Heartfelt Creations October Alumni Hop...Inspiration Galore!

 

Hello there inky friends!  I'm moving way past Fall and making a mad dash to WINTER!  Is anyone with me?  WOO!  Fall and Winter are my most favorite seasons and I am already over raking leaves and wet leaves from the yucky rain, so let's move on to winter, shall we?!  

Today, I'm joining my fellow Heartfelt Creations DT Alumni as we share some fun inspiration and fun this month!  Every month, the Alumni DT members get together for a fun family gathering in blogland and share our love of stamping and creating with each other.  It's so amazing to be a part of this inky/creative family!  If you've arrived here from Candy's blog, you're on the right track.  If not, you'll find the complete blogroll at the bottom of my post to help you along your way.  

Remember,  one lucky commenter will be chosen from one of the blogs to be this month's prize winner so you'll want to leave some love at every hop spot in order to have a chance at the goodies!  We appreciate your comments and know that your visit will continue to inspire us to create with Heartfelt Creations products we all love! 

I created my wintery card using the adorable stamps Merry Moments (On sale now!) Cling set and the Candy Cane Cottage (On Sale Now!) Cling set.  I paired it up with the pretty Poinsettia & Holly Clusters Cling set/Dies and Shaping Mold to make a fun and festive shaker card.  

I started out by stamping the gingerbread house onto white cardstock and then colored it with Copics and watercolor pencils.  I fussy cut the colored image and then glued it to a light blue piece of cardstock (5 1/4 x 4).  I then took some ivory acrylic paint and washed a bit over the top of the paper to dull down the image and coloring.  I added  a colored polar bear/panda image with a foam square then some foam around the image panel before filling the area with microfine glitter, styrofoam "snowballs" and some Blue Suede Shoes Prills and Minnie Pearls Prills and mounted a laminated panel to the top and tested out the shaker with a shake, shake, shake!  Perfect!

Next, I cut a piece of light blue cardstock and freeform cut the inside to create a fun frame.  I rubbed the edges of the panel with my finger to fuss it up a bit and then stamped the holly leaves with embossing ink then used some white embossing powder to make the holly leaves show up and make the blue panel blend well with the scene.  After that, I mounted it over the laminated sheet and attached the whole shaker to the front of an A2 card base (topfold).  To finish things off, I diecut some poinsettias, pressed them in the mold and assembled them.  I added some glitter to make them shine then mounted them on the card.  I added some acrylic flats to the center of each flower and my card was complete.  Can't wait to send this card to someone special!

Thanks for hopping over to my blog to check out my card.  I hope it inspires you to create something amazing and please stop by again.  Make sure to hop over to Amarilys' blog to see her inspiring creation!  See you next month and good luck!  

This month's BLOGROLL:

Kathy

Vicki

Magda

Candy

Kerry (ME!)

Amarilys

Alissa

Lisa

Sarah

Oksana

Emily

Carole

TCP Tuesday! Challenge #351: Holidays

Hello there inky friends!  I'm joining in on the TCP Tuesday Challenge this month with a pretty little card featuring some new stamps, dies and sequins from TCP.  This month's theme is all about the holidays...ANY HOLIDAY!  I selected Christmas. I love winter and spending time getting cozy with a warm cuppa coffee/cocoa and stamping away.  How about you?  If you would like to play along with our challenge, make sure to create a festive card (TCP stamps are not required but encouraged) and link it to our inlinkz on the blog.   We will select a winner at the end of the month and will announce the winner the day our next challenge launches.  Post your creation because you just might be the lucky winner of the $50 TCP Cat Cash voucher! 

My card features the new stamp set "Christmas Seals" and the Die "Round Tree".  I also used some fun no-hole iridescent sequins available in the shop.  These sequins are a mix of small, medium, large hexie sequins- perfect for embellies and shakers.  

To begin my card creation, I repeatedly stamped the sentiment seal on blue cardstock using white pigment ink and my Misti.  After this panel was finished,  I wrapped some rich blue ribbon with gold sparkle around this panel and mounted the panel onto a white card base.  I wanted this card to have an elegant flair so I diecut the trees using some glittery gold cardstock and mounted that onto a white circle panel cut from the same die.  I trimmed the gold really tightly around the outside edge so that some of the white circle could create a border.  This also helped me tie in the white in the background paper. The little sequins were given a light dollop of Ivory Seashell Nuvo drops so they would adhere to the paper and act as little pearls on top.  

So now I have a fancy-schmancy Christmas card for my card stash!  WOOP WOOP!  I hope you were inspired by my creation and I can't wait to see what you're inspired to create.  This theme is WIDE OPEN for interpretation so get that holiday spirit going!