Susan Smit: This Wednesday...Introducing the new WILDWOOD COTTAGE COLLECTION

Hi there, here's my 'Home Sweet Home' Wildwood Cottage card...enjoy.....

To get you all warmed up and fuzzy inside about this new collection....

Come away with us and discover the whimsical world of Wildwood Cottage, the newest collection by Heartfelt Creations. Unleash your imagination and explore magical gardens filled with light and airy florals, chirping birds, fluttering butterflies and of course the playful and enchanting sprites that call these gardens home. Create your very own captivating fairy garden with this extraordinary collection featuring four beautifully illustrated cling stamp sets and coordinating dies! Fill your fanciful garden scenes with playful fairies, dimensional garden accents, cheery florals and of course enchanting cottages for the spirited sprites to call home. The softly hued paper collection is sprinkled with pretty garden shades resembling moss like greens, lilac lavenders, pansy purples and hydrangea blues accented with daisy like yellows, whites and petunia pinks! Delicate chevrons, ornate floral swirls, along with dainty polka dots and eyelet lace like designs are just a few of the graceful finishes showcased among this decorative paper collection and have been incorporated into heartwarming full page cottage and garden scenes ideal for scrapbook layouts, as well as various sized premade card front panels ideal for quick and easy card bases! The perfect collection to add a touch of sunshine, and bring smiles to the faces of friends and loved ones during those long winter days!

Heartfelt Creations Products And Products Carried On The Heartfelt Creations Website:

HCDP1- 274 Wildwood Cottage paper pad

HCPC-3769 Wildwood Florals cling stamp set

HCD1-7125 Wildwood Florals die set

HCPC-3770 Wildwood Cottage Darlings Cling stamp set

HCD1-7126 Wildwood Cottage Darlings die set

HCPC-3771 Wildwood Cottage cling stamp set

HCD1-7127 Wildwood Cottage die set

HCPC-3772 Wildwood Cottage Accents cling stamp set

HCD1-7128 Wildwood Cottage Accents die set

HCST1-401 Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit

DDOTS -Double Dots/3d foam squares

159723- Designer Clear Drying Glue

359848- Spellbinders Tool N’one

Other Products Used:

Paper: A4 Crafters Companion Whit-hint of gold 300 gm card stock, Aquarelle paper. 170 gm, Cream pearl finished card stock 250 gm. Ranger products: Tim Holtz brick embossing folder, Foam inking tool, Bone folder, Water coloring brush, Paper distressing tool, Scissors. Stickles: Orange peel, platinum, stardust. Distress Inks: Faded jeans, Gathered twigs. Other: Fussy Cutting Scissors, Double sided Tape, Double Sided Foam Tape, Scoreboard, bone folder.

Derwent Inktense water color pencils used:

The fence and gate: - Saddle brown 1740, dark chocolate 1930.The flowers:-Blue flowers-sherbet lemon 0100, sea blue 1200.The leaves: Felt green 1530, light olive 1540. The grass:- red violet 0610, sherbet lemon 0100, light olive 1540, apple green 1400, felt green 1530. The toadstool:- Modder brown 1920, neutral grey 2120, Ionian green 1320, apple green 1400. The wheelbarrow: saddle brown 1740, dark chocolate 1930. The pathway: amber 1710, saddle brown 1740, dark chocolate 1930. The windows: saddle brown 1740, dark chocolate 1930 The potted flowers:- Chinese ink 2030, vivid green 1330, deep violet 0760, cadmium yellow 0210, burnt orange 0260, tan 1720 , sherbet lemon 0100, red oxide 1910, mid vermilion 0310. The birdbath:- Chinese ink 2030, sea blue 1200.

Instructions:

The finished size of this slider card is 17. 5 cm x 21 cm. NOTE: All the stamping is done on the aquarelle paper and with the black archival ink. All the measurements are converted to inches for this card HERE

TO MAKE THE ‘Z’ SLIDER CARD FROM A4 cardstock. This Z slider card fits into an envelope that measures 22 cm x 21 cm when completed. To make the card base: Taking the A4 cardstock, score at 6 cm and at 12 cm along the long edge. Fold this into valley and hill folds. This will form the card front foot (6 cm x 20.8 cm) and card front background (17.7 cm x 20.8 cm). For the slider, cut 11.5 cm x 7 cm. For the card front, cut 14 cm x 17 cm. All the matting layers will be cut at 2 mm smaller each side. For the card slider guide, cut from the card stock a band measuring13.5 cm x 7 cm. Cut a half circle into one of the 13.5 cm edge. This will be the top edge so you can slide the slider easily into the guide when the card is finished. Adhere in place to the back of the card front. Adhere the slider to the top center of the card background. Adhere the card front to the center of the card foot. Slide the slider in to place. Make and adhere all the embellishments to the card front. When adding the slider decoration, make sure the slider still slides before securing with glue. Follow the instructions below on how to decorate this card. Find from the paper pad the design paper needed and cut to fit the slider card panels. Cut first the card front, as you will be a little short to cover the total back card panel. This does not matter, as you will not see this when the card is completed. Now cut the card foot and slider from the remaining paper. Ink the edges with the faded jeans ink then distress the edges with the distressing tool. Adhere in place. Taking the crème card stock die cut the house and roof three times each. Emboss the house with the embossing folder; first apply the gathered twigs to one side of the folder before running it through the machine. This will give you the brick print in the embossing. Apply the gathered twig ink to the roof and all sides of the house. Stamp all the images needed for this card, make lots of them, as there are many layers. With the pencils bring color to the image out lines then with the brush then water drag the color. This is the method I used to do the coloring for this card. Once you have brought color and die cut the images, shape them with the flower shaping tool kit. The windows and door are adhered with the double-sided foam tape and clear drying glue. The rest of the images are adhered with glue and double sided foam tape where needed. When all is secure and dry, apply the stickles to the flower centers, windows, door, toadstool and any where else you think it needs it to give a sparkly bling feel to the card.