Apple of my Eye at The Rubber Buggy

Hi ... how is your day going? I have been crafting with the Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection. This collection is from The Rubber Buggy. What fabulous designs, colours and the sunflower accents whether single and flat or fussy cut and popped up for depth and 3D looking are all amazing.
This is a page of the 2 youngest Grand Children in what is their yearly fall family photo session. Love taking photos for them and then creating memories for their albums.

Supply List:

The Rubber Buggy Products
Paper: Classic Sunflower Collection

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studios Grid Pieces,
Markers: Copics

Pen: Signo white gel
Accents: stickles, Liquid Pearls
Other: burlap, ribbon

In the close ups you get to view the details better. This section shows and copic coloured chipboard accents, the layers of paper and the fun clustered layers and accents of tickets, burlap and a cute tied bow make of ribbon.

The title is copic coloured chipboards with some added signo white gel markings.  There is a fun border accent of paper looking stamp size images. 

The central section is the photos with a matting to pop them off the page. 

 

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Celebrate at The Rubber Buggy with Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection

Hi ... how is your day going? I have been crafting with the Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection. This collection is from The Rubber Buggy. What fabulous designs, colours and the sunflower accents whether single and flat or fussy cut and popped up for depth and 3D looking are all amazing.

Supply List:

The Rubber Buggy Products
Paper: Classic Sunflower Collection

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studio film strip
Ink: Tim Holtz  
Accents: Stickles, Liquid Pearls
Other: cardstock, copic markers, washi tape, stickers, mesh

In the close ups I am sharing the details of the clustered flowers,,... with some fussy cut and popped up.

In this section you can see the mesh behind for texture, the copic coloured chipboard film strip and the details of the frame around the photo.

 

This section shows the addition of washi tape accents, the sticker strips and the stickles and liquid pearls on the flowers... for sparkle.

The buttons on the top right corner are fussy cut and popped up.  More washi tape under the Celebrate title.

Here is the overall central section of this page. It is perfect.

 

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Classic Sunflower Collection - Heartfelt Creations - Cards with video tutorials

Hi .. super excited to share 2 projects with The Rubber Buggy DT today. Making cards are fun and easy. They also are a great project to create using the left over stash and pieces from your collections. It is also great to try some of the different shapes, sizes and styles of cards. Today I am sharing 2 cards - an easel card base and a shaker card.

We'll start with the easel card.

Products Used:
The Rubber Buggy Products
Paper: Classic Sunflower Collection

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studio geometric bits
Ink: Tim Holtz 
Other: cardstock, ribbon, copic marker

Watch a video and see more details shots below.

Here are a few up close view for details and some shots to make following the instructions easier.

Start with making the front of card on a card base.
Make the inside base for the card.

Now work on shape of easel card .. Easy inside applied.. and then the front panel gets folded over for the front easel panel.

Here is a straight on view of the finished card. Notice that the ribbon is a great border to help hold the front panel at about the midway point on the bottom base.

Instructions: Starting with an easel card base and the extra front piece to fit your card. It’s easiest to make your card front complete and then add it to your card base. Pull mix and match papers with some fun accents like the frame, tag, border edge, sentiment and fussy cut the butterfly. Cards are so much prettier when they have layers to depth, texture and colours. Switch them out from light to dark and plain to print. In all edges for colour and depth. For my front I work backward form the frame piece to a matted background and then forward with the chipboard with ribbon accent, a large fussy cut butterfly and the tag that I added the brad, small fussy cut butterfly and the sentiment grouping. When that was done I added it to the front half panel of the card base. 

Up next is the inside section of the stand up card.  I like to finish this section off as a separate section to complete and add to base when done also. (when you mess up you can start again with ease) This piece has a full background that I added a fun sunflower print piece topped with ribbon and bottom had a thin border piece that I added the 2^ndsentiment verse cut off the paper collection. Try to use some kind of border, punched edge or ribbon about the half way mark to help support the stand up of the front base.

Ink all edges for colour and depth. When all done glue it to the base. 

Everything folds flat to fit an envelope but the front half fold allows for the easel stand up base to display your card.

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Here is my shaker card.

Supply List:
The Rubber Buggy Products:
Paper: Classic Sunflower Collection
Flowers: Wild Orchid mixed 10mm flowers
Leaves: Wild Orchid Green Mulberry paper leaves

Other: Cardstock, lace, gem stones, Robin’s Nest dew drops

Watch a video and see more details on the close up shots below.

Here are a few up close detail shots for your viewing.

Your card shape and size will vary from the plastic mold you are using.

