This week's Teaparty is for our very own resident Teapotter, DonnaJeanne. DonnaJeanne is one of the loveliest ladies you will ever know!! I hope our cards bring some sunshine to DonnaJeanne and her husband.
Our challenge is to bring lots of colour and as a bonus a 3-D element (of the fly away variety) will ensure extra cookies......ok, I miss out on the cookies but I hope I made up for it with colour.
I recently purchased a couple of Lavinia digi stamps and I printed them on normal photocopy paper to store in my folder. I printed off a few extra by mistake so I picked up my pencils to see what colours I would use when I printed it on proper cardstock.
Drum roll....I never did print it onto proper cardstock; this house is just normal everyday photocopy paper. All the initial colouring was done with the Prismacolour pencils; they have a lovely soft waxy finish.
I then used my Spectrum Noir markers over the top of the pencils. To make the house look a bit weathered, I lightly rubbed my walnut stain foam blending tool over the top.
The background was from my stash, it was a strange pinky-purplish grey colour. I scrubbed on some brighter purple, green and orange distress inks to match the house, then added a few trees and stenciled on some white paint.
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted my "friendÂ’s dictionary page" background stamp. I inked it up with ground espresso distress ink, lightly sprayed the stamp with water, stamped it lightly onto a scrap of paper, then I did the secondary stamping straight onto the card. You can't really read it, but it does add an interesting layer.
I fussy cut the house and using a glue stick I adhered it to the card. I used a grey marker and a fine micron pen to outline the house and give a 3D feel. I drew some cobblestones and added a doodled border.
When this is completely dry I will add it to a white card base. I used clear Wink of Stella on some parts of the house, sorry it doesn't photograph well. I had a heap of fun making this, especially knowing it was going to DonnaJeanne. This is one of those cards that you have to make a conscious decision to walk away and stop adding stuff LOL.
Have a lovely week everyone and thank you for looking.
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 GMT Views: 2737
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