New Home

I am probably not going to be feeling up to much later today after the Dental Procedure so I am posting a card that I made a week ago for our neighbours who have just moved home. I am also resetting the Butterfly Challenge  to run for a further week as grappling with the above and anything blogger throws at me in trying to get the new challenge posted will be too vexing. I have already been booted out of my account and had to reset it. Not sure if that was a Google or Blogger problem but one I could still do without.

This card was about 3 weeks on and off  in the making as I took my time in doing each bit of the elements.

Basic shape is an easel card. I wanted to make the roof look like it was tiled so I played around with various ideas and finally settled on using a scallop Loop Edge die from Die'sire. The die is quite a long one so I managed to get a continuous strip for each row of tiles and attached to the roof in a cascading manner on each side. It took a few goes to get it right but I am pretty pleased with the result. The walls were created using a Docrafts  Wooden Boards Background stamp. Stamping in black ink and then aging with distress ink to get a weathered look. That is the name of their New House so I created in word and printed off. The window is four square flat pearls.

 Side view of the card. The layers of tiles on the roof made it a tad top heavy so it needed  an extra strip placed inside the card base and the front of the card just slips into the space created and stays in place. I did use a tiny rose printed paper for the inside walls to make it look like wallpaper which you can just about see.

 I used various small grass stamps and Lavinia's Bluebell stamp to create the flower garden on the front and the back wall below.  The New Home Sentiment was created in word and printed off and used as the easel step.

 The New Neighbours  got a slightly scaled down version!! They did like it though.

Now I am probably going to regret this but I just might turn my blog over to ' Norm' for a short spell (whilst I am recuperating from said tooth op) as he has been badgering me non stop to get on here since lockdown began.  He is very  eager to show you his prize tomatoes. He has been told 'On No Account'  is he to touch the Try The New Blogger Button.