New Home (by Doreen)

Hello everyone, Doreen is back with her second post this month, a delightful New Home card created for a family member. Doreen has written a detailed set of instructions for her card so that you can have a go at recreating the project for yourselves.

Doreen writes:

The reason for this New Home card is a personal one, my Daughter and her family have been living at home with my Husband and myself and though somewhat cramped, we have got through relatively well. They move into a new home in the coming week or two, hence the card....

Products used are:

Chocolate Baroque Home Sweet Home stamp set
Chocolate Baroque Masking Tissue
Vaersafine ink pad
Distress Inks: Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, and Bundled Sage, Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Pumice Stone

Permanent ink pen
Black card for mat and card blank

To make this card:

1. Stamp the image onto card and another of the image onto masking tissue, cut out the mask on the inside of the outside edge line. There is no need to cut out the tree just the house is fine.
2. Place mask over image.
3. Punch or die cut a mask from the centre of a piece of copy paper, put the circle punched out to one side and keep, then place the outer around the house, this can either be held in place or taped if desired. Using stencil brushes add Squeezed Lemonade to the centre taking colour from side to side over the house mask and this will give you your 'sun'. Remove copy paper and using small piece of low tack tape, put your centre circle over the sun to protect from colour contamination. Add Tumbled Glass to the area above the sun allowing it to fade towards the top of the card. Do the same with Bumdled Sage below the house.
4. Remove masks.
5. Colour the roof using Rusty Hinge and Wild Honey (I used a tile to put some colour onto and picked this up with a damp paintbrush, adding water to dilute the colour as needed). Crushed Olive and Forest Moss were used for the grassy area, bushes and I added some budsto the bare tree. Finally I added the Pumice Stone for shadows under facias, window sills and a watered down wash over the white areas of the house.
6. With the permanent ink pen I formed a border to the card using dots and dashes.
5. Finally stamp and add the sentiment and raise from the image using double sided foam tape.

Mat and layer using foam pads between the black card and the topper.

Thank you for looking and leaving your comments.

Love Doreen