Home Sweet Home

Ask anybody and they will tell you I am a bit of a home girl. I like everything to do with houses and household things,except maybe the dreaded ironing. Mind you I have that down to a fine art these days and I might tell you my secrets one day if you are good to me - he-he x But getting down to today's business I want to tell you about the challenge at My Time To Craft Challenge. The theme this week is Keys and I came up with this offering :

For me, I thought immediately of houses so no surprise there but there are many ways of incorporating keys into your design and you just have to check out the great samples for inspiration from the DT. As you can see I have kept my design fairly plain and simple,both with the actual image and the colour scheme. I did wonder if it was too plain so I tried some distressing but decided "No,not this time".What do you think ?

Showing optional distressing

I liked it but I didn't go with it in the end.Instead I kept it plain and hoped the simple design would work particularly because I wanted only to high-light the central house. I did this by only colouring that building as the home in question.

Showing the heat embossing

This is a very poor photo but I am including it in the hope of showing that I heat embossed the houses and the sentiment. The embossing powder is the brown shade from Sheen Douglas WOW powders and I must say they are very fine and really good. The stamps are from October Afternoon and I used Kraft Card,Bazzill and Mirri Card. I cut the keys with a Nestie Shapeability Die.

The cards are only 120cm square and I thought perfect for a little New Home card so I made two (anyone moving soon ?).
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :
1.Paper Sundaes 60 - Keep it Simple
2.Paper Cupcakes - Monochromatic
3.Do You Stack Up 10 - Layers  (my design was lifted with foam pads)
4.One Stop Craft Challenge 122 - Clean and Simple
5.Papertake Weekly  - Trio - Tastic
6.Try it Tuesday - Chocolate Therapy (The colour Brown)