Our New Address
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide

Finished Card Size:  6.5" x 5"

Supplies:
Stamps:
Home Sweet Home stamp set (Dream Impressions)
Sentiment, "Our New Address" (The Angel Company)
Papers:
Prefolded White Card (6.5" x 5") (unknown)
Ultra-smooth 100 pound White cardstock, cut in half to 8.5" x 5.5."  Keep one half and set aside the other half for another project.(The Angel Company)
Pinecone cardstock (Bazzill)
Circles printed scrapbook paper (Die Cut With a View)
Inks:
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad (Tsukineko)
Palette ink pads:  Noir, Charcoal & Burnt Sienna (Stewart Superior)
Other:
Colored Pencils (Prisma)
Glaze Gelly Pens: Clear & Yellow (Sakura)
White Gelly Roll Pen (Sakura)
Blending Pen (Tombow)
LePlume II Marking Pen - Grey (Marvy)
Coloriser Embossing Powder - Black (EK Success)
Twinkling H2Os: Summer Breeze & Siam White (LuminArt, Inc.)
Heat Embossing Gun (Marvy)
Paper Trimmer (Carl)
Adhesive (I use an ATG 714 by Scotch)
Small paintbrush
Waterbrush Pen (unknown)
Sticky Note pad (3M) or scrap paper

Directions:

1. Using Black ink, stamp the large house, and the cloud twice, onto sticky notes, or piece of scrap paper, and cut out to create a mask. Cut just inside the lines, making the masks a tad bit smaller. This will help minimize a 'halo' effect around the stamped image when masking and stamping over it.
2. Stamp large house in the middle of the Ultra-smooth White cardstock with the VersaMark ink pad. Sprinkle Black embossing powder (EP) over the image, dumping the excess EP onto a scrap piece of paper, then heat until melted. Repeat with the cloud image twice in the upper portion to create a sky.
3. Mask the three images. Stamp a house on each side of the main house image with VersaMark ink, raising the images a bit above the main image to make the houses appear like a 'neighborhood.' Stamp a cloud in the middle of the two clouds, raising the image a bit to create depth. Remove the masks. Sprinkle with EP. Dump the excess EP and heat the image until melted.

   

   

4. Keep the masks with your stamps to use for future use.
5. Color the images with the colored pencils. Use the Blender pen to blend the pencil color. Before painting the clouds, I colored with an off-white pencil and then outlined them with a light blue pencil.
6. Spray or drop some water on top of the H2Os to soften. Using a small paintbrush, load with the Siam White and paint over the pencil on the clouds. I found this gives the clouds a more 'realistic' look.
7. Using the waterbrush pen, load with the Summer Breeze H2O. Brush off a little bit on a scrap piece of paper, squeezing while brushing. This will lighten the color a bit. Brush on the background around the clouds and above the houses. Start at the bottom of the clouds and while dragging the brush down in a back and forth motion, squeeze to dispel water (not too hard, you don't want to drown the paper). This will create a gradient background for the sky. Let dry.
8. Ink the Dog with Burnt Sienna and stamp by a house.
9. Trim the scene to measure 4.75" x 3.25". Layer on a piece of Pinecone trimmed to 5" x 4". Adhere this to a piece of pattered paper trimmed to 6.375" x 4.875".
10. Stamp the Car with VersaMark ink onto a piece of White cardstock trimmed from the neighborhood scene piece. Apply the EP and heat until melted. Stamp the car exhaust with Charcoal ink several times behind the Car.  Overstamp the sentiment with VersaMark ink and apply the EP and heat until melted. Color the Car with the colored pencils and Grey marking pen. Highlight with the White gel pen.
11. Trim the sentiment piece to .625' x 3.75". Layer onto a piece of Pinecone cardstock trimmed to .75" x 4". Attach this to the patterned paper, centered below the neighborhood scene.
12. Attach layers to the White card front.
13. Sign your work, sit back and admire your Neighborhood!