A House Warming Card

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday week. We had a quiet Christmas day but celebrated with family the following weekend. We are all so spread out its hard to get everyone free on the same day. Here’s a picture of my family minus one son-in-law who was home sick.

 

        There were also seven…yes seven, dogs roaming around so if they walked into the photo, they were in the photo. They were all rescue dogs that my daughters and granddaughter saved from being culled. One of them was a poor old girl who was found in the streets, abandoned by her owners when she got old......grrr curses to them. My daughter and hubby adopted her and she will know nothing but love until the end. They even bought a dog inhaler for her and give her a few puffs a day so she can breathe easier. Here she is getting a dose.

 

        Hubby loved one of my granddaughter’s dogs and Hershey seemed to like Joe too.

 

        Overall it was a wonderful visit with everyone. I made quilts for three of them but I’ll post those later. Unfortunately Joe and I are not completely over our colds. In fact, I have quite the sore throat and not much of a voice today. Hopefully after a couple days rest and it will finally leave.

My granddaughter and fiancée just bought their first house so I made them a card to go along with their house warming present.

       I die cut the house and removed the other houses on the strip as their house is in a very small town…village actually I think…on a half acre lot so no house sits right beside theirs. It was die cut in off-white cardstock and then I sponged some light brown on their house…green on the tree. They also have a lot of trees so I die cut some extra ones and added them in. They have three rescue dogs so I die cut three different dogs and placed them in the yard. Of course the yard had to be fenced so I die cut the fence and gate as well. One dog, the husky, is a bit of an escape artist so that’s him checking to see if he can squeeze through the gate.  Then I stamped the sentiment and die cut out the curved banner that matches the stamps. She loved it…especially because I was able to fit the three dogs in.

        That’s all for a damp and cloudy Wednesday, January 2, 2019. I’ll be back on Friday with another card.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.

 

New Home!

No, not a new home for us; however, my youngest daughter and hubby just bought a new home and I decided to use this week's sketch from Stamping Bella for a congratulations on your new home card. She is also getting a couple of scrap quilts for her extra bedrooms but I don't have them done yet.

Here's the card.

The background paper is from the stash. The bottom strip was die cut using the Spellbinder's Border die and the rectangles were all cut from the Spellbinder's Card Creator die sets. The rectangle with the words on it was computer generated. I just typed congratulations and new home several times, changed the fonts and colours and printed it out and then die cut it. I didn't worry about trying to get it the same size as the die because now it looks like a large piece of paper that was cut down.

The stamp is, of course, Stamping Bella. It looks muted in the photo because after it was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol I spritzed clear Glimmer Mist over it. The camera picked it up more than I thought it would. In real life, you can't see the shine until the light hits it. The little bird was a plain wooden one that I coloured with Tombow markers.

I attempted to colour in the embossed edge of the rectangle with the stamped image using the instructions from the tutorial from Becca - http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/perfect-ink-bordered-die-cuts - who does the most amzing cards ever. Her tutorials are great and her voice is so soothing I keep thinking she should do voice-over for kid's videos to help them relax. Okay, way off topic here. Anyway, she mentions that not all ink work well with this method and she was right. The one I used didn't so I had to run a marker down the edge to get the look I wanted. I shall keep trying with other inks though because I love the look.

Well, this is a long weekend here in Ontario - Canada Day is July 1st! BBQ, family and fun times are coming soon. Whatever you do this weekend, make it a good one. Have fun and be safe.

Violet