My friend at work just moved to a new house. She requested
me to create a set of cards with a customized sentiment, “It takes a Village to
Raise a Child.” She will be giving this away to her previous neighbors. After looking through the net for ideas, I settled on creating
a village using my Cricut. I was tempted to purchase stamps for this project but I just made a purchase for a previous card project. I was
planning to use some of the images on that stamp for this project but decided
otherwise.
I utilized Cricut Design Space to search for a house cut
image in my owned images. Fortunately, I have a house cut image in the Close To
My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge. It is a simple yet layered cut which is just
perfect for this project. I created duplicates of the house, undoing the lock
aspect so I can re-size the image to create five houses with different heights
and widths. I cut this on different colored cardstocks, trying to follow a
rainbow order. I applied shimmer to the second layer of the house using
Spectrum Noir clear shimmer pen. I made sure that the shimmer is on the areas
that will show through the opening on the first layer. I adhered the first layer using foam
adhesive for dimension.
I am using Stathmore Bristol paper for the background. I ink
blended Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Salty Ocean on a 6”x 4 1/2" Bristol paper. I
added water droplets to this blended area, then picked up the water droplets with a dry
paper cloth. I also added splatters of white paint by diluting a white paint no
an acrylic block, then flicking it off to the paper with the use of a small tip
paint brush. I set this aside to dry.
I ink blended another piece of Strathmore Bristol paper with
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn. I blended some THDO Peeled Paint on the
top portion of this panel. I die cut this using Avery Elle Custom Panels to create
a hill. I set this aside to dry so I can stamp the sentiment later on.
I created the sentiment using Lawn Fawn Milo’s ABC stamp
set. I am lucky that this stamp set covers all the letters needed to form the
sentiment. It is a tedious task to put the letters together to create the
sentiment. Not to forget, some of my alphabet stamps lost its stickiness that’s why it
falls off from the acrylic block. A trick I used to prevent this is to apply a temporary adhesive on the acrylic block to keep the letters stuck to the
acrylic block. Also, in using alphabet letters, I find it best to use a lined
acrylic block. I was trying to use the Misti Stamping Tool but putting the
letters together was not working out for me. And, before stamping the
sentiment on the final project, I test it out on a scrap paper to see if the
lay-out of the letters are right.
I treated this panel with a powder tool so I can heat emboss
the sentiment. I stamped each line one at a time, using the lines of the
acrylic block and my grid mat as a guide. I used Versamark ink, poured Hero
Arts white embossing powder and applied heat right away with a heat tool. I
repeated this process on the second line of the sentiment, too. If you have
some warping after heat embossing the first line of the sentiment, just secure
this panel with some non-tacky tape to your work surface to keep it flat while
stamping the second line.
If you noticed, I used a different font for the ‘a' for added
interest. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn Party Animal stamp set. I masked the
rest of the sentiment stamp to be able to stamp the ‘a’ only.
I trimmed the background panel to 5 ¼” x 4”. I adhered the
hill next, trimming off any excess. I adhered the houses next with a strong liquid adhesive. I adhered some
sequins to the sky background.
I adhered this panel to a white top folding A2 notecard.
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