Mornin’ y’all! We’re headed into the week when Fall arrives. I know this because I have a huge hankerin’ for apple cider. The kind in the refrigerator section – not in the shelves. Or better – at an apple orchard somewhere in north Georgia! The thick kind – that you can’t see thru. So close to the apple that you almost have to chew it!
But you don’t. Cuz of how it’s….liquid. And if you boil it down to a thick syrup – you can make apple cider caramels. Mmmmm.
Today (Sunday night), one of our neighbors apparently thinks it’s already October. Cuz they’re burning leaves. In the evening. And the smoke is hanging thick in our pastures and around the barn. And I’ve had to use my inhaler twice. Hopefully our neighborly phone call to request that they extinguish said smoldering leaves will bear fruit (see how I made that connection? apples? fruit?) and she’ll douse it all the way. And then hopefully the smoke will dissipate. Please cross your fingers!
So, like I told you the other day, we had our Amy’s Inkin’ Krew meeting today. I’m going to show you the fun projects we made, using the Sweet Home bundle, plus some Peaceful Pines, a little Tin of Tags, and….well. Take a look-see:
Really – how cute are those? The little house is a product of the Home Sweet Home Thinlits – the base is made in Crumb Cake and then we used Garden Green and Real Red for all the decorations. This is a chock-a-block Thinlits set – it’s got 22 dies. Everything you see has a die – with one exception. The stripe-y strips are fussy cut. We stamped them in Real Red on Whisper White and just quickly snipped them out.
Biggest tips for making the house: you cut two of the largest dies, and then adhere the two pieces together with convenient tabs. You should cut out the windows and door before assembling the house, and it’s easier to decorate it before it’s put together, too. Then use Tear & Tape Adhesive to assemble the house.
For the card, we used a piece of Soft Sky card stock, and stamped the snowy image from Christmas Pines all over it in Soft Sky ink, then SNAILd it to a Whisper White mat.
The sentiment is from Tin of Tags, and it’s heat embossed in White Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I stuck one little Rhinestone Basic Jewel up there in the corner, just for ducks.
Now, the house. Do you guys watch the show called Fixer Upper? On it, an uber-talented couple in Waco, TX remodel homes for folks down there – taking the very worst houses and turning them into marvelous homes. She uses shiplap a lot – and it’s wonderful. With Crumb Cake ink, we added the “shiplap” image from the Sweet Home stamp set down a piece of Crumb Cake card stock. Shiplap even looks good on a card stock house, huh?
Then we cut out one of the large Home Sweet Home die cuts and snipped out just the house portion. Using the window die, we cut a window in the “eave” and a Whisper White window “frame”.
I adhered the frame to the house with some Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue, and then stuck a piece of So Saffron card stock behind it (to make the room appear lit up!).
The door is stamped in Real Red and cut with its matching die, then adhered with Liquid Glue.
We made the banner over the door by stamping the image from the Sweet Home stamp set in Real Red, and the banner image in Garden Green, and cutting it with its die. See? I told you there’s not a lot of fussy cutting required with this bundle! The banner is adhered with Liquid Glue, as are the two stripe-y strips for the roof. And I had a Garden Green gumdrop leftover from my house, so I stuck it up there in the peak of the roof!
The snow is a piece of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, cut with the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits (is this not like the most versatile thinlit set ever?!?), and adhered to the bottom of the panel with a little Liquid Glue. Then I popped the house over it all with Stampin’ Dimensionals, and that was it for the card front.
On the inside, I stamped some more Soft Sky snow from Christmas Pines across the top of a Whisper White panel. The sentiment, from Peaceful Pines (Annual Catalog), is stamped in Real Red.
I SNAILd the panel into my Real Red card base, popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals, and the card was done!
On the Whisper White Medium Envelope, I stamped more Soft Sky Christmas Pines snow across the front and the back flap…
…aaaand you totally can’t see the Soft Sky snow on the envelope. Sorry! You’ll just have to take my word that they’re there. You know I’m not going to be putting out any nekkid envelopes, people! 🙂
Et Voila – one giant bundle, plus a few sentiments here and there – and you’ve got a card and a darling little 3-D house! What’s not to love? Hope you like!
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CARD CUTS FOR THIS PROJECT:
Real Red Card Stock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, scored and fold at 5 1/2″)
Whisper White Card Stock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (mat for card front; inner liner)
Soft Sky Card Stock: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (card front)
Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper: 3 7/8″ x 1 1/8″ (snow on front)
Crumb Cake Card Stock: Home Sweet Home die cut houses
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I’m glad that you liked the projects! Looking forward to our next meeting already! 🙂
Me, too, Amy – thanks for a great afternoon!! 🙂
Mmmmm…cider and caramels. Yum! Much as I recall the scent of burning leaves from many many many years ago, I would not appreciate it now. Sure hope your neighbor responds positively.
Great little holiday card!
I don’t mind a little whiff – but this was a smoke bomb! 🙁 Thanks, Mom! 🙂
Love the projects you ladies did at your meeting! OH YES, I watch “fixer upper”……..LOVE that show!! That goofy Chip just makes me laugh!! Plus, they love some shiplap……your little house looks great with some shiplap!!
Thanks, Karen! I wish she’d do design work in Atlanta! I’d like to just wave my hand in the direction of my house and say….there ya go. Back in 3 months! And then take out a second mortgage to pay her! 🙂