lines in an accordian faschion to make the piece pliable. Each end of the fan piece starts out as a "valley" fold. I then flattenend it back out again, flipped it over, and on the back side of the printed DP, I ran a tape runner along the "bottom" edge of the fan piece. Next I accordian folded it back again (here you see the back side) and squeezed the bottom part together so it starts to stay taped together at the botom. No worries if it doesn't stay completely taped together yet. Next I picked a corner of my Pink Piourette card base and marked both sides of the one corner at 7/8" to use as a guide for placement of the fan. Next, I ran tape along each end of the folded accordion fan piece -- (on the back side of the DP). I aligned the fan piece, print side up, at one of the 7/8" marks on the corner of the pink card base, and smoothed down the folded end that had the tape on it. I "stretched" open the fan across the pink base, then attached it at the other end to the other side of the base right at the 7/8" mark on the other corner. Then I focused on decorating the base of the card using stamps to make a background and the sentiment, and added ribbon, butterflies, diecuts and half-back pearls for dimension. I layered the now decorated base onto Tempting Turquoise CS and attched it to the main base of the card. Hope you enjoyed it and make a few of these yourselfs!! I'd love to hear from you if you do!! Thanks for checking in!!