Tag Archives: Close To My Heart

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Thinking of You, and more

We are on the last Wednesday of the first month in 2015. Time flies so fast and I feel like still so many things to catch up with family, house work and ministry. But I trust in the One who gives me the strength to do what He has called me to do. I trust in Christ Jesus.

“For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.”

(Philippians 4:13, NLT)

I hope this truth speaks to you as well, especially when you start to feel overwhelmed by so many things you need to do. We always can find the strength God has provided for us through His son.

Sometimes, we just need to take a break. On my “break time” today, I had a chance to play with the new Neat and Tangled stamp set, Paper Cut Flowers. You wanna check out their blog for gorgeous inspirations done by the design team.

I had fun creating cards with Neat and Tangled new stamp, Paper Cut Flower. Stamped & heat embossed both flower & sentiment, then added watercolor for the background. Finished it with some gold sequins and twine. Please visit http://helengullett.com/?p=6459 for detail how I made this card.

I went with clean and simple with this card. On a piece of watercolor paper, I stamped & heat embossed both flower & sentiment, and then added watercolor for the background. You can let it sit to dry or dry it using craft heater for faster drying. To finish the card, I added some gold sequins and twine.

Over Simon Says Stamp blog today is the Work It Wednesday first challenge of the year. They challenge us to create anything “NEW” – new product, new technique, etc. Since I create this card using Neat and Tangled new product, I link this up there 🙂

But I cannot stop thinking what else I can create using this pretty petals. So, I made one card 🙂 This time I am inspired by one of the Neat and Tangled DT member, Miriam Prantner. She shared on the Neat and Tangled blog a beautiful card using this Paper Cut Flowers stamp set.

And here’s my card:

I had fun creating cards with Neat and Tangled new stamp, Paper Cut Flower. Stamped & heat embossed both flower & sentiment (on a piece of vellum), then added watercolor for the background. Finished it with some silver sequins and clear sparkles. Please visit http://helengullett.com/?p=6459 for detail how I made this card.

The background I creating using the technique I learned from Catherine Pooler on her YouTube video tutorial how to create Batik Background. It is a fun technique, messy but turn out pretty 🙂

And this card I link up at Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes this week.

Thanks for visiting today! I hope you like these cards 🙂

Supplies:

  • Neat and Tangled Paper Cut Flowers stamp set
  • Strathmore Watercolor paper (Walmart)
  • Watercolor paint (Target)
  • DCWV Glitter Metallics Matstack (Archivers)
  • 4.24 x 5.5 card and 5.75 Square card (HobbyLobby)
  • Bazill Vellum Paper (Archivers)
  • CTMH Exclusive Ink Pads: Lagoon, Pacifica, Twilight (retired)
  • Versamark Ink Pad (CTMH store)
  • Ranger White Super Fine Embossing Powder (CTMH store)
  • Zing! Black Opaque Finish Embossing Powder (AC Moore)
  • My Acrylix Blocks 3 x 3, 1 x 3 1/2 (CTMH store)
  • Craft Heater (CTMH store)
  • Gold Sequins (assortment pack from Walmart)
  • Silver Sequins (CTMH store)
  • Clear Sparkles assortment (CTMH store)
  • Gold & White Baker’s Twine (Pick Your Plum)
  • Scallop Border Punch (CTMH store)
  • Micro-tip Scissors (ek Tools)
  • Adhesive runner & 3D Foam Tape
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Warm Wishes

Today I am sharing my project with Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge, Warm & Cozy.

The first thing pop up in my mind when I read the theme of this challenge was mittens. Last week free cutting file at Silhouette Design Store was these cute pair of mittens.

Warm Wishes - SOUS Die Cut Challenge

I used Lori Whitlock’s pennant card base for the front card. Using Silhouette Studio Designer Edition, I created the top layer of the pennant.

First I weld both mittens, then I dragged them in the middle of the pennant. Then Cut. This is how it looks when I sent it to cut:

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I added some stitching at the top border, Silver Shimmer and sentiment. And I added the mittens using 3D Foam tape to give some fun dimensional looking 🙂 And I save the hearts from the mitten for other project.

Warm Wishes - SOUS DC Challenge

I hope you’ll like my card and join Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge this week. You can use any die cut machine you have to create any kind of projects that show us your interpretation of this week theme, WARM & COZY. You have until Thursday, 2/5/2015 by midnight to link up your project HERE.

THANK YOU for visiting today 🙂

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Double Happy Birthday For Her

Do you like Birthday party? I do 🙂 and today I join 2 birthday parties at The Stamp Nation and Winnie & Walter. I made 2 cards for both birthdays.

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My first card is inspired by Kristis Goulet‘s card on the SN forum. I love how she keeps it clean and simple with cute flowers. I link up this card at The Stamp Nation, Birthday Bash – Card for Her and Winnie & Walter 1st Birthday Bash, CAS + Freestyle Collage Technique Challenge

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Supplies I used on my card:

The second card is inspired by a One Layer Card video tutorial by Maureen Merritt at The Stamp Nation Birthday Bash Forum. And this card is also I link up at Winnie & Walter 1st Bash, One Challenge with Shay.

Have An Amazing Birthday

Maureen’s tip to give some scoring lines on the card to give some texture is very creative! I love how it turn out 🙂 Click here to watch her video tutorial, you’ll love it!

Supplies for this card:

THANKS for visiting!

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Joyful Holiday Blessings

Today I am playing with Virginia’s View Challenge #11 – Clean Slate. I really like her challenge that give us so many inspirations to create. I hope you wanna check our Virginia’s challenge and play along 🙂

This month main theme is Clean Slate. She provides these inspirations:

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Aren’t they pretty inspirations? I am thinking of Christmas cards when I saw them 🙂 So, I created not only one but 2 cards:

Joyfull Holiday Blessings 1

Joyfull Holiday Blessings 2

I found the holly leave embossing folder at Hobby Lobby. Using my WRMK Evolution Advanced embossing machine, I embossed the front cards. The first card, I stamped and embossed the sentiment, then run it through the machine. And the second card, I run it through the machine and then added the stamped, heat embossed sentiment on a green cardstock.

Here are the close up on the sentiment, I used Winnie and Walter – The Big, The Bold and Blessings, Ranger Gold Princess Gold Embossing Powder and heat set it using my Craft Heater.

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I finished the cards with twine and die cut poinsettia flowers (from Lori Whitlock) that I cut using my Silhouette Cameo.

Do you start early making Christmas cards or later?

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Snow Thank You Card

Today is my day sharing my project at Stuck On You Sketches Blog for their new Die Cut Challenge. This time theme is to use any SNOW die cuts on your projects. Don’t forget to link up your project (s) here.

And I decided to make a card for a friend 🙂

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I used a A2 card for the base. For the mat, I cut a piece of White Daisy cardstock (3.75″ x 5″) and then I embossed it using Chevron embossing folder. I added the felt snow flake die cut on the card. The thank you banner is from For A Friend stamp set that I stamped on a piece ofWhite Daisy cardstock using Crystal Blue and Glacier Exclusive Ink Pads.

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Thank You for stopping by today!