Parchment Hearts

Morning, I am very excited to be sharing this project with you today as it's Valentines Day. The lovely Leonie, launched this lovely set of dies on Hochanda a while back but they are wonderful. Leonie designed them especially to co-ordinate with the 'Entwined Hearts' die cutting range. That said they are so versatile and work really well as a stand alone essential or with any of your existing stash.

                          

Beginning with the 'Dotty Heart'  embossing folder from the new collection, I embossed a piece of parchment. To ensure the parchment didn't tear or buckle, I placed it between a folded sheet of copier paper.

                

Next, from black card I cut the ''Folk Heart'' base die as I wanted the frame and one heart, I kept the other for a future project.

                     

I stuck the heart frames onto my parchment using 3D glue gel, to give a different look on each I used the embossed side on one and the debossed side on the other.

            

I then roughly cut out 2 pieces of red 'Silk Art' card and adhered it to the back of my parchment hearts using 'Stick It' adhesive sheets, this allows the colour to show through more where the parchment touches and highlights the embossing. I then trimmed around these using scissors, it's very easy because of the frame.

           

Next, I took one of the heart dies cuts. Using the Flitter Glue from Indigo Blu, I stamped the lovely 'Script' stamp from the range at an angle.

                  

Then taking a sheet of gold foil, I placed over the heart and gently burnished it with a soft cloth. Removed the sheet leaving it beautifully foiled.

                 

For the card front I took a piece of black card stock measuring 7' square. Using the sweetheart stamp and Flitter Glue, I stamped and foiled in the same way as the heart. I then repeated this with a small detail stamp from the collection, to add highlights mainly focused around the top right and bottom left hand corners with just a suggestion in other areas and set aside.

           

Next I took a piece of red 'Silk Art' card, approximately 7 3/4'' square and a piece of parchment large enough to fold around and leave a 5 mm fold for securing at the back. I folded the edges over to mark but did not secure it until later.Taking the parchment and script stamp, I randomly stamped around the edges with white Stazon ink. There's no need to stamp anywhere else as it will be covered.

           

I folded this back over my red card and secured at the back with red liner tape.

            

Next, I arranged my hearts on the card front and secured them with foam tape and 3D glue gel to raise them from the background.

           

I backed the script background with a black card base and secured with Cosmic Shimmer Glue from Creative Expressions.

          

To finish my card, I secured thin organza ribbon across the two opposite corners using red liner tape and added it to my base card with 3D glue gel.

           

I hope you have enjoyed the step by step I have shared and the little taster of the wonderful crafting goodies that Leonie gives us crafters. See you all soon and thank you for visiting today. Please take the time to visit the Hochanda Blog, I am sharing Part 2 of my Floral Embellishment Series. I would love to have your comments there and support. Take care and Happy Crafting.

Crystal Hearts and Gilded Butterflies

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Morning, Here is a card I made with the lovely dies that Leonie Launched on Hochanda. I have had a lot more time to craft with them now and I am really enjoying coming up with some new ideas.

To make the background for the hearts and aperture of this project, I took a sheet of acetate along with a selection of alcohol inks in Blues,Purples and red. I also used some blending solution, 3D Crystal Lacquer and a sheet of tissue paper.

All over the acetate, I added a few drops of the alcohol inks, using more of the blues and purples with just a little of the red. I then added some blending solution to allow the colour to move. I sprinkled some silver mica and at the same time added a generous amount of 3D Lacquer. I then placed tissue paper over the top and manipulated the mica and colours until I was happy. I made sure all the tissue was coated and left it to dry overnight.

I made a card base measuring 8'' Square from black card and cut out the 'Folk Heart' die from Leonie's collection in the centre.

Then I cut the same heart again to give me two of the fine fame hearts.

I used the outside of the die to draw around onto the acetate to allow me enough extra to adhere it to the back of the aperture. I stuck the fine frame hearts to my acetate and trimmed away the excess with scissors.

I cut two butterflies and the word 'Love' from dies in the collection.

Then I covered these in flitter glue and used gilding flakes to cover them, then set aside.

I secured the hearts to my card using 3D glue gel to raise them up, either side of the aperture heart, 

Using a damp sea sponge, I sponged flitter glue spots around the black card and covered with gilding flakes. This was my project finished.

Thank you so much for your continued support. I am hoping that you are enjoying my blog, the things I share and the step by steps. Thanks so much for your lovely comments, I do read every one of them. Hope you will visit again very soon. More tomorrow. Take care xxx

ATC Holder With Button Embellishment

The more I played with Leonie Pujols' New Collection, the more ideas I came up with. They really are valuable to have in your stash. I've not even started using them to create backgrounds yet, I just know they are going to become a go to item.

I love making ATC's, so decided to make this handy little holder with pockets. There is a brilliant tutorial in the book that comes with the Eazi Score Craft Board 'Inside Secrets of a scoreboard' by Diamond Card Craft.

I made all the separate parts and decorated it before assembling it, making it far easier to stamp and colour. You can make any design you like as there are so many great stamps for pattern building in the collection and they all mix together perfectly.

I coloured the finished design with alcohol markers and added glossy accents to the hearts. I also made a button embellishment for the closing flap, using the Epiphany tool and a 25mm round bubble cap. I simply chose my stamp from the Branching Out set and coloured with my Alcohol markers.

When everything was dry I assembled the folder adding ribbon for the closure, which I also re coloured using alcohol markers.