Home is where the heart is.

                                                                                      I really enjoy making these tunnel cards but sometime I can't decide just what to put in them. This time I wanted to do something using Stampin' Up products .



I chose the  Banner Blast stamp set and
coordinating punch  from this years
sale a bration catalogue, the hardwood background stamp from the spring and summer supplement catalogue.
 A various colours of ink, the small  single heart punch, the tiny  heart from the owl punch and a  small alphabet stamp set.  (I purchased many years ago from somewhere I can't remember.)
Just to make the outside of this new home card for my son and his family who moved house last weekend.

For the inside of the card I used the owl punch and the leafy branch pieces are from the bird punch both from Stampin' up.



To make the Owl wings,  I punched one scallop circle embossed it using the square lattice embossing folder. Then I cut it into four quarters  and glued two quarters to the back of each owl.

The owls were a little bit too wobbly on the branch and needed a little more support.
To stabilize the owls a little better, I punched a further  two owls bodies and glued them to the back of the owls,  after  they had  been stuck to the branch, so the big branches are sandwiched between the the two layers of the owls  bodies.

The bigger branches were cut free hand  with scissors. I then glued  little bits of foliage to the back branches.


I slotted the branches into the folds at the sides of the card making sure they were not glued into the same fold as I want to create more depth by having one further back than the other. Then I glued them into position.

The background started off as a 5"x7"piece of daffodil delight yellow card stock which I sponged over the top with  red riding hood and calypso coral ink from SU and I left the bottom  section of the card un-inked.

Christmas Mice Card.

I had a little sort of my stamp drawers and found  this set of stamps.
I bought these gorgeous  mouse stamps many years ago and have never got round to using them. I think they are from craft companions but I can't remember what the set was called.
There was also a CD or DVD that you could purchase to go with them. If I recall the CD had scenes on that you could print off to use as backgrounds for these mice. Yep!  I bought that too.

Here are two tunnel cards I have created over the last couple of nights that I have been unable to sleep.


The tunnel  is created by scoring and folding  every 1/2 inch on the side panels  (3 of navy top and sides and one white the base)  to form a concertina and then interlocked the sides with the ends.

Once the concertina frame was formed I sponged some whisper white card stock ( the same size as the overall frame)  with daffodil delight ink  in the area I thought the lantern would hang.  (This will be the background.)

Then I sponged the surrounding area  with night of navy ink,  slightly overlapping the yellow. But not too much as I didn't want to turn the yellow green.
Once happy with the effect I stamped the large group of trees from the " Lovely as a tree" (stamp set from Stampin Up) in black ink and then again in white ink, almost directly over the black image to give the trees a frosted look. I then cut a frame and stamped it with white snow flakes from the serene snowflake stamp set again from S.U but  it is now retired.



For the larger card I took a different tack and cut a piece of navy card ( the same size as the overall frame)  and stamped snowflakes with white craft  ink then mounted the frame onto the background.

I cut some snow drifts in differing depths and slotted them in  between the ridges of the concertinaed base.

The Mouse family were stamped, then coloured in with markers and then cut out.
 I left a white tab about 1 cm square at the foot of each mouse for glue. I placed a small amount of glue on the front of the tabs and positioned the the characters tabs behind the snow drifts making sure the feet were in line with the top of the snow drift    they were standing on. Without this tab you would have to glue the the back of the shoes and stick them to the front of the drift. As the shoes are so tiny they may not support the characters as well as the larger gluing area of the tab.                                    

The lamp post also came with the mice and I made use of it in the larger card. But it was too tall for the smaller square card.

I made a navy frame and stamped it with snowflakes  in white ink. While the white ink was drying I cut a sheet of sheet of acetate the same size as the overall frame and stamped white snowflakes over the top half of the acetate using white Stazon ink. (As it will not rub off or smudge once it is dry.)
The acetate was then stuck over the aperture of the card and the snowflake frame stuck on top.
I guess with this one I could have added some glitter and turned it into a shaker card. But I thought it may have been a little too much.
When complete I made a book style cover for the framed scene to go in . No photo Because I haven't decorated it yet.