A friend requested a new home card and this is what I came up with for him. The little banner was part of his request as he wanted his niece’s nickname on the house. I did a bit of research to see what was out there and found this fun fold. As I don’t have any of the dies that the person showing the fold had and I don’t have much in the way of new home stamps and dies, I basically created this by hand. To do the windows I used a scrap piece of yellow CS and a window die that cuts 9 windows. I then cut the whole thing up so I could have window frames but I did have to glue some bits together to get the center piece down the middle. I fussy cut the holes into the background CS and added the frames around the spaces. Before I did that I also used an EB folder from Sizzix, to give some brick texture on the card front and I added a small amount of ink here and there for a more realistic look. I have a new die set from Spellbinders that does modern ovals and I used the smallest one for the door and simply cut it to the length I needed. A little embossing on it for dimension and a white pen gives it a decent look Gold pen for the handle. I added some packaging behind the windows to make it look like a pane of glass and some MFT die cut bushes for underneath the lower windows. The added benefit here was they hid some poor cutting edges. For the roof I die cut some copper and used a border die from Heffy Doodle to cut the edge. I then tried to add the same border die in other places without cutting but it still cut through in places so I taped it all back together on the backside before gluing it on. The inside used a Kitchen Sink stamp set which is very old, I think I won it in a Mod Squad challenge, and I took 2 sentiments and added them together.

I’m quite pleased with how it turned out and my friend is thrilled so the effort was worth it. Thanks for stopping by it is appreciated.

I’m sharing this with Can You Handle the Pressure Anything Goes with a twist of spooky. I didn’t take the twist with this card.