dream homes

 

My first card today features the Luv Shack house by Kim Moody for Chocolate Baroque.

I created a distress ink background in greens then stmaped the house onto the background using black versafine ink and again onto white card.

I coloured the chimney, hedge, balcony and ladder on the distress ink background and the main house on the white card using pencils.

I cut out the house on the white card and glued it over the other image, then added the sentiment from Italian House

The second card also has a distress ink background,this time in grey and green to create a misty effect. The Bottle and Jug was stamped in black at the top right and the Urban Chic house at the bottom left. The letters were cut from gold metallic card and glued in place diagonally

Bottle and Jug

It's always fun to have the quirky designs by Kim Moody to play with, and this month we had four!

I have used just the old pub one here, to celebrate the hospitality reopening....

My first one used a brusho background, image stamped in black versafine and clear embossed. I used bleach to take the colour out on the plastered areas of the building and a marker pen to colopur the roof.

The sentiment is from Say it vertically.

 The second version is back to a daylight view, stmaped in black again and coloured with marker pens.The background was sponged with distress inks and stamped with the script from Scripts and timepieces

winter trees

 

I love tree stamps, so these  - Orchard design-a -tree -on last month's shows were right up my street! They do come with leaves and flowers stamps so you can change the effects according to the seasons, but I loved them as the bare trees.

I stamped the larger tree in versafine black and clear embossed it, then used sponges and distress inks to create the wintery sky background, then trimmed close to the image. 

The sentiment from Life is so much better  was alos stmaped and embossed onto spare card and cut out.

The card background was made by splitting  a piece of corrugated card and then spraying it with an ancient green glimmer mist before rubbing a bit of gold wax over parts of it.

 The second card I used a spare bit of white card and stamped the trees, then used sponges, black soot and hickory smoke  distress inks  and torn paper to create the landscape. The sky was also sponged using the hickory smoke again and broken china.Trimmed down again to fit across a card blank, then the sentiment from Life is so much better stamped below.