A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday, 18 December 2025

Stencilled Brick with Houses and a New Baby Card

One Christmas and one non-Christmas today!

For Inkspirational "Use Stencils", I used a stencil to create a brick wall background for some festive buildings.  It's for a friend of mine who has little white porcelain houses that light up and she stands them on her mantel against the brick wall of her fireplace.


I created the brick wall with a stencil and embossing paste. Then die cut the houses once from white and once from light gold so that I could create the light inside the houses. I cut a narrow strip of kraft cs for the fireplace mantel the houses are standing on.

My second card is for the Allsorts "New" challenge.  A friend of mine's daughter is having a baby in a few weeks.  

I don't know if the baby will be a boy or girl so I went with colours that could be for either. As a retired librarian, I always buy books for new babies, so this very old stamp I have is perfect. It's coloured with coloured pencils and trimmed with a stitched oval die. The sentiment is also trimmed with a stitched die.

The background is made out of a paper gift bag that contained a gift the expectant mother received from her brother who lives in Sweden. I scooped it up thinking it would be fun to use it for the background for her baby's card. With green cs, I cut out an SSS thin frame die cut, and cut the same out of the background paper, then inset the green one into the background.

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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Make an Impression sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white, gold, and kraft cs
Size - 4.5" square
Accessories - MFT brick wall stencil, Dreamweaver embossing paste, Charlie and Paulchen dies

Supplies for card:
Stamps - Kids Stamps mouse, SU sentiment
Ink -  Versafine Smokey Grey
Paper - Gina K Pure Ivory cs, green cs, printed paper bag
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Lil Inker stitched oval die, stitched sentiment banner die, SSS thin frame rectangle die

1 comment:

  1. That is such a lovely card for a new baby and what a lovely paper bag to make use of too. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah

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