Blog Hop from Heartfelt Creations and Paper Temptress

Here's a fun 6"x6" card that I created using amazing paper from Paper Temptress combined with fun die cutters from Heartfelt Creations.  Heartfelt Creations sells their own line of spellbinders type dies and has awesome matching stamps that fit perfectly.  You can see two of their gorgeous cutters below.  What's great about the window die cut on the image below is that it actually opens up!!  The product is called Decorative Chateau Gate die and comes in a set with an additional gate/window die and two ivy die cutters.

The gorgeous die in the background that I linked together in each corner also comes from Heartfelt Creations in a die cut set called Perfect Petals, which includes the die shown above, as well as a collection if different sizes of flower petals.

Here's a close up image of the opened window, I put in a flower that I stamped and created using one of their stamp sets.  I think this window would also be great to use on the front of a card as an opening to show the inside of the card. You can see inside the window, I have use a stamp set from Heartfelt Creations called Perfect Petal Medley Precut set (I am using the smallest stamp in this set), along with the smallest die cut in the Perfect Petals die cut set.

 

Here's a slightly different angle photo to show you the great detail in this window die cut as well as the die cut that I used to create the beautiful frame around the window.

 

Here's a front shot of the card with the window opening.  The gorgeous papers here are all from Paper Temptress.  The orange cardstock is a bit darker in person, but shows up lighter due to the camera flash, I think of it more like a light pumpkin color, it's called Tangy Orange Pop Tone.  The Brown cardstock that I cut out the Window die cut is Hot Fudge Pop Tone.  The white cardstock in the background is heavenly white. I simply trimmed the white cardstock by hand to go directly behind the window image, I thought it really made it standout and it gave me a place to mount the flower inside the window opening.  The black cardstock is Basis Black. 

Paper Temptress does sell a small assortment of 12x12 paper in Basis colors, however, I didn't have any.  Here's what I did, I took my 8.5x11 paper and cut it into 6"x11" then I added the extra inch that I needed with a gorgeous strip of Tangy Orange.  Thus when you open the card, the bottom layer on the card is an orange stripe.  I could have also chosen white or the brown cardstock that I used or even added something like a border punch to the inside card base.  It's a great way to add flair to the card and make it look oh so wonderful when you are missing that inch of cardstock. Or as I like to say, that's exactly how I planned it! which in this case, it really was.  In other cases, you could also just make a 5.5x5.5" card, but for the gorgeous die cuts, the card needed to be 6" square.  Just my thoughts on the creative process.

Hope this card inspires you to check out the fun cutters and stamps at Heartfelt Creations as well as the awesome papers at Paper Temptress.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Paper Temptress); DieCuts (Heartfelt Creations); Rubber Stamp (Heartfelt Creations); Ink (Memento); Flower Stem (Jolees); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All), Flower Center (Sticko);

Paper Temptress and Heartfelt Creations will each be donating a $25.00 gift certificate, so to enter to win either a $25 Gift Card from Heartfelt Creations or a $25 Gift Card from Paper Temptress make sure you leave a comment on each of the DT's blog. You could be one of the two winners (announced May 15 on Paper Temptress and Heartfelt Creations Blogs)--UPDATE---I just got word that Heartfelt Creations has upped their prize to an entire set of their Sunkissed Fluer Die Collections, WOW, now they are giving away a $160 PRIZE...leave comments on every blog!!

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