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:

Two Cards Made with Scrappy Boy Die Sets

A week ago, I went to the Stamp and Scrapbook Convention in Irving, Texas. I mostly went for Tall Mouse dies, but I also found two fun die sets that I can use for card making. I used the first one to make a an envelope box card that can fold flat if you need to mail it:

I used the second die set to make this little flower cart that is also a box card. It has a hidden, covered magnet closure. It folds flat for mailing as well, although I will probably keep this one. Note: The flowers and cursive word were from the Scrappy Tails Floral Shop Add-on die set, and were not part of the Scrappy Boy Flower Cart die set..

Sweet Summertime Card

I've had my eye on the Jaded Blossom ticket booth dies for awhile. However, I found another, very similar booth die set on Amazon that was far less expensive. They look very similar, so I suspect it is a knock-off set, or perhaps the Chinese company that makes them for Jaded Blossom sells them on the side through Amazon. I got some additional dies to go with it. I played around with the booth tonight, and I found an older My Favorite Things stamp that went well with the Watermelon theme. The sentiment is Queen & Co.