Heartfelt Creations Iris Garden Card 2

I have definitely had fun playing with Heartfelt Creations digital kits, and I love that they don't take up extra space in my craft room....well, not until I start cutting a bunch of card parts.

This is the second card made with their Iris Garden digital kit. I will be adding a sentiment eventually, but not until I decide who will be the recipient, and know what seems appropriate for that individual. It's just a good, generic card to send to a friend.

I used no special techniques, but I added a bit of dimension with foam tape. The card has 4 layers, not counting the blue/purple card stock base: background with birds/birdhouse, fence, yellow iris, and the blue iris.

Heartfelt Creations Iris Garden Card

I have been playing a bit more with the Heartfelt Creations digital card making files. This one is from their Iris Garden collection. It's not a standard size. I'll need to make a custom envelope.

The cut apart card base has a yellow printed scalloped shape and iris image, but I also had the die that cuts the scalloped shape, and printed a duplicate of the iris image in the center. I popped them with foam tape on top of the 2D card. I added the vase and iris fllowers, and popped them just where they extended beyond the scalloped shape. I also added Wink of Stella to the iris blooms inside the shape and in the vase, although the shimmer from Wink of Stella doesn't show in the photo.

Heartfelt Creations Card Made with Digital Images

I have been downloading, printing, and cutting a variety of Heartfelt Creations designs. I am delighted that they will continue to make their designs available, but in digital formal. The designs are print and cut files, but can also just be used as digital files. Anyway, I had a blast printing and cutting designs, but finally used them to make a card. It probably doesn't show, but I added a bit of Wink of Stella to add shimmer, which really looks lovely in person. There are 4 layers of papers/die cuts.

These images were from their Garden Lily Collection.

Western Swap

I have a stamp that I love, which I combined with Silhouette designs I'd bought for this tag. I have four more to make for the swap, but it's a start.

Die Cuts for Swap

I belong to a card/scrapbook Facebook group that does swaps. I have not participated in this before, since I am fairly new and wanted to understand how it worked. I have decided to join at least one swap, which has a Star Wars theme.

I got this die at a convention, along with others, but this one seems to be the fastest and easiest to put together, since I have to make 4 for the swap:

I used a small amount of Wink of Stella for the window, but it's not showing well in the photo.

2024 First Quarter Cards

On the 2 Peas Refugees card making message board, they encourage everyone to share their creations. This is something that I rarely do. Some of my cards are simple, some are not. Most are cards that I design based on what I have in my craft room. I do sometimes buy the latest and greatest from a few favorite card companies or at convention, but a lot of my stash is years old. I use whatever I like and feel like at the time. Sometimes I use a sketch, especially if I am doing a Queen & Co. challenge, since using a sketch is typically required for the challenges. The rest of the time, I usually just design my card based on what I plan to use. I often use the Queen & Co. Foundation dies with other companies' papers and products, but I don't like having to follow someone else's design, even though sketches can simplify card making. I've been card making and scrapbooking longer than most, and I learned to paper craft by designing my own layouts and cards. Are my designs always amazing? Hardly. However, I am pretty happy with some of the cards that I have created this quarter, and I decided to group them and post them in one place. Here are my January through March cards:

Tall Mouse Beehive Card

At Convention, Tall Mouse always has a bunch of $6 die sets. They're not huge dies, but not necessarily small either. I found a beehive/honey set among them at Convention last weekend, and used the set for this card. The honeycomb background is also die cut, with a background die that I bought from Tall Mouse at last week's convention. They went perfectly with an old BoBunny line of papers in my stash. The stamped sentiment inside the card is from an older Queen & Co. Gum Machine Shaker Set. 

Both the front of the card and the inside of the card are shown next to each other here: