Today's card is made using the Stampin' Up! set Coming Home and is inspired by a sketch challenge from Creating with Team Stamp Camp.
Have you started your Christmas cards yet? I have about 45 done, so not quite half way yet. I'd better get busy, but not sure I'm going to make a lot of this card. I love how it turned out, but it did take a bit of time to color.
This looks like a lot of colors, but some were stampin' blends for the house and trees. I colored the background with sponges using five colors...melon mambo, mossy meadow, pacific point, night of navy and gorgeous grape. After the colors were sponged on I spritzed them with frost white shimmer paint and ran it through the evergreen forest 3D embossing folder. I did sponge over the trees again very lightly with mossy meadow to make them stand out a little more.
I colored the stamped trees with granny apple green, old olive and mossy meadow. The roof was with smoky slate and basic black. For the windows I used so saffron and daffodil delight. The door was crumb cake and soft suede and the front of the house rich razzleberry. I didn't use both shades of everything, just picked up what I found first, then always blended all the colors of each part with the lightest color I used after all the colors in each area were added. If I don't blend them with the lightest color they don't flow together or look nice. At least that's what I think!
Last but not least I stamped the sentiment using garden green. After using all the different colors and mixing them together on the background, garden green looked the best.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara
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Thank you for your comments. I read everyone! If you ever wonder how I've made something I'd be glad to let you know! Sara