Little House Homespun

One of my favourite bits of children's literature is the Little House on the Prairies series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Not only did I read the books as a child, but I also read them to my girls as they were growing up, and we watched the TV series as well.  It really brought the pioneers' existence to life.  One of my daughters still reads the books from time to time.  I especially loved the Christmas stories because they were so different from our over-the-top celebrations.  Simple but meaningful!

 



















The card I want to share with you today reminds me of Little House on the Prairie.  It has that homespun look to it, probably due to the Fan Fair DSP I used in the background.

 

I designed this card to participate in two challenges. Pals Paper Arts Challenge #146, is a colour challenge using Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake - a very homespun combination in my mind. 

 

 

Then, the Paper Players Challenge #119 is a lovely sketch, and the two just work so nicely together.

 

 







I used the Water Colour Winter stamp set for the main image, but chose to go with crumb cake instead of the red which was too dominant already.  The colour was added with a little splash of Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details. 



The horizontal panel was embossed with one of the Delicate Designs embossing folders and trimmed with 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Real Red.  The Very Vanilla panel backing it was punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch.  The vertical flag was scored with the Simply Scored Scoring Tool and sponged with some Crumb Cake ink to bring out the ridges it formed.

I'm quite pleased with the design and hope that the special people that I want to thank with this card will be pleased as well!  Did  you ever read the Little House on the Prairie Series or watch the television show?  Does this card make you think of homespun?  Let me know what you think.  I love to read your comments as they help me to get to know you better!  I feel like I'm communicating with real people and not just nebulous ether waves!  And if you like what you read, won't you join my site?

Excited to hear from all of you!

Stamps:  Watercolor Winter (w129724; c129727), Teeny Tiny Wishes (w115370; c127802)
Paper:  Riding Hood Red (111348), Crumb Cake (120953) and Very Vanilla (101650) card stock; Fan Fair Designer Series Paper(126918)
Ink: Classic Stampin' Pads in Crumb Cake (126975) and Riding Hood Red (126968)
Accessories: Dazzling Details Cherry Cobbler (125585); 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Real Red (119251)
Tools:  Delicate Designs embossing folders (127023); Window Frames Framelits Dies (129021); Scallop Trim Border Punch (118402)



Beautiful Blues

Wanted to get my Thursday post up pronto so I still have time to play with the Paper Players colour challenge #112.  Here is my card:

And here is the challenge:

 

I wondered how well these three subdued colours would work in a card, but with some Whisper White for balance, they look really good together.  I used Everything Eleanor for this and did some fussy cutting of the flowers and the plaque.  It truly looks better IRL.

 

Thanks for stopping by and drop by again on Saturday, because I will be posting another installment of Crafty Clues by Heather - a video tutorial on tying a bow- and goodness know we need lots of those tutorials. lol

 



Stamps:  Everything Eleanor (w124162; c124164); Trust God (w126700; c126702) 

Paper:  Basic Black (121045), Basic Gray (121044), Baja Breeze (111352) and Whisper White (100730) card stock

Ink:  Classic Stampin' Pads in Baja Breeze (126960) and Basic Gray (126981); StazOn Jet Black (101406)

Accessories:  Pearl Basic Jewels (119247); 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Basic Black (119962)

Tools: Large Scallop Edgelits (127019); Delicate Designs Embossing Folders (127023) (coordinates with the Large Scallop Edgelit) ; Little Leaves Sizzlits (114511)

 

 

 

 Delicate Designs Embossing Folders

Large Scallop Edgelit

Everything Eleanor