All occasion card featuring song sheet background, gold embossed mesh and serendipity heart die cuts

Another heart card!!  This one is for my DH for Valentines!!  He loves music so I like to include some reference to music when I make cards for him.  In this case I used sheet music which I tore into four pieces and then painted it to coordinate with my serendipity heart die cuts.  I trimmed gold embossed mesh for this hearts as well and add them little gold brads to them.  I mounted them with double sided tape onto my card front!!  I added a white faux stitching line to finish off my card!!  Really happy with it!!  Therese
 

GA - Sewing - black guitar fabric apron and to sets of potholders

       

 I volunteered to do some sewing for the Gramma  Link Africa group and the Fabric Sale coordinator brought in this fabric - black guitars on a textured blue background.  I offered to make an apron and coordinating potholders.  I was not sure how much fabric there was.  I made an apron and two sets of potholders and there was rectangle left.  Not sure what I could make with it but I will think of something. 

 I used this Instructables tutorial for the apron.  It has measurements for both an adult and a child apron and it is relatively easy to do.  I had made two before so I have the pattern for the armhole facing ready to go.  I just drew the lines I needed on the back of my folded fabric and cut it out.  Then cut out the facings and made up a long tie.  Great instructions!! 

Therese

All occasion card featuring hearts tissue paper collage background and elements with vellum

I was on a roll with the heart theme and dug out another piece of hand decorated paper which I made a while back.  I collaged hand cut tissue paper hearts onto white tissue paper using thinned white glue and added gold glitter glue to the last coat to make it all shimmery.  I just had scraps left but managed to make the background for this card and die cut three hearts.  To not take away from the delicate look of them I used a strip of vellum to give a bit of contrast between the background and the hearts.  I used tiny gold brads to hold the hearts in place.  When I added this to my large green card is seemed to need a bit of something so I stamped a border of green hearts ( Pink Cat Studio).  That was better and I simply glued my very large element to my card front!!!  

 

All Occasion cards featuring bright embossed hot glue accents

 These are the last of the embossed hot glue elements I created a while back.  The purple one was very bright on that black hand decorated background and I was pleased to find some paper that coordinated with it perfectly!!!  I added paper piercing to the edges of my little flower, mounted it to silver cardstock and then onto my black card with the purple background!!  The second one I created onto a background which was a reject for a set of cards I had created a while.  In this case, the colour I had added completely overwhelmed the little flower digital I had printed on the the white cardstock.  I have been looking for a way to make these work and this hot glue technique worked very well.  I did manage to find some papers that coordinated with it which are also two hand decorated papers.  All this mounted on a blue card front.  

Just a little note on how these were created - they are super easy and quick!!

Choose any substrate you like - decorative paper, cardstock, etc.  Outline in very light pencil the shape you would like to create.  Get your embossing powder ready to use - any colour you want.  Use hot glue - any colour - and squeeze out glue following your outline and just go with it.  There will be threads but some of these will disappear when you emboss your image with embossing powder.  As soon as you are finished your image sprinkle on a generous amount of embossing powder.  The embossing powder will start to melt where the glue is the hottest.  Pour off the excess and heat with your heat gun until the embossing powder it all melted and smooth!!  A fun and interesting accent.  For the arty ones I simply made a couple of lines of glue and then pulled a bamboo stick through them to create more texture before adding the embossing powder.  The sky is the limit with this technique!!!  Have a fun!!  You can find a tutorial here on Splitcoast Stampers.   Therese