Hanging Holiday Heart Basket

Thanks so much for stopping by- especially those participating in todays Tina Wenke and MarkerPop Blog Hop. This is so much fun!

All of you amazing designers have been making so many beautiful projects

with our stamps and papers. I am truly soooo GRATEFUL!

Since I don’t have a die cut machine yet, I decided to keep my project simple- using hand drawn shapes as templates. I’ve included a digital pdf version of the shapes for you to drag and drop if you would like to try this project yourself J

First, I traced then cut all the shapes used from the papers this required 4 sheets of paper from the Holiday Combination Pack. Here’s a list of the papers I used;

-       Gifts (Small Heart)

-       Greenery (Small Flower)

-       Rejoice (Leaves)

-       Holly (Medium Heart)

Next, I traced the large heart shape twice on the piece of tan chipboard which comes with the paper pack to make the front and back of the heart basket. After I cut the chipboard, I used spray glue to attach the medium heart first to the board then the small heart next and added a stitching pattern with deep red color pencil.

Then I started on the holiday flower – I stitched all three layers of the flower with the button in the center to hold the flower together. Finally I added pieces of foam tape in between the flower layers to give them dimension and added more foam tape on the bottom of the flower to attach it to the hearts and did the same with the leaves.

I glued the bottom half of the chipboard hearts together with hot glue to make the basket. I curled black wire together with red beads to make the handle. After this, I attached the wire to the heart. I did this by poking 2 small holes into the chipboard with a push pin, pushed the wire through and twisted it back around at both ends. 

And the final touch was to tie a green raffia bow onto the left side of the heart right where the wire was connected to the board. Added some candy canes and I was finished:)

Materials Used for the Holiday Hanging Heart Basket;

            -WinterCard Making Papers Combination Pack

            -1 12x12 piece of Tan Chipboard (used to keep the paper pack flat)

            -Red button and thread

            -Foam tape

            -Hot glue

            -Black wire and red beads

            -Green paper raffia

Please stop by MarkerPop to see the full collection of my Stampavie Winter Stamps:)

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Beautiful Card Designs

First, our thoughts and prayers for anyone affected by the storm, we will be watching and thinking of you. Hope you all our safe! We have been fortunate here where we have had only cold winds and some rain.
I wanted to post a couple very sweet designs by my friends Kittie Caracciolo and Michelle Oatman:)
They are wonderful designers and friends and have created 2 beautiful designs using our new Winter Card Making Papers. I can't say enough how much I appreciate these beautiful designs.

Here is Kittie's stylish and festive which she made adding a beautiful paper poinsettia.  She has a great description on creating the card as well as a wonderful tutorial on how to make the Poinsettia and Pine on her blog at http://kittiekraft.typepad.com/kittiekraft/.

Next is just such a sweet card design by Michelle Oatman. Hers uses a High Hopes Stamp and is wonderfully colored using Copics Markers with the Winter papers. Michelle has a wonderful blog describing how she made the card and as always extras, such as her antiques and animals that are always fun to see:)

Hope you like these as much as I have!

xxxTina

First Video Demo!

Hey everybody! Over the weekend I worked on my first video tutorial and posted it on my facebook page on how I paint with water color pencils. I painted one of my Stampavie Winter Collection stamps and made an ornament out of it. It was sooo much fun! It's not perfect- out of focus and very looong. But hope you'll check it out anyway. You may have to squint your eyes some and fast forward a little, LOL. It's not about having it all right the first time, it's a journey and learning as I go.

Not sure if any of you know this, but I work alongside my husband Mike. He's a graphic designer and he's the one who takes my artwork and turns it into something that someone can actually use. Also, he is a very talented artist himself. He sits silently in the wings allowing me to get all the credit. Mike inspired the filming and edited the video for me. An amazing jack' of all trades, Mike is not afraid to try something new.
I love video how-to's because "we" creative people are visual learners- we learn with our eyes and our fingers. My very best teachers were the ones who actually sat down and took the time to demonstrate.

Can't wait to work on some other projects and to share more of the fun things I have learned with you:)