Debuting the Hollyhock Garden Collection with Heartfelt Creations...

Good morning friends and welcome!  This morning Heartfelt Creations is introducing the brand new Hollyhock Garden Collection!   This week I chose to make a tag using these lovely flowers and I hope you enjoy it.  You can find all the details of my tag in the Heartfelt Creations Gallery!

The finished size of my tage is 4" X 6".  Using the Album Tags and Accents Die cut a tag from a piece of the Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper.  Place the tag into the Embossing folder and run through a die cut machine.  

Using a piece of Sheet 12B cut one of the scalloped shaped dies and then cut a smaller shaped piece using one of the 6" X 6" panels on Sheet 10A.  Glue the two pieces together and then adhere to tag using dimensional tape.

Stamp the flowers onto Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper using Memento New Sprout ink.  Color the center of the petals with New Sprout and the outer edges using Archival Magenta Hue.  I colored front and back of the flowers.  Cut out with coordinating dies.  Lay onto the shaping mold and spritz with water then run through the die cut machine.  Add a bit more shaping with the Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit and allow to dry.  Add the Prills to the center of the flowers and allow to dry.

Stamp the Hollyhock Stems and Blooms onto Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper using Fern Green ink.  Color with Leaf Green ink and edge with a bit of Fern Green to add a bit of dimension.  Glue to the shaped medallion piece and decide on placement of flowers and glue them down using hot glue.

Stamp the sentiment with Magenta Hue and cut out using the Arrows and Banners die.  Edge with Magenta Hue ink and use dimensional tape to adhere to the front of the tag.

Add glitter to the flowers using a Hydra Sponge and Designer Dries Clear Adhesive.  Allow the glitter to dry.

Punch a hole in the top of the tag and tie the ribbon through and the tag is ready to go.

Rose Tag....

Good morning everyone!  Well Monday has rolled around again and I'm getting ready to begin my week.  I just wanted to share a tag I've been working on.  Those of you who follow me, know how much I love making flowers and roses are a favorite of mine.  I like tags because they can be tucked down inside a gift bag and given to someone special.  They take just as much work as a card, but I think they are just in a class of their own. 

For my tag, I used the Tim Holtz Alterations die and then ran it though my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder; then I used Ranger Distress Ink to go over some of the raised edges.   My roses were made by cutting out petals using the Spellbinders Rose Creations Die and the leaves were made using the Spellbinders Foliage die.  The roses were made using plain white card stock and I inked the petals with Ranger Distress Inks and shaped the petals then glued them together.  I used a gold leafing pen to add just a touch of gold to the petals of the flowers.  Just a tiny bit .... I didn't want to lose any of the elegance of the flower.  The petals were edged in Distress Inks and spritzed with water then crumpled to shape and give them some shape. 

I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed doing it.  Making flowers just seems to make me a happy girl.  Have a great day and a wonderful week and I hope you can find a little time to create.

Just For Fun Color Challenge #15

Happy Friday all!  Since it is Friday, it is again time for the Just For Fun Color Challenge!!  This week Sherry challenged us to use Olive, Light Blue and Tan.  Please come play with us this week!!   Just create a card or project and go the JFF Blog http://jffstamps.typepad.com/jffstamps/ and link your card or project using the Mr. Linky at the bottom of the page.  We look forward to seeing what you create!  You do not have to have JFF Stamps; just use the colors listed above.  Good luck and we hope to see your card/project there!

I decided to do a tag this week.   Change things up a little!  The stamps I used are:  H3170-Alpha Sayings and E3300 PRR Railroad.  You can purchase these stamps at Just For Fun Rubber Stamps http://jffstamps.com/  Feel free to check out their site.  They have lots of wonderful stamps and they are such good quality!  A very good value!!

I stamped the train in Ranger Distress Ink in Forest Moss then embossed with clear embossing powder from Ranger.  I stamped the Alpha Sayings and then cut out the words I wanted to use.    I used Ranger Distress Inks to add some color to the tag and topped off with some jute.  Pretty simple!  I hope you enjoy!

Supplies:

Cream Colored Tag

Distress Inks from Ranger

Clear Embossing Powder from Ranger

Stamps:  E3300 PRR Railroad and  H3170 Alpha Sayings

Now please visit the other DT members participating this week to see what they come up with!  There is so much talent on this team; I'm always in awe of their creations! 

Design Team Members:
Sherry Cheever - DT Coordinator
Kat Tucker
Starla Nelson
Broni Holcombe
Sandy Sandrus
Terre Fry
Roni Johnson
Glenda Brooks-You are here
Beth Moore
Margarita Ybarra
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