Congratulations on Your New Home

My sister and her husband moved into an old farmhouse when their children were little.  It was a farmhouse very much like the one in Farmhouse Christmas.  It had a big willow tree in the front yard and the kids used to spend time swinging on the tire swing hanging from one of the large branches.

Memories!!!  Memories elicited by the farmhouse in the Farmhouse Christmas set.

I made this card to show that a Christmas stamp set doesn't necessarily have to be about Christmas.  It could be a birthday card, new home, or a general congratulations.

On a thick Very Vanilla card base I added a strip of Festive Farmhouse DSP matted with Cherry Cobber card stock.

In the center is a die cut  Granite Gray picket fence with a Mossy Meadow green tree behind it.I wanted to put it in the front yard, but it didn't look right. The farmhouse was stamped, coloured and die cut and added to the DSP strip using dimensionals.

I cut the Christmas tree off of the truck and made it into an every day truck and it sits parked beside the farmhouse.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Farmhouse Christmas

Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin' Up Blends

Papers:  Thick Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Slate Gray, Cherry Cobbler Festive Farmhouse DSP, Mossy Meadow

Accessories:  Festive Farmhouse Framelits, Dimensionals

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Bringing the Tree Home

For this card I brought out not one but two of my favourites - the Woodland Embossing Folder and Lovely as a Tree - and brought in a new friend -  Farmhouse Christmas

There are many tutorials on You Tube demonstrating stamping on the Woodlands Embossing Folder so I won't go into a lot of detail here.

 I applied Smoky Slate and Pool Party with a Brayer and then stamped the  tree from " Lovely as a Tree" with Mossy Meadow ink  directly onto the embossing folder. After running the embossing folder with  inserted cardstock through the Big Shot, Dazzling Diamonds were added to  the birch trees- making it look like a Winter Wonderland.

On a separate piece of Whisper white the image of the truck was stamped , colored with Stampin' Up Blends and then die cut using the coordinating  Farmhouse framelit.  Some snow, in the form of Liquid Applique,was applied to the tree and the top of the truck.

Dimensionals were used to adhere both the truck and the die cut sentiment to the embossed art piece.

Two rows of 1/8" Blueberry Bushel grosgrain ribbon adhered to the lower art piece, actually look like a road and  help to ground the truck.  Do you see the tiny wreath on the upper left corner of the sentiment?

The embossed art piece was adhered to a Blueberry Bushel card stock base.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Farmhouse Christmas, Lovely as a Tree

Inks:  Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Mossy Meadow, Black Memento, Stampin' Up Blends

Papers:  Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel

Accessories:  Woodland Embossing Folder, Brayer, Big Shot, Farmhouse Framelit Dies, 1/8" Blueberry Bushel ribbon, Liquid Applique (non SU), Dazzling Diamonds,