wednesday...Heartfelt Creations

Good morning everyone! Today Heartfelt Creations is debuting a new Stamp Collection-The Chateau Gate Collection and it is absolutely amazing!

This Chateau Gate Collection is "magnificent" and the intricate detail in each of the designs is absolutely beautiful. This collection is very versatile and you will be able to create projects for the men in your life, invites, graduations, love, congrats and so many more! This collection features 9 PreCut Stamp Sets and one beautiful new exclusive Spellbinders die designed for Heartfelt Creations.

Leave a comment on the HC blog by January 17 to be eligible to win the entire release valued at $174.90. The winner will be announced on January 18 on the HC Blog.

Now, here is my layout featuring this new collection:

Supplies-
Heartfelt Creations: 
HCPC 3367 Vintage Life Background Precut Set
HCPC 3406 Botanical Floral 1 Precut Set
HCPC 3407 Botanical Floral 2 Precut Set
HCPC 3443 Palace Entry Precut Set
HCPC 3448 Dainty Blooms and Birdies Precut Set
HCPC 3449 Door to my Heart Precut Set
HCD 702 Decorative Butterfly/Border
HCD 718 Decorative Chateau Gate Die
Spellbinders Rose Creations
317430 Cuttlebug machine

Other:
Authentique Gather Collection 6”x6” Bundle, Fancy Pants Design, Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Iced Spruce, Vintage Photo, Wild Honey), Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Sunflower), Ranger Liquid Peals (White opal), Ranger Stickles (Diamond), StazOn Archival Ink (Timber Brown, Jet Black), White Signo pen, Sharpie Black pen, sewing machine, rhinestones, crystal glitter

The picture I used is of my hubby and I in the WA state mountains last February. It was my first time seeing snow and I was delighted!


This new collection has a lot of stamps that are great for coloring and I knew that I wanted to make my own pattern paper with one of them as soon as I saw the birdies on the branches! I stamped on a white cardstock the birds image in the bottom right corner and colored the image with my distress inks. I love how it turned out since it looks like I used watercolors! I added some stickles here and there to accent the image. I also randomly stamped the Vintage Life Background image around the edges with brown ink. I then distress all the edges and inked with Vintage Photo randomly around the edges. Finally, I added a zig zag line about half an inch from the border.


For the flowers, I stamped different size flowers from the Botanical Floral sets onto white cardstock, die cut them using the matching Spellbinders Rose Creations die and glimmer misted with Sunflower glimmer mist to give them color. While still wet, I wrinkled the petals to give them some depth and shape. For the larger flowers, glue two flowers of decreasing size inside the other, staggering the petals. For the center, form a tight bud and place in the center.To finish them off, add some Crystal Glitter to the edges. I added a little window with my sentiment above the flower cluster. I finished by adding some butterflies and a few leaves.


Here is the step by step write-up for this layout:

Stamp the Dainty Blooms and Birdies Precut Set birds on the bottom right corner of a white cardstock. Randomly stamp the Vintage Life Background Precut Set stamp around the edges of the cardstock and randomly ink around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink to give the background some color. Color in the birds image with Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo distress ink and add some Diamond Stickles to the image. Distress the edges of the white cardstock, adhere to a brown cardstock and machine stitch a zig zag line all around the edges leaving about half an inch margin from the border. Cut three rectangles measuring  5”x8.5”, 6.25”x7” and 3.5”x10”. Distress the edges and doodle in faux stitched to the first two, machine stitch the third one and adhere to your background as shown. Die cut two 10” border from the Decorative Butterfly/Border die and add behind the top paper layer. Adhere your picture in the middle of the layout and add pattern paper borders in the bottom right side of the picture. Randomly stamp the flourish from the Palace Entry Precut Set around where the flower cluster will be. For the flowers, stamp different size flowers from the Botanical Floral sets onto white cardstock. Die cut them using the matching Spellbinders Rose Creations die and glimmer mist with Sunflower glimmer mist to give them color. While still wet, wrinkle the petals to give them some depth and shape. For the larger flowers, glue two flowers of decreasing size inside the other, staggering the petals. For the center, form a tight bud and place in the center. Lightly ink some Wild Honey distress ink in random spot for dimension. Add some Crystal Glitter to the edges and adhere to the bottom left side of the flower. For the smaller flowers layer the 2 smaller size flowers staggering the petals and curling the top flower’s petals upwards.  Finish by adding Diamond Stickles to the edges and adhere them around the larger flowers. Finish the cluster by die cutting different shades of brown leaves from the Spellbinders Rose Creations and smaller black vines from the Decorative Chateau Gate Die set. Die cut the smaller window from the Decorative Chateau Gate Die set in black. Stamp the sentiment onto blue pattern paper and adhere behind the open window. Adhere to the left side of the picture. Finish by adding some butterflies and randomly placed liquid peal dots around the cluster.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and don't forget to stop by the Heartfelt Creations blog and see all the amazing projects that the rest of the DT created with this amazing new collection-The Chateau Gate Collection!

Remember to leave a comment on the HC blog by January 17 to be eligible to win the entire release valued at $174.90. The winner will be announced on January 18 on the HC Blog.