Happy Heartfelt Creations Wednesday!

My first project with Heartfelt Creations!

This is my first Wednesday being featured on the Heartfelt Creations Blog! This layout that is being shared is one I created for my semi finalist submission.

Heartfelt Creations Stamps and Dies: 

HCPC 3323 Large Elegant Word Background Precut Set

HCPC 3390  Bella Rose Leaves Pre Cut Set

HCD 712  Bella Rose Die

HCPC 3318  Daisy Patch Flowers Pre Cut Set

HCD 703 Daisy Patch Die

This is a photo of my daughter and I taken over the summer on a photo shoot with my friend (Gina Coppolino Photography.)

I used the beautiful Basic Grey Curio Papers on this layout.  The chipboard frame is from Technique Tuesday. I used my Large Elegant Word Stamp on the frame and embossed it with a gold embossing powder. I then went over it in ink. The inner section of the frame contains strips of punching. I trimmed the punched strips very close to the design so I could layer them seamlessly.

The flowers were created using a Distress Ink and stamping on the more solid color side of one the Curio Papers. I layered the flowers and bent the petals inward and upward to give them the look of a Mum.

I also used a peach color glimmer mist for sparkle.

The leaves were also cut from the solid side of a Curio paper. They were also stamped with Distress Ink and misted with a green glimmer mist. I cut my leaves apart so that I could shape them around my flowers in a balanced manner.

My design team package should be coming any day and I can't wait to get started on my project with the newest collections!

xo

New Skeletons in the Closet Challenge over at Scraps of Darkness

This is a challenge I host at Scraps of Darkness that runs for about 8 weeks. Each challenge has a different prompt and muse to get you to reach into that closet of yours and scrap what's in there. The girls at SOD love this unique challenge and everyone is welcome to join in. You can use any products that you have on hand!

This one is called "Who are you- When no one is looking?"
-You must take a self portrait. A recent one and use that on your layout.
- You must include some form of creative journaling.
More details about this challenge can be found here

My layout is titled: I am a Contradiction

 I used the Basic Grey Curio Collection on this layout. I have had it in my stash for quite awhile and have not gotten to it. I shaped the background paper and tucked in some punched strips and inked them. I layered some of the different pattern papers and fussy cut some flowers from one of them.
The journaling is a definition for contradiction I had looked up. There are actually a lot of definitions for this word. 
It reads: In classical logic a contradiction consists of a logical compatibility between two or more properties. It occurs when the propositions, taken together, yeild two conclusions which form the logical usually opposite inversions of each other.

Our Daughter

More Swirlydoos goodness! For this lo I used the Cappella papers that were in the June Swirlydoos kit!

I did this lo for the Round Robin Challenge over at Swirlydoos. I edited my photo in PSE. It was one of those crummy school photos. I changed the background and did some enhancing.
I cut the flowers you see on the upper left out of the cappella paper and folded them to form that shape. I added stickles and some little flowers in center. I covered the bird with paper and inked the edges. The big flourish is chipboard and I painted several smooch paints on there and blended them. I used my zutter on the edges for that yummy look.

Dream Big

This layout I did using a combination of Shabby Ambition kit, plus bits of goodness from prior Swirlydoos kits and K & Co Blue Awning.

The tower is a chippee by CI and I stamped it, used gesso and inked the edges. I covered the chip flourish in paper and dabbed with alcohol inks.
This months technique kit included Tim Holtz fragments. I used my alcohol ink and then covered the word Paris which is stamped on there. I did some stitching on here and am going to submit this for call that is looking for stitching. So we'll see how that goes!

Little Doll

I did this lo for the "vintage" challenge hosted by Robin Shakoor over at Swirlydoos.
This is a photo of me when I was about two years old. We were suppose to scrap something about what people said about us or what we remember from when we were little.
My mother always dressed me up like a little doll especially on the holidays. I always had a fancy coat with matching hat, shoes, gloves and purse.

I used my July Summer Serenity kit by Swirlydoos for this! I did a lot of fussy cutting, used rock candy crackle, diamond dust, glitter glue, pearls and inks. I used a green alcohol ink to color the pearl flourish which was originally a peach color.

My journaling is usually always hidden or posted on the back of the corresponding page so you can see it when the book is open. Unless I am creating for a specific call that requires the journaling to be on the page I don't leave enough room or really like how it looks with my style of scrapping.

She's a Mystery

This is my first layout using the GORGEOUS JULY KIT FROM SWIRLYDOOS called ***SUMMER SERENITY***

These BG Cappella papers are to die for! Beautiful elegant shades in this kit!
This is my beautiful 15 year old daughter! When they are little you know exactly what's on their mind since they blab constantly. Sometimes you know more than you want to. Then they hit the teen years and disappear into a world of their own. Although she has now emerged from that 13/14 year old stage she is still " A Mystery"

 I love to layer as I think you can tell from my past work! This kit has this gorgeous shimmery gold paper and I used it as an edge in one of my layers and cut the small flowers from it. I used a sizzix die cut fo my flowers. The larger flower I scrunched and rolled. I used perfect pearls, glimmer mist and diamond dust on it. I cut the black vines on my Silhouette. The bling was colored with alcohol ink to match my paper. The butterflies are clip art from Starsailorscrapper. I printed them, cut them out and embossed them with clear embossing powder. I added some brown stickles to them, and diamond dust!
This layout is for the "Butterfly Challenge" that our gorgeous DT member Angelica is hosting!
See you there! xo