ESAD Stampin’ Up! 2016 Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to an ESAD blog hop.  You may have come to my blog from Rachael’s blog. The theme of the blog hop today was to focus on new product from the new 2016 Stampin’ Up! holiday catalogue.

One of my favourite things to make in paper crafts aside from cards is little houses. I’ve been making little houses for years. So imagine my joy when I saw the Home Sweet Home framelits and matching Sweet Home stamp set. I knew I had to own this bundle. This would make things easy. No more mucking around with a ruler and an exacto knife. I can make houses over and over again without fuss with consistent sizing and matching components. The hardest thing to cut out  when you don’t have a die that will do it for you are the windows and doors. These framelits make it easy.

For this blog hop I wanted to make a little house for each season, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.  To make things even more of a challenge, I decided to construct the houses using only In Color card stock.

The first house is Spring.  The walls are made from Peekaboo Peach and the roof is Flirty Flamingo.  The spring house had to be embellished with flower boxes. The flowers in the flower boxes have been cut out using one of the thinlits from the Pretty Pines thinlits.

The Summer house could have nothing but a beach hut theme. The walls are Watermelon Wonder and the the roof is Dapper Denim.

I had to ponder some time over what colour to make the roof for the Autumm house.  Delightful Dijon is a nice autumnal colour for the walls, but what to use for the roof? It was a toss up between Emerald Envy and Cucumber Crush. I went with Cucumber Crush and toned down the brightness by sponging with Early Expresso ink.  The tree and leaves are cut out using the Beautiful Branches thinlits.

The last house is the Winter house. The walls are Mint Macaron and the roof is Tip Top Taupe. To make this house a little more wintery, I used some of the clear Mica flakes, also available in the holiday catalogue.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog. Now it is time to hop over to Kelly’s blog to check out her lovely projects.

 

 

 

 

Happy stamping

Cathy

 

 

Blog Hop Participants:

1. Lou Kitzelman
2. Libby Dyson
3. Nicole Wilson
4. Rachael Lewsley
5. Cathy Pinchbeck
6. Kelly Kent
7. Leonie Schroder
8. Delys Cram
9. Monique Fielder
10. Richelle Fletcher
11. Barbara Williams
12. PapillonPapercraft
13. Kathryn Ruddick
14. Michele Jutrisa
15. Carolina Evans
16. Liv Ingle
17. Rochelle Blok
18. Emily Campbell
19. Samantha White
20. Andrea Buckland
21. Maree McIntosh
22. Renee Lynch
23. Peta Stephen
24. Jackie Noble
25. Alisa Tilsner