Semi Finalist for Heartfelt Creations!

I truly enjoy creating with all kinds of paper, inks, dies, stamps, ephemera, ribbon, etc!  It is a joy to announce that I've been selected as a semi-finalist for the Design Team for Heartfelt Creations.  I simply love playing with their beautiful papers, delightful stamps, and intricate dies.  I've been a fan since I visited their booth at the Portland Creating Keepsakes Convention in the Spring of 2011.

I have been an avid collector of many of their collections, and love the versatility of their products.  Please take a look at a few of the Heartfelt Creation projects I have created and blogged about over the last few years. 

These are samples of the projects I submitted for consideration.  Heartfelt Creations allows readers to vote on their favorites, so please follow the link, I would appreciate your vote!  Thank you for joining me on this journey!

Project One:  Enjoy Coffee Center Step Card.  My most recent addition to my Heartfelt Creations stash was the I Want It All purchase of the Coffee Talk collection.  I am a coffee lover and am truly pleased to work with this collection and its lovely colors.  My only request would be a sentiment stamp that says “Thanks a latte” be added at some point please!  My blog highlights another card I made recently with this set.  This is a sophisticated version of a card that can be sent to male or female friend.  One of my regular card recipients is the widower of my best friend who died of breast cancer just a year ago.  It is important to me that I am able to encourage him through snail mail on a regular basis.  He is the planned recipient for this card.

Enjoy Coffee Card

Project Two:  I Believe In You Scrapbook page.  This double page layout highlights the use of a few retired products from Heartfelt Creations.  Although they are no longer available, it does showcase that a background sentiment stamp like “My Guy Pre Cut Set” can be used in unique ways as embellishments for a scrapbook page.  The colors of the “All Geared Up” paper collection were perfect for the photos.  I particularly enjoy using the Cut Mat Create die collection to design my own version of pocket page scrapbooking.  This is a clean and simple design for scrapbooking that is particularly suited to a masculine style page.  

I Believe In You Scrapbook Layout

Project Three:  Vintage Floret Fabric Flower Headband.  I recently experimented with creating Heartfelt Creations flowers in fabric and was very pleased with the results.  The headband project is an example of the type of tutorials I write so that readers can re-create the project without experiencing the pitfalls and frustrations of figuring out the new innovative technique. 

Vintage Floret Headband

Please stay tuned for the tutorials on each of these fun projects.  I also want to send out a big thank you to the Heartfelt Creations team!