Blooming Heart Thinlit Die

I attached a layer of vellum on a larger card base by putting small bits of fast fuse behind each tiny heart.  The white heart is mounted on a gold foil heart. I used single strands of gold embroidery thread for the loops  peeking from behind the sentiment. I made this card for the 50th wedding anniversary of my friend Donna's parents. 

The heart is cut from the pink glimmer paper.  The embossing folder is from Darice.  I used a thin strip of the pink glimmer paper across the bottom and pearls for embellishment on the flowers.

This uses white glimmer paper over a red foil heart.  It is layered on black, tied with bakers twine, and mounted on thick cardstock. 

The DSP is from the birthday bouquet pack.  The heart is cut from Rose Red and the small flowers are Pink Pirouette. The heart is placed  slightly off center on some floral vellum from the Botanical Gardens DSP vellum stack and the vellum square is placed slightly to the left of center on the card front 

This is one of my favorites.  I cut a heart in the white panel and inset a pink heart cut from Pink Pirouette, then layered the detail heart over the top.  The flowers are stamped  in Rose Red.  They are slightly offset.  I used the trio corner punch on opposite corners of the white panel before layering it on Rose Red and then on a white card base.

These cards were the first ones I made using the Blooming Heart Die. They both use the same papers.  I cut the heart from Wisteria Wonder and a coordinating DSP. Then each heart was set into the negative space on each front panel.  The card on the left was mounted on a Very Vanilla card base and I used the clear Wink of Stella pen to add sparkle. The pink behind the DSP heart is a scrap, and the card base is Blushing Bride.    

 

Botanical Blooms

Wow! What a fun set of dies to work with.  I love the extra layers in the petals on the flowers. I sponged some extra color to the centers of most of the flowers.  Most of the matching DSP is very bold and tropical but the dies lend themselves to many styles. 

Happy New Year 2016

I made this card for my friend Diane that lives in New Jersey.  It is the essence of clean and simple.  White glimmer paper numerals with silver glimmer paper centers.  The numbers are raised with foam tape.  The stitched scallop border is from Lawn Fawn.  I added a narrow strip of silver glimmer paper above the scallop. 

I liked it so much that I decided to make a desk calendar with the same style.  I printed the calendar, cut it, and mounted it to small piece of watercolor paper with brads. The calendar is taller than the card so needed some extra embellishment to balance the empty space. 

Gift Tags

I have made several sets of gift tags that I sold to a friend of Claudia.  The butterfly ones are really fun to make.  I plan on making more with other colors for her to sell at a spring bazaar.

Everything Eleanor

Oh my gosh, what a lovely stamp set.  I had seen some cards on Pinterest quite awhile ago using Everything Eleanor, and I finally ordered it early this month.  I happily spent most of today creating these cards.  I love the flourish.

I added pearls,  rhinestones or candy dots for embellishments. I will need to add the sentiment to some of  them at a later date. 

Rose Garden

A new Thinlit die is Rose Garden.  It also comes with a stamp set called Rose Wonder that I have not used yet. These are both in the new catalog and I've only had them for about a week. The sentiment is from Birthday Blooms, which is also a new set.  I love the font.  I cut them from Whisper White and sponged with Pink Pirouette and Wild Wasabi.  I adhered green vellum behind the leaf outline and layered a scrap piece from a commercial card behind the rose.  The scrap piece has a little glimmer design and the card is really beautiful.  This goes to Carol who has a January birthday. 

Swallowtail Butterfly

A stamp that makes a striking card is Swallowtail by Stampin Up. In these three examples I embossed the image and colored by sponging on ink. 

It was really fun to play with different color combinations. On the first example, I added a speckle stamp for a little background detail.  The second has some gold thread and gems and the third has a strip of gold trim.  I will  definitely use this stamp often.