Red House in the Woods

For Peace on Earth's new challenge, I was inspired by the bottom left image in their mood board (see it at the end of my post). 

I kept the background white and completely clean like the image in the mood board.  I die cut the house and trees die out of watercolour paper, then painted the trees and house with Distress inks.  I stamped the sentiment with Fired Brick (the same red as the house) and die cut it with a stitched sentiment banner.  Both dies were also cut out of scrap cs and doubled up to give more dimension.

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board.  To see what the rest of the Design Team was inspired to create, head over to Peace on Earth.  If the mood board doesn't inspire you, you're welcome to link up an "anything Christmas" card.

 

I'm also linking it up Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Include a Tree".

  

Supplies:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Distress inks in red and green
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box house and trees die, stitched sentiment banner die

A Christmas Tree and A White House

I seem to always be doing "twofers" these days!

The first one for today is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's colour challenge "Red, Green, & Brown".

I put the stamp in my MISTI, inked it up with various mini Distress inkpads, spritzed lightly, and stamped on watercolour paper, repeating in areas I wasn't happy with.  I added a brown sentiment, then trimmed the panel, mounted it on a cream card base, and added red gemstones to the tree.

The Paper Players want to see a house on the card.

I created a smooshed background with two shades of blue.  Then die cut the house twice out of white cs, once out yellow cs.  I glued the two white ones together, mounted it on my background, and inserted just the yellow windows from the yellow die cut.  Added a navy sentiment and a navy border, and popped it up on fun foam on the card base.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

The Paper Players

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - various green and brown mini Distress inks
Paper - watercolour paper, cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - red and gold gemstones

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Savvy Stamps sentiment
Ink - Distress Broken China and Tumbled Glass, Memento Nautical Blue
Paper - white, yellow, and navy cs
Size - A2
Accessories - unknown house die