Hello everyone!!! I’m back again with another version of the Village Mansion… only this one is a bit more spoooooky!!

I’m amazed by these little houses and get completely immersed while I’m creating. When I’m done… it’s hard to believe they are made of paper!

I tried something different on this one by using some cheesecloth and Distress Grit paste to gain some texture. I was going for a “The stucco has fallen off the walls look” and I think this combination did the trick. I used a variety of Distress paints to color the walls, then went over everything with Black Soot paint to give it a darker tone.

I used Distress Stains and Woodgrain cardstock for the roof tiles. Once the paper was colored and dry, I used the Village Rooftops die to cut out about 28 strips. Once I put them on the roof, I ran my blending tool with a slight amount of Black Soot paint over top to darken them.

I’ve left the embellishments simple… one could really go crazy at this point, but I just used a Cross bones Adornment above the door.

I have put together a video of the process, you can view it below or on our YouTube channel.

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Be sure to check out my other Villages in the series, I have created a Surf Shack and Victorian Mansion. I hope you have a great week and thanks for stopping by!!!

Happy World Card Making Day! I’m so happy and delighted to be back today with a new edition of Weekender with Wanda, and what a marvelous occasion too! Are you getting together with friends today to stamp and create? Will you send out some cards in honor of WCMD 2016? I am definitely going to be in my studio crafting away today. Let’s take just one second to go WOW about Stamptember! That was the best month don’t you think? It was crazy keeping up with all the awesome new stamp sets and the inspiration, but I loved it all. it’s going to seem really quiet now! We hope that you enjoyed it too!

Today in honor of the first day of October, I’ve created an Autumn watercolor card to share with you. I used loads of beautiful Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Dies and Stamps. I used a couple of new things from Stamptember as well as some of my tried and true favorites. Everything was inked and colored with Distress Inks for a soft effect. All the supplies and colors I used are listed at the bottom of the post.

I started with an A2 card base made from Neenah Desert Kraft paper. Next I die cut a Stitched Rectangle from watercolor paper and set that aside. Then I die cut all the pumpkins and leaves from watercolor paper. Finally, the Autumn word die was cut from rich brown cardstock.

Since all of the elements were die cut from watercolor paper, they took the Distress Inks beautifully! It was fun to watercolor everything with gorgeous Fall colors. I used a paintbrush and lots of clean water and did a quick and easy wash of color. For this technique I ‘smush’ some Distress ink onto a clear stamping block and use that as my palette!

The words in the background were stamped using the gorgeous new SSS Exclusive You Matter Background stamp. I inked the stamp using Corduroy Distress ink. Once the ink was on the stamp, I used my water sprayer to mist over the ink (right on the stamp). Then I stamped it off center onto the watercolor cardstock. I gently set it aside to dry. That’s how all the imperfections appear. I think this came out really cool!

Once I had the pumpkins and leaves attached to the card front, I used a glue pen and tweezers to adhere the “Autumn” word across the front of the pumpkins. This sentiment die actually says “Autumn Blessings!”

Here is my little pumpkin patch forming on my desk…

I wanted just a few little accents. I thought about adding ink speckles, but the finally decided on some pretty matte gold sequins and a few orange rhinestones.

Thanks for joining me today on this first October weekend! I’m so glad to be back sharing with you! Take care and I’ll see you soon!

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Welcome everyone! It’s Shari here with another installment using the Village series dies. I’m looking forward to building a collection that I can put on display for the holidays…like my mom always did with little porcelain houses, all lit up on a blanket of snow.

So….If you were a Victorian house… what kind would you be? I think I would be a colorful artsy one like the one I’ve created with brightly stained resit walls and silver accents. This… makes me Happy!

I’ve only made one alteration from the original “Mansion” design. The suggested roof top is to use the top portion of the fence, but I opted to use the  Lace Thinly Die to create my own. I think it gives the house a little more of a dainty look.

So… the roof shingles, these are one of my favorite parts, they are realistic looking with a bit of walnut stain added to the edges. The Village Rooftop dies have three styles, and a roof vent piece too!

For the walls, I used Brushed Pewter Distress Paint to stamp the word images and then used Distress Stains for color creating a resist over the paint.

I’ve created a video which shows how this all comes together that you can watch below , or on our YouTube channel here.

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The victorian House in my second in a series that I’ll be doing through December. If you missed my first “Surf Shack”, you can view it HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today!