Sweet Home – A Stamping Journey

This is the first project I made on our stamping weekend this past weekend. I just have to share this with you. I was so pleased with how it turned out.

I live right near the beach so had to make a beach house. I have used the Sweet Home Stamp set and the Home Sweet Home Thinlits. What a great versatile bundle it is.

Once I made the house I had to make a matching card. Here are the details.

HOUSE: The roof is in Marina Mist. The house stripes are stamped in Smoky Slate. I coloured the banners with the markers. The surfboard is the oval door stamp and die and I added the hatched line (if that is what you call it). The fin is from one of the banners and I cut that by hand and kind of rounded the points.

CARD: I cut the house out on Whisper White and then trimmed off just the front part of the house. Then stamped the lines in Smoky Slate to match. I stamped another board for the card. The “sand” was a piece of Crumb Cake card that I tore the edge off then inked it with Crumb Cake ink on the edge and in patches. I assembled it all on a piece of Marina Mist card than I stamped the clouds from Sprinkles of Life in White ink.

I debated what else to do. It needed something else but wasn’t sure how to add a greeting. Then I had a thought. I cut the thin door frame from the Thinlits set from Crumb Cake card. The centre piece that is left when you cut it I trimmed off and then stamped the Sentiment which is from Balloon Builder on to that. I sponged these pieces a little too with Crumb Cake ink. I was really pleased with how that worked.

I have plans for more homes. When I get to it. 🙂

Thanks for visiting today. See you again soon,

Jenny

A couple of weeks ago with my order I got the new ‘Sweet Home’ stamp set and the matching Thinlits. I finally had a play recently and made a cute little house. I thought I would show you.

These ‘Home Sweet Home’ Thinlits have so many special little “bits”, OK well dies to be more technical – 22 in fact. You can create so many variations. I will say this did take some time but I think now I have made one I can whip them up pretty quickly. I think the most time consuming part was the roof. Also, I found it a little tricky lining up the stripes on the walls of the house. This house was CASED from Pinterest but I added the circle wreath on the door using one of the dies and then punched some small red circles from the 2-step Owl punch for the “berries”.

In the photo above it doesn’t really give you much idea of the size. I thought I would take another photo for comparison. Check out the size against an ink refill.