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Friday 4 June 2010

Something complete different 'skinni' houses

I haven't done anything recently for Something Completely Different - I've meant to, but the weeks have just gone by since I last played along.

The challenges for June are going to be skinnis - 3 x 5 inches.

The theme for this week is 'house or houses'.

I started off with a piece of blue hammer textured card and distressed the edges with china blue and shabby shutters distress inks, spraying some home-made mist on to my craft sheet and dabbing the card on it to add some texture to the green area, with the effect of bushes/tree on the left.

The little houses are buttons that I bought ages ago - thought it was about time they were used. I used tiny gems to depict flowers in front of the houses, but I'm not sure they look right.

Because of the evening sun streaming in the window (not complaining!), I either had to take the photo with the curtains drawn and cut out the flash:

Or take it with the sun streaming in:

The real version looks somewhere in between this

I'm going to incorporate this on to a 'new home' card (I need a couple more for tomorrow).

8 comments:

  1. That's really cute, love the teeny tiny houses.

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  2. Love these button houses. Great idea. Thanks for playing at SCD this week.

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  3. what fab houses Hazel - I know what you mean about the light for photo's tho!

    Thank you for joining us this week at SCD and I love the card you made using the skinni too.

    Hope that you and John are ok xx

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  4. Gorgeous interesting the effect of different light.

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  5. This is really cute, great to see you back

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  6. cute button houses all lined up in a row.

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  7. cute buttons! Different lighting can be a pain :)
    xoxo Sioux

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