Playing House Cards with Birgit

Hello friends.  A few weeks ago I spent the weekend with Pinkfresh Studios and the Create & Connect Event they held.  It consisted of 5 two hour classes teaching us new tip and tricks in stamping, and the classes included a box filled with brand new Pinkfresh Studio stamps, dies, stencils, large roll of washi tape, a hot foil plate, and gems. It was seriously like Christmas opening up that box!!  Anyway, one of the stamp, die, and stencil sets was a set called Built on Dreams and my sweet friend Birgit (who also signed up for that weekend) and I decided to have our own little challenge using this stamp set.  I have 3 cards to share with you today, and then hop on over to Birgit's blog and see what she did with the exact same stamp set!

I used the stencils and 4 shades of blue inks to blend the floral images in the house shape, and then stamped the outline image before die cutting the house image.  I used the hot foil plate they included in the kit to dry emboss my white background, and then added a blue layer and attached all to a white card base.  The sentiment was cut from MB's Posh Script Big Hugs Die from glittery silver cardstock.  The silver is much brighter IRL!  Also added a few silver pearls to finish off this card.

 My 2nd card came out a bit different than I was picturing in my head.  I was picturing a gingerbread house in my mind, and used all 5 stencils to blend the design on in white pigment ink first.  Once it dried, I went back in again with the 5 stencils and added colors that I thought would look like gumdrop colors (like when you make a gingerbread house), but instead it ended up looking more Spring like to me!  Hard to tell in the photo, but I did spray Sheer Shimmer Gold Mist over the card, so it really has a nice shimmer to it in real life!  I used the die to make a side folding card, and love that it's a shaped card.  The thank you was heat embossed in white on kraft and die cut...this was all part of the kit too!  A few sequins finished off this one.

 As soon as I saw this set, I knew I wanted to make a Christmas card with the house shape, so I did my stenciling with a couple shades of green and red on kraft, and like the 2nd card, die cut it so it was a side folding shaped card.  I also foiled my sentiment (PFS but not part of the kit) and added a few gold pearls to finish it off.

 That's it from me today, but make sure you check out Birgit's post to see what she did using these same stencils, stamp set, and dies!  I know she will blow you away with her creations!!  Thanks for playing along with me Birgit...just like old times!!  :0)

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