Heartfelt and Vintage

Hello!  I am back from vacation and ready with another Wednesday of Heartfelt Creations inspiration!
 This week I challenged myself to do a collage style card.  I think collage style either comes natural to you, or it doesn't!  And for me it doesn't so I have not done them before.  I tend to be very structured, so the free form nature of collage tends to elude me.
 I used several sets to make this card-

I am really please with how this turned out.   I hope you like it!  Instructions are below.  For more Heartfelt inspiration, check out all of the beautiful projects at Heartfelt Creations' blog.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Lee Ann  :)

Heartfelt Creations Products used-

Spring Season Precut Set- HCPC3540

Classic Message Precut Set-HCPC3354

Large Elegant Word Background Precut Set- HCPC3323
Leaf Medley Precut Set-HCPC 3405
Open Vintage Floret Precut Set- HCPC 3500
Vintage Floret Frame Precut Set- HCPC 3522
Vintage Floret Dies- HCD 727
Decorative Oval Window Die- HCD 710
Daphne Designer Paper

Spellbinders Foliage Shapeabilities Dies

Other Supplies-

Stampin' Up Certainly Celery, Early Espresso, Bashful Blue cs; white cs; SU Old Olive, Early Espresso, Certainly Celery ink; Memento Brown ink; Old Paper Distress Ink; Copic markers, SU doily, lace trim, SB Tweets and Twigs ef, dimensionals, pearl flourish (Micheal's), white acrylic craft paint

Instructions-

Fold a piece of 11” x 5.5” piece of light blue paper in half to make a 5.5” square card base. Cut a brown mat and adhere to card base. Cut a Daphne Designer Paper mat and emboss. Using your finger, smudge on some white craft paint on various spots on the dp mat. Lightly ink the edges of the mat with Old Paper Distress Ink. Adhere piece of lace trim to right side of card. Adhere doily to top left corner of card.

Stamp birdhouse image in Memento Brown on white cs and color with Copics. Using Early Espresso ink and the Large Elegant Word Background image, stamp off once and then stamp image across colored bird house image. Apply Old Paper Distress Ink to image. Distress edges of paper , bend and fold corners and separate paper layers for more distressed look. Finished image size is approximately 2.25” x 4.25”.

Stamp bird image in Memento Black on white cs and color with Copics Fussy cut out image. Stamp one of the flowers from bird image a second time, color and fussy cut out. Stamp Vintage Florets in Memento Brown ink, color with Copics and die cut out. Mold and assemble florets. Lightly sponge florets with Old Paper Distress Ink. Stamp Large single leaf on green cs. Die cut out and sponge edges with green ink.

To assemble, cut one of the Decorative Panels from From the Daphne designer paper collection, lightly ink the edges with the Old Paper distress ink and stamp your sentiment in brown (assuring that you will not cover up your sentiment with your bird house image when you layer that on). Adhere the sentiment panel to the card base and the birdhouse panel to the left of that, overlapping the sentiment panel, but not the sentiment. Adhere the bird image in front of the bird house and popped up on dimensionals. Add second floral image behind bird image. Place flowers and leaves on card as shown. Die cut a Decorative Oval Window from green cs and sponge the embossed areas with Old Olive ink. Cut the frame apart and use the flourish pieces along side the bird house image and across the top of the sentiment panel. Lastly, add pearl flourish.