Friday, July 20, 2018

Home Life For A New Home

Last year, when my daughter started talking about buying a house, I purchased the Home Life Bundle, just waiting for the moment when I could create a card to celebrate their purchase. Finally, they found the perfect house this spring and they moved in on the 14th!

Because I was using a retired product, I decided to update it by using new Stampin' Up colors.

I started by using the house die framelit to die cut the house. I kept both the house piece and the negative of the cut and placed them in my Stamparatus, placing the magnets on the negative piece. By doing this, I was easily able to line up the three separate house stamps on the house die cut.

Each stamp was positioned on a separate side or plate of the Stamparatus, allowing me to easily stamp the three different stamps, one after the other. However, they do take some lining up so it is best to stamp and then line up the next stamp on another side of the Stamparatus. The house is held in place by the "frame" created with the negative space from the house die.

I stamped on Thick Whisper White, using Blueberry Bushel, Granny Apple Green, and Lovely Lipstick. I stamped a second time on another piece using the Blueberry Bushel so that I could die cut some of the flowers to pop up on the house.

After removing the stamps, I used the Stamparatus again to stamp first the banner and then the sentiment on the banner using Lovely Lipstick. This was then die cut using the matching die.

A Granny Apple Green matte was cut and then embossed using the Tufted Embossing Folder. It was adhered to a very thin Blueberry Bushel matte. This was then adhered with Dimensionals to a 4.75 x 6" Granny Apple Green card front.

The flowers on the house were die cut and popped up on the house using Dimensionals and then the house itself was adhered to the card front using Dimensionals. The sentiment was adhered over top of the house.

A sentiment for inside the card was stamped on Thick Whisper White using Lovely Lipstick and then the edges were sponged with the same ink. The matte was then adhered with liquid adhesive.

The flower pot was die cut from Blueberry Bushel and sponged and detailed using both Night of Navy ink and the matching marker. The flowers were die cut from Whisper White and colored using markers and then glued behind the pot. The pot was then adhered inside the card to complete it.

I hope my daughter likes it! I'm planning to mail it to her so that it will be the first mail she gets at the new house!

If you like the color scheme, be sure to save it for your own projects!