Sketch Books

Gina Long (C90 Designs) posted a little memo book on the Graphic45 Facebook Page using the Let it Bee collection, and I just had to make my own. My first is missing, because I forgot to take any photos before I gave it away!!

The first four photos are from the Graphic 45 “Life is a Bowl of Cherries” collection

The next six photos are from the Graphic 45 “Let it Bee” Collection

And these last photos are from Heartfelt Creations “Sea Breeze” or perhaps it was called “A Day at Sea“ (a retired collection, and in fact retired company now 😥)

So I’ve got to do at least one more, and it’s gonna. E a struggle to keep from adding 3-D flowers!!

Trifold Cards from Heartfelt Creations Scraps

I saw a post by a lady on Facebook, using Heartfelt Creations paper and dies to make a tie-fold card (Kirsten Muehlen). It was adorable!! Anyway it got me going on a roll, and I have here, 5 little tri-fold cards made from 5 different Heartfelt Creations paper collections. They each measure about 4×6 when closed. The middle panel cover on all these hides a sketch pad – the nice kind meant for water coloring!

Tweet Cherry Blossom

Climbing Clematis

Delightful Daffodil

Cottage Garden (hydrangeas)

Sweet Magnolias

Anyways, I had a fun week! Thanks for looking!!

Mini Tunnel Album with Graphic45 Fairy Dreams/Wishes

I saw a video of someone making a tunnel album which was ATC size (about 2×3”) and thought this paper would be fantastic for it! So many of the images are tiny anyway, since they are fairies, after all.

The hardest part of this was getting all the pages to line up – even with a tutorial, I had trouble, but lucky for me, I am also stubborn!

I didn’t quite know what to do with it once I was finished – this paper has been discontinued, and I was working with scraps as it was – the image I was trying to emulate had the mini album on top of a much larger (but still mini-sized) photo album, and I didn’t have nearly enough paper to pull that off, so decided to create a card, and instead of the emphasis being on my dimensional flowers, the emphasis is on the mini tunnel album.

The butterfly is from my stash, picked it up at a hobby shop quite a while back, and flowers are from Heartfelt Creations – theoretically small petunias, but I just turned them into blossoms.

Personally I think it’s adorable, but I know I’m biased! Thanks for stopping by and looking!!

“Fancy” Greeting Card

This was actually my first card using Graphic 45’s “Flights of Fancy” paper collection.

I’ve used a die or two from Heartfelt creations, cutting the doily from a holographic sort of silver paper, and the flowers are also HFC, using the Classic rose. Too much fun being had here at my house, playing with all this gorgeousness!! (Is that a word?)

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Gift Card (with Chocolate!)

I have NO idea why this wasn’t posted before today! I enjoy this particular paper collection from Graphic 45 almost more than I enjoyed the “Floral Shoppe” papers! This one is called “Flights of Fancy”, and has delightful hummingbirds, whimsical butterflies, and gorgeous florals – the colors are vibrant and frankly, it’s just a beauty to behold. It’s almost difficult to cut into the papers, and one makes certain to measure twice and cut once, so as to not waste any of the preciousness!!

I still use my stamps & dies from Heartfelt Creations, even though they are completely digital now, as I find they are excellent quality, and I have quite a large variety of different flowers to choose from – the range goes from tiny little lilac and cherry blossoms to (what I consider) enormous Dahlia and Wild Roses.

For this particular card, I used the classic rose, and “Oakberry” blossoms, as well as a tiny punch for the dark dark pink blossom. The butterflies are from the Ephemera pack that goes along with the collection.

I had some fun with the ribbons as well, as you can see, combining 3 different textures, widths and patterns.

Inside is a little mini cards, some pretty postcards, and a couple of chocolate bars.

I had so much fun creating this for someone special, I hope you’ve enjoyed my newest make!!

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Elegant Rose Framed cards

I just realized I never posted this! These were made last summer – or maybe even longer ago than that! These use the Elegant Rose Frame paper from HFC, and some wild roses, as well as lacy embellishments from the Rectangular slim card accents that came out on Black Friday 2022.

I absolutely love the framed sentiments, and am so glad I got them! I’m sure I’ll use them a LOT!

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Chrysanthemums in Loveland

This is a card using Scrapboys “Loveland”, and (of course) Heartfelt Creations flower dies.

I also used a scalloped diamond, which I covered with fussy cut flowers from the papers so much, that by the time I got my dimensional flowers made and glued on, you can’t really tell it’s a diamond at all!!

I was very proud of myself matching (in shape, anyway, the purple flower almost exactly like the one on the paper….mine is quite a bit darker, but looks so much like it! I used HFC Sunflower dies , and the pinks are their magnolias.

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Heart Shaped Shaker Card with Wild Roses

Isn’t this just darling? This is the second one of these I’ve made – this time it wasn’t even for Valentine’s Day.


We used ScrapandMe’s paper, and a fancy heart shaped shaker box from Creative Embellishments (love that company!!) dies from Heartfelt Creations for the flowers, leaves and the the white lacy overlay, and the stamens. AND some tiny punched flowers and leaves in the corner there. This is just such fun to make, and stunning in presentation!

(Aren’t we lucky we have these amazing artists share their artwork with us on paper!! So lucky!!!)

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Peacocks in The Window

I admit, I stole this from the Heartfelt Creations Gallery – one of the Design Team members created almost this exact card. I just thought it was precious! The window was a bit fiddly – l had to actually cut out around the window panes, and find a background view for the window – but the effect is stunning, isn’t it!

Once again, I just added a simple clematis flower in the top right hand corner. The shaped card uses one of Heartfelt Creations dies, as well, the Fancy Classic Rectangle Frame die – and I used one of the inner die cuts from it for the middle of the card. The sentiment is from Creative Expressions (I have rotten handwriting, and well, it looks better using their dies, doesn’t it!!)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and looking at my cards!

Birthday Greetings from Loveland

Enjoying this Gorgeous paper from Scrapboys! This is at least my 2nd card using this paper, maybe my third, and the more I look at it, the more I like it!!

One thing I realized after finishing this card: I need to stay true to my “style” – so many times I try to copy or emulate what other crafters do, but I am seldom happy with the results.

I like this one.

I used a Spellbinders die for the lacy center piece (and the corners on the inside) and my favorite flowers from Heartfelt Creations, the Classic Rose, Garden Lily, and some Lilacs.

The printed sentiment is from the paper pack, inside is from Creative Expressions,

Thanks for stopping by & looking!