A Gift of Love

Celebrating the new release of the Backyard Blooms Collection

and the lovely Coneflowers from

Heartfelt Creations

Summer brings with it the excitement of a new gardening season, lounging in the open expanse of the backyard and enjoying the beauty of favorite perennial blossoms dancing gently in the warm summer breeze! Among those returning favorites are the attractive, butterfly loving coneflower! Bright and colorful, these pretty flowers come dressed in a wide variety of hues and quietly display their domed centers and soft delicate petals against the backdrops of ornamental grasses and other decorative backyard plantings! Come along with us as we welcome back the summer season with a walk through the Backyard Blossoms Collection by Heartfelt Creations! Brilliantly hued, and filled with a good dose of summer sunshine, the fabulous paper collection showcases happy shades of bright yellows, pretty pinks, luscious lavenders and glorious greens and showcases lovely lace like patterns, elegant swirls and bountiful coneflower blossoms! Included in this jubilant and cheerful assembling are three exquisitely illustrated cling stamps sets with coordinating dies ideal for all of your summer themed paper craft creations! From large coneflower images, ornamental grasses, to smaller backyard blossom accents, these dynamic illustrations are ideal for creating your very own dimensional flower gardens as focal points on card fronts or as accents on scrapbook layouts! So grab your lounge chair, slather on the sunscreen and join us as we kick back and relax in the backyard enjoying our favorite backyard blossoms!

Ingredients:-

HCDP1-290                         Backyard Blossoms Collection paper pad HCD1-7120                         Fleur Border Basics die set HCST1-401                          Delux Flower Shaping Kit HCD1-745                           Luggage and Tags die HCPC-3827                         Backyard Blossoms stamp set HCD1-7181                         Backyard Blossoms die set HCPC-3826                         Blossoming Coneflower stamp set HCD1-7180                         Blossoming Coneflower die set HCPC-3828                         Garden’s Edge Coneflower Stamp set HCD1-7182                         Garden’s Edge Conflower die set 242174                               vellum Berry Burst cardstock and ink – Stampin Up!, Old Olive ink – Stampin Up!.  Black Stazon ink, Gala Glitz - mauve. Kuretake water colour pens (no. 025 pink, no.043 olive green, no. 050 yellow). White stamping card. Liquid mercury nuvo drops. Spray and sparkle – Crafters Companion. Foam pads. Glue gun Make the Coneflowers:- Stamp each flower twice onto white card, using black stazon ink and colour with Kuretake water colour pens. When dry, diecut the flowers and ink the edges with Berry Burst and Olive Olive inks, shape the die cuts using the flower shaping tools. Cut the flower heads off the second stamped image, shape, then glue the head of the flower to the complete flower diecut to give a decoupage effect. Add nuvo drops to the head of the flower and sprinkle with gala glitz, allow to dry and spray lightly with spray and sparkle. Score a piece of 11” x 6.5” Berry Burst card at 5.5” and fold in half to create a  5.5” x 6.5” card base Select the paper from the pad and cut to 5” x 6”, ink around the edges in Berry Burst ink and adhere to the card base Cut a 3” x 6” piece of vellum and die cut the fleur border to one side of the vellum. Lightly ink the border with Old Olive ink and the top and bottom edges with Berry Burst. Adhere to the base card using double sided tape along the longest straight edge of the vellum Position the flowers onto the card using a glue gun using some of the off cut leafs amongst the flowers Thank you for visiting my blog today. X