Heart & Home Suite Collection
I love wild flowers… well any flowers, and the pretty Heart & Home Suite Collection is full of bees, flowers and foliage. The stunning Collection includes Honeybee Home Bundle with delicate pencil drawings of small flowers and honeybees that bring a tranquil feeling to your cards and scrapbook pages.
The suite collection also includes the Blessings of Home Bundle, with pretty florals and sweet sayings to brighten anyone’s day.
So much can be created with these beautiful bundles, and I had fun finally getting these out and playing with them for classes and swaps.
Stay wonderful
I taught a technique class to my upline team and decided to CASE a lovely card by Gail Ellis. I did not have everything she did, but thought it was a beautiful example featuring the Embossing Paste and the Heart & Home Suite Collection. Add the adorable Bumblebee Trinkets as an embellishment and you have a beautiful card that can be used as a birthday greeting or just a reminder for that dear sweet person in your life!
I started with the Butterfly and Flowers Layering Decorative Masks and the Shimmery White Embossing Paste, along with the Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill for color. I like to use my Silicone Craft Sheet and my Palette Knives to mix my embossing paste and ink refill and it cleans up nicely after. I only use a 1/2 tsp approximately for one card, with one or two drops of ink refill and mix thoroughly. As you apply the paste across your masked Basic White cardstock (3-7/8”x5-1/8”), make sure that it is only as thick as the mask. Once spread where you want the paste, lift the mask and set aside the cardstock aside to dry (it only takes about 30 minutes max if thin enough). After it dries and before you adhere to the Basic Black CS layer, stamp your sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento ink to the right, just over midway.
My card base is 8-1/2”x5-1/2” (scored at 4-1/4”) in Basic White with a 3-7/8”x5-1/8” piece of Basic Black CS for the card front that will have the paste embossed layer once dry. Use a 3-1/2”x4-1/4” piece of Basic White CS to stamp the smaller flower from the Blessings of Home Bundle and the foliage from the Honeybee Home in the Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad. I colored the flowers with the Fresh Freesia Blends, Pale Papaya Blends, and the Soft Succulent Blends for the smaller flower. The foliage I left without color. Then die cut both using the Flowers of Home dies and Honeybee Blooms die. For the Basic Black CS foliage, I used the Bough Punch and the Flowers of Home dies. I used glue dots to adhere the black foliage to the card front, positioned so the stems are covered by the flower.
The black & white foliage I cut into 3 parts. I used the Fresh Freesia 3/8” Open Weave Ribbon by threading it through the flower stems, tying it in a bow. I then added the 2021-22 In Color Jewels in Pale Papaya to add a little bling to the flower centers.
I then used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up the colored flowers, and then added the black/white foliage tucked in behind with Stampin’ Dimensionals as well. Be sure to add the flower in Fresh Freesia ink to your envelope and the Bumblebee trinket to the card front with glue or a Glue Dot.
This sweet little wild flower card was part of a swap for my upline with a theme of “Get Well”, using the Hand-Penned Petals for the sentiment and the Blessings of Home and Honeybee Home Bundle for the images.
This card started with the Basic Gray CS, measured at 8-1/2”x5-1/2” (scored at 4-1/4”). I then used a layer of 4”x5-1/4” of Heart & Home 12”x12” DSP, using the wood board side. I then popped up a layer of Pale Papaya CS (3-5/8”x4-7/8”) glued to and under a smaller layer of the flowered DSP (3-1/2”x4-3/4”) using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I used a 3”x3” piece of the 2021-22 In-Color Shimmery Vellum in Pale Papaya, cut with the 2-7/8” Layering Circle dies, then embossed with the Hive 3D Embossing Folder. I used scraps of Old Olive CS and Garden Green CS to die cut the foliage behind the hollyhock flower stalk. Using a 3”x4” scrap of Basic White CS, I stamped the hollyhock and bee in Basic Gray ink, die cut them and then colored with the Pale Papaya and Old Olive Blends. The bee was colored with Pale Papaya Blend and the new SU500 Blend for the brown low lights.
The sentiment is from the Hand-Penned stamp set, stamped in the Versamark ink pad on Basic Black CS, and embossed with White Embossing Powder. I used two strips (1/2”x3” or 3/8”x3”) of 6"x6” Designer Series Paper Assortment in Neutrals (in Basic Gray and Old Olive), glued just under the Vellum.
The foliage was adhered with glue dots and then I popped up bee, hollyhock and sentiment on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I used the 10” lengths of White 1/4” Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon, Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8” ribbon (cut in 1/2), and the 3/8” Open Weave Ribbon in Pale Papaya (cut in 1/2) and tied them together in a bow. I added Genial Gems in Pale Papaya, and stamped my envelope in Basic Gray ink, using a couple of bees and the hollyhock as well.
