Heart & Home M&M Archives - Bluegrass Stamper

Welcome to this week’s serving of FAB Stampers. This week it’s Leonie’s turn to share a project and she’s created a sweet little Heart & Home Mini Album.

From Leonie’s Studio

I love making Mini Albums and remember making a few in my early Stampin’ Up! days and thought what better way to highlight this gorgeous suite.

You’ll find the Heart & Home Suite in your January-June 2022 Mini Catalogue.

Heart & Home Suite

The Heart & Home Suite is a gorgeous collection of products. It’s so lovely they had to include two Stamp Set & Die bundles, Embossing Folder, Designer Series Paper Pack, Ribbon, Doilies, Matte Dots Embellishments, Memories & More Card Pack and Memories & More Card Pack and envelopes.

So many different products to use! For my Heart & Home Mini Album I used the Designer Series Paper Pack and the Memories & More Card Pack. I hope you like what I’ve created.

The Mini Album

Here’s my sweet little Mini Album …

You’ll need a sheet of 12×12 Designer Series Paper for the Album. Cut your piece in half at 6″ or 15.2cm. Ensure you place your patterned paper in your trimmer the right direction to ensure it is the right way up for your album.

Now taking your two pieces of 6×12 (15.2cm x 30.5cm) cut both at 7 1/8″ or 18cm. Ensuring the pattern is right way up, score your first piece at 3 3/8″ (8.5cm) and 6 3/4″ (17cm) along the long side and along short edge at 4 3/8″ (11.2cm) – this will give you 1 5/8″ (4cm) to fold up to create your pockets.

On the second piece, again ensuring the pattern is the right way up, we need to reverse the scoring measurements. So score at 3/8″ (1cm), 3 3/4″ (9.5cm) along the long edge and the same 4 3/8″ (11.2cm) to give the 1 5/8″ (4cm) fold for the pockets.

Let’s Assemble

Burnish all your score lines and assemble Album cover. Affix your two pieces together at the spine first. Then fold up the section for the pockets. Use your multipurpose glue to affix the pockets in the center at the spine and just a thin line of glue at each edge. Then fold your pages in.

dont forget to decorate the inside!

Decorate your cover as desired. I used some of the adhesive pieces from the Memories & More Card Pack along with some lace (retired – sorry I missed the memo when this retired), Brass Butterflies, Champagne Rhinestones and Baker’s Twine. You can decorate yours as you please.

Now on to the inserts

Flip through your Heart & Home Memories & More Card Pack and choose some sayings/sentiments you’d like to include. Select as many as you like and then go through those choices for your two favourites. Then look for some blank cards to match for journaling or writing a note on.

Here are the cards I chose …

The cards I chose were the 3×4 cards but you can easily cut the 6×4 cards in half to give you the right colour/design if required. Pretty them up with an extra strip and some lace … or the ribbon of your choice. Those little adhesive die-cuts from the Memories & More card pack are perfect for sweet little accents.

I do hope you like this little Mini Album and it can be used for many different occasions. Give it a try and let me know how you go or if you have questions.

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From Leonie’s Studio Down Under

Good morning, and welcome to this week’s FAB Stampers Share. If you are new here, the FAB Stampers is simply Friends Across Borders and consists of Connie Douglas from Canada, Jeanne Moss from the USA and Leonie Schroder (that’s me) from Australia.

It’s my turn to create this week and I hope you enjoy these sweet cards made with the Heart & Home Memories & More Card Pack

Memories & More – Heart & Home

I do love our Memories & More Card Packs, and the Heart & Home pack is gorgeous! It is full of all sorts of gorgeous designs, sentiments, and adhesive die cuts. You can use these cards for many different projects – scrapbooking or memory keeping, cards, in your planners or for Home Décor items.

Here are the cards I’ve made for you today …

Fun and Easy Cards

All of these cards are super fun and super easy to make, and minimal stamping makes them quick and easy as well!

These cards were all made using the Memories & More Cards & Envelopes as card bases. I love this pack as you get a mix of small (3×4) and large (4×6) card bases and lined envelopes to match.

First are my two 3×4 cards. Super quick and easy as it was just a matter of adhering the cards to the card bases and then embellishing.

I felt the Just a Note card was a little plain, so I added some Champagne Rhinestones. I did stamp the Miss You sentiment on a small scrap of white and trim down for my card. I’ve used the doilies as an element behind my sentiment and two of the bees from the adhesive die cuts.

Memories & More Heart & Home Life is Beautiful

Sometimes, just sometimes, when I make a card without any stamping or die cutting, I feel a little guilty. However, when they turn out like this card, I don’t feel so bad! I’ve used a large card base, adhered a 6×4 card then wrapped some lace around the 3×4 card and tied a Linen Thread Bow around the lace trim. Popped this piece on with Dimensionals and embellished with three Navy Rhinestones from the Holiday Rhinestones pack.

The Z Fold

This last card is my favourite – sshhh dont tell the others.

I’ve used the large card base, but I’ve folded it backwards, so the pattern is in the inside. Then fold the front back to the center fold to create a Z-Fold card.

The flower panel is another 3×4 card which I’ve layered onto a piece of Night of Navy. I’ve applied adhesive to the back on the left side only to attach it to the front of my card and affixed a Navy Bow and the Sentiment from the Adhesive Diecuts.

Open the card to see ….

Memories & More Heart & Home Z Fold Inside

Yet another 3×4 card, again layered onto Night of Navy, adhered inside the card behind the Flower Panel. You will want to pop your front panel on first, so the panel inside sits perfectly behind.

The Fixin’s