Home Sweet Home

Home is where the heart is.

Hi everyone!  Welcome back to HeartcraftPaper.

As you probably have noticed there have been a number of changes to the site.  I hope that these changes are more pleasing to all of you.  That being said, I wanted to share this lovely card I made for a friend of mine who recently moved.  Currently up on the shop I have the storybook collection and one of the images is an adorable cottage.  I figured this would make a lovely house warming card.  

​Clock on any of the pictures below to enlarge. 

Below are the items you will need to make this card. 

• Digital Image: Cottage
• ​A2 Card Base
• Tan printed paper 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
• Copic Markers
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Black cardstock
• Lilac cardstock
• Green cardstock
• White gelli pen
• Self-adhesive pearls
• Tacky Glue
• Wonky Stitched rectangle dies
• Hydrangea Etched Dies (Spellbinders)

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Coloring The Image

We will begin with the cottage walls: 
Base: E35
Shadows: E27
Details: PC945
(this will be the only time you need your color pencils)
 

The room really only had two colors:
Base: E27
Shadows: E29

As you can see my light source is coming from the upper right and such that my shadows fell from left to right. 

Time for all the greenery.

Trees:  E23 (trunk), YG03, YG67
Grass: YG03, YG63, YG67
Bushes: YG45, GY99
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Moving on to the stone work:

Base: C1
Shadeing: C3
​Shadows: C4

While its a little hard to tell from the picture, we are going to fill int he sky with B000, B00, 0.  This will cover up the whole background.  You DON'T have to fill in every space as white patches should show through as clouds. If you do go over, then use '0' to remove some of that color. 

We are down to the final details.
Windows:  B000, 
Sills: B32
Door: B34

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Now that all of the coloring is completed, we are now ready to start constructing our card.

I first began by cutting my image out using a Wonky Rectangle die.  This adds a lovely stitched detailing to the image. 

Adhere the tan printed paper that is cut to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" to the card base.  I prefer to use liquid glue since it gives me a bit of time to move the paper about should i not have it centered just right. 

Trimming down the black cardstock to 3/4" x 5 1/2".  Adhere this across the card base horizontally centered mid way on the card.  

Time to adhere our image to our card base.  Take your time to make sure that it is centered equally on all sides. 

Alright!  we are now down the final steps.  We will need our green and lilac card stock.  Using the hydrangea etched dies I cut out 2 leaves, 1 circle, 3 of the six stem star and 2 of the three stem star.

Curl the leaves with a using a boning tool.  Slightly fold up the hydrangea petals and glue them to the stars.  Once all your items are prepared you can start to glue down the first of the six stem star.  Rotate the next one and glue that down.  You will continue this with the rest of the stars rotating so that it does not overlap too much.  Push up the stems so that it fills in.  Fiddle around until your flower is how you like it. 

Once the hydrangea is set to liking, glue down the flower to the lower left side of the card. 

For the sentiment I used the slim banner from MFT to trim out of black cardstock.  I hand wrote the sentiment "Home Sweet Home" with white gellie pen and glued it all down just underneath the hydrangea and the lower part of the card. 

Now we are down to the final touches.  Here we will add some pearl embellishments in the upper right corner.  I used two different sizes for the pearls, the larges of the two as the center.

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And here you have the final product. 

I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial and I hope that you you come back to see more.  Don't forget to visit the Design Team gallery to see their concretions as well. 

HeartcraftPaper XOXO