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A Happy Home fest

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I’m really enjoying playing with the Happy Home stamp set – and I haven’t even pulled out the coordinating window die yet. I was contemplating joining two of the scenes together again but the bench and clouds doesn’t lend itself to that since the clouds would be rather out of proportion. So I decided to go super simple and make a very CAS card; black and white with just a touch of colour.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

I used the ordinary whisper white card as usual for layers on my card. I only use the extra thick for card bases. Whilst it might be simpler to just have one type of whisper white, I stocked up a while ago so I am still working through my stash. I stamped the two images from Happy Home using the archival basic black ink and the stamp-a-ma-jig for placement. It’s very clear when using the stamp-a-ma-jig that the basic black is an enduring ink – if you don’t clean the plastic fairly quickly you end up needed the stazon cleaner to get the stamp-a-ma-jig plastic clean!

I then used an aquapainter to give a little wash of pear pizzazz to the hill. I’d decided that I wanted a large pear pizzazz border so I’d just kept trimming down the piece of whisper white until I had the size that I wanted. Then I mounted this on a piece of basic black card stock to give a narrow border and added that to a pear pizzazz card base.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

The envelope is lined with the subtles DSP stack in pear pizzazz using the envelope liners framelits to cut it out.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home Reprise

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I really liked yesterday’s image from Happy Home so I decided to use it again. This was when I realised that I could add two of the images together for a simple scene. This card looks simple but it took me quite a few tries. I tried doing the watercolouring first and last but although the black didn’t run, it was better to do it first.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

So for this, I used watercolour paper and got it quite wet and laid down a pale wash of pacific point. I tried marina mist which made more sense to me, but the pacific point created a much more realistically coloured sky. For the bottom third of the card, I changed to pear pizzazz. The heat tool was invaluable here to speed up the drying process.

Then I stamped the 2 images from Happy Home using my stamp-a-ma-jig so that I got them to line up together and also so that the delineation between sky and grass was right. After that I used my daffodil stampin’ write marker to colour the child’s shirt and also the flowers. Finally I glued the watercolour paper onto a daffodil delight card base.

What issues did I have? There was smudging of the black as I did my colouring, also I managed to mess up the stamping of the boy by adding some extra black into the middle of that stamp. I tried to turn it into birds but it wasn’t working! I also tried stamping first and then doing the watercolouring but the wash became too “careful” looking. I’m happy with this one!

Happy Friday. See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home for CC&S

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This week we have an exciting challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Since this is the fifth Thursday in the month, it’s a double. As in, there’s a sketch AND colours to use. It’s the first this year and therefore the first since I’ve been on the design team. I’ve been mulling this one over for a while.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Endless Birthday Wishes

Here’s the challenge banner:

I started with a piece of watercolor paper and applied a wash of pacific point getting paler towards the bottom. I used the aquapainter and really squeezed it so that the paper was really wet and the colour would flow. The heat tool was really useful to dry the paper afterwards so that I could get onto the next step which was stamping the image from Happy Home in chocolate chip. I used the Stampin’ Write marker in daffodil delight to colour in the shirt. I really love this image, the line drawing and the child remind me so much of the illustrations in Winnie the Pooh. I remember my mother saying that she couldn’t read the story about Tigger to us because she would start laughing uncontrollably and just couldn’t continue.

I also stamped the sentiment (from Endless Birthday Wishes) in chocolate chip onto a small piece of very vanilla. All that was left for the sketch was the stripe – and this is made with a piece of seam binding ribbon wrapped around a layer of very vanilla. I don’t like the edges of my ribbon to show, hence the layer. I use fast fuse to fix the edges of the ribbon securely before gluing that layer onto a card base of very vanilla.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Endless Birthday Wishes

I found this sketch a little intimidating to start with – especially since the colours were also set, but in the end I really enjoyed making this card and am pleased with it. As was Doug, one of my work colleagues, whose birthday was on Monday.

I hope that you’ll have a go at this one yourself. Don’t be intimidated by having the sketch and the colours defined – just let the challenge banner work in the back of your mind for a couple of days and see where you can go. Take a look at the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz