Morning all!
I'm back with a fun project featuring the Our House Bundle from Concord & 9th that was released last year.
My love of tiny festive houses (à la the Over the Rooftops and Home for the Holidays sets also from Concord & 9th) has now extended to larger full-size houses for card projects!
The bundle includes the die set offering elements for every season, the coordinating sentiment stamps, and a 2D embossing folder for adding texture to the roof and house front.
There is also an add-on die set for cutting multiples of the main elements in one pass - handy if you're going to be making several cards with this set at the same time.
The house outline die is a touch wider than a standard US A2 card, so I used 12x12 cardstock to cut four bases in one go so that I'd have them ready for future cards and I wouldn't waste too much cardstock.
I also cut the roofs for four cards in one go from scraps of grey cardstock I had in my stash and embossed them all with the 2D embossing folder.
For this card, I also added the embossed brick texture to the house - making sure to line up the die cut with the guide at the bottom of the folder.
Next, it was time to get decorating that house using whatever bits and pieces I had in my cardstock scraps.
I cut the window frames from white cardstock as well as the mustard yellow shade - to make it easier to add some light blue ink shading to the "glass panes", I added a bit of tape to the back of the frames before taking them out of the dies so that all the pieces would stay in place. This also made it easier to add the outline frames over the top.
Top tip: The product images on the Concord & 9th website include how-to images explaining which die-cut elements go together and how to assemble them, this is especially helpful for the smaller details like the door handle and the cutout hearts on the shutters.
For my sentiment, I cut the banner die from Nectar cardstock twice and cut the "Hooray!" die into one of the banners, then stuck the banners together so that I could piece the individual rainbow letters into the cutouts.
I used the same colour from the banner to create the colourful balloons.
Once all the elements were stuck down, the finishing touch was to add some pink Nuvo drops to the flower centres - and there we go!
Until next time, happy crafting!
