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Saturday 17 September 2011

...A Cottage Home


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I love this. I love wee houses. I especially love wee old fairytale type houses and If I could, I would live in a house like this.

This is the card I owe you from yesterday, It's a sample I made to show you one of the new sets, A Cottage Home. I'll be showing the full details of each set here on the blog on Monday night, only two sleeps away!

It's a sort of gingerbread cottage style design and I have been itching to use white embossing powder with it!

I love white embossing powder for two main reasons, it really makes the image pop, and it makes detailed and intricate images easier, much easier, to colour, esp with a waterbrush and some ink as I have used here.

I love detailed images, but I don't always have the time to colour the whole thing in. Also I love copics, but sometimes I just don't have the patience to take the time to be careful about fine detail such as the window frames and doors on this image, this is where embossing comes into its own for me.

With white embossing, I then use a water brush and a few inks, I'm finding SU ink is brilliant, I can squeeze it against the inside of the lid to leave a little pigment that I can use a water brush with.

I really don't have to be particularly careful as the white embossed lines make little 'walls' whch helps to prevent the colour flowing out of the desired area.

Black embossing works well for me if I am using copic markers, I find that white embossing is not great for this because the pens can colour the actual embossed lines.




I found that the house fit perfectly in a Spellbinders rectangle die template and so I used that and matted with a scalloped rectangle die, also Spellbinders. The card base is cream card, with a little horizontal border stamped with one of the other sentiments from A Cottage Home.

I die cut a butterfly (from this new Spellbinders die set) and stamped my sentiment directly to that.



I dressed up my sponged card base with a flower, I love this little cinnamon coloured rose and I am delighted to tell you that I made it myself!!! with the help of one of these - have you seen these? It's a piece of genius! A die that you use to cut out a strip of petal that can be rolled into a rose!! wonderful!! Spellbinders of course.... :)

hope it tickles, I'll be back in the morning with s'more stuff!!

26 comments:

  1. Claire this is really beautiful! I love the white embossing - it makes your colors seem richer - especially that roof and front door! LOVE IT! I like the Home Sweet Home background too! Can't forget that gorgeous rolled flower! So lovely!

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  2. Such a pretty card, Claire! I love the gingerbread house and the beautiful flower!

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  3. This is just beautiful, the colours, the colouring, the embossing and the flower. It does look like a gingerbread house and good enough to eat.

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  4. Fab, Claire!!

    What's that sound?? Yep, it's the thumpety-thump of my little heart! LOVE this.

    Did you know your new stamps are coming to live at my house soon? ;)

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  5. Gorgeous, the white embossing is so effective :)

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  6. Thud!! I couldn't wait to see what you'd do with this and it was well worth the wait! This is an amazing stamp set and that house looks so yummy!!

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  7. Claire, your new home is STUNNING!! I love how you colored it!! The whole color palette on this card just oozes warmth and would make anyone feel welcome!!

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  8. What amazing work!
    And SHUT THE DOOR on the rolled flower die!!!!!!! I hadn't seen this, and of course it's a must have.
    (I want to know how much time this card took to create).
    Thanks Claire, your inspiring!

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  9. I love that rose - so good! Another beautiful card Claire.

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  10. A great fall feel to that card! Wonderful job...such fun to see what everyone comes up with!

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  11. Love the two unique variations on this house image...from spooky to friendly and homey.

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  12. Oh MY it looks just like the sweetest gingerbread house! I always love your color choices, Claire. The embellishments are amazing! This was worth the wait...and now have a hankering for a cup of tea and a COOKIE :)!

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  13. My, but I can almost smell the gingerbread baking! You've done a Fab job with this one, Claire!!
    Your details are spot on, as always, and I can't wait to see more... :)

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  14. I just love your use of colour Claire! This shade of blue with the autumnal shades is beautiful! Love the tiled roof, the little details are just wonderful. Thank you for all your fab inspiration!

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  15. You're right - it is a Gingerbread house - remember the story of Hansel and Gretel? Well, this little cottage is the sort of sweet house they find in the wood - love it!! Just love the way you've made it fit in a Nestie too. Genius!

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  16. ooh, love the white embossing, very gingerbready! : )

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  17. Oooooo!! this is scrumptious - I love your little gingerbread house and the white embossing makes fantastic icing!! Oh my goodness that rose is such a beauty - the colours you've used look amazing and what a warm feeling you've created. I'm so enjoying all the previews Claire x

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  18. I do love how much your little cottage looks like gingerbread! Love the way you've colored it in, stitched on your layers(!), and that rose! Gorgeous!

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  19. My oh my this is a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y fabulous!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!

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  20. Love the coloring on your gingerbread house Claire! the background sentiment is wonderful - and what a great flower!!

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  21. You've really outdone yourself Claire! Just perfect! When's release time, because I'm ready to go!!!

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  22. so rich looking. Have been eyeing the flower die, now seeing that lovely rose will add it to my list of must haves. Thanks!
    Liane

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  23. Beautiful card Claire!!! I haven't been able to keep up with the release and so am just getting started, but this looks so rich and warm and inviting. And your flower looks great: congrats on making a pretty 3D embellishment!!! Hugs, Helen

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  24. i am in awe of the new stamp sets you are introducing and the ways your designers have created with them!
    These sets are Awesome!

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