The Humble Home stamp set and coordinating punch from Stampin’ Up!® are so versatile.
I’ve already used them for three very different cards for Christmas and thank yous.
It goes without saying that this useful Stampin’ Up!® bundle will also work for birthdays.
For today’s blog post, I have used the Humble Home bundle for a new home card, which is perhaps the most obvious choice.
Humble Home is the Stampin’ Up!® stamp set I have been waiting for. So many times I have had to compromise when making a new home card – but no longer.
Now I have a versatile set that works for new homes, thank yous and Christmas all in one.
Naturally, after wanting a set like this for so long and putting the Humble Home bundle (164094) at the top of my wish list, I forgot to order it. But I have it now and have have used Humble Home stamp set and matching punch to create three cards. They’re all linked by a simple white card base but they are all very different.
The Coming Home stamp set is not just for Christmas. Sadly, you can no longer buy this versatile set as it has sold out in Europe but if you have it, don’t put it away until next winter, you can use it all year round.
I don’t normally show retired products but, frankly, I have nothing else I can show you right now as all my other creations are under wraps until my Twixmas Party on 30th December! Got to leave some surprises for my ladies!
So here are two projects I made with Coming Home, using the same design to create a Christmas card and a new home card. I coloured the images using Stampin’ Blends and created the background using the new Blending Brushes from the upcoming Jan-June Mini Catalogue.
I’m really enjoying my Stampin’ Blends lately. They are definitely something worth pursuing as practice is key. For these cards, I used Petal Pink for the house, Pool Party for the door and windows, Crumb Cake for the roof and Mint Macaron for the tree.
For the new home card, I used Pool Party on
the roof, too. In fact, if you have limited supplies, you could even
colour the trees in Pool Party, so you then only need two colours of
Blends.
The background is ‘sponged’ using the new Blending
Brushes. These are fab.u.lous – they look like spongy pads but are
actually very fine but dense brushes which make beautiful soft
backgrounds. I’ll be demoing them at my Twixmas Party which is free to
attend and open to all my customers and team.
The Coming Home stamp set may have sold out but there are still plenty of other bargains to be found in the Year-End Sale and Clearance Rack. Please head on over to my store and, if you use the host code SX4NGWRH, I’ll send you a little thank you gift in January!
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I never like to be restricted by the theme of a stamp set or Designer Series Paper. The Coming Home stamps are suitable for many occasions, as is the Trimming the Town DSP, which has some festive designs and some patterns which work all year round.
All week I’ve been working on non-Christmas projects using the Trimming the Town Suite ready for this blog post... and all week I’ve been seeing social media and blog posts from the Great and the Good working on the same theme! Great minds clearly do think alike.
It began with a request from my husband for two New Home cards and the houses from this Suite are perfect for this. I did stamp some using the Coming Home stamp set and colour them in, but they ended up looking a little too Christmassy, so I turned to the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper and die-cut the houses from there instead, using the Home Together Dies. The Pool Party and Poppy Parade colour combination is one of my favourite retro looks for Christmas, but it works all year round, too.
To be honest, the
hardest part was finding a suitable greeting. Time to Celebrate from
Itty Bitty Birthdays was ideal for one of them, but as the second
recipient was bereaved at the same time as moving house, this felt a
little bit tactless. Instead, I chose “Rest and Relax, you deserve it”
from the Timeless Tropical stamp set.
For the car-themed cards, I did use the stamps, colouring them in using my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers.
For
the Happy Birthday card, (again, using a greeting from Itty Bitty Birthdays, I lined up the images using the Stamparatus. The dotted
lines, reminiscent of a road, come from the Box of Sunshine Paper Pumpkin Kit.
This card would be ideal for someone passing their
driving test – although, the last I heard, if you weren’t already booked
in before lockdown, you don’t stand much chance of getting a test until
December!
I stamped the images freehand, but they’re easy to line up as the stamp is photopolymer. I stamped and die-cut an extra car, coloured it using Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blends and popped it up. “Way to Go” comes from the Simply Citrus All-Inclusive Card Kit.
Finally, this house in a very built-up area was inspired by Martin Stone.
When I CASE a card, I often like to do it without having the original
in front of me, which ensures I make it different. This is why Martin’s
version is classier and less busy. I got a bit carried away with the
little houses at the back but it was fun to create, using a series of
post-it note masks.
When colouring
these images, keep it simple. Just a swipe of the dark marker in one
corner, then blend it out using the light version of the same colour. Don’t go overboard, or the ink can bleed out beyond the lines. Keep it simple and you’ll get great results every time.
