New Home

Once again it was time to make a New Home card and this was a also a chance to use one of my new Christmas dies.

I started by cutting out a full set of the shapes from some corrugated card.

As you can see, it was recycled card!

 Then I used one of my new Perfect Pearls mists (copper), carefully tucked inside a box to avoid mess all over the study, to colour the shapes to look like metal.

 

 The card was less absorbent than I hoped / expected, so I had to add a number of layers and the lock split into the two layers of card. But as so often in crafting, this gave another option and meant the key and lock are different thickness, adding instant dimension and difference to the card.

Next I cut an ATC and edged a little with copper ink, to define the edges.

 

Finally I combined the ATC and keys etc onto a card, using some craft pads to introduce dimensions, and stamped the words "New Home".

I am entering this into the  One Stop Craft and Creative Craft Challenges 2 challenges as this is a New Beginning, in a special place, for our friends.

 

 

When I saw the Crafty Boots Challenge I knew it was the perfect way of returning to my blog, so I am entering this into the challenge.

So I killed two birds with one stone and made a birthday card for my cousin (sshh, it's not til the end of the month, so we won't tell him about this blog!) as my entry.

I knew straight away what the tag would be about, as I was lucky enough to get a new die for Christmas which was just right for the tag.

I chose some burgundy card I had, since our wedding car  was a burgundy Austin 16, and I wanted to remind myself of that and cut out my Old Jalopy. I found a metallic silver pen and inked in the bumpers and left it to dry.

Next I cut out two tags 

 

and used some lovely new distress stains to ink both

 

 with grass and sky. I misted with water and dried off quickly with my heat gun. I mixed in a little stormy sky and bundled sage, misted again and dried it all off. To finish I created a "road" of black soot.

 

 

I added a Happy Birthday stamp and then used some craft pads to add dimension when I stuck on the car.

Finally I sandwiched the two tags together.