Monday, May 13, 2013

Bleeding Hearts Mother's Day + Free Download



All the women in my family family love bleeding heart flowers. It is sort of a tradition in our gardens. The plants are all derived from one plant, which came from Germany if the facts were passed down correctly. I know my plant came from my Great Grandmothers plant, as my mother received it from her.  My daughter's plant came from her Grandmother, as will my plant be given to my grandsons' wives.  

I designed the Silhouette Cut file myself, and will be sharing this with all of you.  I also designed the medallion that is used as the front sentiment.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border, and used Vintage Linen Distress Ink by Tim Holtz to distress everything including the sentiment layers, hearts Stem and flowers. I also used Gold Brilliance on the label and card, and I'm sad to say that my scanner and scanner just doesn't pick that up. It is really shiny and so pretty. The ribbon is also gold metallic, but I think it is reflecting my outfit, and making it black and less shiny.  I need to get my daughter here to give me an education on taking pictures like this.

To assemble the flowers I used really small glue dots to raise up the branch in a couple of places, and used Scotch Quick Dry to glue the rest. I left the flower stems loose until I put the flowers on.  I used a large stylus from McGill to shape the hearts, and make sure they were rounded.  I glued the white bottom portion to the red heart shape, and placed a larger foam dot in the hollow of the heart.  To place the flowers I lifted the stem, placed the heart under it so some of the stem hung over the groove of the heart, and then glued the stem to the heart.  I assembled the label in layers and glued the ribbon on the back. I used a foam dot to raise it up.

The inside sentiment is from Gina K, as is the dragonfly.  They are from the Whimsical Wishes stamp set.  I included a scan of the inside of the card.

Interior of card

Here are the links for the Silhouette Studio files.  They are free, but I would hope that if you use them on the internet that you give me credit for them.

Here is the Bleeding Heart Flower
Here is the sentiment label

I hope you enjoy the files. I hope all mothers had a wonderful and blessed Mother's Day.

Namaste


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5 comments:

Monica said...

I love the card...so creative!

Unknown said...

Wow, Lynne. I got the chills to read about the family tradition of passing down the bleeding hearts flower...all from the same original plant...from Germany! That's pretty incredible. And thanks for sharing the free files. Hope you had a great Mothers' Day yesterday, Lynne.

Warmly,
Lauren
The Thinking Closet

Lynden Blossom said...

Lovely card, Lynne - and nice to hear the History behind it! Thank You for the files, also - ;-}
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Coley said...

Cute card! Love the sentiment. Thank you for sharing the files!

mel m. m. mccarthy said...

Gorgeous! My Nana has always had bleeding hearts. Your cut file is gorgeous. Love how you did the different coloured layers.