Cardmaking - Houses

Another house card.

I removed some of the elements from my printed house so that I could change those on each house.  I can hand draw them in with my fine Sharpie marker.

I put full frames around the windows, clad the gable end and the bottom of the house with live edge boards. I put straight boards on the rest of the house.

I added pink flowers in the front of the house.  A stone pathway to the front door.  A hedge at the back and lawn around the house.

Added texture to the sky by dropping clean water drops in a wet sky.

It was printed on 110lb paper instead of watercolor paper. Trimmed and mounted to Not Quite Navy A2 card base. White insert.

Another house photo card.

I created a small still life with a small ceramic house, bottle brush trees, and a watercolor background.  I processed it with a art filter which is AI generated. Not fussy about that.

For the time being I am printing the photos on my home printer. Printed 3.5x5 on a glossy 4x6 paper then trimmed as needed.

I mounted the photo onto purple card stock with a small border then onto a sage green A2 card base.

It's easier to add greeting to this type of card but it is hard coded and cannot be changed once printed.  White quarter sheet insert and envelope.

After my visit to the ReUse Center this week I brought home a blender pencil for colored pencils.  That prompted me to pull out the box of colored pencils.   I have a nice collection of Prismacolor pencils so I printed another house onto 110lb card stock and added a few customizations with marker and colored it.

This was a quick sketch with the Sharpie marker so it is a bit slap dash. Love the vibrant colors.

Once I added a couple of colors to the house, the bushes and the grass I used the Lyra Rembrandt Splender pencil to blend the colors.  It worked well. It does add a sheen to the piece.

White quarter sheet insert and envelope. 

Cardmaking - Houses

I made a slow stitching card.  Very time consuming but relaxing.

I started with the beige background fabric. 

I created the body of the house with 2 pieces of paisley fabric. Then stitched it to the background.

After aligning the chimney to edge the house body I stitched it on before the roof.

I added the roof in olive green fabric.

I added the window and the door. 

Then I added the smoke and the bird in the sky and the green grass base at the bottom.  I used gold sewing thread. 

I mounted it to a Kiwi Kiss card base with some strategically placed stitches in the four corners of the card.  This card has a half sheet insert to cover the stitching on the inside of the card. White insert and envelope.

I used some watercolor paper I made a while back.

Using the house thinlits I cut the bright watercolor paper. I then cut a chimney by hand. 

I cut a Baja Breeze house in a smaller size. 

I designed a greeting which I trimmed to leave a small border when adhered to the blue layer.

I chose a deep yellow card base onto which the layers were adhered.

White quarter sheet insert and envelope.

I drew a house which I printed on watercolor paper. 

I watercolored it with Stampin Up Watercolor Wonder Crayons. Blue house, brown roof, red chimney, yellow windows, green door, flower boxes, a bush out front and a stone walkway.

The extras were drawn with my fine tip black Sharpie marker.

Trimmed to leave a small border on an A2 card base.

Adhere to the dark green card base.

White quarter sheet insert and envelope.

I started with a Tempting Turquoise A2 card base.

I cut the middle layer from a piece of watercolor paper I created a while ago.

I cut the white layer with the next size house thinlit.

I glued the chimney cut from an extra piece of the same watercolor paper to the back of the white layer on the right hand side.  Then adhered that to the card front.

I then distressed the watercolor paper with a bit of sand paper and then glued the greeting on top of it.

This was then adhered to the white layer.

A white quarter sheet insert and envelope.