Heartland Birthday

Happy Mother's Day everyone.
I am sitting out on the patio enjoying the early morning sunshine.  Weather predictions are "a heat wave" for the next couple of days.  Quite a change from the ice storm of 3 weeks ago.

Today's card is another masculine card - featuring the Heartland stamp set.  The images of this stamp set remind me so much of my early roots on Canada.  My family's first placement in this country was on a farm.

I sometimes wonder what I ever did without the Stamparatus.  It seems I am using it to stamp almost everything, mainly because of the clear, crisp images I getting.

The image of the barn was no exception.  After stamping it with Black Memento in, I coloured it using diluted Brusho crystals and an Aqua painter., and did a light wash on the sky and foreground.  Some Clear Wink of Stella on parts of the building really brightened it up.

Oval framelits were used to die cut and mat this art piece and they were adhered together using dimensionals after sponging the edges with Soft Suede ink.

Although the base card is Soft suede layered with Plank embossed Whisper White, I chose to mat the art piece oval with Chocolate Chip card stock.  The DSP is Soft Suede matted with Soft Suede card stock.

The sentiment is from "Better Together" and this die cut oval was added to the card front using dimensionals.

Supplies Used: 

Stamps:  Heartland, Better Together

Inks:  Black Memento, Soft Suede, Brusho Crystals

Papers:  Soft Suede, Whisper White, Soft Suede DSP, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Plank Embossing Folder, Layering Oval Framelits, Dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella, Aqua painter, Stamparatus

Heartland - Thinking of You

Okay, so I lied last week.  I'm not finished making Masculine cards!
Today I pulled out the "Heartland" stamp set, and although this set does appear in the new annual catalogue, the framelit I paired it with - the Window Framelit - is retiring.

The image of the little boy going walking with his "goose" friends is the most poignant one of the stamp set so it's a good image to use when sending a "Thinking of You" card.

The little guy was coloured using a blender pen and a couple of the new colors (Balmy Blue, Petal Pink) as well as a retiring color (Dapper Denim) and some good old stand by's (Pear Pizzazz, & Crumb Cake)

This completed image was placed behind an aperture die cut using the Windows framelit in 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Wood DSP.  I die cut another window frame using Very Vanilla card stock and sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink before adding it over the image using dimensionals.

Using the Stamparatus I stamped the sentiment onto the die cut window sill which I then  added to the DSP and then the Crumb Cake card front using small dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Heartland

Inks:  Black Memento, Dapper Denim, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue, Petal Pink, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake

Papers:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Wood DSP

Accessories:  Window framelit, Dimensionals, Blender pen

Heartland on Coasters

Yes, I've been busy making coasters.

Today I used one of my Alcohol Ink backgrounds to black emboss images from the Heartland stamp set and Mod Podge them onto tiles.

Here's a close up of each of the coasters:

Coaster 1:  Barn

Coaster 2:  Boy Going Fishing

Coaster 3:  Tractor and Dog

Each of the art pieces, after trimmed to size, had the corners rounded, and the edges sponged with Basic Gray ink prior to being applied to the coaster.