Bless Your Heart

Blessings Come When You Least Expect Them.

Hi everyone!  I'm so glad that you can hop along!  This is my second posting for the hop along.  The first is Lemon In My Lemonade.  If you haven't seen it yet, take a gander.

​As you may or may not know, Sugartree Stamps is hosting a New Release Blog Hop.  As a part of this event I decided to make a simple card with one image from their May release and a few die cuts.  I hope that you can join in on the fun and hop along.  There will be a giveaway as a part of this hop along.  A random winner will be selected from comments left on this blog and other blog hop stops. Each blog comment will increase your chance to win.  The Prize: Your choice of 3 digital stamp sets from Sugartree Stamps.  Last entry by 11:59 pm on 5/31/18.  Winner to be announced on  6/7/18.  Winner will be contacted via email and announced on the a2z winners post. 

​Click on the image below to head on over the a2z Scrapbooking Blog to keep hopping on.

Below are the images of the May release.  There are several digital stamps as well as a font SVG file for those of you that have a cutting machine. These items can be found on Etsy @ Sugartree Stamps.

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Blog Hop

a2z Scrapbooking Blog
Kristina Beagle - Live Love Laugh Scrap
Arlene McClung - Arlene's Bits
Cindy Chiu - ESC 2 stamping
​Helen Gullett ​

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Here are the supplies you will need:

Digital Image:  Cotton (trimmed to 4 1/2" x 3 1/2")
Sentiment:  Bless Your Heart
​Dies:  Fancy Frame Dies, Wavy Scalloped Stitched Wafer Dies, Frame Die, Nestabilities Classic Oval LG Etched Dies
Copic Markers (colors listed below)
Tacky Glue
A2 Card Base
Navy Cardstock 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" & 4/5/8" x 3 5/8"
Blue Striped Paper 5 1/2" x 4"
Craft Cardstock
Baker's Twine: Natural
Tacky Blue
Foam Mounting Tape
Double Sided Tape
Nuvo Crystal Drops:Double Denim, Blue Babe

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Coloring in the image

Step 1. 

We will begin with cutting out our image.  This image should be printed to fit on a 4 1/2" x 3 1/2" rectangle.  I used the small stitched rectangle from the Fancy Frames Dies - CDD.

Step 2.

Now it's time begin coloring.  Since this is cotton, I decided to go with warm grays to add in some coloring here and there where I think shadows would fall.  

​W00: Base
W0:  Shadows
​E27:  Stems

Step 3.

For the vase, I wanted it to have a somewhat transparent look to it for this i had to use the most unsaturated color I had. 

BG10: whole vase
BG11l Bottom of vase

Step 4.

For the rope on the vase neck we will use tans.  I decided that I wanted it to be brown in tone so that it would match the prints and papers we would e using. 

E33: Base
E35: Shadows

Step 5.

All that's left is to add the shadow cast.  Since my light direction is coming from the upper left side.  My shadow will fall in the lover right side.

C3: Shadow

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Building up the card

We are now ready to begin with building up the card.  This was a fairly simple card to make since it did not have much coloring or embellishments. 

We will start by gluing down our image to the 4 5/8" x 3 5/8" navy card stock

Next, get the back ground ready.  This is done by die cutting the stripped paper with a scalloped wave dies from Simon Says Stamp.  I love how this looks because of the stitched detailing.  Adhere this down to the 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" navy cardstock.

Now add in a little detail.  I figured I would use natural colored baker's twine to go along with cotton theme. I used a crisscross tie to the twine.  Then I added double sided tape to the back of the card where I think the twine would cross over the back and then trimmed and adhered the twin to the tape.

Because I thought that the crisscross design needed a little bow.  I made a  knot where the twin crossed and tied a bow.

Using the double sided tape once again, I adhered the card front to my A2 card base.

Time to adhere my image to the card.  Please note that I did leave a gap in between the top  and middle foam tape enough for the twin to pass through.  I then placed it on the left side, equidistant from top and bottom.

Lets work on the sentiment.  For this I used a 3" oval frame from Spellbinders.  Unfortunately I received this as a freebie from Scrapbook.com.  Because of that you will have to find something similar in size that is to your liking.  I  had printed out the sentiment "Bless Your Heart" to be about 1" - 2" long.  I then used the smallest of the oval dies from Spellbinders to cut it out and adhere it to the frame die.  This gives it a fanciful look to it with simple craft paper.

I added several of my left over pieces from the foam tape to the back (LOL, I don't waste) of esntiment piece and then adhered it just below the bow and overlapping on the image piece.  

Yay!!!! we are now down to the last elements.  I wanted to add a little something extra to the card but didn't want to over do this with flowers as it would take away from the idea of cotton being simple.  So I decided that I would add in some Nuvo Crystal drops to the image and as an accent to the sentiment.  I think it came out just right.

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I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Hope to see you back again for another set of cards and special news.  Don't forget to hop along to the next blog.

XOXO HeartcraftPaper 

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