Showing posts with label Hearts Come Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hearts Come Home. Show all posts

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Hearts Come Home

After I received my Holiday Catalog order I fell in love with the Hometown Greetings Edgelits.  I made one card that I shared previously, and then I worked a little harder and created a second one, very similar to the sample in the catalog:

 Now I must admit that this was not a Level 1 card (easy); it's more like a Level 5 card (hard).  But I love the results.  And the edgelits dies are very easy to work with.  The hard part is snipping all those little Daffodil Delight "lights" in the windows and deciding where to place all the houses.  But it was worth the effort.

Let's take a closer look:

Look at the detail!

I started with a Pool Party card base, 4-1/4" x 11" and scored at 5-1/2".  Then, using Whisper White cardstock, I cut the dies.  There are three detailed "house strips" in this set (along with some other fun dies) and I used all three.

After adding the "lights" I began to stack the cutouts, with the one in the back glued directly to my card base, and using Dimensionals to pop up the other two layers.

I hand-snipped the final layer of "snow" across the bottom after stamping the sentiment.

The only thing I wish I had done differently was stamp the moon in the other direction.  Not sure why I did it this way...silly, right?  But maybe there was a lunar eclipse that night when Santa was flying by...😉

Anyway, terrific dies, and sure to please those of you who are willing to spend a little more time creating masterpieces!  You ARE out there, right?


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Friday, September 1, 2017

The Time is Now!

Yes, the Holiday Catalog is now live!  Time to pull out your wish list and order away.

I've been having such a good time stampin' with my new products, and I'm going to begin sharing a few of my ideas over the next few days.  First up:  Hearts Come Home with the Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies.

This was my first pass at using this set and the dies.  If you liked the little town you could make with last year's dies, you're gonna love this one!  More dies make for a bigger town!  And the houses are larger with more detail.

Let's take a closer look:

I started by cutting the row of houses/church/trees with Whisper White cardstock.  They are the perfect length for a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" card front.  I used Daffodil Delight cardstock behind the windows to make it look like the "lights are on and somebody's home".

I adhered the row of houses to a piece of Night of Navy.  And then I added a slightly modified strip of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper over the bottom, to look like snow.  (Full disclosure--I carefully snipped away little slivers around the doorways of the church and the house on the right).  I also used little scraps of the Glimmer Paper and with the die and ran it through the Big Shot cutting out just the trees.  This made them look like they were covered in snow.

The sentiment was heat embossed with White Embossing Powder, as were the stars.  All that was left was to stamp a wisp of smoke (see the chimney on the right house?) using White Craft Ink.  So cute!

This bundle is now waiting for your order!  Save 10% by purchasing the stamp set and the edgelits together--you KNOW you want them!

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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Welcome Home

I just got back from a quick trip to Portland, OR.  My son and daughter-in-law, and my darling grandson, Declan, moved there last month, and I HAD to see their new home.

And of course, I had to make a card:


Map it Out provided the great US map.  And I thought it was perfect to mark Portland with a star!

Other products used are new, from the upcoming Holiday Catalog.  First is that adorable house:


This actually looks quite a bit like my son's new home, a 125-year old farmhouse-style structure that needs LOTS of remodeling.  Think "fixer upper".  But it's my son's dream (and fortunately he has the skills) to turn it into a palace for his wife.  And he'll be true to the time period--he's even refinishing the original windows!

But I digress...back to the card.  😁😁😁

The house, along with two other styles, is featured in the Hearts Come Home set.  Obviously I didn't do a great job of coloring it, but since I was making the card at 11:00 p.m. the night before I was leaving, I went with it...I used Old Olive and Peekaboo Peach markers, along with Basic Black for the roof; colored, huffed and stamped.  Then cut it out with the Stitched Shapes framelits, layered on two more of the Layering Circles dies.


The background paper is new too - the Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper.  I love that this paper has patterns that can be used all year round!

It was hard to leave them on Sunday night, but I know they're in a good place, and a wonderful home.  What more can a mom ask?


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