Showing posts with label new home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new home. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2026

New Home

Hi everyone.  My son's friends are moving into their first place.  It's an exciting time. :)  He asked me to make a custom card.

I started with a fun die I bought quite a while ago (Rickety House - Memory Box).  I bought because I saw these wonderful cards made by my friend Leslie.  Linking shows that I saw Leslie's cards in Oct. 2022!  Yikes ...I didn't realize I had been sitting on this die for so long. 

Anyways, it was released as a Halloween die, but it made an adorable house (customized in the new owner's colours) for a "Congratulations on your new home" card.  I add sponging on all die pieces, and also the background.  And I stamped with some leafy branches behind the house.  It's all contained behind a sweet rectangle die-cut aperture with double stitched borders.  The sentiment is from an very old stamp set (A Little Sentimental - Clearly Besotted - retired). 

Close-up ...
Sending this card to the following challenges:
Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 2 - Dies - I used die-cuts for the house and the frame.
NBUS Challenge #86 - First time using this die. :)

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Excited to announce the re-start of the CAS Christmas Challenge!!
First challenge starts on June 1st.  Hope you'll join us!


Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted); leaf stamp (Kittie Kits - Master #1)
Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Night of Navy, Sahara Sand (both SU!)
Ink:   Distress Inks:  Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Rectangle Stitched small frame (AliExpress); Rickety House die (Memory Box), sponges

Challenges: