Stamping School :: Home Card

Welcome to stamping school! Hope you've all been enjoying your summer and have found a little time here and there to do some stamping!

Today, I'd like to share with you how to make a sweet, paper-pieced card using a few die-cuts and, of course, Banana Frog stamps!

You'll need a few supplies:

The first step to make this card is to create the tree. Using the wood grain image from the Backgrounds set, ink it with Versamark watermark ink and stamp onto a blank piece of brown cardstock. Like so:

Then, ink the tree image from the Greenwich Park set with brown ink, and stamp over the stamped wood grain. Your image will look like this:

Use a pair of sharp scissors or an X-acto knife (whichever you are more comfortable with) to cut around the trunk portion of the stamped tree. When finished, you'll have this:

Using green ink, stamp the tree again onto a green patterned paper:

Trim the entire tree from the green patterned paper, and overlay the brown trunk onto it. It should look like this:

You can set the tree aside for now, and we'll work on the paisley patterned house. I used a die-cut house from Provo Craft's Going Places cartridge, but you can also handcut your own from orange cardstock.

The house is approximately 3" tall. Place the house onto a piece of scrap paper, and using Funky Paisley stamps with orange ink, stamp a random paisley pattern right over the house. Like this:

Once the tree and house are stamped, you'll need a die-cut (or handcut) cloud and sun, then you can piece your card together to create a happy little summer scene. I like to lay everything out before I glue anything down:

Add a sticker for the door and stitch on a coordinating button, and you have a stamped, homespun card perfect for that next housewarming gift!

Happy scrapping!

Mary

Comments

[Raquel]

Wow! I love this card, I wish I knew someone moving home, so I had an excuse to make one :oP

[Bev]

Mary you always amaze me. I love how you have made this!

[SarahLP]

Aah, that's so lovely! The colour combination is perfect and what a great way to use those stamp sets.