Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hello everyone. At the end of May a young lady, who works with Bob, & her boyfriend moved into their new house - so I made a card for them. It's from another freebie Hunydory kit & I thought the little birds outside their lovely birdhouse would make a nice change from the usual images. I had a set of metal keys in my stash & first I coloured it with some alcohol inks, but didn't like the colour.  About 18 months ago I inherited a mixture of embossing powders from a friend who had given up stamping - & when I went through them - there was this lovely powder blue colour.  Now the key is just perfect for the card. I have some "house" stamps - but they are either fussy & detailed or almost cartoon. This couple definitely deserved something a bit different.   Well, that is me for another day.  More later.

Good afternoon ladies. Well, it did turn out a nice weekend - a bit blowy - but very pleasant. I finally made a new home card for our daughter out in the States - I just couldn't make up my  mind what to do - but then one of the magazines came with a free door embossing folder & some stamps that were Christmas themed. As soon as I saw the door I knew that was what I would use. Then had the idea of using it on a stepper card. Seem to be in to stepper cards at the moment. Here is the finished card - I embossed the door in white, then decided I was going to use kraft card for the stepper. Well, that was actually my second choice I had first made the stepper from a bright blue card then didn't like it. I gave the door a distressed look with some Distress inks which looked better on the kraft card. The stamps that came with the embossing folder included a set of numbers, a door knocker, an outside lantern light, a wreath, a bow, a plant urn & a plant head ...