Hello, and welcome to Heart Sentiments. Throughout the year, or your life, there are times when sending a card to mark an event or share your feelings are so appropriate. Here at Heart Sentiments I understand that it’s all about what, and how you want to, say something. And I hope that the cards, projects and ideas you find …
So, this year, since I was visiting my PA family in early December, I had the idea to create 3-D Christmas cards, instead of the normal mailed ones. This way I could embellish like crazy because I would be hand-delivering them. In my large family, over the years, we would all get together right after …
It still seemed right to be making Christmas cards in the middle of December. So, at our class last week, one of the cards we made was a Card & Gift Card holder all in one. I saw this idea in a live youtube video by Lynn Dunn and honestly, it seemed like the simplest …
For our November class at the Senior Center, using a retired stamp set, we made this Sweetest Time candle card. Each person stamped the candles in either red or green. Then they swapped with another to mix up the candles so they would have 2 of one color and 1 of the other. The candles …
One of the cards we made in our November Senior Center class was this tree luminary tent card. Some call them easel cards. The idea is that you score your card base into three sections. The popped-up element (in this example, the Merry Christmas label) is used to hold the tent or easel up. Then …
Yes, this is my new WordPress site. I am so happy with it. I had a site previously that was done by a good friend in the floral business. He created it for me as a wedding blog site, and it worked great for that purpose. After retiring from my flower shop and moving to …
There are several ways to add white ink to colored card stock. In our recent class, we explored a couple of ways. Using a white pigment ink wash is a technique I introduced in a previous class. However, we touched on a few more, such as white jelly roll pen and chalk pen. The jelly …
The cards we made at our October 2021 Classes focused on several tips and techniques, including coloring vellum, white-washing on colored card stock, and making our own One Sheet wonder patterned paper. But the card technique that was most impressive was making a card with a floating element. The Expressions in Ink stamp set, along …
