Sooner rather than Later: The Greetery Harvest Home

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

The Greetery Harvest Home

I took advantage of the recent birthday sale at The Greetery, so while I wait for my new goodies to arrive, I thought I would pull out the Harvest Home set I purchased from them a while back, but shamefully hadn't had a chance to use yet.

I started by stamping the two leaf halves using Altenew Bamboo and Olive ink. Then I realized that the leaf half dies were solid. No biggie, I die cut the halves from a piece of white scrap cardstock, and then used those to line up the dies over the stamped leaves.

Since I had two white leaf halves from the masks I created, I figured I would go ahead and use those to make a second card. I used a blending brush and Forest Glades ink to add color to the leaves, and then used two Copics (YG63, and YG67) to color the the accent strips on the leaves.

Then I stamped and die cut the house and barn using Ruby Red and Grapevine ink. On the house, I used Pure Graphite for the roof, and on the barn, I wanted a lighter color since the roof would be in direct sunlight, so I used second generation Dark Chocolate ink stamping. I also added a bit of shading with Copics to the roof.

Then it was time to assemble the cards. For this first one, I used the stamped leaf halves and adhered them to the whole leaf that's included in the die set. I added a couple of stamped fences on the top half of the leaf, and then tucked the barn behind the bottom leaf. I added a bit of twine to the leaf stem, and then popped the entire leaf up over some patterned paper that was matted with a Scalloped panel from Neat & Tangled.

The sentiment is from Neat & Tangled's So Many Sentiments set and was stamped on one of Neat & Tangled's skinny strips and the popped up over the leaf.

For this next card, I adhered the leaf directly to a piece of very neutral patterned paper.

Just like the last card, I added the fences and then tucked the house in. The sentiment is from Papertrey's Choose Joy stamp set. I added a blue patterned paper mat to finish things off.