Inside of the molded plastic using pattern paper for great design behind the dew drop shakers.

Custom make the inside to your liking.

More detail pieces to create the inside of your shaker.

Organize your beads, dew drops / shaker pieces.

Place shaker pieces on centre of base... now glue down the cover firmly. Do not move around until totally dry.. so beads don't stick to inner edges.

Instructions:

Starting with a used piece of plastic packaging shaped with a lip to allow the insertion of dew drops, beads or sequins.... we will make a shaker card. My plastic piece measured about 4 x 4” and it also fit the one section of patterned papers for a perfect frame with some slight adjustments. Using the proposed framed section I added some lighter print paper, a light mat and dark mat… so my finished card is about 5.5 x 5.5” square.

First finish designing the inner square design. I added the fussy cut sunflower and the Sunshine sentiment and inked the edges. Glue down firmly to the outer edges and let the glue dry. ( so the shakers won’t stick) Place the shakers – I used dew drop inside the centre section and glue done the plastic dome cover firmly and let dry. The outer edge sometimes need to be covered depending on how it came off the packaging. I used another piece of frame from the paper collection that just happened to fix exactly…. Or you can cut your own piece to custom fit. With this done then I accented the outside with some off the edge flowers, lace and gem stones.

You would have the option of making the front of the shaker and then custom cutting your card base from cardstock to fit exactly. Sometimes they will require custom cut envelopes depending on the finished size.

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The Rubber Buggy show casing Classic Heartfelt Creations -Sunflower Collection

Today I am sharing fabulous family pages using products from The Rubber Buggy. This is the Classic Sunflower Collections from Heartfelt Creations. My favourite thing to do is create family memories to give to them preserving memories custom made by me.

Supply List:
The Rubber Buggy Products
Paper: Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studio Mod Squares
Ink: Tim Holtz ranger
Other: Robin's Nest glitter title, brads, twine, Bo Bunny jewels, modeling paste, stencil, mesh, Gina Designs doily

Watch a video I made for this layout.

Here are some close up shots for your viewing too.

Instructions: Starting with your background paper choice.. pull at least 3 accent choices for layering. Grab some tag, ticket, photo frame and fussy cut optional pieces and a title you make yourself or from your stash.  First you'll place your photos in the vicinity on the page so you can size and layer the accent papers. I worked one photo into a collection frame but cutting it down a bit. When layering it's best to layer in light to dark or soft and bold so each layer pops. I ran the dark brown/read piece across the back, added the right side piece under the unmatted photo and spaced the framed photo to the left side. At the upper edge of the previous layers I added the fun word print piece and just slipped the edge under. When working with layers it's best to ink all the edges so each piece has a defined edge. In the upper right corner I fussy cut the sunflowers off a sheet and worked it into the other papers. With the whole background with photos done I choose to add texturing using a stencil and modeling paste. To protect the photos I covered them up and did the stenciling.  While the stenciling is drying you can take time now to gather some possible accents for your page. More is better and you can change things up as you go along. I chose to cluster between the photos with 2 tags, doily, piece of mesh and tied off tags with a brad and twine. Next I copic coloured the chipboard base first and then added liquid pearls for more sparkle. In 3 locations I added pearls and bling, I added a ticket accent and finally the glitter title. I always try to make sure that the photos pop off the page and to decorate without losing the fabulous designs in the papers. Just enough of everything is perfect on any project.

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Supply List:

The Rubber Buggy Products

Paper: Heartfelt Creations - Classic Sunflower Collection

Ink: Tim Holtz ranger
Die Cut: Memory Box Square Links

Other: cardstock, twine, Bo Bunny jewels, stickles, flowers, ribbons, cardstock, gold film accents

Here are some close up shots for your viewing too.

Instructions: Start by choosing your background, papers that match, some cardstock, your photos, title and possible accents from both the collection and also your stash. Decide on the photo positioning and cut and size some layers for below the photo and some small pieces to float under the photo also. When the background print is so awesome you don't want to cover it all. The one I choose had great sunflowers in the upper right corner that would not be covered. The left side was open from print so I added a cardstock border, matted the photo and added a small piece above the photo. All these add depth and dimension to the page. The decorated border from the collection was perfect to base the photo. I die cut the cardstock accent to the right of photo and the paper collections great accents had the fun tag with I matted and clustered with a gold film accent and tied them off with twine. Fussy cut butterflies were placed on page some flat to page and some popped up. The title and heart are more gold film accents. Lots of stickles added to sparkle the page and the small cluster of flowers with a double ribbon bow were the finishing touch.



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